Dream Guide

The fire was not very obvious at first, but it soon turned into a fierce flame, and black smoke rose into the sky. Even though it was halfway across the lake, I could still see it clearly. If I hadn't chosen the terrain, I knew the fire would not spread there. Go, I'm really worried that the fire will devour the entire mountain forest.

The frightened birds flew up in flocks one after another, as if a large number of hunters had broken into their territory, or as if they were conveying news of the fire.

"Why did they light the fire in advance?" Situ looked into the distance and asked with a frown.

Su Huilan thought it was nothing, and said: "Maybe because we haven't been back for so long, we were worried about something happening, so we started the fire first. Since it's going to be burned, it's better to burn it first. Ronald Cohen's body will be dealt with later after we find it." alright."

Aoki felt something was wrong, but couldn't explain it. Thinking about it, anyone would be upset if Mrs. Larry and Alice were left guarding hundreds of dead bodies, while he hadn't given them any news on the ship for so long. The body was going to be burned anyway, so it didn't matter if it was burned first.

But what's wrong?

He saw that Situ also looked solemn and seemed to have doubts. He said: "First bring Madam and Alice back, and then slowly find the whereabouts of Petru and Ivan. It is not appropriate for us to separate now."

Situ nodded and said, "That's all we can do."

They rowed ashore together, and Mrs. Larry and Alice were already waiting on the shore. Both of their faces are not very pretty, but they are not exactly the same. Mrs. Larry's face looked tired and pale, as if she were ill; while Alice's face looked panicked, as if she had been frightened, and her face was flushed with a nervous heartbeat.

"Are you okay?" Situ asked.

"Madam is feeling a little unwell. Could she be ill?" Alice said anxiously.

"Weren't you fine just now?" Su Huilan went over to help her support Mrs. Larry, "Why did it happen all of a sudden?"

Alice said: "I don't know either. Not long after you left, my wife said she was very dizzy. I gave her water, but it didn't get better. There were so many dead people in front of me, and although there was the sun in the sky, there was no sunlight shining down. Everything was eerie. I was scared!"

Dewar came over and grabbed Mrs. Larry's wrist and said, "Let me see."

Qingmu knew that Du Wa had excellent medical skills. The medicine woman back then was regarded as a life-saving Bodhisattva by the Mangdian people just by giving her some casual advice. Unfortunately, she went astray.

"It's okay, I'm just a little dizzy." Mrs. Larry said weakly.

Dua frowned and said, "Maybe it's because we haven't had enough rest recently. We can't even tell the difference between day and night. It's time to take a good rest."

She suddenly grabbed Alice's hand again and said, "Come on, let me show you too."

Alice was startled and instinctively retracted, but Dua's grip was tight. She did not break away, and she obediently allowed Dua to take her pulse.

Dua's brows furrowed even more tightly. She took her pulse and asked, "Who lit the fire up there?"

"It's me." Alice said, "I was very scared just now. You were not here, the lady was not feeling well, and I had to look at so many dead people. When I got scared... I lit a fire..."

Du Wa nodded: "You did the right thing. It's time to burn it. It should have been burned just now."

Alice asked: "Isn't there another person?"

Dua said: "Not found."

She still grasped Alice's pulse, but her eyes were fixed on Alice's face without blinking. Alice looked panicked and asked, "What's wrong with me? Am I okay?"

"You're fine." Dua finally let go of his hand, "You're too tired and need a good rest."

Aoki always felt that Dua had something he didn't say.

The fire is still burning. Although they are all dry wood and the corpses are easy to burn, it will take a long time to burn them all. Situ said: "Qingmu, let's go up and see how the fire is going. If there's not enough firewood, add some more."

Aoki said: "Okay."

Dua said: "I will go too."

The three of them walked up the hillside together and came to the crematorium inside. The flames were still burning fiercely, emitting interlaced lights of red, yellow and blue colors. The roaring sound had a crackling sound. Exploding sparks flew randomly in the air outside, and black smoke and dust gathered above the flames. There are more and more as you go up, like volcanic clouds.

The fire was not extinguished for the time being. Qingmu and Situ no longer looked at the fire, but looked at Dua, the firelight flashing on her face.

"Mrs. Larry is physically fine, but mentally traumatized," Dewar said.

Aoki was shocked and asked; "What kind of trauma?"

"I can't tell." Dua was silent for a while. "It was like she was hypnotized, but she resisted. You should understand the possible consequences of this."

"Alice?" Aoki and Situ said at the same time.

Dua shook his head: "I thought so at first, but Alice does not have such ability. If her mental power is strong enough to hide it from me, then Mrs. Larry should have no chance to resist."

This is strange.

The three people looked at the fire in front of them at the same time. The flames were still fierce, and the light stung people so hard that they couldn't open their eyes. They stood for a long time until Su Huilan came over and called them:

"Don't make people worry all the time, okay!"

The three people then returned to the lake. After some discussion, they decided to get on the big boat. The boats and rafts are all there, not a single one is missing. Ivan and Petru should still be on the big boat. They must be found, as well as the body of Ronald Cohen.

Back on the Swordfish, Dewar stayed on deck with Alice and Mrs. Larry. Qingmu, Situ and Su Huilan went down to the cabin to search again, but still found nothing.

Of course, the Swordfish is very large inside, and it only relies on torch lighting, which is not long-lasting and cannot search every corner. They returned to the deck, rested for a while, then replaced the torch with a new one and continued down the cabin. This was repeated several times, but no trace of Petru and Ivan was ever found.

For a long time, they slept and ate on the boat, took turns going to the shore to cut firewood, and fished in the lake.

When Aoki was chopping firewood, he went to the crematorium and took a look. The place was already scorched earth, and the large swaths of embers were shocking. But this piece of charred blackness looks very strange. Logically speaking, human bones are white after being burned. Calcium will not turn into carbon no matter how it is burned. Calcium oxide should be very conspicuous in the charcoal ash, but what about the more than 300 corpses?

He looked for a long time but could not find any trace of bones. He remembered that when the fire first started, the birds in the forest had been frightened and flew away, as if someone was driving them away in the jungle. At that time, the fire was not very big.

Ronald Cohen was gone, and now the corpses of the hundreds of mummified soldiers who had been mummified with him seemed to have disappeared as well after being cremated.

Of course, the affairs of the dead are not the most important, and the lives of the living cannot be ignored. They did not give up looking for Petrou and Ivan, and searched several times in the cabin, and sometimes in the nearby woods, but there was still no trace, as if these two men had disappeared with the dead people.

During one of the breaks, Alice asked, "How long have we been like this?"

It had been so long that Mrs. Larry couldn't rely on her accurate biological clock to make inferences, so everyone had no choice but to look at Situ.

"Twenty-one seconds."

Situ stood on the deck with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky, as if looking for something in the stars.