Walking a long way along the periphery of the Bagua Array, we found traces left by Ji Fangfang and them in a mountain col. A pile www.biquge.info of charcoal fire was trampled on by someone's feet, and a large area of grass was trampled and fell. Not far away, a stream flows down from the top of the hill, creating a small waterfall that merges into a small pool.

It seems that the brigade has stayed here for the night. It's flat and watery, so it's a good place to rest. However, this place is less than a kilometer away from the nest of the Mothman that we just discovered, so I wonder if they have been attacked?

According to Guo Shengnan's judgment, more than 10 hours have passed since the time for the carbon fire to be extinguished, indicating that we and the brigade are at least 10 hours away. It was still early, so the three of them briefly discussed it and decided to continue their journey and close the distance with the brigade as soon as possible.

The marks left by the two dogs are clear and recognizable, indicating that they are safe for the time being, and I am a little relieved. But he was so hungry that he looked around the way, hoping to come across an unlucky beast and make it his supper a good meal.

The fat man also had the same idea as me, poking around in the bushes along the way from time to time with a bamboo gun, and muttering from time to time: "Pheasant pheasant, rabbit rabbit." "But along the way, not to mention pheasants and rabbits, not even a single mouse has been encountered.

Guo Shengnan's face was a little uncomfortable, and after walking for another kilometer or so, she couldn't help but say, "Xiao Du, it's strange here, it's too quiet." Plants grow luxuriantly, but the probability of encountering live animals is very small. It stands to reason that this place has mountains and rivers, and it is inaccessible, so it should not be difficult to find something to eat. But I don't know what's going on, except for the known Vermilion Bird and Basalt Turtle, the most are poisonous toads. After walking for so long, you can't even hear the birdsong, don't you think it's a little abnormal? ”

I'm actually thinking about this in my heart, the ecology here is obviously extremely unbalanced, and it is speculated that it must have something to do with the so-called Suzaku and Xuanwu. These two things are so large that they need to consume a lot of food in a day, and it seems that there are no natural predators here, so there is no room for other animals to survive. Yesterday the fat man was able to hunt a roe deer, which was almost a stroke of luck.

The fat man said those birdmen were bats, and I didn't quite believe it. The reason why I want to take a closer look is that I think it is very unreasonable. Many people think that bats are omnivores, they eat everything, and they are also said to drink animal blood, which is terrifying and scary. But in fact, the largest known bat is the flying fox, a species of astonishingly large that can reach almost 2 meters with its wings spread out. However, it is hard to believe that this terrible creature is a complete vegetarian animal, specializing in eating wild fruits and flowers, and it is impossible to catch animals for food.

But looking at the situation in this space, it is very worrying. It's not that there are no animals, but they are very rare, so where are they gone? Or is it low reproductive ability? Of course not, Guo Shengnan knows that this environment is suitable for animal breeding and growth, there are mountains and rivers here, and there is no reason for a lack of wild animals.

The only explanation is that there is not enough to eat. The loggerhead eats meat, and it is large enough to consume large quantities of fish or any animal it can find, provided it has the ability to catch animals. It's impossible for this thing to even catch and eat the birds in the sky, right? Flying foxes, on the other hand, are good at flying, and they are not slow and more agile. I have to wonder, could it be this thing that doesn't eat meat, but eats all the birds?

"It's really abnormal, this space should have existed for a long time, some of the animals in it have mutated, the food chain has become incomplete, and it has reached a very dangerous point." I tried to explain in a professional tone, and I boiled down what I didn't understand to mutations.

When it was getting dark, we found some large trees with red wild fruits. Looking at the shape of the tree and the shape of the fruit, it looks like a persimmon. Guo Shengnan studied it carefully and said, "It should be able to eat." ”

The fat man had already smashed down several times with a bamboo gun, and when he heard that he could eat it, he wiped his skin with the placket of his clothes, and hurriedly bit it down on the side of his mouth. "Poof", the goods squirted out the fruit in one bite, and said vaguely: "Astringent, too astringent!" ”

Astringency is right, how can there be persimmons that have not been covered are sweet? No matter how astringent, it is much more nutritious than bamboo shoots. We were so hungry that we didn't care about the taste, and we ate several of them each.

The fat man was disgusted that the fruit picked in the lower place was not ripe, and he did not care that he was fat, so he climbed the branches of the tree and climbed to the top. In the high part of the persimmon tree, because of the sun exposure, many persimmons are extraordinarily translucent, which should be ripe, and it is estimated that the taste will be better.

Before he could reach out to pick the fruit, the fat man suddenly screamed, and slipped down the tree with a lot of urine, and shouted, "Dead man, there is a dead man in the tree!" ”

Guo Shengnan and I looked over carefully, and vaguely, we saw that among the persimmon trees more than 3 meters above the ground, there was indeed a person hidden, and he didn't move.

This man is half-covered by leaves, and most of his body is blocked by the trunk of the tree, which is really not easy to spot when looking up from below.

Guo Shengnan lifted the bamboo gun on the ground, shook his head at the fat man, and motioned him to step back. Then he picked up the bamboo gun in one hand, slowly reached the man, and poked it lightly a few times. The man in the tree was unresponsive, and it seemed that he was really a dead man.

The bamboo spear was too thin and soft to get the dead down. Guo Shengnan flew up, stepped on the branch three or two times to borrow strength, and climbed to the tree. Seeing the dead man clearly, she seemed to be stunned for a moment.

I'm nervous, it can't be one of the people I care about, right?

"Xiao Guo, who is it? Do you know each other? ”

Guo Shengnan came back to his senses, turned around and said, "It's one of my father's subordinates, you shouldn't know him." ”

I let out an "oh", I don't know how the dead man had to do with her, but I can't clearly show a relieved look.

Guo Shengnan jumped down with the dead body, put the dead man on the ground, and said, "Xiao Du, come and see, what kind of weapon is this?" ”

I turned my head with the fat man, and saw that the dead body was the man in the suit who was pinched by Guo Shengnan's neck, I didn't expect him to be so unlucky and die here. The corpse had a pair of dead fish eyes wide open, and a look of horror, pain and despair on its pale face, which was ten times more than when he was afraid of being strangled to death by Guo Shengnan.

Guo Shengnan snorted and tore all the shirts of the dead corpses. The fat man shook a little, and I felt a chill in my heart, and my heart said What is this playing? People are dead, do you still have a grudge against him? This thought had just come to mind, but the strange situation that caught my eye almost scared the two of us.