Where is this?

Thoughts for no apparent reason came to mind.

The cool breeze blows in your face, the warm sunlight shines on your body, and the faint fragrance of nature swirls between your noses.

When I opened my eyes, the sight in front of me filled my eyes with joy and amazement.

Is there such a place in the underlying community?

The pure white buildings are neatly arranged on both sides of the street, and although they are of different heights, the overall structure is exactly the same simple and simple.

It is a little less exquisite, but it adds a lot of ingenuity and elegance.

Emerald green creepers rise from the lawn next to the house and cling to the walls, covering almost all of the building, giving it the look of a lost ancient ruin.

Palm-sized round leaves swayed in the wind, casting shadows as they greeted the sun.

And he happened to walk into the mottled leaf shadows at this time.

The few rays of sunshine danced mischievously on the shoulders, and the bright yellow light made people feel warm from the bottom of their hearts just by looking at it.

In front of him was a wide street paved with marble, perhaps because it had been unattended for a long time, and there was a faint sense of sinking when he took two steps forward as if he were stepping on cotton.

A relic here, perhaps?

But where did the relics of the low-level community come from......

Where do the sunshine and breeze come from?

Dirty and messy images loom in memory, impressions of decades, and they are not so easy to forget.

However, in the next second, a strange discomfort began to come from all over his body at the same time as this kind of thought appeared in his mind, causing him to feel confused.

While subconsciously stopping to continue thinking, the sense of crisis coming from behind him diverted his attention.

Turning sideways, he felt a malicious gaze from the shadow of the corridor on the side of the street in the small three-story building behind him, and his gaze stayed for less than a few seconds before he could faintly see a corner of the dark red carrion spreading outward from the darkness.

There are terrifying monsters out there!

I've got to get out of here!

Urgent and panicked thoughts urged him to move forward involuntarily, but the terrified gaze behind him did not disappear.

In a panic, a large jungle appeared in front of him, and his gaze was almost immediately drawn to one of the huge ancient trees that emitted a pale cyan fluorescence.

You can protect yourself from the monsters that follow you!

The abrupt thought took root in his mind, and because he didn't know where to go, he subconsciously ran in the direction of the ancient tree according to this thought.

Not long after, when he entered the jungle, he was surprised to find that there were still many people here.

It's just that their faces are not panicked, they are all wearing pure white robes similar to themselves, as if they have come to this outing as if they are coming to this outing, in groups of three or five, talking and laughing slowly towards the ancient trees not far away.

Subconsciously joining the ranks of these people, stepping on the soft grass and passing through the dense trees, the ancient tree that attracted him finally showed its full appearance.

Filled with the vicissitudes of time, it takes a few people to hug the trunk that can barely be encircled by the turquoise and luxuriant canopy, and countless dark green slender vines hang from the canopy, swaying with the breeze blowing in the forest.

The inexplicable attraction made him and the others step forward, surrounding the ancient tree, holding his head high, and the gaze that had made him frightened before had completely disappeared at this time, because his attention had been completely focused on the canopy in front of him, and in a few moments, the vines beside him were gradually catching up on his body.

This is the contact with nature, not only does he not feel any discomfort, but even makes his body feel extremely peaceful and peaceful for a moment!

Maybe.

Is this the rumored paradise?

......

"If there is a hell in this world, that's it. ”

On the roof of a building near the steel mill, Zhu Jue stood in the safety zone cleared by the scavenger, looking at the scene in the steel mill dozens of meters away, and muttered in a low voice.

Inside the steel mill at this time.

In the black-purple amorphous colloidal layer and the eerie phosphorescent follicles, a craggy bone tree that seemed very familiar to Zhu Jue was standing in the middle!

It is not appropriate to describe it as horrific alone.

It is an indescribable image of withering and despair.

Rao is an existence like Zhu Jue, and he has to drink moonshine wine to ensure spiritual stability, if ordinary people are here, I am afraid they have already fallen into boundless madness......

The bare and grayish-white branches crisscrossed the dry and cracked trunk, and the knots that should have grown leaves were completely coiled by dark tentacles, as if the claws of the soul emerged from the depths of the abyss, trying to crush any existence associated with life.

The infected person Zhu Jue tracked was near the bone tree at this time, and after it was completely "fed", it was almost constantly moving closer to this place.

Not only that, Zhu Jue also saw a considerable number of infected people emerge from various places within three blocks and converge under the bone tree along the way.

Although he didn't want to tarnish the word, Zhu Jue still felt that the behavior of these infected people was quite a "pilgrimage".

The strangely shaped infected gathered under the bone tree, their heads held high, as if waiting for something from the bone tree.

Such a scene is like a gathering of cultists, especially the disgusting surroundings that only exacerbate this suspicion.

In fact...... Zhu Jue believes that even a slightly more normal cultist is unlikely to be able to accept prayer in such a situation.

Of course, many times cultists who can be related to this kind of thing have nothing to do with their brains.

It didn't take long for the tentacles to fall from between the branches to the bodies of the infected, just like the state of the infected that Zhu Jue had seen in the room before when they absorbed the follicles.

These tentacles either pierce the skulls of infected subjects, pierce their chests, or more directly enter their bodies through their mouths......

Zhu Jue held the camera in his hand, ready to record this picture completely, but he thought about it and didn't press the video button.

The reason is simple, such a scene is purely disgusting, and putting it in the video has no meaning except to make people feel uncomfortable, let alone a hassle for Suzi who handles the video.

Continuing to pay attention to the behavior of the bone tree, Zhu Jue was not in a hurry to step forward to stop it.

On the one hand, the current environment is obviously the opponent's home field, and before we understand what is happening here, we may not know what moths will appear in our heads.

On the other hand, from the beginning of Zhu Jue's tracking of the infected to the present, although he has come to the vicinity of the steel mill, he still has not found a single member of the Ouroboros organization, and there is no other life form other than the infected person in his perception.

Even if he let the scavenger devour a large amount of these black and purple colloids, he thought that some members of the Ouroboros Organization would notice it, so he could use this as bait to grab a "tongue" and ask, who would have thought that no one would show up after waiting for more than ten minutes......

At this time, the bone tree in the steel mill gave birth to a new change.

Suddenly, a dark red light flickered between the jagged branches, and the location was near the tentacles of the tree knot!

Because of the long distance and the obscuration of the fog, the line of sight is inevitably affected, and Zhu Jue can only adjust the focus of the camera as much as possible to continuously enlarge the picture.

When the zoom in to a certain extent, the fingers pause.

The brows frowned subconsciously.

"How can this kind of still bear fruit?"

Looking at the picture in the camera, Zhu Jue muttered to himself.

Those red lights are clearly dark red irregular fruits......

The terrifying bone trees in the mist, the act of stabbing into the bodies of infected people with their falling tentacles, now seem to have the meaning of absorbing the "nutrients" stored in their bodies, and then producing special fruits in this way.

Zhu Jue's mind suddenly came up with the bone tree case mentioned by Gu Yinxing and the echinoderm ball condensed in his body after he killed the Ouroboros organization cadre in the gladiatorial arena.

The so-called livestock in the mouth of the man last night seemed to be fully verified in this state.

Gu Yinxing once said that she only had the ability to rob other people's bodies of energy after eating the fruit of the gods, and the scene caused by those black mycelium entering the human body was quite similar to the scene in front of her, wasn't it?

It's just that the former is plundered from the body of an ordinary person, while this bone tree is plundered from the body of an infected person, and the bone tree has also become an independent existence, and the fruit produced is naturally completely different from what Gu Ginkgo made.

Maybe the Ouroboros are using this method to cultivate the same existence as the cadre in the gladiatorial arena or the guy last night?

There may be an obvious gap between their combat strength and Zhu Jue, but if it is really against the soldiers of the garrison, I am afraid it will be a one-sided massacre......

However, since there will be fruit, it is common sense to assume that there will be people who will come and collect the fruit.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Jue immediately readjusted the focus of the camera and waited for the appearance of the "fruit farmer".

Things are going just as Zhu Jue thought.

After the number of fruits between the branches of the bone tree reached two, several dark shadows gradually appeared in the dense fog at the entrance of the steel mill.

It's a pity that Zhu Jue guessed the beginning.

But I didn't guess the end.