"There's no picture," said the white tiger, shaking his head and handing the camera to the pangolin.

"Try it, maybe there's something in there."

The camera is a product of the '80s, and it is inferred that there may have been people from the outside world who came into contact with the rainforest nearly two decades ago, and they also walked into it and were trapped in the array, wondering if they ended up feeding the insects in the rainforest or walking out.

Probably psychologically, the Nine-Tails' uneasiness intensified as they went deeper into the rainforest area.

"We can't go any further." Nine-Tails said.

"Why, what did you find again?" White Tiger asked.

"Look at the inscription on this tree, don't you notice, we've been going around in circles, and we'll never be able to get out." Nine-Tails' expression was extremely unnatural.

A thick old tree nearby has been artificially peeled off a layer of skin, and a carving knife is used to carve patterns on the surface of the tree. The engraving is quite old, and the outline of the surface of the pattern has long been blurred.

"Why didn't you tell me if you found someone carving a pattern on a tree?" The white tiger spoke angrily.

Nine-Tails replied and said, "Please see clearly, these are not patterns, they are Dongba scripts." ”

This script, which originated in the Tang Dynasty, has a history of more than 1,000 years and has a total of about 1,400 words.

"Specialized pictograms, people are pictures, things are pictures, and they are written deeds." This is the best interpretation of Dongba language.

"Since I can't understand it, it's useful for you. According to the pictogram, they should have six people in the room, and the number of them was constantly decreasing, until finally there were two left. Hopefully, I'm wrong in my literal understanding. ”

The white tiger looked at the woman suspiciously, "How many times have we passed by this place?" ”

The Nine-Tails no longer concealed it, and explained frankly, "Three times." ”

After a few laps, the surrounding background barely changes, which is one of the great features of the maze, even if the next moment they are about to approach the edge of the rainforest, they will mistakenly think that they are still in the middle of the forest, and they can pass by it.

"Head, there's a picture." The pangolin reported excitedly.

The first video screen:

Appearing in front of the camera is a young woman wearing a sachiko shirt, which belongs to the popular clothing style of the era. The footage is from their first entry into the rainforest, where the woman says hello to the camera, and then the camera turns to photograph the rainforest. At this point, the screen is cut off.

"This woman has a dead breath on her head, and she will definitely die when she enters the rainforest maze." The civet leaned over to look at the picture and made a blunt assertion.

The raccoon sarcastically said, "I didn't expect you to have such a vicious mouth." ”

"You just think so, I don't look away. She's short-lived. The civet didn't bother to take care of her, and moved to the side. The raccoon's personality is the most feminine among several women, belonging to the weak type of woman, and the civet cat also smells a breath of death from this woman, if someone in this team will die, she can't escape the doom.

This is a talent hunch belonging to a civet.

The rest of the people were stunned, and Firefox said, "Don't spread this kind of emotion, it will cause panic in the team." ”

The video footage started normal again, playing intermittently.

Where the camera is pointed, three men in tunics are running ahead, and the woman in Sachiko's shirt is behind the three.

The video screen is shaky, and several people should be running at high speed. There is no external voice playback from the machine, and the whole picture is like a pantomime.

"Hyena, on the lower lip." The white tiger said to the hyena.

From time to time, the man in the video turns his head and beckons to his companion behind him.

"Run, those Miao people are catching up." Hyenas are good at observing the changes in a person's lips when they speak, and repeating a sentence completely.

"Hmph, it turned out to be the usual trick of those barbarians, driving people to the Jedi." Said the civet.

The picture is once again covered with snowflakes.

"Forget it, let's rest in place."

"It was about 8 o'clock in the morning when we came in, and it should be close to 12 noon by now." The dial on the white tiger's wrist has stagnated.

The raccoons hand out compressed biscuits, which are their lunch meal today.

The Nine-Tails has a general understanding of the formation layout in this rainforest, and the reference is not to the layout of the eight gates, but to the ancient pole number "nine". The main side of the sacrifice in this array needs to be nourished by the blood of the living to break the situation. The ancients were good at studying the psychology of human beings, and in order to survive alone, there would inevitably be internal fighting.

"White Tiger."

"Well, what do you want to say?"

"I'll tell you one last time, there must be someone in the team as a sacrifice, otherwise no one alive will be able to get out." Nine-Tails' character is indifferent, seeing through the life and death of others, and only allowing himself to live alone.

The pangolin held the camera and fiddled against the tree engraved with Dongbawen, and the image reappeared.

The surrounding light was dim, and it was almost certain that the group had entered the rainforest maze.

"How?" Monkey.

"Three men and one woman, the rest should die outside." Pangolins responded.

In the scene, a middle-aged man wearing glasses is facing a large tree with Dongba characters engraved on it.

He stroked the bark of the tree, as if to make out the words.

"What are you talking about?" Monkey.

"The plants here are alive." The hyena's eerie voice came from the backs of the two men.

The pangolin was clever for a while, and immediately moved its position, keeping a distance from the ancient tree behind it.

He noticed that the man in the picture was facing the tree in front of him.

The picture was shaking, and the person in charge of filming with a camera in hand at the time obviously wanted to record the words on the tree, but suddenly suffered some kind of external resistance. The footage shows the ground and shines on the face of another man, vividly recording the man's frightened expression.

"The tree ~ is alive." The pangolin stares at the camera in surprise.

The crisp picture lasted only two seconds. Vineman stretched out from the inside of the ancient tree, wrapped directly around the arm of the man with glasses, and dragged him into the ancient tree with all his might.

The filming process stopped at the extended section of Fujiman, and then two other men rushed forward to pull and save their companions, and in the middle of the shooting, the woman in charge of holding the camera should have joined the rescue of her teammates.

"I don't think that person was dragged in like that." The ancient tree had no mouthparts on the outside, but the monkey had a premonition that the person had been eaten directly by it.

The first reports of man-eating plants came from a number of explorers in the second half of the 19th century, including a German explorer named Karl Rich.

After returning from an expedition, he said: "On the African island of Madagascar, I saw with my own eyes a tree that can eat people, and the local people worship it as a sacred tree. Once an indigenous woman was driven to climb the sacred tree for violating the precepts of the tribe, and the eight leaves with hard thorns wrapped her tightly, and when the leaves were reopened, only a pile of white bones remained. ”

Since then, rumors of man-eating plants have spread.