Caw, caw, caw …
The low chirping of birds awakened his hazy consciousness. His eyes opened abruptly, and he saw a gray sky.
As he regained consciousness, a severe headache suddenly surged up, and the impact of the fragmented memories made them even more messy, like puzzle pieces scattered all over the ground.
"Ah …" Gu Jun let out a muffled cry. He raised his hand to press his aching forehead, but his whole body was also in pain, as if he had been scattered and pieced back together.
What happened … Where is this?
His squinted eyes gradually adapted to the light, and he saw that he was surrounded by a strange dream-like environment. On one side was a swamp, and on the other side was a forest. The swamp was rotten and silent, and the forest was dense and gloomy. He was lying in the middle of the dividing line.
His medical bag was still there, and so were the Carlop instruments and a handgun.
But there was no one else beside him.
But Cao Yicong, Li Liangbin, Wang Yong …
Gu Jun stood up with his shaky body, and the quadriceps in his legs tightened. He looked at the endless swamp, and then at the shadowy forest.
After a while, he could not organize the fragmented memories, and he could not even form a complete picture.
"Before, we …" Gu Jun knocked his forehead, trying his best to remember what had happened, but he was racking his brain. He felt worse than if he had a hangover. "I amputated Deputy Captain Cao and stitched up their wounds. Then … we went to the amniotic wall and tried to send a message to the outside … Then we started to explore and find the whereabouts of Captain Wang Ke and the others. First, we went to an old tree to carve some information. If someone came from the outside, they would be able to see it …"
But there was obviously some information missing in the middle.
They seemed to have discovered something at the time, and then decided on the direction to follow. They had even carved the information on the tree.
"What's going on?"
Gu Jun had a splitting headache, and he could not remember. It was as if the figure of a crow had appeared in the storm in his mind.
How much time had passed? The sky was still gray. He did not know if the night would never come here, or if the night came and went.
He opened the new system in his brain and checked. There were still 23 hours left before he could claim the "Unknown" reward for the anatomy mission. The last time he checked was when he was next to the amniotic wall. It had been a whole day since then.
What had happened the whole day?
This was not the first time … It was the second time since he came to the Black Goat Palace.
Gu Jun tried to recall what happened in the alley of Anfu Village at the beginning … It was still the same as before, with a large area missing. Ah Meng mutated rapidly while calling for his mother. Chen Xing rushed over on his bicycle, and the other negative choices in the alley also surrounded the basketball court …
The rest were missing and blurry.
A cold wind blew past, and the rustling of leaves could be heard in the forest beside him.
Gu Jun took a deep breath to calm himself down.
'I wonder if Dirty-minded Yu has received my message. 'He thought,' I should try again. '
He scanned his mind for any messages from Dirty-minded Yu. There were some but he could not tell them apart from the other fragments. They were a jumbled mess. With his current mental state, it was hard for him to make sense of these puzzle pieces.
His mental power was limited. No matter what he was going to do, he had to use it to the best of his ability.
"Dirty-minded Yu, Dirty-minded Yu." Gu Jun called silently in his mind. He sent out the voice message, "I'm at the edge of the swamp. There's a forest. I'm suffering from amnesia again. Vice Leader Cao and the rest have disappeared. Be careful …"
After sending the message, he gave a long sigh. The fatigue in his muscles intensified.
But suddenly, because he sensed something from the corner of his eyes, his muscles tensed up, and the sense of danger overshadowed his fatigue.
Rustle, rustle …
The shadows of the trees swayed. The soft rustling covered up the danger.
Gu Jun saw a shadow hanging from a tree not far away. The shadow was wearing a familiar outfit.
He held his breath and raised the pistol in his hand. Slowly, he approached the shadow.
The tree was less than 10 metres away from the edge of the forest. Some of its leaves reached the edge. It was not a tree from Earth, and Gu Jun did not know the name of its species. The trunk was short, but the branches that extended out were thick and large. They twisted but did not overlap. The leaves were dense but lifeless.
This was because its leaves were not green, nor were they withered yellow. Instead, they were brown with black spots as if they had been bitten by moths.
On one of the thick branches, a dead body in a Phecda uniform hung from the branch in a strange way.
The body's left arm was stuck to the branch. Even if he had used all his strength, he should have fallen off but he was still hanging from the branch.
The body's right hand was strangling his own neck. The vein-popping face was filled with pain and terror … It was as if the body had used his own right hand to strangle himself to death.
For a moment, Gu Jun thought he was looking at 'Fatty Ming' Tan Jinming. He had seen this before in his illusion.
But that was not it. The body was a tall and muscular man. He was an elite investigator from Eastern State's Phecda Investigation Department, Li Liangbin.
The right hand that gripped the pistol was so tight that it was shaking.
In his broken memory, the image of Li Liangbin trying his best to help Deputy Captain Cao fix the strange hand was still fresh in his mind.
In the image, there was another person holding the strange hand, Wang Yong …
Gu Jun's eyes turned to the other side. From his previous position, he could not see the other branch of the tree but from his current position, he could see clearly that the other body in Phecda uniform was hanging from the branch in the same strange way.
The hand that was strangling the neck was the same right hand. The muscles were bulging like rocks, giving off an unknown grip.
The face was also filled with pain and fear. There had been struggle and struggle but in the end, he was still strangled to death by the strange hand.
Gu Jun's breathing was hoarse and his eyes were slightly red.
Right now, the situation was uncertain and the situation was unclear … He forced himself to calm down, calm down, and look around again. Where was Vice Captain Cao? Was he here?
For now, he did not want to venture deeper into the forest and did not walk too close to the trees. He only carefully changed his position at the edge of the forest and used his eyes to search.
He did not see Cao Yicong's figure. He was not on this tree, nor was he among the surrounding trees.
'Is it because … Deputy Captain Cao has lost his right hand?
Then what about me? ' Gu Jun's right hand tightened. Was this Lenton's Hand?
Another gust of cold wind blew. The shadows of the trees danced but the two bodies on the tree did not move.
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