Volume 8 Chapter 21 It

I felt a little guilty, but I immediately realized that Mian Youping was right. I am not a determined person. I am not in a good position to keep watch at night when I am so tired and have not fully recovered. At this time, it was actually forced by circumstances for Mian Youping to keep watch all night.

The fat man didn’t object, saying, “I don’t think one person is enough. You can’t guard such a large area alone. I’ll stay with you for half the night. After we get through tonight, we’ll rest hard in a different place tomorrow.”

Muyongbing thought about it for a moment, but didn’t say anything. The fat man said it was settled.

I thought about whether I should stay awake, but then I thought that Muyongbing would definitely need to rest tomorrow, and I could take over for him tomorrow after I rested.

The fat guy stretched and said, “This is basically it. Don’t think about it anymore. Let’s think about what to do tomorrow. Little brother, you just said you had a way to find the entrance. What’s that about?”

Muyinbing looked at him and said, “This method is very difficult to succeed, so I’d rather not mention it.”

The fat guy immediately said, “No, don’t. You can tell me first. I don’t want to go back like this.”

Muyinbing was silent for a moment, then looked at us and said, “Let’s go get Wenjin.”

I and the fat man were stunned, and then I smiled bitterly, shaking my head while laughing. Indeed, this method is very difficult to succeed. It is already very difficult for us to reach this camp, and the target here is huge, there is also a signal smoke. Wen Jin is only one person, and he can still escape. It is like looking for a needle in a haystack in such a large sea of trees.

The fat man, who was originally full of hope, also collapsed at this time, saying, “You might as well say that it is almost as difficult to catch his third uncle. Besides, maybe Wen Jin doesn’t even know the entrance. The notebook that Xiao Wu found said that she didn’t enter here and went back.

Muyoubing threw a few sticks into the fire and said, “No, she must know.”

“Why?”

“My feeling.”

The fat guy looked at me shrugging his shoulders and was at a loss. He sighed and said, “My feeling is that this time I’m definitely going to be wasting my time.” He drank some water and looked depressed.

No one spoke. I leaned back and thought about it, but I felt that Mian Youping’s words were more grounded.

According to the circumstances of the matter, the source of everything was on those tapes. Jude and I both received the tapes, and we learned about Wen Jin’s expedition several years ago through different means, which led to this expedition. Therefore, Wen Jin’s purpose in sending the tapes should be to lure us to this ghostly place.

My third uncle’s purpose for this trip was to track down Jude’s team and find out what they were after, and to find out the real purpose of their activities in China over the years. But Jude’s team collapsed before they even entered Devil’s City, so tracking them down was pointless. In my third uncle’s character, after he met up with Black Blind, he would torture the remaining Jude’s men to find out the purpose of Jude’s trip.

Therefore, the information that my uncle might get is limited. Under these circumstances, it seems that Wen Jin, who sent the videotape, must know the most. There is no reason that Wen Jin would not know the clues that my uncle could know.

Thinking about those tapes, I felt a little uncomfortable. What was going on with that face that looked exactly like mine? If we really caught Wen Jin, I would definitely ask her. But now is not the time to think about these things. I said to the fat guy, “No matter what, the probability that Wen Jin knows is much greater than not knowing. I think we should not consider these things now that we are in a corner. The most difficult thing is to catch Wen Jin.”

The fat guy lit a cigarette and took a drag and said, “This is not difficult, it’s impossible. She will run if she sees us. Even if she has GPS on her, we may not be able to catch her in such a large place.”

“Maybe we can set a trap to lure her over,” I said.

“How are you going to lure her? Seduce her?” Fat Man asked curiously, ‘The three of us wander around the forest while dancing striptease?’

I sighed. It’s really troublesome. If she’s heading towards us, then we can call out to her, or use a signal of fire or something, and there’s always a chance that we’ll get a response.

I said in a depressed tone, ”Why do you think she ran when she saw us at the mouth of the canyon? Wasn’t she the one who passed on the message from the goddess Zhuoma to us? She was there waiting for us, so why didn’t she join us? Could it be that she really went crazy?

Muyoubing shook his head slowly and said that the judgment that she had gone crazy was made when we saw her covered in mud. Now that we know that she was covered in mud for a reason, it’s obvious that Wenjin was extremely calm when she saw us. She ran away because she judged the situation based on appearances.

The fat guy was confused. “So she had a reason to run away. We weren’t going to harm her, so why did she run away?“

”Calm down… run away…” I understood what he meant, and my spine went cold.

What was Wen Jin afraid of?

In her notes and her message, she repeatedly mentioned that she was running away from something, which she called ‘it.’ Moreover, she told us that ‘it’ was among us as we entered the Qaidam Basin. Then, there is only one possibility that makes sense. I said with a sigh, “Could it be that Wenjin ran away because she saw that ‘it’ among us?”

Muyoubing nodded, “I’m afraid that’s it.”

I looked at the fat guy, at Pan Zi in the tent, and at Muyoubing, thinking to myself, “Shit, no way.”

“The four of us were there: Little Brother, Little Wu, me, and Pan Zi. So, one of the four of us scared her away?” The fat guy looked at us, too. “Is one of us a bad guy?”

Neither of us said anything, but the fat guy immediately raised his hand and said, “I’m a good guy, definitely not me. I’m not interested in your little girl at all.”

“This is just a thought, maybe it’s not like that.” I felt very uncomfortable with this statement. Everyone here has been through life and death, and I would rather believe that Wen Jin ran away because she was crazy.

“The key question is, what exactly is that ‘it’?” The fat guy said, “Little brother, don’t you know?”

Muyoubing looked up at him and shook his head.

“Could someone have disguised themselves as one of us? Could one of us be an impostor?” asked the fat man, pulling at his own face to show his innocence: “You see, my face is original.”

“I thought of that. When you were asleep, I checked you and Pan Zi.” Muyoubing said, “There’s no problem.”

I remembered seeing him when he was crouching next to Pan Zi. It turns out that he was doing this. It seems that he had thought about this for a long time, but he never said anything. This person is really deep.

The fat man looked at me and said, “What about Wu?”

I immediately pulled my face and said, “Don’t worry, it’s definitely original.”

“It’s hard to say. You were added halfway through, so maybe you’re pretending. Come on, let me check it out.” The fat man reached over and pulled hard, and it hurt so much that tears came to my eyes. He let go and said, “You passed.”

“So, it shouldn’t be a problem in this area.” Mian Youping pointed to Wen Jin’s notebook in my pocket and asked me, “Is there any relevant record on it?”

I took it out and shook my head. “What I can be sure of is that in Wen Jin’s description, this ‘it’ was tracking them, and it should be intelligent. I also feel that it must be a person, but I don’t know why it would use this ‘it.’”

The fat man stood up, drank a few sips of water, and handed the water bottle to the Mian Youbing, saying, “Speaking of which, isn’t it your third uncle who is tracking them? Could it be that your third uncle is it? It’s dark, and Wen Jin might have made a mistake. Don’t you look a bit like your uncle?”

I thought to myself that I was much more handsome. Mian Youping took the fat man’s water bottle and was about to speak when the fat man suddenly reached out and pinched Mian Youping’s face. He pinched it and pulled it hard.