Captain Garlic didn't say anything, he pointed to the floating sand on the edge of the table's legs. Xuntangshan almost understood the height of the floating sand, which was different from the floating sand piled under the stool next to him.

It is no wonder that Fei Tang is a "Purgatory" researcher. He will never have any entertainment items such as playing cards and cigarettes in his tent.

So, why did Fei Tang suddenly move into this tent? Where did he live? Where did his backpack and work log go?

But soon, they found some of the answers.

The answer is in the tent on the edge of the camp, which is Wenmushan's tent. There are two sleeping bags, a desk, a washbasin, toothbrush, toothpaste and some women's supplies.

Needless to say, this is the temporary residence of Wen Mushan and Shu Yun.

Wen Mushan’s table was full of information, but no work log was found.

There is a black briefcase next to the table, which contains documents such as letters of introduction, work permits, etc. without any other clues.

However, next to the desk, Captain Garlic found the marks that existed on another desk. The size of the table was the same as the size of the Fei Tang table found in the "Casual Tent".

It seems that Wen Mushan originally lived with Fei Tang. Later, after Shu Yun came, Fei Tang moved to the "casual tent" and left it to Wen Mushan and his wife to live there.

But where did the Wen couple go?

Captain Garlic seemed to have found some answers. He found a book called "Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region County Map Album" in Wen Mushan's briefcase.

This map album has obviously been frequently flipped recently. Several pages of the map have been flipped. There are also many pencil lines on the map album that are drawn, which are often outlined recently.

Because in frontier areas for many years, the experienced captain Garlic can see the meaning of those lines at a glance.

That is a route to exit!

This route starts along the Yerkang River valley northwest of Yecheng, and turns westward into the East Pamir Plateau, then goes west along the Tashkurgan River that crosses the plateau, and arrives westward at Ta County, known as the "Stone City". Finally, from a small pass north of Ta County and south of Mustague Peak, crossing the Kuresalle Ridge and reaching abroad!

Is Wen Mushan planning to cross the border secretly? But why did he do this?

Captain Garlic said his suspicion to Xun Tangshan, and Xun Tangshan shook his head vigorously.

"No, definitely not. Old Wen has no reason to cross the border. He is an archaeologist who studies domestic history. What can he do when he goes abroad?"

Captain Garlic disagreed.

"Old Xun, you haven't been in the desert, have you?" he asked.

"Nothing happened?"

Captain Garlic grinned roughly, then patted his chest with a cigarette in his mouth.

"In the desert, when you look up, you will see that there are yellow sand, no living things, no other colors. After staying in such a dry place for a long time, people's hearts will change, become depressed and anxious, and sometimes many strange thoughts will arise..."

"You mean, Lao Wen had other ideas, so he ran away?"

"Who knows?" Captain Garlic shook his head and sighed, "We have to go back quickly, call Ta County and tell them to strengthen border patrols or something."

"But... it has been more than thirty days since the last time I lost contact." Xun Tangshan said, "If I really want to run away, I'm afraid I'd cross the border long ago. But even if Lao Wen ran away, what about the others? More than a dozen people have their own ideas. It's impossible for them to all want to cross the border secretly, right?"

"You're right, others don't necessarily have the idea of ​​running away," said Captain Garlic.

The two people's judgment was quickly proved. The rescue team conducted an external search. Half a day later, they found a body of a migrant worker two kilometers away from the camp.

The guide followed him to recognize the identity of the migrant worker. His name was Wang Tuda, a Han nationality, thirty-five years old, and a villager from Kalayatuer.

Wang Tuda's corpse was lying down in the sand, and there was a large piece of blood on the back of his head.

Captain Garlic pulled open the hair that was clotted by blood clots and gravel, and found a wound about three centimeters in diameter on the skull below. It seemed that he had died immediately after being penetrated by a blunt weapon.

The weapon was soon discovered. It was next to Wang Tu's corpse, with a short-handled iron hammer. The tip of the iron hammer matched the scars on Wang Tu's head. It not only had blood stains, but also had a few hairs.

Captain Garlic bent down and turned over Wang Tu who was lying in the desert.

Xun Tangshan couldn't help but take a breath of cold air because Wang Tuda's facial features were distorted and his face was full of horror, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.

"Is this... a ghost?" Xun Tangshan looked at Wang Tuda's body and said to Captain Garlic.

"No." Captain Garlic stood up calmly, pointing at Wang Tu's bent elbow and said, "It's someone chasing him, he's afraid of being chased by the people behind him."

Xun Tangshan then realized that Wang Tuda's stiff limbs were indeed like he was shaking his arms and running desperately, but the people behind him still chased him. When Wang Tuda was still running, he used a hammer to rush to the back of his head...

The murderer seemed to have no effort and his methods were extremely cruel. He had a hammer to penetrate the skull and his brain stem. Wang Tuda suddenly fell to the ground while running, and lost his breath before he could even struggle.

"It's too cruel, how much hatred is it?" Xun Tangshan shook his head and sighed.

"There must be a big thing happening here! Search around and see if there are any other people's bodies!" Captain Garlic frowned, and he shouted at the members of the rescue team.

The team members hurriedly conducted a thorough search around the body. Captain Garlic also borrowed Xuntangshan's satellite phone to report to the superior departments in Kashgar.

However, the search did not make any progress. The area later sent additional personnel and launched a large search within a radius of more than ten kilometers. Unfortunately, there was no harvest except for the camp and the corpse of the Wang Tuda.

"What a fucking evil!" Even Captain Garlic, who had always been taciturn and calm, couldn't hold back his anger.

Evil?

This word reminded Xun Tangshan. He suddenly remembered something that was related to his colleague Fei Tang. When the herdsmen discovered that the briefing suspected to be Xiye Capital was sent to the Academy of Social Sciences, Fei Tang once applied to his superiors.

Xun Tangshan saw that application at that time. Fei Tang once cited some records in the Tang Dynasty documents discovered in the archaeological discoveries of Zhaohuli Temple before the founding of the People's Republic of China. It happened to be a weird thing. When Anxi Protector led the Western Army to attack and besiege Xiye Kingdom, thousands of people in the city suddenly disappeared overnight!

And the current situation is very similar to the content recorded in the documents! Even thousands of people are in a place without trace all night, and it seems that more than a dozen people disappear out of thin air is not an exception.

Is there any mysterious power here?

But just as he came up with this idea, Captain Garlic, who had completed the preliminary autopsy in the temporary camp, hurried over.
Chapter completed!