Chapter 611 Clues and Inconsistent Timelines!

“This smell”

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.

The smell of most living things and the rotten smell of things will be covered up by it.

It can break through this barrier and clearly convey the smell for hundreds of meters.

It’s hard to imagine that if it weren’t for the snow, I would be able to smell it even 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 inside 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's something wrong with this."

The smell is so intoxicating 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 the smell.

After shaking his head, he indicated that he was not sure either.

Sumo 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 beyond that 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 the 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 they can use their strength to crush the opponent head-on without causing any ripples.

Other operations, such as segmentation tactics, poisoning food, and air poisoning, 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, Sumo 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, 3 and 4 follow me in, teams 5, 6 and 7 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.

Pick 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 looked at 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.

When you put it to the tip of your nose and smell it, the slightly irritating smell matches it.

"Guns versus bows and arrows?"

"I said that this group of people robs passers-by every day, and something will happen sooner or later. 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 a simple act of seeking revenge. It is the leader of the lord who leads his people around to cause trouble, and he causes big trouble.

It's not worth being so cautious!

However, Liu Yai's confidence and courage were destined not to last long.

It was less than five seconds before and after.

Just when 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 a very high threat.

For fear of being ambushed, the soldiers holding torches and flashlights at the rear were also very cautious, forming a three-man 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.

After taking two steps forward, Su Mozhan could clearly see the appearance of the mummy.

"Has all the flesh and blood been drained from the body?"

Look up.

The pale skin had completely lost its elasticity and clung 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 protruding 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 with their own eyes an obvious wound.

Standing next to him, Liu Yao 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 the traces left by the other party with my own eyes early this morning.

Knowing that he was an enemy who might directly collide with him in the future, Sumo didn't doubt his presence and went straight forward 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 is extremely powerful in combat. 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.

A long while.

When all the mummies were found and moved to the exit of the cave.

Even Sumo became unusually silent.

There are a total of one hundred and forty-eight 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 supplies in the entire territory were scattered on the ground, they were not taken away in terms of quantity.

Second, revenge.

This 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 an unconvincing 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 the Dawang Mountain and wipe out everyone in the murderer's territory without any effort.

Then the Cliff Territory will definitely not escape the clutches of the evil, and there is no possibility that it can survive the disaster peacefully now.

"Director, come and see!"

While thinking, Su Mo heard the soldiers shouting inside, and he put away his thoughts and went to the source of the sound.

Not far away.

Halfway through the third entrance to the cave, Su Mo saw the deputy captain Feng Long who led the fourth team.

At this time, he was not observing the supplies and facilities in the cave.

Instead, he lay on the ground, staring at a blood-stained ground with the light on.

"Is there something wrong with this ground?"

After getting closer and watching for a while, Su Mo felt familiar, but he didn't remember where this familiar feeling came from.

"Director, it's not the ground that has a problem, it's the shoe print that has a problem!"

In a few seconds, 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 has restored some productivity.

Specially supplied for the whole team to travel on snowy days, with considerable anti-skid, warm and wear-resistant properties.

The output of boots is not much, only more than a hundred pairs in total, and there are not many for each person, so every soldier takes it as a treasure and cherishes it tightly.

At this time, Feng Long took it off and compared it from top to bottom, and Su Mo immediately found the problem.

"The pattern on the sole?"

Feng Long nodded, and pressed his sole hard next to it.

Suddenly, two patterns with the same pattern appeared on the ground except for a slight difference in size.

"Director, look!"

"Here, Marshal Wang and his men should have brought people here, and when they came, such a tragedy should not have happened here"

"The bloodstains on the shoe prints are obviously infiltrated later!"

The school that specializes in training constables has a very professional course called traceology.

When solving crime scenes or tracking down murderers, the knowledge of this subject is widely used and can achieve very impressive results.

Li Hu and Feng Tianmin were both amateur soldiers, and they learned combat-related knowledge.

But Feng Long was a professional, and although his combat power was a little weak, he was far better than the first two in these aspects.

"Yes, even if someone can imitate our shoe prints, it is impossible to make them exactly the same"

"If Marshal Wang and his men arrived here first, then the time when the murderer committed the crime can be easily inferred!"

Only from the details can the truth of the matter be inferred through clues.

According to the time when Marshal Wang traveled, the time when he arrived here, and then judged according to the degree of blood coagulation.

A vague time interval emerged.

"Five days before the heavy snow disaster, four days before, three days before, and these three days, did you hear any noise!"

Calling the two Liu brothers, Su Mo began to verify.

The two thought for a while, and recalled it carefully in front of everyone, and shook their heads.

The two sides said they were not far, but the straight-line distance was as much as three or four kilometers.

In addition, it is difficult to detect any movement here unless there is a loud noise or obvious fire.

Considering the current one-sided weird situation in the cave, it is normal that no noise was found.

However, without being able to provide information in this regard, my younger brother Liu Zi gave a breakthrough in another aspect.

"About two days ago, or one day, a group of people passed by our territory at night"

"At that time, they proposed to come in and sit down to see if they could exchange some items"

"But we saw that they had guns, so we refused"

"In the end, this group of people did not get angry, and asked us the direction to go down the mountain, and then went to Dawang Mountain. Could it be them?"