The atmosphere suddenly became gloomy. It stands to reason that the sun shouldn't be so cold when it comes out. But the area was still eerie, and even the light was dimmed. There were more and more dead trees, as if they were suffering from some disease. At the same time, there are more and more colorful flowers. These flowers they have not seen and never have been. It's not so much a flower as some kind of fungus, or moss. They're so weird, they don't have fixed-shaped petals, they're just scattered around, like bubbly or something.

but the moss on the ground was black.

There was a strange smell in the air, and the two of them couldn't tell if it was the scent of flowers, or rotten wood, or something else. Some of it was damp, and it was slightly close to the smell of mud from the soil washed out by heavy rains. It smells good when you say it's good, and it doesn't smell good when you say it's not good. Because it seems to have a little bit of ...... Stinks, but not very noticeable. If you want to talk about incense, it can barely be counted. It's hard to describe, you'll have to smell it for yourself.

"The smell of jasmine is fragrant to a certain extent, and it is no different from feces." Liu Shenghan once said in small talk, "In other words, by diluting the smell of feces just right, you can refine the fragrance of jasmine." Want to give it a try? ”

At that time, their heads shook like three rattles.

There was a strange noise around, not noisy, but a strange noise. It made them feel as if they were back at the top of the Koji Country building, where they could hear the voices of people on the streets in the distance, but they didn't feel irritated.

I continued to walk with the drunken bee, as if I was closer to this invisible city.

"I'm ringing in my ears." Ao Yan poked his ear with his little thumb, "I always feel very noisy." ”

“…… Oh, so it looks like we're not tinnitus. ”

"Are you too?"

was whispering, and saw Liu Shenghan's back from a distance.

"Chills!" Aoyan shouted in a low voice. For some reason, in this somewhat inexplicably oppressive environment, she didn't dare to speak out loud.

Liu Shenghan didn't look back, but she heard Ao Yan call her. She bent her arms back and motioned for them to come over. So the two of them crept to her, and even stepping on a dead branch would be terrified for a moment. But the fright comes from the touch, not the sound, because the dense, uninterrupted noise is becoming more and more distinct.

Liu Shenghan stood by a bush about a man tall, or even taller. The shrubs are sparse and there are large gaps where you can see the situation on the opposite side. She just stood there, quietly observing the other side.

They stepped forward, and their eyes looked through the bushes to the place where Liu Shenghan was looking.

Pupils dilated suddenly.

The corpse, human, is more than one.

and clouds that were dark and oppressive.

Wrong...... It's not clouds, it's countless bees, the kind of bees that kill people. They come together in groups and are airtight. Here, that special atmosphere is so strong that anyone who looks at it just wants to retch.

"Yes, what?"

"It's all a hive."

The reason why the human corpses were identified in the first place was because all the pitch-black beehives were connected together, covering the outlines of human figures, and even the bones of human hands and feet were exposed. Of course, maybe these are monkeys or orangutans? Jun Aoyan was about to comfort himself in his heart, but immediately denied this idea - they would not lie down like humans. These pitch-black nests flowed with black slime, shiny and shiny.

Why is it so concentrated, they certainly have the answer in their hearts: it is artificial. Someone dumped corpses here.

"I'll take a look."

As he spoke, Bai Ya prepared to remove the bushes. The willow voice was cold

Ran grabbed him, and the strength was strong enough to make Bai Ya bare his teeth. If he doesn't look back, he thinks it's Jun Aoyan who pulls him.

"Don't go over."

"Didn't you say you wouldn't bite if you didn't attack them?"

"A hungry dog doesn't necessarily attack you...... But a group of people will. ”

"They're just bugs."

"But there are enough of them." Liu Shenghan pinched harder, and stared at him, making his heart furious.

“……”

"A ...... Special wisdom of the crowd. Think of those Nakshatras. ”

Bai Ya pondered for a long time, took a step back, and Liu Shenghan slowly let go of his hand.

"Then according to you, how can you walk over?" Bai Ya was not reconciled, "If you don't get close to the corpse and check the scene, you will never be able to find any clues." ”

"Don't rush over yet, lest you leave any traces. Think about it, why are so many corpses piled up here? ”

Jun Aoyan frowned, and finally looked back. She said to Liu Shenghan: "The degree of decay is not the same...... Although it is somewhat difficult to identify, you can tell when it was built by the color of the hive. ”

Liu Shenghan nodded approvingly: "Very smart." So they didn't die en masse. ”

"Could it have something to do with the Refinery?" Bai Ya paced in place, "Pull traitors or sick people who have lost their use value over and dispose of ......"

"It's not impossible."

As he spoke, Liu Shenghan took out a small silver hand stove from his arms. Her stove was a little deformed, and you can imagine how it had been squeezed and bumped.

"I'll give it a try."

The sun is gradually rising, but the temperature does not seem to change. Liu Shenghan took out some herbs from his body and picked some strange plants nearby. Bai Ya and Jun Aoyan just looked at her like this. If you need help, Sheng Han will definitely call them, if you don't shout, it means not to let them make trouble. Some of the plants they really don't know where they came from, everyone clearly passed by the same place, but the things she needed always suddenly appeared, and her eyes were really sharp.

Finally, she lit the small hand stove and threw it through the gap in the bushes.

The handstove stumbled twice and rolled for a while, its twisted shape not allowing it to run farther. A fine gray smoke spilled out of it, but it was not the same as the cigarette rod in Bai Ya's hand when she first saw her. There was a salty and sour smell that had knocked over soy sauce in the air. The swarm of bees suddenly became irritable, which was also different from the effect that Bai Ya had known. The bees began to fly around, seemingly eager to escape the strange aura.

"The burning of such herbs can create the taste of their natural enemies." Liu Shenghan said, "When the number becomes thin, let's go over and have a look." ”

"What are their natural predators?"

"Hmm...... A plant. ”

"Plants?" Aoyan wondered, "Shouldn't that be the smell of tempting them?" Like what...... Zombie stench? It doesn't smell like the same. ”

"Well, it's an active predatory plant, and the smell is used to repel its predators...... There's no end to it. Although the number of this plant has been greatly reduced, the fear of it is still engraved in the blood of bees. ”

Seeing the bushes "clouds and fog disperse", Liu Shenghan smiled slyly, brushed aside the branches and leaves, and stepped forward.

The number of remaining bees is still not small, at least it can make people see the way, and the disgust of breath dominates the emotions of each bee, and it will not attack them. Walking among the swarms of insects, they surveyed the corpses on the ground. They looked like burnt black charcoal

, scattered here in a crooked manner. Some were placed on rocks or leaning against trees, but they were all casual.

The skull, chest, and pelvis are their favorite places to build nests, and other parts of the nest are scattered around. Jun Aoyan saw it for the first time, and she only felt sick. The most terrifying thing is the skull, the beehive overflowing from the mouth, nose and two eyes, as if the contents of the head were carbonized and inflated. She didn't want to watch it anymore, even the bloody scene was more comfortable for her than it was now.

Liu Shenghan picked up a branch and slowly poked open a loose nest. It was probably abandoned, with no black honey and no bees. The other two stepped forward and saw that the dry gray-black hive was empty, with only two ribs remaining.

"They don't eat bones...... Liu Shenghan lowered his face, "someone picks bones." ”

"Picking in peace in a place like this – I'm afraid we guessed wrong. This is not the place to dump corpses...... Bai Ya's tone also became low, "It's a farm. ”

They were silent, walking through the soy sauce-like breath, looking. Bai Ya's guess may be right, because there is not even a little fragment of clothing here, and it was obviously stripped and thrown here. Can you do this deliberately, can it be unintentional?

"Liu Shenghan." In the silence, Bai Ya suddenly spoke, "Let me ask you, what is the function of this bee?" ”

"Eroded bones can be medicated; Honeycombs have wax components, they process corpse wax; Honey is not combustible, it can be used as a coating for buildings, but because the amount is small, it is mostly used to make ointment; And royal jelly ...... It is highly toxic. The list I have listed is only the tip of the iceberg, and the specifics can be said for a long time. ”

Bai Ya suddenly stopped.

“…… It must have something to do with the refinery. ”

"Indeed, if you extrapolate from this information, I ......"

"No, look here."

Liu Shenghan and Jun Aoyan walked over and looked in the direction he was pointing. A corpse hung from a tree, three limbs dangling, and half a leg fell to the ground. Look closely, one of the hands has six fingers.

"Oops, that's a ......"

Liu Shenghan didn't continue.

I'm afraid that Matsukawa's brothers have already met with misfortune. They all pursed their lips, unwilling to think about it.

"The most effective way to do this right now is to stay here and wait for them to dump the corpse next time." Bai Ya frowned, "Other than that, we have no other evidence......

"Reluctantly. I'd rather defend the ruins of war and be in the company of the corpses of the dead in battle......"

Liu Sheng sighed faintly: "I don't have a choice." ”

This "farm" is huge, and they have been gone for a long time. Gradually, the bees began to gather back again, afraid that the smell of the herb had almost evaporated. They quickly left the place and went around to the other side of the clearing. There are no deliberately placed barriers here, and all the intervals are natural.

After leaving, no one spoke anymore.

It's hard to imagine what kind of place it was, a place that ate human flesh and sucked human blood. Will those moth-eaten bones also become the contents of the balm? Maybe the balm itself also has a honeycomb component. They really hadn't seen the so-called Soul Incense itself, but they had defaulted to white in their hearts. Now, they're starting to think it might be black.

After a long time, Liu Shenghan suddenly talked about himself as if he wanted to relieve everyone's emotions.

"The six realms of impermanence are all dead people, you know?"

"Hmm."

"My death was much more beautiful than theirs."

“……”

The atmosphere has not eased.