"Looks like we're going to have to pick up the pace." Lin Bingling used a pen to enclose the general outline of this area on the map, as if he was marking.

Qin An nodded in agreement: "I have observed, and if you go down to the east, you can reach the lake, where there is a relatively safe place marked by the reclamation team, although I don't know if this is correct now...... But you also know that they don't make sense. After that lake, I am afraid we have only entered the most dangerous place, and if we go further in, I will no longer be able to guide you with accuracy. ”

Since the discovery of the lake, the clearing teams have come to the conclusion that individual will cannot be self-directed in the opposite forest, and many expeditions have experienced consciousness level confusion in the forest over there, and after exiting the area, this confusion will gradually disappear over time.

They guessed that this might be some kind of territorial creature in the forest, and in order to test this hypothesis, a wilderness team had the team members enter the forest together and draw a route to get there, but when comparing the routes drawn by each person, they found that each person drew a different route.

After they came out, they drew the previous route again, and each of them redrew the route according to their memory, and it was still the same, they were sure that there would be no mistake in their walking route, but they were also sure that they were moving forward with the team.

It was thought that the area was generating a strange energy magnetic field that interfered with the consciousness of the team, but when they took the device and re-entered the forest, the device showed that everything was normal.

Since then, expeditions to the outer reaches of the Firmament Forest have rarely ventured into the forest on the other side of the lake, and the map shows that the light gray color below the lake has become almost inky.

This is the result of countless pioneers reporting the same thing.

"Strange, why is it that I have been in the outer circle for more than ten miles, and I haven't seen a single beast?" Qin An finally couldn't help but complain, although the deeper he went into the forest, the more dangerous it became, but apart from the grotesque scene he saw in the early morning, he really hadn't seen a beast with his own eyes.

"I think it's weird, I shouldn't be."

After the team continued to go deeper for a few kilometers, Lin Bingling decided not to move forward, at this time there was still a distance of nearly three kilometers from the lake, and on the mountainside, the secluded lake under the mountain was faintly visible.

After a day and a half of trekking, the team was finally approaching the vicinity of the target location, but the atmosphere of the firmament forest made everyone faintly feel that a chill had penetrated into their skin, and it didn't feel right.

He Qixuan knew that it was too quiet.

In fact, the beasts appeared, and as recently as last night, while everyone was asleep, they watched them silently.

But apart from the sudden arrival of the beast in the depths of the night, which left a mark outside the tent, they had not really encountered a beast until now, and no matter how hidden the beast was and afraid of humans, it would not be impossible to see a trace.

At first, He Qixuan also wanted to follow the footprints left by the beast last night to look for them, but after not far from the tent, these footprints were broken, and he never saw a trace again.

"Sister Ling, is there any way, we don't know when we will be able to complete the task if it goes on like this."

Everyone was aware of this vision, which made these students who came for the task a little worried, Lin Bingling frowned slightly at this time, thinking about it, and after a while, he shook his head helplessly: "Not sure, I don't come to the Firmament Forest much more often than you." Anyway, there are destinations, so let's go to the target location first. ”

Hearing this, everyone had a hard time, this kind of task of collecting blood samples is not a simple job, not only to have good patience, but also to be very strong, if it is not for their strength, this strength of the mountain can not bear the average person.

But now, they didn't even find a single beast, and there were quite a few acts, but they were all traces of a few days ago or earlier.

Their mood gradually sank with the disappearance of the original creatures of this firmament forest, and although it was difficult to speak, the balance in their hearts began to move more or less towards the worst outcome, and as time passed, the magnitude of the movement became more and more obvious.

After a short rest, everyone walked towards the bottom of the mountain, and the group walked steadily in the process of descending the mountain, there was no way down the mountain, sometimes the cliffs were steep, sometimes the thorns were overgrown, even if it was only three kilometers away, it took a full afternoon.

But fortunately, I found the stronghold left by the original wilderness team, and after being renovated and transformed by people who entered this place at different times day after day, it became a refuge for human survival, a small signal receiving station, so that the place that was originally isolated from the outside world has a trace of connection.

Life cooks, talk about ambitions.

He Qixuan and Lin Bingling listened silently, did not participate in it, and occasionally asked He Qixuan to cover it with polite and polite words, it seemed that he was not with them from beginning to end, but just a kind of fate that allowed them to get together here.

After eating, Lin Bingling didn't practice alone like yesterday, she sat directly next to He Qixuan, He Qixuan was looking at the information on the mobile phone about the introduction of the beast group in the Firmament Forest, and when he saw Lin Bingling coming over, he also put the mobile phone back in his pocket with interest, and looked at the team leader with a puzzled expression.

"He Qixuan, tomorrow we need to go around from the lake to the other side, and we have to ask you for the rest of the journey, the beast wood element in the firmament forest has a strong atmosphere, as long as you release your perception, you can effectively distinguish it."

"Well, this is my first time using this ability, and I can only promise to do my best." He Qixuan said the ugly words in front.

Lin Bingling did not react to this.

"Actually, there is another thing, this matter was mentioned to me by Qin An, although he is a relatively ...... person Big grin, well, in fact, I don't really want to change his character, but his ability to survey is really good, he knows that there are some disputes with you, but he is a master who can't pull this face and won't take the initiative to apologize. When Lin Bingling said this, he also had a little headache.

Then she added: "I hope you don't take it to heart about the previous incident, although we signed the contract, we will not leave anyone behind." ”

"No, Team Lin." He Qixuan smiled.

Lin Bingling nodded, He Qixuan gave her the feeling that he was always outside the team, although he was in the same team, but he was always unknown, Lin Bingling had actually seen him secretly release his induction to observe the surrounding situation, and he was very skilled, she didn't know why He Qixuan said that he used power for the first time, but it was certain that his wood element affinity should not be low.

After hesitating, she still spoke: "Qin An, he mentioned it to me by chance in the morning, although it was very vague, but what he meant was that those creatures last night seemed to have come to find something, or that it was more appropriate to confirm it, I didn't believe it very much at first, but now I have encountered too many abnormal things, and I have to pay attention, so I still think it is better to listen to you." ”

He Qixuan's face remained unchanged, but he was shocked in his heart, Lin Bingling's words showed that she felt that the incident last night was related to He Qixuan, and according to the results of Qin An's guess, he was the most suspicious person.

The answer in Lin Bingling's heart was about to come out.

"It's coming towards me." He Qixuan seemed a little honest and told the truth.

However, as soon as the words changed, his face appeared helplessly: "But they seem to be only interested in my wood elemental power, last night my wood element appeared uncontrollable for a short time, which caused me to be awakened, I guess the result should be that they have some means to call out the wood elemental energy in my body, and as for the traces of the creatures in the forest, I really don't have the slightest clue, maybe they will come back at night?" So don't think I'm Tarzan of the apes, and I have nothing to do with them. ”

Regarding He Qixuan's remarks, Lin Bingling just nodded, she didn't expect He Qixuan to admit this matter generously, but this also dispelled most of her worries.

Immediately, she raised her eyebrows slyly: "Only? ”

Seeing He Qixuan's expression, he seemed to be asking if there was something wrong with this?

She tugged at the corners of her mouth, knowing that the reason for this incident was caused by He Qixuan, it was better than not having a clue, and then she remembered He Qixuan's small actions before, and asked He Qixuan tentatively: "How far can you sense their existence?" ”

"About five hundred meters? I don't know, I'll have to use it to find out. ”

"Five hundred meters," Lin Bingling said with a slight surprise, "It's already very good, many second-order elemental envoys can't perceive so far, it seems that my eyes are as vicious as ever, so did you notice anything different on the way over?" ”

He Qixuan was dumbfounded, it was really unexpected for you to praise yourself halfway through what you said.

He found that along the way, this mountain forest was like an abandoned lonely mountain, dead and silent, there was no bird crying, and even the slightest wind and grass seemed very clear, and he tried to use his divine sense to probe this place, except for the meager elemental energy emitted by the trees, there was no sign of fish in the river.

And before he set off this morning, he had a doubt, these creatures are not the same group, and even the traces of many groups of creatures have been stationed outside the camp, could it be that they have an independent group consciousness, maybe only this can be explained.

Time passed extremely quickly in the forest, and before they could get far, it was almost dusk, and He Qixuan walked while thinking about whether there were any subtle clues missing from the previous picture.

There is no shortage of intelligent beings in the Firmament Forest, but these beings cannot be concentrated, most of them are divided into different areas and their own camps, if they are really as they think, then what makes them make such a countermeasure, is the group of people who can be qualified for this incomparably large forest of the king of all beasts.

At night, He Qixuan tried to enter the state of controlling his own inner nature again, and Lin Bingling sat quietly next to him, and the two were speechless. Unlike last night, the creatures did not reappear this night, which made them a little disappointed.

Nothing was said all night.

The next morning, everyone got up early, and the first thing they did was to go out to see if there were still those footprints, and when they saw that the road was flat and clear, their faces showed a brief sense of loss.

The anchor is on the edge of the lake, and when you come out of it, you can see the mirror-like surface of the lake, the water of the lake is very clear, and you can even see the glittering stones at the bottom of the lake at the edge, without the slightest trace of pollution, so that people still can't stop and enjoy this rare beauty.

If it weren't for the security sector, it would be a refreshing place to recuperate.

The lake not far away is the only lake that has been detected in the forest, and it is vaguely visible from the map that it is roughly oval-shaped, with a large area, and the forest on the opposite side has shrunk dozens of times from a distance, and everyone drives around the edge of this lake that nurtures life, feeling the coolness and tranquility brought by the lake.

"Although the water of this lake is clear, we can't drink it raw, let's take a sample of this water quality back with us, if we can't collect a blood sample from the herd, we can also temporarily change the water resources thesis topic, but this should not give a high score, after all, many people have done this kind of subject in the past few years." Lin Bingling said, just in case she also had to have reservations, which was also a helpless move.

After a while, she held a scoop of lake water and sniffed it on the tip of her nose, and looked at the water with some confusion: "Why does this water feel like blood?" ”

After leaning closer to the tip of her nose and smelling it again, she confirmed her guess, and after finding that there were still some water stains on her palm, she quickly shook it off and took out a wet towel to wipe it, and finally opened her mouth again to confirm.

"This water smells of blood!"

Lin Bingling felt wrong for the first time, and walked towards her quickly.

The girl stared at the bottom of the lake tightly, vowing to see clearly, and the next moment, she seemed to see something, she screamed in panic, and pointed to the bottom of the lake not far away, Lin Bingling looked in the direction she was pointing, and through the water surface, a touch of white mixed with bright red was faintly reflected, like a spot on the canvas, and she lay motionless at the bottom of the water.

The bright red color spreads out like a paint in water, and finally returns to the lake.

Is that...... Creature corpses?

He Qixuan approached and looked at the bottom of the lake, which was a little far away, but he should have just died.

Lin Bingling did not hesitate at all, jumped across the lake, only to see that the ice crystals spread everywhere she went, and in an instant it became a transparent ice surface, controlling the ice surface to slowly sink to the bottom of the lake, dragging the corpse to the surface of the lake. ”

Qin An said in disbelief: "How could this kind of creature that has already become extinct in the world appear here? ”

"That, that, look at that!"

Lin Bingling looked back, the girl who smelled the fishy smell in the water just now was already sitting on her knees with her legs paralyzed at the moment, and the exclamations by the shore of the lake came, Lin Bingling found that they were still looking at the quiet lake, she couldn't help but look back at the center of the lake, it didn't matter, but what followed was a chill gushing out from the depths of her heart!

At the bottom of the lake, the corpses are piled up at the bottom of the lake, through the suffocating clear water, if you don't look carefully, it looks like a stone precipitated in the center of the bottom of the lake, motionless, all the corpses are sleeping here, like a mountain of corpses standing in the lake, tens of millions, those who are invisible, covered by new corpses, the number will be even larger, what they can see is the surface of this mountain of corpses, and it is also the tip of its iceberg.

The lake, which seemed quiet, was out of place with their expressions.

The world is like a lake without waves, and silence is the main theme of the moment, and it is not only the surroundings that are quiet, but also their incredible breathing.