Hearing Xu Wei say that, my heart suddenly skipped a beat.

"How is this possible? We often patrol around the mountains and have never found a body. Where was that body found? Who found it?"

Xu Wei looked at me and sighed: "I don't know much about this matter either. When Brother Wang Ping and the others went out to find mushrooms, they ran into Bai Wei. They said they were dragging a corpse back, so Brother Wang Ping asked you two to go back and check it out. If this matter is really troublesome, then I don't think we'll be able to get a good night's sleep in the coming days. We'll always have to find someone to keep watch at night."

Hearing Xu Wei describe the situation as so serious, I started to feel uneasy myself. I quickly looked at Chen Jian and said, "Let's put aside what we're doing and go back to the camp to see what's going on."

Chen Jian nodded, and the three of us hurriedly returned to the mountaintop.

When they reached the top of the mountain, they found Bai Wei and his group sitting listlessly at their door.

Wang Ping was sitting at our door. When he saw Chen Jian and me return, he immediately stood up to greet us.

"So, what exactly happened?"

Wang Ping looked at me and sighed: "This morning, when I took Wang Xiaoxiao and Xiao Qiang to pick mushrooms down the mountain, we were washing the mushrooms under the waterfall, planning to cut them up and dry them, when we saw Bai Wei and his colleagues rushing back, saying they were looking for you. I didn't even ask them what happened, but the male colleague said they found a headless male corpse not far from our woods and insisted that I go and take a look."

"But I saw that the two women were a little scared, so I didn't go. But not long after, Bai Wei and the others actually dragged the headless male corpse over. I went down the mountain to look at the clothes he was wearing. They were very modern. And his build was similar to Lin Xubo's. I just don't know how long he had been dead, so his body had already started to decompose."

"Whether it is Lin Xubo or not, we still can't determine. Bai Wei and the others are like madmen, constantly shouting that they want to leave. Although I don't have a good impression of them, if this kind of phenomenon of people dying has really occurred, wouldn't they be courting death if they ran away from here? So I stopped them here and told Xu Wei to go find you quickly."

"What does 'headless man' mean? That corpse didn't have a head, so where was its head?"

Chen Jian hurriedly saw Wang Ping.

Wang Ping sighed: "How would I know? But the body is lying under the trees next to the waterfall. If you two don't find it disgusting, go and take a look."

At this point, no one cared about whether it was disgusting or not; they just had to go and see what was going on.

Chen Jian also mustered up his courage and wanted to go along to broaden his horizons, but Liu Jiaojiao glared at him from the side.

"What kind of world is this? But if you're going, make sure you bring a gun with you, Sihai. I'm afraid our peaceful days are coming to an end again."

After Chen Jian and I carefully made our way down the mountain, we discovered that the body was covered with many leaves, with only the feet sticking out.

Judging from the size of his shoes, they should be size 40. I remember Lin Xubo also having size 40-something feet.

After I removed the leaves covering the person, I realized that the person was indeed highly decomposed. The shirt he was wearing was covered in mud in many places, making it impossible to see his original appearance.

Chen Jian stood to the side, covering his mouth: "This stinks! What are Bai Wei and the others thinking? This man is already dead, without even a head, and they still brought him here. They're just trying to disgust us."

I shook my head, thinking there were only two possibilities for why Bai Wei brought the body back.

The first possibility is that Bai Wei has already decided that the corpse is Lin Xubo. Perhaps he and Lin Xubo had a long-standing falling out, but deep down, Bai Wei still felt that Lin Xubo was his friend and his subordinate. He might feel a little reluctant to let him rot in the woods.

The second is that Bai Wei and the others discovered some other clues, but they didn't say anything.

"Let's turn this body over and take a look."

Chen Jian frowned upon hearing my words and quickly waved his hand.

"Brother Sihai, this person is already rotten to this state. If you turn him over, he'll fall apart and become unmanageable. I think we should leave him alone. If you have any doubts, why don't we go up and ask Bai Wei and his group right now? If Bai Wei isn't telling the truth, there are others who can help."

I examined the body carefully, and in its current condition, it was indeed not advisable to move it any further.

He nodded and returned to the mountaintop with Chen Jian.

Bai Wei and his gang were looking at us with shifty eyes.

Seeing us return, they all turned to go inside. I grabbed my male colleague who had gone with us to the camp of those foreigners, pulled him aside, and asked him in a low voice.

“Tell me the truth about what’s going on. If this is really troublesome, we need to be on guard tonight. Otherwise, who knows if some kind of killer has appeared in this forest? If you don’t want to die and want to wait for rescue safely, I advise you to be sensible and tell me everything. After all, we have nothing to hide, right?”

After hearing what I said, my male colleague frowned, looked at Bai Wei lying in the inner room, and whispered.

"We don't know the specifics of this matter. We were just picking wild vegetables when we got there because we're always struggling to find food. This time, a female colleague of ours found the body when we went out together. She was terrified and is probably still vomiting in the house. When we saw it, the body was already lying there without a head. There were no murder weapons around, and even if there was blood, it would probably have been washed away by the dew long ago."

"What does Bai Wei think? Has he already concluded that the body belongs to Lin Xubo?"

The male colleague nodded after hearing this.

"Perhaps that's what President Bai thinks, but we've discussed it privately, and this body is clearly not Lin Xubo. Lin Xubo's belly wasn't this big, and I remember when Lin Xubo was brought back from a previous incident, he said he had injured his finger. It seemed like he had a rather long scar. I don't know if you noticed, but when I found this body, I specifically checked his hands, and they were all intact. There was no scar at all. But President Bai insisted on bringing it back, and we couldn't do anything about it."

After finishing speaking, the male colleague whispered again that Bai Wei was probably still listening inside. If he found out, he would probably get angry again, so he had to go in and get busy now.

I didn't say anything, turned around and went back to my cave, but thinking about the headless corpse I had just seen, I couldn't help but feel a chill.

Could it be that other people have appeared in this forest, or that the group of natives has been hiding around here all along? Then who exactly is this dead person?