Zhao Jinfu and I looked around, and sure enough, I don't know when the ant colony around us disappeared silently, and the ground returned to calm, not at all as if the ant colony had come.

It is not strange to see more strange things in a short period of time, although they have disappeared, but we all know that these terrifying little creatures are under our feet, and the inner fear has not been reduced by half because of the disappearance of the ant colony. On the contrary, the invisible threat has made us a little more vigilant.

I took out the black piece of South American fruit fly tissue from Zheng Xiaocheng's other shoe, handed it to the second platoon leader, and told everyone to gather around Zhao Jinfu, me, and the second platoon leader, so as to resist the threat of ant colony. With that, I put the pendant in my pocket.

And without us noticing, Zheng Xiaocheng secretly glanced at my pocket.

Liu Chengtao hasn't woken up yet, and the medical staff checked it and said that he was knocked unconscious, and the problem is not big, and he should wake up by himself after a while. For this reason, I also glanced at Zheng Xiaocheng fiercely.

In addition, there were the corpses of several warriors lying not far away, their bodies were covered in pustules and red and swollen, and their deaths were extremely miserable.

Zhao Jinfu sent two soldiers to look at Zheng Xiaocheng, asked the soldiers, including Sun Ji and others, to rest for a while, and then pulled me aside and asked me, "What do you think we should do next?" ”

I didn't know what Zhao Jinfu thought, so I said to him: "It's so strange here, a giant tree full of insect eggs, countless giant ant eggs buried under its feet, and a colony of killer ants, I don't want to stay here for a moment." I suggest that we take people back immediately, hand over the murderer to the police, and then see if they send an expert or someone to deal with this anthill, this is not a problem that we can solve. ”

Zhao Jinfu listened to my words and did not answer, but I could tell from his expression that he was very dissatisfied. So I said, "I know that you have sacrificed so many soldiers this time, and I feel bad in your heart, but it will only be more dangerous for us to continue to stay here." You will definitely be punished if you go back, but it's better than everyone throwing your lives here, right? ”

"Don't you want to find the truth at all?" Zhao Jinfu suddenly raised his head and asked me.

I hesitated for a moment and replied, "Yes!" But I don't think it's as important as life to find the truth, so what if it does? We can't do anything, so I think it's safest to leave it to the experts in this area. ”

"Where's the expert?" Zhao Jinfu said to me in a slightly angry tone: "You are simply afraid of war!" It's the fear of death! It's an escape! ”

I was stunned when Zhao Jinfu suddenly scolded me!

Zhao Jinfu said emotionally: "We all know that things here are contrary to common sense, where are the experts in this area?" That's just an excuse for you. If we just leave, yes, the superiors will send someone else, but they don't know about the situation here, and there is a high risk that there will be another danger. Our group of well-trained soldiers still has so many casualties, let alone those experts and scholars? How can you think that you are pushing them into danger in disguise? ”

This was the first time that Zhao Jinfu had reprimanded me in public, and it was an unceremonious and undisguised reprimand, and although his voice was lowered, it still attracted many soldiers to look at us. I instantly blushed and was ashamed.

Zhao Jinfu's anger has not subsided, he continued to say excitedly: "When we arrive here, the secret and the answer are in front of us, and if we give up the investigation, it will be equivalent to giving up the duty of a soldier and the principle of being a man." This is no longer as simple as breaking the order and choosing to escape, this is another form of crime. You are smart and knowledgeable, and you can solve the mystery here, but you have to choose to be a deserter, how can I have a brother like you? ”

I was so scolded by him that I couldn't lift my head, and I wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into. Zhao Jinfu is right, I am indeed afraid in my heart, especially in the face of these unknown crises beyond the scope of my knowledge.

When Zhao Jinfu scolded me, I thought of the soldiers who sacrificed, Lao Qian, and the dead Liu Wenxia and Gao Dong, who were covered in blood, and I instantly felt ashamed of them, the duty of a soldier and the conscience of an ordinary person.

Seeing that I was ashamed and bowed my head silently, Zhao Jinfu stopped scolding and resumed his usual tone to me: "I know you are afraid, and I am also afraid." We are all human beings, not iron King Kong, and we all have the same fear as ordinary people when facing danger and death. But we are still soldiers, soldiers of the country, and in the face of any danger, we must be the first to stand on the ground, so we can't go, we have to find the truth, we have to find a solution to the problem. Rushing over and fighting death knowing the danger is the stupidest thing about a soldier, and it's also the greatest place, you know? ”

I nodded deeply, and Zhao Jinfu's words made me wake up suddenly. Oh, yes! The sharp weapon of the country needs to be shown in danger, how can it retreat and escape?

Seeing that my eyes gradually turned firm, Zhao Jinfu knew that I had figured it out, so he smiled and asked me again: "What do you think we should do next?" ”

Overcoming my fears, I began to analyze all the situations we encountered, and combined with the strange events that had occurred, I focused my eyes on the giant tree Cuckoo King.

I said to Zhao Jinfu: "I think the purpose of Zheng Xiaocheng's trip is basically this mutated big tree, the Cuckoo King, and these companions who were deceived by him are likely to be his victims as you guessed before." We don't know the purpose of the human blood he was smearing on the tree just now, but it's clear that the tree must be hiding a secret that we don't know. So I think the first thing we need to figure out is what he was doing with the human blood he just smeared on the tree. ”

My thoughts are also Zhao Jinfu's thoughts, since I can't ask anything from Zheng Xiaocheng's mouth, it's better for us to find the answer ourselves. In order to get more clues, Zhao Jinfu and I called Sun Ji aside to learn more about the situation from him, and by the way, asked him to tell us in detail about the beginning and end of his coming here.

Sun Ji said that he is a native of Anshan, Liaoning Province, and a native of Northeast China. The family has a small business, and the family is not bad. He is married, has an 8-year-old child, and is a small successful person with a bumper career and family.

In addition to work, his biggest hobby is travel and adventure. And his interest in adventure is much more than traveling, he prefers to go to places that are a bit of a survival challenge.

On the Internet, he found a community of adventurous people from all over the country, in many provinces and cities. What they talk about the most is where to find adventures with survival challenges.

Of course, there are plenty of adventures that are not official. From the point of view of the state, this kind of adventure travel is very discouraged, because there are not a few casualties and disappearances in spontaneously organized expedition teams every year, and many people are still listed as missing people, and no one is alive or dead.

As a law enforcement department, there is not so much manpower to find these missing people who are idle and looking for excitement. The most critical problem is that the places where they disappeared are areas that are difficult for ordinary people to enter, such as boundless primeval forests, deep mountains that are rarely inhabited for thousands of years, mysterious crypts, unknown seas, etc., as long as it is a mysterious area with challenges that is discovered, it can become a paradise for these adventurers, and it is simply repeatedly banned.

When people are comfortable, they want to do something special, and Sun Ji especially enjoys the thrill of adventure. He is not short of money, and has participated in many spontaneously organized expedition teams in the past few years, and is also a well-known figure in the online community.

This time, he found on the Internet that a Sichuan man named Zheng Xiaocheng had issued a solicitation order in the community, and the adventure was in the primeval forest of Gaoligong Mountain. According to Zheng Xiaocheng's introduction on the Internet, there is a primeval forest called "Black Heart" in the primeval forest of Gaoligong Mountain, which is a mysterious forbidden place with a long history, and it is said that there are historical secrets hidden tens of thousands of years ago, as for the content of the secret, no one knows, he hopes to organize a team of people to go on an expedition and find the secret.

However, Zheng Xiaocheng clearly pointed out in the solicitation order that there is a great danger in the primeval forest, not only because of the harsh natural environment, but also because of the possibility of facing ferocious beasts, so there will be a certain risk of going there, and those who want to go should be prepared not to return.

In fact, this kind of prompt is often seen in the community's previous call-up orders, where everyone says that the adventure area they introduce is full of danger and there is no return. But if you really go to it, you know that it is purely alarmist, and there must be danger, but it is by no means as big as they say. So Sun Ji didn't take this hint seriously at the time.

It had been almost two years since Sun Ji had gone on a tourist expedition, and he had long been a little unable to stay, but this time he heard that he was going to the primeval forest, which increased his interest even more, because he had not been to the real primeval forest yet.

So they hit it off, Sun Ji signed up online, and Liu Wenxia, Gao Dong and Liu Chengtao also signed up for the event. In Zheng Xiaocheng's request, the minimum number of people in the departure team was three, and the maximum number was five, and since the number of people met the requirements, Zheng Xiaocheng issued a meeting date, asking the team members to gather in Pianma Town in the Gaoligong Mountain Nature Reserve, and the meeting place was in a small hotel in the town.

Sun Ji prepared the expedition equipment as required, arrived as scheduled, and the five of them met smoothly. Later, Sun Ji learned that Zheng Xiaocheng had been here three days before their arrival.

After Zheng Xiaocheng got to know each other for a while, he also said that he had found a guide from the local area, and there was a long way for the guide to lead the way.

However, he should not have told the guide the truth, because Sun Ji heard Zheng Xiaocheng say to the guide and the people in the hotel that he was going to the well-known scenic spot Obeying the Command Lake, and did not mention a word about the "black heart".

This is understandable, after all, they are going to places that ordinary people will not go, and if they are honest with the guide, it is difficult to guarantee that the guide will not lead the way for them.

From the beginning to the end, Sun Ji thought that the other four companions were just like him, like excitement and adventure, and did not have any doubts about anyone. Because the events I have participated in in the past are also a group of people who don't know each other, if you are afraid of this, you will not come here.