Lan Xi's anger subsided after being pranked.
Before long, the bucket was filled with some spoils. "Take these over to Xiaoming to process first, then roast them," Su Lei instructed.
Lanxi picked up the bucket and walked away. Sulei, keeping his promise, wanted to catch a big fish for her. At that moment, he spotted his prey and, without hesitation, thrust the fork at it.
Unfortunately, the prey escaped with the current. And because of the excessive force, the fork pierced the silt at the bottom of the river. But based on his feel, Su Lei realized that he seemed to have pierced something soft and yielding.
"It looks like we've caught a treasure buried at the bottom of the river!" Su Lei exclaimed excitedly, using his fork to pull his "prey" out of the mud and onto the surface.
It was an arm that had been bitten in half, with bits of camouflage fabric still remaining.
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2. "Should we tell Uncle Levin about this?"
At exactly 7 p.m., the four men, as Levin had instructed, stood at attention in front of the Seventh Barracks, awaiting Levin's arrival.
At that moment, Lanxi was quietly asking Sulei about finding half a soldier's arm in the river.
“Of course…” Su Lei tried to remain calm.
He thought about it and realized it was just half an arm; if someone was an anatomy student, they certainly wouldn't be afraid of it.
"It's also possible that this soldier committed some serious crime, was executed, and was thrown into the river."
Aina guessed, brushing her bangs aside with her hand.
She couldn't stand at attention for even a minute and had already started moving around on her own.
Twenty minutes had passed, and Uncle Levin still hadn't appeared. The construction noise had been going on since morning, and it was getting increasingly louder. Although the noise wasn't intentional, it only intensified their unease.
It's already past 7:30. Uncle Levin still hasn't shown up. Soldiers are rarely late, even when faced with a group of students.
They were a little flustered. At this moment, Xiaoming, the team leader, suggested, "Let's go find Uncle Levin. Let's split up and search."
“No. You’re wrong about that,” Su Lei said. “Based on the nature of horror movies, splitting up usually leads to big trouble.”
“That’s right…” Aina agreed. “If something happens to me, a mentally challenged woman, I won’t be able to save myself.”
"Let's go to the sentry post first. It'll be easier to find people from there. Plus, there are lights and night vision goggles up there."
Following the previous route, Sulei led them to the watchtower and climbed the stairs to the top.
As they climbed the stairs, they felt the vibrations of the hammering coming from afar as they gripped the iron bars tightly. The heavy thuds never stopped.
The top floor of the sentry post can just accommodate four people.
Su Lei found the spare night vision goggles in the drawer. The model was different from the amateur ones; they were military-grade and called night vision goggles.
But there were only three, so he only gave one to himself, one to Xiaoming, and one to Aina.
After receiving it, Xiaoming and Sulei immediately used it to search for Levin in the base, but they searched for a long time without success.
Lanxi felt uneasy. It was completely dark, and without night vision goggles, she couldn't see anything. There was nothing she could do but pray that they would find Uncle Levin.
Wait, could it be that they conspired to scheme against me this time as well?
As for Aina, it's unclear what strange idea drove her, but she picked up night-vision goggles and gazed at the scenery beyond the Great Wall.
Through the green vision of her night-vision lenses, she gazed at the distant plains. Several creatures wriggled across the vast land.
Aina wanted to see what kind of animal it was and how different it was from the picture in the book, so she adjusted the focus.
The group of "creatures" were excitedly devouring their prey, which was dressed in camouflage.
One of the "creatures" seemed to sense that someone was spying on it while it was eating, so it stopped eating, stopped its mouth which was full of dripping flesh and turned its head to meet Aina's eyes.
It was a zombie. Her hand slipped, and the night-vision goggles fell outside the Great Wall.
"You're so weak. So you're afraid of heights. Your hand trembled and you lost all your tools," Su Lei mocked her.
"You're even more cowardly than Lanxi when it really matters!"
Aina didn't argue or say anything. She squeezed through the guard post exit, hurriedly went down the stairs, and left.
"What should we do if we can't find Uncle Levin?" Xiaoming put down his night vision goggles. "Where did Aina go?"
"She ran downstairs in a panic. She probably spotted Uncle Levin," Lan Xi said, then asked suspiciously, "This isn't another one of your schemes, is it?"
Xiao Ming and Su Lei swore to the heavens that it was absolutely not true.
If so, they will die without a burial place tonight.
The three decided to go down and find their companions first.
At that moment, Aina was sprinting away from the Great Wall base like a 100-meter dash, not even caring that one of her earrings had fallen off while she was running.
She found the car that had picked them up that morning, located the spare key hidden under the car, opened the door, and sat in the driver's seat.
The completely enclosed space immediately gave her a sense of security, allowing her to finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Levin told them this morning where the spare key was hidden.
"I don't care about you guys anymore. Anyone who sees something like this would think of running away first, so no one can blame me."
They're very strong; even if they were chased by something like that, they'd definitely escape. I'm not strong enough; I definitely won't be able to escape, so I have to leave first.
Aina consoled herself with this thought, gripping the steering wheel tightly until her hands were sweating.
A third hand, reaching out from the back seat, also gripped the steering wheel.
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