In the thick and boundless darkness, the flashlight seemed weak and easily disillusioned.

Luo Sheng watched as the end of the beam melted into the darkness inside the stone door—the silent area—as if the next step would no longer be this world.

An Yi walked in front with a flashlight, and Luo Sheng followed, and the two passed through the huge stone gate and entered this art site that had been strangled into ruins by nature.

The two continued to walk inside, passing through a dense forest path that was not too long, and Luo Sheng and An Yi finally came to the inside of the temple. At this time, the real subject officially appeared—thick trees intertwined among the collapsed stacks of stones, some of which grew directly through the stones, or octopus feet, or pythons, and those stones were the temple.

The strong roots of the trees were intertwined and cracked in the middle of the stone towers, no, it should be said that it was more like being swallowed by the roots, fierce and extremely destructive. It looks like a ...... between God and man To describe it in one word - fighting.

An Yi followed Luo Sheng deeper down, and while watching up and down with a flashlight, left and right, he was shocked...... This place has a bloody feeling during the day, not to mention at night, which makes people tremble and marvel at the power of nature.

Luo Sheng stood on a flat open space, took out two bottles of water from his backpack, handed one bottle to An Yi, unscrewed the lid and went down half a bottle, then wiped the corners of his mouth and said: "It's a maze for a while, you have to follow closely, otherwise the two of us will go apart." ”

An Yi lit a cigarette to relieve fatigue, although this way did not take too long, but because it was too dark here...... It's so dark that he is like a blind man when he leaves the flashlight, and he stumbles under his feet, and if he is not careful, he is easy to stumble, and it is very difficult to walk, but Luo Sheng does not say where he wants to go or what he is doing...... Selling Guan Zi to Luo Sheng, An Yi was a little upset.

"Wait a minute, can you tell me where we're going?"

Luo Sheng could tell that An Yi was bored, and it was understandable that anyone who wandered around this kind of place in the middle of the night—with python-like roots and rattans coiled everywhere, or the tentacles of giant octopuses, devouring everything here—would become more and more cranky and emotionally unstable.

Luo Sheng smiled: "An Yi, I'll tell you the truth, I only know the road, I can't tell me clearly about that place, and you'll know when you get there." ”

"And how did you know the way when you first came?"

Luo Sheng pointed to the roots of the trees with a flashlight, and said: "Look at these roots, when I first came, I didn't know how to find the monk who peeled oranges, Connora didn't give any hints, or Cheng Yin didn't leave anything, I stood here and thought about it for a long time when I came, and then I found a phenomenon, which is these roots." ”

"Roots?" An Yi reached out and touched the nearest one, cold and cold, if there was no preconceived notion, he really thought that he had touched a snake.

Luo Sheng nodded, "Isn't that one you just touched very cold?" ”

An Yi snorted, Luo Sheng pointed to the root of the tree on his left hand side, and said, "You touch this again." ”

As soon as An Yi put his hand on it, it immediately bounced back.

"How is it hot?"

Luo Sheng smiled weirdly: "This is the road sign." I also discovered it by accident, not every one of them is like this, there will be one every few meters or so, as long as you follow the hot one, you can find it. ”

An Yi touched the roots of other trees again, and when he touched the hot ones, he stopped to think about them.

Luo Sheng said behind him: "Outside the door, you will feel that there is something inside, because some rhizomes will heat up, and some people will have a strong sense of heat source lifeforms, and they will feel the existence of 'things' around them, but they can't say what they are, such as you." ”

"Why is this happening? This is not scientific, how can plants have biological characteristics? ”

"It's more than a feature." Luo Sheng walked up to An Yi's side, "According to medical terms, this is called vital signs, if you keep your hand on the top of the hot for a minute, you will find even more incredible phenomena." ”

After listening to this, An Yi was a little nervous, and put his hand on a rhizome that would be hot...... A minute later, he stared at Luo Sheng in the dark, as if he didn't believe it, so he put his ear on it again to confirm...... At the end, a few words were squeezed out from between the teeth: "This is ...... Is this a heartbeat? He still had an expression of disbelief on his face.

At this time, An Yi finally realized the reason for Luo Sheng's change of color in this conversation. Think about it, in the ancient ruins full of rhizomes climbing and strange rocks—a shady and dark place—suddenly you find that several of these roots have a body temperature and a heartbeat...... What will it be like?

"Don't look at me, I don't know how this thing grows, but it's not a stranger, there used to be a professor surnamed Peng who went to Lop Nur to do scientific research, and he found the Pisces jade pendant, and it is said that he also found plants with vital signs in Lop Nur."

"I'm skeptical that a shot will bleed." An Yi said with a gun pointed at the root of the tree.

Luo Sheng immediately stopped him: "Stop! You're not really going to shoot, are you? This thing probably can't be called a tree anymore, and if you shoot it, I'm not sure what will happen here. ”

An Yi put down the gun and didn't say anything, Luo Sheng saw him loading bullets into the gun, and he said strangely: "An Yi, where did you get this gun?" I wanted to ask you before you got in, you can't get on a plane with a gun. ”

"I bought it on the black market here." An Yi lowered his head and only cared about loading bullets.

"You went to the black market to buy a gun?"

An Yi snorted, raised his head, looked at Luo Sheng and said, "Don't forget that I am a policeman, and I have handled cases at the border before, so this channel is naturally familiar." ”

Saying so, Luo Sheng won't pursue it, of course, before An Yi explained, he even thought that this was the configuration of the game character.

Unconsciously, he always positioned An Yi as an illusory character, and he knew that he was under the influence of crows (so the crow's mouth and crow's mouth were worthy of his real name).

Or that he was afraid, so he used words again and again to test and confirm, he was afraid that he would end up being the same as Truman, if that was the case, Luo Sheng would definitely go crazy.

"Let's go." Luo Sheng stepped forward and put his shoulders on his companion - the only companion - the shoulders were thick and reliable, and he felt a lot more at ease.

The two used the roots of the tree as a signpost, and after walking for a short time, Luo Sheng stopped.

"What's wrong?" An Yi asked.

Luo Sheng pointed to the root of the tree and said, "This is the last one that will be hot." ”

At this time, An Yi noticed that in the middle of the stone block wrapped by a huge tree root, a downward staircase appeared, and a layer of cyan moss fell on the staircase, and there were rows of Buddha reliefs on both sides of the stone wall.

An Yi took a look below and asked, "Do you want to go down?" ”

Luo Sheng nodded, "Don't be nervous, I've gone down before." ”

"What's down there?" An Yi asked again.

"The monk who peeled oranges."

An Yi looked at Luo Sheng, and couldn't help but feel worried in his back, and the hairs on both sides of his ears and temples stood up unconsciously. But he didn't say anything, just tightened his grip on the gun. The two of them went down with flashlights one after the other.