"Shenmu?" Ning Ruohuang asked rhetorically, "What is it?" ”

"I have a picture here, Captain, you can take a look at it first. www.biquge.info The team member was excited, and he handed the tablet in his hand to Ning Ruohuang: "I have grown so big, I have never seen this kind of tree." ”

Ning Ruohuang took the tablet. As soon as she glanced at the photo, she suddenly frowned: "Are you sure this is a tree?" ”

The tree in the photo is about 5.5 meters tall and has a trunk diameter of 20 centimeters. It's just that its form is very weird, bare from top to bottom. Regardless of the size of the branches, there is not a single leaf, and the whole tree has a strange ivory white.

"White trees are rare. This color is very familiar, I think I've seen it somewhere? Ning Ruohuang returned the tablet to the team members: "Tell me, what are the magical things about it?" ”

The team member was so excited that he said incoherently: "It's not afraid of fire." The high temperature of more than 200 degrees Celsius has no effect on it at all. Also, it has no bark. The photo shows a wooden trunk, and not a single bark is visible. ”

"If the bark is falling off normally, it should still be in place." Ning Ruohuang asked, "Have you looked for the ground nearby?" ”

The team member nodded: "I searched around the area, but I didn't see half of the bark." But when we revisited the recording, we found the problem. ”

"Look, Captain, this is what we photographed from a distance a few hours ago. There were still a few gray-brown branches on the tree at that time. Because it takes a lot of time to walk through, this is a close-up shot of us arriving at the scene forty minutes later. You can see that the branches have turned white. ”

"There was no sign of human activity around, and there was guano everywhere under the trees." My teammates flipped through the photos one after another: "To verify my suspicions, I went back to the place where the first photo was taken and took a new comparison picture. Through comparison, it was proved that the original gray-brown branches had indeed turned white. ”

"There are no traces, only traces left by birds. So I speculate that the bark of this tree has been eaten by the birds. ”

"Eaten up?" Ning Ruohuang's eyes lit up: "Take me to see." ”

Jack brings back the oak tree of the Dark Sanctuary from Twilight Mountain, Fang Yu reports that Qi Hong dug up a strange sapling from the mountain, and Qi Hong cut down a longbow made from dead trees. A clue flew through Ning Ruohuang's mind: "I probably know what it is!" ”

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Tony is a China expert who has lived in China for at least five years.

He is fluent in Chinese and is a good professional English translator in his own right. During his five years in China, he has been working as an English teacher at Tianyin No. 2 Middle School, and he is very popular with students.

Tony wasn't just a respected teacher, he had a different identity - certainly not Iron Man, he wasn't called Stark. He is a field officer at the Lighthouse Alliance, the world's largest information and intelligence consulting center.

The Lighthouse Alliance is an organization that sells intelligence for a living, and it sells classified, important technical intelligence.

To put it simply, a cola company has always claimed that its recipes are top secret. But in the Lighthouse Alliance, this top-secret formula offer will not exceed 100,000 US dollars.

For another example, the F22 stealth paint formula can theoretically be obtained by the Lighthouse Alliance.

It's just that the price is more expensive, and there are unpredictable risks when buying. For example, if you just ask the Lighthouse Alliance for a price, maybe the FBI will come to you the next day. Because the FBI is also a big customer of the Lighthouse Alliance, every year they buy a list of dangerous customers from the Lighthouse Alliance.

Most of the people who ask about U.S. secrets in the Lighthouse Alliance are the objects of the FBI's attention.

Do you think this is against professional ethics? Should the Lighthouse Alliance protect customer data?

We're sorry, but customers who can't even protect themselves are not eligible for the Lighthouse Alliance's services. The Lighthouse Alliance is only for the strong.

Many large companies have a love-hate relationship with the Lighthouse Alliance: the results of their own billion-dollar research projects, as long as there is the slightest negligence in the confidentiality work, will immediately appear in the Lighthouse Alliance's information database. was accidentally bought by a competitor for tens of millions.

On the other hand, the Lighthouse Alliance is so easy to use. For a small amount of money, you can browse the R&D information of your competitors.

Despite the efforts of many companies to ban the Lighthouse Alliance, they are still tempted to do business with the Lighthouse Alliance. The development and growth of the Lighthouse Alliance has a lot to do with the connivance of these multinational companies.

As a field worker for the Lighthouse Alliance, Tony loves his job. Not only is it extremely challenging, but it also has a high income.

Today, he has chosen a new target: Chongyue Villa, the R&D base of Chongyue Group. He will be eyeing this place, because the Lighthouse Alliance has put up a high bounty for the acquisition of Chongyue Group's technical data.

It was getting dark, and Tony was still lying on a hill five hundred meters from the villa.

His night vision binoculars have already begun to work.

"The perimeter security of Chongyue Villa is extremely tight, and all-round monitoring constitutes the first line of protection. ID cards and fingerprint verification are required to enter the door, and retired military police officers with non-lethal weapons are responsible for guarding the second floor. ”

"It seems that the protection is leakless, but in fact, there is a big loophole." Tony smiled slightly: "Enemies from the sky, you can't deal with them. Perhaps the designers felt that playing airborne in an environment densely populated with high-voltage power lines was self-defeating. But it's not too hard for me. ”

At twelve o'clock in the evening, a black paraglider pierced the night sky and landed silently on the roof of the castle.

"Nice landing!" Tony cheers for himself in his heart.

He quickly put away his paraglider and took out his tools to pry open the door to the rooftop.

"The database is underground" Tony glanced at the tactical tablet in his hand: "There is no surveillance in the elevator shaft. Great, I can go straight down to the bottom. It's been a long time since I've played with an elevator shaft downhill. ”

"Can you play hide and seek with Yaoyao?" Just as Tony was about to rappel, a little girl's voice came from behind him.

Tony was already in a state of high spirits. Hearing the sudden sound, he was so frightened that his hand slipped.

"Ahh

Thankfully, the safety rope he had prepared worked. After falling more than ten meters, Tony stopped the downward trend.

Frightened, he found an elevator door directly in front of him, and Tony quickly found the emergency door opening switch and climbed out of the elevator shaft.

As soon as he stepped into the hallway, Tony, who was empty-handed, couldn't help but scold: "Damn it, my kit is still upstairs!" ”

"Your kit, Yaoyao has taken it down." In the dim corridor ahead, a girl's faint voice came: "If you want to get the kit back, you must first play peek-a-boo with Yaoyao." ”

How can it be! Tony looked up in horror and saw a little girl in a white T-shirt standing in front of him. On the girl's white T-shirt, there is also a portrait of Sadako with a shawl.

The little girl's face was pale and bloodless; The circles under his eyes are dark, as if he hasn't rested for many days. Her lips were bright red, as if she had just drunk blood.

In the girl's hand, she was also carrying Tony's kit.

"The kit weighs dozens of pounds," Tony was shocked, "from the top floor to here, there are at least five floors." How could a five-year-old child run from upstairs to downstairs in the blink of an eye carrying a bag of dozens of pounds? (To be continued.) )