It was not yet noon, but it seemed to be evening in the dense forest, and the dappled light and shadow cast through the gaps in the branches and leaves, and it was no longer as bright as before.

"Every time I go, the forest is darkened, is there any reason for this?"

Qu Tao stood there, but he felt as if a dark existence was about to rush towards him, and the slightest coolness became more and more intense.

"If I make a few more trips, will this place fall into darkness?"

He looked around, nothing had changed around him, it was still silent, but there was an inexplicable weirdness in the silence.

Taking a deep breath and letting go of superfluous distractions, he abruptly turned back and walked forward.

This time, instead of returning the way he came, he walked deeper into the forest.

The front was dark and silent, only the light sound of stepping on dead leaves echoed, the mist drifted around, and the farsightedness could no longer be seen clearly.

Not to mention the slightest hint of coldness drilling into the body, and the internal qi can't resist it.

He didn't retreat, his gaze scanned the surroundings from time to time, but the speed was not slow, and the tea kung fu had already walked more than 100 meters.

Suddenly, he stopped, and was silent at the sight of a tree trunk in front of him that had been cut to the ground.

It was the crooked thick wood again, and at this time it was slanted on the ground, and the trunk of the tree smashed off a lot of thick branches.

I stepped forward and looked at it for a while, but found that there were still no four or six words on the tree, and the fracture was smooth, which was caused by my own cutting.

Touching the smooth fracture, Qu Tao fell into deep thought.

"Every time I go back, the light gets dim and the temperature drops, but I don't change that way forward. ”

At this time, the surrounding scenery is still the same as before, it is still dim, silent, but it has not become darker, and the temperature has not changed.

"Is this formation so that the intruder can only move forward?"

Qu Tao felt that this possibility was very strong, and the changes around him were enough to explain all this, but he couldn't think of what the reason was.

He took the piece of wood from his bag, compared it to the broken stake in front of him, and then used a wood knife to cut the block of wood of the same size and shape.

This time, he still chose to move forward, and faster and faster.

Broken wood was left far behind him, the wind was whistling in his ears, this time he didn't choose to hide his whereabouts, his speed exploded with all his might, and every step would stir up a ball of dead leaves to fly, and the ground was stepped out of small pits by him.

He wanted to leave a trace.

It was only a moment before the thick log appeared in front of his eyes again, this time still broken and fell to the ground.

There is still no handwriting on it, but the incision left just now is still the same, and a small wooden block is taken out and placed on it for comparison, and the two are consistent and tightly fitted.

"It's true that I cut it myself, but there are no footprints on the ground, maybe it will appear next time. ”

As he spoke, he stepped out again, running through the forest like a cheetah, using all his strength with every foot, and the ground suddenly appeared one by one with his movements.

After a while, the rough log appeared again, still broken and fell to the ground with a cut, and the word forty-six still existed.

"Does it show up every other time?"

Looking ahead, in the mist, there were many traces of trampling on the ground.

"Sure enough, every once in the future, there would be rough logs with their own marks, and there would be footprints on the ground, so this was the right way. ”

Qu Tao has figured out some rules, but how to get out of this mysterious forest is still unknown.

Suddenly, his mind moved, and he put the small piece of wood that he had cut on the tree without the words four or six and compared it with the end wood.

The material of the two is exactly the same, because he cut it according to the size of the first block, so the block and the cut are also accidentally seamed.

It's from two different trees, or rather, the same tree, but it's impossible to tell which one is real.

"Place this block in the gap and try it yourself. ”

He did so, put the block away, and walked forward again.

The dense forest is covered with a thin haze and dim light, which is extremely oppressive in this silent environment.

Qu Tao was wary of the unknown, but he didn't have much fear, and even the mood of impatience did not appear at the moment, and he seemed very calm.

Another lap, during which he tried to change lanes, speeding in the other direction halfway down the tracks, but after a few moments, the broken log still appeared in front of him.

This time, there were no four or six words on the broken wood, which also confirmed his conjecture.

There was a gap in it, which was caused by a corner being cut off, and the piece of wood that had just been placed on the broken wood did not appear here.

He placed the first piece of wood in the gap between it and the broken wood, and it still fits.

It's just that after putting it on, this corner of wood is directly embedded in it as if it has taken root. He tried, but there was still a gap, but he couldn't remove it unless he used force to break the whole piece of wood.

"Quirky. ”

He muttered and looked around, not knowing if it was an illusion, it seemed that the surroundings were a little brighter.

The gloom seems to have subsided, and even the temperature has risen slightly.

"Could it be that the key lies in the two wooden blocks that I cut off? one is virtual, the other is real, and the combination of virtual and real?"

His afterglow swept ahead, and his expression suddenly perked.

"There's something ahead. ”

He saw a gray mass that seemed to be clothing scattered on the ground in the place he had passed a few times before.

Qu Tao walked forward slowly with a firewood knife in his hand, and after entering, he found that there was a corpse on the ground in front of him, I don't know who it was, and I don't know when it died here.

The bones were white, but they were very complete, and the clothes on their bodies were somewhat torn, but they could be distinguished.

This is not some expensive clothing, it is similar to the clothes on Meng Shu's body, it is obviously a martial artist, and there is a spear next to the corpse, and the head of the spear has rust on it.

He picked up the spear and found that the pole was somewhat rotten and wet.

Picking open the corpse's clothes with a spear and examining it carefully, it was found that the corpse was not damaged and was very intact.

Qu Tao was sure that he had not seen this corpse before, that is, this corpse appeared suddenly, but looking around, it was not difficult to find that the corpse had been here for a long time.

"Is it because of that piece of wood, or is this dense forest normal again?"

He placed his spear beside the corpse, and followed the footsteps he had taken.

He didn't take a few steps, but he found that a skeleton had appeared not far in front of him, whose age was unknown, but the fabric on his body had rotted.

The corpse was also face down, with a long knife on its back, which at a glance could be seen to be made of stainless steel, but it was rusted on it.

Just speculating from this, this bone has existed here for at least ten or twenty years.

And there is still no damage on this corpse, it is like a violent death, revealing weirdness.

Walking out more than ten zhang further, two more corpses appeared, and these were not far apart, only more than zhang. Qu Tao discovered a detail, that is, the two corpses were not facing one direction, but one facing east and the other facing south.

One of the two corpses was fully clothed and had a shiny weapon that was not rusted, while the other was a rotten garment and a rusty weapon.

In other words, the two did not know each other before they were born, and even the two appeared here at different times, and the latter was obviously older than the former. ”

Qu Tao observed, combined with the previous two corpses, and finally concluded that these people each fell in different directions, obviously at the beginning of death in different directions.

He knew very well that if he got lost in the dense forest, the best way out of the predicament was to follow one direction, and not change direction during the process.

Obviously, these people were the same before they died, but after their deaths, they went their separate ways.

"The strange formation just now can confuse people's senses, not only the sense of direction, but also the vision. I walked back and forth a few times before, but I didn't find these four corpses, and I was obviously deceived by some kind of weirdness. ”

He walked forward again, this time after walking more than ten zhang, he found that the footprints he left before suddenly disappeared not far away, and what was even more strange was that less than a zhang on his side, he found another line of footprints, which were left by himself, but in another direction.

There was even a corpse that appeared among the footprints in that direction, very scattered, apparently trampled by himself before.

"It's so weird, I obviously didn't feel any foreign objects under my feet before. ”

He took a deep breath, carved the word 472 on the trunk of the tree beside him, and walked forward again.

The surrounding thick wood was still dense, but the light and shadow cast by the forest became brighter and brighter, and the surroundings were no longer so dim.

"Shhh

After walking dozens of feet, the scene that appeared in front of him made him frightened.

Hundreds of corpses fell to the ground horizontally, and some were even stacked on top of each other, making this place like a mass grave, which was very terrifying.

"How can there be so many?"

Looking at it again, he was suddenly stunned.

Not far away, a corner of the cornice is revealed in the dense forest, although it is dilapidated, but it is very conspicuous.

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