There was the hoarse chirping of the night crow, and the deep mountain forest, heavy shadows swayed.
The dark night sky, mottled rocks, withered leaves, and a pool of stagnant water in the forest with some green algae. Just beside that, there is a fallen rotting tree trunk. From its thick outline, it can be seen that this rotten wood was once a big tree with luxuriant branches.
It looked like an oak tree.
"I, why am I here..."
Next to the small pool, Gu Jun looked around suspiciously, and covered his painful head. Is this an illusion? dream? No, it's not like...
He is actually here, he can feel it.
"What's going on? Xianyu and I went back to the Dongzhou base, went to the mental and psychological building, and went to see a patient named Zhong Huili, and then... Xiaohuili had a seizure and cursed at me. I had a headache and convulsed all over. Stress response... and then..."
Some intermittent and chaotic memory images flashed before Gu Jun's eyes. He muttered, yelled, and pushed away the blocking people... He told the anxious Wu Shiyu not to follow, and Cai Zixuan and the others not to follow. don't follow...
"Am I acutely insane... Agitation? Mania?"
His heart sank, it was very possible, his current physical and mental condition were different from before.
There are biological changes in his brain, and recently his mood is always in a state of ups and downs, as if ptsd attacks at any time...
And this time, there might still be the mental influence of that strange cursing sound.
"This is where?"
Gu Jun looked at the hazy surroundings, full of rotten trees and dead branches, lifeless.
Such a place, he has no doubt that it is a haunt of dark forces and their followers. Perhaps it was here, surrounded by this pool of stagnant water that exudes a foul smell, those evil believers performed some unknown ritual in the dark night, extending their sinful hands to those innocent children.
He searched for himself. He didn’t have a mobile phone, a walkie-talkie, etc., but he was still carrying that carry-on backpack, which didn’t contain many things. The five pieces of Kalop’s anatomical instruments, the watercolor painting of Xianyu... nothing could make him feel sick. Get in touch with the outside world, or let him figure out where this is.
Through the gaps between the branches and leaves of the forest, the night sky was dark and starless. When the branches and leaves were swayed by the cold wind, the dark clouds remained still.
Gu Jun stood on the spot for a long while, but still didn't move. He listened attentively to his surroundings. There were strange and low noises from the mountains and forests, but there was no call...
"I probably ran out of the base of the Ministry of Medicine and ran into the surrounding mountains. But in that case, it is impossible for me to be found by now. Surveillance, sentries, and patrols are everywhere around the base, and I can How fast are you running? Find a police dog and catch up to him in no time..."
Gu Jun didn't think that other people really listened to his words and didn't chase after him, and the environment here didn't look like around the base either.
"Ah..." His head suddenly cracked, and some memory fragments flashed again.
In my mind, I seemed to hear everyone exclaiming "Be careful, be careful!" Wu Shiyu rushed forward to pull him, but he pushed him away. He seems to be... using a spell to summon something, is it the "Book of the Seven Secrets of the Earth", the fifth secret entity Great Nightmare... Byakhee
This is his guess, because he has read the text transcript of the fifth secret, but not the secret book, and he has not cultivated to that level.
There is no memory picture to confirm his guess, he just summoned some strange creature, and then flew away from the base.
Could it be some kind of alien spell? Gu Jun was at a loss, not sure if this was near the base, or even in Dongzhou.
"How can I still use spells? My mental power is obviously in a mess now... But when a person falls into madness, it's another state."
Just as Gu Jun was thinking, suddenly a gust of wind blew by, and the trees and weeds all around rustled. He suddenly turned his head and looked, as if he saw a figure running through the forest over there. He frowned, looked around, and then looked into the pool. Except for the reflection, there seemed to be some rotten flesh like rotten mud...
Just standing here is not a solution, he looked for footprints in the soil under his feet, to see if he could find the direction he came from.
But it seems... that strange creature landed here, and the rotten flesh was what it exploded.
In the cold night wind, faintly, jingle, jingle... It's the sound of a piano.
"Piano, how can there be a piano in this barren mountain and countryside... Am I at a place where the enemy wants me to come..."
Is this an invitation
"Who are you?" Gu Jun asked softly, taking out the Kalop scalpel and holding it in his hand.
The sound of the piano became clearer and clearer, and the melody was very melodious, as if it was the quiet words spoken by this mountain forest.
But Gu Jun was so focused that he didn't allow himself to listen to it, he walked in a direction opposite to the sound of the piano, and walked into the gloomy mountain forest. However, he stepped on the rotten black soil for more than ten meters, but felt that he was getting closer to the sound of the piano...
He immediately turned and walked in another direction, but after walking for a short distance, the sound of the piano was still getting closer.
When he tried every direction with the water pool as the midpoint, he confirmed that the piano sound was like a ghost, following him like a shadow.
Gu Jun knew that this was his territory, so which way he went or what he did would not affect the approach of the piano sound.
He just walked according to his feeling, ten steps, twenty steps, fifty steps... The sound of the piano resounded through the forest. He walked out of the dense forest and arrived in an open forest. The branches formed a monstrous sight, an oak forest.
Just over there by an oak tree, there was a dilapidated black piano covered in moss, and a figure sat in front of it.
Gu Jun's eyes froze suddenly, what is that, is it a human being...
That figure was only covered with some ragged rags, and his whole body was swollen like a giant corpse, except for his hands, which were as withered as bones, and his slender fingers were resting on the piano keys, constantly bouncing. Judging from the outline structure, it really looks like a human being, an old male.
At this time, the figure slowly cast a glance to this side, the face was old and swollen like a corpse, and the eyes were full of pain.
Gu Jun felt chills in his heart. The more he listened to this piece, the more he felt that the style was very similar to some Mozart pieces he had heard these days...
There was another sharp pain in his head, and he heard a chuckling female voice sounding in the forest.
"My dear brother, you are here..."
The oak forest was full of shadows, and the swollen old man under the tree ahead continued to play the piano.