In the gloomy forest, the sound of leaves rubbing against each other sounded like some terrifying creature shuttling through the treetops. Everyone held their breaths as they looked at the strange white figure in front of them. It was as though they were afraid that their "anger" would provoke her.
No one could understand why a woman would be scratching a tree with her back to them in a place like this.
But the more they couldn't understand, the more fear they felt.
Ren Xiaosu realized that Yang Xiaojin, who was next to him, was also so nervous for the first time. He could see her pursed her lips and the hand that was gripping the gun so tightly that it had turned pale.
Xu Xianchu's gray shadow was in front of him, as though he was guarding against the woman in white suddenly pouncing on him. However, the woman was still dozens of meters away from them.
"Let's take a detour?" Ren Xiaosu whispered, "Maybe she won't follow us."
But as soon as he said that, a strong gust of wind blew through the forest. The woman in white's body seemed to float into the air.
Xu Xianchu clenched his teeth and said, "We can't hide anymore. If this little brat can stop us, why bother going to the Jing Mountains!"
With that, Xu Xianchu controlled his gray shadow to walk toward the woman in white one after the other. Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin looked at each other. Neither of them had expected Xu Xianchu to be so brave in such a situation.
Some people usually boasted extravagantly, but when it came to serious matters, they would feel guilty, nervous, and timid. But some people were different. The more dangerous the situation was, the calmer they became. There was a ruthlessness in their bones!
"Keep up," Ren Xiaosu said.
A moment later, Ren Xiaosu and Yang Xiaojin tacitly followed behind Xu Xianchu. The three of them were in the same boat, so they couldn't just watch Xu Xianchu take the risk alone.
Liu Bu trembled and said, "What should we do? Should we follow them? "
"What if something like that appears next to us?" Luo Xinyu said in fear. Then she followed after them, with Wng Lei following closely behind.
When Liu Bu saw that he had been left behind, he became even more afraid. He whispered, "Wait for me!"
Ren Xiaosu said from behind Xu Xianchu, "Once you realize that you can't match her, use your Gray Shadow to trap her and buy us time to focus fire on her."
Xu Xianchu, Ren Xiaosu, and Yang Xiaojin were all armed with guns, so this was the strongest means of attack they had for the time being. If this woman in white was not afraid of bullets, then there was nothing they could do about it!
Xu Xianchu replied in a low voice, "Alright … I'll leave my back to you. Pay attention to your surroundings."
Ren Xiaosu was a little puzzled. Perhaps it was because the people in the stronghold had not experienced life in town that they were more likely to trust others than the refugees.
Even in town, someone had to keep watch at night even when they were sleeping. People who grew up in such an environment would never leave their backs to others.
Was this the difference between a town and a stronghold?
The three of them cautiously approached the woman in white. But the closer they got, the more they felt something was off.
Ren Xiaosu had been crouching as this position allowed him to exert his strength easily. But now, he slowly straightened up. "What the fuck is that?"
Xu Xianchu was also dumbfounded. He controlled his Gray Shadow to swagger over to the "woman in white" and "plucked" her from the tree.
It was a … tattered female plastic doll that looked like it could be inflated.
"Uh." Ren Xiaosu walked over to Xu Xianchu's side and looked at it for a long time. "What's that?"
"I don't know." Xu Xianchu shook his head. The three of them had never seen this thing before, so they all expressed that they did not know what it was. "But it looks very tattered."
Ren Xiaosu asked, "Isn't it something from the stronghold?"
"I've never seen it before in the stronghold," Xu Xianchu denied again.
Everyone fell into deep thought as they looked at the doll. They did not know whether to laugh or cry. This lousy thing had actually scared them! It wasn't until they got closer that they realized something was wrong!
"Wait a minute, there's still something under the tree." Ren Xiaosu inadvertently saw a metal box at the knotted roots of the tree.
Ren Xiaosu poked the rusty metal box with a dagger. However, the metal box had long since decayed beyond recognition. The moment the dagger touched it, it turned into a pile of scraps.
There were several pieces of reddish paper in the metal box. When the metal box broke, the pieces of paper also turned into powder. In the blink of an eye, there was only one object left in the metal box.
It was a piece of green plastic, or rather, two pieces of plastic wrapped around a piece of green paper. The green paper had mysterious, crooked, tadpole-like patterns drawn on it.
"This …" Xu Xianchu looked at the "piece of plastic" in Ren Xiaosu's hand and was stunned for a moment. "Could this be something left behind by human civilization before The Cataclysm? Or could it be both of them? Plastic takes hundreds of years to degrade, and that's when it's buried underground. That's why this can still be preserved even after everything else has decayed. "
"But what's with these strange patterns? Could it be hiding some kind of secret? "Yang Xiaojin also frowned and wondered.
"Look, doesn't this look like a map?" Liu Bu and the others, who had rushed over, said, "There are actually curved symbols in this square pattern. It looks like a maze!"
Xu Xianchu's and Ren Xiaosu's eyes lit up. "Could this be the map of that mysterious city in the Jing Mountains?!"
"Eh?" Luo Xinyu said, "Look, there are words on it."
Due to the decay, the piece of plastic had turned yellow. But after Luo Xinyu's reminder, everyone still noticed that there was a small line of words below the mysterious pattern.
Ren Xiaosu carefully identified it and read it aloud, "Please scan the QR code to pay?"
The group of people was confused. "What's a QR code? Who should I pay to?"
"What? Do we have to pay if we want to pass the maze?"
Due to the discontinuity of civilization, no one knew anything about the civilization from before The Cataclysm. Some of it was abandoned by humans because it was useless, while others were destroyed in the dark era of survival.
No one had ever seen these things in the stronghold or town, so their purpose became a mystery.
In any case, it was not a map of a maze.
Ren Xiaosu looked at Xu Xianchu. "Are you sure that's some kind of mysterious city? That the mystery of evolution lies there?"
"How else can we explain the changes in the Jing Mountains?" Xu Xianchu said.
"That's true …" Ren Xiaosu said, "There are always secrets hidden in the mountains, but I always feel that something like a city might not be that mysterious …."
"Let's go. We'll only know after we see it." Xu Xianchu carefully put the QR code into his breast pocket. It was as though he was afraid of damaging it.
"Do you still have this broken doll with you?" Liu Bu asked.
"Yes, just in case it's useful," Xu Xianchu said.
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