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They stepped over the crumbling fences, guarding the boundaries of what looked like ordinary villages.

Everyone was silent, and no one broke the silence out of place. Qu Tongle's gaze is sharp and alert, and no wind or grass can escape his eyes.

They stepped on thick snowdrifts. The snow rubs against the top of the shoe to make a "creaking" sound.

The "base" here is said to have been built by anti-New Humanity groups that were built in the living environment of ordinary people.

They groped their way to the front of the courtyard of a three-story villa, looked at each other, and the forward Qu Tongle stepped forward and broke through the wrought iron gate with an elbow, and several people immediately put a hand on the shoulder of the front member, and followed Qu Tongle vigilantly into the courtyard.

There are a lot of plants and trees in the yard, but most of them have been crushed by the blizzard, and they can only hang low, and only a few pine trees still maintain a tall and lush posture, adding a little vitality to this desolate silver and white world.

A few people stepped on the long, crunchy, dry weeds, and there was a clattering noise, and the fragments of hay stained the pants of several people.

It looks like it's been uninhabited for a long time, and even the seal on the door of the villa looks very old, so could there really be those dangerous experimental remnants that have been abandoned here?

Wang Lin and Jiu Shanxie glanced at each other, and took the lead in going up and breaking the rusty lock on the gate.

Qu Tongle stretched out his hand, exerted a little strength, and pushed the door, with a "squeak-" sound, the overflowing decay with the smell of smoke and mold scattered through the crack in the door, and rushed straight to the door of several people.

Qu Tongle skillfully removed a bottle of spray from the tie around his waist and pressed it a few times inside the door, and the taste inside suddenly became less "charming". A few people leaned against the wall, waiting for the smell to sink down before stepping into the house.

It was an old house, very delicately furnished, but dusty, with cobwebs on the walls, and a piano lying across the reception room, covered with a thick layer of white ash.

They dispersed into two teams, Qu Tongle, Wang Lin team, Jiushanxi, Jiang Yan, Jiang Lan team, after dispersing, Jiang Yan took the two of them upstairs, as soon as they stepped on the second floor, they smelled a bigger musty smell.

"Could such a house really be used as a secret base for anti-New Humanity groups?" Jiang Yan thought secretly in his heart.

Before he could tell the two of them about this speculation, he first saw a scattered skeleton, and there was a small and complete canine skeleton coiled around it.

"This ......," he said, after making sure there was no danger around, he stepped forward to check.

"What's your conclusion?" Jiang Lan looked at him for a while, and suddenly asked.

Jiang Yan didn't dare to slack off, sorted out his thoughts, and said: "This scattered skeleton is an adult male, the cause of death is unknown, there are traces of canine bites on the bones, the meat pieces and bones are very cleanly peeled off, and the relatively brittle and soft bones are gone; His scalp was pulled to the side along with his hair. I think the wounds were caused by the small corpse next to it, which was their canine. It is likely that in the harsh winter, the owner suddenly fell ill and died, and the pet dog ate the owner's corpse in a hungry condition because he could not go out to forage after eating the feed. Later, it died of starvation next to its owner's corpse. ”

"Then why do you think it chose to die by its master's side when it finally died?"

"In my opinion...... Jiang Yan frowned, "Is it because there is still the smell of the master on the corpse?" ”

There is some truth to this; But what I think is the opposite: it starves to death by protecting the last bit of something that can barely be counted as food in the face of extreme hunger. ”

After Jiang Lan finished speaking, he turned his head to search in other rooms, Jiang Yan was afraid that something would happen to him, so he followed his steps. It's just that the three of them searched the second floor, and they didn't find any clues about the anti-new human group.

"Go up to the third floor and have a look?" Jiushanxi pointed to the stairs.

The three of them went up to the third floor. On the third floor is a full-story study with more than a dozen rows of bookshelves, neatly filled with books, but they all look covered with a thick layer of dust. It was dark inside, and the three of them tensed their nerves, turned on their searchlights, and slowly searched along the sequence of bookshelves.

Nothing.

There was a sound of footsteps at the stairs, Jiang Yan raised his gun vigilantly, the footsteps got closer and closer, and he immediately arrived at the door-

"Didn't you get anything too?" Wang Lin's voice sounded first.

Jiang Yan breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time, a sense of loss arose.

Is there a mistake in the information?

"The courtyard has been searched too?"

"I searched, no, we even rummaged through the weeds."

Jiang Yan sighed softly, a little discouraged, with a sense of frustration, not quite willing to return in vain on the first practical task of the theory of literature and history of country C: "Is there anything else we haven't thought of?" ”

"We thought about the cellar. Because in such a remote and cold place, every household has to store vegetables for the winter, but we searched the floor on the first floor and found no hidden switches. This is also the case with the courtyard. ”

Jiang Yan always felt that there was something else he had overlooked, and he looked thoughtfully at a certain place in the study - he always felt that the entire area of the room, as if a small piece was missing from each floor, did not match the area that seemed to be outside.

Jiang Yan had an idea.

He took a deep breath, and the blue aura around him suddenly rose!

"Why ...... all of a sudden" open field? Before Wang Lin could finish asking, he was interrupted by Jiang Lan with his eyes.

Jiang Yan closed his eyes.

At some very close distance, there was a chaotic, faint noise of some kind of noise, bang, knock, bang......

He gritted his teeth and tried to reach out and try to touch the voice.

Bang knock, bang knock, bang knock......

He finally caught a glimpse of some traces in the chaotic movement, which gradually spread before his eyes, eventually forming a series of footprints that intersected with his foothold and then extended to the door.

He snapped his eyes open, pointed to a wall, and said, "There's a staircase behind that!" There are two flights of stairs...... Below is the basement. ”

As soon as he said this, not only Wang Lin and Jiu Shanxi, but also Qu Tongle and Jiang Lan were surprised.

"You...... How can you tell? ”

"My command. My command has a side effect called 'synaesthesia'. Jiang Yan said, "My reason is that this can only be associated with sane people, it seems that it is not, as long as there are vital signs, I can feel it." ”

"That's a good command." Wang Lin muttered.