"Zuo Zhenren, what should I do now?" Zhao Cannon pointed to the dead woods and asked,

"Line up, in groups of three, with the machine gunner in front, the bombardier in the center, and the bombardier in the back, and kill the living creatures directly." Zuo Dengfeng pondered for a moment and said,

Hearing this, Zhao Cannon immediately conveyed the order to his subordinates with gestures, and more than two hundred people marched into the dead forest in an orderly manner.

"This is not a minefield, don't be nervous, speed up." Zuo Dengfeng spoke again, the white bones on the periphery of the dead forest made these soldiers extremely nervous, and after entering the dead forest, they moved forward in fear, at this speed, it was absolutely impossible to search the dead forest before dark,

"No matter what happens, you are not allowed to retreat, one person escapes, and everyone is buried with you." Zuo Dengfeng spoke again, it is taboo for soldiers to run away from the battle, and this kind of thing must be prevented in advance.

Everyone looked back at him in horror when they heard this, Zuo Dengfeng looked around coldly, and no one dared to face him as far as his eyes could see.

The soldier walked in front, Zuo climbed the peak behind, and Thirteen jumped in the trees,

The dead forest was full of dead poplar trees, and there were few branches on the main trunk of the poplar trees, so everyone was not hindered to advance, and after five miles of progress, the soldier on the right found an unexpected situation, and the left climbed the peak and flashed to find that what made the soldier exclaim was the corpse of a humanoid creature, the animal had not been dead for a long time, and it had not been completely dried, the abdominal cavity and chest cavity had been torn open, and the internal organs inside had been devoured by some animal,

"Zuo Zhenren, what kind of monster is this." Zhao Cannon asked suspiciously,

"A monster that can be shot to death." Zuo Dengfeng responded casually, and at the same time squatted down to inspect the corpse, the abdominal cavity was not protected by bones, and nothing could be seen, but the chest cavity was protected by bones, the bones of the chest cavity of this humanoid corpse were bitten off by some animal, and the stubble was very neat, which showed that the animal that ate its internal organs had very sharp teeth, and its size would not be very small, and it was very likely to be the poisonous scorpion derived from the Yin fire snake,

"Keep walking." After a while, Zuo Dengfeng stood up and waved his hand at Zhao Cannon, since the poisonous scorpion is back here, the Yin Fire Snake should also be here,

As soon as Zuo Dengfeng's voice fell, an exclamation suddenly came from the left, Zuo Dengfeng turned his head to look north when he heard the sound, and found that only two of the three people on the northernmost side of the team were left, and the bombardier who walked at the end was gone, and the machine gunner and the bombardier were looking at the ground in horror.

Zuo Dengfeng quickly dodged and found that there was a sand pit on the ground that was closing rapidly, and he didn't know what animal the bombardier was dragged into the ground by some animal.

"Do you see what it is?" Zuo Dengfeng turned his head to look at the two frightened soldiers,

"Nope." The two shook their heads again and again,

At this moment, there was a sudden violent vibration on the ground, and the yellow sand thirty meters away in front of him was scattered and splashed.

"Be careful." Zuo Dengfeng set up a purple qi barrier in front of him to block the yellow sand, and he had to make these soldiers think that he would protect them.

The splash of yellow sand had a strong smell of gunpowder, suggesting that the previous explosion was caused by the grenade being pulled by the bombardier dragged into the ground by the monster before he died.

"Don't panic." After Zuo Dengfeng blocked the sand, he quickly stepped forward to check the sand pit that was blown out, and the sand around the sand pit was quickly filling in the sand pit at the moment.

"Keep walking, stick to the poplar tree as close as you can." Zuo Dengfeng raised his hand at everyone,

Hearing this, everyone moved forward again, Zuo Dengfeng distanced himself from everyone, and waited intently for the monster under the sand to appear again.

Zuo Dengfeng's attention was on the legs and feet of everyone in front of him, as long as the monster attacked everyone, he could determine what it was at the first time.

Maybe it was the previous explosion that startled the monster underground, and there was no abnormality after walking for several miles, just when Zuo Dengfeng gradually relaxed, he suddenly felt something grab his feet, and then a great force came to pull him underground,

Zuo Dengfeng reacted at the first time, his hands extended the aura and suddenly borrowed on the ground around him, his body quickly rose up, and he pulled the animal holding his feet out of the ground, and after the animal left the sand, Zuo Dengfeng saw its appearance clearly, it was nothing else, it was the animal of that kind of person,

"Blind your dog's eye." Zuo Dengfeng leaned down with his right hand in mid-air, sending out Xuanyin True Qi to freeze the monster of that kind of person, this monster that attacked him was a female, with obvious female characteristics and reproductive organs, but its torso was not straight, but curved like a monkey, and there were only three mutated fingers on its hands, a bit like a bird's claws, thick and powerful, but the nails were not long, and its teeth were worn out very badly, which showed that the food it usually ate was very poor,

"You see, this is it." Zuo Dengfeng threw the monster into the crowd, his move was intended to reduce the psychological pressure of the crowd, at least let them know what their enemies were like,

"Listen to Lao Tzu, and then they grabbed their feet and necks, and their arms were stretched out and stuck on the ground, don't let them drag them under the sand, and the people around them should hurry up and save people." Zhao Cannon took out a pistol and killed the monster,

At this time, everyone's psychological pressure plummeted, and they agreed to move forward again in unison.

Zuo Dengfeng stepped forward to look at the monster and found that the monster had a big belly.

"Isn't it pregnant?" Zhao Cannon came over, he likes to be with Zuo Dengfeng, at least he is safe and secure,

"Not really." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said, the pregnant woman has a bulge in her lower abdomen, and this monster with a female surname has a bulge in her belly, and the position is wrong.

"Then why is it so big?" Zhao Dacang looked at the monster's stomach suspiciously,

Zuo Dengfeng didn't say anything when he heard this, he drew his knife out of the sheath and cut open the monster's stomach, and after disemboweling, he found that the monster's stomach had all kinds of things that had not had time to be digested, including mostly wood fibers, and a small amount of scorpions and lizards.

"It turns out that they eat tree roots, no wonder they have such big bellies." Zhao Dacang said that there are often famines in these years, and the victims will gnaw on the roots of the trees in the year of the famine, and the roots are not easy to digest, so from time to time you can see the victims with big bellies but yellow muscles and thin muscles.

"Let's go." Zuo Dengfeng nodded and walked forward, he observed the details and found two clues, one is that the sour smell emitted by the monster's stomach is stronger than that of humans, which shows that their digestion ability is very strong, and they can digest food that humans can't digest, this ability is not something that can be possessed overnight, it can be seen that these monsters have been breeding here for many years, and the second is that the fibers in the monster's stomach are finer than the wood fibers of the poplar tree, which means that they are not eating the roots of the poplar tree, but another plant, However, there are no other plants around, so Zuo Dengfeng deduced that there should be another set of ecosystems under the dead forest.

Before the Han Dynasty, there were people here, and there would definitely be no such monsters at that time, and the Han Dynasty was only two thousand years now, and two thousand years is not enough time to evolve a species, so these monsters can only be mutated by human beings, and human vitality is extremely tenacious, and they can survive in the most difficult environment, but at this time, Zuo Dengfeng didn't understand why these people didn't leave here before they became a desert here, but stayed here and evolved into what they are today.

There are a lot of such monsters, from time to time from under the sand to drag the soldiers on the ground to the ground, with the experience of the past, these soldiers will stretch out their arms and shout for help when they are attacked, and the nearby comrades will take action to drag them up, but although they saved their lives but they were all bitten without exception, these monsters will bite their legs before letting go, the light ones are just bitten through the leggings, and the serious ones will be torn off a piece of flesh,

The dead forest is a hundred miles in radius, and when it is thirty miles old, there is a gunshot on the right, Zuo Dengfeng immediately swept to the right when he heard the sound, and found that several soldiers on the right were firing wildly at a huge scorpion in the forest, this scorpion is as big as a grinding plate, it is the poison derived from the Yin fire snake, but just when Zuo Dengfeng was overjoyed, he found that this scorpion was just the shell of the poisonous scorpion, and the shell still had a strong fishy smell, and the molting time should not be long,

Although it is not the main owner, but seeing its shed skin also made Zuo Dengfeng secretly relieved, the poisonous scorpion is still here, and the Yin fire snake must not have left, but this is its territory, and the animals have a strong sense of domination of the territory, the last time he walked into the dead woods, not long after the Yin fire snake appeared, this time it was an explosion and a shot, why did the Yin fire snake not appear,

"Let's go, move on, and get out early when you're done searching early." Zuo Dengfeng said to the soldiers who had stopped, these people were obviously full of fear of the dead woods, and they would stop at every opportunity.

"Report, I picked up a sign." Not long after the procession was moving forward, a soldier ran back quickly with an object.

Zhao Cannon took it halfway, waved his hand and scolded the soldier away, and walked to Zuo Dengfeng with the thing and handed it to him.

Zuo Dengfeng probe took it, and immediately frowned after starting, this brand is made of hardwood, a long pinch, half a foot high, with a base under it, it is completely the style of the spiritual position, due to the age, the wooden card has been cracked and broken, but fortunately, the word of the spiritual position is engraved rather than written, so it can vaguely distinguish the two words "Peng's" at the upper end,

The ancient surname is separated, the man is called the name, the woman is called the surname, this spiritual seat should be dedicated to the ancestors of the Peng family, although there are only two words but it contains important information, that is, the Lop Nur area was previously inhabited by the Peng people, and the area near the ancient city of Loulan in the south should be the territory of the Qiang State.

"Zuo Zhenren, what's wrong." Zhao Dacang saw Zuo Dengfeng's brows tightened, and asked suspiciously,

"This was the place where the Peng people used to place the Yin Fire Snake, and their ancestral tablets should not appear here." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said,

"Why shouldn't we?" Zhao Cannon is unknown,

"Because the ancients respected their ancestors very much, the ancestral spiritual position would not be placed with animals, it should be placed in the ancestral hall, and it would not be moved casually." Zuo Dengfeng explained that Zhao Cannon couldn't keep up with his thinking, but apart from him, there was no one who could speak.

Zhao Dacang didn't ask again when he heard this, because he still didn't understand what Zuo Dengfeng wanted to say,

"It's not an overnight thing that this place becomes a desert, and the people who originally lived here should have enough time to move out, but it seems that they didn't move outside, but moved here, and this ancestral spiritual seat is very likely to have been left here when they moved." Zuo Dengfeng said to himself,

"Why did they move here?" Zhao Cannon asked, he didn't want to answer, but it would be rude not to answer Zuo Dengfeng's words,

"I don't know, but one thing is for sure, they won't be able to go out again after they move here, otherwise they won't come back to find the ancestral tablet......"