In the headquarters, Pete rummaged through Zhong Yi's frogman suit. He discovered that not only the underwater camera, but also the miniature galo counter and the searchlight attached to the mask were cracked.

"What are you looking for?" Shi Quan asked, he was already on pins and needles at this time.

Zhong Yi's P-11 underwater pistol, which has a total of five barrels, each preloaded with an arrow-shaped bullet fired by electrical energy, was turned out. Now, all five rounds have been emptied.

"What kind of fish needs Zhong Yi to shoot five times in a row?" Pete threw P-11 in front of Shi Quan and said, "Contact the command center, quick!" ”

The two tents of the cleaning team were separated from the headquarters by more than ten meters, and various engineering equipment were placed in the middle, and Zhong Cheng and the three of them had already returned to their tents.

Fifteen members of the firing squad were dispatched and silently advanced to the tent of the cleaning team from all directions. When the combat units reach a suitable distance, they come to a halt and hide in dense vegetation. Two members of the firing team broke away from the ranks and infiltrated another tent. A moment later, more than a dozen members of the cleaning team who did not get on the boat quietly evacuated under their escort.

"I'm Huaiming." The satellite phone was connected.

“Bravo！ The CEO personally answers the phone! Pete snatched the phone from Shi Quan's hand.

"Is it Pete?" Huai Ming asked

"It's me, it's me, it's rare to meet you in person!"

"The second echelon is on its way and is expected to arrive at Lake Bahrain tomorrow afternoon, is there any update on the call now?" Huai Ming asked.

Pete spat out lotus flowers and told Huaiming in detail about the investigation over the past few days, and mainly emphasized the rapid response of the firing squad, which worked tirelessly to stand by day and night.

After Pete's stand-up comedy, Shi Quan helplessly touched his head, and there was a long silence on the other end of Huaiming, and Pete once thought that there was a problem with the signal.

With a sigh, Huai Ming finally spoke: "Listening to your description, at the bottom of Lake Bahrain, it is very likely that there is an empty tomb, and the seeds of the sacred tree in it have long been taken away by others. ”

Shi Quan has already thought of this possibility, and the opening of the tomb this time is completely different from the scene when the chairman opened the "insight" knight's tomb 30 years ago.

He still vividly recalls that when the tomb of the "insightful" knight was opened, green light burst out of the tomb, and even illuminated the entire sky in a bright green. The whispers of the old gods were distant and esoteric, as if they had come from the clouds, as if they had seeped into the depths of their souls from the earth.

As recorded in the ancient book "Zhong Hong", there are 7 seeds of the Divine Tree, each of which has 7 kinds of unparalleled power. They are knightly weapons left by the Ancient God Tree to future humans to fight against the demons created by the ancient god Panyin himself. The posthumans who transplanted the seeds of the Divine Tree are collectively referred to as the "Knights of the Divine Tree".

Although the dome to Earth has collapsed, the demons have almost all disappeared along with the new god Aki in the ancient battles. However, this does not mean that this war of the Old Gods against humanity is over.

"After the fall of the gods, the gates of the old world will finally be opened, and the devil of heaven will reappear as the only king; This war provoked by the gods can only be ended by the gods, and the flesh and blood can only escape in panic. This ominous warning on the front page of "Medium Redundancy" predicts the inevitability of the reopening of the old world. After the fall of the new gods, post-humans must find 7 divine tree seeds, pick up their own destiny, and fight against the devil who has made a comeback.

Finding the 7 Sacred Tree Seeds has always been one of the most important tasks for the Treehouse Group. Treehouse invests huge sums of money throughout the year, sending task forces to every corner of the planet to find them. The seed he got 30 years ago was called "Insight", and the chairman chose the right person to transplant it as the new knight.

The "Discerning" knight has the ability to make predictions, and every once in a while, the treehouse will learn some information from the knight, some of which is the name of a place, and some of which is the name of a person. Because the knight had been asleep, and all the information was from his dreams, it was impossible to communicate with him. Treehouse had to send an action team to find out what these place names or people meant.

Half a month ago, the "insightful" knight said in his sleep "Australia, Lake Bahrain, Sacred Tree Seeds". The commander-in-chief, Fang Yeyou, ordered to mobilize an action group to carry out tasks around Australia and urgently go to Lake Bahrain. This was the exact location of another Divine Tree seed for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Coincidentally, soon after, through big data analysis, they found that there were also signs of suspected activities of the Divine Tree Knight in China. It was a girl named Anzeru, who possessed the ability to control souls, and all indications suggested that she was most likely a "spiritual" knight.

In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Fang Yeyou could only personally bring back An Zeru in a short period of time, so Huaiming took over the command center.

"Mr. Huai," Pete's expression became solemn, "about the fisherman, they ······"

"The 'library' is looking at the comparison, and there are two possibilities in the current analysis, the first is that Zhong Cheng may have been hypnotized, and even all of you may have been hypnotized." Huaiming said.

"It's very unlikely, Zhou Daiwen's younger brother Zhou Daiwu is in my squad, he has a strong resistance to hypnosis, and our tactical guidelines are that once he finds out that someone has hypnotized us, he will wake me up as soon as possible," Pete said categorically, "and I have already done a preliminary awakening to Shi Quan, and he has no obvious response to painful stimulation and fall imbalance." ”

"In the case of deep hypnosis, this kind of stimulation is almost ineffective." Huaiming said.

"What about the second one?" Quan asked.

"If it's the second case, the situation is serious."

··· ···

More than ten meters to the right of the headquarters, in the tent where Zhong Cheng was located, a lone LED lamp served as the only light source.

The lamp was turned on by the cleaning crew on standby on the shore when they brought the crew back. After they left, the crew seemed to have forgotten to turn on the rest of the lights, and the whole tent was extremely dim.

The curtain of the tent was lifted open by a hand, and Shi Quan first looked inside, and the cleaning team members who had returned from the ship were all sitting on their marching beds with their backs straight.

"Mr. Shi, why are you here?" Zhong Yi, who was sitting in the innermost, suddenly turned his head and looked at Shi Quan with a smile. Before Shi Quan came in, Zhong Yi was still like a "robot" that had not been turned on, with a expressionless face and a dull expression.

"Come and talk to your father," Shi Quan held out his hand, "you don't have to get up, you can rest when you need to rest." ”

"Okay, Mr. Shi, you are free." These lifeless "robots" seem to be activated at the same time in an instant, turning into living human beings. They lay down according to their habits, and talked without saying a word.

Shi Quan walked across from Zhong Cheng's marching bed and sat down on an aluminum equipment box. He picked up the only light on the box and shone it around.

"Zhong Cheng, we've known each other for more than 20 years, I remember that when Zhong Yi was born, we were in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, and we grabbed a manuscript of the Ahi people with the cult warlocks in Europe, and the people in the firing squad were all dead, and those of us who were engaged in logistics had to go up."

Shi Quan put down the lamp in his hand and continued to say to Zhong Cheng: "Later, it was still thanks to you that I led those warlocks to our fortifications, you blew up the load-bearing wall and buried them all, I dug all night, and my hands were so rotten that I almost saw bones, and I found you out of a steel structure." ”

Zhong Cheng kept his head down, and his body trembled violently. And when he heard Shi Quan talk about his son, he looked up at Shi Quan like a person who was about to wake up from his sleep, and his dull eyes changed slightly.

Noticing this change in Zhong Cheng, Shi Quan continued: "When I dug you out, no bone in your body was complete, I felt that you would die at any time, I shouted in your ear, your son is about to be born, you have to insist until you return to China to see him, if you die, then I will take over your wife and children, and my son will have to have my surname." ”

Zhong Cheng's bloodshot eyes gradually moistened.

"I didn't expect this story to be present when I was born." Zhong Yi reclined on his marching bed, holding the card that had just been handed to him by the bed.

"Shut up!" Shi Quan rebuked angrily.

"Okay, good, you adults talk," Zhong Yi threw out two cards, "one against two!" ”

Hehe, the black light is blind, can they see the cards? Shi Quan laughed.

"Hearing that I was going to take over your wife and children, you vomited a few mouthfuls of blood in a row, and then shouted back to me to bring you back to China, so I carried you on my back for more than ten kilometers to find the first camp," Shi Quan said with a wry smile, and there were tears rolling in his eyes, who would have thought that this bald old man would also be so emotional.

"You are on my back, I feel that your body is as soft as a bag of water, I dare not imagine what your internal organs have been ruined, I am afraid that you will fall asleep, so I keep talking about your son, you dog thing made a suggestion."

Hearing this, Zhong Cheng suddenly grinned, he wanted to laugh, but he couldn't make a sound.

"You said that if you could hear your son call you daddy, you would have the motivation to live, so let me keep calling you daddy;

"I called my dad all the way, and my voice was hoarse, and then the people in the first camp told me that when they saw me carrying you on my back, snot and tears streaming down my face, and shouting for my dad, it was like I was a miserable son who had just died of my father."

As he spoke, Shi Quan's tears slipped down silently, and he wiped them with the palm of his hand. At this time, he looked like a lonely old man who had experienced vicissitudes of life, recounting the old past in the grave pile at the head of the village, facing the tombstone of the deceased.

"Hahaha!"

Zhong Cheng suddenly burst out laughing, but he laughed so badly that he looked like a person who had just heard a joke, and was stabbed coldly, not knowing whether to laugh or shout.

"You are really fateful, you stayed in the ICU for a month, and after returning to China, you still survived, but you woke up a little late, your son Zhong Yi is still the name I gave, and I also taught him to call me Dad, you don't know these old things, hahaha!"

"Speaking of Zhong Yi, he is as stubborn as you, every mission is like a desperate Saburo, last month in Indonesia with Pete on a mission, he fell off while climbing, and had more than a dozen stitches on his shoulder, he should have rested for a while, but he heard that you are going to bring the 'key' to Bahrain Lake from China, because I haven't seen you for too long, he rushed over with Pete just after the end."

A Trojan 3 scanner is installed in the inner pocket of Shi Quan's suit, which automatically marks everyone in the tent, and their signs and movements are clearly displayed on the terminal. Outside the tent, the firing team members who were ambushed in the vegetation replaced the rubber bullets they had previously loaded with live ammunition, added Trojan scopes, and locked the crew members in the tent one by one.

"You've been attacked, haven't you?" Shi Quan let go of Zhong Cheng's shoulders and sat down on the equipment box again, "The library said that the one who attacked you should be a bioid worm, which will separate a part of itself the moment it comes into contact with the organism, enter the parasitic body, and then gradually eat away at the host, replicate itself with the help of the host's protein, and finally invade the brain, and after obtaining all the memories of the host, it completely replaces the host, which is a perfect 'spy'." ”

Hearing Shi Quan's words, the crew members stood up in unison, their eyes fixed on Shi Quan.

"I think the underwater inscription is a trap, the person who took the seeds of the sacred tree before us, left the mimetic worm in the lake, and when someone unlocked the trap inscription, the mimetic worm got the order to attack, it can imitate the form of the host, and even some old wounds can be imitated in place."

Shi Quan looked around at the walking corpses staring at him in the tent: "However, they are really a snake, and they actually repaired the new wounds, when Zhong Yi was changing clothes at the headquarters, Pete saw that his right shoulder was more tender than the girl's skin, and there should have been a wound that was removed not long ago." ”

“··· Traction··· Entwined with them... Hop on board..." The intense pain caused the blood vessels in Zhong Cheng's neck to rise to the greatest extent, and his whole face was red, and he tried his best to squeeze out an incoherent sentence.

"You mean, when you dragged Zhong Yi and Zhou Daiwen up, the mimetic worm was already wrapped around them, and then it jumped on the boat and parasitized you, right?"

Zhong Cheng nodded effortlessly, Shi Quan knew in his heart that this old comrade-in-arms was still fighting against the mimetic insects that were eating it, but his will was already as weak as a strand of hair pulling a car, and he might collapse in the next second.

"People who are parasitic by parasites have no chance of being treated," Shi Quan's voice was very lost, as if he was reading a farewell eulogy for an old friend, "Do you want to shoot?" Even with you. ”

"Kill them! Kill them! Kill them! The old father's face was hideous, and hot tears flowed freely.

When he was young, Zhong Cheng, who had nothing, fell in love with the daughter of a rich family. Because of pure love, the girl ignored her father's reprimand, and even broke with her father for a time and married herself.

After joining the Treehouse Group, Zhong Cheng fulfilled his promise and gave his wife a prosperous life. Even the Great Rift Valley failed to kill himself, and he saw his son alive and carefully cultivated him with his wife.

If it weren't for the fact that he usually has too high requirements for his son, maybe this time he would choose to return to China to recuperate from his injuries and see his mother, who he hasn't seen for a few years, instead of dying in a foreign country.

"Pete." Shi Quan's eyes drooped, unwilling to see the next scene.

"Roger," Pete shouted as he stood in the middle of the firing squad's formation, "firing squad!" ”

"Here!"

"Execution!"