Balohad looked at the crowd and said: "One possibility is that he has found Bruno and Orenc, but according to time calculation, their positions cannot be so close. Then there is another possibility... ..."
Balohad looked around for a week and tightened his hand on the torch: "Something terrible may have happened in the Forest of the Undead. That man is in danger and he is running for his life!"
"What!" The other people were shocked.
Ever since they entered the Forest of the Undead, all they could see were dead trees and sand, and the surroundings were eerily quiet. They had not encountered anything along the way.
The long period of vigilance had made everyone's nerves a little numb. At this moment, when Balohad said something, everyone suddenly woke up.
This is the Forest of the Dead!
Chen Tao felt a chill on the back of his neck. It was so quiet here, so quiet that one almost forgot where he was.
Not to mention other people, even Chen Tao himself almost forgot that he was in an extremely dangerous place. Chen Tao couldn't help but take a deep breath. He was so careless. This kind of silence was really driving people crazy. The body and mind were tortured by endless tension and defensiveness, which could make people suffocate.
"Then what should we do, chase or not?" Ye Rong stared at the little red dot on the screen and glanced at Balohard and Chen Tao. "This place has an impact on the signal. If it exceeds a certain range, the instrument will lose that person's signal."
Balohad illuminated the dark woods in front of him with a torch, and he and Chen Tao spoke almost at the same time.
"Chase!"
The group of people held torches and increased their speed. The flames of the torches flashed by their ears. Balohad and Sok grabbed the torches and rushed to the front. Behind them were Chen Tao and Ye Rong, and behind them were Haozi and several other guardsmen.
"Quick, he's still running in this direction!" Ye Rong looked at the tracking locator in his hand while constantly reporting the position of the thin black man to Balohard and Sok in front.
"You all be careful, pay attention to your surroundings, and don't fall behind! Brothers behind you, watch your back, and notify everyone immediately if there is any situation!"
Balohad shouted from the front, and everyone kept walking, holding torches and walking through the dense forest. There are tree trunks everywhere, and people can't run fast inside. If they are not careful, they will hit the trees or trip over the broken branches on the ground.
If you bump into it while running, your nose will be crooked.
Fortunately, Chen Tao and the others had torches. Although the lighting range was limited in the Forest of the Undead, it was better than nothing. At least they could see the path under their feet clearly and avoid hitting their heads against a tree and getting bloody.
In a hurry, Chen Tao glanced at the positioning tracker in Ye Rong's hand. The little red dot on the device was moving around. The thin black man had no torch or weapons for self-defense. He didn't know how he could see in the dark. road.
Everyone was tracking quickly in the dense forest, and the little red dot on the instrument was getting closer and closer to them.
"He stopped!" Ye Rong in the crowd suddenly shouted.
"Where?" Balohard asked.
"Over here!" Ye Rong said.
"Quick, be careful, little brother Chen Tao, take care of Miss Ye and your friends, don't get separated!" Balohard shouted: "Everyone, follow up and be alert!"
"Don't worry, we're fine!" Chen Tao and Hao Zi responded in unison.
"We're almost there, the signal shows he's right in front!" Ye Rong held the tracking locator with one hand, and suddenly her face changed, "No, the signal is weakening!"
"How far is it?" Sok in front asked.
"There are still more than twenty meters, just ahead!"
The tracking signal of the thin black man has weakened, which is not a good thing. The only good thing is that so far, they have not encountered any danger. There is still the deathly silence around them. The sun has completely set. I don’t know. Whether it was blocked by the tree canopy or the weather had changed, it was dark above the head, with only a few scattered stars hanging on it.
"We're here! Everyone, be careful!" Ye Rong in the crowd shouted again.
The small red dot on the screen of the positioning tracker was still flashing, but the brightness was much dimmed. Everyone stopped and started searching around the location displayed by the device with torches.
"The location shown by the signal is right here. He should be nearby, not more than ten meters away!"
"Ten meters away, isn't that right in front of you?" Haozi came over and glanced at the screen and said, "That guy squatting here motionless, is he scared by us?"
"If that's okay, I'm afraid he has..." Ye Rong looked solemn, "It's strange, why is the signal so weak?"
"Your thing is out of battery..." Chen Tao glanced at Ye Rong, pulled Haozi and began to search among the surrounding tree trunks.
The distance of ten meters is not very far. Chen Tao and a dozen others quickly searched it, but found nothing, not even a single figure.
"Could it be that he dropped the tracker when he was escaping?" Chen Tao asked.
"Probably not. I stuck it very tightly at the beginning, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't fall off so easily. Something was wrong. Ye Rong stared at the screen of the positioning tracker tightly, and took one step at a time. Step by step, it seems that she wants to find the tracker.
"Lord Barlow, come here quickly!" Someone shouted in the darkness, and Chen Tao and the others hurriedly looked along the direction of the sound.
The guard who had been guarding the thin black man with Sok earlier was standing under a big tree as big as two people's arms. He pointed at a lump under the root of the tree and said: "There is a piece of rag here, which belongs to that person." !”
Seeing something discovered over there, everyone gathered around.
At this time, Ye Rong also arrived under the big tree with the positioning tracker.
"It's strange, how come the signal came out from under this tree? Could it be that that person went underground?"
Balohad tore off the rag hanging from the tree and shined his torch on the trunk. "The sand here is very flat and there are no tree holes. How did he get down?"
Suoke on the side pulled out his long knife and was about to dig under the roots of the tree. Unexpectedly, Ye Rong suddenly stopped him at this time.
"Don't go there, he's moving!" Ye Rong stared closely at the screen of the positioning tracker. The small red dot on it was still flashing, but the brightness was slowly increasing. "The signal is strengthening, and he is moving towards We’re getting close, fast!”
Everyone was staring at the positioning tracker in Ye Rong's hand, watching the little red dot on it getting brighter and brighter, flashing faster and faster.
"Back up! Back up!" Balohad felt that something was not right, and asked everyone to retreat a few steps. Everyone was staring at the sand under the big tree.
Swish, swish, swish, swish...
Suddenly there was an extremely dense rustling sound in the silent forest. Under the firelight, the sand under the big tree undulated slightly. Everyone's eyes were fixed on the pile of sand, and their hands were subconsciously raised. rifle.
Suddenly, the sand exploded violently, and the sand splashed everywhere. Everyone was caught off guard, and they all turned their heads reflexively, trying to avoid the sand coming towards them. Then they heard a scream from the crowd, and a black cloud came out. The shadow seemed to jump out of the sand hole, and then everyone clearly heard a dense and weird sound.
Cluck cluck cluck....
The sound is like countless bones colliding, or like countless rattlesnakes coiling around your ears. It makes your eardrums swell and your brain feels like an electric shock.
"Ah...my eyes!" A guard covered his eyes and shouted in pain: "Something just scratched my eyes!"
"There's something! Back away!" Balohard shouted and was the first to react.
Everyone was startled and took several steps back. They picked up their rifles and loaded them with a click.
"Just now I seemed to see something emerge from the ground and then disappear again!" Chen Tao held the rifle in his hand and stared at the sand under his feet warily.
There was nothing on the sand, just a bunch of messy footprints. The guard who had been attacked earlier was covering his left eye in pain, his face covered in blood.
Chen Tao was horrified to see that the man's face seemed to have been scratched by something. Three deep blood marks ran diagonally from the corner of his forehead across the bridge of his nose, and his mouth was scratched.
The wound was horribly deep, with red flesh and blood turned out, and his eyelids were drooped. You could even see the white skull underneath. Blood was dripping down drop by drop. The light of the torch danced on his face, and it was dark. It looks like a fierce ghost, and it looks extremely infiltrating.
"Lord Barlow!" The guard covered his face in pain, spitting blood and froth from his mouth.
The man's voice sounded familiar to Chen Tao, so he took a closer look.
Isn't this guy whose face was scratched the same as the young guard who followed Sok to guard the thin black man earlier?
"Baal!" Suok shouted, tearing off a few pieces of clothes from his body and pressing them on the face of the young guard named Baal, his eyes filled with distress.
This Baal was the youngest among their guards. His father died in a battle with Orenc and others, and entrusted Baal to Thor before his death.
Suok has always treated him like a younger brother, taking him with him wherever he goes and teaching him marksmanship and sword skills.
"Sock, it hurts!" Barr covered his face, his mouth full of blood.
"Don't be afraid of Barr, I'm here!" Suok held Barr's shoulder with one hand, and pressed the wound on his face with a rag with the other hand. Blood kept dripping from Barr's eye sockets and corners of his mouth. Chen Tao felt his heart twisting when he saw it.
"Quick, get out of here!"
Balohad asked everyone to retreat quickly. They absolutely cannot stay here any longer.
Chen Tao held the rifle in his hand tightly, his heart beating wildly, and his eyes kept scanning the darkness in the distance.
His eyes are different from ordinary people. He can see more clearly in the dark, and he seems to have the ability to influence people's minds and thinking similar to Yan. Chen Tao has completely understood this, but he doesn't know how yet. Go use it.
The moonlight above the head was blocked by the dense canopy of trees, leaving only a few sparse white spots. Everyone held torches and retreated step by step in the dark forest, everyone struggling to breathe.
Cluck cluck cluck.....
Cluck cluck cluck.....
The dense and frightening strange sounds sounded all around again, and the number seemed to be increasing, and the sounds were getting louder and louder, making people's scalps feel numb for a while.
Chen Tao took a quick look around, and inadvertently glanced at the positioning tracker in Ye Rong's hand, and his expression suddenly changed.
"Ye Rong, that red dot is moving!"
The red dot on the positioning display moved quickly on the screen. It looked like a moving red snake in the dark, and the speed was astonishing.
Everyone gathered together and retreated. A guard was walking with a gun in his hand. Suddenly, there was a sudden pause, and then the whole person fell down with a whoosh, and most of his body sank into the sand in an instant.
"Lord Barro, save me!" The guard struggled to call for help from Barro Hard, his body twisting in the sand, his expression full of pain, "Something is pulling me!"
"Hurry and grab my hand!"
At this time, Chen Tao was the closest to the guard, and he hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull it. As a result, as soon as Chen Tao's hand touched the fingertips of the guard, the half of the man's body that was originally resting on the sand suddenly sank again, and he was submerged in an instant. In the sand underground, there was no time to even scream.
"Kumar!" Another short guard nearby yelled when he saw this, dropped the gun and torch in his hand, rushed forward and started digging in the sand with his hands, trying to pull out the guard named Kumar.
"Kumar! Kumar!"
After digging a few times with my hands, a layer of blood seeped out of the sand.
"Kumar!"
