It's getting late, and the last rays of the sunset disappear below the horizon, putting away its warm afterglow, and night has officially arrived. The sky is like a layer of frosted glass, dots of stars are inlaid on the glass, and the diffraction and scattered light are like ice flowers frozen on the glass in winter.

And it's hard to imagine that this kind of scene can be seen in the small town of Frog, such a murderous place.

The ZF-3L stood on top of the bridge, and the first few hours of the night were Du Feng's vigil.

Du Feng didn't feel anything, just looked up at the night sky from time to time, and looked at the surrounding situation from time to time, it didn't seem difficult.

It's just that the rarest thing is the feeling of being alone at vigil, which is really bad. And because of the beautiful night sky, it contrasts with the gloom around the small town of Forrog. It looks like a white-gray mist during the day and a ghostly fog floating in the air at night.

But fortunately, Du Feng is wrapped in ZF-3L armor, and under the field of vision amplification system of individual armor, he finally has some sense of security. This is not to say that Du Feng is too weak, relatively speaking, Du Feng is still the kind of mercenary with a strong personality, but the current environment is more terrifying, so that Du Feng's type of mercenary will feel panicked when he puts on individual armor.

This is also not the most important thing.

It's hard to imagine how fragile the human mind would be in such a ghostly night if humanity lost this last layer of strong armor. In this regard, Du Feng had to look at the empty scene around him, and sighed silently in his heart: "It is really not easy for human beings to persist until now in this era. ”

Feeling emotional, he glanced at the bottom of the stream.

MF-3L sat next to the wheels of the heavy truck, the stream flowed from the feet of the heavy armor, it could be seen that Guan Ji was resting now, which made Du Feng think of what Guan Ji said before, she thought that she couldn't sleep on this kind of night, and wanted to guard the whole night, but in the case of Hao Sanshui's half order, she had to rest.

After a day's work, whoever changes to it can sleep in the coffin, let alone the constant temperature environment inside the individual armor. So Guan Ji just adjusted a humane posture, leaned on the wheels of the heavy truck, and said something in the first second, and then within ten seconds, she fell asleep.

"If it weren't for this era, a girl like Guan Ji would be in college, right? Enjoying your youth in college, showing off your beauty, maybe you're being pursued by the thick soil, haha. Thinking about it, Du Feng himself felt a little funny: "How is it like wearing heavy individual armor now, splashed with blood on his body during the day, leaning next to the wheel at night, sitting at the bottom of the wet and cold creek and falling asleep?" ”

Then Du Feng smiled and set his eyes on TF-L.

TF-L stood in the dark, facing the side of the stream, motionless, and didn't know if he was asleep or not. So he adjusted the radio and tried to contact Hao Sanshui on a single line, but he didn't make a loud voice and tried to ask, "Captain, are you sleeping?" ”

At first, Hao Sanshui didn't respond, and just when Du Feng felt that Hao Sanshui was asleep, Hao Sanshui's clear voice came from the radio: "I didn't sleep." ”

"Uh, isn't the captain going to sleep for a while?"

Du Feng is a vigil at 7 o'clock to 10 o'clock at night, Guan Ji is a vigil at 10-1 o'clock, Hao Sanshui is the second half of the night, and the vigil in the second half of the night is a mercenary who knows that it is the most dangerous and tiring, so out of the team's concern for the captain, Du Feng feels that Hao Sanshui still has to go to sleep, and it is good to replenish his mental strength.

"Don't worry, I'm fine." Hao Sanshui didn't want to sleep, and his smiling voice came from the radio: "Are you bored?" ”

"No, Captain, hehe."

"Laugh at the fart, the vigil will give me a reassuring vigil, otherwise those exiles will rush out and not scare you to death?"

"Hehe, captain I'm going to keep vigil." When Du Feng heard Hao Sanshui say this, he was relieved, and continued to concentrate on looking at the situation in the black fog around him, striving to see the attack of the monster in the first time.

Hao Sanshui was wrapped in the huge body of the TF-L, he soaked in the buffer, his eyes were open, and all kinds of things from before appeared in front of him.

He had tried not to let himself think about these things, but every night, this pervasive memory would flood into his mind like a tide. This includes the laughter of his teammates when they were alive, the miserable appearance when they died, and of course, the girl he liked who laughed all day long and wore that white rabbit mask.

Together, these things hit his willpower again and again.

Fortunately, Hao Sanshui's willpower is beyond ordinary people, otherwise he would have collapsed if he was another mercenary, how dare he choose to be a mercenary again? However, Hao Sanshui is not comfortable, he can only silently bury this piece of memory in his heart, he doesn't dare to remember this kind of thing, just firmly in his mind that the past things are over, in order to numb himself, but selectively forget that he is essentially an emotional person.

The process is always uncomfortable, if someone can let Hao Sanshui share it, then his situation is likely to be greatly improved, but now who can patiently say these things to Hao Sanshui, and who can let him let go of his strong side as a big man and leave his weakness unguarded to her!

The answer is no, at least now Hao Sanshui thinks it is not.

……

Time ticked away, and in the early hours of the morning, it was his vigil.

After he said hello to Guan Jiao, he looked at these two people again, and found that Du Feng and Guan Ji were asleep, ZF-3L and MF-3L, one leaning on the mound and the other leaning on the tire, were still sleeping relatively deeply. Hao Sanshui smiled kindly and began the vigil in the second half of the night.

Followed by the melting and freezing of ice flowers in the sky, and soon the night passed.

Early the next morning, Du Feng and Guan Ji woke up.

When they opened their eyes, the sky was already bright, and the strange fog at night was now back to the gray and white of the day, and this difference gave the two of them the illusion that the fog in the town of Frog was very kind during the day. Then seeing TF-L standing in front of them, both of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. If it weren't for seeing Hao Sanshui, if it wasn't for the bottom of this small stream, they would have thought that the experiences of the past few days were all dreams.

"Good morning, Captain!" Du Feng and Guan Ji said at the same time.

"Well, good morning." Hao Sanshui exhaled and said clearly, then TF-L took out the map, spread it on the slope next to the stream, and then pointed to an area on the map with his thick fingers: "Our main purpose today is to check the place we went to yesterday, to determine whether the fog demon eats the exile, as for other things, when you have time, let's discuss it." ”

Hao Sanshui briefly explained the purpose of their team today.

Du Feng and Guan Ji heard Hao Sanshui's thoughts clearly, but doubts were also raised: "Captain, then how can we judge whether the fog demon eats the exile or not?" After all, we can't get into the small town of Frog. ”

"Three days."

"We spent three days crouching next to that vine tree, and I don't believe that if that thing really eats the exiles, it will not show its feet." Hao Sanshui said with great certainty.

"Okay, Captain, shall we leave now?" Three days was not a long time, and their squad was more than able to afford food and fuel in a hurry.

"There's no rush now, you check your equipment, and after you've got your things done, in 10 minutes, we'll go back to the place we were yesterday again." Hao Sanshui said.

"Well, okay, Captain." Du Feng and Guan Ji replied, and then went to deal with their own affairs.

……

Ten minutes later, the group began to move towards the place where the vine tree had been found yesterday.

With yesterday's experience, the speed of today's team is obviously much faster, without disturbing the exiles, it only took more than half an hour to come to the place where the vine tree appeared yesterday, and now standing only a hundred meters away from the vine tree, through the fog of more than a hundred meters, clearly looking at the shadowy vine tree, and the circle of exiles around the vine tree.

The next thing is to wait, and the waiting process is very boring.

The first day slowly passed under the gaze of the three people.

Hao Sanshui didn't see anything strange in one day, and the exiles around the vine tree didn't show anything else, just standing around the vine tree in a circle, greedily sucking the mist that the vine tree spits out from time to time, like the bird-faced zombie that has been sealed in the myth, full of weird atmosphere.

And there was no harvest for a day, and Hao Sanshui did not have any idea of giving up observation. As he said before, he had to observe for at least three days, and if he was not 100% sure that his previous conjecture was wrong, he would not rush to the small town of Forrog with his two teammates.

Otherwise, because of some impetuousness, he misjudged. Causing the fog demon to eat the exiles without their knowledge, with the order of a fog demon, more than a thousand exile ants poured over, not to mention the team of 3 people, even an ordinary team of 10 people may be buried by the exiles with corpses.

So Hao Sanshui and Du Feng and Guan Ji in the team, they are patient.

The time came the next morning, and as usual, the team came to a place more than a hundred meters away from the vine tree, and observed the vine tree from a distance during the day. When observing, Du Feng was quite surprised in his heart, because they had killed at least a hundred exiles yesterday and the day before yesterday combined, and there were many corpses of exiles lying on the ground, but the number of exiles in this area still did not decrease.

"This really confirms the truth that you can't kill more!" Du Feng thought in his heart, while defending against the attacks of the surrounding monsters, he kept his eyes on the top of the vine tree.

Guan Ji's thoughts are the same: "Where did these exiles fly from, and how can they have a continuous feeling? ”

Hao Sanshui didn't seem to think about this kind of thing, he just watched the vine tree's every move intently. And so the daylight of the next day passed, and they found nothing strange about it.

It wasn't until the sun was about to set and they were about to leave that Hao Sanshui suddenly stopped Du Feng and Guan Ji.

"Wait, there's a situation!" Hao Sanshui's voice was smooth and powerful.

"Huh?" Du Feng and Guan Ji shook their bodies, and at the same time turned their heads to look at the vine tree.

In the sight of the two people, it was already late, and the sunset could not penetrate the fog, but it dyed the fog a little yellow. Then under this dim mist, the vine tree that looked very strange moved for a moment, and then the vine at the top of the tree seemed to come to life, moving more and more, and finally the top of the vine shook up, circled around the sky and began to draw circles!

It turned counterclockwise, turned clockwise, and at the same time as the vine turned, the inside of the vine tree began to produce fog again, and the fog gushed out one after another. However, the gray-white fog during the day, the fog that came out this time turned out to be pure black, and the pure black fog was very terrifying just from the surface, and even if you can't smell it, you can feel how foul this black viscous fog is!!

Then Hao Sanshui saw the exiles around the vine trees inhaling this black mist, this sticky sucking scene, just like humans standing, eating noodles placed in a bowl on the ground, elongating the black noodles, and even he could hear the sound of the exiles sucking the pure black mist through TF-L, this sound is really disgusting! And after inhaling this mist, the bodies of the exiles made a tooth-aching compressed sound, as if something was running around in their bodies!

"Spores?" After the TF-L helmet, Hao Sanshui squinted, he zoomed in on what he saw, and then clearly saw the red floats wrapped in the black mist, which looked like the seeds of some kind of plant, or like the eggs of insects floating in the air.

"This ...... What the hell is this? Du Feng's mouth opened widely, he originally thought that the fog demon could produce a gray-white fog that was enough to make people feel surprised, but now when he saw that this black fog looked even more full of weird and eerie atmosphere, he thought in his heart with some disbelief: "This fog is actually black, like a fog turned into a ghost, and after these exiles inhaled the black mist, how did it seem to be a little different from before?"

At this time, Hao Sanshui's voice came from the radio: "These black fogs have dominated the exiles, they don't have much wisdom in the first place, and now they are estimated to be full of parasites." ”

"Parasite ......" Guan Ji couldn't help but shudder.

"Well, those black mists should contain something capable of controlling the exiles, similar to the parasitic seeds of the puppet dryad." Hao Sanshui introduced in a calm tone: "Now the question is why this fog demon wants to spread the black mist. ”

Why do fog demons spread black mist?

Guan Ji and Du Feng could almost guess this question, so in the somewhat trembling looks of the two of them, they saw that after the pure black mist was absorbed by the exile, the exile who had been standing there motionless just now suddenly moved!