The reborn dragon is in the city

Chapter 578
Chapter 578
Due to temporary incidents, the plan to go to Tianhai was postponed.

Du Deshou stayed at Lin's house that night, and hurriedly took Xu Shaotang to their village early the next morning.

When the two arrived at the village, the sky had just dawned. Xu Shaotang was not in a hurry to investigate the matter, but was wandering around the village with Du Deshou, wanting to learn about it from other villagers first.

There are very few people in the village, only some old, weak, sick and disabled are in the village. The sad atmosphere spreads in the village, and the suppressed crying echoes in the village. Everyone's face shows worry and fear. Comfort each other together.

"These are the only people left in our entire village." Du Deshou looked at the gathered villagers, worry was written on his ravine face, and he said depressingly: "The younger ones were all captured and escaped by chance. The young people who survived the catastrophe also left the village and fled for their lives..."

Xu Shaotang once came to this village. Compared with the bustling scene at that time, now it can only be described as deserted and dead.

Seeing the old, weak, sick and disabled gathered together, Xu Shaotang frowned slightly, and asked, "Are all those who disappeared mysteriously young and middle-aged?"

He couldn't help linking the incidents here with the Hand of God. He remembered that the Hand of God had also arrested many young and middle-aged people to conduct experiments in the base. Could it be that group of people did the incidents here?
Du Deshou shook his head and said, "Not all of them are young and middle-aged. Many people in their 60s and [-]s have been taken away, and some children in their teens..."

Even people in their 60s and [-]s and children in their teens?This seems to be a little different from the type of people caught by the hand of God.

Xu Shaotang's thoughts were running fast, thinking about what these so-called dark soldiers were doing to arrest people from several surrounding villages.

"By the way, you said that all the trees where the Yin soldiers passed were dead, take me there to have a look!" Xu Shaotang suddenly said to Du Deshou.

He has always wondered how those trees died. The most direct way to know whether these so-called ghost soldiers are real or if someone is pretending to be a ghost is to find the reason for the death of those trees. If the death of trees is man-made, then this There is no need to think about anything else.

Du Deshou nodded, and immediately took Xu Shaotang to the entrance of the village.

The two soon came to the outside of the forest at the entrance of the village. It was the beginning of September, when the trees were supposed to be the most luxuriant, but the forest in front of them was withered and yellow. As long as they got close to the forest, they could immediately feel a cold Breath, this is probably what the people in the village call Yin Qi?
This cold feeling is not really cold, in fact, it is more due to psychological effects, but the temperature around the woods is indeed slightly lower than other places, if these trees are still lush, this can be explained, after all It's midsummer now, and the woods should be cooler than other places, but since the trees are dead, it's hard to explain why the temperature is slightly lower than the surrounding area.

Xu Shaotang turned his head and said to Du Deshou: "I'll go in and have a look, you can wait here now."

He knew that the people in the village must be afraid of this forest, and Du Deshou probably would not dare to enter this forest.

Du Deshou glanced at Xu Shaotang gratefully, nodded and said, "Then be careful yourself, this place is very evil."

Xu Shaotang smiled and nodded, he didn't know if it was evil or not, but he knew there must be something weird in it, not to mention the dead trees, just the cold aura made him curious enough.

Under Du Deshou's worried expression, Xu Shaotang walked slowly into the forest.

The forest is full of withered and yellow leaves, piled up on the forest floor in a thick layer, almost knee-deep, and there is a fragmentary sound when stepping on it. Matching with the gloomy atmosphere around, this piece of bare forest looks like Unusually weird.

Xu Shaotang walked to a dead tree, tapped the trunk lightly with his fingers, and there was a crisp sound from the tree trunk. After knocking on more than a dozen trees in a row, they all made this clear sound, which proved that these trees had indeed been removed from the tree. Dead inside and out.

"It's really strange, it died overnight!" Xu Shaotang inspected the trees in the forest and muttered to himself, "How did these people do it?"

There are many ways to make a tree die, but these trees die from the inside out overnight, which is really weird.

Xu Shaotang squatted down and dug up all the fallen leaves piled up under a tree, hoping to find a clue from the roots of the big tree.

I saw that the soil at the root of the big tree was intact, and there was no color difference from the surrounding soil. It seemed that no one had tampered with the root of the big tree.

Xu Shaotang slowly touched the dead bark of the big tree, and peeled off the bark of the big tree with force with his hands. The trunk had lost moisture, and the bark was also extremely brittle, and a large piece could be peeled off easily. bark.

There is nothing unusual about peeling off the bare bark, which is similar to a normal dead tree.

The more Xu Shaotang thought about it, the more strange he felt. He picked up the fallen leaves on the ground, crushed them and put them on the tip of his nose. There was no strange smell on the leaves.

"Strange, are these trees really dead due to Yin Qi?" Xu Shaotang frowned, his head was in a mess.

Just when Xu Shaotang was about to leave the woods, a possibility suddenly came to his mind, and he quickly threw away the leaves piled under his feet, revealing a large open space around him.

Breaking off a branch and prying a piece of soil from the ground, I saw that the bottom of the soil was slightly white, put the fresh part of the soil on the tip of the nose and smell it, and there was a slight pungent smell immediately.

Sure enough!

Both he and Du Deshou entered into a misunderstanding from the very beginning. They both thought that these trees withered overnight, but they didn't know that this was actually an illusion. As long as the timing of the withering of the trees was calculated, a cloudy scene would be staged one day in advance. The drama of soldiers crossing the border creates the illusion that the trees died the day after the soldiers crossed the border.

As long as some defoliants are poured under these trees on the night when the so-called Yin soldiers pass through the border, the effect of making the leaves fall off overnight can be achieved.

In fact, these trees have been withered a long time ago due to excessive fertilization. The white crystals under the soil are the deposited fertilizers. The reason why this place is colder than the surrounding area is not only the psychological effect, but also the These crystalline fertilizers are related to endothermic heat.

By now, he was completely sure that this so-called Yin soldiers crossing the border was simply someone deliberately pretending to be a ghost!

(End of this chapter)