Listening to Yuan Zhanpeng's memories, what Lin Hainan had seen gradually became real and clear, as if he could remember it vividly, and what Lin Hainan had been curious about before, about what happened after the expedition team entered the oasis, Yuan Zhanpeng finally said slowly.

After a good rest, the team was still excited and replenished the water source, but no one wanted to leave. But the investigation still had to continue, Lin Feng clapped his hands and motioned for everyone to listen to him: "Everyone should have worked very hard, I have found the oasis, it is really a desperate situation, and I am also very happy." Everyone applauded very strongly, and when the applause stopped, Lin Feng was a little embarrassed, he knew that everyone was reluctant to leave, compared to the desert outside the oasis, this place was like heaven. But Lin Feng still spoke: "Now that the water source has been replenished, we will investigate according to our original plan, and everyone will repair it for another hour, and after an hour, we will exit the oasis the same way." ”

It was only when they exited the oasis that the expedition team realized that there was a problem.

When they first returned, everyone was still happy, and even gave birth to the illusion of an outing. In this primeval forest, all kinds of ancient trees of various shapes come into view, which is dizzying. Some of the towering trees are pierced into the ground from mid-air and gradually thickened to become pillar roots supporting the canopy, forming a peculiar landscape of single trees, and some aerial roots are entwined around other trees, growing thicker and thicker, longer and wider, and finally connected to strangle the attached trees, forming a unique strangulation phenomenon - a professor pointed to it and jokingly called it "Miss Sugar Daddy". In addition, the "hanging garden" with more than 20 kinds of plants such as ferns, lichens, mosses, and orchids is also a unique landscape of primeval forests.

There are few bushes in the forest, and it is full of towering thousand-year-old trees. The branches of the trees are intertwined, and the flourishing branches and leaves that stretch out like green clouds cover the blue sky. A huge camphor tree protrusion came into view, its bark dark green, and its thick, strangely shaped branches coiled around the tree like a dragon. The breeze passed, and the branches and leaves rattled, like the sigh of a dragon.

It's a sea of trees, it's a paradise for birds. Here the branches are connected to the branches, and the leaves are stacked on top of each other. There are no roads and no people. But it's a paradise for animals. There is no smoke and no pollution. It is like the last pure land on earth.

But the more he walked, the worse Lin Feng's expression became, and Yuan Zhanpeng faintly noticed that something was wrong.

After entering the oasis, the expedition had walked for an hour to reach the river, but now that it had been fifty minutes, the deep forest in front of them was still dense and bottomless. With no edge in sight, no desert in sight, are they lost again?

Yuan Zhanpeng raised his hand to look at his watch, there were still ten minutes to an hour, he comforted himself, don't panic first. But in this inaccessible green forest, the traces left by the expedition team before are very obvious, and their so-called return to the original way is really to return the same way, but now, their original path is gone.

An hour later, they returned to the place where they had set out, but there was no yellow sand in front of them, only a deep green. The traces of the previous expedition team came to an abrupt end here, as if the expedition had appeared out of thin air.

Seeing the abruptly stopped footprints, Lin Feng's jaw tensed and he was in a bad mood, but he quickly adjusted his state and encouraged everyone to move forward a little more.

Obviously followed his own traces. Yuan Zhanpeng muttered in his heart, but he was also worried about this situation, and in the same way, no one in the team dared to point out that the woods, which were originally pleasing to the eye, had become a little terrifying.

After another hour of walking, the atmosphere in the team gradually became solemn. There were still dense woods in front of him with no visible depth, Lin Feng stopped, and the team repaired in place.

Lin Feng brought everyone together: "Everyone should have found out, we seem to be lost again." ”

He Ping, a professor of history at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, is a very upright person, and his speech is direct and spicy, which is called "poisonous tongue" in popular parlance. He Ping is very receptive to the reality of the situation, and he pointed out without hesitation: "I don't think it's like getting lost. We had been going around many times outside the desert before, like a ghost hitting a wall, and I thought we would go back to the place where the traces of the team had disappeared and take a look. ”

Lin Hairus, a professor at Tsinghua University's Department of Archaeology, has a different opinion: "I think this forest is really weird. Lin Feng and I also came to the Sahara a few years ago, how could an oasis in the desert be like this? lush, like a primeval forest, rather than an oasis in the desert where water is scarce. ”

Yuan Zhong also agreed with Lin Walrus's opinion, "This is not only wrong, this forest, but also the river just now, surging, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an underground river, is it the rainy season? The water flow is so large, and there are footprints that we have disappeared out of thin air, I think, this whole forest is strange." ”

Yuan Zhong is the oldest person in the entire archaeological team, although he is not gray-haired, but everyone calls him "Big Brother", and Yuan Zhong's speech always has a certain weight.

"Look at the map, where we are. ”

Rokasha sighed: "Friends, the sweet potatoes we are in now are not on the map. ”

"What do you mean?

A few people discussed it again, and everyone said their opinions, but they always came to a conclusion, and only after realizing that they found out the strangeness of the forest, everyone felt hairy in their hearts.

"So where do we go next?" He Ping was a realist through and through, "If there is a problem, solve it." It is He Ping's mantra, and it is in full swing every day.

Everyone looked at Lin Feng, Lin Feng put his hand to his ear and said, "Listen, the sound of water." ”

If you listen closely, you can indeed hear the sound of running water. Lin Feng said: "Since we have lost our way, the map and anything will not work, let's go along the river, and there will definitely be people along the river and downstream." ”

"Is this the Euphrates River?is it a tributary?" someone asked again, Lin Feng looked at Rokasha, Rokasha shook his head, and Lin Feng could only tell the truth: "I don't know." Maybe there is something really quirky about this place, and we have come to an unknown place. ”

The group had to follow the sound of the water, and two hours later, they came to the river. As if to prove something, the expedition team returned the same way as before. This time they did go back the way they came, and they returned to the makeshift rest point where the water supply was replenished, and a small piece of used smokeless carbon remained on the ground. And on the road, where their traces stopped abruptly, there was nothing abnormal, nothing changed, it was still the same.

The expedition team then poured out the water, and since they had to walk along the river, they didn't have to worry about the water, so they traveled lightly. Stop-and-go, the day passed, and it got dark.

In the darkness of the night, worries that had not existed during the day gradually emerged: were there wild animals in the forest? Were there poisonous insects? How could there not be an ecosystem of this magnitude in such a large forest? The expedition team saw the corpses of some small things on the road, and even a fat hare that had just rotted. But now, the whole forest is quiet.

The quieter it is, the more people can't help but wonder if there is a pair of peeping eyes lurking in some dark place.

The narrow old approach is winding and terrifying. The moon was obscured by the influx of black clouds, revealing only a faint halo of darkness from behind the thick clouds. The wind swayed high in the treetops, making a slow, slamming sound. It looks like a sea of desert-like trees moving overhead, setting off the quiet night. The meaning of early winter can be clearly felt in the wind, a little bit of it, suspended in the air, dew or ice chips, I can't tell, but when it touches the skin, it will stir up a little goosebumps.

The moonlight was bright in the distant sky, and from the sky without the slightest cloud cover, a river like a silver ribbon flowed through the trees in the middle of a quiet primeval forest. On the banks of the river, the team moved slowly.

"Rest in place!" Lin Feng gave an order, and behind him was the sound of luggage rushing to the ground.

The exhaustion of the journey is far less severe than the exhaustion of the unknown.

Lin Feng is well aware of this truth, but at present, he has nothing to do. "How long have we been gone?"

A very young recorder who accompanied us hurriedly replied: "We set out at noon, and now we have been resting for nine hours, and we have walked an average of seven kilometers per hour, and now we should have moved a distance of fifty kilometers." ”

"Hmm. Lin Feng's face was ugly, he had been walking for so long, but not only had he not left the forest, but he couldn't see if there was anyone else. Maybe they'll have to walk for days.

Lin Feng was prepared in his heart.

Together with everyone, the expedition team rested tonight and decided to walk as much as possible during the day.

However, it didn't take long for it to rain.

"Captain, the river seems to have risen a little!" The little recorder ran to Lin Feng's side: "The guide said that the water level of the river seems to be rising. ”

Lin Feng hurriedly got up and walked to the river, where Luo Kasha was squatting at the water's edge, one hand stirring in the water.

"What's wrong, Rokasha?"

Rokasha shook his head: "It's raining, I don't know if the rain will get heavier and heavier, how long it will rain, our resting place is too close to the river, let's move into the forest." ”

Lin Feng put his hand into the river like Rokasha, and a cold and piercing splash hit Lin Feng's arm, and the water flow was much more turbulent than Lin Feng thought.

Being so cold that Lin Feng hurriedly withdrew his hand, helped Luo Kasha to stand up, and turned around to beckon the team members to take advantage of the rain to enter the forest and re-station.

The rain never got heavier, and the drizzle was almost impossible to get under the shelter of the trees, but for some reason, Lin Feng felt faintly uneasy.