The grass was pulled away, revealing the whole picture of this person.

Under the pale face, half of this person's body was buried in the stream, the sportswear he was wearing was tattered, and the exposed skin showed signs of being beaten, scratches from various branches, and blisters. Get a little swollen.

The team leader sensed that something was wrong, held his breath and moved the man a little. There was still a scar on his chest that had been cut open by the knife in front of everyone. Everyone could see the deep bones, and there was still a small amount of blood that hadn't drained from the wound.

With such wounds on his body, he obviously couldn't survive.

The retching people raised their heads and glanced at their bodies, turned around and vomited even more, and the air was filled with an unpleasant smell.

The body was soaked in the stream water they had just touched and even drank.

The faces of the two team leaders were particularly ugly. Before the disaster, they had learned relevant knowledge as ordinary policemen, and now it was time to find it out of their heads.

Wen Zheng stood silently at the end and observed, analyzing the information of the corpse faster than they did.Judging from the bare skin, there are no signs of animal bites. Except for accidental friction and bruises, serious wounds are all caused by sharp knives.

There were many small wounds on his body, the fatal one was the knife in the chest.

It's like a hunter playing with the prey, chasing behind, attacking small wounds, watching the prey fleeing desperately, making the prey think that they can escape, but appearing at the moment when the prey is full of hope, bringing deep despair.

It may also be that the hunters noticed the movement of them going up the mountain and ended the game. After all, judging from the corpses, the time of death of the deceased was not far from now.

The two team leaders also analyzed this. One took out a gun and looked around vigilantly, and the other wore a mask and wrapped his hands with cloth strips to check the corpse.

Wen Zheng and the Huang family brothers who came over to help, turned the surrounding grass over and over with branches.

In the end, only a few footprints were found, without even proving the identity of this person.

"Team leader, what should we do next?" Someone in the team asked in fear.

The team leader said: "After the body is settled, we will return the same way." His main task is to bring these team members back. After returning, he will report to his superiors and send someone to investigate the murderer.

"Okay, okay, let's go back first." Several team members were ecstatic.

After dragging the corpse out of the stream and moving it to a place far from the water source, the team set foot on the return journey.

On the way down the mountain, several team members were absent-minded and almost fell down.

They finally returned to the place where they entered the mountain. Their team was the first to come back. As soon as they arrived at the leader, they walked to the next hut, apparently to report what happened on the mountain.

Wen Zheng was too bored staying at the foot of the mountain, so he simply walked around the edge of the forest a few times to pick some common medicinal plants, which he could use for himself or give to the base to exchange for contribution points.

"Xiao Wen, aren't you worried?" Brother Huang moved to Wen Zheng's side.

"worry about what?"

"The murderer?" Brother Huang felt chills when he thought of the corpse in the stream. The impact brought by a corpse that died in a disaster was completely different from that of a murdered corpse.

"Isn't there still a base?" Wen Zheng's tone was flat, but strangely soothed Brother Huang's uneasiness.

Brother Huang sighed: "If I don't catch it sooner, I won't dare to go up the mountain in the future."

This mountain is not close to the base but not far, and there are villages not far away. Thinking that there are such dangerous people hiding on the mountain, the patrolmen who were originally policemen and were responsible for surrounding the people certainly couldn't let it go.

When all the teams went down the mountain and rushed back to the base collectively, Wen Zheng noticed that there were several fewer guards with guns, and it seemed that they were returning to the mountain to find traces of the murderer.

After returning to the base, the team first rushed to the logistics office, handed in all the captured prey and counted the contribution points.

After running on the mountain for a day, everyone was sweating a lot, with a breath of sweat.

"Xiaowen, let's go take a shower." Brother Huang greeted.

A collective bathhouse is built in the base, next to the cafeteria.To prepare meals for so many people every day, the fire in the cafeteria is almost never extinguished. The groundwater is simply purified through the pipeline and then passes through the cafeteria, just enough to ensure the hot water supply.

It's just that hot water is not as popular as cold water on a hot day, especially the people who go up the mountain today are all young and strong adult men who like to take a refreshing cold water bath.

Wen Zheng was not interested in paying attention to them, and these people quickly changed the subject because they found it boring.

After taking a shower and having dinner in the cafeteria, Wen Zheng returned to the dormitory comfortably.

Tuantuan was squatting in front of the basket full of rotten leaves, loosening the soil with a small shovel, and there were vegetable seeds beside it.

These baskets were made by Wen Zheng in his free time not long after he arrived at the base. They were filled with soil seeds and served as vegetables and placed in the dormitory. They could also be used as potted plants for greening the environment.

The vegetables inside have been planted for a round, and Wen Zheng mentioned that they can be harvested when he left.There were still leeks with only the roots left in the two baskets next to it, and the vegetables in the rest of the baskets had been pulled out and sent to the purchase department by Tuantuan.

Wen Zheng found a few unused small baskets, put the medicinal plants picked today in them, and cleaned up the branches and leaves.

This kind of unprocessed common herb is not worth a few contribution points, so Wen Zheng simply chooses to concoct it by himself, which is considered a boring way to pass the time.

"Father, how about going up the mountain today?" Tuantuan was busy at the side, chatting with Wen Zheng in a low voice.

Wen Zheng knew that Tuantuan was not an ordinary child, so he whispered the matter.

"There are only footprints of two people around the place where the accident happened. There should be only one murderer. The guards will have no problem with guns in their hands."

That being said, the guards did not return to the base the next day, but instead waited for Lao Jin and fellow villagers nearby.

The villagers brought their things to exchange for supplies, and went directly to the warehouse managed by the logistics department as before.Many members of the base ran over to watch the excitement, and if the villagers brought some rare things, they could register and exchange them first.

Wu Han in Wenzheng's dormitory also went out with his son Wu Xin, and the lively scene at the contact point helped Wu Xin's situation.Before leaving, I asked everyone, and finally the two Huang brothers went out together.

"Brother Wen, did I handle it right?" Qian Yu was learning how to prepare Chinese herbal medicine with Wen Zheng. He had never touched it before, and his face was full of excitement.

Sitting next to Wen Zheng, Tuantuan turned his head and took a look after hearing it: "No problem."

Qian Yu scratched his head and happily continued to work.

"Xiao Ling, let's see what Uncle Jin brought you." A familiar voice came from outside the door, and Lao Jin shouted with a bamboo basket on his back with a big smile on his face.

"Brother Jin, you're here to see us again." Qian Yu hurried up to meet him.

Tuantuan was still sitting on the small stool with a calm expression. Seeing the father and son's expressions of calmness in every situation, Lao Jin no longer pretended to be a fool, and put the bamboo basket behind his back on the ground, and lifted the cloth on it: "Deng Deng Deng, Two large thin-skinned watermelons."

"Watermelon!" Qian Yu moved the watermelon out of the basket with bright eyes, stroking the turquoise pattern of the watermelon as if he was stroking some baby.

Isn’t watermelon a treasure now? I used to go to the supermarket if I wanted to eat it, but now I’m more likely to eat it in my dreams.

In the past, the transportation was so convenient. It was a place suitable for growing watermelons. Every year, delicious watermelons were sent to various places by vehicles. Those that tasted bad were not even easy to sell.

The local soil is not suitable for growing watermelons, so only a few grow them for their own food, and now the price has been raised.

"The value of watermelon here is not low." Wen Zheng looked at Lao Jin.

Lao Jin chuckled: "This is a watermelon planted by my father-in-law, at a family price. If you feel sorry, you can help harvest peanuts in a few days."

"Okay, so I'm waiting for us here." Qian Yu teased Lao Jin, turned around and put the bucket in his hand, and ran out quickly, "Watermelon is best eaten iced. I'll go get a bucket of well water."

The cold well water had just arrived at the house, and Lao Jin was about to put the watermelon in. Wen Zheng threw in the water purification tablet first.

"Brother, you are too particular."

"It's okay to be careful, the water purification tablets I gave you won't be useless, right?" Wen Zheng raised his eyebrows.

Lao Jin didn't live in the base, and couldn't get the water purification tablets distributed by the base. Wen Zheng had extra in his hand, so he gave Lao Jin two bottles, so that he wouldn't feel troublesome.

"I've used it. My daughter supervises us every day and even gave me a bottle of it at my father-in-law's house." Lao Jin said hastily.

"You can't drink raw water in the wild. Brother Wen went hunting in the mountains yesterday, and there is a stream..." Anyway, he will not be able to eat watermelon for a while, Qian Yu told the story he heard vividly.

When Wu Han and the others came back, they heard Qian Yu say an ending.

Brother Huang added: "Just now we met the roommate of the man who was drinking the stream water. He said that he hadn't recovered yet, and that he was nauseated and retched after eating anything. It must have left a psychological shadow."

As soon as he finished speaking, Brother Huang felt that he had said the wrong thing. There was a child with a psychological shadow beside him. He looked over worriedly, and saw Wu Xin staring seriously at the covered bucket, and ran over to shake it. Open, turned back excitedly: "Dad, watermelon!"

"Old Jin, you actually brought two watermelons here, do you know how many contribution points this is worth?"

"I still want to ask you to help with work, if you don't come up with something good, can you agree?"

"Brother Jin, thank you very much."

"It's been frozen for a while, I'll get a knife and cut it open."

"This watermelon is really sweet. Who said we are not suitable for growing watermelons, I think we should plant several acres of watermelons."

"How good it would be to set up a few more large pig farms, chicken farms, cattle farms, and duck farms."

"I started dreaming before it got dark..."

In the hot summer, sitting with relatives and friends, gnawing on the cold watermelon, the sweet juice fills the mouth, nothing could be happier.

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