"What's the smell?" Li Huan, the deputy lieutenant next to him who was specially coordinating the government troops, couldn't help but said in surprise: However, the next moment, Jiang Tian seemed to smell a strange smell that seemed to be absent. Immediately after loading the "Micro Inspection Module" on the sense of smell, he quickly determined the direction of the odor.
As part of the Ten Thousand Beasts Garden, one of the many entertainment facilities in the Forbidden Garden, which is even larger than Chang'an City, the Tiger Pen was originally a place where beasts were raised as tributes from various vassal states; therefore, it has tall walls, sentry towers, and watchtowers. and other functional building complexes.
It was only after the Taixing and Zhongxing Dynasties that the inner court was established separately between the two capitals, the so-called Sifang Museum and the attached Museum of Rare and Exotic Animals; the importance of this place was greatly reduced. It became a shelter for old, weak, sick and disabled animals that were not in good condition, so it gradually fell into disuse.
However, because it was one of the royal amusement park facilities at that time, it would receive tourists from the Tianjia from time to time; therefore, the building materials were quite thoughtful and solid. Even after so many years of wind, frost, rain and snow, most of the buildings are still standing as before, with only some collapsed roofs that are in disrepair.
Therefore, Jiang Tian jumped up to a pavilion with a leaky ceiling; then he followed the direction of the smell and jumped over several dilapidated pavilions and pavilions; finally he came to a large animal pen. This is also one of the few breeding grounds in the former tiger enclosure that is still in use.
Therefore, among the sparse grass and loess, bits and pieces of broken bones can be vaguely seen; however, this is not surprising; because these bones are more like pigs, cattle and sheep used to feed wild beasts. However, in Jiang Tian's enhanced sense of smell, it is a place where peculiar smells are concentrated.
Therefore, after many of his subordinates followed the trend and rushed over, Jiang Tian immediately ordered: "Choose a hundred people to come out and use the exploration shovel on the spot to carry out grid partition exploration and detection in steps of three feet, five feet and ten feet. Underground sampling; report any unusual findings anytime, anywhere.”
"Got the order!" Half an hour later, amid the shouts that rang out one after another, the soldiers who were equipped with long and tubular probes, led by the Supervisory Team members, began to move along the three-foot-high cross-grid of the animal pen. To mark the boundary rope, insert the exploration shovel deeply into the ground and dig it out one by one at intervals of one foot.
The soil samples excavated are then poured into the container on the cart that follows; after accumulating a certain amount, they will be picked up, poured on a mesh screen for sand, and spread out for filtering and Classification inspection; as a result, this inspection found several unusual things.
The first is the weeds that were pulled out during the pre-clearance. The upper part still looks as green as ever, but the roots below the soil have begun to wither and turn yellow. There is also a part of the soil color level and humidity that was sampled, which is obviously different from other areas, as if it has been turned over again.
Therefore, under Jiang Tian's order. As the soldiers who had completed most of the exploration exited and repaired, another team, holding picks, hoes and other digging tools, surrounded the corner of the large animal pen and started digging with all their strength. As large tracts of turf and soil were lifted up, someone suddenly stopped.
Then, I saw a soldier turn around and bend over backwards to vomit; then, as if more people were infected, they turned and retreated from the working place one after another, vomiting one after another. At this time, Jiang Tian and others who were supervising the scene also smelled a strong stench.
Then, the soldier who started to vomit first suddenly fell to the ground silently while he was vomiting. When the other soldiers around him saw this and wanted to help him, they also covered their chests one after another. Or he would hold his throat and look extremely uncomfortable, then stagger and fall down.
At this time, the remaining soldiers on the periphery were also a little startled on the spot, shouting the names of their comrades, and wanted to rush into the animal pen to rescue; but they were directly stopped by the supervisor team members present. Then Jiang Tian jumped down and landed next to the fallen soldiers.
"Supervisor, please be careful that your breath is harmful, please." Only then did Yu Cong react and shouted in a hissing voice. Then, he saw most of the team members directly under the Supervisor acting calmly or unmoved. The order at the scene seemed to be accustomed to this situation.
"Don't worry, most of the poisons in the world can't affect me?" Jiang Tian smiled at him; then he carefully examined the first fallen soldier; he saw that his head and face were stained with vomit. object; his face turned blue and his expression was distorted, his body was hunched on the ground and twitching faintly;
Jiang Tian couldn't help but feel a little relieved, as long as he had breath. The next moment, he picked up the soldier and patted him on the back. Hearing the "uh" sound, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of filth. He immediately resumed his normal breathing, and instinctively inhaled and gasped. stand up.
Then, Jiang Tian threw the fallen soldiers out of the animal pen one after another, and they were caught by his companions together. Amidst the rush of greetings and massages, he noticed the prompt in his field of vision: "A small amount of biochemical pollution gas has been detected and has been blocked."
The next moment, he, who had temporarily blocked his sense of smell and breathing, came to the excavated pit; he saw floating soil at the bottom of the dug pit, and the outlines of some broken limbs could be vaguely seen; it just looked particularly rotten. Fast, showing large areas of liquefaction seeping into and polluting the land.
The "biochemical pollution gas" indicated in the field of vision clearly comes from the deformed limbs and remains that reacted in some way after being exposed to the air during the excavation, and were severely decayed. Immediately, Jiang Tian suddenly dropped a lit match into the pit of faintly steaming gas.
In an instant, a blue-grey flame rose up. Apparently, the gases produced by these corruptions also included combustible methane. After a while, the pit, which was slightly discolored after being burned by the brief explosion, was reworked and further expanded.
However, the operating personnel were replaced by supervisory team members; they also wore special glass and rubber hoods, simple gas masks with breathing valves, multi-layer activated carbon, non-woven fabrics, and filters; and several large vehicles were also mobilized. Winnowing hair dryer for further ventilation and purification.
Therefore, as the sun sets in the west, the deep pit that occupies almost one-fifth of the animal pen floor will also completely reveal the layers of buried objects underground; and these twisted and deformed remains that clearly belong to the alien species will not be revealed until the light of day. From the moment it begins, it becomes corrupted faster.
For this reason, Jiang Tian had to order people to quickly build a large roof on the spot to block direct sunlight. Despite this, some of the previously exposed wreckage has accelerated to melt and liquefy; turning the bottom of the pit into a filthy gray-black mud, making it more difficult to continue digging.
However, compared to the soldiers whose faces were turned pale by the residual stench from the scene, it was Deputy Supervisor Yu Cong whose face was even more ugly; because he had already noticed the exposed wreckage, and he estimated that there were not more than dozens of them. , hundreds of numbers. What does this mean?
On the night when His Highness the Supervisor was attacked at the Autumn Hunting Camp, there were actually so many aliens secretly lurking in the Forbidden Garden; and then they were all killed silently. This is no longer something that can be explained by ordinary dereliction of duty and incompetence; it is something more heart-wrenching and terrible.
"Jianzheng, I...I...must go back and report to the superiors quickly!" At this time, Yu Cong was so distraught that even his daily spoken language had changed, but he didn't want to stay any longer. "This situation is too involved and cannot be handled independently by this department."
"Okay, but you must bring enough guards." Jiang Tian unexpectedly agreed happily, and then turned to the second of the four guards who were on guard and shouted: "Wang Guoda, Lin Shunyi, each of you will bring a guard." Form a team of people to personally escort Deputy Supervisor Yu to the Yintai Gate..."
Wang Guoda, Deng Atu, Zhang Bao, and Lin Shunyi were the four disciples who initially adapted to the physical changes under Jiang Tian's adjustment. Then he followed him all the way to fight and kill. Whether he was against aliens or opponents, he was experienced in hundreds of battles and had extremely rich experience.
Later, he continued to strengthen his body and practice various martial arts, mastering the skills of using various weapons, props, and rare objects with ease. Therefore, when Jiang Tian is not at the Xijing branch, the special teams they lead are the main force responsible for them.
In other words, with their strengthened physical fitness in many aspects, and the martial arts and skills they have developed, they are enough to easily suppress half a team of well-trained lay soldiers (2-30 people) in daily confrontation training; and if equipped with exclusive props and equipment, the combat power is doubled.
If you add in the direct team, those thirty-seven team members who have gone through the initial suffering and hardships and obtained different degrees of physical mutation strengthening; forming a combat team of five to seven people, it is considered a brigade (8 to 90 people) The soldiers' raids and outflanks can also be dealt with more than enough.
"Jianzheng, it should be more than this!" However, Yu Cong's expression changed when he heard this, and he immediately pursed his lips and said: "This is a place close to the capital after all, and I am not someone who just waits to be killed. As long as I send him Some ordinary soldiers..."
"Do you believe this yourself?" Jiang Tian sneered and said: "Don't Deputy Supervisor Yu find it strange that who was responsible for the massacre of these monster remains during the inspection after the incident? Are you trying to hide it by hiding it? What's more, I also discovered something else."
"What?" Yu Cong couldn't help but change his expression after hearing this:
"Of course it's something related to Lixingyuan." Jiang Tian said meaningfully: "Don't you think these ruins are decaying too fast? I also saw it during the pagoda cave incident at Fengxian Temple in Longmen Mountain, Dongdu. I have experienced similar situations. The root cause of the change was handled by me myself."
"If some clues are not discovered by chance, there will only be some indistinguishable sludge in the future." Jiang Tian continued: "So I must prepare for a rainy day, just in case. I will sit here to wait for the follow-up. You must be safe Arrive at the Imperial City and get a clear response.”
"I...understand, I will do my best to win the trust of the court and get a reply for the prisoner." Hearing this, Yu Cong couldn't help but let out a deep breath, with a young and handsome expression. But he calmed down: "Please take care of yourself..."
Looking at the figure galloping away full of thoughts, Jiang Tian also smiled slightly and said to himself: All the way here, with half-truths and half-false efforts to confuse the public and fish in troubled waters, the plan finally came true. Now, let's see how the "His Royal Highness" who lives in the imperial city responds?
After a while, as the digging went deeper, he noticed a new prompt in his field of vision: "A small amount of biochemical pollution gas was found..., a moderate biochemical pollution gas was found...; the source of the biochemical pollution gas was found, is it necessary to contain it?" .
The next moment, in the gap between the two waves of people taking turns, a translucent light red oval sheath appeared in Jiang Tian's hand. But it was the remnants of the blood-colored altar in the stone cave discovered during the chase in the Dongdu Underground City. Then it turned pink, dark red, and lavender visibly to the naked eye.
But the black sludge accumulation in the deep pit is faintly fading and becoming transparent and clear. In this way, in addition to the yellow bead condensed by the spirit that was hidden in the golden body of the Sixth Patriarch and absorbed the spiritual influence, Jiang Tian had a new trump card and method whose purpose was unknown for the time being.
