"We got lost not long after we entered."
"Maybe it's normal for you to feel lost, but as long as you follow my brother, you will never get lost. At least you can return the same way."
She seemed to have thought of something, and her face began to turn ugly, "My brother's thinking is different from ordinary people. He is used to labeling everyone or something with numbers. When he is in the forest, he will constantly check the direction, location, and surroundings. The numbers of more special things." She paused, glanced at Jiang Cheng, and said, "It's not the sort of arrangement starting from 1 as you imagined. As for what it is..."
"Excuse me," Jiang Cheng said, "I'm not interested in your brother's talent at all. I just want to know what's going on in the forest."
Su Xiaoxiao nodded, "I don't know how to describe this forest to you. In short, this forest is not something you and I can understand. My brother seems to understand, but unfortunately, his expression is limited."
"I only know that he has been emphasizing one thing." Su Xiaoxiao suddenly sat up straight, and then his whole aura changed and became solemn, "He said that this forest... is alive. ."
"The forest...is alive?" The fat man who came over blinked.
He inexplicably remembered the black mist he had seen in the gaps in the forest before. It was like a quagmire. One glance made people unable to take their eyes away, and eventually it got deeper and deeper.
"That's right." Su Xiaoxiao seemed to be worried that Jiang Cheng wouldn't understand. After looking at the forest, he quickly looked back, "At least in my brother's understanding, when he encounters the same tree at different points in time, he will Give the tree another number.”
Jiang Cheng leaned against the rock, but his eyes were focused on the forest, "You mean... in your brother's perception, this tree is no longer the tree he encountered before."
"That's it."
"What about your perception?" Fatty asked, "Has there been any change in this tree?"
"No."
"How did you get the injuries on your bodies?" Jiang Cheng suddenly asked.
After hearing this question, Su Xiaoxiao's body shivered violently, but she controlled it well and quickly returned to normal.
"We got lost in the forest, and finally found a place..." She suddenly paused here, and Jiang Cheng didn't urge her. He knew that the former didn't want to say it, but was looking for a suitable adjective.
"Altar?" Su Xiaoxiao raised her head and asked.
The fat man was stunned for a moment, and then he thought to himself, this is us asking you, not you asking us, how do we know what the hell you found in the forest.
"Let's talk about the phenomenon," Jiang Cheng said comfortingly.
"It's a giant circular stone plate with a diameter of about 10 meters," Su Xiaoxiao recalled: "It's pure white, and there are densely packed tombs nearby."
Jiang Cheng thought for a moment and said: "As far as I know, no matter which tribe, there is no custom of building tombs for sacrifices. They will only take the heads of hostile tribal leaders or nobles."
"Listen to me," Su Xiaoxiao didn't mean to be dissatisfied. She was just too nervous to mention this experience again. "There are tombs near the giant stone plate, but the giant stone plate is filled with all kinds of things." Such skeletons.”
She swallowed carefully: "There are people, and... and various creatures."
Jiang Cheng looked at her and could clearly feel the fear in this woman's heart, and he also understood that the woman was not just frightened by the graves and bones, she must have discovered other things.
Especially her choice of words.
Various creatures...
Why not various animals?
Obviously this kind of wording is what normal people should use.
"What did you see in that pile of bones?" Jiang Cheng lowered his voice.
Su Xiaoxiao didn't seem to expect Jiang Cheng to ask such a question directly. She raised her head suddenly and stared at the latter's eyes with trembling eyes, as if trying to catch some clues.
But obviously, she failed.
Jiang Cheng's eyes... only reflected his own shadow.
"I don't know what those are. In short, they are not creatures that should exist in our world," Su Xiaoxiao said in a trembling voice, "They are all kinds of weird, some look like frogs and lizards, but they are much larger than normal ones. 2 Meters... no, it should be 3 meters tall, or even bigger, they... some of them even have wings on their backs!"
Recalling the scenes he had seen, Su Xiaoxiao's face turned pale, and the only blood color faded completely, "They seem to have come back from hundreds of millions of years ago..."
Jiang Cheng was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "Believe me, there was no such thing hundreds of millions of years ago."
Su Xiaoxiao must have been too excited, which caused the injury to her lungs and started coughing violently. But just when she wanted to continue talking and describe the weirdest and most terrifying place, she discovered that Jiang Cheng He straightened up slightly.
This was a feeling that was difficult to describe in words. In just a short moment, she seemed to see the shadow of something from the latter's body. What was it?
Or... who?
The strange feeling of familiarity was fleeting, but Su Xiaoxiao never doubted her own feelings, just like she never doubted her brother's judgment.
"If I guess correctly, those things you mentioned on the altar," Jiang Cheng breathed out, and when he turned his face again, everything was as usual, "came to life, right?" he asked softly.
The fat man suddenly froze.
Although Su Xiaoxiao was surprised, she didn't lose her composure because she knew that Jiang Cheng probably saw the scars on his brother Su An's body, especially... the gunshot wound on his back.
"In addition to the creatures you mentioned, the people on the altar also came to life," Jiang Cheng said, "Some of them had guns, and they were the ones who injured your brother."
"yes."
Fatty, whose brain had been down for a long time, finally began to reconnect, "You said... you said that some guys who had turned into skeletons came back to life?"
"And you wounded your brother with a gun?!"
"Yes," Su Xiaoxiao seemed to be answering Fatty's question, but her attention never left Jiang Cheng. There was something special about the latter that attracted her.
Deja vu.
"I think you should have guessed it," Su Xiao said, "those are the teammates who came ashore with the old woman."
"But for some reason, he died in the forest, and his bones were piled on the altar. At a certain opportunity, everything on the altar will be resurrected, and then..."
Su Xiaoxiao didn't say anything else. After all, it was no longer necessary for the man in front of him.
This is very much like some kind of automatic defense mechanism in this forest or even this island. Once an outsider steps in, the altar in the forest will be activated, and then it will be the killing moment of the resurrected "weapons".
The killed "visitors" will be re-integrated into this defense facility and become new "guardians".
This theory is not difficult for fat people to understand, but it is difficult to believe it.
Does such a facility really exist?
Didn't the doctor say this is a shadow of the real world?
Since it is a shadow, then...that means there is such a place in the real world, and there will also be such an altar in that place.
On the altar...there are piles of bones.
This is impossible......
