After all, it seems that Chinese people really can’t escape the magic of the four words “since we’re here”.
Finally, they searched around for a while and collected enough ore to fill several large backpacks.
Now we can really stop.
But just when everyone decided to leave, something unexpected happened.
A ferocious tiger suddenly appeared from nowhere, baring its fangs and looking at them fiercely.
Although their profession often takes them to various deep mountains and forests to detect minerals, they rarely see tigers. Snakes and small animals are more common.
What's more, the tiger was clearly staring at them at this moment, with saliva flowing from the corners of its mouth.
This is treating them as food!
Faced with this situation, Liu Yang and others were naturally panicked.
They have received relevant training in the company and know what to do in these situations to minimize the risk.
For example, in the current situation, they must not turn around and run, because doing so may trigger the tiger's hunting instinct and chase them like prey.
Also, you cannot squat down or show a scared expression.
This posture will make the tiger think that you are showing weakness. According to the law of the jungle in the world, the weaker one is the food.
So this way, you can't escape the fate of being eaten by tigers.
The best way is to stare at the tiger with a calm and fierce look in your eyes, without showing any fear. At the same time, use your voice and body language to repel the tiger, creating the illusion that you are more powerful than it.
Then he faced it head-on and slowly backed away, looking for a suitable cover or barrier to reduce the confrontation with the tiger, and then looked for the most suitable escape route.
Liu Yang and the others quickly recovered from their great shock and remembered the relevant knowledge.
They were just about to follow the instructions, but they didn't expect the tiger to act according to common sense at all. It didn't even give them a chance to look at each other, and rushed towards them directly.
Liu Yang and his companions turned pale instantly. They no longer cared about what they had learned in the survival class. They only knew that when faced with danger, their instinct told them to turn around and run away, run away desperately!
But the people's running speed was no match for the tiger. In just a few seconds, the tiger was behind them.
Just when Liu Yang and the others thought they were going to become the tiger's meal, the two colleagues who had been abroad for many years suddenly said to them, "You run to the left, and we will move to the side to lure the tiger away. We two know how to deal with tigers!"
In that situation, Liu Yang and his companions had no way to stop and think calmly. They almost subconsciously obeyed the two men's words and deviated from their route and ran to the left.
Liu Yang was a little worried after all, so he turned his head to look to the side, and happened to see that the two men had somehow successfully led the tiger to the side where they were running.
When Liu Yang saw this scene, he suddenly felt a little nervous.
Although the two colleagues just now had proactively suggested luring the tiger over to let them escape first, what if they really died later?
The other three comrades also saw this scene, and their fleeing pace suddenly slowed down.
Just when they were thinking about whether they should work together to think of other solutions, they didn't notice the ground under their feet. With a plop, several of them fell into a big hole.
At the last moment before they fell, they saw with their own eyes that the two comrades were knocked down by the tiger. The tiger opened its mouth and bit one of them on the head, while its claws tore the other one's body fiercely.
Although Liu Yang did not personally witness the bloody scene of his two comrades having their heads bitten off and their stomachs torn apart by the tiger, that scene was enough to frighten him to the point of freezing his blood.
In that case, the possibility of them not dying is very low.
Liu Yang finished speaking in a low voice, his eyes filled with pain and self-blame.
"They died to save us... for us..."
If it wasn't for the need to get them out of danger first, the two comrades wouldn't have risked their lives to attract the tiger.
He shouldn't have agreed in the first place, nor should he have run to the left.
If not, perhaps when they were pounced on by the tiger, he could still try his best to pull them up and save them from the tiger's clutches.
Although Liu Yang also knew that the possibility was very low.
But he knew even more clearly that even if he was rescued today and successfully left here, he would live in self-blame all the time for the rest of his life.
Why was he so selfish at that time and chose to escape first!
Seeing Liu Yang sinking into deep guilt and pain, Lin Xi felt something was wrong.
She asked Liu Yang.
"In what general direction did you last see them?"
Liu Yang raised his head and pointed to a place to her sadly.
"there……"
The last scene he saw before falling into the cave was over there. He didn't know whether the bodies of his two companions were there.
However, after they fell into the cave, they only heard the screams of two comrades coming from outside, and then the screams gradually weakened and finally disappeared.
So they all thought that those two comrades might be gone...
Hearing this, several people subconsciously looked in the direction Liu Yang pointed. Xu Fei was even more surprised when he saw it, "That way? I just searched that way, and I didn't see anything there."
Even if the two men were really eaten by the tiger, there would be no trace left on the ground.
Things like torn pieces of clothing, residual blood or hair, etc.
Unless the tiger swallowed a whole person, it would not leave any traces there.
No?
Liu Yang was stunned. How could this be possible?
Could it be that they were dragged away by the tiger and eaten somewhere else?
As if he knew what he was thinking, Lin Xi simply walked around the area.
But after arriving in that area, she even looked around thoroughly, but still did not find any "remains of a corpse" or bloodstains.
Although she didn't find these traces, she did notice something else.
Lin Xi quickly walked to the cave entrance and said to the others, "There's no trace of blood or corpses, but I do have a question for you."
"How come there are only two bags for the four of you?"
Two bags?
Liu Yang then noticed Bao's situation. He quickly looked over to his other classmates and was surprised to find that there were only two Bao left with them!
But whether they were going into the mountains or looking for minerals, each of them carried a bag.
The bags contained not only food, but also the ores they had picked up.
The most important thing was that he remembered that when they fell into the cave, it seemed that everyone was still carrying a backpack.
Could it be that he remembered it wrongly and two people's bags were accidentally lost during the escape?
Liu Yang's mind was a little confused at the moment, and he felt that when they fell into the hole, everyone had a backpack on their backs.
It also seemed that two people's bags were not on them, which matched the situation that there were only two bags left in front of me.
For a moment he couldn't be sure.
Lin Xi reminded him again: "Open it and see if there is anything missing."
Liu Yang subconsciously felt that nothing would be missing.
There's no one here, who would come and steal things?
But Xu Fei listened to Lin Xi's words very carefully, asked Liu Yangyu, and then opened one of the bags.
During the first few days after Liu Yang and his companions fell into the cave, they relied on the water and food they had packed with them to survive. Later, when the food and water were all gone, they gradually fell into a coma.
So Xu Fei only found a bag of food residue and some small things in the bag, and the rest were a few pieces of ore.
When the ores were displayed in front of Liu Yang, he suddenly frowned and looked at the strap uncertainly.
Seeing his special mark on the strap of the bag, he was sure that the bag was his.
But he claimed that the tank he had loaded at that time was almost full of 320ml of ore.
What appeared before his eyes at this moment was the only remaining ore in the bag, but it was less than one tenth of the entire bag.
Where did the rest of the ore go?
Could it be that the bag broke? Is it leaking out?
Liu Yang quickly asked Xu Fei to help check if there were any major damages on the bag. Xu Fei looked around carefully and finally shook his head.
"No."
No?
Why is there so little ore in there?
As for the other bag, he thought about it and asked Xu Fei to help open it and take a look.
He remembered that each of them had picked up a lot of ore, and their bags were full and heavy.
Xu Fei nodded and picked up the other bag.
As soon as he took the bag in his hand, Liu Yang realized something was wrong again.
Too light.
That amount definitely couldn't possibly be filled with a lot of ore.
Sure enough, when Xu Fei opened the other bag, the contents were exactly the same as Liu Yang's bag. Apart from the empty food packaging bags, there was only a small amount of ore left.
What about the rest of the ore?
Just disappeared for no reason?
But they were clearly in the cave during this time, and had not been anywhere else, and no one had been here!
Liu Yang couldn't figure out what was going on.
"When you were in the cave before, didn't you ever think of coming out by yourself?"
Lin Xi asked them again.
Liu Yang immediately said, "I have thought about it!"
When he heard the screams of his two companions who were trying to lure the tiger away, he and several other companions tried to climb out by stepping on each other's shoulders.
I don't know why, but even though the cave didn't look particularly high, they seemed unable to climb to the entrance no matter what they did.
In the end, they kept trying until they were both exhausted and forced to stop.
If Qi Wei had not kept trying to climb, perhaps Liu Yang and the others could have saved more energy and would not have fainted so quickly.
The hole is less than three meters deep, and there is no way they can climb to the top?
In this situation, combined with Lin Xi's calculation that the two people were not dead, she already had a guess in her mind.
That is, what Liu Yang and the others saw was all an illusion.
The two missing people were not only alive, but they might have taken away the other two bags of Liu Yang and his team, as well as the remaining two bags of ore.
(Hey guys, although this is not just one update, the word count is the same as three chapters, which is equivalent to combining three chapters into one. I write 6,000 words every day, which is already a lot)
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