1256 Missing Person’s Call for Help (1/2)

When Zhang Zian finally finished cleaning everything up, the sun had risen past the horizon, brightening their next extremely hot day. As if the curtains had been opened on a stage and the darkness chased away, the surrounding structures were quickly bathed in light.

He placed the drone on the hood of his car to assemble it, using the remote to send it into the sky.

Actually, by now, the others were lending the morning light to see the half-sunken car in the sand some distance away, but they all expressed noises of shock.

The drone quickly flew to the top of the jeep, suspending itself in the sky before circling it. It uploaded the video footage onto the remote control's screen.

How could this be…?

When he saw the charred body of the car, Zhang Zian was extremely surprised too. This car had clearly been burned to a crisp.

”What happened? Did the car catch on fire?”

”Maybe it was too hot and the sun's rays were too strong, so it just caught on fire?”

”We have to be careful and not end up like this car.”

Everyone was commenting on it, sorry for the loss of the car.

The night before, everyone had just been illuminating it with their car headlights, so they had noticed the black on the car. But they had just assumed that it was decoration and never expected that the black was due to a fire.

It was uncommon for cars to catch on fire by themselves, but it was by no means rare. It could be caused by a long time spent in a high-heat environment, but usually it was due to old wires malfunctioning and catching on fire. These stories often appeared in the news.

Usual people can't imagine the heat that the Sahara Desert is under at the peak of summer. Under the direct shine of the sun, even dry branches will catch on fire by themselves. If this car had been caught in the quick sand and was subjected to the harsh light of the flames, heat may accumulate within the car and it's not too ridiculous to guess that it had caught on fire by itself.

”No! Look at the traces of the fire! This car doesn't seem to have self-ignited!” Some of them were more sharp-eyed and noticed some abnormal points.

Other than the completeness of the frame, all of the windshields and glass were broken - not just shattered, but even melted. This meant that this isn't just an innocent self-ignitation, as a natural fire would never be able to reach these kinds of temperatures, so a fuel must have been used.

The fuel might have been petrol, since diesel wasn't as easy to burn in comparison.

The weird thing was that judging from the stains of the blackening and, the point of ignitation didn't seem to be near the fuel tank, but instead from the roof of the car, as though someone had poured fuel onto the top and then started the fire.

So, according to these details, this car hadn't been destroyed by self-ignitation, but instead someone had purposefully set it on fire.

In the desert, there was almost nothing more important than the car. Once the car was destroyed, the driver would immediately be faced with a myriad of problems.

Of course, in the middle of the desert, no one would be driving by themselves. Normally, they would have partners, and the ruin of one car didn't mean that they were in danger.

Just like Wei Kang's car—it was wrecked, and a horrible thing had happened to the team, but they had at least managed to save their equipment and perishables. This would not deal a lethal blow to their safety and progress.

But even if so, why burn the car?

Besides, even if it was a malfunctioning car, it could still be a place of rest and a place to hide from the elements. Burning a car also had to use up precious diesel or petrol. No matter how they thought about it, it didn't make sense.