Tan Lin and Hu Feifei had just left, and Zhu Wanlin also said he had to go to the toilet and walked towards a hillside with a cigarette in his mouth.
"Don't go too far."
Chu Ye said with a straight face, "Put this necklace on."
This necklace is the one Chu Ye gave to Shen Yixue before. It contains a soul that wants to repay the favor and can protect the owner's safety when danger occurs.
After Shen Yixue used it several times, the necklace was about to break. Once it broke, it would backfire on the owner, so Chu Ye deliberately asked for the necklace back before leaving Jinling.
"Okay, I'll find a place where no one is around to pee and I'll be back soon."
Zhu Wanlin replied casually, and hurriedly put the necklace around his neck. It seemed that he was holding it tight, and trotted up a hillside.
On the other side, Taoist Master Dufa also sent several Taoist priests to help the archaeological institute collect firewood and prepare to light a fire for cooking.
After about half an hour, the food was hot and the group was ready to eat. However, Tan Lin, Hu Feifei, and Zhu Wanlin who went out to use the toilet did not come back.
"Where are they?
Why does it take so long to go out to collect firewood?"
Director Wu was a little puzzled.
Chu Ye also felt that things were strange.
Regardless of Tan Lin and Hu Feifei, Zhu Wanlin just went out to use the toilet. How come he didn't come back for half an hour?
He had emphasized the seriousness of the matter to Zhu Wanlin. With Zhu Wanlin's cautious character, it was absolutely impossible and he did not have the courage to run out for so long.
Suddenly thinking of something, Chu Ye's eyes fell on Taoist Master Dufa and his party.
At the beginning, there were a total of fifteen Taoist priests on the side of Taoist Master Dufa.
But now, there are only fourteen people left.
"Master Dufa, are you missing one person here?"
Chu Ye asked.
Taoist Master Dufa was startled, and then he asked the tall young Taoist priest to count the number of people. Sure enough, he found that there was one Taoist priest missing from the team.
"Qingming, what's going on?"
Master Dufa asked.
The great Taoist priest named Qingming quickly replied: "I asked Junior Brother Qingxuan to get some clean water back. He probably went to get some water."
"How long have you been there?"
Chu Ye asked.
"About...more than twenty minutes."
More than twenty minutes is about the same time that the three people at the Archaeological Institute disappeared. In other words, Hu Feifei, Tan Lin and Zhu Wanlin had just left, and the Taoist priest named Qingxuan also left with them.
"In these deep mountains and old forests, once a person disappears, he is probably lost. Why don't we go out and look for him together."
Chu Ye suggested.
"good."
Director Wu also realized the seriousness of the problem, nodded quickly, and immediately selected two boys, plus Chu Ye, to search in the direction where the three of them had just gone.
Taoist Master Dufa also asked Qingming to follow him with two Taoist priests.
Within five minutes, the group climbed over a hillside and saw a dense forest ahead.
In the dense forest, there was a faint sound of human shouting, but the sound was too low. Except for Chu Ye, who had a keen hearing, no one else heard it at all.
"go there!"
Chu Ye pointed to the woods and said.
The others looked at each other and followed suit.
The dense forest was filled with a musty and unpleasant smell, and there was a thick layer of rotting leaves underfoot. From time to time, unknown small animals passed by.
"Senior Brother Tan Lin and others come out to collect firewood, so they can't come to a place like this. How can there be any dry firewood here?"
A staff member of the archaeological institute couldn't help but complain.
Chu Ye didn't pay attention at all. He glanced at Qing Ming from the corner of his eye and found that Qing Ming was also looking at him. Their eyes briefly touched in the air and then separated.
"There are human footprints here! Look!"
Suddenly, a boy from the archaeological institute pointed to the traces on the ground and said.
Sure enough, the group found broken branches and trampled cigarette butts next to the footprints.
This is the butt of Hardman's cigarette. In the whole team, only Zhu Wanlin smokes this kind of cigarette.
This shows that Zhu Wanlin and the others are nearby! Chu Ye doesn't care about the life or death of Tan Lin and Hu Feifei, but he still wants to save Zhu Wanlin.
Suddenly, a hut appeared vaguely in the woods ahead.
This is an abandoned hut. It used to be a nature reserve, and there were special rangers to rest here. Later, due to changes in the plan, the rangers who patrolled the mountain no longer passed through this mountain forest, so this ranger hut was just
Abandoned.
"Tan Lin and Hu Feifei are probably over there."
Chu Ye said lightly and walked towards the hut first.
With his clairvoyance, he saw that Tan Lin was carrying a box of family planning supplies in his pocket. If Tan Lin wanted to find a secluded place to "interact" with Hu Feifei, then there was no other place nearby that was as safe and secluded as this hut.
Even if the two of them were doing something inside, no one outside would find out.
Seeing that Chu Ye's attitude was so positive, the others quickly followed suit.
However, when there were still five or six meters away from the hut, Chu Ye opened his eyes, only to find that he was blocked by something.
There was an invisible barrier between them and the hut.
A boy from the archaeological institute rushed over without realizing it, hit the barrier, and was immediately knocked back several steps.
"What the hell...are you trying to beat the wall?"
The boy got up from the ground, looked at the "wall of air" that did not exist, and took a deep breath, his face full of horror.
Chu Ye, however, looked at Qing Ming on the side as if he had been mentally prepared, and said calmly: "Please ask Taoist Qing Ming to take action to kill the demons."
"good."
Qingming nodded without any nonsense, but took off the sword he was carrying behind his back, cut his index finger with the sword's edge, chanted a chant, and then chopped the sword down without any fancy.
Wow! The restriction in front of me was instantly broken.
Chu Ye took the lead to step forward, and upon seeing this, the others followed suit and arrived in front of the abandoned wooden house.
Without saying a word, Chu Ye raised his leg and kicked the crumbling door of the wooden house. With a muffled sound of "bang", the wooden door was kicked open.
The scene in front of them made everyone a little disappointed.
The wooden house was empty, not even a human figure, just thick dust on the ground with some disorderly footprints on the dust.
"There's someone inside."
Chu Ye suddenly spoke.
He pointed to some faint footprints in the dust on the ground. Although these footprints were messy, it was not difficult to find out if you calmed down and looked carefully. These footprints were only coming in, not going out.
Unfortunately, this wooden house only has one door for people to enter and exit.
Qing Ming frowned, then took out a talisman, lit it and threw it forward.
The scene in front of them the next moment made everyone's hair stand on end! In the originally empty wooden house, three figures suddenly appeared, wandering around in the wooden house! These three people were the missing Tan Lin, Hu Feifei,
And Zhu Wanlin! Everyone has a dull expression on their face, like a puppet! And there is another person lying on the ground, it is the missing Taoist priest Qingxuan! Qingming's face was immediately shocked, and he quickly rushed forward and grabbed
He picked up Qingxuan and pressed his fingers on his neck artery, but his eyes gradually opened up like bells! There was no doubt that Qingxuan was dead, and all they found was just a corpse! "Damn it.