I nodded towards Pedro without saying anything, and then walked quickly towards the bottom of the valley.
Everyone's mood was different along the way, and I was particularly eager to reach the bottom quickly, so everyone basically didn't talk much.
After walking for about another hour, the vegetation under our feet gradually became sparse. When we looked down, there was no vegetation at all about a hundred meters away, and the exposed soil was covered with mud.
There is ice water, and further down, there is almost pure white snow as far as the eye can see.
"Zhou Cang, the temperature is getting colder and colder. We must take out the special warm clothes in our backpacks and put them on." Pedro stopped and said to me.
"Okay," I said, taking out the thermal clothing from my backpack and putting it on.
"Zhou Cang, when you wear this thermal suit, it feels like a space suit."
At this time, Andrew, who had been lagging behind us, caught up and joked behind us.
When I first put it on, I didn't feel anything. But as Andrew said, this thermal suit really has the charm of a space suit.
"On this journey, the body's energy is consumed very quickly, and the temperature here is also very low. Let's all drink hot water and eat some compressed biscuits to replenish energy before moving forward." Andrew said.
"But," I said, then paused to think about what to say.
In my heart, I actually want to leave the hot water to the valley floor and the others as much as possible.
However, I also know that such a request is actually very unreasonable, because the safety of us must be guaranteed first.
"Let's not touch the kettles of Brent and the others, leave them to the people trapped at the bottom of the valley. As for the hot water that originally belongs to us, everyone can drink it on their own. After all, we are in this place of ice and snow.
, hot water is a rare thing."
Pedro must have figured out what I was thinking, so he spoke before me.
At this time, Geely, who was looking ahead with a telescope, suddenly said something to Andrew, and then saw Andrew snatching the telescope from Geely's hand, putting it on his face and looking in the direction Geely was looking at just now.
.
Andrew looked ahead through the telescope, and the brow between his eyes slowly wrinkled, gradually forming a "Sichuan" shape.
It seems that the situation ahead is not optimistic.
Before I could speak, Pedro asked: "Professor, is there anything wrong down the valley in front of you?"
Andrew didn't answer. After coming here for a while, he put down the telescope on his face and said solemnly: "There are some footprints on the snow in front, as if a group of people had just walked through."
"Could it be left behind by those who were trapped at the bottom of the valley?" Hearing Andrew say this, I asked anxiously, "Have you found out where they are?"
"No, there are only footprints on the snow." Andrew said this, paused, took a deep breath, and then said: "But judging from the current telescope, the direction of those footprints is out of the valley, not into the valley."
"Andrew, what do you mean by this? Why didn't I understand it," I said to Andrew.
"There are many footprints, they are very complex, and they are a bit far away from us, so I am not sure." Andrew said.
"It's useless to say anything now. We should walk into the snow as quickly as possible. Only when we get to the scene will we know the specific situation."
Pedro said coldly, without any surprise in his tone, which made me feel a little strange.
Because if those footprints in the snow were heading out of the valley, then why didn’t we see anyone along the way? This road is the only way out of Shentang Bay.
And according to what we can see in front of us, there is no one or even any living thing within our sight.
I feel that Pedro in our team is actually very similar to Chen Mo in our team when we went to Wawushan. He talks very little, and you never know what he is thinking, but he is like this
A key player in the entire team.
Seeing Pedro rushing down to the bottom of the valley quickly, I felt that things might not be that simple, so I ran after him.
Because the speed has increased, and there are much fewer obstacles when walking on the grass than in the woods, we only walked the hundred meters distance in less than a minute, crossed the grass, and came to a muddy place.
By the time we got here, the temperature was basically below ten degrees, and it felt like the oxygen content in the air was also much lower. In addition, we had just walked quickly on the grass, so the four of us were basically panting at this time.
Not good enough.
"Zhou Cang, if you look at the chaotic marks on the soil, it means that there must have been an extremely fierce fight on the soil just now." Pedro squatted down, squinted his eyes and looked ahead, his voice was a little low.
"Are you saying that Chen Mo and the others just encountered danger here? But looking at the ground, it seems that there are only human footprints and no traces left by other animals." I said.
"Professor, show me the telescope." Pedro turned to Andrew and said.
Hearing what Pedro said, Andrew handed over the telescope in his hand.
Pedro took the telescope and did not put it on his eyes immediately. Instead, he said to me: "Zhou Cang, please put on your non-slip shoes first, and also take out the detection rod. The situation in front of you is
, which may not be taken lightly.”
After he finished speaking, he muttered a few words to Geely.
I saw Geely take out his pistol in an instant. His action made the whole atmosphere suddenly different, as if there were many unknown dangers lurking around us.
Although I suddenly became vigilant, looking around, there wasn't even a stone, it was all bare muddy land, and below that was the white snow.
If a beast suddenly appeared, we should be able to see it from a distance. Why should we be so nervous all of a sudden?
After Pedro observed with the telescope for a long time, he slowly put it down.
"Professor, Zhou Cang, judging from the messy footprints currently observed through the telescope, there may be something beyond our imagination at the bottom of the valley." Pedro said, his face a little solemn.
"What's wrong, did you see anything?" I asked eagerly.
"No, there are only footprints here, but based on the direction and messiness of these footprints, we saw the team hanging on the cliff last night that entered the valley like us. They should have arrived earlier than us.
The bottom of the valley, but they may have encountered some danger at the bottom of the valley, and then had to escape to the top of the mountain through the road we took. But there is something I can't figure out," Pedro arrived here and stopped, but
His eyes were not looking at us, but at the footprints on the muddy ground.
After a while, he still didn't speak.
"What point have you not figured out? Come on, tell me. Are you being so slow and slow to whet our appetites?" I said impatiently.
"If a person runs away eagerly, it must be because there is something or someone chasing him. However, according to the situation seen through the telescope, there are only human footprints left on the snow, and there are no other
Any trace of living things. So,"
"So, what's chasing them is not some ferocious beast, but a human being, right?" I said first.
"Based on what we have seen so far, there should be only one such situation," Pedro said.
"But, who else will enter Shentang Bay? Why are they chasing other teams? Could it be that the team being chased has already found the astrolabe that belongs to the Yufu tribe. So the two teams are fighting for the astrolabe.
, will there be a conflict?" Andrew said.
"There is a situation here that we must be clear about. If this is the case, then the team being chased is not the four people we saw on the cliff last night, but someone else. Just imagine,
They were still climbing on the cliff last night. Even if they stayed awake, they would not be able to reach the bottom of the valley until this morning at the earliest, so in terms of time, it is impossible for them to find the astrolabe." Pedro
said.
"but,"
"Zhou Cang, I know that the four people on the cliff are probably your friends, but the facts are the facts, and you can't be blinded by your own perceptual thinking."
Pedro knew what I was going to say and intercepted my words first.
"Then what should we do now?" I swallowed the last half of the sentence and asked.
"Go down and see what is at the bottom of this valley. Moreover, these two teams suddenly disappeared in this muddy land. Do you think it is possible to see neither the living nor the dead?" Pedro said, no.