Of course, the entrance is not just across the road, but is located in the wilderness a few hundred meters away on the side of the road, surrounded by dry and dry dirt floors, the dirt floor is a little flat, and it is difficult to find even a little flaw in the plane with the naked eye.

Therefore, it is not on the hard road surface, but on such a dry and fragile dry mud floor, such a large strange pattern inexplicably appears, and the cold pattern makes people feel cold from the bottom of their hearts even if they look at it during the day, not to mention that it is still a night with outrageous visibility, and for a moment everyone feels as if something is going to come out from under the ground covered by the pattern.

"Damn, what the hell, I demolished it."

Infected by the strange atmosphere, Aurora subconsciously took a few steps back, but quickly reacted, clenched her fists angrily, and rushed towards the ground covered with patterns, but she had only taken a few steps before she was dragged back by a whip wrapped around her waist.

"Don't be impulsive." It was Babu who spoke, and he said with a gloomy face, "Let's observe the situation first, even if we want to demolish it, we must first figure out what we are demolishing." ”

Aurora swung her fist at Babu, but she didn't rush again, and Elvis, who was holding the searchlight, moved the beam of light back under Monica's command, trying to illuminate the range of the pattern.

It is a lot of dry mud area, at least thousands of square meters of area are covered by patterns, the lines of the patterns are fine and the lines are regular to form a closed loop, at first glance it is impossible to form a natural texture. At this time, these strange textures are densely spread on an even more eerie plane, and from the surface of the lines, it seems that a strange red mist is constantly emerging, and then escaping into the night.

"It definitely can't be natural." The pattern was too weird, and Babu didn't come close to observe, keeping a certain distance and trying his best to watch, "Hey, take a closer look, the thickness of each line is about the same, and the depth is also very close, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a person carved it in one breath, otherwise, once there is one more person, the depth and thickness cannot be so consistent." ”

"It shouldn't be, when we came in yesterday, we didn't find anything, but I remember that the entrance and exit didn't come here at the time, and it was ......" Monica tried to look around, but it was too dark at night, and even if there was a portable searchlight, it was difficult to find the road that could serve as a coordinate, "Anyway, it's not here, I just don't know if they encountered this kind of thing when they came out to pick up waste this morning." Maybe of course it hasn't moved yet, so I haven't encountered it, otherwise it wouldn't have been discovered. But this is strange, such a complex pattern is not something that can be drawn in a few hours. I think that such a large scale, even if it is a group of skilled workers, it is impossible to complete it in a few days, who will be carved by one person? ”

"The present world that used to open on the edge of this area?" Babu asked, thoughtful.

"No, I've talked to Judy about this, and she once mentioned that once there is an edge switch, the traces of people on the edge will be restored, including the cars that His Highness moved away, and it is likely that they will be restored, of course, including the mutants that we worked so hard to clean up." Monica shook her head, "So, there's no point in doing these things on the inner edge of the edge, unless someone can do such a complex pattern in an instant, but I don't think anyone can do that." ”

"But what if it's not human." The corners of Babu's mouth twitched slightly, and he said, "Some things really don't seem like people can do. ”

"Huh?" Monica gave her a puzzled look.

"Here...... It used to be a small lake. Babu pointed to a long wooden platform in the distance, "Well, the ruins of the pier over there are still there, so that's right." ”

"Is there a lake on the edge too?" Several businessmen from the Hills Chamber of Commerce asked suspiciously.

"It seems that there were some before, and you can see it by looking at the ground, but there is a very strange problem." Babu frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly led everyone along the periphery of the pattern and began to wander, and after a large circle, he finally found a few areas that were not covered by the pattern, and Babu chose one, and then stepped on it first.

The movement is slow, and the footing is cautious, but unfortunately, no matter how light you are, as soon as you take a step after stepping on it, the dry and hard mud suddenly cracks, and the foot directly sank into the cracked soil.

"Sure enough, when I look at it, I feel that this kind of ground is brittle and hard, and it is impossible for people to stand on it, and I really can't imagine how I can carve such a wide range of patterns on this kind of ground without leaving footprints." Babu shifted his position again, but as before, not long after stepping on the ground, he stumbled and stepped into a large hole, and almost destroyed the integrity of all the lines.

"Could it be that like those roads and building ruins, these lines are also relics?" The people from the Chamber of Commerce muttered, "I don't know how long I've been here, but I just happened to be discovered by us today." Maybe someone has found it before or even stepped on it, but didn't you just say that every edge switch will be restored, well, that makes sense. ”

Babu didn't say anything, just took a few steps back out of the lines, then crouched down and fingers wrenched up a pinch of dust from the ground. There is a perennial ash of ash on the edges, and there is always a layer of dust on the ground and on the surface of objects, giving people a dirty and dirty feeling, and Babu has asked Monica why there is dust and rust but does not cover those low objects too much, and it seems that she has also seriously discussed this issue with Judy, a marginal scholar.

While thinking, he gave Monica a grateful smile, and Babu carefully twisted the ashes on his fingertips and said, "This is the thickness of normal ashes, you can look at the ashes in those lines." ”

"Huh?" It dawned on the four merchants that, as Babu had said, there was only a very shallow layer of ash in the lines, and if the conventions were to be extrapolated from the edges, the lines would only appear for a day at most.

For some reason, a few people subconsciously imagined a group of human beings who couldn't see their faces floating in the air, silent but moving in unison, head-down on the ground with a stroke of pattern, too vivid imagination made the four of them shiver, subconsciously looking around, always feeling that there was something fluttering in the dense fog around them staring at them.

"Don't scare yourself yet."

Babu shook his head at the four merchants, whispered a few words to Monica, and then took everyone around the pattern a few more times. This time, everyone deliberately observed the whole pattern, and probably saw the whole pattern clearly.

In general, it is an irregular closed pattern, the internal texture is very complex, and it does not seem to be meaningless lines, in each line, there seems to be an unknown strange energy flowing, and it is precisely for this reason that when they first saw the lines, several people had extremely strange feelings.

After going around a few times, Babu squinted his eyes and observed the whole pattern from the farthest distance allowed by the pillar of light, although Monica didn't know what he was studying, but she still followed closely, seeing that the others were standing more scattered, and couldn't hear the whispers of the two, so she pretended to be relaxed and asked, "This thing is important to us?" Or is it important to East Valley City or what we're going to do? ”

"It's hard to say, but I always feel like I've seen similar lines somewhere." Babu hammered his head with a tangled face, and said in distress, "I just can't remember it for a while, and I don't know if it's a very important thing." ”

"What's recent?" Monica thought for him.

"Well, it should be recently, maybe I just saw it by accident, I didn't care about it at the time, I just left such an impression in my mind."

"He is a natural observer, and he can inadvertently accept information." Monica pursed her lips and muttered, "Don't worry, carefully reconstruct our experience, the most recent one, it should be after leaving Tanuki Town......"

"It won't take long, otherwise it's okay to think slowly, and I don't have to insist on finding the answer as soon as possible." "The time should be closer," said the Báb. ”

"How closer." Monica gave him a blank look, and said angrily, "It's not going to be close just before we went out just now, I don't remember seeing any patterns along the way......"

In the middle of speaking, Monica suddenly stopped, stared at Babu in shock, and froze in place, although neither took the initiative to speak, but both of them knew that the other had thought of the same thing.

Recently, the two of them did meet a very complicated, cumbersome and unclear pattern, which looks beautiful on the surface, but always gives people an eerie feeling.

Just before the two of them came out, they were in the heart of the city, on the gorgeous castle.

The part of the castle that is being renovated has exposed a large area of similar patterns, the same complexity and cumbersomeness, the same gloomy, but it is impossible to judge whether it is exactly the same for the time being.

"I always feel like we've discovered some amazing secret." Monica glanced at the curious Aurora covertly, and the Third Highness was crouching beside a few merchants watching them go around and survey the pattern, "Do you think she knows about this?" ”

"With her intellectual performance, it is impossible to know." Babu sighed sympathetically, then pointed to the top of her head, "But I doubt that this pattern is actually the real purpose of that thing, or rather not the real purpose, but the real reason for her anger." ”

"Are you sure?"

"I'm not sure, so I'm going to do a test." Babu took a deep breath and licked his lips, although his palms were already soaked in cold sweat, he still said with a little excitement, "You take Anna, don't go with me, there's really something wrong, don't wait for me, run directly into the present world, don't worry, I will run myself, and I am more flexible." ”

"Don't mess around." Monica grabbed Babu's hand and dragged him back, "Is it so dangerous?" Is it really necessary? ”

"Seriously, I don't know, I just said the worst possible, of course it's more likely that nothing happened, I was just nervous in vain." Babu shook his head and sighed, "As for necessity? Oh, whether it's to ask us for help, or just to watch the excitement, that thing has actually been releasing kindness to us and to Anna. I don't know what this kindness means to her, whether it needs to pay a price, but for the party who accepts kindness, it can't really be taken for granted, just accept it with peace of mind, that's not our style, we should always do something to repay her kindness, even if it's just a gesture. ”

Monica pondered for a moment, nodded, and slowly let go of the hand holding Babu, but the whip quickly wrapped around his wrist: "Do what you want, I won't follow with Anna, but if there is any danger, we are Monica and Babu, I will catch you back from the brink of danger, just like the previous times, hum, don't try to get rid of myself out of tune." ”

"Oh, okay, I see." Babu gave a thumbs up and grinned, then clapped his hands and said to the others, "You guys, let's come and concentrate, get out of the way, I'm going to do an experiment, don't stay away and be careful of being swept in." Third Highness, you are the same, go and wait by Monica's side, it will be fine soon. ”

After successfully driving everyone away from the surrounding pattern, Babu wrapped a whip around his wrist, and on the premise of not destroying the surface, he found a position closest to the pattern and squatted down, staring at the fine pattern flowing with strange energy in front of him and hesitated, raised his hand several times but put it down again.

After one last hesitation, Babu's nose fluttered, and he took a few deep breaths, then stretched out the index finger of his other hand and pressed it lightly against the strange lines.

The moment he touched it, Babu shook like a lightning strike, and completely froze in place, because at this moment, he seemed to have spied on an extremely strange existence again.

It was a huge, swollen humanoid monster, the monster had no head, only limbs writhed wildly, and with each twist, countless crumb-like corpses fell from the surface of the body, gathering into wriggling corpses under it, and it grabbed and devoured them. The monster was covered in foul-smelling clouds, green clouds mixed in a blood-red mist, accompanied by a suffocating stench that was enough to drive anyone who looked directly at it into madness.

Babu didn't go crazy, but he felt quite disgusting and almost threw up, and more importantly, the swollen monster didn't know if he had noticed something unusual and was turning his attention to the direction of Babu's snooping. However, as soon as it began to divert its attention, a strong force came from the arm at the right time, directly pulling him away from the place, and as the fingers left the lines, everything in front of him disappeared on the spot like an illusion, as if it was a dream.

"Shh Regaining consciousness, Babu discovers that the searchlights have been turned off, and Monica silences him, before leading a group of people into the fog, and at the same time, the sound of human conversation can be heard from far and near in the thick fog.