"I'm the only one alive." The girl lowered her eyes, as if deliberately avoiding directly announcing the death of her companions.

Ling Shucheng was a little surprised. Even though the order he received was ostensibly a "search and rescue" - a more euphemistic way of saying "dealing with the aftermath", the girl's survival still gave him a subtle expectation that the situation would turn around.

"Confirmed?"

"If you follow the direction I came from," Motosui did not answer his question directly, "there is a house that looks dilapidated on the outside near the lake. ”

She rubbed her temples and spoke faster. "You should be able to find a broken chair just under the wall closest to the lake. Directly above the chair, the top ...... It could be a room on the fifth or sixth floor, where the group leader's body was. ”

"I see."

Ironically, the time required to rescue the living must have been too hasty, and the disposal of the corpses would have been more than enough.

He would rather be hasty, but unfortunately he didn't have this opportunity.

But there was not enough time to leisurely shush the cold and ask for warmth, Ling Shucheng thought for a moment, and then said: "You now immediately go to the place where you landed in the morning, meet with the caller, and I will take care of other things." In addition, your ID has been cancelled temporarily, but your classmates can prove your identity. ”

"Yes." Yuan Sui blinked vigorously, as if he had already controlled his emotions, and reminded: "The target location is about a kilometer away from here, I suggest you don't go directly along the route I came over, you may bump into a lot of people." The other party may be more numerous and powerful than you estimated, and there is a tricky person who can destroy the spirit, so please be careful. ”

Ling Shucheng nodded slightly to indicate that he heard it, and turned to burrow into the woods.

Originally, the location provided by Yuan Sui would also be an area where three groups and six groups would be inspected together after they met. Perhaps there are more factors to consider in judging the motives of the enemy.

Ling Shucheng walked quickly on the wet and loose litter in the dense forest, constantly adjusting his route slightly to bypass the approaching opponent. He considered the possibility that Yuan Sui was a traitor to the team, betrayed his teammates in both groups, and deliberately approached and misled him into the trap, but in the end he chose to believe the girl's statement for the time being.

Skepticism about anything is necessary.

The timing of the rain was just right. For people who have been away from land for a long time, the smell of earth is nostalgic. Even in autumn, the island is still full of life. The washed leaves are as fresh as new, the colorful birds lurk in the branches to comb their wet feathers, and countless tiny creatures are busy on the leaf-covered surface - occasionally a few unlucky people are unconsciously stepped on by humans playing a game of chasing in the jungle.

The enemy's attempts to hide their whereabouts were meaningless in Ling Shucheng's eyes, and similarly, it was necessary to hide oneself as much as possible in front of the enemy. Maybe it would be more correct to let Han Yue carry out this mission, but maybe when he saw the survivor who suddenly appeared unplanned, he would remove one of the other party's arms first to ensure safety.

Ling Shucheng jumped up slightly, grabbed the branch that was growing above his head, slowly exhaled, and deftly climbed a big tree in a pull-up-like motion. For most humans who move on their legs, walking into a woodland on a rainy day is probably not a pleasant experience. Two rain-soaked men staggered directly underneath him, muttering occasionally, as if they had fallen at the back of the line from a minor injury.

Ling Shucheng leaned forward with his back against the trunk of the tree, as if he was hunting silently.

It's a pity that the rain has stopped. Under the cover of both sides, there was a tense tranquility in the woods full of people. The little man below wiped a handful of water droplets from the treetops above his head, and grinned in pain from the wound on his arm that he had accidentally pulled. The companion next to him looked at him, and his shoulders shook violently, perhaps he couldn't help but laugh.

If these two people suddenly blessed their hearts and looked up, they would be able to happen to collide with the blade of Ling Shucheng's saber.

Time is of the essence, and now is not the time for anything to happen. Ling Shucheng admonished himself as he watched the two enemies below gradually move away.

-

Lifting away the low branches, the lake in the girl's mouth appeared in front of Ling Shucheng's eyes.

The water after the rain flows into the glittering lake along the texture of the rocks, adding a magical and gentle color to the tranquil waters. It's more like a secret place for a fairy with transparent wings in a children's book than a fishy battlefield.

It seems that the lake is peaceful and peaceful, with neither visible buildings nor enemies ready to attack.

A trick all too familiar. The whispers of people talking around them floated in the air, as if an invisible ghost was hovering the shore of the lake.

Projection installations. On the "boat" where Ling Shucheng was born and raised, people use this device to camouflage the "boat", as if using a huge screen to wrap the ship, and unless it completely passes through the projection area, only the image used for camouflage can be seen.

This equipment was enough to hide the filming of the aircraft, and it was once misused to create paranormal events for missionary purposes. However, in this era of manpower scarcity, it is enough to cope with most dragonfly searches. Several water city-states have used this technique for stealth tracks, whitewashing boats as lush islands or silent icebergs. When this technology is used on a smaller scale, the accuracy of the imaging is much more than enough to fool the human eye – but humans are not animals that rely solely on vision.

Almost soaked clothes are very much in the way. Ling Shucheng wrung out the excess water on his body as much as he could, lowered his body, and carefully followed the trees by the lake to keep approaching the group of enemies who could only be heard.

-

"What the gentleman means is that since the two groups of people have not chased back the schoolgirl who ran faster than a rabbit, it must be impossible to stay here. Go now, go and call back all the brothers who have gone before, and do as little as you can, and if you're lucky, we'll soon be welcoming a big man from the opposite family. ”

"Big shots? There is a gentleman, how many big people are we afraid of? The speaker scoffed.

"Don't think too useless about the people who only dare to live on the boat. No, it should be said that people who can live that kind of life for decades can be said to be a character, at least they know what 'self-discipline' is better than you know. ”

"You are now developing with Mr., and you miss our brothers for many years, don't you succeed in talking about me?"

"If you have time to play a little tricky, you might as well be quick when you work. Now it's time for us to hire people, and you- why don't you go? ”

"Gotta get it. I also want to warn you, watch those little cubs, don't move again. ”

"Don't worry, I've tried it all, and it's dead."

There was another sound of soot, presumably one of the speakers setting off to carry out the order.

And Ling Shucheng has completely crossed the projection area. The veil of the secret was gently lifted, revealing its true appearance: an old-fashioned brick and wood building standing on the shore of the lake, a total of six floors, almost completely wrapped in unknown vines. The building is old but not dilapidated, and the plants around each floor of windows are very clean. Given the rate at which the island's plants grow, it would take a steady stream of manpower to maintain it.

The walls are a quaint blue-black, and the wooden windows are square—this small building doesn't look like the island's aborigines. The people on duty nearby entered the building one after another, leaving only the four guarding the main entrance. Perhaps, as the previous man said, this place was about to be abandoned, and most of the people were ordered to assist in the evacuation. But this kind of self-confident to conceited way of guarding made Ling Shucheng faintly uneasy.

What's more, the "big man" who is about to come here in the mouth of Shicai has a faint possibility of pointing to him.

His whereabouts were known in advance by the other party? Or is someone else he hasn't known is about to arrive?

Ling Shucheng bent his waist, silently walked around the back of the building, and found the "broken chair" in Yuan Sui's mouth. The chair had been "broken" to a much greater extent than he had expected, barely making it unrecognizable to him that the pile of wood had ever been assembled into a single chair. In addition to the pile of wood wreckage, which looked completely impossible to repair, there was also a pile of bloodstained broken glass, which looked like someone had forcefully smashed it out of the room and smashed the window pane. Ling Shucheng looked up, but unfortunately his vision was completely obscured by the climbing plants.

Ling Shucheng tucked his saber back into his sleeve, and with the help of vines, he crawled steadily upwards on the moss-covered surface of the building.