The virus outbreak and mutation of the Nine Lotus Wood in S City were indeed committed by Lin Min, and the corpse monsters, tree monsters, and giant bats were not her handiwork, and the two were just a coincidental encounter.

But who are the ghouls, dryads, and giant bats that have been attacking us in an organized manner since we entered the city?

I asked Brother Li to continue his experience, and maybe we could learn useful information from it.

Brother Li drank all the water in the bottle, pursed his chapped lips, and said, "That tree is slowly growing, and more and more people are eating. ”

He was visibly agitated, and he breathed a sigh of relief before he continued: "Later, those dead people walked in by themselves, they were all dead people, but they could walk!" Also, there is that strange sound, as long as the strange sound sounds, the dead will move! ”

I guess the strange sound he said was the sound of the wake-up call, and I asked urgently, "And then?" Did there be any conflict or change in the base? ”

Brother Li has been frightened for so long, and he has been living in the ventilation duct, God bless him if he doesn't go crazy, and he can still remember such things.

When he heard me ask, he recalled for a moment, and then said, "Yes, the exact date is not clear, but one day onwards, all the people with guns disappeared. The men in the white coats were gone, leaving only a few weirdos, and in the end they were replaced by another group of people. ”

Thinking that he recalled something terrible, Brother Li shrank and said, "Those people." The eyes are bloody red, they eat people, eat the living! I was so scared that my legs went limp, for fear they would find out about me, but... Maybe it's because I've been soaked in corpses all day long, and I'm full of dead spirit, and those people didn't notice me. ”

The vents of the entire base would be filled with the rotting gases of corpses wafting into each room, and Brother Li's secret passages must also be filled with this stench.

The red-eyed ones should be Wu Nian's subordinates, his subordinates have very smart noses, and Sanjiu and I are hiding in the dark alley, and they can smell it just by passing by.

Brother Li can hide from these people's noses. It's amazing in itself. The most amazing thing is that he can still survive after being soaked in harmful gases all day long!

Seeing that he was emotionally unstable, the engineer comforted: "It's okay, big brother, now that those people have left S City, you can go home." ”

Brother Li stood up excitedly when he heard this. Can live in small spaces for a long time. His legs couldn't get used to this way of standing for a while. Before he could stand up straight, he fell to the ground again.

The engineer hurriedly helped him to sit first, but he couldn't sit still. When I heard that I could go home, I was anxious to leave as if my butt was on fire.

Sanjiu asked the engineer to rest with Brother Li for a while, and he and I continued to search, and the two of us crossed over to non-main rooms, like warehouses, kitchens, etc., and focused on the laboratory, office, and room with heavy locks.

In a luxurious office, the door of the safe hidden in the wall was wide open, and the contents appeared to have been transferred, but a piece of paper had fallen on the floor beneath it.

I picked up this A4 printer paper and put it between Sanjiu and me, so that we could both see the content on it, in fact, the content is very simple, it is a sketch.

There was a stone in a large tree, stuck a little higher than the root, and the end of the root of the tree was wrapped around a humanoid object.

"This is a sketch of the mutated Nine Lotus Wood, and this stone is likely to be Gu Yu." Sanjiu said after looking at it.

"You say... The withering of the Nine Lotus Tree will be related to the ancient jade? I said with my fingertips, dotting the stones on the map.

"If Gu Yu is the root of the Nine Lotus Wood mutation, then it is very likely." Sanjiu and I looked at each other, and our bodies and eyes froze at the same time, as if we wanted to go together.

If the Nine Lotus Tree withered because of the ancient jade, then the ancient jade is probably no longer in the tree now!

We all ran up in unison, in the direction of the Nine Lotus Wood, passing by the engineer and Brother Li, and we didn't have a chance to explain to them, only told them to stay and stay.

As expected, there was only a circular hole with a diameter of 20 centimeters left where the ancient jade should have been placed, and the inside was empty, and the ancient jade was long gone.

"Without Gu Yu Cynthia and the experts, and Captain Xu, they would be helpless." I muttered in my mouth, and suddenly raised my voice and said, "Brother Li! He might be able to save them, because he's immune to corpse incense! ”

"Let's go, let's go back." Sanjiu was thoughtful, didn't take my words, and turned around and ran directly in the direction of the corridor.

I knew something must have happened, or Sanjiu noticed that something was wrong, so I ran after him.

Sure enough, something happened in the corridor, the engineer and Brother Li were gone, and there were the engineer's backpack and weapon lying on the ground, even if there was a temporary accident, he would not drop the weapon, which showed that he did not leave voluntarily.

"We're missing one thing." Sanjiu picked up the Engineer's weapon, his voice chilling.

"What's the matter?" I asked.

"We always thought that it was Wu Nian who controlled the Nine Lotus Wood and Gu Yu, but when Wu Nian and his men left, the monster tide had not yet appeared on a large scale."

"You mean, Gu Yu was not taken by Wu Nian and his men, and there are other people who control the monster tide?!"

"Not bad."

Sanjiu's eyes narrowed, staring at the room where Brother Li was rescued, and after Brother Li climbed out, none of us thought about going in to check it out.

Now Sanjiu pushed the door open completely, and the white bones of Sen Sen inside came into view, to be exact, only the skull, and no other bones.

Most of the skulls are missing skulls, and I've seen too many man-eating monsters, and seeing this scene, I instinctively think of zombies that eat people's brains.

But after looking at the bones scattered on the ground, Sanjiu said to me, "He's making bone tools." ”

I wondered, "The kind used in primitive societies?" ”

Sanjiu denied: "No, it's a practitioner." ”

I've heard that there is a kind of ritual in Tibetan Tantra called Gabala, which is made from human skulls, but it requires the skulls of people who died naturally and are very highly cultivated.

None of the people who died in this base died of natural causes, and besides, they were all ordinary people, so using their skulls to make tools, is it useful?

Seeing my doubt, Sanjiu explained: "Tibetan Tantra uses human bones as a tool to teach the principle of impermanence and remind people of the impermanence of life and death. However, using the skull of a wronged person as a weapon is a kind of evil magic, and it is said that it can be made to command ghosts. ”

He closed the door and said, "This kind of evil art has been lost for a long time, and I still listen to Zhijiang." ”

As soon as I heard that it was an evil spell, I couldn't help but worry for the engineer, who had probably been kidnapped by the cultivator! (To be continued.) )