Holy Bone

Chapter 388 The person who was scared to death

At this time, the sky outside was just getting brighter, and it was not too hot, with a hint of chill from last night.

After the bearded man led the men out of the sunken ship, he first counted the number of camels twice. Seeing that there were not a few camels missing, there was nothing wrong with him except a little restlessness, so he led the men to climb the ship.

This shipwreck has been stranded in the desert for a long time. The hull is covered by thick sand, and the slope of the overturned hull is very steep. It is not easy for people to climb up. Climb up with the help of these daggers.

But even with the help of these daggers, facing such a steep slope, if one is not paying attention, there is still a risk of falling from a height and causing serious injury.

After the bearded men were ready to board the boat, they looked at Jin'an: "Master Jin'an, you are weak and not as agile as us, why don't you just wait for our notice in the river bed and don't follow us up? "

"When everyone boards the ship, I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of you. If something bad happens to you again, I, with a big beard, will be a dishonest person, and I won't be able to take you to your destination alive."

Although the bearded man doesn't speak well, he has an upright personality, and his starting point is for the safety of Jin'an.

Jin An: "Bearded man, don't worry, I know what to do, and I won't act recklessly."

The bearded man knew that he couldn't stop Jin An, so he reluctantly agreed to Jin An to board the ship with them.

Although this ship is difficult to climb, it is for ordinary people. The people brought out by the beards are the most athletic masters in the caravan, so they all boarded the ship smoothly in the end.

Because the sunken ship turned over and ran aground on the bottom of the river bed, it was not the sampan facing the sky, but the ship's side on the other side.

The ship’s side facing the sky was buried under the perennial wind and sand, and covered with thicker yellow sand. The wooden planks became fragile after being exposed to the sun, and several places were collapsed by the heavy sand to form black holes.

Everyone searched around, but did not find any foreign objects on the ship's side. Someone asked: "Could it have fallen into those holes in the ship, and fell into the hull of the ship?"

Everyone felt that this made sense, and began to check the dark shipwreck holes one by one, but the search was not smooth, because the sun had not yet fully risen, and the view inside the hull was not good, and people were lying on the edge of the hole and looking in. Looking around, nothing but Hei Gulongdong is still Heigulongdong.

Not to mention looking for the things that fell in last night, even the depth of the hull is a little blurry.

After a little discussion, Big Beard decided to let him take the lead, go down the rope to see for himself, and let the others continue to stay on top and grab the rope, so that he doesn't die in the hands of sand robbers or deserts, but dies in his own human pig first In the hands of teammates.

Originally, other people were still a little worried, but they were suddenly amused by the humorous words of the bearded man, and the depressive atmosphere at the beginning became much more relaxed.

In fact, Jin An originally wanted to go down with Big Beard, but Big Beard disagreed. Since entering the Western Regions, this man in the desert has been protecting Jin'an from danger.

In what he said to Jin'an earlier: "God trusts us desert people, so he allows us to walk on His body, and gives us water and desert camels. But once we don't keep our promises in the desert, we will be punished." When the gods abandon and punish you, what awaits me next is either a lack of water or a storm, and your soul will be buried under the sand forever without seeing the sun. Since I have accepted your money, I will definitely take you to your destination land."

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Next, the bearded man held a torch in his hand and began to search for the boat holes one by one.

At the third boat hole, the bearded man finally found out. He exclaimed, as if he was frightened by some unexpected scene.

"Boss, are you okay!"

"What do you see down there, bearded man?"

A few people lay down at the entrance of the boat and shouted nervously. Among the people brought up by the bearded man, there were members of his own caravan and other caravan masters.

But before these people finished shouting, whoa, someone rushed into the boat cave first.

"Daoist Jin'an, why did you come down too!" The bearded man, holding a torch in his hand, looked at Jin'an in surprise.

At this time, other people who were guarding outside also came down one after another, leaving only two or three people guarding the rope outside.

Most of the space inside the hull was filled with sand, and there was a hole in the hull, and the rest of the sand was poured from the hole to the next floor.

It looks like someone once searched the whole shipwreck inside and out, trying to find the goods in the shipwreck. The side of the ship is usually a warehouse for storing goods, but it seems that they didn't find what they wanted look.

Because the interior of the ship does not seem to have any traces of goods being stored. There are no traces of moving and moving, and there are no traces of heavy objects being piled up in the same place all year round.

As soon as everyone got down, they were startled by a dead body on the ground. The interior of the ship was dark, and it was very unlucky to see a dead person suddenly.

"The body of this dead man was not covered with yellow sand, and his body was cleaner than the hull of the boat. It should be the sound we heard last night when he fell onto the boat." Go stab the dead man on the ground, and then turn the dead man with his back upside down.

The dead man's face was distorted, his face was full of horror, and his mouth was opened wide. It looked like a person who opened his mouth and screamed in fear after being greatly frightened.

"This, this is Hamuti! How could he die here!" Someone shouted in surprise.

When the man called out the name of Hamuti, the voices in the boat suddenly became noisy, and everyone showed expressions of disbelief and surprise.

Only Jin An didn't know the dead on the ground.

"You all know this person?"

Soon, Jin'an learned the identity of the deceased through his big beard. This Hamuti was from another larger caravan. He was notorious for being greedy for money and gambling for selling his wife and daughter.The caravan that Hamuti is in has more camels than Big Beard, and the caravan is larger than Big Beard. It has many thugs and camels, and dares to have a caravan cross the desert to do business.

The bearded man continued: "Hamuti's caravan set off 20 days earlier than us. It stands to reason that they would have gone deep into the desert. It is impossible for us to catch up with them. Why did they appear near the sunken ship?"

Jin An pondered: "Either they have been wandering around the wreck, looking for something, and are not in a hurry to move forward. Or they have been chased by something for more than ten days, and have been running back until they passed the wreck last night."

At this time, someone wanted to lean over to touch Hamuti's body, but was stopped by another person: "This Hamuti died strangely, just touch his body like this, you will die!"

"If he was bitten to death by a poisonous snake in the desert or stung to death by a poisonous scorpion in the desert, it is very likely that there are poisonous snakes and poisonous scorpions hiding in his clothes!"

The man who was pulled back felt chilly from the back of his neck, subconsciously staying away from the corpse.

Jin An, however, was unmoved, boldly approached the dead man, and observed: "Hamuti's death looks like he was frightened to death, with a ferocious face, frightened and distorted expression, wide open mouth, two The protruding eyes are in line with the symptoms of frightened death after seeing something frightening."

It's okay if Jin An didn't say that, but when he said that, everyone immediately looked around suspiciously, wondering in their hearts, what kind of scary thing could scare a man in the desert to death?
The panicked voices last night, the camels fleeing for their lives, and the dead body of Hamuti this morning began to cast a shadow over this supposedly ordinary caravan. Could there be something terrifying waiting for them in front of them? ?

Next, Jin An took out a yellow talisman and pasted it on Hamuti's body.

It was Zhang Plague Repelling Talisman.

If there were any poisonous snakes and venomous insects hidden in Hamuti's body, he would be frightened away by the pestilence talisman.

But the plague repellent did not respond.

It shows that Hamuti died very cleanly.

His series of operations stunned the people from the Western Regions present. It wasn't until Jin An put away the yellow talisman and began to search for the dead that they realized that it was too late when they wanted to stop it. Ann has already felt on the corpse.

"Part of the rigor has already appeared, and the person died for at least an hour. The temperature in the desert is low at night, which will delay the appearance of the rigor. The real death time of Hamuti should be more than three hours. Look at the floating sand on the ground. There are no traces of struggling hands and feet, indicating that people were frightened to death before falling into the boat hole..."

Jin'an finally came to a conclusion: "This Hamut should have been frightened to death on the back of a camel. He lost his balance in an instant, fell off the back of the camel, and finally hit the sinking ship on the river bed."

Ever since he saw the dead, Jin An's expression was different from the calmness and calmness of ordinary people, especially Jin An's familiarity with the dead surprised all the people from the Western Regions.

"Daoist Jin'an, are you the governor of Kangding?"

"How can there be a priest who is a Taoist priest? I heard that the corpse guards of the Yizhuang in some places in Kangding Kingdom are Taoist priests."

These people looked at Jin'an and talked about it.

At this time, Jin An had already checked the corpse and stood up again. He explained with a smile that he was neither a coworker nor a corpse guard in Yizhuang, but he didn't want to explain more on this issue, so he changed the topic: "What if?" Muti was frightened to death on the back of a camel and fell off, will there be other people who were frightened to death on the route they escaped last night?"

"Should we send a few people to look around on camels?" Jin An finally looked at the bearded man.

At this time, the person who has been guarding the entrance of the cave outside shouted nervously to the people below: "Come on, what's going on down there, why don't you come up, you, are you all right?"

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When everyone returned to the ground, the rest of the caravan also knew what happened. The bearded man asked everyone to feed the camels with hay and water. He took this time to take people up to the desert outside the river bed to look for them. Those people in Hamuti escaped for their lives last night, did they leave any clues along the way?

What Hamuti and those people encountered in front of them is likely to be touched by them, so the bearded man wanted to investigate exactly what Hamuti and those people encountered in front of him, so that the entire caravan was exhausted. To escape for his life, he can scare a living person to death.

Afterwards, the bearded man rode on a camel, and took a few camel riders along the slope of the river bed, and disappeared in a hurry in the direction that Hamuti's people came.

The sun in the desert rose very quickly, and it didn't take long for the sky to brighten. The scorching sun of the new day continued to roast the people and camels in the desert.

At this time, on the side of the shipwreck on the river bed, the caravan had already fed the camels and finished their breakfast, and they waited for a quarter of an hour without waiting for the bearded men.

The team felt uneasy.

After another quarter of an hour or so, there was a cloud of dust in the cloudless desert. It was the bearded man who brought the people back. Not one of them was missing, and everyone came back safely.

As soon as Big Beard came back, he hurriedly summoned the leaders of several caravans to speed up their journey and strive to reach Yueqiang Kingdom within three days.

Hearing that he was going to speed up his journey, the Keremu with prematurely aging hair said in amazement: "From six or seven days to three days, it is twice as fast as the original speed. It is necessary for us to do this." Are you in a hurry, did you find anything?"

Some people also expressed their dissatisfaction and complained: "In such a hurry, not to mention people can't stand the bumps, even camels can't stand it."

The bearded man said solemnly: "We searched all the way, but we didn't find any clues, we couldn't find any other dead people, and we couldn't find the camel footprints of the people of Hamuti. If all traces were not erased by the wind and sand last night, It's just that someone deliberately erased all traces before us at dawn, and didn't want us to find the truth."

"Because on the way back, I once felt someone following us!"

The last sentence of the bearded man stunned everyone present.

The bearded man continued to say with a serious expression: "We went back to look for it several times, but found nothing. I'm not sure if it's an illusion. Now I can only pray that the gods will not be the sand robbers eyeing us."

"So I want to hurry up and get to Yueqiang Country as soon as possible to find someone to find out if something special happened in the desert. There must be some information about the disturbance in the desert last night."

That's why the bearded men came back late. It's not easy to find the follower in the vast desert.

The news brought by the bearded man was really not good news. Next, the caravan urged the camels and began to hurry on the road.

As for Hamuti's body, it would be considered as the utmost benevolence to bury it in a sandpit.

After re-starting the caravan, it was no longer as relaxed as it was before yesterday. It was said that they were rushing, but it was more like running for their lives.

Dust billows in the dry riverbed, and camels rush through the desert carrying people, goods, and water.

For the next two days, the caravan traveled smoothly without any accidents.

Even the several waves of people that Big Beard sent out every day, extending the scope to a mile away to scout, did not find anyone following them.

Even Jin An, who has keen six senses and always pays attention to the wind and grass around him, doesn't feel the malice of being spied on.

If someone really spied on him maliciously and followed them, the four-time imperial seal of the Five Thunder Slaying Evil Talisman on his body would definitely be noticed.

The two days in a row were unexpectedly smooth, and seeing that they would be able to arrive at Yueqiang Kingdom tomorrow, the caravan began to gradually relax their vigilance, thinking that the bearded man was too nervous.

On this day, the place they chose to spend the night was still on the riverbed. This ancient riverbed was very long, and they still didn't go out after traveling for so many days.

But the river bed is very shallow here, not as deep as before, and there are more than a dozen tents in the river bed.

Crackling, more than a dozen tents surrounded a bonfire in the center, the night was dark, and people fell asleep one after another exhausted.

Tonight's cumulus clouds are so thick that you can't even see the moonlight. The desert at night is very dark and quiet, with only the sound of caravans snoring and bonfires burning.

Big Beard is one of the few people who didn't fall asleep. Tonight he always feels restless. The danger often comes from the last moment when he relaxes his vigilance. He will arrive in Yueqiang Kingdom tomorrow. He doesn't want any accidents on the last day. This time he took the initiative to be responsible for guarding the long night.

(End of this chapter)