Weird Forest
Wu Tongyuan's voice cut through the dead silent night sky, also disrupting everyone's state of mind. The crowd's faces one after another changed, backs starting to emit cold sweat.
Indeed, nowadays inside this deep forest, only that piece of fragment existed... further combined with the disappearance of the two teams of people previously, it was very hard not to let people's imaginations run wild.
"Old Wu!" Lu Xun frowned glaring a glance at him, signaling him not to speak.
"What's the use of you glaring at me! What I said is the truth!" Wu Tongyuan biting the bullet glared back, "I then said this thing is evil right? How is this a fragment, it basically is an extraterrestrial monster! A small monster dropped down from the body of a big monster!"
This time no one refuted Wu Tongyuan's words. The crowd all lowered their heads looking at the Communication Device fragments on the ground, eyebrows tightly locked.
"Old Lu, right now the Communication Devices are also gone, also know that thing is a monster... Let's turn back." Wu Tongyuan earnestly and well-meaningly advised, "Taking advantage of not yet walking out too far, returning now is still in time. What should be used to deal with monsters is planes and tanks, and not us this group of scientists who lack the strength to truss a chicken."
Lu Xun was silent for a long time, still shaking his head:
"Cannot turn back... nothing more than a special magnetic field that's all. Right now we already clearly know how the previous two batches of teams lost communication contact. Even if returning also cannot change anything. Changing a team to come is nothing more than directly not bringing Communication Devices that's all. Like this what's the difference from us continuing to advance forward?
"Good... good good."
Wu Tongyuan waved his hand, "Cannot speak clearly with you. I admit compared to you Dr. Lu, I'm exactly a coward who covets life and fears death, alright? Anyway this trip of exploration having me or not having me is all the same. I'll retreat first. You guys continue advancing forward ba."
He turned around then walking towards the dark jungle behind him.
The crowd seeing this, simultaneously turned their heads looking towards Lu Xun... Wu Tongyuan was sought over by Lu Xun. His relationship with Lu Xun was also the best. At this moment also only Lu Xun could open his mouth to advise and stop him. But Lu Xun did not open his mouth to obstruct, but rather just like this quietly watched him turn around leaving.
The wind and rain mixed deep forest issued sha sha rustling sounds. Amidst the endless darkness, only Wu Tongyuan one person's flashlight slowly advanced forward. He hadn't walked for a few seconds, then automatically stopped his footsteps.
He looked at the dark jungle in front of his eyes that was like an unknown giant beast, swallowing a mouthful of saliva.
"...Old Lu, send a person to escort me?" He turned his head over, carefully and cautiously asked.
Lu Xun indifferently opened his mouth, "Sorry about that, we don't have extra manpower anymore."
"..."
Right at the time Wu Tongyuan was gnashing his teeth, Chen Ling's voice suddenly sounded:
"Dr. Wu is it? I'm afraid even if someone escorts you, you also cannot go back."
Wu Tongyuan blanked, doubtfully looking towards him, "Why?"
Chen Ling raised his hand, pointing at the forest behind him, and the mountain ranges entrenched and scattered in the darkness, "Because, we are already not on the road we came from..."
Once this sentence came out, the crowd still hadn't understood what meaning. But when the several doctors saw that piece of mountain ranges, their faces instantly then changed!
"Did we come from that direction?"
"No, the direction we came from didn't have mountain ranges..."
A scholar wearing a protective suit walked to the bottom of one of the trees. Using a flashlight carefully observing for a moment, face increasingly ugly,
"Not right... these trees are also not right!"
"Where is not right?"
"Generally speaking, the tree leaves on the south-facing side of trees will be even more dense. When we came it was facing south, but right now it is facing east... This basically isn't the forest when we came."
"But, but we clearly exactly walked out from here! Our footprints are still here..."
"Wait, where are the footprints??"
The crowd only then discovered, the large string of footprints originally walked out by several tens of people, at this moment actually all disappeared without being seen. The ground didn't leave behind any of their traces, as if they appeared out of thin air from within this piece of forest.
This discovery let everyone shudder without being cold. Even if it was the leading Lu Xun his face all changed. Everything happening in front of their eyes had already exceeded their daily cognition.
"Finished... What did I say, what did I say!!" Wu Tongyuan stumbled retreating into the crowd, tremblingly opening his mouth, "Us coming here was exactly a mistake... Right now it's great, we all cannot go back!"
A scientific researcher wearing black-framed glasses was relatively calm, saying in a deep voice, "Maybe the color of the sky is too dark, we misremembered the direction when we came. Coupled with the wind and rain in the mountains washing away our footprints... Or perhaps, it's that piece of fragment having hallucinogenic components? You see, right now we all do not have protective visors, possibly inhaled something, affecting our brain's judgement."
Chen Ling surprisedly swept a glance at that speaking person. Among the crowd it was exactly counted him and Lu Xun relatively calm. At this time, still able to attempt to use scientific principles to explain everything in front of their eyes.
"Dr. Lou said it right. What we have to do is use scientific ways to explain all this, rather than pushing all abnormal phenomena to ox-ghosts and snake-gods. " Lu Xun opened his mouth in a deep voice, "Old Wu, you speak two sentences less. Don't add psychological burden to other people."
Wu Tongyuan opened his mouth still preparing to refute. But after seeing Lu Xun's gaze that was about to kill someone, still silently lowered his head.
"But right now we completely don't know where we ourselves are. Communication Devices are also broken, Compass is also malfunctioning... How should we confirm the Red Star Fragment's position?" Su Zhiwei looked at the wildly spinning Compass in her hand, frowning opening her mouth.
"If I didn't remember wrong, Dr. Lu should be able to through the position of the stars, distinguish directions." The from beginning to end silent Yang Xiao suddenly opened his mouth.
Lu Xun raised his head looking towards the sky. Thick and heavy dark clouds completely enveloped the mountain ranges, unable to see a bit of moonlight or starlight.
"Can't work, rain clouds blocked the starry sky..."
Once this sentence came out, the crowd's hearts instantly sank down. Unable to locate the position of the Red Star Fragment, they then couldn't continue acting. Even if turning back all couldn't return... Didn't expect just starting for ten minutes, the crowd then sank into a stalemate.
Right at this time, Lu Xun like thinking of something, grabbing the last stalk of life-saving straw generally looking towards Chen Ling.
"Director Chen, you are the most familiar with this piece of deep forest. Do you have a way to locate?"
The crowd only then remembered, they still had a Guide following. Moreover just now if it wasn't him timely taking off everyone's visors, I'm afraid right now they had already lost acting ability. One after another turning their heads looking towards him.
Chen Ling holding the flip phone, both eyes slightly narrowed looking towards the distance... After being silent for a few seconds, nodded saying:
"Can, I know where the position of that piece of fragment is."
The crowd's eyes instantly lit up, having a kind of pleasant surprise of a turn of events. Long sighing a breath. As expected, at this time still must have a Guide for it to work.
Chen Ling being able to locate the Red Star Fragment, of course wasn't because he was familiar with this piece of forest. But rather he could through the Electromagnetic Disturbance-affected flip phone, locate the source of the magnetic field fluctuation... In Chen Ling's eyes, that piece of fragment was just like a Torchlight in the dark night generally dazzling.
Chen Ling passed through the crowd, straightly walking to the very front rank of the team. Calmly opening his mouth,
"Come with me ba."