Chapter 43: Gone
The speed of the two was very fast, and they soon came to the gate of a courtyard, which was the courtyard where their whole team rested.
It was already completely dark, the moon was in the sky, and the streets were quiet, and the huge courtyard was like a beast dormant in the dark, waiting for people to come forward and devour him.
Su Xia put her hand on the knocker, she wanted to push but didn't dare to push, if you looked closely, you would find that her hand on the knocker was shaking.
In the end, as if he had made up his mind, Su Xia closed his eyes and gritted his teeth to push the door open.
The layout in the courtyard was the same as when Su Xia left, a large pot was set in the middle, and everyone had already drunk the porridge inside, only the firewood below emitted a faint red light.
The night breeze blew gently, and it was obviously a bit hot and dry, but Su Xia felt a cold to the bone.
Yard ...... It's so quiet.
Su Xia rushed into the house, and sure enough, where everyone had stayed, things were still there, but people were ...... It's gone.
"Dad?! Mother?! Little God?! ”
Su Xia didn't care that the sound would attract zombies, but she was anxiously searching, and her heart was afraid.
"Susha!"
Long Yiyan walked in, looked at the empty house and frowned, and then looked at Su Xia who looked like a headless fly, and couldn't help but persuade:
"Calm down first!"
"How do you calm me down?!" Su Xia calmed down, looked directly at Long Yiyan and said, "Captain Long, among the people who disappeared are not only my family, but also your teammates, aren't you worried about them?" ”
"Do you think I'm going to worry?"
Long Yiyan asked rhetorically, with the same depth in his eyes: "But I know that it's useless to be anxious, it's better to look for clues than to be anxious here!" ”
"Clues? Do you have any clues? Su Xia thought it was a little funny.
"At least not zombies!" Long Yiyan threw out such a sentence.
Su Xia quickly reacted: "What do you mean?" ”
Long Yiyan's eyes looked around, and he said in a deep voice: "There is no trace of a fight at the scene, and the placement of all things is no different from when it left. ”
"You mean they disappeared on their own?" Su Xia calmed down and carefully savored what Long Yiyan said.
"I don't rule it out." Long Yiyan walked out of the house, squatted on the ground and observed carefully: "I feel that this has a certain connection with Han Tian's disappearance. ”
Su Xia nodded, not denying Long Yiyan's opinion, and then asked curiously, "What are you looking at?" ”
"The soil doesn't seem to be the same."
"What?!"
The land in the courtyard has not undergone any decoration, and Su Xia squatted on the ground and observed carefully: "This soil is so soft, and it looks like it has just been turned over!" ”
"It doesn't seem to be artificial."
"It's not zombies, it's not artificial, then only mutated animals and plants remain!"
"This town is built on the mountain, and there may be something on the mountain!" Long Yiyan acquiesced to what Su Xia said.
"Then let's go up the mountain!" Su Xia was categorical, and his eyes were full of determination.
……
They quickly went up the hill to the spot where the tracker had just been found.
Long Yiyan squatted down and looked at it carefully: "That seems to be a trail of dragging." ”
Su Xia followed his gaze, and sure enough, not far away, there were some places where the grass seemed to be pressed.
"The traces are gone all the way here, as if they have disappeared out of thin air." Long Yiyan pointed to the ground under his feet and said, that is where the tracker fell.
Su Xia narrowed her eyes and carefully searched her surroundings. Suddenly, as if he had discovered something, he said, "Captain Long, don't you think this place is a bit desolate?" ”
Long Yiyan looked at the grass around him, and heard Su Xia say: "It's May, it's the season for everything to grow, but why is the grass here starting to turn yellow?" ”
Su Xia casually picked up a blade of grass, and yellow spots had already appeared on it.
"Susha." Staring at the leaf, Long Yiyan asked out loud.
"Huh?"
"If animals can mutate, so can plants?"
"Yes!" Su Xia replied without thinking: "Plants are no worse than animals after mutation, and some plants even have their own consciousness......
Su Xia stopped talking, and rushed to a place as if he had thought of something, pulled out his Tang knife and dug it.
That is the official place where Han Tian disappeared!
Long Yiyan also came over to help, I don't know how long it took to dig, it was half a meter deep, Su Xia suddenly said: "I dug it!" ”
Through the moonlight overhead and the glow of the flashlight, what Su Xia dug up was clearly visible: it was a black mass of tree roots.
"Looks like there's something in there!"
"Keep digging!" Long Yiyan said in a deep voice.
The two dug for a long time, and finally dug out all the "roots", which was about two meters long like a cocoon, surrounded by roots in three layers inside and three layers outside, and the roots seemed to be slowly tightening if you looked closely.
Long Yiyan directly cut off the branch with a knife, but the seemingly hard branch was not wood, but a green liquid like sap, and Su Xia was almost splashed.
The juice fell to the ground and suddenly made a "sizzle" sound.
"Be careful, this thing is poisonous!" Su Xia reminded.
Long Yiyan didn't say anything, but the movements of his subordinates were much lighter.
In the end, the roots of the tree were cleaned up, revealing Han Tian's pale face.
Su Xia put his hand on his neck: "There is still gas!" ”
Long Yiyan hurriedly lifted Han Tian up, but found that there was still a branch attached to his back!
"Su Xia, come and see!"
When Su Xia heard this, he looked at Han Tian's back and found that the branch was actually in Han Tian's body, as if it had been inserted into it raw, stretching out the skin around his back, and the muscles inside were all turned out, but the strange thing was that there was no trace of blood around.
"This branch seems to be absorbing Han Tian's blood!"
Long Yiyan took Su Xia's Tang knife and directly cut off the branch. Sure enough, bright red blood flowed from the fracture.
But the broken branch suddenly shrank back into the soil as if it were alive, and disappeared without a trace in a few moments.
"How is he?" Su Xia asked Long Yiyan about Su Tian's condition.
"It was supposed to be excessive blood loss, and no wounds were found except for the back injury"
"Looks like the people who disappeared in the yard should have done the same!" Su Xia said, "Shall we go back and dig them all out now?" ”
"Not necessarily."
"What's wrong?"
Long Yiyan glanced at Su Xia: "Have you forgotten, Han Tian was dragged here!" ”
“…… Are you saying that they could be dragged somewhere else? Su Xia pondered Long Yiyan's words carefully, and said loudly: "Then what should we do now?" ”
If Su Yu and the others were really dragged away, such a big mountain, where to find it!