Yi Chen has been observing the so-called interim person in charge, Wilmer.
Whether it is words, actions, or eyes in various situations, there is a sense of powerlessness.
He had seen this kind of powerlessness too many times in the orphanage before his death.
Many of my peers, who have received special education and recognize the true side of the orphanage, will have their originally clear eyes slowly eroded by a lightless substance that symbolizes "powerlessness".
Until it completely takes over and turns into despair.
“These gentlemen are not bad in themselves, but they don’t have the courage to explore further… The situation in the forest is indeed worse than I imagined.
I estimate that the two teams lost in the forest are the main forces of the Black Eye Stronghold.
They may still be alive, and if we can find them during our exploration, we should be able to obtain more information and greatly shorten the investigation time. 』
Yi Chen quickly flipped through all the information provided by the base within a minute.
As the temporary person in charge said, there is very little information available. There is not even any explanation of the situation in Shebolt Village, the extent of graying, and the impact it has caused, let alone the affairs of the church.
There are only a few reports on surveys of plant walls.
This is enough to show that none of the investigators who entered the tree wall were able to come out and were unable to bring out any useful information.
However, there are a few things worth noting about the plant wall.
Infinite growth, crying babies, bloody sap
These keywords were noted down by Yi Chen.
Then I looked up the rules of Shebolt Village.
These rules were written by high-ranking gentlemen in Zion City who possessed foresight, and they were specifically designed to govern the living conditions of a certain area.
As long as you follow these rules in your daily life, you can greatly reduce the chance of getting sick.
The content is as follows:
≮Residents of the villages in Jose Valley should follow the following rules in their daily lives to ensure your safety≯
1. When villagers are hunting in forest areas, if the prey (mammals) they catch are pregnant, please release them immediately.
If the pregnant prey is dead, burn it on the spot and bury the ashes under a nearby tree.
Remember, a maximum of one burial is allowed per tree.
2. Livestock raised in the village must be strictly divided by gender, and breeding can only be done in winter every year.
If the animal becomes pregnant at an inappropriate season, or becomes pregnant without contact with the opposite sex, please use the same approach as Rule 1.
*Villagers also need to follow rule 2.
3. If animals with other biological characteristics (such as cows with rabbit ears or pigs with goat horns) are found in the forest or in one’s own breeding area, they must be killed, burned and buried immediately.
4. Each village has only one well, which is located in the center of the village. All drinking water in the village must come from this well. Drinking water from unknown sources is prohibited.
5. All fruits, mushrooms and other edible foods picked from the forest must be washed with well water before being eaten, and mushrooms need to be cooked.
It is strictly forbidden to pick fruit from trees where corpses are buried or burned, and the same applies to mushrooms growing around them.
6. Make sure there is light in your home before midnight, such as torches, fireplaces, kerosene lamps, etc. If you need to go out, you also need to bring lighting equipment.
If you hear strange noises when passing by a livestock pen in the early morning, please do not respond and walk away immediately.
If you see a creature without a light source greeting you, please immediately hide back in the room and lock the doors and windows.
7. If you find that a villager does not follow the above rules and behaves in a way that is obviously different from that of ordinary people, please expel him/her from the village immediately. If necessary, follow Rule 3.
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Looking at these rather strange rules reminded Yi Chen of the Yinston Cemetery.
"As long as we follow these rules in our daily lives, we can avoid infection to a large extent.
This is also the fundamental reason why many human towns and villages have been able to exist for more than 300 years since the world entered the "Era of Pathology".
The short-term deterioration of the situation in Shebolt Village is by no means the result of an accidental mistake on the part of the villagers.
It is likely that the intervention of the New Church has caused the villagers to no longer follow the rules, and even led them to actively violate the rules, which has caused the situation here to get completely out of control."
When walking in the woods,
Even before reaching the high wall of trees,
Yi Chen could still sense something unusual in the forest. He always felt like something was watching him in the eerie forest.
Moreover, as a 'vegetarian', he had no interest in the vegetation in the forest and could smell a physiological fishy odor from the bottom of the bark.
The closer they got to the center of the forest, the stronger the stench became, forcing Yi Chen to put on his homemade plant mask again.
After several kilometers of trekking through the forest, we finally arrived at the high wall that enclosed the center of the forest.
The shock brought by close observation is far greater than the previous view from the cliff, and it even produces a kind of instinctive awe of living things.
As if under a highly unified command, the thick and huge tree trunks were arranged in an orderly manner with a spacing of less than ten centimeters, forming walls with unpredictable thickness and a height of nearly 100 meters.
The overgrown branches and leaves at the top blocked out the already scarce sunlight, making it completely dark.
Based on the existing information,
These tree trunks cannot be burned. Once they feel the temperature of the flame, they will secrete a large amount of thick and sticky juice to cover and extinguish the flame.
If a tree trunk is physically damaged, it will regenerate quickly with the help of surrounding trunks.
therefore,
The first problem facing us is "crossing the tree wall"
Since it has been two weeks since the incident, the tree wall has been growing outwards, and its specific thickness has already exceeded 100 meters... It is very likely that you will be trapped in it while passing through the tree wall.
This is also the main reason why the gentlemen in the stronghold lost the courage to explore.
And there is a key point, as the information records.
The two people standing in front of the high wall of trees heard a very faint "baby crying".
When Yi Chen stretched out his hand and touched the surface of the tree wall, the sound was immediately amplified several times... It seemed that the baby's voice came from inside the tree trunk, and combined with the environment of the dark forest, it made people's backs chill.
Jin, who was standing by, also touched the surface of the tree trunk curiously.
"Oh? There really is a child crying. Is this the effect of the ash transformation? Let me blast a passage directly to the inside. What do you think?"
Between words,
Streams of red energy in the form of threads were transmitted into the tree trunk through Jin's fingers. Red lotus-shaped patterns formed on the surface of the trunk, and an explosion could occur at any time.
Bang!
Yi Chen gently stretched out his hand, placed it on the back of Jin's hand, and very gently stopped this behavior.
"Jin, there's no need to waste energy on this kind of thing, and we don't know the exact thickness of the tree wall. Such an explosion will consume your energy for no reason... Let me do it."
Yi Chen said it very tactfully, in fact what he was most concerned about was 'alerting the enemy'. Directly exploding to clear the way like Jin did would very likely draw out all the dangers inside.
Card~Open the lock of the suitcase,
He took out a pair of white gloves with green magic circles painted on them.
After putting it on, gently pull the corners of the glove with your index finger and thumb to make it fit perfectly on your wrist.
As the left and right palms were gently placed on the surface of adjacent tree trunks, the formation on the back of the gloves lit up with a bright green light.
With an intelligence attribute of 5 and spellcasting gloves made from "Gentleman's Leather", Yi Chen can directly intervene in such tree wall structures.
Plant Control
The thick tree trunks began to expand, and the distance between them was gradually widened until the gaps were large enough for a person to pass through.