Lu Xuan only felt a black mass passing over his head. When he raised his head, he saw a huge crow perched on a branch five or six meters away from him.
The shrill cries of "Ga Ga Ga" were incessant, like a whispering ghost in the night, penetrating every inch of silence, making this already creepy environment instantly shrouded in a deeper layer of fear.
The sound was sharp and long, carrying an indescribable sorrow and despair, as if it came from another world, or perhaps the low murmur of an ancient curse, making one's heart tighten involuntarily and a chill run down one's back.
One, two, three, more and more crows came scrambling to fly from afar.
"Wait a minute..."
Lu Xuan, who was originally walking slowly, sniffed hard and seemed to detect a strange smell in the air.
Is this the smell of blood!?
That’s right!
Wait, the smell of blood and the crows mean there must be a rotting corpse ahead.
Thinking of this, Lu Xuan reflexively lowered his head and looked at the footprints on the ground.
The most obvious change in the footprints since entering the jungle is that the number of footprints has decreased.
Lu Xuan squatted down and carefully observed the footprints under his feet.
Big footprints, all big footprints!
"Lu Xuan, what's going on? There's a foul smell here. It's so bad."
Obviously, Shen Keyin behind him also smelled the unpleasant smell.
Lu Xuan thought for a moment, and the bad feeling in his heart rose silently like a ghost in the dark night, gradually spreading throughout his body, making him shiver involuntarily.
"You wait here, I'll go ahead and explore the way."
Lu Xuan stretched out his hand to block Shen Keyin's way, then walked forward alone. Shen Keyin paused for three seconds, looked around, seemed to be afraid of someone, but still followed him in small steps.
The deeper they went into the jungle, the stronger the stench became. What surprised Lu Xuan even more was that the footprints on the ground became more numerous and disorganized, as if they were going in circles.
Going further in, the footprints became fewer again, but this time there was a different kind of mark.
The mark of drag.
Combining all these signs, Lu Xuan had basically made an inference in his mind.
"Don't come over here..."
Lu Xuan blocked Shen Keyin's way again, because Lu Xuan knew very well that the scene ahead was definitely not something a woman like Shen Keyin, who lived in peacetime, could accept.
Shen Keyin did not follow Lu Xuan's steps this time. Perhaps the stench had become stronger, completely making her lose the desire to move forward.
Sure enough, when Lu Xuan walked forward another thirty or forty meters, a scene that could be described as hell on earth came into Lu Xuan's sight.
In front of us stands a sturdy banyan tree that has weathered the wind and rain, with branches and leaves so lush that they almost block out the sun.
Beneath the massive shadow of the banyan tree, a man lay quietly. No, to be more precise, it was a lifeless, almost brutally dismembered corpse. His clothes were tattered, bloodstained, and his limbs twisted at unnatural angles, as if silently recounting the inhuman torture he had endured in life.
The severity of the scene far exceeded the imagination of ordinary people.
The air was filled with a strong smell of blood, which mixed with the coolness of the jungle at that moment, creating an indescribable atmosphere of oppression.
On the ground, pools of dark red blood looked like blooming poppies, shocking to the eye. All kinds of strange reptiles had already begun their feast.
Lu Xuan couldn't even tell whether it was a man's or a woman's body until he saw a piece of torn women's underwear. Lu Xuan was basically certain that the body was that of a woman.
It is not difficult to imagine the pain this woman went through before her death.
"call……"
Even Lu Xuan, who thought he had rich life experience, couldn't help but take a deep breath at this moment.
"Lu Xuan, what's going on up ahead? Why is there such a bad smell here..."
Shen Keyin, who was dozens of meters behind Lu Xuan, naturally didn't know what Lu Xuan saw at the moment. He just saw Lu Xuan stop and asked curiously.
"Do you know what color pants Leng Mengyao is wearing? Is his underwear blue?"
"What? Underwear color? I don't know what color underwear she's wearing, but it seems like she's wearing a long skirt this time, not pants."
Obviously, Shen Ke was stunned by Lu Xuan's strange question. After hesitating for a moment, he answered Lu Xuan.
Long skirt? Not pants...
Then this body is most likely not Leng Mengyao's.
At that moment, it was not that Lu Xuan's eyesight was poor, but the tragic state of the corpse lying under the banyan tree in front of him was completely indescribable. It could even be said that apart from being able to tell at a glance that it was a human corpse, he could not tell anything else.
Lu Xuan combined the clues he had discovered, thought carefully for a moment, and made a rough inference.
Two pairs of footprints prove that there are two people. Based on the size of the footprints, it is likely that they are a man and a woman.
The purpose of the two people entering the jungle is unknown. Combined with various signs that followed, it is not ruled out that the woman was persecuted to death by the man.
This was especially likely when Lu Xuan saw that the man's clothes were badly damaged.
"Lu Xuan, what on earth is going on, ah~~~"
While Lu Xuan was still pondering, he didn't know that Shen Keyin had called out to him many times from behind. Seeing that Lu Xuan had no response, he couldn't resist his curiosity and walked carefully along Lu Xuan's previous route.
But when she saw the bloody scene in front of her, she was so scared that she almost fainted on the spot.
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