ghost market

Yan Daojie and I looked at each other, and walked into the cave with our weapons in hand.After checking the surroundings carefully, we found nothing suspicious.So, Yan Daojie stood on the side to keep vigilant, while I squatted down and began to check the two people who fell on the ground.

The two people were motionless, and there was no sign of life for the time being, and it was not known if they were still alive.Their bodies overlapped one another, and the person lying down was almost completely covered by the person above. Except for the feet and part of the legs, the upper body was completely invisible.The marks around their bodies were very messy. On the sand on the ground and on the side rock walls, there were bloodstains and scratches everywhere. It seemed that the two men fell to the ground after a very fierce scuffle.

Is it to die together?

I thought to myself.He reached out and grabbed the waist of the man above him and turned him over to the side.I touched the side of his neck, but I didn't feel a pulse, and I tried his nose again, but I couldn't find breathing either.The man was dead, but his body was still warm, and the wound on his chest was still bleeding. It was obvious that he had just lost his life not long ago.I stretched out my hand to check the other person, and found that he was also breathing completely. It seems that my guess of "both dying together" is basically true.

I turned my attention to the body that was up there, examining him first.This is a grown man, probably in his 30s.His height is not short, visually around 1.8 meters five.He has a strong body, judging from the feeling when I moved him just now, he is probably heavier than Yan Daojie.The man had short, slightly yellow hair.His facial features are relatively large, no obvious racial characteristics can be seen, and his appearance is somewhat ferocious.Those eyes that were still staring round were especially fierce, as if at the moment before he died, he still wanted to put the opponent under him to death.However, he obviously did not expect that his opponent also had the ability to kill him.

The man was wearing a brown-yellow desert camouflage uniform, and the light texture of the clothes was bulging by his muscles.It seems that no matter how powerful it is, it will be broken.I looked at the back collar of the clothes and found that there was a trademark water label, which should be a ready-to-wear product that can be bought on the market, not from military industry.There are many things in the pockets of clothes, chewing gum, cigarettes.A lighter, a stack of banknotes, and a small stainless steel jug, but these are all common products that can be bought everywhere, without any clues to identify them.

I shook my head.He got up and picked up the pistol on the side of the ground and threw it to Yan Daojie, motioning him to check it out, then squatted down in another place and began to check another corpse.

The body of this corpse is much smaller than the one just now, with a height of about 1.6 meters [-], and a slim body. No wonder it was completely suppressed in the fight.The limbs of the corpse were slender.The waist is thin and the hips are wide, and the chest is slightly bulging. Judging from the body shape, it should be a woman.She was wearing a pale yellow dress, a turban on her head, and a black veil on her face.I touched it with my hand, and the texture of the clothes was light and soft, a little like hemp.The style is simple and elegant, but the workmanship is a bit rough, very similar to the handmade clothing of the desert people.

From the front, the woman with her back facing the sky is not wearing any weapons.That pistol should belong to the man just now.However, I found a leather armguard on the woman's right wrist, which was heavily stained with blood.There is also a belt of similar texture slung across her chest, as if she is carrying something behind her back.I shifted my position and reached out to pick up her arm.Take a closer look.In the end, I was surprised to find that this arm guard actually contained a mystery, which was a skillfully crafted spring arm knife.I took off the arm knife and tried it, and found that the blade came out quickly and smoothly, with great power.The texture of the blade is also very hard, and the blade is sharp. It seems that the fatal wound on the chest of the burly man was caused by this thing. [

I told Yan Daojie what I found, and handed him the arm knife, then untied the belt on the woman's chest, picked her up, and pulled out the small skin pouch on her back.Just as I was about to put her body aside, I felt a sudden lightness in my hand, and the woman's body fell to the ground with the sound of the cloth being torn, causing a cloud of dust.I looked down and found that the place I grabbed just now happened to be a wound on her shoulder. I thought it was because the clothes there were damaged, so I couldn't bear the force, so I ignored it and turned to study the wound in my hand. Small skin.

I stretched out my hand to unfasten the buckle of the small leather bag, and just as I was about to take out the contents to check, Yan Daojie, who was standing beside me, suddenly squatted down, and stretched out his hand to tear off the woman's veil.He tested the woman's breath, turned his head and said in surprise: "Lao Qi, this woman is still alive."

"Huh?" I raised my eyebrows in surprise, and hastily put down the things in my hands to touch the side of the woman's neck, only to find that the skin that hadn't reacted just now had a slight vibration. Although it was not obvious, it did exist.

Seeing this, I hastily laid the woman's body flat and carefully examined her injuries.There was an obvious gunshot wound below her left collarbone, and the location of the wound was slightly lower. At a glance just now, I thought it was a gunshot wound to the heart, and she died because of it.At this moment, I tore off the clothes and looked carefully, only to find that this gunshot wound was a rare penetrating wound, and there was a corresponding wound on the left back.The wound was slightly upward, presumably the muzzle of the gun was out of position during the fight, causing the bullet that was supposed to shatter the heart to jump out from behind the shoulder.Without the cover of the veil, the woman's neck was naturally exposed.I found that there were some bluish-purple indentations on the skin on both sides of her neck, and the color was very dark. It is estimated that the man grabbed her neck with his hands while controlling her, which caused her suffocation and suspended animation.

After examining the wound, I wrapped the gunshot wound on her chest with the bandage I was wearing, and decided to return to our camp immediately.First of all, we made a reservation because the search time was almost up, and we were afraid that Ruan Yu and the others would be worried if we went back late.Furthermore, this woman's injury also needs to be dealt with immediately, lest she really die due to excessive blood loss.When we came out, we only took some simple emergency items. It seemed a bit stretched to treat this kind of injury, and we had to return to the camp as soon as possible to solve it.No matter what the identity of this woman is, it is not something we can do to see death.What's more, she must be a very important clue for us.

After discussing with Yan Daojie for a few minutes, we got off work, and then acted quickly.Yan Daojie threw the equipment to me, reached out and hugged the woman on the ground.But I tidied up the things around me, stuffed things that might be useful into my backpack, and then walked ahead with a flashlight to lead the way.

Since the return journey does not need to be too cautious to explore, and there are marks made by ourselves in the passage, it is naturally much smoother to walk, so it didn't take long for us to return to the temporary camp.Ruan Yu and the others couldn't help being very surprised when they saw that we had brought back a woman. We thought it was true. We didn't expect to get something after going out for such a short time. Not only did we bring back a living clue, but it was also a woman.To operate in such a place that is almost a restricted area of ​​life, whether it is for stalking or for other purposes, it is more appropriate to send a man to perform the task, and it is very unusual to use a woman to perform the task.However, this point also proved that this woman must have something extraordinary, and it was even more important to save her.

Ruan Yu took a look at the woman's injury, and then went to the car with Xiaoqian to get medicine and related equipment, and carried the woman to the small cave where I lay earlier to treat the wound.Yan Daojie and I first went to the place where the car was to check the situation, and saw that the black storm had no intention of stopping, so we moved back some things and planned to spend the night here.

Sitting back by the campfire, we waited for Ruan Yu and the others to finish their work, while checking the things I brought back from the cave.Yan Daojie said that the burly man's pistol was well maintained, but the wear and tear of the firing pin could still be seen from frequent use, so it should be something of a veteran.However, the model of this gun is not a standard weapon in our country, and the source is difficult to judge.He also said that the design of the woman's arm knife is very exquisite, but the workmanship is average. It seems that it should be handmade, so the source cannot be judged.In general, he could not find any clues from the weapons that would allow us to identify the opponent.

The situation on my side is actually similar. Although there are a lot of things in the woman's backpack, they are basically necessities for moving in the desert, nothing special.What's more, many of these things are handmade products, and they don't even have a brand, so there is no way to determine the source.It seems that our "information dilemma" must continue. No matter how urgent we are, we can only break the deadlock until the woman wakes up.Thinking of this, I told Yan Daojie that I wanted to see how Ruan Yu and the others were doing, and then I wanted to get up. Unexpectedly, Arslan, who had been sitting silently by the side, suddenly became active and volunteered Just say he went to see the situation, let me sit and rest for a while and so on.Then he stood up on his own and walked towards the small cave.

Such a weird behavior naturally aroused our vigilance. Yan Daojie stood up silently, raised his leg and wanted to follow, but I stopped him with my hand and told him to ignore it for the time being and wait and see what happened.Anyway, Ruan Yu and the others have enough self-protection ability, and nothing major will happen.Yan Daojie didn't object when he heard the words, and sat back by the campfire and stared at the hole over there just in case, while I sat aside and thought silently.For some reason, when Arslan just said those words, the strange feeling towards him suddenly became clear in my heart, as if I had grasped something faintly.

I think it's time for me to act. (to be continued...)