Zhang Zhuxun was just wondering why his little brother disappeared in the blink of an eye, when the branches diagonally above his head suddenly shook.
Immediately afterwards, half of the younger brother's body emerged from the shadow covered by the vines where he had been hiding from the rain. When he saw Zhang Zhuxun, he waved for him to come up.
After Zhang Zhuoxun climbed up, he pointed at a large piece of dead vines in front of him, then stepped forward and pulled hard, causing a rotten and moldy smell to rise, and a large group of grass suddenly poured out of a small nest. ticks.
It was black and green, and looked like bran that formed into lumps after getting wet. It was really eye-catching, but it was quickly washed away by the rainwater.
The little brother pointed at the tangled things in the nest and asked Zhang Zhuxun to take a closer look.
Zhang Zhuoxun wrinkled his nose, held his breath and took a closer look. He immediately understood, "No wonder there are so many grass ticks here. They are all attracted by this thing."
The little brother nodded and said: "I don't know what kind of animal it is. It's very big. It may have died of an illness after sucking blood from these bugs. Before it died, it lay on the tree. As a result, it attracted all the bugs around and directly wiped the corpse off. After the blood is sucked dry, the insects rest on the mummy, waiting for the next victim to arrive."
As he spoke, he squatted down, put his hand into the hole of the skeleton, and pulled out a green iron lump from the inside. He stretched his hand outside to let the rain wash it away, and then showed it to Zhang Zhu to look for.
"Flashlight?!" Zhang Zhuoxun raised his eyebrows, took the iron knot twisted into a rotten shoe sole and looked at it carefully, "It looks like it was from the 1980s and 1990s."
"Why did this thing appear here? Could it be that a senior came here to look for the Kingdom of the Western Queen at that time?" Zhang Zhuxun was a little confused and looked at his younger brother.
The little brother shook his head, saying that he didn't know, and then put his hand in again, and then his hand suddenly stopped.
Zhang Zhuoxun asked him hurriedly, "What did you find?"
The little brother had a slightly weird expression and moved extremely slowly. He pulled his hand out of the hole. Between his index finger and middle finger, there was an old-fashioned grenade that looked like a garlic hammer.
There was a soft "click" sound.
The rusty back cover, which was already rusty and could not be mounted, hit the vines on the side when it was being moved out. It was knocked off and the leads inside were hung out together with it.
"I'm going!" Zhang Zhuoxun screamed, grabbed the grenade, and threw it away.
Then he quickly turned around with his little brother and held his head.
boom--
The tree crowns in the entire area were shaken by this sudden shock, and the raindrops accumulated on the leaves fell on the two of them, instantly drenching them to death.
Zhang Zhuoxun cursed, shook the water on his head, wiped his face, and said to the little brother next to him who looked a little confused, "This skeleton is a bit dangerous. Let's go back and inform Tianzhen and the others, and then we can discuss countermeasures together." "
The little brother nodded and said "Yeah".
The two climbed down the tree, and as soon as they turned around, they met Wu Xiaoxie and the others.
"What happened?" Wu Xiaoxie asked hurriedly.
The fat man checked that there were no injuries on the two of them, and then he clucked his tongue and said, "What are you two doing? Such a big explosion scared the fat man so much that my heart almost burst."
Zhang Zhuoxun waved his hand, "The grass ticks are still here, don't stay too long, we'll talk in detail when we get back."
Several people returned under the tarpaulin. When Zhang Zhuxun explained what had just happened, Fatty and the others suddenly became somewhat interested in the skeleton.
The fat man guessed, "Could it be someone who came here before and looked for the Mother Kingdom of the Western Queen like us?"
Zhang Zhuoxun nodded, "It's very possible."
Then asked "A Ning", "Has your company found similar information?"
"A Ning" shook his head and denied: "The only people we found who have been here are Chen Wenjin and the others. According to what you said, the flashlight and the old-fashioned grenade should be from the same person. Judging from the time, this person is probably Chen Wenjin's team. The people inside.”
Several people looked at each other in silence, without speaking.
The atmosphere was a little stagnant. The fat man slapped his thigh and stood up, saying:
"If you're going to bother discussing it here, why not just go over there and see if it's a mule or a horse. You can tell if it's a mule or a horse by pulling it out for a walk."
Everyone felt that what the fat man said made sense, so Zhang Zhuxun and his little brother climbed over there and pricked their fingers to draw some blood to drive away the grass ticks, and then called Wu Xiaoxie and the others to come over.
After cutting off the dry vines on the side, everyone dug and planed, and finally cleared out a long and extremely long animal skeleton. It had been corroded to a mess, and the original shape was basically unrecognizable. It was Pan Zi who was experienced and found the buried structure. The mineralized scales under the rotting dead branches and leaves indicate that this should be a python.
Then everyone took turns to fight and finally cleared out the huge snake bones.
Pan Zi saw that Wu Xiaoxie looked tired, so he asked him to go back under the tarpaulin, wrap his back around him and nestle inside to rest for a while.
Because the snake bones are too brittle and will break at the slightest touch, this kind of delicate work can only be done by Zhang Zhuxun and his brother who are good at it. There is nothing else that can help, so I and the fat man went aside to rest. , and soon both of them fell asleep.
Hearing the fat man's snoring behind him, Zhang Zhu glanced at "A Ning" and was noticed by her before he could look back.
"A Ning" frowned and said, "What do you want me to do?"
Zhang Zhuoxun smiled, "It's nothing."
It is estimated that Wu Xiaoxie will be frightened awake by that prophetic dream after a while.
Pan Zi wore gloves and pulled out a half-missed skull from the snake's belly. There were very obvious bite marks and traces of corrosion by gastric juice.
He took it under the miner's lamp and looked at it carefully, and said, "This man was probably eaten by a snake, and the snake caused a grass tick to burrow in and die here. Let's look for it again to see if there are any other clues."
"Be careful." Zhang Shuxun reminded him, "The weapons this man was carrying before he died may have been swallowed by snakes. If he hits a grenade again, all of us will be blown up into the sky."
Pan Zi nodded and cheered up.
The excavation work was still continuing here, and Wu Xiaoxie suddenly broke out in cold sweat on the other side, his brows were furrowed, and he was still mumbling something.
"A Ning" noticed his situation and rolled his eyes. Seeing that Zhang Zhuxun and the others were not paying attention, he wanted to get closer and hear what Wu Xiaoxie was talking about.
As soon as he got closer, Wu Xiaoxie shouted loudly, opened his eyes, and saw a black figure looming in front of him. The scene in his dream suddenly overlapped with the scene in front of him. He was frightened, and immediately subconsciously Kicked over.
"Go away——"
"Aning" was caught off guard and was kicked. His body was suddenly unstable. If he hadn't grabbed the trunk in time, he would have fallen directly from the tree.
