Realizing that something was wrong, Sumo immediately frowned and called for the team to stop.
The snowflakes falling in the sky have not completely stopped yet.
It is so diffuse that the smell of most living things and the rotten smell of things will be covered up.
It can break through this barrier and clearly transmit the smell for hundreds of meters.
It’s hard to imagine that if it weren’t for the snowy weather, I would be able to smell it far away at the foot of the mountain.
"Invite the second team to come over, don't act rashly yet"
Soma gave the order.
The second team, which had been taking a detour, also discovered the problem in the cave. After receiving the signal from the main team, they completely took off their disguise and began to move forward at full speed.
In less than five minutes, the two teams successfully converged a hundred meters away from the cave.
And here, even those with a dull sense of smell can clearly smell the stench of blood coming from the cave.
"Director, I'm afraid there is something wrong here."
The smell is so overwhelming that most people's subconscious reaction is to take a half-step back and start taking the mask strap from their waists.
But only Feng Tianmin and a few others stared at the dark cave entrance with cautious faces, carefully using their noses to distinguish the information conveyed by this smell.
He shook his head, indicating that he was not sure.
Somo took the telescope from the small leather pocket on his waist and began to look at the dark entrance of the cave.
Like the cliff territory, the outside of the cave in this murderous territory is also carved with crooked characters and symbols, representing the identity of the people living inside.
However, most of the fonts are now covered with snowflakes, which is obviously accumulated because no one has been on duty to clean them for a long time.
Observing the wall near the outside, there are basically no signs of burning, which means that there was no accident such as a fire that caused the current appearance.
"Call Liu Yai and Liu Quan over!"
After continuing to observe for a while and getting some key information, Sumo gave instructions without raising his head.
Soon, the two Liu brothers who were at the back of the team stepped forward.
"Did more Westerners live in this territory before?"
Liu Quan was stunned and nodded quickly: "It seems to be the territory of foreigners. The last time we passed by, we really didn't see any of us Chinese in the crowd of confrontations."
"When they were entrenched in this area, did they provoke any relatively powerful gathering place?"
Liu Quan thought about this question for a while, and then said uncertainly: "Probably not. Although there are many human gathering places in these thousands of miles of mountains, only the origin camp in the gentle center of the mountains can be called relatively powerful.
, and further out there are basically very few gathering places with more than a thousand people and suitable armed forces.”
"In addition, Dawang Mountain is already on the outskirts. If someone really comes to seek revenge, we are so close that we won't be able to receive any news!"
They are all neighbors. It is not easy to clean up a camp of two to three hundred people quietly.
Either they are like the group of mysterious people who came out of the ruins, possessing technological weapons of unknown power that can produce dimensionality-reducing strikes.
Either there are too many people, and you can use your strength to crush the opponent head-on without causing any ripples.
Other operations, such as segmentation tactics, food poisoning, air poisoning, etc., all have many constraints.
It is an operation that seems very simple when you think about it, but if you are not careful when implementing it, it will have the opposite effect.
"Let's go in and take a look!"
After thinking about it for a while, Somo felt convinced and no longer hesitated.
Wow!
The order was given, and the team of hundreds of people began to divide into ten pairs in an orderly manner, sprinting for the last 100 meters in an arrow shape.
Because I was wearing a mask, the smell was almost blocked.
Even if there are still other toxic ingredients remaining in the smell, it will not pose a major threat in a short period of time.
"Teams 1, 2, 34 follow me inside, teams 5, 67 and 56 are on guard outside, and teams 8 and 90 use the cave as the coordinate origin to search for suspicious traces within 500 meters of the surrounding area."
When they arrived at the entrance of the cave, everyone could clearly see the blood that had solidified on the ground.
Like a bloody centipede.
The traces were crooked and twisted, and accompanied by several horrific bloody handprints, it looked like a scene from a horror movie.
Fortunately, it was still daytime and there were many people present, so the atmosphere would not spread.
Take out the flashlight.
Light up the torch.
Adjusting the rifles on their backs to the firing mode, four teams of forty people, including the two Liu brothers, began to cautiously explore inside under the leadership of Sumo.
"There should have been a battle here, and the opponent should have a gun in his hand!"
After only four or five steps into the cave, Sumo noticed the marks on the cave wall. He took a step forward, took off his gloves and lightly rubbed the marks.
This mark is familiar to anyone who has used a gun. It is the scorch mark left by the bullet grazing the wall.
If you put it to the tip of your nose and smell it, the slightly irritating smell will match it.
"Guns versus bows and arrows?"
"I said that this group of people robs passers-by every day, and sooner or later something will happen. It seems like this is retribution!"
Not knowing the seriousness of the matter, Liu Yai was laughing and joking and did not take this discovery seriously.
In his opinion, everything that is happening in the Fierce Man's Territory is just a simple act of seeking revenge. It is the leader of the lord who leads his people to provoke trouble everywhere, which leads to big trouble.
It’s not worth being so cautious!
However, Liu Yai's confidence and courage were destined not to last long.
It took less than five seconds before and after.
Just as he took a few steps forward carelessly, turned a corner, and was about to show off, he suddenly screamed, scaring everyone's hearts.
"What's wrong?"
At the first moment, Somo subconsciously grabbed the butt of the gun in his hand and looked cautiously towards the direction from which the sound came.
"Here, there is someone here!"
"Is there anyone?"
With a wink towards the back, Sumo put his finger on the trigger, ready to shoot at any time.
In the cave, under such circumstances, if there are still people who can live in it.
Either he is a ruthless person who is used to life and death, or he is the murderer who caused all these tragedies.
Both of them, no matter which one they are, pose extremely high threats.
For fear of being ambushed, the soldiers holding torches and flashlights at the rear were also cautious and formed a three-person covering formation and slowly moved forward.
"Director, there is a mummy!"
Coming to the corner where Liu Yai sat down, under the firelight, the "person" in Liu Yao's mouth was naturally invisible.
Taking two steps forward, Sumo immediately saw clearly what the mummy looked like.
"Has all the flesh and blood been drained from the body?"
Look up.
The pale skin has completely lost its elasticity and clings tightly to the frame, revealing two black eye sockets.
The sunken chest and abdomen seemed to have been hit hard by a hammer, and crooked dry lines could be seen all over it.
Look down.
The dry thighs were like two branches, no longer as thick as an adult's arm, and the raised knee joints were like two javelins, poking straight into the ground.
Even the big feet, which seemed to be quite large before, became only the size of a child after losing their activity and muscle filling.
"There's a cut on his neck!"
Feng Tianmin, who followed him forward, had no fear in his heart. While everyone was still looking at him, he picked up a branch and gently poked the mummy's neck.
A flip.
From here, everyone can see an obvious wound with their own eyes.
Standing next to him, Liu Yai also looked at it immediately, but just by looking at it, he exclaimed:
"gear!"
The standard hexagonal gear is a symbol of modern industrial precision and is full of a unique sense of beauty.
If this thing were placed in a toolbox or parts box, no adult from modern society would take a second look at it.
But when placed on the neck of the mummy, it immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"Is this the symbol on the head of that mysterious group of people?"
Without hesitation, Sumo asked directly.
Although Liu Yai was shocked, he quickly replied: "Yes, it's the logo on their heads. Except for the number of bumps on the gears, the appearance and size are exactly the same!"
I just heard about what happened in the center of the mountain range yesterday.
I saw with my own eyes the traces left by the other party early this morning.
Knowing that he was an enemy who might collide directly with him in the future, Sumo did not doubt that he was there and went straight forward and leaned down to investigate.
The owner of the mummy should be a white man who is still in his prime.
In terms of physique, such a strong man has extremely strong fighting ability. If faced head-on, even if his fighting skills are mediocre, he can still fight with a trained warrior for a period of time.
But the problem happens to be here.
In addition to the gear wound on his neck, it was difficult to find a second wound after searching all over his body.
"Keep looking and see if there are others like this in the cave!"
Realizing the seriousness of the matter, Somo took a moment to disperse the team into three directions and began to explore along the cave.
Half a moment.
When all the mummies are found and moved to the exit of the cave.
Even Somo became unusually silent.
There are a total of 148 mummies in the cave.
Although this does not match the number of people in the murderer's territory before, it is still more than half of the people.
Relying on the identification of the two brothers Liu Yai and Liu Quan, it was easy to find the lord of this territory.
No different from the first mummy found, this white lord also had an obvious gear wound on his neck.
Obviously, the murderer is the same person or the same group of people!
"Did that group of mysterious people chase you here?"
His younger brother Liu Quan first made a conjecture, and then immediately shook his head and denied it.
The reason is simple.
In the wasteland, there are only a few possibilities for killing people.
First, seek wealth.
Money touches people's hearts. No matter whether the mysterious perpetrators are rich or poor, no matter whether their supplies are in short supply or not, they will all fight for this reason.
But immediately, after searching the entire cave, Qiu Cai was the first to be excluded.
Without him, although the materials in the entire territory were piled scattered on the ground, judging by the quantity, they were not taken away.
Second, take revenge.
This point is also difficult to reconcile. According to Liu Yai and Liu Quan's description, the establishment time of the murderer's territory was before the mysterious man broke through the restrictions of the ruins.
Being so far away, and knowing the opponent's record, I didn't dare to make any mistakes even if I gave these people with bows and arrows some courage.
Third, bloodthirsty.
Again, this is a very hard to convince reason.
After all, when the mysterious man came out, he didn't kill everyone, so there was no possibility of him going crazy later.
Even if the mysterious man was really crazy, he would chase him to Dawang Mountain and wipe out everyone in the murderer's territory without any effort.
Then the cliff territory will definitely not be able to escape the vicious hands, and there is no possibility that it can survive the disaster safely now.
"Director, come and see!"
While thinking, he heard the shouts of the soldiers inside. Soma put away his thoughts and went to the source of the sound.
Went not far.
Halfway through the third cave entrance, Sumo saw the vice-captain Feng Long who was leading the fourth team at a glance.
At this time, he was not observing the materials and facilities in the cave.
Instead, he lay on the ground and stared at the blood-stained ground under the light.
"Is there something wrong with the ground?"
He came closer and looked at it for a while. Although Sumo felt familiar, he didn't remember where the familiarity came from.
"Director, it's not the ground that's wrong, it's the shoe prints that are wrong!"
After three clicks, five divided by two, Feng Long sat up straight and took off the special climbing boots on his feet.
This kind of boots is the first batch of finished shoes produced after the depression regained some productivity.
Specially supplied to the entire team for traveling in snowy weather, it has considerable anti-skid, warm and wear-resistant properties.
The output of boots was not much, only a few hundred pairs in total, and there were not many to distribute to each person, so every soldier picked them up as a treasure, and usually cherished them very dearly.
At this time, Feng Long took it off and after comparing it up and down, Sumo immediately discovered the problem.
"This sole pattern?"
Feng Long nodded and pressed the sole of his shoe hard on the side.
Suddenly, two patterns with identical patterns appeared on the ground except for a slight difference in size.
"Director, look!"
"Marshal Wang and others should have brought people here before, and when they came, such a tragedy should not have happened here."
"The blood stains on the shoe prints obviously seeped in later!"
The school that specializes in training agents has a very professional course called Traceology.
When detecting crime scenes or tracking down murderers, the knowledge of this subject is widely used and can achieve extremely impressive results.
Li Hu and Feng Tianmin were both soldiers in the wild, and they all learned combat-related knowledge.
But Feng Long came from a major, and although his combat effectiveness was a bit weaker, he was way ahead of the other two in these aspects.
"Yes, even if someone can imitate our shoe prints, they can't make them exactly the same."
"If Marshal Wang and the others arrived here first, then it would be easy to deduce the time when the murderer committed the crime!"
Only in the details can we deduce the truth of the matter through clues.
According to the time Marshal Wang traveled, the time he arrived here will be judged based on the degree of blood coagulation.
A vague time interval emerged.
"Five days before the heavy snow disaster, four days before, three days before, these three days, did you hear anything?"
Summoning the two Liu brothers, Sumo began to seek confirmation.
The two thought for a while, then recalled it in front of everyone, shaking their heads.
The two sides are not far apart, but the straight-line distance is as much as three or four kilometers.
In addition, on the way up and down the mountain, unless there is violent noise and obvious fire, it is difficult to detect the movement here.
Judging from the strange one-sided situation in the cave, it is normal that no noise was detected.
However, failing to provide information in this aspect, his younger brother Liu Quan gave a breakthrough in another aspect.
"About two days ago, or just one day, a group of people passed by our territory at night."
"At that time, they offered to come in and sit down to see if they could exchange some items."
"But we saw they had guns, so we refused."
"In the end, this group of people didn't get angry. They asked us about the direction down the mountain and went to Dawang Mountain. Could it be them?"
