As soon as Annie's words came out, the professor and Stefan, who had fallen into the legend of the tree god, woke up, and Stern sighed in his heart that Anne was worthy of being the professor's right-hand man, and she could still maintain a rational mind to analyze problems in this strange situation. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The professor then expressed his opinion: "According to Anne's idea, if there is such a plant that has never been seen before, it will invade the corpse and manipulate the corpse to do some simple actions, and in order to prove this statement, then they need to pluck the root of the tree they see in front of them and see if the corpse still reacts......"

"Wait! I don't think that's right! ”

Before he could finish this thought, he was suddenly interrupted by Stern, who was thinking on the sidelines, because he suddenly thought of a head-numbing conclusion!

"If there really is a plant that manipulates corpses, then it means that the roots of this plant are moving. And these three corpses could not have been controlled by the roots of this plant for no reason, they should have been living people who would have resisted, and then they accidentally strayed into its trap under some circumstances, so maybe we were its next prey......

As soon as these words came out, the three of them were stunned, and the air seemed to freeze! If this assumption is true, then it is likely that they have already entered the trap of some kind of strange carnivorous plant, and Downey had been in a coma here for no reason and had fallen into the trap set by this plant! Saying that, everyone began to instinctively stay away from the three strange dead corpses!

At this point, the professor expressed his opinion: "Although I think Stern has a point, we haven't noticed anything unusual since we entered this area!" ”

However, Stern's statement is not nonsense, and Anne expressed her opinion on Stern's conclusion: it is said that in the dense primeval forests and vast swamps of the Amazon Valley in South America, there is a kind of sunflower that can secrete an alluring fragrance that lures humans and animals to the sunflower, and then the slender leaves immediately stretch out from all sides like bird claws, tightly entangled the prey. At this time, the carnivorous spiders parasitic on the sunflower crawl to the prey and secrete digestive juices to dissolve the prey, and then absorb the nutrients, and the indigestible residue becomes the fertilizer of the sunflower. In addition, there is also a man-eating tree called "Dian Bai" on the island of Kuawa in Indonesia, if someone accidentally touches its branches, it will be stuck by the slime on the branches, and then all the branches will gather and digest the person.

Professor Morrill disagreed, arguing that it was mostly hearsay from the natives of some traveller in these countries, and that there was no actual evidence. After all, he has also read many professional books on tropical rare plants, and he has never seen a professional researcher publish a book that can systematically introduce this type of plant.

Stern listened a little widely, and said that he didn't want to continue to discuss those strange plants, and what he was most afraid of was this kind of invisible thing, which had no power to parry at all, so he felt that the most important thing at the moment was to make sure that they were safe.

The professor also said that he didn't want to discuss this matter any longer, so he suggested that since the parasitic root was discovered and it was assumed that it was controlled by some kind of parasitic plant, why not follow the parasitic root to find the mother body that manipulated the dead corpse and destroy it, so as to have a chance to understand the cause of Donnie's coma, and on the other hand, to eliminate this potential threat.

Anne agrees with the professor's proposal, and Stern doesn't object, but he thinks it's important to keep everyone safe for now, because no one knows what monster will end up with, and what unexpected reactions the monster will make.

In order to ensure the safety of the others, Stern instructed Kansa to carry Donnie away from the area of the Banne group, so that he could retreat as soon as possible if things went badly. Stern took the lead, and Professor Anne was behind him, just in case. And the reason why Stern didn't let the Kanzaga people was worried that he would recognize this unknown creature as a "tree god" again, as he had before.

At this point, Stern magically took out an M16, a pistol, and three magazines from the suitcase of his waterproof bag, loaded the pistol, and distributed the pistol and the one in his own hand to the professor and Annie. also jokingly asked Anne if she would use it. Anne smiled and took the gun, and then replied to Stern with a skillful grip on the gun, while the professor said that although he would not use it, he would hold it in his hand first. Then he asked Stern to give him a mountain knife as a weapon.

In this way, after making sure that everything was arranged, Stern cautiously walked to the corpse, traced the mother body along the roots that connected the corpse, and found that the three roots spread from the pile of ferns where Donnie was unconscious, which is where the corpse suddenly appeared. The three of them all had an inexplicable fear of the deep and dense grass, because they didn't know what inexplicable monsters would emerge, but Stern was the first to step into the grass and cut down the ferns that blocked people's sight with a mountain opener. Just after Stern cut down a tall fern, he suddenly saw a terrifying scene, and in a clearing in front of him was piled up with half-human-height skeletons! Most of them were covered with weeds and moss, and seven or eight of them looked like they had died not long ago, with some half-rotting skin still attached to the pale bones, and clothing covering them along with the weeds, and the bones of some animals mixed in on a closer look.

Stern cautiously approached the pile of bones, holding the mountain knife in his left hand, and vigorously tapped the rotting corpses with a wooden stick in his right hand, feeling that there was no danger, and then he relaxed his vigilance.

At this time, Anne and the professor came from behind and saw this pile of white bones, which was also a little surprised. However, the professor is no stranger to white bones, and can even be said to be his good work partner, and after he glanced at the bones piled on top of it, he couldn't help but say, "These bones are not normal." ”

Stern suddenly heard the professor say this, he raised his eyebrows and looked at the professor in confusion: "Why do you say that?" What is the basis for this? ”

The professor replied: "I was a little suspicious when I carefully observed the three ** controlled dead corpses before, but now that I see the pile of bones here again and these corpses with a relatively higher degree of corruption, I feel even more wrong." Then as he spoke, he walked over to the pile of bones and crouched down, holding a dagger in his hand, and scraped the moss off the collar of one of the rotting corpses covered with dead branches and moss, revealing a rusty collar of uniform. Then he scraped open the carrion's uniform, which was rotten to the point of decay, scraped by the sharp edge of the dagger, and made a dull stabbing sound, revealing the dry skin inside like the bark of a tree.

He continued: "According to my previous understanding of the natural decay process of corpses, in this environment, either those who have been dead for more than a month will emit a violent corpse odor when they are decomposed by bacteria, or they will be directly decomposed into a single white bone after being dead for more than a year. However, it is clear that the level of decay of these corpses is of the intermediate type. However, we didn't smell the stench of corpses at such a close distance. ”

After the professor finished speaking, he used the dagger to rip out a large piece of flesh and skin in front of everyone, and the tissue that had been stripped off the flesh was impressively crowded with a semi-flowing turbid white opaque tissue fluid. He put the flesh in front of his eyes to examine it carefully, and continued: "Besides, when we look at his clothes, we can also tell that they have been dead for at least twenty years, so how can there be so many soft tissues that have not been decomposed?" ”