Stern thought to himself that something was wrong with someone behind him, why didn't he shout out, maybe it was the missing Donnie, so he looked in the direction that Kansa was pointing and found that there seemed to be a person squatting behind a cluster of intertwined pillars three meters in front of him, and the person seemed to be squatting with his back to them and his head bowed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info looked closely and found that it wasn't Donnie, as he was naked, extremely thin, and the color of his body almost blended in with his surroundings. Stern wondered how a strange person could suddenly pop up, and they walked through there without seeing anyone. Suddenly, a terrible thought flashed through him—could it be that this banyan forest was inhabited by primitive natives!

Stern had heard that centuries ago in the deep mountains and forests of the Indochina Peninsula lived a primitive native, short, dark-skinned, with sharp teeth like ghosts when they opened their mouths, and they would catch and eat people they saw when they saw them. Therefore, they are also called cannibals, and the locals call them rakshasa ghosts, because they live in the deep mountains and old forests, they look terrifying, they move quickly in the forest, they live like wild beasts, and they eat raw people who catch passers-by.

Stern hadn't encountered such natives, but he was worried. Because this is their territory, and the person in front of them is likely to be the legendary primitive native, who knows what they will do, whether he is the only one, it is completely unpredictable. He whispered to Kansa next to him if he knew who the other party was, and Kansa said in confusion that he hadn't seen it.

Since Kansa didn't know, it could only be just in case, so Stern carefully took out a pistol from his bag, loaded it with bullets, pulled the safety and aimed it in one go, and then carefully asked the other party in Khmer: "Who are you?" ”

Stern thought that since he couldn't tell where the other party came from, he would just ask in the local dialect, and if the other party had a reaction, then then he would ask him how he could communicate here or something, whether he could understand it or not, then he would always know that there were two living people here, and he would give a reaction if he wanted to do something. If the other party tries to kill directly, then strike first, fire a shot first. Generally, whether it is dead or alive, it must be in these two cases.

However, the third scenario appeared, and after five seconds, the person on the other side was motionless......

Stern used to have a five-second rule in the jungles of Vietnam, and if the enemy didn't return fire in five seconds, he would consider retreating, or find cover to ambush and observe—one of the reasons he came back alive every time he was in an engagement.

However, it was too strange at the moment, his mind was spinning rapidly, and while thinking of countermeasures, he slowly retreated to the root of a tree and called Kansa to lie down, while observing whether there were any other ambushes. When he confirmed that there were no roots or roots around him, he was a little relieved, but then the problem came.

What the hell is that guy trying to do?

It is impossible to retreat at the moment, because on the one hand they are looking for someone, and on the other hand, if they retreat, they will be in a passive situation, and he does not want to shoot easily, because there is a high probability that that person has something to do with Donnie's disappearance.

But he couldn't wait for the person on the other side to respond, so he could only ask, "What are you doing there?" ”

The only thing left for Stern's voice was silent in the whole forest, and five seconds passed... A minute passed... The man remained motionless......

Stern wondered how weird it was to stay in such a strange position unless the man was dead......

Is it really dead? But Stern thought to himself that something was wrong, he had been checking the mark left by Donnie in this area half an hour ago, if there was a dead man there he would definitely be able to see it, and besides, even if he missed Kanza, he couldn't see it.

Don't... That posture... Could it be a suicide bomber - Stern began to sweat coldly, and his heart began to panic a little, this is what he fears the most......

He didn't know where the strange thought came from, but this time he decided to take the initiative again, and he aimed at the "man" and threw a piece of rotten log, which landed in a perfect parabola into the clearing next to the target

However, at this moment, Stern saw a terrifying image - the man hiding behind the root of the tree quickly stretched out a slender bloody hand and grabbed the piece of wood! It grabbed it back into its arms and made a "click-la-click" chewing sound, and after a few seconds it realized something was wrong and spit back on the ground. Then he stood up and disappeared into the thick roots. And the moment it stood up, Stern clearly saw that it had no head at all!

These movements made Stern, who was watching from a short distance, feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, and his heart was pounding. The two looked at each other, trying to confirm on each other's expressions whether what had just happened was true. That's really weird, don't say that Stern hasn't seen it, even Kansa, who hunts in the jungle all year round, hasn't seen this kind of "person", this is simply not the characteristic of a living person!

Thinking to himself if they all got the hell, Stern tried his best to suppress the accelerated heartbeat, clenched the pistol, leaned against the roots of the tree and half-crouched to reconfirm the surroundings, lest the thing would suddenly jump out from all directions, and he suddenly regretted that he hadn't shot the monster just now, otherwise he wouldn't have fallen into a passive situation now.

The jungle was eerily quiet, so quiet that Stern could only hear his own heartbeat, not even the birds in the trees......

He didn't dare to act rashly, for fear that something would suddenly come at him, and if it hadn't been for Kansa reminding him that Donnie's life and death were uncertain now, he would have to stay here all the time.

Stern looked around and made sure he didn't see anything unusual except for the hanging brown roots, and he was worried about Donnie and the professor who were missing.

However, it was not known where Donnie had gone after leaving his mark here, and Stern thought that it was better to go back and meet the professor first. After all, he didn't know if the creatures would hurt people, they didn't have guns in their hands to defend themselves, and they were in a more dangerous situation.

So he called Kansa to find the location of the trunk of the banyan tree and set out towards it. But Kansa told him that the direction of the arrow was actually in the direction of the tree. Stern thought to himself that it would be the best, maybe he could find Donnie on the way.

But at this moment, a shrill cry suddenly came from the woods in front of him, and the sound reached Stern's ears, which made his scalp tingle, and he was worried that the professor had encountered the monster, so he immediately called Kansa to speed up and avoid the root obstacles and walked forward.

After about half an hour, Stern didn't see the professor, but he finally saw the mother body of this maze of roots—a large number of roots passed under his feet, stretched forward and converged into dozens of tall roots, and then these dozens of roots twisted into each other to a height of two or three meters in the air to form a huge trunk of a banyan tree. Then, at a height of about five or six meters, six branches branched out in all directions. The three branches in front of them were branching out more and more, and if the tree was to be compared to a man, each of its branches was like one of its hands, reaching out in a different direction, growing outward at an angle almost parallel to the ground, each as thick as a barrel of oil.

Despite this, the branches still hung about six meters above them at a bird's-eye height, supported by the outer pillars. It was a shocking sight to see like a dragon flying over them, sticking out of countless claw-like pillars and aerial roots. Kansa saw the "God" standing in front of him alive at this moment, and once again excitedly recited the incantation and bowed to the ground.

Stern sighed and didn't forget to observe if there was anything unusual around him, and found that the obstacle in front of him began to change from a hairy maze of roots to a tall and thick root extending from the main trunk, the highest root was almost as high as Stern's waist, and a dark brown web-like maze was woven on the ground, sucking the nutrients from the soil into the main trunk, and some tall shade ferns were growing scattered in the maze.

Stern noticed that the bottom of the trunk was also made up of taproots the size of several barrels of oil intertwined with each other, forming a hollow structure. It was pitch black inside, and it seemed that there was a relatively large space. At that moment, the shrill voice came from a pile of grass more than ten meters in front of Stern, and he feared that it was Donnie or Professor Anne who were in danger ahead, so he left Kansa alone and stumbled along the source of the sound.

After completely breaking out of the labyrinth of aerial roots, he found himself in a territory full of dense fern trunk roots, the roots of which were covered with slippery moss, and the light here was particularly dark due to its central location. Stern cautiously moved forward from the towering roots of the tree in order to see a little further, when he suddenly saw something wriggling under the roots in front of him......