Gouzi and I quickly returned to the place where the incident occurred on the mountain road, and did not see the scavenger, Liu Wenya and others.
I carefully observed the traces left on the mountain path. In addition to the messy footprints, I also saw some blood stains.
The location where these bloodstains dripped was exactly where Liu Wenya was standing at that time. She used self-mutilation to threaten me and Gou Zi and I had the opportunity to leave.
I climbed up nearly ten meters following the blood stain. I could no longer find the blood stain, but I could see obvious human marks on some tree trunks.
Gouzi and I followed these marks all the way up, and when we climbed halfway up the mountain, we saw blood stains again.
But this time, the blood stains were no longer dripping, but sputtering, not only on the ground, but also on some nearby trees.
I wondered whether it was here that Liu Wenya had a fierce conflict with the scavenger, or perhaps Zhou Wu and others who had woken up had a fight with the scavenger, causing someone or both parties to be injured.
Just as I was thinking about it, Gouzi suddenly pointed to the left side of the mountain road. There was a dense forest with lush trees and fertile land. Under the light rain, there were a series of footprints in the soil.
"Brother Jing, they should have gone over there!"
Gouzi judged: "We went all the way up. The footprints on the mountain road were messy. Only here, the footprints are clear. Look, this smaller footprint should belong to sister Ya. Look, there are still dripping blood."
I nodded in approval, cheered up Gouzi, and we both started to move cautiously toward the left side of the mountain road.
After passing through this dense mountain forest, the front suddenly opened up and turned out to be an empty place. A cave could be seen not far ahead.
At this time, Gouzi and I took shelter in the trees at the back of the forest. We could see the cave twenty meters away. It was a little dark inside, but we could see the flickering fire in the cave.
There were two such fires. Gouzi lowered his voice and said it was two people smoking at the entrance of the cave.
I thought it was the scavenger and the bald man, and I didn’t know if Liu Wenya and the other four were also in the cave.
"Brother Jing, look at the two of them who escorted Sister Ya into this cave. Are they waiting for someone?"
Gouzi asked curiously. His voice was not loud, almost whispering to me.
I also whispered in his ear: "Do you still remember, that woman told the scavenger that it was almost time? They should have agreed with Liu Wenya's eldest sister on a time and place to meet. As for the time of the appointment, we are not sure
; And the location is in this cave."
Gouzi said he remembered, and asked me what should I do now?
I said that now we can only wait for an appropriate opportunity, otherwise Gouzi and I would never be able to defeat the gun-wielding scavengers and bald men with steel rods.
They are waiting, and so are we, to see who can wait for the best time.
Time passed by, and the light rain stopped at some point. I looked up at the sky and found that the night in the mountains seemed to have fallen silently.
I took out my cell phone, which had no signal, and checked it. It was now 4:30 in the afternoon, but it was almost the same as the evening sky in the city.
At this time, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps in the woods behind us, which was especially clear under the gloomy sky.
I quickly shrank down from the dog and used the cover of the big tree to hide very secretly.
The two of us followed the footsteps and soon two people came over.
The person walking at the front was a woman wearing a mask. The reason why I judged she was a woman was that anyone who was not blind could feel the magnificent scenery on her chest.
Due to the dim light, I could only see so much, and I couldn't even see her specific figure clearly.
Behind her was a large man carrying a lockbox. The two of them hurriedly walked out of the woods and headed towards the cave ahead.
Gouzi and I didn't dare to move, fearing that there would be someone behind us. It wasn't until we waited for more than a minute that we were sure there was no one behind us, and we both looked towards the cave again.
At this time, the new man and woman were standing at the entrance of the cave, talking to the people inside.
Due to the distance of twenty meters and the low sound of their conversation, I couldn't hear what was said at all.
They talked for a few minutes, and then a man and a woman also got into the cave.
"Brother Jing, it's completely dark. I'm small, so I used the darkness as a cover to go over and see what was going on."
The dog is ready to move, but I don't trust him to go alone. The dog makes me feel at ease. He has been crawling around in the night for many years and is smarter than anyone else. He will definitely not be discovered.
I patted the dog on the shoulder and told him to be careful.
Gouzi smiled, and his small body was quickly hidden in the darkness.
I waited anxiously alone here, staring at the cave over there without daring to move away. There was no fire burning in the cave anymore. This made me uneasy, worried that the cave would be connected to other places, and the scavengers and the others would
He left the cave long ago.
Fortunately, not long after, Gouzi came back gently and told me what he had heard while squatting outside the cave.
The cave shouldn't be very deep, because the dog could hear what was going on inside, saying who the scavenger was talking to, but the dog didn't dare to get too close to the entrance of the cave, so he couldn't really hear it.
However, Gouzi said that outside the entrance of the cave, he saw the two backpacks we brought, which were the backpacks carrying items carried by Zhou Wu and King Zheng.
When I heard this, my expression suddenly brightened, and I asked the dog to touch it back again. No matter what, I had to bring one of the backpacks back, because there were important items in the backpack that could help us make a comeback!
Gouzi said that he would fulfill his mission and quickly touched it again.
At this time, it was completely dark in the mountains. In the quiet mountain night, apart from the sounds of birds and animals, the only sounds left were the whistling of the mountain wind and the sound of my heartbeat racing at this moment.
The dog didn't come back for a long time this time, and I was so nervous that I clenched my fists.
The uneasy waiting was akin to torture. Just when I couldn't hold myself back and prepared to go to the cave to find out, the dog came back with a big backpack on his back.
I finally breathed a sigh of relief, and Gouzi wiped his hands with cold sweat and told me about the situation when he returned.
Everything was going smoothly as they approached the cave entrance. Just when Gouzi was about to take the opportunity to take away a backpack, he didn't expect someone to come out at that time.
Just standing in front of the cave entrance, less than three meters away from the dog huddled outside the cave.
Gouzi didn't even dare to breathe too hard. He was extremely nervous and waited for more than ten minutes without moving. After the man walked back into the cave without noticing, Gouzi took his backpack and left quickly.
Gouzi said: "That was a woman, but it was definitely not Sister Ya. She seemed to be the person walking in front who just passed by. She stood outside the cave and tried to make a call, but there was no signal. The light of her mobile phone illuminated her.
I was so scared that my heart almost jumped out of my chest, I was afraid that she would find me by borrowing the mobile phone light."
I praised Gouzi again, rummaged through my backpack for a while, took out a small bottle and held it in my hand.
The dog asked me what it was?
I grinned and said, "It's an intoxicating drug. It was this kind of intoxicating drug that stunned Zeng Zhiguang and the others when I invited you to the abandoned chemical factory last time."