Chapter 168 The Closest Truth

Huangfu Miaomiao and Li Qing had already gotten used to Feng Ling's rhythm, and jumped off the wooden house right after him.

Then, Wen Xiuyan, Wu Wei and Liang Jiaqin also jumped down.

"Great, the snow has stopped!" Wen Xiuyan said happily, "It would be great if it never snowed."

Without wind and snow, the vision became extremely clear.

"The weather in the maze usually follows a certain pattern. If the snow keeps falling, the cabin will be buried sooner or later. So I guess it will snow for a while, then stop for a while."

Feng Ling walked down and said, "Let's go to the place where they picked up the phone and see if we can find any clues."

It was only a few dozen meters away and we arrived there in no time.

Heavy snow covered everything, and the snowman on the hillside became the only signpost.

"What kind of clues are we looking for?" Liang Jiaqin asked Feng Ling.

Feng Ling glanced around, brushed off the snow on the head of a nearby snowman, and said, "Look for any signs of a fight."

After hearing this, everyone dispersed to look for clues.

——If a fierce battle really took place here, there should be something left behind, such as bullet casings after shooting, blood from injuries, or dents from knives and axes.

Feng Ling thought that the inspectors in the expedition team were all top-notch experts, and the noise they made when using their card abilities must have been huge. It was a life-and-death fight, and logically, half of the hillside should have been covered with dirt.

But here, the snowmen are standing intact, which looks so uncoordinated.

Could it be that part of the snowman has actually been destroyed, melted into the snow so it can't be seen?
She squatted down, reached her hand into the snow, and randomly turned over a piece of snow to see if there was anything underneath.

The snow was turned up one by one like white ice cream, so white without a trace of dust.

Feng Ling was a little disappointed.

This is illogical.

The back of the phone was almost completely broken, and there were obvious scratches from sharp objects. This was definitely an attack by a monster. How could there be no traces of a fight? Not even a drop of blood could be seen.

The snow was so annoying. If there was no snow on the ground, she could follow the traces to guess which direction the attacker had left, instead of being at a loss like now.

Feng Ling stood up and kicked the snow twice in annoyance.

An inconspicuous blue color jumps into view.

She was slightly stunned, her eyes focused on the inconspicuous blue dot. After a while, she slowly walked over and picked it up carefully.

A small blue pill.

There is a pill like this in the back of every Hunter phone.

Su Yuqing once told her that if the pollution value could not be controlled, she could be relieved by taking it before she completely lost her sanity.

Feng Ling looked at the blue pill in his hand and fell into deep thought.

She suspected that her speculation was totally wrong...

The damage to the phone does not necessarily mean that it was attacked. Maybe... Ye Zheng broke it himself.

Feng Ling raised his head and looked at the hills and woodlands in the distance.

Ye Zheng... should have been in Area D, where she met a squirrel. In order not to hurt her teammates, she had to leave the team.

The "squirrel" I sent to Su Yuqing was actually her last words.

Just like in suspense movies, the deceased will always find ways to leave the murderer's name at the scene before dying.

Ye Zheng's mind was in a state of confusion at the time, and he couldn't put together a complicated sentence, so he only said "squirrel". Feng Ling guessed that she had not completely lost her mind at that time, because she later sent Su Yuqing two more messages. Although the meaning was unclear, it could be seen that she had not given up on herself and was still trying to convey the message to the outside world.

What was she doing during that time?

Feng Ling tried to put himself in Ye Zheng's situation - knowing that he was ambushed by an alien species and that his contamination level exceeded the safety threshold, how should he save himself?
...Statue of a deity?
Yes! Ye Zheng is looking for the statue!
She found Area B from Area D. During this time, her teammates were also looking for her and followed her all the way to Area B and fired flares.

As for why the phone was left so close to the cabin, it is easy to explain.

Hunger and cold accelerated Ye Zheng's speed of losing control. She developed a bloodthirsty appetite for living people, so she wandered around the wooden house. At one point, she suddenly woke up and realized that she had become a monster. In desperation, she decided to commit suicide, but her mutated hands... or claws, could not successfully open the mechanism on the back of the phone, so she destroyed the phone in madness and collapse.

The pill fell into the snow. The agitated monster looked for it everywhere but couldn't find it. He was worried that he would lose his mind and attack the humans in the cabin, so he ran away, and ran far away.

This is the closest truth.

Feng Ling stared blankly at the vast snow in the distance.

If this is true, where should she go to find Ye Zheng?

Maybe just like Li Qing said, even if she found Ye Zheng, she wouldn't be able to recognize her.

"Sister Ling, we have turned over all the snow here, but we didn't find anything." Wu Wei ran over and said to Feng Ling, panting.

Feng Ling came back to his senses and stuffed the pill in his hand into the pocket of his winter coat. "Got it. Let's go. I'll take you out before it snows."

"Are we still looking for Sister Ye?" asked Wen Xiuyan, who is a loyal fan of Ye Zheng.

"Looking for them." Feng Ling nodded. "Send those four people out first, and then slowly search for them. If they are alive, we must find them. If they are dead, we must find their bodies."

She put her hand in the pocket of her winter coat and gently rubbed the blue pill.

If Ye Zheng had really become a contaminated body, she would personally feed the pill into Ye Zheng's mouth.

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After daybreak, the temperature continued to rise and the snow began to melt.

The snow water flows down the rugged slopes, gathers into streams in the gullies, and washes the wet peaks and rocks.

The road under Feng Ling's feet gradually changed from clean snow to muddy ground mixed with ice and snow.

The familiar icicles reappeared in the field of vision.

As soon as they saw the icicle, everyone's nerves immediately tensed up and they looked around vigilantly.

Feng Ling took out his cell phone and looked at the map on it.

The area where the ice cones are distributed is very large, but the densest area is the intersection of area D and area B in front of us.

Feng Ling guessed that this was the Snow Girl's fixed hunting ground, and their nest might be nearby.

"There is something ahead." Liang Jiaqin reminded everyone.

Feng Ling also saw it. It was a corpse, lying on the ground covered in blood.

She walked closer and saw more clearly that it was a polluted corpse.

It is about 160cm tall, in anthropomorphic form, with pale skin, slender limbs, and very fluffy long white hair. If you only look at the back, it looks like a thin woman with a head full of white hair.

However, when the corpse was turned over, it had an oval belly like that of a worm, and a face with a siphon-like mouthpart that was curved like a butterfly.

Very disgusting.

"There's one over there too!" Wu Wei found another body.