"Old Gu, it's so strange, there isn't a single bug around here." The batch of insects that Shen You tamed before had no news since she entered the hole, and she wanted to attract some more insects just now, but she tried several times to no avail.

"Not only were there no bugs, but there weren't any small animals." Gu Beimo walked around and found some problems.

It was already dark, and he walked past a pile of plants, and accidentally caught something on his toes.

"What the hell?" Gu Beimo shone it with a lamp and picked up a sign from the ground.

"Xu Shao's camp?"

He read out a few large letters on the front of the sign, and then turned it over to look at the side.

There is also text on the side, but it is covered with mud and smudges, and some of them are not realistic.

Gu Beimo wiped it with his hand and brought the camping lantern closer.

"If you happen to see these words, you're in luck. I am Xu Shao, the leader of the Courage Expedition. ”

"I don't know if you saw that cave nearby, but if you do, please don't go in, because it contains my teammates who were killed, and maybe my body."

"This cave is very dangerous, it is occupied by a terrible plant - cannibal climbing vines. This plant feeds on animals and insects, and they can release an aroma that acts as bait to attract prey. This aroma is not only a bait, but also hallucinates the prey, and the reacting nerves are paralyzed. ”

"Under the influence of this smell, the emotions in the heart will be gradually and infinitely amplified, and when the mind is occupied by emotions, it will lose control of various tissues in the body, so that it will soon become a walking corpse living in its own hallucination, and finally become food for cannibalism and climbing vines."

"By the time I figured these things out, my squad and I had already paid a huge price, and now I'm going to go into the hole and try to bring back the bodies of my teammates."

"Good luck to me."

The words on the sign ended here, and Gu Beimo only felt a cool breath on his back jumping above his head.

"Oops!" He threw the sign, and the man was already rushing towards the entrance to the cave.

"Old Gu?" Shen You saw that Gu Beimo was a little abnormal, and shouted at him with a shocked face.

"The two of them are in danger!" Gu Beimo didn't look back, the person had already rushed into the cave.

He pressed and held the call button on the walkie-talkie, and yelled inside: "Ding Xiu! Sorry for you! Please answer if you hear it. ”

Shen You also followed behind him, Gu Beimo turned around and drove her out, and then the figure disappeared into the hole.

Ding Xiu was immersed in the warm romance of being alone with Chen Jianing, and he faintly heard a voice calling to him.

Ding Xiu thought about it in his mind, this voice was very familiar to him, but he couldn't remember who it was for a while, and there were just some afterimages of memories in his mind.

Desert, car, middle-aged man and girl......

A large-caliber shotgun, a giant ant that shatters into a black mist in the air......

"Old Gu!" Ding Xiu's eyes opened, and the scene in front of him made him stunned.

Song Xijun in her arms seemed to be sleeping peacefully, but her body was almost covered with vines, and those green branches and crimson stems and veins seemed to be ready to poke into people's mouths and noses.

Ding Xiu ripped off the plants that crawled onto the girl's face, and helped her remove the vines from her body.

As soon as his hand was released for a moment, Song Xijun's body softened, and the person had already fallen to the side.

Ding Xiu held Song Xijun's body, and saw that she seemed to be unconscious, so he hurriedly hugged her, picked up the weapon and lamp that fell on the ground, and ran outside with his legs.

The legs and feet seemed to be a little weak, but fortunately, it didn't have much impact, Ding Xiu hugged Song Xijun and met Gu Beimo when he was about to come to the entrance of the cave.

"Ding Xiu, how is Xijun?"

"She seems to have passed out, and there's something strange in this hole."

"Let's go out and talk." Gu Beimo helped Ding Xiu take over the weapon and lamp, and escorted him out together.

The three of them finally escaped from the cave, and Ding Xiu put Song Xijun down and let her lie down in a hay-covered area.

"Xiaoyou, help get some water." Ding Xiu shouted at Shen You.

"Your face...... And your body......" Shen You looked at him with some surprise in his eyes.

Ding Xiu touched his face with his hand, and then realized that his body was also crawling with vines like Song Xijun just now.

He only cared about cleaning up Song Xijun, but he forgot about himself.

After Ding Xiu finished cleaning up the vines on his body, Gu Beimo found the previous brand and handed it to him.

"What is this?" Ding Xiu asked, reaching out to take the sign.

"You'll know if you look at it, it has something to do with that cave." Gu Beimo said and went to help Shen You take care of Song Xijun again.

"Cannibal climbing vines?!" Looking at the words on the sign, Ding Xiu exclaimed in his heart, like Gu Beimo, his back also had a chill to climb up.

"How's Xijun?" Ding Xiu put the sign aside and walked to Song Xijun's side.

Shen You dipped the water on the towel and slowly wiped her cheeks, and after a while, he saw her eyebrows tremble slightly.

"Sister Xijun!" Shen You shouted softly.

Song Xijun opened her eyes, her face was as tired as she had just recovered from a serious illness, but when she saw Ding Xiu, her face flew red again.

The experience of being in the cave was both real and illusory, so Song Xijun was a little afraid to look directly at Ding Xiu, but Ding Xiu's concerned gaze made her reluctant to turn her head.

"I'm fine, I just felt dizzy in the hole." Song Xijun said.

"Those plants in the cave are man-eating climbing vines, do you remember the aroma we smelled? Those are the baits that make us hallucinate and paralyze our reactive nerves. Ding Xiu told her about Xu Shao's stay on the sign, "We almost became food for those vines." ”

"Are those hallucinations?" Song Xijun's eyes showed a look of amazement.

"Except for the vines, everything else is an illusion." Ding Xiu nodded.

When he saw the words on the sign just now, he had already figured out that the hug and intimacy with Chen Jianing in the cave were all hallucinations in his mind.

"I see." Song Xijun felt a little lost in his heart, but these emotions were not shown on his face.

"We'll have to camp outside the cave at night." Gu Beimo said.

"Will the cannibal climbing vine climb out?" Shen You was a little worried.

"No, it won't." Ding Xiu took a bucket of gasoline from the rear compartment of the pickup truck and walked in the direction of the hole.

Moments later, a fire broke out in the cave.

Late at night, there was a sound of snoring in Gu Beimo's tent, and Shen You also fell asleep.

Song Xijun was lying in her sleeping bag tossing and turning, and after she was quiet, her head was full of scenes of kissing Ding Xiu in the hole.

"Is that true? Or is it an illusion? "The girl's head has been wrestling with this question.

"Is that true? Or is it an illusion? At the same time, Ding Xiu, who was sleeping in the tent next to him, was also thinking about the same question, but the object of his thinking was Chen Jianing, "Whether it's true or not, huh...... It feels so good to kiss Jia Ning. ”

Early the next morning, Ding Xiu woke up, he got out of the tent, and found that Song Xijun, who had insisted on getting up early every day to practice guns, was not outside.

"Where's Xijun?" He asked Gu Beimo.

Song Xijun actually woke up very early, but she only opened her eyes for a moment before falling asleep again.

The girl dreamed of Ding Xiu, so she didn't want to wake up.

Knowing that Song Xijun was still sleeping, Ding Xiu smiled, took his weapon and walked towards the entrance of the cave.

"What are you going to do?" Gu Beimo looked a little surprised when he saw him enter the cave.

"I'm going to pick up something and come back." Ding Xiu waved his hand and held the walkie-talkie in front of him, "Keep in touch, I'll be out in a while." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, his figure disappeared into the cave.

Gu Beimo shook his head helplessly, pressed the call button on the walkie-talkie and said, "I really convinced you." ”

Ding Xiu came back soon, and Gu Beimo saw that he had something more in his hand.

"What's this?"

"Yesterday, Xijun took off the pendant from a victim, she forgot it on the ground, and I picked it up." Ding Xiu said and pointed to the sign left by Xu Shao, "Didn't that Xu Shao say that he was going in to bring out the remains of his companions?" I think...... He may well have failed. ”

"The pendant is Xu Shao's?" Gu Beimo asked again.

"I don't know, it may or may not be." Ding Xiu thought for a while and found a reason: "I just think that this pendant should be a relic of someone in Xu Shao's expedition." I can't take their bones with me, so I take this thing with me, and when I travel through these mountains and rivers one day, I may be able to help them return to their hometowns. ”

"What a romantic guy." Gu Beimo smiled, and sighed again in his heart: "It's good to be young." ”

Ding Xiu put the pendant away, and the illusion of Chen Jianing that he had seen in the cave surfaced in his heart, when Chen Jianing was about to wear this pendant, and asked him sweetly if he was beautiful.

When it was time for the sun to rise, Song Xijun finally got out of the tent, and she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when she saw that her companions were busy outside, making preparations before departure.

"Sister Xijun, you finally woke up, the sun has reached your buttocks." Shen You joked with a grin.

"I didn't think I could sleep for so long." She said to everyone apologetically, and when she looked at Ding Xiu, her face was slightly red.

"It's okay, you have to sleep enough to have the energy to hurry." Gu Beimo was loading things into the carriage, and when he heard Song Xijun's voice, he turned his head and smiled.

"How are you feeling today?" Ding Xiu walked over and asked.

"Feelings?" Song Xijun didn't understand what he meant.

"The aroma released by those cannibal climbing vines can paralyze the nerves, and you fainted yesterday, I'm afraid there will be some sequelae for you." Ding Xiu voiced his worries.

"I'm fine, I'm feeling fine." Feeling Ding Xiu's concern for herself, Song Xijun smiled sweetly, she was obviously a few years older than Ding Xiu, but at this moment, she felt like a little girl in love.

"It's okay." Ding Xiu nodded and put his mind at ease.