The water surface is more and more open, the rain does not stop, and there is misty water vapor steaming, turning into an ethereal mist, the rain is accompanied by fog, the fog is wrapped in rain, the whole world becomes hazy, and the clouds on the top of the cover the skylight, everything is gloomy, gray, the whole world is only left with the sound of the rain brushing, during the boat, so that people have a mysterious and depressing feeling.

As the speed of the boat increased, the shadows of the trees on both sides of the river bank faded rapidly until they were completely invisible, indicating that we had entered a very open body of water, at least as far as we could see now.

Although the field of vision was not wide, we could still feel the blur around us, and not long after the ship had accelerated, a shadow appeared in the rain and fog in front of us.

It was an extremely large shadow, at least twenty meters high, and even more so than that.

We all suspect that it may be a small hill, and from the outline of the shadows, it is not like that, but it looks like a giant tree.

To be on the safe side, we slowed down the boat and slowly approached the shadows, the Taoist priest and the doctor picked up the guys, and I also held the apocalypse in my hand, and everyone's eyes stared at the increasingly clear black shadow in front of us without blinking, and my heart almost jumped to my throat.

About twenty meters away from the shadow, the specific shape of the shadow had completely fallen into our eyes, although the fog was still hazy, but it was already certain that in front of us was really a giant tree more than twenty meters high.

We didn't stop, and after driving forward for a few more meters, we finally saw some details of the giant tree, and we couldn't help but be amazed.

It was a strange-looking tree, dark and black, with only branches and no leaves.

It is said that a tree more than 20 meters tall is not a giant tree, but the strange thing is that the diameter and width of the canopy of this pitch-black giant tree is more than three times the height of the tree, such a proportion is really a bit incongruous, and judging from the thickness of some of the branches of the canopy, this tree should be at least four or five times taller to be considered normal.

Strange as it was, under the fog and rain, what could be seen with the naked eye was very limited, and we had to continue to walk a little further before we found that the giant tree was growing on a small island in the middle of the lake.

We don't know much about the current situation, this open water area looks a bit like a lake, but the field of vision is limited, and I can't really see it, and I can't tell if this is the lock demon lake we are looking for.

The Taoist priest planned to go to the island to see the situation, but was stopped by me and the doctor, I persuaded him, saying that it was raining and foggy at the moment, and we didn't know what the situation was above, and if there was a situation, we didn't have time to deal with it, so it was better to look at the situation again, what if the rain stopped?

The Taoist priest listened to my words and nodded: "Well, okay, listen to you, Daoist has traveled from south to north, and has encountered more dangers, and he has never been cowardly, but in the face of this island, Daoist Ye is also a little worried in his heart, and he is always a little uneasy, so it is better to be cautious." ”

I see that even the Taoist priest is a little timid, and my heart is even more bottomless, in fact, I also have a special feeling about this island, I can't tell whether it is horror or fear, maybe both, but what makes me feel the strongest is an inexplicable familiarity.

This sense of familiarity is strange, it is not the familiarity of relatives and friends, nor the familiarity of frequent contact with things, but the illusion that makes people feel dreamlike and extremely unreal.

I can't really put it into more precise words, but I know for sure that there's something extraordinary about this island, and it's connected to me, and I can't go up until I know it.

With no objection, we decided not to approach the island and sail around the island to see if we could find anything.

Although the tree was large, the island was not very large, only about fifty meters in diameter, and it did not take much time to circle around, but I saw something strange on the branches of the giant trees on the island in the fog.

It was a lot of dark shadows, like fruit hanging from the branches of a tree, hazy, but if you take into account the distance between me and the branches of the island and the visual interference of the rain and fog, the actual size of those shadows is much larger than what I see now.

I have had similar experiences twice, once in the burial forest of the Li people in the village of Aji, and once at the foot of the Yeling Tiankeng.

These two experiences were not pleasant experiences, the hanging burial of the former and the wax corpse cocoon of the latter, both of which made people shudder. At this moment, the fruit-like shadows on the branches of the islands resemble the first time I saw the hanging corpses in the mist.

In order to confirm my conjecture, after the boat circled the island, I told Xiu Ling not to stop, lean in a bit, and continue to circle around the island.

After a few more turns, the hairs on my body stood upside down involuntarily, and although I still couldn't see the situation on the island, I was already sure that the fruit-like black shadows hanging from the branches of the trees were really people!

My heart was turbulent, cold sweat fell, Lin Qiaoer looked at my ugly face, sweating profusely, and asked me if I was sick.

The Taoist priest was the second person to find that the situation was wrong, and like me, he remembered the first two experiences vividly, but he didn't recall it for a while, and after seeing my face change drastically, and staring at the shadows on the island in a daze, he immediately thought of it, and his expression also changed.

The others didn't know why, so the Taoist priest told them about the situation, and now everyone was not calm, and they all leaned out of the cabin to look at the dark shadow I was pointing to.

Compared to the huge canopy, the number of dark shadows hanging from the branches is really a drop in the middle, and it is difficult to find clues in them unless you look closely.

The Taoist priest came to my side, looked solemn, and asked me in a low voice: "Hey, reporter, do you think there are also vamphimore vines here?" ”

I shook my head and said, "I don't know, you'll have to go up and verify it yourself, but I'm sure it will like you!" ”

The Taoist priest saw that I was still joking at this time, and scolded: "Damn, you are still in the mood to laugh with Lao Tzu, and you don't want to think about who will be hanging on there?" ”

His words reminded me, I was shocked, and my heart said yes, this place is definitely the deepest part of the 100,000 mountains, even the nearest toast is far away, and there can be no villages around, in this case, the corpse hanging on the tree, except for the Heavenly Witch Sect and the third uncle, who else can it be?

Suddenly, I only felt dizzy in my brain, the third uncle has been here for almost ten days, there is no news, now it seems that they are very likely to have suffered an accident near here, among the corpses hanging on the island, maybe one of them will be my third uncle, if the situation is worse, maybe my father will also be inside.

Thinking of this, I couldn't stay calm anymore, and regardless of the opinions of the others, I let Xiuling stop the boat and dock.

At this time, the rain has been much lighter, although it is still falling, but the impact is not great. Xiu Ling glanced at the doctor, as if asking for his opinion, the doctor sighed lightly, nodded at Xiu Ling, and then she controlled the boat to slowly dock in a somewhat concave trench on the island.

As soon as the boat landed, I couldn't wait to go to the island, but the doctor stopped me and said to everyone: "We can't all go to the island, otherwise we won't have time to evacuate in case of an accident. ”

Xiuling was a little dissatisfied with the doctor's arrangement, and wanted to follow her to the island, but was stopped by Sister Bailing, and it took us a lot of words to persuade her.

After arranging a stop, I was eager to go to the island first, and the doctor told me that it was better to let the Taoist priest come forward, his reaction was faster than mine, and his skills were better than mine, and he could stand up for a while in case of sudden danger, and if I was in front, they would have to come to save me, which would delay the precious escape time.

Although I was a little reluctant, I had to admit that what the doctor said was true, so the Taoist priest became a pathfinder, the doctor walked last, and I was caught in the middle and became the key object of protection.

No sooner had we jumped off the boat, and before we could take a closer look at our surroundings, the Taoist priest jumped up and almost knocked me down.

My chest hurt, and I couldn't help but scold: "Holy shit, what are you doing, can't you take the wrong medicine?" ”

The Taoist priest still looked shocked, and didn't even realize that I was scolding him, pointing to the ground not far ahead for us to see.

His reaction made my heart tighten, and I looked over, only to see that two or three meters away from the Taoist priest's feet, there was a bloody severed hand.

The severed hand seemed to have been gnawed by something, and there was no plastic surgery, and even Senran's white bones could be seen.

The ground of the island is all gray rocks, and it seems that the whole island is made of whole natural boulders stacked on top of each other, and there is not a trace of dirt in sight. Perhaps because of the rain, there was not a trace of blood or smell of blood on the rocky ground, but the severed hand had begun to decompose, emitting a not-so-strong rancid smell.

The old turtle didn't want to stay on the boat with the big black dog, so he lay on the top of the Taoist priest's head and followed, just now he was almost thrown out by the Taoist priest, and at this time, after seeing the things that frightened the Taoist priest, he couldn't help but scold: "Little Taoist, why are you so unproductive, just a cut off hand, can scare you like this?" ”

The Taoist priest was also a little embarrassed, coughed dryly, pretended that nothing had happened, covered his nose and walked to the severed hand, and kicked it with his foot, his face changed slightly: "Brothers, pay attention, there may be fierce beasts on the island, and the meat on this hand has almost been gnawed away!" ”

I stepped forward to see that it was, and there were even clear gnawing marks on the remnants of the severed hand.

This discovery made us more cautious, and our hearts also rose to our throats, and as we continued to move deeper, more stumps appeared in our field of vision, until the doctor picked up a torn blood-stained tunic that was torn, and the Taoist priest's faces suddenly turned ugly.

This is not the first time I have seen this kind of tunics, when the third uncle first found my rental house in Chengdu, he wore this kind of tunics, and later when he was in his hometown, most of the experts of the Special Incident Investigation Bureau that the third uncle found also wore this kind of tunics. Later, the third uncle told me that this is the work clothes of the members of the bureau, and they usually wear this when they work, of course, they can choose not to wear it, but many people who often walk around the bureau wear this clothes

This time, many of the people in the third uncle's team were wearing work clothes, and the bloodstains and tattering levels of the clothes we found at this moment told us that the owner of the clothes had been killed.

The people in the third uncle's team died on the island, which is undoubtedly bad news for us, if I still had luck in my heart before going to the island, then the appearance of this dress at this time has completely shattered that trace of luck.

In addition to the third uncle's people, we also saw some special corpse remains, such as arms covered with black hair, such as human hands with sharp claws, the Taoist priest said that those were caused by the use of forbidden witchcraft, forbidden witchcraft, that is, black witchcraft, these are only cultivated by the people of the Heavenly Witch Sect, indicating that the dead people on the island are not all the people of the third uncle.

Ten minutes after going to the island, we finally saw the first corpse hanging from a tree, not so much hanging as nailed to a branch, which was really miserable.

Judging from the appearance, this is a middle-aged man, his neck has been bitten off by something, countless black branches like steel bars have passed through his chest, hanging him on the branches, his abdomen has been completely dissected, his internal organs have been hollowed out, only a body remains, motionless in the mist, his eyes are facing us blankly, and his face still maintains a chilling expression of horror until death, believing that he must have experienced some kind of terrible encounter at the moment before he died.

The Taoist priest took a deep breath and said that he knew this person, I was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at him.

The Taoist priest told us that this person was the third uncle's person, everyone called him Lao Gou, this guy is a master of easy learning, just on the opposite side of the doctor, on the way to Toast, the two had a fight, so the Taoist priest remembered it very clearly

"This guy is a powerful character, no worse than Dao Ye, I didn't expect to die here, and he died so miserably, alas, I really don't know what killed him?"

The Taoist priest sighed, and there was some fear and worry in his expression.

The doctor looked up at the corpse for a long time, frowned and asked, "It's really strange, why does this person look like he has just been dead for two days, and even the corpse has not yet decomposed, while most of the corpses on the ground have been dead for a long time?" ”

The doctor is professional in this area, and when he said this, we also found something unusual, indeed, the corpses on the ground were basically gnawed, and they all decomposed to a certain extent, while the hanging corpse was only the internal organs were missing, and the rest of the body was still intact.