After dinner, we tidied up for a while and then everyone got ready to go to bed and rest.
Because I listened to Lin Qianyi's suggestion, I decided not to raise suspicion for the time being and question Li Shengli's notes, but to wait and see what happens.
When it was our turn to arrange the night watchman, because Officer Mu was injured, it was impossible to watch the night. We could only stay a little longer and share the time that should be spent by Officer Mu. There were also changes in the order of duty. Li Shengli was injured because he was injured.
Being ranked first, I was the youngest and had the strongest physical strength, so I and Officer Hu were ranked at the last two vigils respectively.
There was no conversation for the rest of the night until I finished my shift and handed over to Officer Hu. Everything went smoothly without any accidents.
But then, something unexpected happened.
I don’t know how long it took since I fell asleep, but I was suddenly woken up by the sound of voices outside the tent.
I looked at my watch and realized that it was only about four o'clock in the morning. It had only been an hour since I went to bed for the night.
"Who is talking so loudly in the middle of the night..."
I rubbed my sleepy eyes, muttered something in my sleeping bag, got up, opened a corner of the tent and looked outside, only to realize that the person speaking was Officer Hu.
However, Officer Hu was not talking to himself alone. There was another person beside him, and that person was none other than Li Shengli.
I saw Li Shengli and Officer Hu sitting together by the bonfire. The two of them were warming up and talking about something. Li Shengli lowered his voice and whispered in Officer Hu's ear. Officer Hu nodded frequently and looked a little excited.
From time to time he would wave his fists and curse a word or two from time to time, looking extremely emotional.
The sound I just heard was Officer Hu’s swear words.
I was so sleepy at the time that I was completely confused, so I didn't think too much about it. How could Li Shengli, who should have been asleep, suddenly become interested in chatting with Officer Hu so late at night?
And what exactly did he say that made Officer Hu so excited?
I just took a few more glances to confirm that they were just chatting, then I lay back down and fell asleep.
This time, I slept until the next morning. Suddenly someone pushed me awake: "Sijiu, hurry up... get up quickly, Officer Hu..."
I opened my eyes drowsily and found that the person pushing me next to me was actually Lin Qianyi. I sat up in my sleeping bag with a start and asked her: "Lin, Sister Lin, why did you come in?"
Lin Qianyi seemed to be in a hurry and said without hesitation: "Sijiu, don't waste time, get up quickly, Officer Hu is in trouble!"
"What?"
I quickly got out of the sleeping bag, and without even bothering to tidy up my clothes, I got out of the tent with Lin Qianyi.
But when I walked outside, I found that Officer Hu was standing in the camp. I turned around and asked, "Sister Lin, what happened to Officer Hu just now? Isn't he doing well there?"
"No..." Lin Qianyi swallowed before saying, "Officer Hu is fine, but he said that he already knew where Professor Tang might be hiding and wanted to catch him!"
"He knows where Professor Tang is hiding? How is this possible?"
Hearing this, I immediately ran over.
When I got closer, I realized that Officer Hu was indeed not normal. He was sitting by the campfire, surrounded by weapons, such as his own pistol and the engineer shovel we found in the camp.
, shovels, saws and the like.
Seeing us coming, Officer Hu had no intention of standing up. Instead, he packed up the weapons on the ground and stuffed them into his backpack one by one. At the same time, he said hello to me: "
Comrade Lin, you're up just now. After I leave, you have to be careful here in the camp, especially take care of the black wood for me."
"After you left? Officer Hu, where are you going? Sister Lin said that you already know where Professor Tang is hiding. What's going on?"
Officer Hu stopped what he was doing, looked up at me and said: "Comrade Lin, that Tang Fei attacked us again and again. The day before yesterday he blew up the exit, and yesterday he injured Heimu Mu and Professor Li again. We
If we continue to wait for death like this, before the rescuers arrive, we may all be killed by him! So I have decided that we can no longer wait blindly like this. Before Tang Fei takes action again, we must strike first.
Just catch him!"
"Calm down, Officer Hu, please calm down!" I quickly stopped him and said, "We still don't know if Professor Tang is alone. Aren't you afraid of being in danger?"
"Don't worry, I'm not going alone." Officer Hu pointed at Feng Chun and Chen Meiyang standing nearby and said, "After hearing my plan, they planned to go with me."
"You two?" Only then did I realize that Chen Meiyang and Feng Chun had already put on their respective backpacks and looked ready to go.
I suddenly lost my temper and said, "Don't you know how dangerous it is to act rashly now? It's okay if you don't persuade Officer Hu, why are you still making noise together?"
Chen Meiyang retorted to me: "Comrade Lin, we can't bear it anymore. If Professor Tang is not caught for one day, we will continue to be in such fear. Yesterday, Professor Li and Officer Mu were lucky enough to have no serious problems, but next time
, maybe someone among us is really going to die! I don’t want to continue like this. If we don’t catch Professor Tang today, we will never come back!”
Feng Chun also said: "Yes, catch Tang Fei as soon as possible so that everyone can feel at ease."
"But, but..." I said angrily, "But didn't we already search the ruins yesterday? Don't we still know where Professor Tang is hiding?"
"No! I already know where Tang Fei may be!" Officer Hu said confidently, "Actually, after the Heimuo incident yesterday, I have been thinking about where Tang Fei might be hiding. The result made me think of our previous
The direction of the search is wrong, because no matter whether Tang Fei is alone or has accomplices accompanying him, they still need to drink water and eat, right? So we don't actually need to turn the entire ruins upside down, as long as we find something in the ruins
Where there are food and water sources, Tang Fei’s whereabouts can probably be found.”
Officer Hu then pointed to Li Shengli, who was standing in front of his tent and secretly looking at us, and said: "After you went to bed last night, Professor Li couldn't fall asleep because the wound was too painful, so he got up and kept vigil with me. I was
I asked him where I could find food and water sources in the ruins, and he told me that there was a cave deep in the ruins that the archaeological team had just discovered recently and had not been investigated much. It seemed that the ancient Dian Kingdom was inside.
A secret tunnel dug out for sacrificial activities. Because the secret tunnel is at the innermost part of the ruins, the archaeological team had prepared some food and drinking water there in advance to facilitate the subsequent investigation. So I think if Tang Fei wants
The only way to survive in the ruins is to hide there!"
At this point, Officer Hu had already packed up his equipment. After he put the equipment on his back, he continued to say to me: "Even if Tang Fei is not there, we can go over and move all the food and water away, as long as there is nothing to eat or drink.
, Tang Fei can either choose to starve to death or come out of the ruins by himself!"
After listening to Officer Hu's words, I immediately realized that the secret passage he was talking about was probably the volcano passage with traces of artificial digging that Professor Tang wrote in his notebook. I appeared one after another after discovering the notebook.
Surprisingly, before he could ask Li Shengli about the situation there, he unexpectedly told Officer Hu first.
In the notebook I found, Professor Tang once said that the volcano tunnel leads to another cave under the volcano, and that there may be something extremely dangerous hidden in that cave.
Although Professor Tang did not explain what that thing was in his notes, I could tell from between the lines that Professor Tang seemed to have a deep fear of that thing.