Chapter 42: The Door
Zhang Heng moved his face a little closer to those ferns, but the strange smell nearby did not become stronger.
It seems that the smell was not released by the ferns, but the presence of these ferns did make the air more humid, and mixed with the smell made it more uncomfortable.
Zhang Heng scraped off a little with a knife, put it in the sealed bag, and then continued to walk down.
After about ten more steps, a door appeared in front of me.
If the ferns were just a little chilly, the thing on the door was ugly, something like a vine, but there were a lot of tiny sarcomas on each section, and something like an octopus sucker at the bottom, which was wrapped around each other and then firmly attached to the door panel.
And if you look closely, the branches seem to be slowly wriggling.
It was the first time Zhang Heng had seen such a mysterious scene.
He now feels like Alice in a rabbit hole, but the latter roams in wonderland, and he feels more like he has stepped into an abyss of infinite horror.
It's just that it's already so terrifying in front of the door, I really can't imagine what will be hidden behind the door.
At this time, ordinary people probably couldn't help but turn around, but Zhang Heng was only a little uncomfortable in his heart because of the strange smell, he was naturally calmer than ordinary people, coupled with the continuous flow of feelings in the copy, he almost couldn't feel the taste of fear now.
Zhang Heng just walked straight to the door, and his Tanuki Cat card detector could come in handy again.
Ignoring the cat's struggle and resistance, Zhang Heng grabbed the back of its neck and brought it close to the branches that could move, and sure enough, as the tanuki cat approached, the wriggling of those branches began to speed up, this feeling was like a hunter who found prey.
And the tanuki cat, with its biological instinct, also sensed the impending danger, and struggled more and more violently.
However, its neck was strangled by Zhang Heng, so that it could not escape at all.
Until the peristaltic speed of those branches reached a critical value, only to hear a muffled sound, the sarcomas on the branches exploded together, and countless tiny branches stretched out from it, like the tentacles of mosquitoes, quickly pierced into the body of the tanuki cat, and with the help of [filter lenses], Zhang Heng could even see the blood flowing down those tentacles into the vines.
The tanuki's body trembled, and there was a look of fear in her eyes.
Zhang Heng's palm had retracted the moment before the sarcoma burst open, but then those strange vines caught it, and when those mosquito-like branches pierced into the tanuki's body, the latter finally quieted down, as if resigned to his fate, and no longer struggled.
At the same time, Zhang Heng noticed that the vines at the doorknob seemed to be loosened a little, although it was not intentional, but strictly speaking, those things were sticking out of the door, and did not completely seal the door.
The position was just enough for him to go in sideways alone.
Although the tanuki cat had already taught him a lesson, Zhang Heng still decided to go in and have a look.
He had observed the predatory actions of those vines, and he didn't know if it was a common disease of plant life, it was not too fast in terms of speed, with Zhang Heng's skills, he could still dodge the sarcoma explosion at the moment before it exploded, and they would accelerate their peristalsis before predation, and they could also prepare in advance if they noticed this sign.
In addition, in the process of opening the door with a knife, Zhang Heng also confirmed one point, that is, these things did not seem to react to non-living matter, so Zhang Heng walked in after weighing it again and again.
Now that he's here, he's going to go in and walk around even if there's hell behind that door.
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Bai Qing had been nervously listening to the sound of the other end of the earhook.
Zhang Heng hadn't spoken for a long time since the last conversation ended, but Bai Qing could hear the miserable screams of the tanuki cat, which was like chalk rubbing against the blackboard, which made people panic.
Although she didn't see the ancient ferns or the ugly vines on the door, someone had said that the real fear came from the human imagination of the unknown.
Only the sound and no pictures make this eerie atmosphere even stronger.
Bai Qing couldn't help but want to ask Zhang Heng several times how the situation was and what he saw, but he was afraid that she would distract the latter and encounter any danger as soon as she opened her mouth.
So I had to keep it quiet until the other end of the earhook suddenly started to make a noise.
Bai Qing couldn't hold back any longer, and said, "How is it, what did you see?" ”
However, there was no answer from Zhang Heng in the ear hook.
The latter seemed to have disappeared, leaving only the louder and louder voice, which made Bai Qing's hands and feet cold.
Zhang Heng on the other side also noticed the problem with the communicator.
He had been in touch with Bai Qing, and he could still hear the regular breathing of Bai Qing on the other end, but now all that was left was the strange noise.
Zhang Heng estimated that it may be because of a problem with the magnetic field here, which interfered with the communication signal.
But since he had already entered, he couldn't go out right away, and the most important thing was that he had been attracted by the sight in front of him.
Zhang Heng finally knew where those vines came from.
In the center of the hall in front of him was a strange plant, it looked a little like a banyan tree, but it was a little lower than the banyan tree, but the foliage was more luxuriant, and the associated vines on the tree covered almost the entire room, making it look like a botanical garden of horrors.
No one knows how long this thing has to live, and it seems to be older than the ferns out there.
At the same time, Zhang Heng also noticed that this fossil-like plant actually breathed like an animal, something was beating in its cavity, making a thumping sound, like a heart, and in addition, there was ash-like substances spewing out from the canopy.
The strange smell that Zhang Heng had smelled outside before was those tiny ashes flying in the air, some of which had also landed on his shoulders and the tips of his hair.
But that's not the most terrifying.
Zhang Heng saw the cicada chrysalis hanging on the trunk for the first time, large and small, the small cicada chrysalis had black shadows passing through, from the shape of which it looked very much like the shadow in the fourth ventricle he had seen on the CT film before, and the things wrapped in the large cicada chrysalis were more like human form.
Zhang Heng also saw his face in one of the large cicada chrysalis.
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