The truncated mountain range, located in the southwest border of the Yuan Kingdom, is a primeval forest in the north of the Yulong Mountain Range.

It is rich in ecological diversity, not only inhabiting rare wild animals such as white-fronted gibbons, peacocks, and red-nosed pythons, but also endemic plants such as poison arrows, phoenix flowers, and thousand-year-old tea trees.

At the same time, the topography is quite distinctive, with interesting scenery such as valleys covered with flowers and waterfalls hidden in waterholes, but there are at least dozens of them.

Many tourists come here, bringing a lot of benefits to the locals, and there is no shortage of food, clothing, housing and transportation, almost forming a tourism ecosystem.

But that was stopped not long ago.

According to a recent report, it was learned that the natural environment of the mountain range had been cut off and irreparably damaged by the prolonged stay of a large number of tourists.

What is a little unexpected is that as soon as this news came out, it sparked heated discussions, and the topic of "Please let the truncated mountain range return to its original appearance" has been on the top 20 of the hot search list for a week.

Therefore, there are many netizens who participated in the discussion, and many people even petitioned one after another, hoping that the relevant departments could set up a nature reserve in the truncated mountain range to protect this rare primitive mountain range in the Yuan Kingdom.

I have to say that when online public opinion forms a certain scale, it is easy for people to have a fanatical mood.

Although many locals living near the Truncated Mountains have come forward to say that the existence of tourist areas has not affected the ecological environment, and listed dozens of negative consequences of banning the local tourism industry, it has not stopped the trend.

In the end, in response to public opinion, the above finally had to reluctantly announce that the truncated mountain range would be set up as a natural ecological reserve, and from now on, it would prevent any unrelated people from entering the mountain without permission, and only allow a small number of forest rangers to stay.

At the same time, in order to ensure the livelihood of the people in the tourist area, the local department has also issued relevant policies to collectively relocate these groups to the suburbs of a prefecture-level city 30 kilometers away.

"To be honest, I don't understand why the above is going to such a big time, since I don't want the traces of the mountain guards to be discovered by the people, it will be better to close the mountain directly? "In a forest hut on the outside of the truncated mountain range, a tall man in a ranger's uniform is cooking instant noodles and chatting with his companions.

"That's why you don't understand, the stakes are high for the establishment of nature reserves, especially since there is a tourism industry nearby that involves the livelihood of thousands of people, so it is natural that the people need to find enough reasons to avoid unwarranted speculation and collective protests. The short-haired man who was asked smiled, "The popularity of the fifteenth to twentyth place on the hot search list will not let it be overhyped, but it can also spread this matter, just right." ”

The tall man pouted: "I said that it should not cause groundless speculation, but this nature reserve has not been established, and how many people have we arrested who want to enter the mountain? There are not fifty, but twenty." ”

"Look at the problem from multiple angles, these people you said are people with hearts, no matter how to cover up, the minds of people with hearts can't be covered, what we need to do is to avoid making more unintentional people become people with hearts. The short-haired man waved his hand, "That's it, after all, you are a halfway monk, and it was because of the White Turtle incident that you entered the special office by mistake, and you will think about it more in the future." ”

The tall man was unhappy: "What's wrong with being a monk halfway, now you can be sent abroad, and speaking of which, you are an employee of the special affairs office from an orthodox background, but don't you do the same thing as me now?" ”

"I look down on you, you can stand out from that group of second ancestors, there must be potential, but strength and potential are two different things," the short-haired man looked helpless, "As for me, I was seriously injured in the operation of Tianyu Mountain, and I really can't go to the front line anymore, so I can only bring new people, teach experience, and participate in projects like 'mentor one-on-one'." ”

"Ah, I didn't know you used to ...... I ......" The tall man couldn't help but open his mouth in astonishment when he heard this, his expression was a little annoyed, obviously he really regretted what he had just said with a glass heart.

"Okay, it's not a matter to look at your mourning appearance," the short-haired man patted the other party's shoulder absently, "Hurry up after eating instant noodles, we still have to complete today's patrol mission." ”

The tall man pursed his lips.

He quickly finished eating instant noodles, and before the short-haired man could react, he took the initiative to carry the expensive equipment placed in the corner of the forest house.

This instrument is quite heavy, and it looks like a high-powered floor fan, but its real identity is a high-precision device used to detect aura fluctuations.

The reason why the two of them took it to patrol was to follow the instructions from above to try to probe the transcendent disciples under the command of the mountain guards, and secondly, to find spiritual plants with relatively weak aura fluctuations.

Since the establishment of the Three Temples, the Yulong Mountain Range, like the Hebo Blessed Land, has become a special area with a very high concentration of spiritual energy, and the Hengduan Mountain Range is adjacent to the Yulong Mountain Range, and with the advantage of being close to the water and getting the moon first, it has also undergone a lot of beneficial changes.

In just this short period and a half months, hundreds of forest rangers around the perimeter have found four spirit plants, and the harvest is very expensive.

"Wait, there's a situation. The two of them were walking along the established patrol route, and the short-haired man walking behind suddenly grabbed the tall man's figure and frowned at the instrument.

The tall man paused.

He turned his neck and glanced at the monitor of the equipment he was carrying on his shoulder, and found that the number of aura fluctuations on it had indeed loosened.

According to the code of conduct established by the headquarters of the Special Affairs Office, in non-emergency situations, if a ranger notices an abnormality, he or she should report it as soon as possible.

The tall man then put down the high-precision instrument he was carrying and took a break next to him, while the short-haired man stepped forward, recorded the data on the instrument, and began to make a brief description of his surroundings.

The tall man hammered his shoulder: "It would be nice to make the detection instrument smaller, carrying it on your shoulders, tiredness is secondary, mainly because it is not very convenient to move." ”

"It's not that there is no small detection equipment, but the accuracy of aura fluctuations is almost meaningless, and it is difficult to detect the existence of spirit plants. The short-haired man replied casually, "By the way, there seems to have been a spirit plant in our land before, right?"

The route rangers take to patrol the woods is not fixed.

Every once in a while, the patrol route changes, and the area of responsibility for each person changes.

The tall man nodded when he heard this: "Well, the last group of colleagues who were in charge of patrolling this area did dig up a piece of yellow essence here. ”

The short-haired man regretted: "Tsk, then this current aura fluctuation is probably just a spiritual power tide from the Jade Dragon Mountain Range." ”

Patrolling in the mountains, the two of them often notice changes in the value of the instrument.

On the one hand, it is because of the existence of transcendent beasts, spirit plants, etc., and on the other hand, it is also because the Jade Dragon Mountain Range continuously transmits spiritual energy here, thus causing spiritual energy fluctuations like waves.

Similar situations often occur in Luoxia Lake and Liushan.

Just when the two of them didn't care, there were suddenly several wails from the mountains and forests not far away.

The short-haired man looked solemn, although his physical fitness was not as good as before, and he was tacitly regarded as a second-line personnel by the headquarters of the Special Affairs Institute, this did not mean that he had lost the keen awareness he had cultivated over the years.

He had a gut feeling that the voice was unusual.

The sound was too poignant, not like an ordinary hunt among animals, but more like a scream from some kind of inhuman abuse.

"I'm going to explore the road now, you stay where you are, don't worry about the detection equipment, quickly upload the situation to the recorder, and then notify the rangers in the rest of the area, asking them to be ready for reinforcements at any time. He handed over the task at hand to the tall man, and he drew his dagger, his eyes sharp, and cautiously approached the source of the sound.

Watching the figure of the short-haired man gradually being swallowed up by the mountains and forests, the tall man showed a faint discouragement.

As the other party said, even if his potential is recognized by special affairs and can be transferred from the logistics department to the expatriate team, potential and strength are indeed two different things.

In a special situation at the moment, with his skills and reflexes, what he can do is to contact people and record information.

The tall man secretly made up his mind that after this patrol, he planned to completely let go of the arrogant temper cultivated by the rich second generation in his predecessor, and take the initiative to ask the short-haired man for various skills and common sense, so that his footsteps could keep up with the orthodox employees as soon as possible.

He hopes to join the front team one day.

However, reality will always give you a blow at the moment of surprise.

The tall man waited in place for a few minutes, and just as uneasiness gradually rose in his heart, the short-haired man suddenly shouted from the paging device on his body: "Call for reinforcements! Call for reinforcements! Here's a-"

Before he could finish speaking, the pager's voice stopped abruptly and was replaced by a noisy busy sound.

The tall man's heart froze, his pupils shrank suddenly, and after a moment of shock and panic, he first sent a signal for help to the surrounding rangers, and briefly explained what had happened, and then immediately gritted his teeth, and while checking the recording camera and other peripheral equipment he was wearing, he ran in the direction where the short-haired man left.

The tall man naturally received a period of special training before officially taking up the post of forest ranger, although he was not as good as those veterans Lao Jiang, but the basic reconnaissance skills were still there, not to mention that the short-haired man was very experienced in deliberately leaving traces, so he found the body of the short-haired man with almost no effort.

This is the second time a tall man has confronted a dead body.

The first time was when he attended his grandfather's funeral when he had just turned six.

He didn't remember the details of the funeral at that time, only that his grandfather walked very decently, and his father even specially found a mortuary.

But the death of the short-haired man was much more unbearable.

Red, white, and yellow, like paint sprinkled all over the ground, messy.

In addition, the short-haired man was lying next to the carcasses of several wild beasts, including two mountain wolves, an adult bobcat, four juvenile bobcats, and a colorful tiger!

The tall man was shocked and frightened, and couldn't help the vomiting thoughts that were surging in his heart, and he vomited all the instant noodles he had just eaten.

"Boom—"

At that moment, the sound of branches shaking suddenly sounded above his head.

The tall man's heart shrank.

He was so blessed that he didn't have time to think about it at all, he just flashed to the side with all his strength.

The next moment, he felt a strong wind blowing around him.

Immediately afterwards, the solid dirt floor was directly smashed out of a small but amazing depth of the pothole!

The tall man's body was immediately covered with splashes of mud, and his heart was filled with fear and trembling.

But it was in this extreme situation that he burst out of his lifelong potential, and his brain strangely maintained extreme calm.

Even when he was rolling around and dodging, he didn't forget to adjust the camera position on his body, focusing the angle of his camera on the back and upward, trying to capture the figure of the creature of unknown origin.

"Bang-"

A hole opened next to the tall man, but this time he was not as lucky as the previous times, and the flying rubble cut a hole in his face that was neither deep nor shallow, and blood flowed out immediately.

There was an instant silence around them.

The tall man suddenly felt like a thorn, as if he was locked by a predator at the top, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

He slowly raised his head, struggling not to be afraid, and turned his head to look behind him.

To the tall man's surprise, it was not some beast or a cold reptile that caught his sight, but a fluffy young gray lynx that was only as tall as his calf.

If the only thing that is a little different from ordinary bobcats is probably that its eyes seem to be covered with a layer of black fog, which makes people instinctively want to avoid it.

Wait a minute!

Juvenile bobcats?

The tall man suddenly remembered the animal carcasses he had just seen, and his heart was cold, and his eyes showed a look of consternation.

Juvenile bobcats don't know what their prey is thinking.

It felt the smell of blood in the air, and had no intention of continuing to play with the other party, its brain gradually occupied by killing and destruction, and it only wanted to tear apart the prey in front of it like it had just torn apart the body.

The tall man thought he was going to die.

The air around him became hot for no reason.

The next moment, the red red finch shadow fell from the sky, and the target was clear, straight for the young bobcat.

The two sides collided with a strong wave of air.

The tall man was blown away directly, and the whole person spun like a flutter in the wind, and passed out unconscious.

The juvenile lynx was even more unbearable, its flesh and blood were all incinerated, leaving only a skeleton covered in a thin black mist.

But Rao was still conscious, and it was slightly prostrate, its two empty eyes staring firmly at a bush in front of it.

The autumn water crown emerges from the shrubs.

She looked at the hoodoo in front of her, and her face showed disgust.

In her perception, the black bone lynx in front of her was exuding an indescribable stench, which was disgusting!