This weird scene made everyone else look at each other in confusion. Some bad associations couldn't help but pop out of their minds, and they only felt waves of scalp numbness.
If a normal plant is cut off, no matter how hard it is cut, blood will not leak out.
Du Yifeng grabbed the engineering shovel and rushed to the opposite courtyard, hacking at the hibiscus tree there.
Compared with Jiang Yue's clean and crisp techniques, Du Yifeng's few moves obviously pale in comparison, even a bit eye-catching.
But at this time, everyone's thoughts were not on this.
Pairs of eyes were staring at the branches split by Du Yifeng.
A little milky white liquid overflowed from the open wound. After a while, the wound solidified and no more new liquid came out.
The contrast couldn't be more stark.
The expressions on the faces of several girls were particularly ugly. Xu Chunru asked in a voiceless voice: "What on earth is going on? Could it be..."
"Could plants eat people?" Yu Siyuan murmured.
"Dig it up and take a look."
Jiang Yue walked to the hibiscus tree with the most blooming flowers, swung the shovel and started digging quickly.
Seeing this, others joined in.
After a while, Jiang Yue shoveled down. As if he encountered some obstacle, he quickly turned over the top layer of soil. A corner of the soil was revealed, and it turned out to be clothes.
Digging deeper, the clothing was completely unearthed.
It was still stained with bone and flesh residue and looked extremely fresh.
"Ouch..."
When several girls saw this scene, they all covered their mouths and retched.
Fortunately, I didn't eat breakfast, otherwise I would have vomited all the meat and vegetables.
"It's Jiye's clothes..." Du Yifeng's face was gloomy, and there was no hint of joy, anger or joy in his tone.
Digging further, coats, pants, belts and other items kept appearing, and even skeleton hair was exposed.
"Forget it." Jiang Yue stopped the shovel, "Stop digging."
If we dig further, it will definitely be even more tragic.
Jiang Yue asked everyone to fill back the soil.
Everyone's heart was extremely heavy.
If everyone was still a bit lucky before, thinking that they just disappeared, they might not necessarily die.
The clothes and bones completely shattered their illusions.
Yu Siyuan, in particular, seemed to be defeated by this cruel fact and was on the verge of emotional collapse. He looked depressed and pessimistic about the future.
"Siyuan, cheer up." Xu Chunru comforted her.
Du Yifeng said coldly: "Now is not the time to be sad. Either die with them, or cheer up. As long as the rest of us don't fight among ourselves and unite together, we may not be able to leave alive."
"Go and look elsewhere." Jiang Yue was undoubtedly the calmest one.
In fact, Jiang Yue himself was not optimistic about Zhang Jiye's urinary nature.
In the age of sunshine, you can be arrogant and domineering, and you can be mean-mouthed and mentally retarded.
Today is a strange era, and monsters do not recognize your identity, regardless of whether you are a son of a powerful person or not.
Several people returned to the main road, and Du Yifeng shouted: "Is anyone still breathing?"
I shouted several times, but no one responded.
A few people did not give up and wandered around the B&B area, shouting along the way.
But after walking around, there was not a single response.
"There won't be anyone left alive, right?" Du Yifeng's tone was complicated.
He is not a person who cares about the life and death of others. Even if everyone in the B&B area dies, he will most likely not feel sad.
But not being sad doesn't mean that he doesn't have any fluctuations in his heart.
Just because he's not sad doesn't mean he's not afraid.
"Forget it, Yifeng, save your strength and stop yelling," Jiang Yue advised.
Du Yifeng said dejectedly: "I have never been so eager to see living people in my life. Jiang Yue, don't you think they are all really dead?"
Jiang Yue shook his head: "No."
Xu Chunru and Han Jingjing both looked at Jiang Yue with questioning expressions.
"There are people in many B&Bs, but they just don't want to show up." Jiang Yue explained.
"The sun is shining on our butts, so what are we worried about? Haven't you seen us all doing activities outside?" Xu Chunru thought to herself, these people are too cautious, right?
"Maybe you were scared out of your wits last night?" Han Jingjing said.
Jiang Yue smiled bitterly: "It's true that they were scared out of their wits last night, but their unwillingness to come out may not be because of what happened last night. They may be afraid of us."
"Afraid of us?" The three girls were startled at the same time, wondering what they meant.
"After what happened last night, most of the people alive are frightened and are inevitably suspicious. There are five of us in a group, and we may be considered a huge threat to others."
In today's situation, it is extravagant to talk about trust between people.
At this moment, anyone who is lucky enough to survive wants to package themselves as a hedgehog and eliminate all sources of danger.
Of course, those who refuse to come out are not necessarily out of fear.
Jiang Yue estimated that there are also some people with stoic minds who have their own calculations in this situation.
Jiang Yue had already noticed the first strange summons last night.
At that time, most people were manipulated by strange summons, but it was obvious that a few people slipped through the net and did not appear. These people must have been hiding in their respective rooms and watching what happened.
These fish that slipped through the net include Brother Hao in the hotel area.
Those who can escape the first strange summons will definitely be able to escape the second.
Although Jiang Yue didn't know much about this strange summons, he could vaguely feel that the second strange summons was not as strong as the first.
The first time, those people were almost all recruited at the same time.
The second time, Han Jingjing and the others at least had some instinctive resistance and were not attacked immediately.
I heard that there were still people alive. Inexplicably, everyone felt a little relieved.
"Go to the hotel area and have a look." Jiang Yue suggested.
"Let's go find some food." Du Yifeng nodded.
What surprised Jiang Yue was that not one of the dozen or so people in the hotel area was missing!
When Jiang Yue saw Brother Zhi, he was actually in high spirits and seemed to have had a good rest last night.
Seeing the surprised expressions on Jiang Yue's group, Brother Zhi burst out laughing.
"Brother, do you find it incredible?"
It really is.
Jiang Yue asked curiously: "Brother Zhi, how did you do it?"
Brother Zhi patted Brother Hao beside him on the shoulder: "Thanks to Ahao. Ahao seems to have a special physique and is immune to strange summons. So, we came up with a stupid way."
"What?"
"We tied ourselves up during breaks."
Will this approach work?
Jiang Yue was deeply suspicious.
But he didn't intend to go into details.
The hotel area has an advantage that the B&B area does not have, and that is unity.
Because they had been targeted by people in the B&B area before, coupled with the small number of people, a weak feeling of common hatred made them more united with each other.
Of course, this unity is also relative.
If they are harmless to each other, bound by common interests, and have common hostile goals, this kind of unity is natural.
But if there is a threat to oneself, whether to unite or not is another matter.
From the fact that Brother Hao stayed behind closed doors during the first strange summons and did not interfere, it can be seen that the unity between them has limits.
Why did Brother Hao take action again the second time? Apparently it was because of his first experience with the strange summons that he knew that helping him would not pose a threat to him.
In addition, they are all in a hotel area. If he continues to act stupid, he will definitely be isolated by others.
After all, Zhi Ge's prestige and appeal in the hotel area were far stronger than his. It was understandable that he didn't take action the first time, but it would be unjustifiable if he was insensitive the second time.
Brother Zhi put his arm around Jiang Yue's shoulders affectionately: "Brother, I just heard someone on your side yelling, asking if anyone was breathing. Over there in the B&B area, it won't be so miserable, right?"
"The situation is not very optimistic."
"All dead?" Brother Zhi, such a steady man, couldn't help but change his color.
Although there are indeed conflicts between the hotel area and the B&B area, this conflict is not a grudge, it is just a matter of grabbing some territory, and it is not an undying hatred.
I heard that the B&B area was very tragic, and the sadness of the rabbit's death and the fox's death was far better than the joy of schadenfreude.
"It's not like they're all dead. I estimate that less than a third of them are alive."
The hotel area was really shocked.
Less than a third of the population alive? Doesn't that mean that there were dozens more people in the B&B area and heavy casualties, and the remaining people were no more than those in the hotel area?
This is too miserable.
For a moment, everyone in the hotel area was surprised and happy at the same time.
From this point of view, arriving late yesterday was a good thing.
Those who arrived early grabbed the B&B area. They originally wanted it to be safe and clean, but who would have thought that they ended up grabbing the area where they would die?
"Oh, I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it..." Brother Zhi sighed in a daze.
"Forget it, forget it, let's eat first."
It's all like this. Yesterday's anger in the hotel area has long since dissipated, and the so-called hostility in the hotel area and B&B area has disappeared.
People are so miserable, do they still hold grudges?
Not only should we not hold grudges, we should also be grateful.
If those stubborn guys in the B&B area hadn't occupied the position first, they might have been the ones who stepped on the thunder.
Jiang Yue was pulled affectionately by Brother Zhi, but he was still quite curious in his heart.
When I was in the house last night, in addition to the strange summons, there were obviously other monster attacks.
Thread-like objects like hair appeared in Jiang Yue's room.
Zhang Jiye and the others were obviously devoured by the plants in the yard.
Even many people in the B&B area have probably been attacked by various monsters.
Isn't there one in the hotel area?
It seems that the defense of the hotel area is not stronger than that of the B&B area.
There are also various plants around the hotel area.
Jiang Yue walked into the hotel lobby and suddenly felt something when he saw the chandelier in the lobby.
Is it because of the power supply?
There is electricity here in the hotel area and there are bright lights everywhere, but the monster is afraid of light, so can the hotel area be spared?
At first, this was just a guess by Jiang Yue.
After thinking about it carefully, I feel more and more likely.
The only difference between the hotel area and the B&B area is the electricity supply.
Apart from this, Jiang Yue couldn't think of any other reason.
There is no shortage of people in the hotel area.
From a probability perspective, this is obviously unjustifiable.
Jiang Yue thought of this and couldn't help but asked curiously: "Brother Zhi, apart from the strange summons last night, were there any other attacks in the hotel area last night?"
"Other attacks? For example?" Brother Zhi was surprised and confused.
Seeing that this reaction didn't seem like a fake, Jiang Yue briefly explained Zhang Jiye's situation.
Plants eat people?
All the people in the hotel area looked surprised and dubious.
Many of them even don't know what a hibiscus tree looks like, so they can't imagine the idea that a hibiscus tree cannibalize people.
The food in the hotel area is indeed rich and well-preserved, and the weather is not bad at all.
But after such a long night, everyone's appetite was not very good. Especially Xu Chunru and the others lost their appetite when they thought of the excavation scenes before.
After filling out some hastily, Jiang Yue and others said goodbye.
When passing by the B&B area, Jiang Yue and others did not stay, but just passed through silently.
It is better to return to Star City, give up this assessment, and save your life first.
Or take the risk and continue the assessment task?
Jiang Yue left this choice to Du Yifeng and others.
Du Yifeng didn't hesitate: "We've come here, but if we don't accomplish anything and go back in despair, why don't we make people laugh at us?"
Yu Siyuan said: "Logically speaking, the B&B hotel area should be considered a relatively safe place. We had such a hard time last night. If we continue to stay in the ecological park, other places will probably be more dangerous. The mission is important, and it cannot be more important than life. Bar?"
"Siyuan, if you want to go back, I have no objection." Du Yifeng said calmly.
"Sister Ru, what do you say?" Yu Siyuan was a little undecided and wanted to drag Xu Chunru along.
"Going back at this time, I really can't explain it. What should we tell our family? We hid in the villa all night? We even kidnapped two companions? Are we just Awakened? How will the higher-ups view us? What will the common people think of us? What do you think of us?"
Although Xu Chunru felt that the future was unpredictable, she would not be able to live with her face if she were to return to Star City just like that.
Han Jingjing was very principled and followed Jiang Yue in everything.
When Jiang Yue wanted to leave, she would retreat. If Jiang Yue wanted to stay, she would stay decisively.
In the end, Yu Siyuan still couldn't resist Du Yifeng and Xu Chunru.
Although she really wanted to be a deserter, it was a long journey back to Star City alone, and she felt weak.
Their next destination is Didi Paradise, which covers an area of several hundred hectares.
Du Yifeng's specific mission area is Didi Paradise.
Xu Chunru's mission is in the Ecological Botanical Garden.
Han Jingjing's mission area is in the Immortal Valley.
Jiang Yue did not have a clear mission area, but according to his investigation, the area where Professor Lu and Assistant Zuo moved before their disappearance should also be in the Immortal Valley.
In other words, they had to walk through all four major areas of the entire ecological park, excluding the B&B and hotel area where they stayed last night.
Jiang Yue also told Du Yifeng privately that he was the first to tell ugly things.
If Du Yifeng completes the mission in Didi Paradise, either Du Yifeng will go with them to the next mission, or Du Yifeng will return to Star City alone.
Anyway, Jiang Yue's promise was to protect Du Yifeng's personal safety during the mission.
Du Yifeng was a little resistant at first, but Jiang Yue's attitude was obviously unacceptable.
Of course, Jiang Yue had the same attitude towards Xu Chunru, without any partiality.
After a long journey, a few people arrived at the gate of Didi Paradise.
Didi Paradise was created with a lot of thought, and every detail was done to perfection, creating a dream world that is completely different from reality.
As soon as visitors enter the gate, they feel as if they have entered a fairy tale world.
However, the architectural layout of the fairy tale world is still there, but the atmosphere of the fairy tale world is gone.
On the empty main road, a few pieces of residual garbage floated from time to time, which undoubtedly added to the desolation, but it seemed more like it had switched to a horror world.
In the squares on both sides of the main road, there are various cartoon characters with different shapes, each one is seven or eight meters tall. It was originally a welcoming theme to welcome guests into Didi Paradise, but now it is inevitably depressing.
It seems that these giant cartoon characters will transform into monsters at any time, slap them down, or step on them with a big foot.
