In a room in the center of the Sea Soul Special Operations Team's submersible base, a white-haired old man with slightly deep eye sockets and a neat mustache on his mouth was nestled in a comfortable and wide soft chair, looking at the flickering images on the screen in front of him, drowsy.

Behind the old man, two young people stood straight.

One of the young men was dressed in the costume of a Shadow Man, but instead of wearing a mask, his face was exposed. He had three faint scars on his face, and it looked like he had been scratched by some animal. Coupled with his expressionless appearance, he looks particularly cold.

This young man is none other than the shadow leader in Ito Shiya's mouth - Musashi Yukimura.

The other young man was dressed in a neat blue suit, and Fang Yuan would definitely recognize him if he was here, because he was the same Kitano Shisuke who stopped Jeontaro from attacking Fang Yuan in Shiraiso Ancient Town that day!

The images on the screen kept flickering, just in time for Fang Yuan to come out of Michiko Kigaku's room to receive the clip of Shiya Ito, Kitano Shisuke saw Fang Yuan's appearance clearly, and whispered in the island dialect: "How could it be him?"

Musashi Yukimura next to him was suspicious: "What? Shi Jiejun knows this guy?"

Kitano Shisuke flicked his glasses slightly, and replied: "It's not that we know each other, but we just had a relationship." At that time, when he was in Shiraiso Ancient Town, he had a little unpleasantness with Shotaro. ”

Musashi Yukimura smiled disdainfully and said, "What kind of climate can a person who doesn't even take Quantaro into his eyes? It seems that he is just a lost rat, causing us a false alarm in vain." ”

Kitano said, "I don't think so. At that time, the conflict between them was stopped by me in time, because I had a very strong premonition that Jeontaro was not this man's opponent at all. ”

"Premonition?"

Musashi Yukimura was puzzled: "This doesn't look like your style! Don't you always say that the feeling is unreliable, and reliable is accurate analysis through data?"

Kitano Shisuke was silent for a moment and said, "I also think it's weird, but this guy feels like this to me, and this feeling is very real, even ...... It's more real than the data. ”

Musashi Yukimura smiled and said, "Forget it, it doesn't matter." In short, it is impossible for him to come out alive if he strayed into the plantation, so let's go back to our respective posts and continue to standby!"

"Yukimura-kun......"

Kitano Shisuke stopped Musashi Yukimura, who was just about to leave, and said, "Let's arrange for two teams of elite shadow artists to go over and have a look! Don't underestimate these Hanaxia people, don't forget...... The wounds on your face...... How did you get there......"

Hearing this, a fierce light suddenly flashed in Musashi Yukimura's eyes. After a moment of silence, he said lightly: "I know, I'll arrange it." ”

With that, Musashi Yukimura left in a hurry.

During the whole process, the old man nestled in the soft chair didn't say a word. When Musashi Yukimura left, the old man seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep. Only Kitano Shisuke was still staring at the big screens, as if thoughtful.

"You guy...... Who the hell is it?"

On the plantation's side, Fang Yuan couldn't help but sneeze.

The whole park is full of gloom. The ground was full of mud, but the mud had nothing to do with the soil, and judging by the faint smell it emanated, it should be rotting flesh.

In addition to the faint fishy stench, the air was filled with low moans of pain. Although it sounds like the cry of a wronged soul, the owner of this voice is a real living person. Or rather...... In a sense, they're still alive......

"This ...... What the hell are these ......?"

Everything in front of him at this moment really brought a lot of psychological impact to Fang Yuan.

It was a living person who was still breathing, and from their bodies grew a kind of flesh like the trunk of a dead tree, crushing them alive to the ground, and spreading into their bodies.

It looked as if the man was a potted soil, and the flesh like a dead tree was the plant that grew in it.

Some of the flesh and blood had crimson balls growing on them, and from a distance, they looked like apple trees full of fruit. It's just that the fruit bears on the trunk of the tree.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Fang Yuan seemed to understand a little why this place was called a plantation.

Ito Shiya looked at the scene in front of him for a long time, and said, "Here...... It is the forbidden land that is not effectively recorded in the Red Banner materials at all - plantations. The man at the time had said that no one who came in came in had ever gone out again. When I saw them today, I finally understood why they couldn't get out. ”

These people who have been used as soil or fertilizer are obviously still conscious, and they don't know how long they have been living in this way. But Fang Yuan knew that these people must be very painful.

Because most of those low moans of pain were in Huaxia language, Fang Yuan could understand what they meant. Their call is not for help, but for death.

"This beast of the archipelago country has made a living person look like this!"

Fang Yuan's words had already been spoken, and he noticed Ito Shiya beside him, and then he remembered that this guy was also an island countryman, so he said with a little embarrassment: "I didn't mean you...... I'm talking about them......"

Ito Shiya didn't delve into this question, and Fang Yuan said: "According to legend, they are conducting a secret study, and the purpose of the research seems to be how to make mortals use aura, and how to transform ordinary mortals into cultivators. I've only heard that the methods of this experiment are extremely disastrous, but I didn't expect ...... Unexpectedly...... It would be like this......"

Fang Yuan asked, "What are the ...... on these people?" Something that looks like a tree trunk...... What the hell is it?"

Ito Shiya shook his head and said, "I don't know much about this, but it should be something that can extract vitality." Because my Shikigami just told me that the life force of those people is flowing into those trunks of the trees on them. ”

"Drain the life force?"

Since Ito Shiya's Shikijin can see something, can the Eye of Enlightenment also do it? Thinking of this, Fang Yuan immediately opened the Eye of Enlightenment.

Sure enough, the Eyes of Reality never let him down. Under the eyes of realization, Fang Yuan clearly saw wisps of fluid slowly flowing from those people's bodies to the flesh and blood trunks on their bodies.

Although there was no basis, Fang Yuan knew that it was fate!

That's right, that wisp of fluid is life!

Fang Yuan always felt that he had seen it there before, and he racked his brains to frantically flip through his memory bank. Finally, he remembered! It was the mother and daughter who were playing hanging bottles on the bench at the door of the office when they took Zhang Zhiyi to the hospital!

That's right, it's them! Fang Yuan completely remembered, at that time, he suddenly felt that what was flowing in the thin infusion tube was not a medicine at all, but a life! That life flowed out of his mother's hand and slowly flowed into his daughter's body.

Thinking about it now, wasn't the thing he saw at the time the same fluid he saw now?

However, the vitality of these people did not end after flowing into the trunk of the flesh and blood, but continued to flow, and finally gathered in the crimson spheres. In this way, this thing really deserves the name of the fruit.

"We ...... Is there any way to get them out?"

Ito Shiya glanced at Fang Yuan, but smiled a little helplessly, and said, "I think the question you should think about more is how these people became like this. The next person to become like this...... Could it be us?"

Fang Yuan thought for a moment and said, "I don't know if you have ever played the fourth part of Resident Evil?"

"What's the fourth? TV series, or anime?"

"Uh...... Forget it......"

Fang Yuan paused and continued, "I mean, looking at the appearance of these people, I have a slightly grotesque guess. That's ...... Could it be that they are parasitic about something?"

Listening to Fang Yuan's words, Ito Shiya looked thoughtfully at the people who were still breathing, and said, "You mean...... That thing on their body is actually a parasite?"

Fang Yuan nodded and said, "Although it's just a guess, but looking at this way, I think it's quite reliable." When I was interrogating Michiko Kigakure, she mentioned something called a god body. She said that it was a remnant of God left behind in the world, and that it had the function of transforming human flesh and blood into aura. Don't you think that those things that look like fruits are very likely to be the aura transformed from the life force of these people?"

"Divine body, you mean...... Is there really a piece of divine body in the hands of the Sea Soul Special Combat Team?"

Seeing that Ito Shiya seemed to be suddenly excited, Fang Yuan said, "It should be...... I'm not sure either, that's what Michiko Kirikurin said anyway. One is called...... The people of what is the name of Ishii have been studying this god body. ”

Listening to Fang Yuan's words, Ito Shiya's expression became even more excited, and he almost shouted: "If that's really the case...... Then my father's guess was right! My father's guess was right! My father ...... His guess was right!"

Fang Yuan was confused by him, so he said, "What...... What kind of speculation?"

Ito Shiya still couldn't hide his excitement, and said: "He once reported to the headquarters of Red Banner that during World War II, a legendary god appeared on the land of Huaxia, but then disappeared. He suspected that it was related to the Sea Soul Special Combat Team that disappeared at the same time, but at that time, it was regarded as the biggest joke by the Red Flag people. He also slandered him for using ethereal legends as a rhetoric, and that he was making up lies for his incompetence. ”

He seemed to calm his mind for a moment and continued, "You can't imagine how important this is to me, how important it is to our family......! Our Family...... Now it's just me. ”

Fang Yuan said: "Actually...... If the source of everything here is the god, I really doubt whether this so-called god is good or bad. ”

Ito Shiya said, "The divine body contains only the power of God, and it is not the power that is wrong, but the person who uses it." ”

However, just as the two of them were thinking, a fleshy vine that looked like sharp tentacles had quietly circled behind them......