Chapter 18: The Vanishing Mark

Out of the way? Su Lan's gaze quickly scanned the dense and quiet vegetation around her, and Zhang Xuan looked at Su San coldly: "Could it be that you want to play some tricks-"

"It's time like this, can you stop infighting?!" Su Lan interrupted Zhang Xuan's words angrily, "Susan, what kind of mark do you say, tell us, let's find it together." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"This," Susan said, pointing to a new diamond-shaped scratch under the trunk, "has made this mark on every tree I pass. ”

"It's really true," Su Lan said after taking a few steps in the direction of the road and looking at the three trees, "Is it possible that some other passing animal can also make this kind of symbol and cause us to be misled?" ”

"Impossible," replied Zhang Xuan this time, "the knife marks are very new, and no animal can make such a symbolic mark." ”

The three of them searched around, and after looking at all the trees within a radius of fifty meters and finding no new markings, Susan finally suggested returning to the corpse the way it came, perhaps to find some new clues. Su Lan took a breath as soon as she thought of the unrecognizable corpse, and Zhang Xuan's eyes had originally recovered some sharp light, but after hearing this proposal, they quickly dimmed. Su Lan knew that she was quite out of place, but on the way back, she couldn't help but ask again: "Zhang Xuan, what did you rely on to determine that person was your father?" ”

Five seconds of silence. When Su Lan thought she would continue to keep silent, Zhang Xuan whispered, "Clothes." ”

"Clothes?"

"yes, clothes, I've seen my dad wear that dress in the photo." Zhang Xuan replied.

Su Lan wanted to say that this reason is really untenable, now everything is mass-produced, it is not difficult to find someone who happens to be wearing the same clothes, if it is a uniform such as work clothes or school uniforms, it is even more everywhere. After thinking about it, I felt that the reason why Zhang Xuan said this must be something else, so why did he have to ask without interest. However, since Zhang Xuan is talking about clothes, even if clothes are not the decisive clue, there must be some meaning in them. The clothes worn by the corpse were rather modest, and at first glance they were the type of clothes worn by people during the planned economy of the last century. When you think about it, something seems wrong......

Zhang Xuan, who is the same age as me, said that her father died when she was three years old, which means that his father died in 2001. No one was wearing such old-fashioned 80s clothes at that time, right? Unless it's filming.

It's not just this sense of disobedience, but the outfit feels quite familiar, and it should be where I've seen it.

Three minutes later. Three men stood under the hanged corpse with a lot of rancid news. With the previous suspicions, Su Lan saw the corpse's clothes, and realized what the problem was in a flash of lightning in her mind.

He had seen this costume on the altar of the ruins of the ancient city, in those illusions made of light smoke. Except for Sun Yue, the rest of the archaeological team, including his father, were wearing Qing Yishui's uniform, which was exactly the same as this one.

Su Lan had goosebumps all over his body, but the other two people obviously didn't have as many as he thought. Zhang Xuan beckoned: "Hey, what kind of stupidity is being made, hurry up and check the surrounding trees to see if there are any marks that were missed before." ”

"Uh-oh." Su Lan responded and walked a few steps in Zhang Xuan's direction, and was stopped by her again: "I have already checked the trees here, you go to see that side." ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Good. After some hesitation, he decided to find the way first and then tell Zhang Xuan his suspicions, Su Lan checked the direction he was responsible for but found no clues, and when he turned around, Zhang Xuan and Susan had already finished their work: "You found the mark?" ”

"No," Zhang Xuan shook her head, "what about you?" ”

"Neither do I."

Zhang Xuan walked up directly: "I see that you were in a daze just now, could it be that you were in a trance and didn't see it clearly at all." ”

"You're embarrassed to say me, didn't you look like you were stupid when you first saw the corpse......" Su Lan sneered, Zhang Xuan ignored him, and quickly checked the area that Su Lan was in charge of, Su Lan could see from her tightly knit brows that she had nothing to gain like herself, and was a little gloating: "Look, don't you find nothing too." ”

Zhang Xuan glanced at him: "Don't think I don't have the strength to beat you now." ”

"Hey, hey! I'm your elementary school tablemate and teammate, why are you so violentβ€”"

"Susan, take us back the way we started. I don't believe it, this broken forest is still a ghost. Zhang Xuan said that she found that Susan's face was not very good-looking halfway, and she picked it up, "What's wrong?" ”

"The original markers are gone."

"What did you say?!" Zhang Xuan's voice rose an octave uncontrollably.

"See for yourself."

Zhang Xuan looked around, and sure enough, as Susan said, there was no trace of anything, and he couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth: "Fuck!"

"The light is getting worse and worse, and the sun is about to set." Su Lan looked at the increasingly dim forest, and gasped, "I don't want to spend a night with a corpse that doesn't die well, this brother Tai died so miserably, it's definitely a ghost, God knows what will happen." ”

"Su Lan, shut up! There must be some flaw that we have all overlooked, what the hell will be......" Zhang Xuan's voice was not only angry, but also a little bit of fear oozing out of the shell of anger. Susan sat on the ground and pondered, Su Lan felt that this situation was a bit familiar, and after thinking about it, she suddenly clapped her hands and shouted, "I know! ”

"What do you know?" Zhang Xuan and Susan looked back at him at the same time.

"Have you read a tomb robbery or adventure novel?" Su Lan asked.

Zhang Xuan's face sank, and as soon as she was about to attack, Su Lan hurriedly continued: "Generally, if the protagonist encounters this kind of bridge in a novel, he has to analyze what went wrong. ”

"Nonsense, what do you think I'm doing right now."

"Since it's the mark on the tree that has disappeared, something must have gone wrong with the tree." Su Lan walked around Zhang Xuan to a tree behind her, "As far as my years of experience in online writing, this situation is generally this. ”

He reached out and patted the trunk of the tree, and immediately several black moths flew up from the trunk.

"Moths?" Zhang Xuan looked at the insect and was stunned for a moment, "What do you mean...... The moth covers the original traces? ”

"The color of the moth's wings mimics the environment, using protective colors to hide from enemies." Su Lan explained, "When I was in my third year of high school, I had a problem with biology, because the trunk of a forest in the UK was dyed from white to black due to industrial pollution, which led to a large decrease in the number of white moths and a significant increase in the number of black moths. These moths are supposed to feed on the sap of the tree, and you use a knife to cut the bark to mark it, and the cut bark is easier to suck the sap, so as soon as we walk away, the moth covers all the traces. If you don't believe it, you can try another tree trunk. ”

Hearing this, Susan patted another tree, and sure enough, a few black moths flew up with their wings, and smiled at Su Lan: "Mr. Su, there are really yours." ”

"Of course, I'm a top student in a key university in the imperial capital, and my stomach is full of knowledge, if you don't know anything, just ask me......" Su Lan was stunned for the first time in front of the two of them, and she was in a big exhalation in her heart, when suddenly countless black moths flew up from the trunks of each tree, and the black pressure was like a locust plague, and she pounced on her head and face, "My mother, what is the situation!" ”

"Aren't you a top student? Hurry up and search for the knowledge in your stomach! Zhang Xuan seized the opportunity to pull back a game.

"I'll go! There are also high-achieving students who don't know! Su Lan covered her head and face with her hands, preventing the runaway moths from hitting her face, and at the same time the fingers covering her eyes opened slightly, observing the situation outside through the gap, "These moths ...... Falling on corpses?! ”

Zhang Xuan let out a scream, and he seemed to be frightened. Su Lan watched as the moths kept falling on the corpse, densely covered with layers after layers, like a black human-shaped cocoon. This process lasted a full half minute before no more moths flew over.

"This corpse is so weird, I don't care if I get lost or not, it's better to be there than to stay here." Su Lan was a little hysterical when she heard her voice, and just as she was about to turn around and leave, she heard Zhang Xuan let out a louder scream, "What the hell is going on ******-" The moment she said a few words, she saw the corpse clearly, and the rest of the words immediately choked in her throat.

The rotten and clean corpse was wrapped in countless moths, and it actually struggled, as if it was desperately trying to tear off the hemp rope that strangled its neck.