This time, the Mistbreaker team did not bring Zuge here. Zuge did not have a "key" and could not cross the boundary during the action deduction. Instead, they might mutate into monsters.
They have also received rumors, and they are unwilling to take risks no matter what. Besides, staying outside Dongzhou can also contribute. Those murder suspects have not been found yet, and there may be other secret passages between the two worlds. , have to look hard...
It's just that without Zug, the dead swamp is more secretive, the dead trees, the crows of the fallen crows, the cold wind, and the gray sky.
Lou Xiaoning, Deng Ximei and Grant Bell were carefully stepping on the rotten mud and exploring their surroundings.
They didn't go far, they were within 50 meters of Yu Chi as the center, the amniotic wall was not far behind, and the front was unknown. If this is an overlapping area, it should still be within the alley, but they didn't see even a trace of the alley.
In the vast swamp, some mud puddles had inexplicable blisters, as if they were swallowing something.
Deng Ximei looked at an old withered tree in one direction with some feeling, and said, "Let's go and have a look at that tree."
There are some dead trees on the swamp, all alone, although they are so rotten that they are hard to distinguish, they don't look like trees from the earth world.
Lou Xiaoning and Grant Bell didn't know what was so special about that tree, but Deng Ximei's inspiration was very important, so they walked with her carefully, carrying a rifle.
At the same time, Uncle Dan put on a fixed chest belt for Yu Chi, and confessed to the doctor: "No matter what you are going to do in the near future, don't use your chest less."
"Okay." Yu Chi nodded anxiously, and stood up with the support of Uncle Dan and Mo Qing. He could still move freely, but he couldn't bear the weight anymore.
"Yu Dui, how is it? Does it still hurt?" Feng Peiqian asked sadly, but her heart ached.
"Pain..." Yu Chi is still in pain, but he can't take care of it anymore, he has other things to do, "I have to quickly repair the fifth pillar and erect the sixth pillar... I thought about it, my pillar Too similar, almost all love for archaeology, this is not comprehensive enough, I should set up something else, such as Peiqian you... "
"Ah." Feng Peiqian's eyes lit up immediately, her heart tensed, and she almost didn't bring it up in one breath.
"There are also Ziyuan and the others." Yu Chi frowned and said, "I want to use you as the foundation to build a pillar of the Mystery Bureau. Yes, it should be a good idea."
Feng Peiqian took a deep breath.
Both Peacock and Catherine shrugged. This is indeed a good idea, but they have no speaking skills.
This dead tree has no leaves and is about ten meters high. The thick trunk is coiled there, and the bottom seems to have penetrated into the swamp. Therefore, even if all the leaves are gone, the branches are all withered, and even crows will not perch on it. A dead tree hasn't fallen yet.
Its bark is dark brown, with large and large cracks, and it looks like the face of an old man in a trance.
Deng Ximei walked all the way to the front of the tree, and she smelled a different smell here, the smell of blood, the blood of humans on earth.
"There seems to be blood here..." She said softly, and the illusion loomed in front of her eyes. The blood did not come from the enemy, but from the partner.
"Here." Lou Xiaoning has already found it. With her excellent field tracking ability, she can tell that the hard soil under her feet is a little different. There is a little dark red in the dark brown color. She bent over a little closer. , The smell of blood entered the nostrils.
If there is blood, it means that someone has been active here, and there are wounded.
At this time, Deng Ximei looked at the tree, and vaguely noticed something else. After walking around for a few steps, she saw a recognizable lettering on one side of the tree trunk. But these words are being pulled and devoured by the bark, and some words have been lost.
"This tree is not dead yet." She said suddenly, with a realization, "A dead tree cannot exist here. Everything here has life."
Grant Bell looked up at the old tree, and although it had no leaves, it still seemed to have a strange and strong vitality.
"Are those words?" Lou Xiaoning also saw it, her left eye widened slightly, "Was it left by Gu Jun and the others?"
In legible writing on the tree read:
[Take the film wall as the east, we are facing...north...be careful in the mud... there are different hands...]
This is only a small part of the incomplete writing on the tree, and the rest have been destroyed by the dark brown bark into unrecognizable messy nicks.
Perhaps if they had arrived earlier, they would have seen more information, but now they can only interpret this unformed discourse well.
One of the guidelines for venturing in places where dark forces run rampant is to try not to have direct physical contact with anything. Especially here, the power of the forest black goat can obviously cause human body distortion, and the mutation speed is faster than nuclear radiation.
So none of the three of them went up to touch the tree rashly. If Deng Ximei touched it, it might trigger the illusion, but they also needed to be careful.
However, although she didn't have direct contact, she just looked at those scratches and felt differently...
"Kalop's scalpel." Deng Ximei said casually, "Those words, I think they were carved with a Kalop's scalpel, and the person holding the knife should be Ah Jun."
"So, if that's the case." Lou Xiaoning looked north, "Did they go that way? Why?"
The north side of the swamp looks nothing special, not even the exit of the alley, with the membrane wall as the east, the exit of the alley is on the south.
But why did Gu Jun choose to go north? Have explored the south and found that it is a dead end? Or is there another reason
He should have engraved it already... And what does "be careful in the mud, there are alien hands" mean? Is there a strange hand in the mud
Deng Ximei looked around the surrounding swamp again, and once again fixed her eyes on the bubbles in some muddy puddles...
There were slight turbulent sounds, the sound of water bubbles bursting, and the sound of something turning up... However, these sounds did not seem to come from those mud puddles.
Suddenly, all three of them heard from Yu Chi's side, and they suppressed their panic calls: "There is a situation on our side, there is a situation! Be careful of those corpse storage tanks, there are weird things, there is an impact inside, and the tank cover itself is on the ground." Moved… "
Yu Chi, Feng Peiqian, Uncle Dan, Peacock, and Mo Qing had all aimed their automatic rifles at the corpse storage tank next to them.
This is the storage tank that Yu Chi pulled over, and what was contained in it was a relatively complete corpse of a dead skin man soaked in formalin.
But now they are not sure what has become inside.
And not only this corpse trough, but also the other seven corpse troughs around were making crashing noises.
Bang, bang, bang, the impact became louder and harsher.