Old William struggled to support his body, using his elbows and legs to stagger into the cave.
The sticky blood dripped onto the ground drop by drop. The ground bulged up a bit. Roots as thick as fingers drilled through the ground, sucked up all the blood like suction cups, and swam towards Old William with a fierce look in their eyes.
Jian Jing secretly cried out in dismay.
How could I forget that the giant tree feeds on animal blood? The previous explosion must have caused damage to it. When it encounters the bleeding old William, won't it bite him tightly like a shark smelling blood
Quickly take out your gun to intercept the roots.
"William!" he shouted, "Go!"
Old William turned his head, his eyes were red, and he suddenly burst out with great strength and pounced straight at him.
Jian Jing dodged and tried to grab his arm and drag him out.
It was so heavy that I could hardly pull it.
When he turned around again, Qi Tian, who had been lying in the corner just now, was gone.
I laughed when I was so angry. One of them is crazy and mad, and the other is a thief with a heart of evil. Even if I have three heads and six arms, I can't save them. In this case, don't blame me for cutting off the firewood.
No matter whether you are moving or being summoned, I will block your way first.
There is one last bomb.
Jian Jing placed it in the passage of the cave, intending to detonate it after leaving to prevent future troubles.
Now, let's explode in advance.
[System: Timed bomb has been set, countdown 5, 4, 3, 2, 1—]
"boom!"
The earth is shaking.
A large stone shook for a moment, then fell from the top of his head. Old William roared angrily, like an enraged bear, roaring and charging at him.
Jian Jing was waiting for him, so she turned around and ran away.
Old William ran after him, with huge rocks falling behind him with a crackling sound.
The ground shook and roared continuously. It seemed that the third bomb had completely destroyed the ancient cave, and it began to collapse uncontrollably.
Jian Jing walked and provoked, and successfully led old William into the crumbling cave.
The trees outside were affected, and their thick branches broke and fell, along with countless pieces of rubble, completely blocking the entrance to the cave.
Old William was hit on the shoulder by a huge tree and fell to the ground with a thump.
Jian Jing felt relieved.
But immediately, another key issue came to mind.
The cave is hidden deep in the forest, and only by following Qi Tian can one find the way out. Now his ability has disappeared. How can he leave in the endless woods
The system should have issued a wild hunting mission.
[System: After testing, the environment has not yet reached the mission standard]
Jian Jing: “…” Just a complaint.
He attached the locator to the back of old William's collar and left him alone for the time being, in case he woke up halfway and was attacked.
As for the route, is Pearl still there
He half-knelt on the ground and dug around, and luckily found that the pearl was not lost, but was stuck in the cracks of some stones.
Good luck.
Jian Jing walked back carefully while looking for the marked pearl. About half an hour later, she found the entrance to the farm's underground passage, which was hidden behind a bush.
Once you drill into the underground passage of the root structure, there is only one route left.
When the power was turned on, I didn't know if it was affected by the main body, but the roots in the tree completely lost their vitality and turned into dry and fragile branches, which were entangled around the wall and broke at the touch.
Hopefully, she would not collapse. Jian Jing prayed silently and quickened her pace.
Another fifteen minutes later, the road came to an end.
In the cage in the basement, old Frank was gone.
It must be Qi Tian. Jian Jing was afraid that he might attack her by surprise, so she immediately changed her perspective, but all she saw was the receding trees and the rugged path.
He drove away!
Just run away, and seal the entrance.
Jian Jing turned on the X-ray machine and confirmed that the upper part was not only plugged in, but also had a heavy object upside down. Even if she immediately increased her strength to 10, reaching the human limit, it would probably be difficult to push it open from the bottom.
This road is blocked, so I can only look for other ways out.
The black-tech glasses switched to thermal imagers.
A human figure appeared.
Not sure if it was old Frank or someone else, he approached cautiously.
The door was open, and faint "bleating" sounds could be heard.
He pushed open the movable panel, looked inside, and was shocked.
Jiang Baiyan hugged a little white lamb and skillfully combed its fur with his fingers.
"Why are you in the sheep pen?" He opened the door, closed the movable board, and looked around in disbelief. Yes, this was the sheep pen on Frank's farm.
"Jingjing!" Jiang Baiyan was surprised, "Are you okay?"
Jian Jing was covered in dust, and her exposed skin was slightly scratched, but not serious: "It's okay, how about you?"
He leaned forward and said, "I was slapped."
Jian Jing looked at it and saw that it was still a little swollen: "What's going on?"
Jiang Baiyan simply explained his experience and added: "Old William chased me like crazy. I didn't know where I ran to. I thought I was dead. I didn't expect him to chase me halfway and suddenly abandon me and rush into the woods. I wanted to go back, but I couldn't find the way."
As he spoke, he touched the lamb in his arms with a dazed look on his face. "Not long after, the white sheep appeared again, and took me along all the way, and circled back to the edge of the farm. But I didn't dare to go into the house for fear of being ambushed, so I had to hide in the house. Well, except for being a little smelly, it was quite warm."
Jian Jing frowned.
What kind of bizarre dungeon is this? Giant trees, strange owls, and guiding lambs in the forest, where do they come from
"It's just a white sheep?" He squatted down and poked the furry lamb.
"No, it's a little bigger, not this one. But," he lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "of all the sheep in the house, it's the only one that can bleat."
Jian Jing was skeptical and poked the yellow sheep next to her.
The gazelle lowered its head and chewed grass, ignoring all of them.
I had to put aside a few doubts for the time being and said, "Old William is still in the woods. We have to save him. Have you seen old Frank?"
Jiang Baiyan shook his head.
The two had no choice but to call the police first.
The town's police force was not good enough, and after waiting for more than an hour, two police officers came. Jian Jing did not say anything, only saying that he had gone into the forest to hunt, and encountered an accident, and the guide was injured.
With the help of the locator, he quickly found the unconscious old William.
He was immediately taken to the hospital and the police advised him to get a physical examination.
"You smell good," said an older policeman. "Did you eat some mushrooms?"
Jian Jing thought, what kind of mushrooms, do you think they are from Yunnan? But then he thought again and realized that it was not true.
"What's the smell?" he asked.
The police said: "I have a kind of fungus called giant mushroom in my house. It tastes good and smells very good, but it is easy to produce hallucinations of giant things. Have you really never eaten it?"
Jian Jing asked, "What does it look like?"
The police described it as: "It's very small, about the size of a finger, and grey-black in color."
Jiang Baiyan also remembered: "It can't be the one that Old William stuffed into the roast chicken at noon on the first day."
Jian Jing's skin twitched, and she said decisively: "Okay, I'll check it out too."
So they went to the hospital to clean the wound and do blood tests.
While waiting for the results, there was a commotion in the operating room. Jian Jing approached the isolation door curiously, and heard old William, who was supposed to be anesthetized, repeating a word loudly.
"sheep!"
"sheep!"
"sheep!"
At first, the doctors only wanted to control him and didn't care what he said. But after hearing what he said, the female doctor holding the knife suddenly screamed: "Teresa!!"
He rushed over viciously, hysterically: "It's you?! Did you kill my child?"
One was questioning, the other was crying, as if he was crazy.
Jian Jing felt pity in her heart.
It seems that, in addition to old Reed, the relatives of other victims have never forgotten.
"Jingjing." Jiang Baiyan asked softly, "Did he kill her?"
Jian Jing thought about it and said, "I think so."
"He said he didn't kill Kelly. He went into the woods after Kelly disappeared and met an owl." Jiang Baiyan was still confused. "What does owl mean?"
He shook his head, his mind a little confused.
At this point, the whole story is divided into two parts, one is the fantasy or science fiction side, and the other is the materialistic reality side.
The giant tree, the curse, the owl, the lamb, and the Indian legend belong to the former; the disappearance of Kelly, the murder of five teenagers, the disappearance of one of the lovers, and the arson of Qi Tian belong to the latter.
From Reed's investigation, William had a reliable alibi and no time to commit the crime. He may have lured Kelly into the forest, but did he kill her
As we all know, after Kelly disappeared, the people in the town conducted many searches. So many people failed to find her, but William found her quickly, killed her, and abandoned her body in the wilderness
Unless they have a particularly secret location, and Kelly was attacked that night and lost her ability to protect herself, this situation would be possible.
But what about motivation
William seemed to have no motive to kill Kelly.
This pattern of behavior is completely different from the method he later used to kill five teenagers.
In comparison, Jian Jing is more inclined to believe that William did not kill Kelly.
But five teenagers are.
Reed's diary mentioned that William, ten years later, had appeared at the crime scene.
Was he abnormal at that time? He said he met an owl. Did it mean that he had been in the white cave and was influenced by the giant tree, causing his personality to become violent
Why, then, had he warned him not to stay in the forest after dark
Was it a tactic of playing hard to get, or was it that he was usually unaware of his abnormality and only vaguely remembered that something terrible had appeared in the forest
"So annoying." He held his forehead, worrying about this annoying special mission.
Forget it, let’s take a look at Qi Tian first.
Close your eyes and peek at what Qi Tian sees.
forest.
He's still hiding in the woods.
Jian Jing thought for a moment, borrowed a phone from the nurse at the information desk, and called the police station: "Excuse me, I suddenly remembered that little Frank went into the woods and never came back. Maybe he also met with an accident..."
Two days later.
The 1992 case was solved.
The police found a knife in William's home, which was stained with the blood of several dead people. After verification, it was found to be consistent with his wounds. There were also a lot of William's fingerprints on the knife.
For some unknown reason, he never regained his consciousness and just kept repeating the words "sheep" and "owl".
But no matter what, the evidence is irrefutable and the mission is accomplished.
System decoding.
[Task Name: Frank's Farm (Completed)]
[Description: 30 years ago, five teenagers were brutally murdered. The suspect is someone else. What secrets are hidden under the farm? In the depths of the forest, who is calling for the devil to come?]
[Task rewards and penalties: Successfully find the real murderer and capture him alive, and you will be rewarded with 30 points of courage. If you cause damage to the giant tree and save the innocent soul, you will be rewarded with 20 points of special contribution.]
This is good news, but there is also bad news.
Once the special mission is over, the "Borrowed View" limited card can no longer be used.
Qi Tian still has not been found.