Tonghu Town was not swallowed up by the forest overnight, and after communicating with the doctor, Fang Liang had a lot of information.

At first, many people didn't realize that this was a mutation caused by the power of the curse, or that the accelerated growth and expansion of the forest was too gentle, like a boiled frog in warm water, and the initial spread of the curse would not cause panic among normal people at all.

How can those who make a living by harvesting logs and selling timber are too late to be happy to see the forest flourishing?

Before the roots of the trees invaded the farmland, a large number of food and herbs grew in the forest, and many villagers enjoyed the blessings of nature, and made a small fortune as a result, and the town also built roads with the city, and the rich people also enjoyed the beautiful natural scenery here.

It was at about that time that the doctor heard about it, and he left the city and returned to the village, away from the gloom and noise of the city, and settled there with his wife and children, intending to use his medical skills to treat the common ailments of the countrymen.

Tonghu Village soon developed into Tonghu Town.

Not only villagers and doctors, but more and more people are noticing the strangeness of the forest.

Some members of unknown sects began to settle in the town, asking the villagers about the anomalies in the forest and promoting their beliefs to the villagers.

Some expatriates come here and talk to the mayor about contracts to buy land for development, or to buy local products and sell them for a high price.

Even the city's municipalities have taken note of this and have begun to build schools for the town, allocate resources, and develop tourism......

But soon, things started to go wrong.

The herbs on the outskirts of the forest were emptied, and the villagers had to explore deeper into the forest, and cases of missing people followed.

At first, the child was just lost, and the hunters found him in the forest, but the child said that he was at home and had not gone anywhere.

Since then, the child has become eccentric, he likes to stick branches to the top of his head, pose as antlers, and at the same time like to wear a bulbous mask woven from grass stalks, and always begins to talk to himself inexplicably, or to some open space, or to straighten his hands and feet in very strange poses.

Parents have asked teachers with some concern, but the teachers agree that this is a common phenomenon in the 3~7 years old stage, which is a good thing.

Because human cubs may feel lonely and dissatisfied in the stage of rapid intellectual development, they will make up a friend and attach anthropomorphic characteristics to flowers and trees, cats and dogs, a pebble or even a can of food.

Depending on the depth of the fictional situation, the child may talk to the fictional partner or even go around with him.

For example, a child will pet a sapling and tell it to grow up quickly.

For example, a child will wear a favorite badge, give it a human name, and role-play with it.

This is a common situation anywhere in the world, because humans are creatures in need of entertainment, and when children make up fantasy friends, parents will respect the changes of their children and occasionally ask their children about their friends.

But for players in subconscious cognition, this seemingly normal little thing is undoubtedly the beginning of horror......

Fang Liang wrote and drew all the way to the map of Tonghu Town, and when he came to the vicinity of the school, he and Lu Ming stopped.

The rural primary school is not large, and the educational facilities are very primitive, similar to the structure of the kindergarten.

A large house is divided into a blackboard classroom, a handicraft painting classroom, a teacher's office, a handyman's lounge, and a bathroom, and the courtyard part is equipped with slides, sand pits, running tracks, single and parallel bars, and children's woodcut board walls.

This era looks neither good nor bad, and it is easier to make people hopeful for the future.

As for personal cars, color TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, cameras, and other items, they are all considered luxuries.

Therefore, Fang Liang's gaze naturally noticed the snow-white footsteps on the glass window.

"What is this?" Fang Liang approached the window, gently picked open the broken glass with a wooden stick, and pulled out a photo from the crack.

The protagonist of the photo is most likely the strange boy that the doctor talked about on the road.

In the warm sunlight, he wore a coconut ball mask made of grass stems, revealing only a pair of oval mask eye holes, with antler-shaped branches glued to the top of his head, and his two arms were straight like clock hands, pointing at three o'clock and twelve o'clock respectively. One leg is standing upright, and the other foot is quietly attached to the popliteal fossa of the vertical leg (1) as if he were doing yoga.

The photograph was taken in the yard of the elementary school's playground, where the boy is standing under a large tree and posing for this gesture, and his classmates and companions are blurred in the photo, apparently hiding out of the clear focus of the camera lens, not wanting to get too close to the strange boy.

However, judging from the footage, the forest had not completely erupted at that time, and there was no lack of light during the day.

Lu Ming leaned over and laughed in a low voice: "Oh, what is this bear kid doing?" Is he practicing yoga or cosplaying? ”

Fang Liang flipped over the back of the photo and glanced at it, only to see a crooked childish handwriting in the corner that read: listen, get in touch.

The source of the photo is unknown, and it feels like someone photographed the boy and wrote a news story, and then gave the boy a copy as a souvenir.

“？” Fang Liang didn't squeak, he just tilted his head, he subconsciously wanted to imitate the boy's movements, which was indeed a bit ridiculous.

Lu Ming touched his arm, although it was not dark yet, but this ghost place was really a little dark, and those overly tall trees reduced the sunlight exposure by at least 50%: "If the boy is the first victim of the curse, maybe we can find something else in the school." ”

"Be careful." Fang Liang stuffed the photo into the backpack space and gently pushed open the door of the big house.

Syllable!

Fang Liang's stick swept into the trap, and the huge force generated by the closure in an instant almost snapped the entire stick.

Lu Ming grabbed Fang Liang's backpack in an instant, sensing that Fang Liang was not moving forward, and then he slowly let go.

The silent town of Copper Kettle suddenly heard the noise of animal traps, which seemed to cause some subtle commotion.

"It's okay, there's obviously something wrong with this place, and I'm not even defenseless about it."

"There may be others here, so while it's still dark, we'd better move a little faster."

Fang Liang dismantled the trap and put it in his backpack, and then took out a flashlight, although this was a doctor's item, and it was difficult to find a refill battery in Copper Kettle Town, but at this time, there was no effort to make a torch.

Gasoline, paraffin, diesel, matches, food, medicine, bandages, are just some of the things that no one else would overdose.

Although Fang Liang and the four of them strangely did not feel hungry and thirsty, the doctors needed food and resources to keep them alive.

The overall top-down structure map of the rural primary school in Tonghu Town is available at the entrance, Fang Liang dismantled the map and put it in his bag, and used the player panel to call it at any time to view, holding a flashlight and slowly moving forward.

The wooden floor in the hallway is full of yellow and green mildew marks, and walking in the hallway, you can clearly hear the disgusting sound of the sticky and wriggling of heavenly mushrooms in the room.

The doctor's statement obviously doesn't make sense, the Paradise Mushroom community is clearly wriggling weirdly, and this movement is too obvious.

However, when did the spore invasion start? Did it come out of nowhere, as the forest expanded, or did something strange happen later?

The teacher and the child were nowhere to be found, but there must have been a lot of things left untaken in the panic.

"Wait, did you just see a figure in the yard?"

Fang Liang stopped and turned to look out the window.