Chapter 330 Weird Forest
Wu Yuanyuan's voice pierced the dead night sky and disturbed everyone's minds. Everyone's expressions changed and cold sweat began to break out on their backs.
Indeed, now in this deep forest, only that fragment exists... Combined with the disappearance of the two teams before, it is difficult not to let people think about it.
"Old Wu!" Lu Xun frowned and glared at him, signaling him to stop talking.
"What's the use of glaring at me! What I'm telling you is the truth!" Wu Yuyuan glared back, "I just said this thing is evil, right? This is not a fragment, it's simply an alien monster! It fell from a big monster little monster!"
This time no one refuted Wu Yuanyuan's words. Everyone looked down at the fragments of communication equipment on the ground and frowned.
"Lao Lu, now that the communication equipment is gone, and we know that thing is a monster... let's turn back." Wu Yuan Yuan persuaded earnestly, "It's still too late to go back before we go too far. What should be used to deal with monsters? Planes and tanks, not our helpless scientists."
Lu Xun was silent for a long time, but still shook his head:
"You can't look back...it's nothing more than a special magnetic field. Now we know how the first two teams lost communication. Even if we go back, nothing will be changed. Switching to another team is just a matter of not bringing communication equipment. This way with What difference does it make if we move on?
Our purpose on this trip is to figure out the principle of that thing, and we cannot give up halfway. "
"Okay...okay."
Wu Yuyuan waved his hand, "I can't tell you clearly. I admit that compared to you, Dr. Lu, I am just a coward who is greedy for life and afraid of death, okay? Anyway, this exploration is the same with or without me. I will retreat first, and you can continue on." Go ahead.”
He turned around and walked into the dark jungle behind him.
Seeing this, everyone turned to look at Lu Xun at the same time... Wu Yuanyuan was found by Lu Xun, and he had the best relationship with Lu Xun. At this moment, only Lu Xun could speak to persuade him. But Lu Xun did not speak to stop him, but just watched him quietly and left.
The wind and rain rustled in the deep forest. In the endless darkness, only Wu Yuyuan moved forward slowly with his flashlight. He stopped automatically after walking for a few seconds.
He looked at the dark jungle in front of him like an unknown giant beast and swallowed.
"...Lao Lu, send someone to see me off?" He turned his head and asked cautiously.
Lu Xun said calmly, "Sorry, we don't have any extra manpower."
"..."
Just as Wu Yuan was gritting his teeth, Chen Ling's voice suddenly sounded:
"Dr. Wu, right? I'm afraid even if someone sends you away, you won't be able to go back."
Wu Yuan was stunned and looked at him doubtfully, "Why?"
Chen Ling raised her hand and pointed at the woods behind him and the scattered mountains in the darkness, "Because we are no longer on the way we came..."
As soon as this sentence came out, no one understood what it meant, but when the doctors saw the mountain range, their expressions suddenly changed!
"Did we come from that direction?"
"No, there are no mountains where we are coming from..."
A scholar wearing protective clothing walked to one of the trees and observed carefully for a moment with a flashlight. His face became increasingly ugly.
"No...these trees are wrong too!"
"What's wrong?"
"Generally speaking, the foliage is thicker on the south side of the trees. When we came it was south, but now it's east... This is not the woods we had when we came."
"Yes, but we clearly came out of here! Our footprints are still there..."
"Wait, where are the footprints??"
Only then did everyone realize that the large set of footprints that dozens of people had walked out of had disappeared at this moment, leaving no trace of them on the ground, as if they had appeared out of thin air in the woods.
This discovery made everyone shudder. Even the leader Lu Xun's expression changed. What happened in front of them was beyond their daily understanding.
"It's over... I said what I said, what I said!!" Wu Yuyuan stumbled back into the crowd and spoke tremblingly, "It was a mistake for us to come here... It's fine now, we can't go back! "
A scientific researcher wearing black-rimmed glasses was relatively calm and said in a deep voice, "Maybe it was too dark and we misremembered the direction we came from, plus the wind and rain in the mountains washed away our footprints... Or maybe, it was Does that fragment have hallucinogenic ingredients? You see, none of us have protective masks now. We may have inhaled something that affects our brain’s judgment.”
Chen Ling glanced at the speaker in surprise. He and Lu Xun were the only ones who were relatively calm. At this time, they could still try to use scientific principles to explain everything in front of them.
"Dr. Fang is right. What we need to do is to explain all this in a scientific way, instead of blaming all abnormal phenomena on ghosts and snake gods." Lu Xun said in a deep voice, "Old Wu, please stop saying a few words, don't Adding psychological burden to others.”
Wu Yuan opened his mouth and was about to retort, but after seeing Lu Xun's murderous eyes, he still lowered his head silently.
"But now we have no idea where we are, the communication equipment is broken, and the compass is malfunctioning... How to confirm the location of the Red Star fragments?" Su Zhiwei looked at the compass flying in his hand and frowned.
"If I remember correctly, Dr. Lu should be able to identify the direction through the position of the stars." Yang Xiao, who had always been silent, suddenly spoke.
Lu Xun looked up at the sky. Thick dark clouds completely covered the mountains, and there was no moonlight or starlight to be seen.
"No, rain clouds have blocked the starry sky..."
As soon as this sentence came out, everyone's heart sank. If they couldn't locate the location of the Red Star fragment, they couldn't continue to move, even if they turned back... Unexpectedly, everyone was in a deadlock after just ten minutes.
At this moment, Lu Xun seemed to remember something and looked at Chen Ling as if he was grabbing the last straw.
"Director Chen, you are most familiar with this deep forest. Can you find a way to locate it?"
Everyone remembered that they still had a guide with them, and if he hadn't taken off everyone's masks in time, they would probably have lost their ability to move now, and they all turned back to look at him.
Chen Ling held a flip phone, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance... After a few seconds of silence, he nodded and said:
"Okay, I know where the fragment is."
Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up, and they were surprised by the unexpected turn of events, and they breathed a sigh of relief. Sure enough, a guide was needed at this time.
Chen Ling was able to locate the Red Star fragment, of course, not because he was familiar with this forest, but because he was able to locate the source of the magnetic field fluctuations through the flip phone that was disturbed by electromagnetic waves... In Chen Ling's eyes, the fragment was as dazzling as a torch in the dark night.
Chen Ling walked through the crowd and went straight to the front of the team, saying calmly,
"Follow me."