The Secret Art of Refining the Dead: The Walking Corpse File

Chapter 301 Equipment
The combination of the ancient and the modern made the three of us puzzled for a while, but at this moment, the sky was almost completely dark, and the original blue lake of Guo Zhacuo next to it had also turned into a dark water area. Bottomless, as if it could devour everything around it.

Zhou Xuanye twisted the pendant, and said: "It's too late, go back to the camp first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow." It was also unbearably cold at the moment, we were worried about catching a cold, so we didn't dare to stay any longer, so we went back to the tent immediately.You know, catching a cold on the plateau is a very serious matter.

It’s nothing to the Tibetans living in the snow area, but for outsiders like us, once we catch a cold in the snow area, the condition will get worse, and it will even cause serious altitude sickness to people who do not have altitude sickness. The disease is also difficult to cure.This is all related to one's own adaptability. In this case, once you catch a cold in the snow area and get worse, no matter whether it is travel or work, you must give up as soon as possible and leave the snow area for treatment.

We returned to the tent, released Fu An's vigil as usual, and lit today's dinner for it by the way.Before that, I was so focused on touching things in the water that I didn't eat, so I wrapped my frozen feet in a sleeping bag and discussed the possible origins of these fragments while eating.

To be exact, only Zhou Xuanye discussed with me, Tan Ren has always been a loner, twisting the pendant by himself, turning on the light, and watching carefully with the spotlight.Not to mention, when Zhou Xuanye and I came up with a lot of unreliable speculations, Tan Ren suddenly made a discovery.

The pendant is a pig-shaped zodiac animal, with a flat bottom and a concave mold base. In the mold base, two very small Chinese characters 'Xu Qi' are impressively engraved.

The characters are quite small, and you have to use a spotlight to read them clearly. I am a little puzzled, what does Xu Qi mean?It sounds like a personal name. It is common to engrave one's own name on a pendant. It seems that the owner of this pendant should be a person named Xu Qi.

When he saw these two words clearly, Tan Ren said in surprise: "It's him!"

I find it unbelievable. Hearing what Tan Ren said, he still knows this person named Xu Qi?This is too nonsense, we just fish a pendant from the ice ditch of XZ, and we can meet acquaintances, what are the chances of this?too small.

So I looked at Tan Ren very puzzled, waiting for his explanation.

To my surprise, not only Tan Ren knew about this person, but also Zhou Xuanye.Zhou Xuanye explained to me that in order to find clues to Xiao Fusang, he found Team Zeng's head. In order to find the most likely person to help, Zhou Xuanye worked hard, so at that time, the team led by Team Zeng Zhou Xuanye knew the name list of the expedition team.

And this Xu Qi is a member of the expedition team, a professional photographer of the team, responsible for photographing the terrain and some processes of the investigation.But this Xu Qi is still crazy. Since he is not aggressive, he lived for more than four years before being taken home and taken care of.

So far, Xu Qi has not been able to communicate with people normally, so he only accepts a lunatic or a fool, so Zhou Xuanye has never met this person, and only knows that there is this person.Later, when Zhou Xuanye checked everything properly and told me, he only told me the result, and did not mention the tortuous process in the middle.

The expedition team led by Team Zeng passed by Guozhacuo back and forth. This place has fresh water, a wide view, and many leeward outlets. It is a good place for camping.They may even have camped in the area, as we have.

So in this way, finding their things in the ice ditch and finding an 'acquaintance' is not such a coincidence.

Zhou Xuanye said again: "The silver pieces hanging on this pendant seem to be brought out from the snow-capped mountains by them. These things should be thrown away after they came out."

I find it unbelievable that when those people came out of the snow mountain, they were said to be insane, wandering around Guo Zhacuo, they were discovered by a photographer who came here, and they were sent to the Snow District Government later.

Could it be that these things were accidentally dropped into the lake when they were wandering, and were washed down by the lake water?

But this pendant seems to be in good condition. When we took it out, the clasp was still buckled. Such a pendant cannot fall off a person's neck inexplicably, unless the person pulls it out of the neck by himself. May fall into the lake.

Zhou Xuanye didn't know what he was thinking, he shook the pendant twice in his hand, and said: "Go to sleep first, let's not rush into the mountains tomorrow, I'll go under the lake to find out."

Going down to the lake?

I said: "You suspect that there are other things in the lake?"

Zhou Xuanye nodded and said: "When the expedition team came out, they had very little equipment on them. They were all food, and the rest of the equipment was gone. We speculated before that those equipment might have been detained by people in the snow-capped mountains. Now it seems , there is another possibility...they were thrown into this lake by people."

Before coming here, Team Zeng once told us that to get to that place, we need to go through a large and beautiful lake, so in order to prevent accidents, we brought simple scuba and diving suits, as well as some oxygen bags, to prevent accidents. Oxygen when injured in the snow area.

So if you go into the water, although it will be very cold, as long as your body can hold it, it is not too difficult.I know the physiques of Zhou Xuanye and Tan Ren. These two have been together for more than half a year, and they haven't had any illnesses. They are occasionally injured, and they recover much faster than most people.

At noon in the snow area, the temperature is still relatively high. If you want to go into the water at that time, there should be no problems.

Therefore, I did not refute Zhou Xuanye's idea.After eating, Fu An swayed his head into the tent. Most likely he heard us talking, and said, "Do you still need to go into the water by yourself? Just ask me."

As soon as this remark came out, the three of us looked at it at the same time, yes, how did we forget about this kid?
Zhou Xuanye was overjoyed, and said: "Yes, it is much more convenient to let it go into the water." After all, people are not suitable for the water. Even if Zhou Xuanye goes into the water himself, it will be difficult to find out. It is inevitable that many things will be missed, but if Fu An goes, the result will be completely different. It's different, within a hundred meters, everything can be touched clearly.

Who knows, after the kid finished speaking, he saw the three of us staring at it eagerly, with a sinister smile on his pale face, and said, "Do you want me to go into the water? Please." It's obvious that you have today's expression.

This little ghost is now a typical twisted psychology, yin and yang strange, one face every minute.

I feel that my skin has become thicker and thicker recently. After it finished speaking, I said, "Please, please, please."

Fu An obviously didn't expect me to cooperate so much. He choked for a while and jumped into a rage, but he couldn't get angry for a while, and his head exploded. After a while, he gathered together and said, "I only agree to you if you bark like a dog."

"..." Kid, really...

I said: "Wow, woof, woof, woof~~~~"

Fu An choked completely, and said for a while, "You, why are you different from what was shown on TV, shouldn't you be very angry, very angry."

I said, "Say it again, don't watch that kind of unnutritious TV series with Tang Linlin."

Fu An was at a loss, and said: "Okay, because you begged me so sincerely, I reluctantly agreed, who made you my brother. Let's go." It can only come out at night, so It goes into the water, and naturally it can only go into the water at night.Immediately, the three of us took flashlights, got out of our sleeping bags, put on our shoes and socks, and headed towards Guo Zhacuo in the distance.

It was very cold at night, but fortunately this windbreaker is of good quality, otherwise it would be really freezing.

When we got to the lake, Fu An turned from a human head into a gray mist, and then the mist drifted away, and gradually became invisible, but I knew that Fu An had already entered the water.

The ghost moved quite quickly, the light hit the lake, and the lake was illuminated with a yellow amber-like luster.

But in about 5 minutes, Fu An gathered together again, his head flew around in the air, and said, "There are several big black bags below, and there are things in them."

I immediately said: "What?"

It said: "There are ropes, knives, and cameras... well, there are some I don't know."

A few big black bags, and there are still things like cameras and ropes in the bags?Obviously, it was an equipment bag, most likely the equipment bag left by the team that Zeng was in.Why are their kits at the bottom of the lake?
Did they drop it themselves, or did someone else drop it?

I don't think it's possible for a group of lunatics to throw the bags into the lake at the same time. It's probably someone else who did it.

At this moment, the first suspect I thought of was the people in the snow mountain.

Could it be that they did it?

No, not right.

Just like they want to destroy some equipment, naturally Team Zeng and others will not have the opportunity to bring out the equipment.

So who is it?

Suddenly, a clue flashed in my mind, and I couldn't help exclaiming: "That photographer!"

"What photographer?" Tan Ren, who was thinking, was interrupted by my voice, frowned slightly, and gave me a dissatisfied look.

"Could it be the photographer who threw these equipment into the lake? After all, the first person Zeng Dui and the others met after they came out of the snow mountain was the photographer!"

Tan Ren's voice was still steady, and he said in a neutral tone: "The reason? Why did he throw away the equipment of the expedition team?"

In fact, this is just a conjecture of mine. I really can't say what the reason is.How do I know why a photographer is throwing gear?That was seven years ago.However, if the things at the bottom of the lake can be salvaged, it will definitely help us understand the truth of the matter.Even, there might be clues about little Fusang hidden in that equipment, maybe?

(End of this chapter)