Chapter 43: Weird way to die

Seeing Chen Wenjin's body, we hurriedly ran over. The bearded man stretched out two fingers and pressed Chen Wenjin tightly to test his pulse, but his tentacles were cold and hard, and it seemed that he had been dead for a long time.

However, what is puzzled is that Chen Wenjin's way of death is extremely strange. Although I have seen many dead bodies, I have never seen this way of death.

Chen Wenjin's body was covered with a layer of white snow, his clothes were torn and torn one by one, and there were basically few left. His body was covered with scratches, and there were at least hundreds of them. Each scratch was composed of four fingerprints. Judging from the thickness and the spacing of his fingers, it looked very similar to what a human hand did. Although each scratch was not deep in the flesh, it was also a skin and a fragile flesh.

The scratches on the whole body were basically exposed, and they were frozen to dark red at this time, and the skin on the face had been frozen to purple. At first glance, it looked like a monster that had been peeled off.

His expression was even more weird and terrifying. He raised his hands high, his five fingers made hooks, his mouth was wide open, his eyes were wide, and his facial features were extremely distorted. It seemed that he was frightened by something before his death, and he seemed extremely surprised until his death.

Ji Minhui saw her colleague die again. Although she was not as trance as before, she could not hide her sadness and she burst into tears. I asked the prince to help her to rest. It would be better for her to take such a miserable situation.

Big Bearded and I carefully examined the body several times, and except for the scratches, we could not find any other fatal injuries. This made me quite puzzled. I asked Big Bearded: "How could there be no fatal injuries? Could it be that the blood demon did it?"

The bearded man frowned and pointed at the scratch on Chen Wenjin's body and said, "I can't figure it out. The blood demon's nails are extremely sharp. You have seen them. If they were caught by the blood demon, they would not be such a shallow wound. But if they were caught by someone, they would not be so deep. Besides, if they were a blood demon, how could there be a whole corpse here?"

What he said was exactly my doubts, but the doubts in this matter were far more than that.

Chen Wenjin went to chase Su Lan at that time, and then Zhou Huaijiang went to chase these two people again. Then why was there no trace of Su Lan and Zhou Huaijiang at this time, but Chen Wenjin, who was sandwiched in the middle, died here? Moreover, there was no trace of fighting around Chen Wenjin's body, and there was not even blood. So where did he die? What was the cause of death? Why was he moved here after death? And where are Zhou Huaijiang and Su Lan now? Are they dead or alive?

Things became extremely complicated. The more I thought about it, the more confused I became, my mind was buzzing and messed up.

The bearded man stood up and walked up along Chen Wenjin's body, step by step, and kept lowering his head and studying what he was studying.

After a while, he squatted down, stroked the snow on the ground with his hands, stared at me for a few seconds, and suddenly shouted to me: "There are footprints!"

I ran over and saw that there were indeed several footprints under the snow, which were complex, deep or shallow. Because the snow was too heavy, it was covered by a thin layer of snow. If it weren't for the bearded and meticulous, no one would have found these footprints.

We pulled out the snow along the footprints, and gradually, several clear footprints were revealed. Three of them were going upwards, not sure where they were leading. There was also a single footprint that was walking backwards, leading to Chen Wenjin's body.

These footprints include three kinds of shoe prints, which means that the three people who left before have passed by here. Judging from the size of the shoe prints alone, this may be Zhou Huaijiang's footprints. In other words, Chen Wenjin's body should have been carried by Zhou Huaijiang.

Although the fog did not dissipate, I finally found a clue. Preliminary analysis showed that Zhou Huaijiang and the other three must have encountered some accident in front of them, which led to Chen Wenjin's death. Zhou Huaijiang sent Chen Wenjin's body here for some purpose.

So, where did Zhou Huaijiang go? Since he has returned, why did he put down his body and then turn it back? There is basically only one convincing answer, that is, he went to find Su Lan. It seems that Su Lan may have gone to a deeper place.

But if this is true, then this whole set of analysis will not be consistent and clear, and there will be more doubts.

According to common sense, with Su Lan's weak physique, it was impossible for her to travel so far. Before entering the mountain, Su Lan abandoned her step and rode a horse because she was exhausted. How could she run so far under the pursuit of two big men Chen Wenjin and Zhou Huaijiang? Besides, the climate here is harsh, so how could she hold on with only a windbreaker? It would be strange if she didn't freeze to death.

I explained these thoughts and doubts to the other three people. After many thoughts, they finally couldn't get a better explanation, so I had to give up for the time being.

Now we have to move forward no matter what. Whether it is to find the root of the blood demon, or the Zhou Huaijiang and Su Lan who must be found, and to explore the mystery of Chen Wenjin's death, we must keep moving forward. All the answers we need should be at the end of the rows of footprints in front.

Because the temperature here dropped severely and the surface was frozen very hard, and I didn't buy equipment like engineer shovels at the beginning, so I couldn't bury Chen Wenjin's body. I had to find a remote place and picked up some gravel and buried the body.

Ji Wenhui's eyes were red and swollen, but her emotions had stabilized. At this time, there was no flower around her. She picked a few handfuls of pine branches and spread them on Chen Wenjin's grave. Thinking of Chen Wenjin's death so unclear, I couldn't help but cry and swallow.

After leaving Chen Wenjin's grave, we continued to move forward. Because we had to sweep the snow while looking for footprints, we walked quite slowly. But our direction was obviously going all the way up, which is absolutely impossible to be wrong.

After walking for a while, the snow became heavier and heavier. With the bitter cold wind, we were all too cold to bear it.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark and the visibility was getting lower and lower, I felt that I could no longer move forward. Most of the equipment was left at the foot of the mountain, and there was no food or accommodation at all. In addition, the wind and snow here were mixed, and the visibility was low. If you move forward, you would definitely get lost completely. By then, even if you don’t freeze to death, you will be starved to death.

So I said to the bearded man: "No, it's not a solution to continue like this. If you move forward, you may not be able to go back. Moreover, Minhui is weak and can't hold on for long. Let's go down the mountain first and carry her luggage tomorrow."

The prince echoed, "Yes, hurry up and go down, my scalp is almost frozen. I will talk about anything tomorrow."

The bearded man looked ahead, and there was still snow flying in the sky, and he couldn't see anything clearly. He nodded: "That's all, let's go back." He turned around and was about to go down the mountain.

At this moment, a scream suddenly came from a distance, the scream was heart-wrenching, and the sound changed from loud to smaller, as if it was a cry of falling down from a high place.

Ji Wenhui was immediately shocked and screamed: "It's Teacher Zhou!" She ran to the direction of the sound.

The three of us were also very surprised. Unexpectedly, we finally heard Zhou Huaijiang's voice, but we screamed so creepy. We couldn't think too much at this moment, and followed Ji Wenhui over.

After running a few steps, Ji Wenhui staggered and fell to the ground due to lack of energy. She was so painful that she couldn't stand up. The bearded man turned around and asked me, "Mingtian, I'm carrying Miss Ji, don't you mind?"

I was stunned for a moment, then I understood the intention of the bearded man's words, and nodded with a embarrassed look.

The bearded man carried Ji Wenhui on his back and said to me and the prince: "Follow me, the faster the better!" After saying that, he flashed, pulled his feet and ran out.

The prince and I bit our back teeth and used twelve points of strength to run with the bearded man, but the distance between us was still getting farther and farther away from him.

After running for a while, a clamping path gradually appeared in front of him, with snow layers about half a person on both sides. The snow layer was getting taller and taller, and later it became several meters high, and gradually changed from a snow layer to an ice layer. The grand scene was simply unimaginable.

The prince asked me panting while running: "Old...Old thank you...Where is this...the hell..."

I was also out of breath: "I can't tell... it seems... it seems... it's a glacier..."

The reason why the word glacier is used is because the scenery here is too magnificent, which looks like a glacier. I once watched the glacier scene in the Tanggula Mountains in Tibet on TV. The glaciers in the picture are almost exactly the same as our environment at this time. If it is a glacier, then our location should be a gap in the glacier.

While he was talking, a figure of a beard appeared in front of him. Ji Wenhui had already come down from his back and stood aside. The two of them stood there without saying a word and looked ahead, not knowing what they had discovered.

The prince and I thought something had happened, so we hurriedly ran harder and ran towards them.

The bearded man heard our footsteps and turned around and shouted nervously: "Stop quickly! Stop running! Come slowly!"

Although I didn't know what he intended, the prince and I knew very well that there must be some danger ahead, so we stopped running and tiptoed over.

When I walked closer, I found that there was no way to go forward here, and there was a cliff under my feet. If I had been running over just now, I would fall down if I couldn't stop it.

Under the cliff, there was a misty fog, and I couldn't see anything clearly. It seemed to be a huge deep pit.

I immediately remembered Zhou Huaijiang's scream just now. From this point of view, could it be that it fell from here?

I asked the bearded man in a low voice: "Do you think Zhou Huaijiang is from here..." Because Ji Minhui is still by my side, I didn't dare to say everything.

The bearded man said in a deep voice: "It should be that there is no other place to go along the way. Since he is not here, he may have fallen."

Ji Wenhui said to me anxiously: "Can you think of a way to save Teacher Zhou? Two people have died in the archaeological team, and no one can die anymore!"

At this moment, I really don’t know what to say. I want to advise her not to be anxious, but in fact I feel even more anxious than her. But how easy is it to talk about saving people? The cliff is at least forty or fifty meters away from the bottom of the deep pit. It’s a problem to go down, so saving people is even more unrealistic.

While hesitating, he suddenly heard a long roar of "Ah", and another scream came from the cliff, which was still Zhou Huaijiang's voice. And the sound he shouted this time was several times more violent than what we heard last time.
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