Book 4: Chapter 37: Strange Situation

Book 4: Chapter 37: Strange Situation

With the three of us dragging Jin Wantang's body behind us, we approached the hanging corpse. This corpse was also severely dehydrated and light, but I felt a little calmer when I didn't see any pink on it. It did have Xiao Huas company logo on its clothes, however.

When I climbed up next to the body, I saw that it was a withered female corpse hanging there with a rope around her neck. She appeared to be Mongolian, so she was probably a local guide.

Fatty, seeing that I was silent, also remained silent. He probably didn't want to hear the bad news. "Its a stranger. A woman, I said. She was in Xiao Hua's team."

I climbed up so that they could come up and see for themselves. The safety anchor here was occupied by the corpse, so I found a gap and made a temporary movable anchor.

Fatty quickly passed the corpse and said, "This was a suicide."

The probability was high, because if it was an accident, the rope would have been around her waist instead of her neck.

There was a question lingering in my heart: What happened? But I no longer had the energy to ask. The three of us were silent for a while as Poker-Face searched the body. He ended up finding a notebook, a cell phone, a flashlight, ammunition, and a pack of high-calorie hardtack. Then, he used his knife to cut the rope off of the corpse.

When the body fell, he buckled his own carabiner on the anchor the corpse had just been occupying.

"Signal flare." When he said this, he threw the flare he had found on the body to Fatty.

"Don't you want to save it?" Fatty asked.

Poker-Face looked up. He must have seen something, and I only hoped that we could see it too.

Fatty emptied their pockets while chanting some prayers and it wasnt long before we saw a hanging tent bed beside the topmost body.

The bed was very professional and sturdy, so I climbed onto it. There were also a lot of hanging chairs beside the bed so that I could rest for a bit.

The three of us looked for comfortable positions. I felt a terrible pain in my back when I sat down, but Fatty found a chair and fell asleep immediately.

The journey up here had been exhausting.

Poker-Face came over to me and handed me the notebook.

I took it, turned on the light that came with the tent, and glanced at the huge black nothingness in front of me. As I began reading the notes, Poker-Face lay down and began to doze. The atmosphere was very silent.

In fact, there was more than one notebook since Xiao Hua's team were all well trained and everyone carried a notebook with them. But this girl's notes were a little more detailed.

When I opened it and flipped to the first page, I saw a sketch of Xiao Hua, along with some words written in the margins: The boss is really good-looking.

The second page was a sketch of Black Glasses, along with the words: The second boss is also good-looking.

I smiled bitterly. They were all lovely people, but all of them had died after encountering a desperate situation in this God-forsaken place. This business was so cruel.

It took me an hour to read through this notebook, which recorded in detail everything Xiao Hua's team had experienced. After reading it, I had a somewhat confused understanding of the whole thing.