"Xiao Jing!"

"Shi Wei!"

Guan Yang was lost in the fog where he couldn't see his fingers, completely lost his bearings, accidentally hit a wall, or tripped and fell to the ground.

The thick fog seemed to haunt him endlessly, making him like a fly without a head.

"Xiao Jing! Shi Wei! He called out to his companions, not knowing where he was, let alone where they were, or if anyone would come to his rescue.

In a panic, a black shadow appeared in front of him, so frightened that he took a few steps back, accidentally tripped and fell to the ground, and hurriedly moved to the wall, listening to what Xiao Jing said, leaning against the wall to prevent it from attacking from behind.

But the shadow had only taken a few steps forward before it stopped in front of him.

"You...... What are you? Guan Yang's voice was trembling, and his eyes were staring at it desperately, for fear that it would take a step forward, but what if it really moved forward? Guan Yang didn't know how to deal with it at all.

"Please......" his legs began to tremble, "Please...... Leave me alone......"

His prayers didn't seem to work, the black shadow gradually grew larger, approaching him, Guan Yang clenched his fists in horror, it's a big deal! The shadow seemed to reach out to him, and a large hand grabbed his clothes—

"Ahh Guan Yang was so frightened that he closed his eyes, and pushed hard with both hands to push the black shadow away, and with an impact, the black shadow was pushed away, and he also hit the wall heavily, hitting him with pain in the back.

He opened his eyes and was sure that the dark shadow was gone, that he had been pushed away?

He had just breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly he felt an itch on his back, as if something was scratching his back. He slowly turned his head, and a wet leaf touched his face, making him shiver with cold. Immediately after, leaf after leaf struck his limbs, wrapping around his feet and hands......

"Ahh He hurriedly stamped his feet and struggled, trying to free these things, but instead they caused them to wrap their limbs tighter, and the more they struggled, the tighter they became—"Ah! What the heck! What! ”

Guan Yang kept shouting, but no one in the silence responded to him except his own voice. The thing that was wrapped around him kept growing, wrapping around him, step by step, covering him...... He could clearly feel a slender branch softly sinking deep into his ear, slowly extending into his brain, and the feeling was not pain, but complete paralysis! Instantly paralyzed all his nerves!

Countless branches entered his body wantonly, from his mouth to his throat, and directly to his body, as if they were entangled in his heart and tightly wrapped around ......

But his consciousness was so clear, he felt them constantly entering his body, feeling them constantly devouring him, but he could no longer scream, he could not breathe, and there was still a thick fog in front of him, and their greedy voices......

When his eyes could no longer hold on, in front of his blurred eyes, the black shadow appeared in front of him again, it did not approach, it did not move, as if it was just in another world, silently watching his demise......

……

As soon as Luo Xin stepped into the entrance of the village, he felt the oppression from the big tree in front of the village.

These big trees have hung down countless aerial roots, but the big trees still grow tall and stout. In his opinion, these are abnormal, generally strangled banyan will devour the nutrients of parasitic plants to strengthen themselves, but they form a symbiosis and live together next to each other.

Walking into the shattered village, the eyes are full of desolation, except for the vegetation that grows denser. The walls were covered with creepers, rustling in the breeze.

"Mr. Luo." DL-03 suddenly stopped behind him and called out to him, "Mr. Luo, my positioning system has received some interference, in order to ensure the safety of your movement, I must restart and report the diagnosis to the company." ”

Luo Xin was stunned for a moment, but immediately stopped it; "No, no, no!"

"Are you sure you don't need to?" DL-03 looked at him, "If the positioning is not accurate, I may not be able to give you a clear route to bring you back to the starting point safely." ”

"Wait." Luo Xin interrupted it, "Have you been locating?" ”

"Yes, Mr. Luo." It replied, "I will record every place you walk, every route." ”

Luo Xin couldn't help but pat his head, although the one he was facing was a man, no different from a normal person, but it was a robot after all.

"And how much have you recorded? Can I pause? ”

DL-03 looked ahead with both eyes, as if he was turning over some data, and checked: "Mr. Luo, since we entered here, my positioning has stopped, I can't connect to the wireless signal, and I can't update the data." ”

Luo Xin breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mr. Luo, please wait a moment, I will try to restart automatically and see if I can connect to the network......"

"No, no, no!" Luo Xin hurriedly interrupted it, "You don't need to locate it, you don't need to connect to the Internet, that's it." ”

"Are you sure?" It looked at Luo Xin with an expressionless face, "In this case, if I encounter danger, I can't contact the relevant personnel in time to rescue ......"

"Not really!" Luo Xin shouted, and then calmed down in front of him, "DL-03 I order you, stop positioning, and don't allow networking." ”

DL-03's pupils dilated, then returned to their original form, and then it smiled and said, "Ordered." ”

Luo Xin finally put his mind at ease, but after thinking about it, if there was really no signal here, then what was he worried about?

It seems that I still don't know how to interact with robots.

So they continued walking, trying to find Cao Xi. He didn't know where they were now, so he could only wander aimlessly through the village, looking for any clues they had left behind.

Suddenly, he thought of something and turned back to DL-03, "Can you track it down?"

"What to track, Mr. Luo." It asked.

"It's just the same as before, looking for the footprints left here or something, and finding out the paths of the people who pass by."

DL-03 lowered his head, stared at the road for a long time, then raised his head and said, "Mr. Luo, there are some footprints under your feet, but the time shown is already very long, are you sure you want to follow such a route?" ”

"Can you find it?" Luo Xin was a little surprised, after all, he looked down at the ground and couldn't find anything but stones and moss.

"There are some, but it's not obvious."

"Then let's follow this route!" Luo Xin asked it to lead the way in front, hoping to find them soon.

DL-03 didn't feel Luo Xin's eagerness, but walked a little slowly, patrolling around from time to time to remain vigilant.

"Don't pay attention to anything else." Luo Xin was a little anxious, "Let's just hurry up." ”

"Mr. Luo." DL-03 said, "Plants here are growing fast. ”

Luo Xin listened and disagreed: "Where no one lives, plants will indeed grow better." ”

"No, they're faster."

"You can even feel this?" Luo Xin asked curiously, "What else can you observe?" ”

"A lot."

"Are you more sensitive than humans?"

"It's not that we're sensitive, it's that we're more objective." It replied, "We do a regular comparison of the data to see if they are in accordance with the normal pattern." ”

"So you mean that the plants here don't grow properly?"

"Yes." It replied, "There must be something that affects their growth, air and water." It stopped again and looked up at the gray sky: "Although it is cloudy all year round, the radiation is not low, perhaps the long ultraviolet rays have a greater impact on them." ”

"You're guessing, aren't you?"

"I'm just coming to a more pertinent conclusion, but I have to upload the data online for comparison to get more reliable results."

"No, no." Luo Xin replied, "Let's go quickly." ”

However, DL-03 was firmly blocked in front of him and stopped advancing.

"What's wrong?" Luo Xin walked up to it, and as soon as he asked, he saw a dense field in front of him, and the surging weeds had already spread out of sight, and there seemed to be another village hidden opposite, and the big trees at the entrance of the village had already covered them.

"What is this?" Luo Xin remembered that Ma Hui had mentioned that there was another village on the other side of the village, and the two villages were almost the same, as if they had been copied.

Luo Xin just wanted to jump down and cross the grass to reach the opposite side, but DL-03 reached out and stopped him.

"Mr. Luo, when you feel danger, I must stop you."

"Dangerous?" Luo Xin looked at it, "What danger did you find?" ”

"There are dozens of bones that have melted into the ground underneath, as well as a lot of living creatures that may pose a threat to your body."

Hearing it speak eloquently, Luo Xin also hesitated, but if he didn't go over, how could he get to the other side?

"Then you must have a way to help me eliminate these threats and help me get to the other side, right?" Luo Xin asked.

DL-03 looks straight ahead, and is calculating a reasonable way to walk. Luo Xin waited, and then he felt the advantage of carrying him.

"Mr. Luo, I can carry you over." It said this suddenly, startling Luo Xin.

"By me?" Luo Xin hurriedly shook his head, "No, no, no, I can go by myself." ”

DL-03 continued, "Then I can tell you how to go, however, you have to go ahead of me. ”

"Why?"

"These weeds are so lush that you can't see what's inside." DL-03 recounts, "There is some standing water underneath the weeds, and the creatures living in the water are now dormant attached to the roots of the plants, and the person who walks on the first one will wake them up, and then they will look for food, and the target will be the next person." ”

"That's right," Luo Xin listened...... "Okay then." ”

So, Luo Xin took off his shoes and prepared to roll up his trousers and enter the field. As soon as you step on it, you will feel the slippery mud and the coldness of the water.

"Mr. Luo, I suggest you soak it first."

"Why?"

"Cold water can lower your body temperature, so it's not easy to target."

Luo Xin couldn't help laughing: "Okay, I'm a medical student, and I actually rely on a robot to remind me when I go out." ”

"Mr. Luo, this is my duty."

"Well, I have no opinion."

Luo Xin and DL-03 walked among the weeds, and as it prompted, they followed a quicker path and climbed up to the opposite land.

Luo Xin twisted the water on his trouser leg and prepared to put on his shoes.

"Need my help?" DL-03 leans down and grabs the wet edge of his pants with his hand.

"What is this for?" Luo Xin didn't understand.

"I can dry my damp pants by raising the temperature of my palms." In the interval between its words, Luo Xin clearly felt that his originally cold feet gradually warmed up, and soon, his pants returned to dryness.

"Huh." Luo Xin can understand why many people with conditions will choose to purchase a robot to serve themselves, indeed. It's just that I don't want to live with a machine.

"Then we can go now, shall we?"

DL-03 straightened up and glanced at the sky: "Mr. Luo, it is expected that it will be dark in less than an hour, are you sure you want to go in?" ”

Luo Xin suddenly realized that he had come here with his bare hands, and he had really underestimated the various problems that might exist here. He took out his phone, glanced at the time, and the "call limit" displayed on the phone, well, it turned out that a day was completely impossible.

"Mr. Luo, have you made a decision?"

DL-03 reminded him one more time.

"Can you find out who else is here?" Luo Xin asked, "You can scan it to see if there are people around here?" ”

"Mr. Luo, if there were other people, I could feel it at the first time, but unfortunately, no."

Watching it repeat expressionlessly, Luo Xin also understood that it was just a robot.

If, according to Ma Hui said before, this place is like a labyrinth, then will he be trapped here? Or with the help of this robot, can you escape smoothly?

"Do you have any suggestions?" Luo Xin looked at DL-03 and asked.

"Mr. Luo, I suggest you go back the way you came."

"Huh?"

"Mr. Luo, I don't know why you chose to come here, if you have a detailed outdoor travel plan, you will not enter this deserted village without anything, in my opinion, you don't know anything about this place, and even you don't have the corresponding outdoor experience, so I sincerely recommend that you go back the way you came, and before dark, you should be able to get back to the car."

Listening to its endless words, Luo Xin would have been disgusted, but now that it sounds, it is much more rational than himself.

"I may not have much experience, but I'm also clear that I'm not here to travel." Luo Xin took a deep breath, "I have a clear goal, I want to come and find people, you can help me find them, just do it." The sky had darkened, and time might not allow him to waste it.

"From the very beginning, I just wanted to get into the village as soon as possible, find them, and get them out smoothly." Luo Xin looked at DL-03, "This is also your task, please help me find the direction they are as soon as possible, if not before dark, at least before dawn, okay?" ”

DL-03 looked at Luo Xin, and from his words and eyes, he received an order: "Okay, Mr. Luo, I will conscientiously fulfill your request." ”

"Then let's go."

DL-03 scanned the path, following the possibilities that his brain could calculate, and led Luo Xin into the depths of the village.