This time, the Mistbreaker did not bring the Zoogs with them. The Zoogs did not have the 'key', so they could not cross the boundary. If anything, they might mutate into monsters.
They had heard the news as well. No matter what, they would not take the risk. Furthermore, they could still contribute to the Eastern State even if they stayed outside. The suspects had not been found yet, and there might be other secret passages between the two worlds. They had to search for them …
But without the Zoogs, the dead swamp appeared even more hidden. The trees, the cawing of the crows, the cold wind, and the gray sky.
Lou Xiaoning, Deng Ximei, and Bell Grant carefully stepped on the rotten ground as they explored their surroundings.
They did not walk far. They were within fifty meters of Yu Chi. The amniotic wall was not far behind them and the unknown was before them. If this was the overlapped area, then they should still be in the alleyway but they did not see any sign of the alleyway.
Some of the puddles in the swamp were bubbling like they were swallowing something.
Deng Ximei looked at a wilted tree in one direction and said, "Let's go take a look at that tree."
There were some wilted trees on the swamp, they were all alone. Even though they were so rotten they did not look like they belonged to Earth.
Lou Xiaoning and Bell Grant had no idea what was so special about the tree but Deng Ximei's inspiration was important. They carried the rifle and walked carefully with her.
At the same time, Uncle Dan helped Yu Chi put on the chest strap and told the doctor, "No matter what you do, try not to use your chest."
"Okay." Yu Chi nodded anxiously. With Uncle Dan and Malachite's support, he stood up. He could still move but he could not carry any more weight.
"Captain Yu, how is it? Does it still hurt?" Feng Peiqian asked sadly.
"Pain …" Yu Chi was still in pain but he had other things to attend to. "I need to fix the fifth pillar as soon as possible and erect the sixth pillar … I've thought about it. My pillars are too similar, they're all based on my passion for archaeology. It's not comprehensive enough, I should erect something else, like you, Peiqian …"
"Ah." Feng Peiqian's eyes lit up. Her heart tightened and she could barely breathe.
"Ziyuan and the rest." Yu Chi added with a frown, "I need to use you guys as the foundation to build a pillar for Mysterium. That's right, it should be a good idea."
Feng Peiqian took a deep breath.
Both Kathlyn and Peacock shrugged. It was a good idea but it lacked the eloquence.
The withered tree had no leaves. It was about ten meters tall, and its thick trunk was coiled there. The bottom of the tree seemed to be deep in the mud, so even if the leaves had fallen, the branches were all withered, and even crows would not perch on them. However, the withered tree had not fallen yet.
Its bark was dark brown with large cracks on it. It looked like the face of an old man.
Deng Ximei walked all the way to the front of the tree. She smelled a different smell here. It was the smell of blood, the blood of humans on Earth.
"There seems to be blood here …" she said softly. Hallucinations flashed before her eyes. The blood did not come from her enemies, but from her companions.
"Here." Lou Xiaoning had already found it. With her outstanding tracking ability in the wild, she could tell that there was a slight difference in the hard soil under her feet. There was a little bit of dark red in the dark brown color. Bending down to get closer, the smell of blood entered her nose.
The presence of blood meant that there had been human activity here and there were casualties.
At that moment, Deng Ximei looked at the tree and something else dawned on her. Taking a few steps around, she saw some recognizable carvings on one of the tree trunks. But the carvings were being pulled and swallowed by the bark, some of them had been lost.
"This tree is not dead." She said instantly, understanding dawned on her. "A dead tree cannot exist here, everything here is alive."
Bell Grant looked up at the old tree. Indeed, even though it had no leaves, it seemed to exude a strange vitality.
"Are those words?" Lou Xiaoning saw them as well and her left eye widened. "Were they left behind by Gu Jun's group?"
The recognizable carvings on the tree said,
"With the membrane wall as the east, we head … north … Beware of … strange hands … in the mud …"
This was just a small part of the carvings on the tree, the rest had been damaged by the dark brown bark into indecipherable carvings.
Perhaps if they had arrived earlier, they would have been able to see more information. But now, they could only try to decipher the incomplete carvings.
There was a rule of thumb when adventuring in a place where dark forces wreaked havoc, and that was to try not to have direct physical contact with anything. Especially here, the power of the Black Forest Mountain Goat could obviously cause human body to mutate faster than nuclear radiation.
Therefore, the three of them did not recklessly touch the tree trunk. If Deng Ximei touched it, she might be able to trigger the illusion, but she still needed to be careful.
However, even without direct contact, she had a different feeling just by looking at the carvings.
"Carlop scalpel." Deng Ximei said casually, "I feel that those words were carved with a Carlop scalpel, and the one holding the scalpel should be Ah Jun."
"Then, if that's the case," Lou Xiaoning looked to the north, "they went that way? Why? "
The north side of the swamp did not look special, it was not even the exit of the alley. With the membrane wall as the east, the exit of the alley was in the south.
But why did Gu Jun choose to go north? Did he explore the south side and realize it was a dead end? Or was there another reason?
He should have carved it already … And what did he mean by 'be careful of the swamp, there are hands in the swamp'? Hands in the swamp? '
Deng Ximei looked around the swamp again, her eyes focused on the bubbles that rose from the puddles of water …
There was a soft sound of movement, the sound of bubbles bursting, the sound of things flipping … but these sounds did not come from the puddles.
Suddenly, the three heard Yu Chi's urgent call, "We have a situation here, we have a situation!" "Be careful of the cadaver troughs, something is wrong. There are bangs coming from inside, the lid is moving on its own …"
Yu Chi, Feng Peiqian, Uncle Dan, Peacock and Malachite all aimed their automatic rifles at the cadaver trough that was placed next to them.
This was the trough that Yu Chi had dragged over. Inside it was a relatively intact cadaver of a Necro-skin soaked in formalin.
But they could not tell what the thing inside it was.
Not only this particular cadaver trough, the other seven troughs around it were also giving off the sound of banging.
Bang, bang, bang. The banging became louder and sharper.
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