Restricted area grave keeper

Chapter 221 Seeking Kazuki

Outside the gathering place in the forest, two figures walked slowly.

The sun was high, but both of them were holding thick cotton coats. One was tall and burly, the other was calm. They were the two Bai Mo who had just returned from the Hansheng Mine.

It was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and the whole gathering place was quiet, and no one could be seen. Zhang Tao told Bai Mo that most of the people were going to work or looking for supplies at this time.

Laziness can't survive in the buffer zone. If you stay at home all day, you can only starve to death. Even Wu Fan, who is a gangster, knows this well. The group of people who are eating and waiting to die are very disdainful.

Zhang Tao also said that with Boundless City as the center, this flushing area is covered by eight expanded restricted areas, and the area where the gathering place is located is just at the intersection of three of these restricted areas.

Fortunately, the danger levels of these three restricted areas are not high. They are two C-level restricted areas and one D-level restricted area. The creatures in the restricted area are relatively easy to deal with, and most of them follow certain rules of action.

Judging from experience, most of these forbidden creatures have the habit of being nocturnal, especially during the noon period, the forbidden creatures rarely appear outside the forbidden zone, so this time period is the best time for human activities.

Not long ago, the parliament announced a research result. Generally, the higher the danger level of the restricted area, the smaller the range of activities of the restricted area creatures, and correspondingly, the greater their autonomy.

That is to say, the higher the forbidden zone, the more difficult it is to expand, and the activity area is often small, but the forbidden creatures in it are more able to deviate from the established rules, and their whereabouts are strange, and they may appear in any corner of the restricted area at any time.

Therefore, relatively speaking, for a restricted area with a lower danger level, the danger level of the buffer zone near it will also be at a lower level, because at least the actions of those restricted area creatures have traces to follow.

From the perspective of the council, once the danger level of the forbidden zone is too high, there will be a very high possibility of examples like Mu in the past, and the creatures in the forbidden zone may even have the opportunity to escape from the shackles of the forbidden zone.

So far, what happened in Equality Paradise is still highly confidential and has not been announced to the public, and very few people know about it.

Zhang Tao could see that Bai Mo didn't know much about the situation in the buffer zone, so whenever he thought of anything along the way, he would tell the other party all at once, talking endlessly, fully demonstrating what chatter was.

It is worth mentioning that he never asked about Bai Mo's identity and origin.

Bai Mo was quite interested in the matter of the buffer zone, and he wasn't impatient. He had been listening silently, and when he learned that there was a D-level restricted zone nearby, he seemed to have thought of something, showing a thoughtful expression.

"Brother Bai, you said that I should worry about another thing, what exactly are you referring to?"

At this moment, a doubtful voice sounded, turned his head, and saw Zhang Tao looking at him hesitantly, hesitating to speak, as if he wanted to ask but dared not.

Zhang Tao was indeed hesitant. After Bai Mo said this before, he didn't continue. He thought it was some kind of secret that was inconvenient to reveal, so he acted quite cautiously.

Bai Mo was about to answer, but suddenly stopped and looked at the dirt road ahead.

Zhang Tao followed his line of sight, and was taken aback for a moment, only to see an irregular pool of dark red clots on the road ahead at some point, which were obviously bloodstains.

However, he remembered very clearly that there was still no blood on the road when the two of them left this morning, and judging from the color and coagulation degree of the blood, this pool of blood appeared only a few hours ago at most.

The amount of bleeding was quite large. If all of them belonged to the same person, it would be enough to die from excessive blood loss.

Without hesitation, Zhang Tao hurried forward to check.

Bai Mo stood on the spot, watching the scene silently, then looked away from the ground, and asked, "Did you see anything?"

"The bloodstains are generally in two colors, which means that the time point of blood coagulation is likely to be different, which means that this pool of blood does not belong to the same person, maybe two people were injured in the same place at different times, so Only the bloodstains belonging to two time periods will be left behind."

After a pause, Zhang Tao continued to analyze, "There was no trace of a fight at the scene, which means that either the injured person was killed by a single blow, or one party had the strength to crush and knocked him down and took him away in an instant."

"I see."

Bai Mo nodded, raised his head slightly, and looked in a certain direction.

"but……"

After a moment of silence, Zhang Tao said hesitantly, "I'm rather surprised that apart from the bloodstains that obviously belonged to two people, there are many blood spots of different shades in this pool of blood, which seems to have been dripping continuously after that. "

He frowned slightly, "And there are no other blood stains on the surrounding roads, which means that the injured person didn't leave here, but stayed here for a while, so blood dripped from time to time."

"Hmm... good analysis."

Bai Mo's expression became a little weird, "Then who do you think did it?"

"Mostly it's a forbidden creature."

Zhang Tao said with a determined face, "After all, if it was man-made, there would either be dead bodies or more bloodstains nearby, but there was nothing."

Since the emergence of the buffer zone, there have been many incidents of people killing people because of conflicts. Some people even deliberately kill people to show their strength. After all, if they are not near the city, no one will deliberately come to maintain order. Killing people is not a big deal.

And because of this, if the pool of blood is man-made, once the dead appear, the murderer should not deliberately hide the body, and may even leave in a big way.

And if the owner of the blood was only injured and survived, then there would definitely be more blood left on the road when he left.

Yet nothing.

Whether it was corpses or bloodstains, there were no more traces of clues to be found at the scene.

The owner of the blood seems to have disappeared out of thin air, and similar to this kind of weird event, there is a high probability that it will be related to the forbidden creatures.

There are not a few people who have died because of creatures in the restricted area these days, and they can only consider themselves unlucky if they encounter them.

Zhang Tao sighed secretly, his heart was filled with sobs, and his intuition told him that the owner of this pool of blood was dead.

"The analysis makes sense, so how do you think the creatures in the restricted area can make the corpse disappear out of thin air?"

Bai Mo's expression became more and more strange, and for some reason, an imperceptible smile gradually appeared on his face.

Zhang Tao thought for a while, and replied casually: "There are many possibilities, the simplest point-maybe the creature in the restricted area can fly, and after it kills its prey, it catches it straight into the sky, so there are occasional attacks. Blood dripped down."

"Then why are there different bloods belonging to two people on the ground?"

"It's easier."

Zhang Tao said with a smile, "Maybe this pool of blood is some kind of trap left on purpose, and the hunter is waiting in the sky. Once someone comes to check, he will be thrown to the ground in an instant and become the next one of that thing." prey."

"correct."

After a pause, Zhang Tao asked curiously, "Brother Bai, you have been looking at the top of my head since just now. Could it be that there is something dirty on my head..."

Speaking of it.

As if he suddenly thought of something, the smile on his face froze and his voice stopped abruptly.

There was silence all around, and a strange atmosphere began to spread.

"Tick."

A drop of thick liquid dripped on the tip of Zhang Tao's nose, carrying a familiar fishy smell, blended with the oozing sweat, a bit similar to the smell of rust——

is blood.

Realizing this, Zhang Tao suddenly trembled, and his body became stiff instantly. He didn't dare to look up, but just stared blankly at Bai Mo, praying in his heart, it must not be that answer...

However he was disappointed.

After a brief silence, the weird smile on Bai Mo's face became more intense, and then he said word by word:
"What do you say?"

The three words were like a heavy hammer, Zhang Tao's heart trembled suddenly, and he wanted to flee from the spot immediately, but his feet were as heavy as lead, and he couldn't move no matter what.

After a strong ideological struggle, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, finally mustered up the courage, moved his neck stiffly, and looked towards the top of his head.

at the same time.

"Tick."

Another drop of blood fell, just on Zhang Tao's cheek, but it was nothing, because what imprinted in his eyes was a withered male corpse pierced by a branch.

The corpse was hung very high, perhaps because of the drained blood, the body was extremely thin, almost integrated with the dry branches, the panic before death was lifelike, the bloodshot eyeballs protruded outwards, full of resentment , facing Zhang Tao.

Zhang Tao was horrified, and couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

But that wasn't what frightened him the most.

What frightened Zhang Tao the most was that, above his head at this moment, a black branch was swimming like a snake, the end was as sharp as a needle, almost half a centimeter away from his eyes, swaying left and right, as if Considering which angle would be the best angle to stab him in the head.

The sun was extremely dazzling at this time, but Zhang Tao was sweating coldly and could not feel any temperature.

No... I'm just fucking guessing, can this fucking come true?

Time passed slowly, and Zhang Tao never dared to move.

But the thing that worried him didn't happen for a long time. Although the black branch kept wandering above his head, it didn't seem to attack him.

While Zhang Tao breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

Of course, he wouldn't think that the reason why the branch didn't do anything was because it was friendly to him, because this thing spread out from the mouth of the corpse hanging above the head, and it just came in from nowhere, mixed with various The smell is simply disgusting.

After a short thought, Zhang Tao quickly realized that there may be only one person who can cause this change——

white mist.

He turned his head, and saw Bai Mo standing behind him, observing his reaction with great interest, as if he wasn't worried at all.

Zhang Tao was stunned for a while, and for some reason, when he saw the calm eyes of the other party, the fear in his heart suddenly disappeared.

So after hesitating for a moment, he summoned up his courage and took two tentative steps back.

As he expected, the black branch did not attack him, but turned around as before, seemingly a little dazed.

Seeing this, Zhang Tao quickly moved away from the branch, and came to Bai Mo's side in two or three steps, with a look of fear on his face.

"Brother Bai, what is this?"

"Forbidden creatures." Bai Mo said calmly.

"Of course I know it's a forbidden creature, I mean, why doesn't it attack me?"

Bai Mo thought for a while, and said with a faint smile: "Maybe... I think your analysis is too exciting?"

Zhang Tao showed bitterness: "Don't make fun of me. I know the man on the tree. He is one of the residents in the gathering place. I know very well that I was not killed because of good luck. Did you help me?" I?"

Since Bai Mo woke up, he has been giving him a feeling of inscrutability. This kind of calmness in gestures cannot be pretended, so Zhang Tao guessed that Bai Mo is a very powerful person, and he may even be a superhuman.

In his opinion, if anyone could prevent this branch from committing crimes, then only Bai Mo could do it.

He stared intently into Bai Mo's eyes.

"No, I didn't do anything."

However, Bai Mo's answer surprised him, "I think the reason why it doesn't kill you is probably because it's full."

"I am full?"

"That's right, this thing is in the stage of growing its body. It pays great attention to balanced nutrition. It eats neither too much nor too little every meal, and goes to bed early and gets up early, and keeps exercising every day."

Bai Mo shook his head and commented, "This is probably the most restrained period for it."

Zhang Tao was dumbfounded: "So self-disciplined?"

Balanced nutrition, go to bed early and get up early, keep exercising... Are you sure this is something plants can do?
Could it be that the plants are also so curled up...

However, when he looked back, he found that the branch was not wandering randomly, and seemed to be a bit of exercise, so he opened his mouth wide.

The corner of his mouth twitched: "What is this?"

"Don't you know?" Bai Mo said unexpectedly, "If you didn't have this thing, you probably wouldn't be able to eat warm candy either."

Zhang Tao was stunned for two seconds, and it took him a long time to realize: "You mean... this thing is a flame flower?!"

Although he has heard the name of Yanhua, a rare treasure, he has never seen it with his own eyes. After all, it is a real rare treasure, and it is many times more precious than Zhaoshi.

This thing is a flame flower?But where are the flowers?
"That's not true, but the connection between this thing and Yanhua is quite deep."

Bai Mo didn't say much.

This branch and the black flower that Bai Mo saw last night are not the same thing, they belong to two different species, which is worth paying attention to.

In fact, as early as when he heard that there were flame flowers nearby, Bai Mo speculated that there might be a forbidden area with many taboo plants nearby.

And when he saw this branch, Bai Mo was even more sure of this. Based on his memory, he thought that the restricted area near here was very likely to be a D-level restricted area, the dark forest.

And in the subsequent communication with Zhang Tao, he also got a positive answer - one of the three restricted areas that converge near this area happens to have a D-level restricted area dark forest.

Bai Mo's heart skipped a beat.

Now that he has lost all his strength, he needs to find a way to restore it as soon as possible, and the potion prepared by the plant with extraordinary power can undoubtedly speed up this process.

He didn't continue to play tricks, and quickly told Zhang Tao the origin of the black branch.

It is said that there is a taboo plant called Qiuyishu in the dark forest. It appears as a stump all the year round, and once it enters the breeding state, many branches will grow on the top of the stump, ranging from a few dozens to a hundred.

In the following time, all branches will compete for the sole right to survive.

Once a branch wins the battle, it will inherit all the nutrition from the old Kazuki tree and grow into a new Kazuki tree, while the rest of the branches will not escape the fate of death without nutrition supply.

Each branch is a descendant of Qiu Kazuki. They have ignorant consciousness, follow the survival rule of survival of the fittest, and will do everything in order to survive. They are extremely self-disciplined, just to make themselves the only victor who survives.

Cruelty creates strength.

Qiu Yishu is one of the most troublesome plants in the dark forest. It is mainly due to its large number. There will be a large number of young branches hanging on the branches all year round, ready to harvest the passing life at any time as their nutritional supplement.

And Qiu Kazuki's nutrition is also one of the supplements that Bai Mo needs.

So he had an idea for the branch.

(End of this chapter)