By the time I opened my eyes again, it was already dawning, and the sound of birdsong could be heard in the woods.

I looked up at my watch, and it was already a quarter past six.

When I stepped out of the tent, I saw Zheng Xiongqi sitting with a tired face beside the extinguished embers, eating breakfast.

Seeing me get up, he shook his mobile phone in his hand and said, "Brother Feng, in my opinion, let's go back." There is no mobile phone signal here, and Lao Zhou is missing again. To tell the truth, even local natives like Lao Zhou have disappeared, and there must be a problem in this forest. Let's stay here, in case something happens, there will be no rescue. ”

Mu Qianxun also came back with half a bucket of water from the side of the stream not far away, and stood next to a big stone not far away, carefully combing his hair.

Hearing Zheng Xiongqi say this, she also cast an expectant look at me.

I know that if I keep going, the future is uncertain.

But I don't want to give up so easily.

In particular, the disappearance of Lao Zhou has further stimulated my fighting spirit.

I was determined to go to that place, or at least try to find it.

If we don't do anything and go straight back like this, I can't explain it to Sister-in-law Zhou.

Lao Zhou's bizarre disappearance always reminds me of that pillar of light.

I quietly walked to the side of the stream, picked up the cold water, and washed my face happily.

I stood up, turned and pointed in that direction, and said to both of them, "Since you all want to go back, I'll go there alone." Xiongqi, you should remember the way you came, it was only two or three hours away, and I am sure that you will be able to return without a hitch. You take Chihiro back to the village first. If we don't come back after three days, you go out to the mountains and call the police, and ask them to organize a rescue team and come to us. In three days, I will ...... anyway"

Before I could finish speaking, Mu Qianxun interrupted me and said urgently: "I didn't say I wanted to go back, Feng, I'll go wherever you go." ”

I cast an approving glance at her, and I saw Zheng Xiongqi say stupidly: "Brother Feng, since you don't plan to go back, of course I have to follow you." I'm just analyzing the current situation for you, and if you insist on going, then we will definitely advance and retreat together. ”

I strode forward, patted him on the shoulder, and said nothing.

His analysis is certainly the safest approach. But I knew that if I missed this opportunity, maybe I would never be here again.

After a few mouthfuls of dry food, I got up and began to pull out the camp.

Ten minutes later, everything was already packed.

We each saddled our gear and strode through the woods, heading in that mysterious direction.

The dead branches and leaves under our feet were trampled by us, and the further we went, the thicker the layer of fallen leaves.

Gradually, the dry branches and fallen leaves under our feet are unconsciously replaced by a thick layer of humus.

The feet walked on it, so soft and moderate that there was almost no sound to be heard.

Above the head, the trees that sheltered from the sky and the sun became denser and denser, and occasionally through the gaps in the branches and leaves, a light shone down, like a spotlight at the top of the stage.

As I walked, I held a short-handled multi-purpose battle axe in my hand, leaving traces of my march on the big tree on the edge of the warp.

Leaving these traces, first of all, I was afraid that Lao Zhou would come back suddenly and not find us, so he went back by himself.

In addition, it is also so that we can return smoothly.

When I was a student, I learned a lot about virgin forests.

Not to mention any ghosts hitting the wall, miasma and the like, just these trees with complex traces make people who come for the first time shy away.

There is no road here at all.

But we still carefully found some traces of man-made.

Some of the grass lying on the ground, some of the wild fruits and insects that had been trampled on were all silently displayed. Someone has been active here before.

It's just that I don't know if this person is Lao Zhou or someone else.

After all, I did see someone else last night.

We stumbled all the way and walked forward for another four or five hours, until everyone was exhausted and didn't find Lao Zhou.

Those clues that were originally thought to be valuable were also completely lost in the process of continuous advancement.

Zheng Xiongqi and I also tried to follow those clues, but in the end we all failed.

Tracing in the primeval forest is a very professional technical job.

Obviously, Zheng Dashao and I are far from getting the essence.

Although Lao Zhou's clues were lost again, fortunately, we still moved in the direction of that pillar of light under the guidance of the compass all the way.

After resting in the woods for a while, we set foot on the journey again.

After walking for about two hours in the afternoon, after crossing a stream, we gradually noticed that many things in the forest had changed their original appearance.

The fungi that grew on the rotten wood were the most obvious, and they were all much larger than the ones outside.

There are also wild fruits that grow on trees, some of which are larger than those that have been cultivated artificially.

I don't understand, what the hell is going on here.

Zheng Xiongqi saw the fruits of those trees, and shouted in surprise: "Brother Feng, let's go pick a few and taste them?"

Along the way, all we ate were compressed biscuits, and although there was a stream of water to drink, our throats were still dry and like smoke.

I looked in the direction of his finger and saw a low kiwi tree, and its slender branches were full of fruit.

It's a pity that it's still mid-June, and those fruits are still green, obviously raw.

I shook my head bitterly, Zheng Xiongqi quickly understood what I meant, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Brother Feng, the fruit here grows really big." These kiwi fruits, not yet ripe, have grown so big, they are twice as big as the best quality New Zealand kiwifruit, what kind of variety is this, why don't you see anyone selling it outside?"

Looking at the obviously weird cyan fruits, my heart was also full of doubts.

Stepping forward, I used the tomahawk in my hand to cut down a fruit with one axe, and split it in two in the middle.

In addition to the big one, that fruit is really no different from ordinary kiwifruit.

Mu Qianxun said anxiously: "This is impossible, how can there be such a big kiwifruit." The wind, if you look at those peaches, is also obviously stronger than the ones outside. I also saw that the ginkgo biloba that had fallen from the ground was also bigger than the largest ginkgo fruit I had ever seen. What the hell is going on?"

It was as if we had suddenly broken into an unknown world, and in this world, I even wondered for a moment if I had shrunk myself. So when I looked at everything outside, I felt a lot bigger than before.

If it's not that it shrinks by itself, then there is only one explanation, and this place is affected by some invisible force, so everything here grows bigger than outside.

What kind of power is this?

I looked at Mu Qianxun, she understood something, and her eyes flashed with horror.

Then we all shouted the same term: "nuclear radiation." ”