Returning from the abyss

Chapter 52
Dawn is approaching, and the somewhat overcast skies beckon a muggy day.The surface moisture is steaming up, and it is only six or seven o'clock enough to make a person walking outdoors sweat profusely.

When Lu Ning walked back to the hotel, she saw the trio looking tired.Liu Chang'an didn't know when she came back. As for Gao Yunji and Fei Yunwei, she didn't know what they were up to these days. Because she didn't trust these people, she didn't try to recruit any more people into the gang.

"Good morning."

Fei Yunwei looked haggard, while Gao Yunji and Liu Changan felt better, and even greeted Lu Ning and Liu Changan.

"Are you back? Did anything happen?" Lu Ning asked casually.

"Haha, there is no danger, thank you for your concern." Liu Changan smiled.

"What are you doing lately? I said, if you want to leave, everyone should help each other." Fei Yunwei suddenly said in a strange way, "It's not like we don't share clues, so don't think we're just fooling around."

At this time, Gao Yunji covered his mouth, then nodded to Lu Ning, as if he was not ready to speak, he dragged him back to the hotel.

They didn't plan to say anything, but it didn't mean that Lu Ning couldn't see anything.

The figure of the female ghost has become much thinner. Although she still follows the three of them closely, she is no longer as fierce as before, and the evil spirit around her has almost dissipated. This is undoubtedly a serious injury.Judging from the fact that the female ghost did not take any revenge, it is very likely that this female ghost is actually the protector of one of them, and they must have gone to some dangerous place last night.

There are mud spots on the shoes, the clothes are made of long-sleeved waterproof fabrics, and there are some water marks and wrinkles from the trouser legs to the knees. These alone have a strong point.

But Lu Ning didn't intend to ask the three of them.

Back in the hotel room, she fell on her back on the bed, her tense nerves finally relaxed a little, and the fatigue from a sleepless night also surged up, causing her to gradually close her eyes...

"--land------"

The noisy information condensed into a meaningful voice with difficulty in the air.

"————"

There was a death-like voice, but it couldn't reach the ears of the person on the bed. After all, Lu Ning was already fast asleep, and the voice was too small.

"we are at--"

However, the other party couldn't know this at all, and still sent the signal for help word by word.

"medical--"

Ding dong.

The doorbell rang, completely disrupting the unstable information flow in the air, and also awakening the person on the bed.

"Who?"

"it's me."

Yuan Xi's voice came from outside the door.

"Let's check to see if you're back here. Shu Xingruo has been sent to a safe place, and Sun Mozhu will temporarily protect her safety. Last night's action plan was a success."

Lu Ning reluctantly got up from the bed, opened the door, and Yuan Xi and Xiao Shifan stood outside the door.Seeing her coming to open the door, Xiao Shifan handed over a document bag: "Shu Xingruo asked me to give this to you, but I didn't peep."

"Ah, it seems that she has a secret." Lu Ning yawned and took the file bag, opened it casually, glanced at the content on the first page, nodded and said, "Understood... Although I really want to talk to you share, but I'm tired now."

"It's okay, you rest first, we're going to the outskirts of the city." Yuan Xi said.

"Suburb? Which side?"

"To the east, there is a lush forest with an area of ​​more than ten square kilometers, which is quite large, but what is more famous is the nickname given by the people here."

"Exposing the corpse forest?"

"Well, now that this is over for now, we plan to start the investigation of ghost stories. Cheng Wuling also said it specifically, remember?"

Lu Ning nodded, she had already remembered this matter, but it probably had nothing to do with the rescue plan, Cheng Wuling didn't go into details that time.

"Wish you guys good luck."

"See you later."

After greeting each other, the two left.Lu Ning closed the door and returned to the room, opened the computer with her eyelids open, started several programs, and then lay back on the bed.

When I woke up, the sun outside had already set, and Lu Ning's stomach began to complain. Speaking of which, since last night's dinner, she really didn't eat anything.

Coincidentally, she received a text message. Lan Yushu sent a message saying that there had been a breakthrough there, and invited her out for a meal to celebrate.After thinking for a while, Lu Ning replied "I'll be there", then checked the computer, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong with the program, she washed up and left the room.

The night market is not yet open, but the restaurants are open. As a half-local, Lan Yushu is familiar with the signature dishes of every restaurant on this street.But to Lu Ning's surprise, not only Lan Yushu was present, but also two of his colleagues.

"Let me introduce, He Nianqing, who is in charge of our liaison work, and Chen Xue, who is in charge of monitoring and espionage." Lan Yushu introduced a man and a woman who came together to Lu Ning, and the two also nodded politely to Lu Ning , seems to know that Lu Ning may be a companion in the future, and his attitude is very familiar.

Although Lu Ning is not very good at dealing with people, she will respond with enough enthusiasm when others take the initiative to make friends with her. In addition, she is now lowering her profile to ask a few people for some supernatural knowledge. After having a common topic, she is quite confused hit it off.

After coming and going, the topic turned to business.

"Yesterday, while you were doing it, we stopped two police cars that were dispatched in advance. As expected, there was indeed something wrong with the people in the cars."

"Have you already interrogated?" Lu Ning asked.

He Nianqing nodded: "It took a little time, those guys are so fragile that I don't even want to call them enemies."

"Fragile?" Lu Ning immediately thought of the "person" who collapsed immediately after being shot on the mountain that day.

"The first thing they do when they wake up is to try to hurt themselves. It seems that as long as they accumulate a certain amount of damage, they will self-destruct. But except for the first two, we didn't have time to stop them, and the latter ones are not so lucky." He said proudly, "There is still a place where the 'transformation' took place in their memory, maybe we can find the remains of the victims over the years from there, so that we have a legitimate reason to request to send troops..."

"Where is the transformation?" Lu Ning asked.

He Nianqing glanced at Chen Xue, saw her nodding slightly, and said, "Hospital, Danma Central Hospital. That place is really full of filth..."

"Okay."

Chen Xue interrupted He Nianqing at this moment, then looked into Lu Ning's eyes and said, "I think you might want to say you want to participate in this operation?"

"...Is your ability to read minds?"

"How is it possible, it's just that there are more people watching." Chen Xue denied with a smile, "It's just that although you have great potential, it is not allowed to let newcomers directly participate in the action."

Lu Ning was silent for a moment, then said: "But, even if you don't take me with you, I will investigate the hospital's problems. I also met many people when I came to Danma, and I can find others who are willing to go with me."

"Don't you believe we can handle this properly?"

Chen Xue's tone was very confident, but both Lu Ning and He Nianqing beside him felt unreliable.

Lu Ning knew that this time the enemy was too conspicuously exposed and too weak, and it was easy to give the illusion that the opponent was easy to deal with—but this was the feeling she least believed in her life.Perhaps because of her pessimistic attitude towards life for a long time, she never thought that such a good thing would happen.

On the other hand, He Nianqing had a solid judgment.When he really understood the abilities of his "companions", he felt more and more how difficult the "enemy" that he had never been able to touch was so difficult that it was suspected that this was a hunting mission, because only that could bring Overwhelming external inequality.

But they couldn't explain it directly, so the information brought by the identity of "crow" couldn't explain the source at all, so they had to think of other ways.

At this time, Lu Ning's phone vibrated, she said "Sorry" and picked up the phone, and saw Shu Xingruo's number displayed on it.

"Hey."

——Exposing corpses.

It was rumored that when someone passed through the woods in the early morning, they saw more than a dozen corpses hanging from the trees in the forest. However, after calling the police, they did not actually find the corpses.After this happened four or five times, gradually there were rumors like "the forest is alive and will devour corpses".

Shu Xingruo and Sun Mozhu were shuttled through this woodland right now.In midsummer, the leaves are luxuriant, and the moonlight cannot provide enough lighting. The two of them used flashlights to illuminate the road ahead as they walked through each other.

"Are you sure it's here?"

Sun Mozhu looked around.There are still cicadas singing in the forest, and occasionally startled birds flap their wings and fly to the trees in the distance.

But Shu Xingruo was very determined.

"The advantage I can exchange for the bad situation before is the 'key' about Qiye Qiye. I have already given one of them to Lu Ning and one to Han Yin. These two are the two I feel most at the moment. Don't worry, I will check the rest myself."

"Personally? You didn't explain the danger here." Sun Mozhu showed some suspicion, "Since you have such an important bargaining chip, why didn't you raise it earlier?"

"As I said, I only trust two people at the moment—if it's you, it's probably only half." Shu Xingruo walked along a path among the trees, tapping every tree lightly with his fingers. passing trees.

"Showing one's status will only lead to the enemy's key treatment. After confirming with Lu Ning, I became more and more aware of one thing, that is, no one has shown clues to the core except me."

"Clues that point directly to the core..."

Shu Xingruo suddenly stopped, tapped his fingers on a tree twice, and then twice, thought for a while, then turned his head and said to Sun Mozhu:
"You are a seeker, right? It stands to reason that the name of the scene this time is "The Seeker of the Holy Code", and you are the ones who occupy the leading role. But did none of you pay attention? This time, even if we found out There are so many anomalies, but none of the core of the mission—the scriptures, the protoss, and the silent plan—is revealed."

"As long as the anomaly is revealed, the things behind it will be exposed, and those things are obviously the ultimate mastermind behind the scenes." Sun Mozhu said.

"Yes, we have this additional information because of our identities. But after excluding these, where do you think our investigation has progressed?"

Sun Mozhu frowned and thought for a while, feeling that what is known so far has not made much substantial progress.

At the same time, Shu Xingruo took out his mobile phone and dialed Lu Ning's number.

"Hey?"

The other party connected quickly.

"Did you see what I gave you?"

"I haven't finished reading it all, why? Is there a problem?"

"There are some problems. Sun Mozhu and I have come to the corpse forest, and now I am standing at the key position."

There was a moment of silence on the phone.

"key?"

"The key to start the ghost talk phenomenon—in fact, it should be said to be a fixed method of operation. This is the advantage I have."

"That's not an advantage."

Lu Ning quickly replied.

"The things you know should be of the same type as the secrets in our hands. It belongs to the information that provides a lot of investigation directions but does not have a direct pointing effect. But I am not sure if there are monsters there. Only two people were too adventurous in the past. Yes, you leave now."

"No... that's what's weird about it."

Shu Xingruo peeled off a piece of bark, exposing the wood underneath.

"I tried to start...failed, the key has been activated, what do you think is going on?"

Suddenly there was a gunshot in the woods.

"Xiao Shifan and Yuan Xi also went to expose the corpse forest today."

(End of this chapter)