I am a super cop

Chapter 2677 Skull

"Old Wang, where are you?"

"Why is no one responding?"

“Is this guy hiding somewhere to take a shit?”

As we were walking along the path in the dense forest, we suddenly discovered that Comrade Lao Wang was missing.

Before, everyone was able to maintain their formation, and Comrade Lao Wang took the initiative to offer to cover everyone's retreat.

Gu Chen and Xu Enping chose to lead the way.

But now, the people who were left behind have disappeared.

If Lu Weiwei hadn't reacted, no one might have noticed that Comrade Lao Wang was missing.

"How could this happen? Haven't you been following behind before?" Gu Chen turned back and said.

Lu Weiwei also put on an innocent face: "He was indeed following me before. At first I could still see him behind me, but I don't know how long it has been. I always feel like this guy Lao Wang doesn't say a word."

"I was curious, so I looked back, and then I found that Lao Wang was gone."

"Isn't this too outrageous?" Xu Enping frowned at this moment.

Only he knows best what will happen if they lose the team in a place like this?
At this moment, Xu Enping could no longer suppress his nervousness and said quickly:
"From now on, we should stop moving forward and find the person right away. Otherwise, Officer Wang's life may be in danger."

"Because this dense forest is full of uncertainties, especially the creatures here, which have never been disturbed by humans."

"But now, if humans rashly enter their territory, they are likely to attack us."

"Then Old Wang is in danger." Hearing this, Lu Weiwei's heart skipped a beat.

I feel that what Xu Enping said does make sense.

Everyone gathered together immediately, and Gu Chen reminded them, "From now on, everyone must always pay attention to the people around them. Don't let the team get separated again."

"We must always be careful. Now, let's go back the same way and find Senior Brother Wang."

"Yeah." Upon hearing this, everyone responded in unison.

Losing a person is a very dangerous behavior. No one cared about anything else and only had one thought in mind, which was to find the person immediately.

This time, Gu Chen walked in the front, followed closely by Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha, and Xu Enping was the rear guard.

With the experience of Officer Wang getting lost, everyone will pay attention to the people in front and behind this time.

But when Gu Chen walked back, he found that the road he came from had disappeared.

Gu Chen immediately stopped and looked around.

Lu Weiwei behind him quickly came over and asked, "Junior Brother Gu, is there any problem?"

"Something's wrong." Gu Chen looked straight ahead and didn't say anything.

"What's wrong?" Lu Weiwei asked curiously.

Gu Chen then turned around and said, "Senior Sister Lu, didn't you notice that all the traces from our previous visit have disappeared?"

"Are you talking about our footprints?" Lu Weiwei was also startled by Gu Chen's words, and quickly looked behind Gu Chen.

Yuan Shasha also came over, and the three of them looked at the ground and indeed found that the plants that had been trampled down before seemed to no longer exist.

The road here seems like no one has ever walked on it.

"It's strange." Lu Weiwei touched her head and looked back, then said:

"We just walked over a stony path and came to this lush grass."

"But now, there is no trace of where we came from. What happened?"

"I remember we clearly came from this location." Yuan Shasha also pointed straight ahead.

"Let me take a look." Listening to the conversation between several people, Xu Enping also felt it was quite weird, so he hurried over to observe the previous terrain.

But after reading it, Xu Enping was also confused. He scratched the back of his head and said in surprise: "It's really strange. We really came from here? I remember it was this road."

"Could it be that we took the wrong road? Maybe... I mean it's possible that this road might just be similar, but we actually took another one?" Lu Weiwei said.

"But we should have made a mark. Look at this." Fortunately, Gu Chen was smart. He used the stone to draw a mark of an arrow on a fixed rock.

Xu Enping quickly touched it with his hand, nodded and said, "Yes, I remember when we walked along this road, you drew something on the rock with a stone."

"Moreover, the traces are still the latest, which means we didn't take the wrong path before."

"Then why did the trace disappear?" Yuan Shasha didn't quite understand.

No one could answer what was going on for a moment?
But Gu Chen resolutely took a few steps forward, then squatted down and observed carefully.

Only then did Gu Chen discover that the plants here seemed to have self-repair capabilities.

Gu Chen raised his lips slightly and said, "Yes, we took this road. Look, there are a few plants here that were broken by us."

“So, there’s still some signs of collapse, but some of the plants that we stepped on have returned to normal.”

"This shows that the plants here have a strong self-repair ability. They just covered up the traces we left behind."

"Oh my god." Hearing Gu Chen say this, Lu Weiwei was also a little surprised:
"This place always feels weird. Is it because it's not suitable for human habitation, so the indigenous people moved away one after another?"

"It's possible." Gu Chen said.

"Now, we still have to continue looking for Senior Brother Wan. Do you want us to blow the whistle?" Yuan Shasha asked tentatively.

After all, everyone carries a survival whistle, which is usually used in emergencies.

But at this moment, Gu Chen also had his own concerns, and he communicated with everyone: "It is still unclear who killed the guide? Where is he?"

"That person might be nearby. If we blow the whistle rashly, it might alert them."

"Junior Brother Gu is right. Now is not the right time. Let's look for Lao Wang first." Lu Weiwei said.

Finally, everyone agreed that, just to be on the safe side, they should continue searching.

But everyone suffered a lot on the way back.

Since the traces were not very obvious, everyone's markings were not made very clear.

So finding the way back was a lot of trouble.

Fortunately, as we walked along, we found the houses in those villages.

"Hmm?" Lu Weiwei's eyes lit up, and she quickly pointed ahead and said, "Look, that's the village we passed by before."

"But we have all returned to the previous village, but where did Senior Brother Wang go?" Yuan Shasha was also very curious.

Xu Enping coughed twice and explained, "According to my understanding, Officer Wang may have been too distracted when following the team and went the wrong way."

"But when they went to look for us again, they couldn't find any trace of us, and then they walked further and further away. Maybe they are lost now." "After all, when I led a team to go hiking outdoors before, some people also got lost."

"We all marked the way, but some people are really stupid and still go the wrong way even on marked roads."

"Well, Lao Wang is one of the dumbest ones." Listening to Xu Enping's explanation, Lu Weiwei couldn't help but sigh.

But Gu Chen was anxious and said, "It will be very dangerous for Senior Brother Wang to be alone in this environment. After all, we have encountered wild animals here before."

"But if Senior Brother Wang encounters an aggressive wild animal, it would be even more dangerous."

"What should we do then?" Lu Weiwei was also a little anxious now.

Gu Chen glanced at Xu Enping beside him and asked, "Teacher Xu, you have more experience outdoors, take a look, how should we go?"

"Uh……"

When asked this by Gu Chen, Xu Enping was suddenly a little confused.

Obviously, the situation outdoors was ever-changing and he was not completely sure.

Of course, Gu Chen also saw Xu Enping's difficulties, so he added: "I feel that we have only walked for a short distance, and even if Senior Brother Wang is distracted, he will not be too far away from us."

"He might have encountered some difficulties along the way, which delayed him for some time and led him astray. If we look for him carefully now, we may still be able to find him."

At this point, Gu Chen also regretted: "We should have brought a drone earlier. It might come in handy in a place like this."

“But now we are on our own.”

Gu Chen was very anxious. The key point was that Officer Wang could get lost even when he was following the team. What else could he say?
So after discussion, everyone decided not to separate and continue searching together.

Gu Chen, who possesses master-level observation skills, was still able to find a small clue through the traces of these plants.

So Gu Chen began to check one by one based on the tilting signs of these plants.

They kept searching like this, and no one knew how much time had passed before they realized that Gu Chen was standing there motionless again.

Every time this happened, Lu Weiwei knew very well that Gu Chen had made a major discovery.

"Junior Brother Gu." Lu Weiwei took a step forward.

Gu Chen said slowly: "Brother Wang got lost here."

"Here?" Lu Weiwei looked down at the plants underground and discovered that there were indeed signs of a tilt, leading to a certain location on the left.

But everyone's team was clearly heading to the right.

"In other words, Lao Wang is in this position and is going in the opposite direction from us?" Lu Weiwei said.

"Yeah." Gu Chen nodded silently and began to move forward according to the traces.

Seeing this, everyone followed Gu Chen closely.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Gu Chen stopped moving forward again.

Xu Enping only saw Gu Chen's ears trembling slightly, as if he was listening to the movements around him.

A moment later, Gu Chen walked quickly forward.

Seeing this, Lu Weiwei, Yuan Shasha and Xu Enping followed closely behind.

"Senior Brother Wang, is that you?" Gu Chen didn't dare to shout too loudly and could only ask in a low voice.

"Gu Chen, I'm here."

Soon, Gu Chen discovered that a familiar call came from the jungle. It was the voice of Officer Wang.

"Brother Wang? Where are you?" Gu Chen was not sure about Officer Wang's location yet, so he asked again.

"I don't know where I am. I'm in a pit now." Officer Wang also spoke in a low voice.

However, this time, Gu Chen quickly identified the direction based on the direction of Officer Wang's voice.

So he turned his head and looked at the three people behind him, signaling everyone to follow him and not get separated.

And Gu Chen continued to search forward.

"Rustling!"

As Gu Chen continued walking in the jungle, he pushed aside a row of weeds and discovered a big pit in front of him. At this time, Officer Wang was standing in the middle of the pit.

Gu Chen looked around and asked in confusion: "Brother Wang, this pit isn't very steep, why don't you climb up?"

"Shh!" Upon seeing Gu Chen ask this, Officer Wang immediately made a sign language gesture to Gu Chen to stop him from making any sound.

Gu Chen immediately understood what he meant, and did the same to the three people behind him, and whispered:
"Everyone, please take cover where you are."

At Gu Chen's command, Lu Weiwei and Yuan Shasha squatted down subconsciously.

When Xu Enping in the last row saw this, he finally reacted and followed everyone else in doing the same action.

"Senior Brother Wang, what's going on?" Gu Chen squatted down and took a few steps forward.

Officer Wang also frowned and explained, "There are strangers nearby, and there is more than one."

"Then can you come up and talk first?" Gu Chen asked again.

"Okay, wait a moment." After Officer Wang finished speaking, he returned to the location of the big pit and rummaged around in the dense forest for a while before he finally dug out a skull.

Seeing this, Lu Weiwei was also horrified and asked, "Old Wang, where did this skull come from? How did you get it?"

Officer Wang ignored Lu Weiwei and climbed up the pit with the skull in his hand. He then squatted beside Gu Chen, panting, and put the skull on the ground, saying:
"This...I found this in the pit. I don't know whose head it is. I should take it back for testing."

"Brother Wang, you still haven't told me how you got here alone? What did you find?"

"That's right." Seeing Gu Chen asking, Officer Wang quickly explained:

"I had been following your team before, but I always felt that there seemed to be some movement around me, so I paid more attention."

"But then I felt more and more that there was something strange in a certain direction, so I changed my route and wanted to go over there to see what was going on."

"But after a while, you disappeared without a trace."

"But then I thought, I can't stay here forever, right? I have to catch up with the team immediately, but the strange thing is, based on the direction you are walking and the terrain analysis of this dense forest path, I still can't find any trace of you."

"I felt that I must have lost my way, but I was afraid that the murderer was nearby and if I made a loud noise, it might put you and myself in danger."

After a pause, Officer Wang continued, "So I thought, why don't I look for your traces myself, but I kept looking and looking, and I didn't know what was going on. I found this place."

"Then, because the vegetation here was too dense, I accidentally stepped on the air and fell into this big pit."

"Then, I found myself lying next to a skull."

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