In Gu Jun's tumbling heart, the clues that he had grasped coldly linked together to form the truth.
Who knew how many generations ago, the Son of Steel, Freud Lenton, dissected the abnormal creature in the fallen Rikers and communicated with it. His hopes and beliefs were shaken, and something else might have happened that led to his suicide.
But when Lenton was on the verge of death, some underling of the Great Old Ones appeared, saying that the Great Old Ones wanted to recruit him as a demon …
Lenton chose to accept, and he became the Son of Misfortune.
Sometime after that, he returned to Rikers and created the Malformed Banyan Disease. Perhaps he did something else as well.
Did the name of the Son of Misfortune spread throughout the foreign civilization? Was this the reason for the gathering of the defectors?
They abandoned the Goddess of Life and converted to the Great Old Ones, the thing inside the banyan tree, and the demon inside the tree.
Then on Earth, the Afterlife Cult somehow obtained these few pieces of ancient paper, and that was probably the start of the Afterlife Cult.
They followed the content of the paper to perform the sacrifice and summoning. Finally, they used Gu Jun as the vessel to summon the Son of Misfortune, but they did not succeed. Over the years, they had been hiding. Due to the recent activity of abnormal energy, they had a new breakthrough. They allowed the Malformed Banyan Disease to descend on Earth, and that increased the power of the Son of Misfortune.
But the real goal of these defectors was to absorb the power to nourish themselves. For them to dare to do that, the Son of Misfortune had already fallen into eternal slumber.
Today, their plan almost succeeded. If not for the appearance of the light side of Lenton …
Gu Jun could connect the dots, but he could not see through the heavy shadows of the surrounding banyan trees.
There were many questions in this, many secrets that had been lost in the passage of time.
Lenton, what was your real goal? Did you join the darkness to seek the light? But did you not expect what you would become?
At that moment, Gu Jun noticed that Xue Ba was hurrying to summon Uncle Dan, so he called after him. "Captain Xue, I'm fine." Xue Ba stopped moving. Lin Mo was quite nervous. Gu Jun shook his head. "I'm really fine. I believe the content recorded on these four pieces of paper is the origin of the Malformed Banyan Disease. "
"That should be it." Lin Mo sighed. Behind his glasses, there was a conflicted look in his eyes. Science had been completely challenged.
"What about the fifth piece of paper?" Xue Ba asked with a frown. At that moment, he was more concerned about whether or not there was an exit.
Gu Jun immediately looked at the last piece of paper. There was no signature, and the handwriting was different from the previous one. It was an independent incantation …
"This appears to be a spell. I cannot recite it, or else you will really call me Uncle Dan. I think this is the spell to summon the Malformed Banyan Disease. "
Hearing this, Xue Ba and the other man immediately asked why.
"Phecda has not been able to figure out how the Malformed Banyan Disease broke out, right?"
As a G-level member, Gu Jun did not know all the information, but the Medical Department did have some information. "The villages in different places are suddenly infected, but the villages next to them are fine. They are not connected, so they do not have the usual route of transmission. But the infected villages all have ancient banyan trees. Look around. "
The eerie "banyan trees" in the surroundings all looked like giants with many limbs twisted together.
"This is the epicenter of the Malformed Banyan Disease." Gu Jun said darkly. The papers and his own intuition had given him the answer. "Using this spell, every banyan tree here can be projected to 'banyan trees' in different worlds, causing them to produce the Malformed Banyan Disease virus. That is how the epidemic in the villages around Eastern State came about. "
There was another dark thought in his mind. Did the Malformed Banyan Disease only appear in the foreign world and Earth?
Could it be that the other civilizations in other worlds were also invaded by the nightmare?
"Then, all these banyan trees carry the Malformed Banyan Disease virus?" Xue Ba's face was tense. This was not good news.
Lin Mo asked, "Are the people from Lai Sheng Company not afraid? Do they have immunity?"
"I don't know, but this is the source. I can feel the abnormality in them …" Gu Jun took a deep breath to calm the surging dark consciousness in his heart. "If we do not clear this place, another epidemic might suddenly appear in our world. Once this place is cleared, the Malformed Banyan Disease can be eradicated. "
As long as the infected banyan trees were burned and the infected banyan trees in the bereavement stage and human bodies were destroyed, there would be no new outbreak sites, and there would be no possibility of skin contact with the pathogen. Theoretically, the Malformed Banyan Disease could be eradicated.
Eradicate the Malformed Banyan Disease? Xue Ba's beard twitched involuntarily. This was a result that the Demon Hunters did not expect before they set off for this mission.
"The papers did not say how to leave this place, but I believe there should be a tunnel nearby." Gu Jun continued, still relying on an inexplicable sense of familiarity. "Last time, the Action Department failed to capture anyone, right? The people from Lai Sheng Company should have come here from another banyan tree tunnel."
"Er, wait a minute …" Lin Mo had a new question. "If we destroy these banyan trees, won't all the tunnels be destroyed as well?"
"Probably." Gu Jun nodded. "That kind of tunnel relies on the interaction between two banyan trees to warp time and space. I don't know the physics behind it."
"Then, if we destroy this place, how are we going to return?" Lin Mo was stumped.
"We can destroy it before we leave." Gu Jun already had an idea.
Xue Ba nodded silently, but he did not participate in this topic. "Ah Jun, you take a good rest first. I will bring some people to explore the surroundings."
"No, I have to go with you." Gu Jun stood up, his expression determined. "You will not be able to find me. Only I can sense where the exit is."
In this world, he was probably the only person who could do that without using spells. Because the Son of Misfortune's consciousness was inside him.
"Okay then." Xue Ba did not fully understand, but he knew that Gu Jun was not bluffing. He was just worried about his health.
Xue Ba walked over to announce this to the rest of the team. Uncle Dan was worried about Gu Jun, but he did not know how to stop him. Everyone was feeling faint from dehydration.
After the team made some basic preparations, Xue Ba, Gu Jun, and Yang Henan each put on a protective suit, grabbed two submachine guns and a sniper rifle, and headed in the direction that the leader had come from.
With everyone watching, the three stepped on the rotting black mud and walked into the eerie banyan forest.
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