Chapter 1 Weird Corpse
On September 27, 1950, heavy rain occurred in northern San Salvador, one of the Bahamas.
The gloomy primeval forest was washed away by the pouring rain, making it even more wet and muddy. If you don’t pay attention, countless huge lees in the puddle crawled into your clothes. You didn’t feel anything at all, but you would see bloody buns all over your legs if you took off your clothes.
Zhang Xingkuo felt disgusted when he looked at the purple-black lees squirming in the puddle under his feet, but he was wearing half-high-waisted American leather boots, thick legs tied on his calves, and the military uniform inside had been specially tightened. In addition, the close-fitting raincoat outside, there was no need to worry too much about these little vampires taking advantage of him. But even so, he still didn't dare to stand firm, and could only grop in the rain in this empty black jungle that could not see the edge.
"Zhao, come and take a look." The person who spoke was Captain William, who belonged to the American military figure in this squad.
"Hmm? What's wrong?" Zhao Kuo pushed away Zhang Xingkuo, who was helping him tightly with his leggings, and strode to William.
"Give it!" William handed over a telescope, pointed at the lush green shade opposite, which was invisible.
Zhao Kuo took the telescope and looked forward with the latter's gesture.
There is still a piece of green shade there, but if you look closely, you can see the clues. The trees there are obviously more lush than the surrounding areas, and they look abrupt under the heavy rain.
"That is a necessary route for our marching and we cannot go around it. However, according to the map, this area has been developed. Logically, no special situation should have happened." Zhao Kuo raised his hand to wipe off the water mist on the telescope lens. The rainfall here is amazing. It has been falling for more than a week. The dense forest is full of water mist, and the visibility is very low.
"Scott, put down your burden and go ahead and take a look." William hugged an American guy less than 1.7 meters tall and pointed at the front.
This American guy named Scott is a vanguard in the entire team, and he is also an exception. He is less than 1.7 meters tall and big Americans. However, this guy looks silent, but his skills are real. He once won the first place in physical training and the third place in the US National Military Exercise Competition. Moreover, he grew up in Brazil and has been shuttled through various dense forests in Brazil since he was naked. This little thing in front of him is not difficult for him.
While speaking, Scott had taken off his backpack, leaving only a pistol and dagger, broke through the rain curtain, and disappeared in front of everyone in less than ten seconds.
Watching Scott leave, everyone stopped for a while, regardless of the mud on the ground, tilted all over.
Zhang Xingkuo's eyes were always staring in the jungle opposite, but his right hand was still unaccustomed to fiddling with the huge machine in his ear. This is the latest product developed by the US military, called wireless venous shock. Its function is equivalent to the radio station he participated in the Anti-Japanese War, which allows them to chat at will within a range of one or two thousand meters. Is this thing big? It is like the "cold protection ear protection" he brought when he was fighting in the Northeast. However, wearing this thing, plus the thickness-proof helmet, the quality on his entire head is at least three kilograms, which makes him very helpless, who has been walking around the world with a swagger.
Not long after, a long and two short finger tapping sound came from the radio, which meant that there was a situation ahead, but there was no danger, so you could continue moving forward.
Everyone stood up one after another, except for the two gold-torming captains Sun Guofu and fat man Wang who had been roaming in the world, the others were silent and kept moving forward.
At this time, the rain was still heavy in the woods, and the ground was muddy. Everyone could only follow the edge of the forest. The roots of the trees were well developed, and the soil and leaves were mixed together. The road was more smooth than other places, and it was just enough to escape the leeches entrenched in the mud puddles in the forest. Bypassing a few tall hanging leaves, a clearing in the forest appeared in front of everyone. The lush forest grass was beaten by the rain, like a layer of fur-like carpet.
In the middle of the open space, a bunch of corpses with strange postures suddenly appeared there, which made Zhang Xingkuo, who saw him at first sight, suddenly shudder in his heart.
It was a row of corpses in a sleeping position, with about eight or nine people lying around a big tree with a diameter of more than 2 meters. Judging from the large pit in front of the many corpses, this should be a group of ordinary people sleeping in camp.
"What's going on?" William walked up and carefully observed the corpse on the ground.
"It was fatal in an instant! There was no sign of resistance around him. He should have been killed by a sneak attack in his sleep." Scott's steady performance was not consistent with his age. During the time when everyone came, he had already set up a simple defense measure around him.
"No." Zhao Kuo frowned, frowned and walked forward two steps, and said, pulling away the clothes of one of the bodies.
"Look, his fatal injury was a big hole in his chest. However, it was not a gunshot wound, but it seemed to be taken out by some animal with its claws." Zhao Kuo gestured with his hands.
Everyone followed his eyes and saw a wound as big as a head suddenly appeared on the chest of the corpse, and the entire sternum was penetrated, and even the ribs below were pulled out several times.
"Professor, come and take a look." I found that something was wrong, Zhao Kuo called Li Mengfan, the old man at the end of the team.
Li Mengfan is the highest-level professor in the Department of Biology at Yenching University. He is less than fifty years old, but when he was young, he learned ancient Chinese, and was pedantic and imitated the masters in ancient scriptures. He left a long beard on his chin, looking like an old man in his sixties or seventies. However, he was the only elder who was proficient in paleontology on this trip, and everyone respected him.
At this time, Li Mengfan was hanging at the end of the team to rest because he was exhausted. When he heard Zhao Kuo call him, he stood up reluctantly and walked towards him.
"Huh?" Before Zhao Kuo could speak, Li Mengfan seemed to have discovered a new continent. He swept away his fatigue and pushed a few people away and squatted on the ground and looked at the corpse carefully.
"He was killed by a certain animal. Judging from the injuries, it should be a feline. However, there is nothing else except Bengal tigers that can have this big claw and have such tearing power. But it is not right. There are no such tigers in the area where we are, and these corpses have not been eaten. There are many traces of human activities in this area, which should not be!" He looked at several corpses carefully, frowned every time he saw a brow, and finally sat on the ground, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Do you think something is wrong with this group of people?" At this time, the fat man who had never spoken except cursing along the way.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Kuo looked through the corpse again, but found nothing abnormal.
"Look at this person's index finger!" said the fat man with his gun barrel lifted the palm of a corpse.
"Very thick calluses! Only those who shoot for a long time will do this. So, this group of people is not a group of simple people." The fat man sneered.
Chapter completed!