Three days later, location, eastern United States.

Three police cars, two trailers and a corpse truck were parked on the road, and several police officers around them, all wearing gas masks, stood far outside the yellow cordon, while those in biohazmat suits carried stretchers in and out of the house. On the stretcher, there were not injured patients, but corpses, and all five members of the family had died.

The sun has set, the darkness represented by the night is gradually falling, the forests on both sides of the road are endless, but no birds or animal sounds can be heard, perhaps these beasts also know that they should stay away from humans now, because at this time they are facing a ** trouble.

The bodies were quickly gathered away, and a convoy of police cars and corpse carriers drove onto the highway and gradually disappeared into the horizon of the road.

The black jeep, which had been waiting in the woods for a long time, slowly drove out and stopped on the side of the road of the house, and the windows rolled down to reveal Dylan's face.

"Has the virus been here?" Dylan said heavily.

"It's worse than you think." Laurie next to him didn't raise his head and continued to fiddle with the tablet in his hand.

"So we have to find Amyas as soon as possible. Rick, only by finding him can he get the relevant information about the virus as quickly as possible. ”

Dylan said this, but his thoughts went back to three days ago, when Rosch found him, showed him some information, and said that he wanted to complete a task, yes, that is, to find Emias. Lick! According to the latest information, Emias. Lick has two places to go, one in the war-torn region of Central Africa near the Congo, and the other in a small town in the northeastern part of New York State.

A group of people were ordered to go to Central Africa, and Dylan and Laurie were sent to the United States.

The situation in the United States is also very chaotic now, military controls have been imposed in major cities such as Washington and New York to prevent terrorists and people from rioting, and flights from India to the United States have been largely stopped, and it took them three days to reach their destination.

"We're not far from our destination, let's get moving."

Laurie lifted his gaze from the tablet and ordered in a categorical manner.

The jeep drove down the road to a forest dirt road, this kind of dirt road is basically dug out by the road opener, no cement, no compaction, when it rains, this dirt road is a nightmare for all drivers, fortunately, the weather here is good, although the temperature is close to freezing, fortunately, there has not been a snowstorm.

But Dylan knew that such good days would not last long, and that by the time we entered January, a snowstorm would inevitably come and dye the forest white.

The car moved quickly, and from time to time there were brown grass and fenced houses on the side of the road, but there were no voices or lights coming from inside, and it seemed that the building was empty.

The road conditions are getting worse and worse, and when the car continues to drive for about ten minutes, not only has the darkness fallen, but even the road ahead has come to an end.

"Alright, it's private territory ahead, and we're here."

Laurie packed up his tablet, "Guys, get your weapons ready, let's get out of the car." ”

The four members of the team in the back had already prepared for this, grabbed their gas masks and put them on, and got out of the car with CX-58 rifles in their hands.

Dylan picked up Beretta's pistol, loaded three magazines and got off the station, looking up to see the quiet and dim forest in the distance, like a beast with a wide mouth, waiting for them to enter.

A squad of six men in all, well-equipped and well-trained, stepped forward, cut the barbed wire fence that marked the prohibition of entry into private property, and took it away towards the woodland.

The team is fanned out, with the first two people carrying guns to guard and explore, Dylan and Laurie in the center, and the two people in the back taking care of the rear.

Dylan doesn't care, he has experienced the test of the national defense project plan, in fact, his body is not within the scope of normal people, compared to normal people, his explosive power is more than three times stronger, the staying power is about five times, and the reaction power is more than doubled, even in the face of the most elite special forces in the United States, he is confident that he will defeat with one against ten.

He also knew that Laurie not only had the requirements to complete the mission, but also the task of spying on him, but these were all trivial matters to Dylan, and if he really wanted to escape, these people were really not his opponents. The real reason why he couldn't leave was the watch on his wrist, which was not only used as a communication tool, but also had the role of monitoring, even if he could cut off his wrist ruthlessly, the watch that couldn't detect the pulse for a moment would explode immediately! No one within a radius of 10 meters was spared.

The team was still moving forward, and it seemed that ten minutes had passed, but except for the rustle of leather boots on the hay underfoot, there was still no visible living area of the imaginary villa. "How far is it?" Dylan asked.

"There should be a villa in this private territory, it must not be far away."

Laurie also seemed a little helpless, this private territory is too weird, built in the depths of the forest, but there is no road to the outside, so how can the car get in and out?

"Hey, look ahead!"

Dylan suddenly stopped moving forward, leaned slightly, leaned against a large tree, and pointed ahead.

Laurie and the others looked up to see a villa in the distance bathed in the night, like a silent monster.

Laurie took out the thermal imager, looked at it, and then shook his head, "No one." ”

"No one?" Dylan wasn't surprised, "This place looks like it's been abandoned for a while. ”

Indeed, this is not only the lack of lights coming from the villa, but also the dilapidated fence around the villa, which has collapsed a lot, revealing many gaps.

"Let's go."

With a gesture, the team walked towards the villa, stepping over the diagonal fence, and the six of them cautiously reached the gate of the villa.

"Number one."

Laurie ordered, and the number one of the team was silent, and came to the gate to hold the doorknob, but was surprised to find that the door made of heavy wood was actually just a cover, not a lock, and he only needed to push it lightly, and the door opened naturally.

"Squeak ......"

The unoiled doorway made an unpleasant noise, and a puff of dust indicated that the villa had been uninhabited for a long time, but fortunately everyone in the team was wearing gas masks, and the dust did not make them uncomfortable.

Beams of lights shot out, and soon the layout of the villa hall was exposed in front of everyone, although this hall has been covered by dust, but everyone can still perceive this luxurious decoration, the overall cut marble floor tiles, the 100-inch home theater equipment, the comfortable and wide sofa, and the famous paintings used in various decorations, all of which show that the owner of this villa is very rich.

But why, such a luxurious villa was abandoned?

If the owner of this villa is really Emias. Lick's words, then, of course, can be explained very well, he left, and naturally it was deserted.

"What do you think?" Laurie asked suddenly.

A strange look appeared on Dylan's face, but quickly sank and disappeared, "You ask me?" I'm not God. ”

He took a few steps down the hall, "It's strange here, though, and I feel uncomfortable. ”

"Uncomfortable feelings?"

Laurie was silent and didn't know what he was thinking, he glanced back and forth in the hall a few times, then suddenly turned around and said, "No. 1 and No. 2, you go upstairs to have a look, No. 3 and No. 4, you go to the east hall to check." ”

He pointed to the east hall of the hall, where there were two doors, which were supposed to be kitchens or storage rooms.

"What about me?" Dylan asked.

"You follow me." Laurie had no objection, "Let's go to the West Hall. ”

Dylan smiled, no objection, and followed Laurie towards the West Hall.

There was a small bar in the west hall, and there were many valuable wine bottles on the shelves above the bar, and neither of them was interested in it, but after checking for a while, and finding that there were no clues worth noting, they entered the corridor of the west hall, stepped on the soft carpet, and walked deeper.

The light of the two lamps was enough to illuminate the small corridor, which was also luxuriously furnished, not to mention the soft carpet on the floor, and a few steps on the wall to find a painting, and the vase on the oak candlestick, which was very precious at a glance.

"Hey, is this the Mona Lisa?"

A ray of light stopped, and Dylan looked at the Monla Lisa drawing on the wall with interest, "Are you saying this is true?" ”

"How can it be true?" Laurie glanced casually, "It's just a copy." ”

"Yes, of course the real thing can't be here."

Dylan withdrew the glow from the flashlight, but felt something was wrong, "Wait." ”

"What's wrong?"

"Let me ask you, no matter which direction you look at the portrait, you can feel that it is staring at you, right?" Dylan asked suddenly.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Laurie was inexplicable.

"For the picture that looks straight ahead, no matter which direction you look at, you will feel that it is staring straight at you, because the picture is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, so no matter which direction we look at the flat picture from, it will be automatically ignored by the brain and shaped into a three-dimensional illusion that conforms to the relationship between light and shadow in the picture......"

Ignoring Laurie's doubts, Dylan muttered to himself, and then turned around, and the light was filled with the image of Monralisa, and when he looked at Monralisa's eyes from his angle, he could clearly see that Monralisa's eyes were not "looking" at him.

"It's funny."

Dylan sneered, and it was thanks to his keen eyes that he was able to spot something unusual.