Everyone looked at each other, because the scene in front of them seemed a bit familiar.
They just arrived at the ecological park two days ago and when they entered the hotel and B&B area, Zhang Jiye also saw a figure moving behind the tree.
His eyes were also frightened and his tone was panic-stricken.
However, when Jiang Yue and the others rushed over, no one was found.
"Go over and have a look."
This landscape tree was far away from the wedding venue. If it hadn't been for broad daylight, Zhou Jian wouldn't have been able to see it so far.
When I walked over and took a look, several people looked at each other and smiled.
This time it was not that Zhou Jian was dazzled, there was indeed a person lying beside the landscape tree.
But it's not a real person, but a cute scarecrow.
This scarecrow is not unfamiliar to everyone. Along the way, there are many scarecrows of this shape in the fields.
The shape of this scarecrow is basically the same as the one seen in the fields.
The scarecrow here is really a little different.
Generally, farmers build scarecrows just to scare birds and small animals. The craftsmanship is not very particular, as long as they look roughly like a human being.
The scarecrow in the Fairy Tale Manor is obviously more particular. The craftsmanship is very exquisite, and the proportions are completely based on the standards of normal humans. Moreover, it has clothes and hats, and the degree of simulation is extremely high.
Everyone knows that the scarecrow is also a feature of the fairy tale manor. Each scarecrow has a different costume, and it looks like a fashion show.
"Zhou Jian, did you see this?" Xu Chunru asked curiously.
Zhou Jian was a little unsure, scratched his head, and muttered: "Maybe?"
What does it mean maybe?
"I just saw a shadow flicker and then disappear. I really didn't see it clearly." Zhou Jian looked confused.
Jiang Yue approached the scarecrow, squatted down, and took off the scarecrow's clothes to examine the structure inside.
It is indeed just a scarecrow made of straw, but the straw is so strong that it feels a little heavy when you hold it in your hand, which is quite weighty.
While Jiang Yue was deep in thought, Du Yifeng in the distance suddenly said: "Come and take a look."
Du Yifeng didn't know when he had walked further away.
His bent waist suddenly straightened up, holding a military boot in his hand. The military boot looked so familiar that everyone couldn't help but look at their feet.
These are clearly the same standard military boots as theirs, which is the equipment that every assessor in this mission has.
"Is this left by other assessors?" Xu Chunru said in confusion.
"What happened? Where did the examiner go?"
Jiang Yue continued to investigate along the area where the military boots were found. After a while, he found some clues.
Jiang Yue's palm touched the grass, and he frowned as he looked at the grass that had been pushed down along the way, and two traces of dragging were evident.
The traces of this kind of dragging become more obvious the further you go forward.
Even a novice like Zhou Jian can quickly imagine the scene at that time.
A person who was knocked unconscious or killed was dragged away from the scene. The two traces of dragging were left by his feet dragging the ground.
Many crime movies have this kind of scene.
But seeing it in a movie is one thing.
Seeing it in reality is another story.
"Want to catch up and have a look?" Han Jingjing looked a little reckless, but she was eager to give it a try.
Everyone else looked at Jiang Yue, waiting for him to give orders.
Du Yifeng said nothing, but his expression showed his attitude, and he did not agree.
"This looks like it was caused by humans? It doesn't look like a ghost is causing trouble, right?" Xu Chunru made her own judgment.
"This place is very evil. Tell me, let's take it easy. Don't accidentally ask someone to destroy it." Du Yifeng couldn't help but remind him.
Jiang Yue's eyes were solemn and he kept looking at the direction where the two traces disappeared, as if he was thinking about something.
"Let's go back to the house first."
Jiang Yue's decision somewhat surprised others.
In everyone's opinion, Jiang Yue would not sit idly by and ignore it. With his character, he should have chased after him to find out what happened.
Why do you ask everyone to go back to the house instead?
If the examiner is really in danger, shouldn't he be able to help him?
Back inside, Jiang Yue said in a serious tone: "Everyone, please be more vigilant, something is wrong."
Jiang Yue led everyone and did not stay on the first floor, but kept walking upstairs. Apart from the spire, the inner building of this main building is actually not very high.
When a few people reached the fifth floor, they had already reached the top.
One characteristic of this kind of spire building is that the area becomes narrower as you go upstairs.
Although the fifth floor is not very high, the view is much better.
The highest spire is originally a sightseeing platform, with no blind spots at 360 degrees.
Jiang Yue quickly found the best position and looked at the place where the military boots appeared before.
Seeing the solemn expression, the others felt uneasy for a moment, wondering if Jiang Yue had discovered any strange dangerous factors.
Jiang Yue also noticed the uneasiness of the others and comforted him: "Don't be too nervous. The military boots just now are most likely a trap. If we chase after them to check, we may have fallen into a trap."
"Trap?" Several people were extremely surprised.
"Who set the trap?"
There's not even a single living person seen here, how could there be a trap?
"It's hard to say who arranged it. Maybe it's a human being, maybe it's evil spirits." Jiang Yue said solemnly, "I feel that this fairy tale manor is weirder than the hotel and B&B area."
The hotel and B&B area was a nightmare for other assessors, but for Jiang Yue, the past two nights were actually not much of a threat.
Regardless of the strange summons, various strange evil spirits, and various inexplicable phenomena, they actually did not pose a fatal threat to him.
But just now, for the first time, he felt a sense of crisis looming over his back.
Looking at the empty manor, at a certain moment, Jiang Yue seemed to feel that there were countless peeping eyes in the dark, and countless evil spirits were ready to move.
It's broad daylight.
Who knows whether this sense of crisis will intensify at night?
Others are indeed a little confused about this, but based on their understanding of Jiang Yue, they know that Jiang Yue is by no means the kind of person who talks nonsense.
He would never make such a vulgar joke on such an occasion.
Since he said it was a trap, it probably really was.
"Forget it, it doesn't matter if it's a trap or not, as long as we don't pay attention and don't fall for it, the trap can't do anything to us." Du Yifeng comforted himself.
Jiang Yue shook his head: "The trap I'm talking about is not just a trap in that direction. I even think that the entire fairy tale manor is a huge trap in itself."
"How do you say this? Can the official still deceive us?"
"Of course the official will not deliberately trick us, but how much does the official know about the situation in the ecological park? There are not many clues of practical value in the limited information provided by the official. For the assessors, every mission map is actually a touch. Crossing the river by holding on to stones, I have no idea at all.”
Everyone was speechless in reply.
Jiang Yue's words were true. After two days in the ecological park, everyone found that the situation in the ecological park was far more complicated than expected.
Every action is basically in a passive state. It is not an exaggeration to say that you are being led by the nose.
Wherever the mission points, they have to go.
But I had no idea in advance what the conditions were like in these places I went to.
After a silent silence for a while, Du Yifeng suddenly said: "In this case, we can't wait here to die, right? It's still noon and the monsters haven't come out to act as monsters, shouldn't we retreat first as a sign of respect?"
Jiang Yue opened his mouth and was about to speak when suddenly there was a burst of noisy noises from the first floor, like a lot of footsteps running and the sound of clapping hands.
Then, everyone heard a burst of laughter.
"One, two, three, we are all wooden people, we can't speak or move, and one of us can't laugh!"
There were actually several children singing in unison, singing, running, and clapping their hands. It sounded like they were playing a wooden man game.
In Dazhang Country, it can be said that every child has played the wooden man game.
Almost everyone knows this simple nursery rhyme, and has heard it countless times since childhood.
If in the sunny era, hearing this kind of game nursery rhyme, some people would even have infinite yearning for their childhood life.
But now, instead of making them miss the warmth of their childhood, this familiar nursery rhyme made their scalps tingle and their hearts beating faster.
In this deserted building, this laughter and laughter comes from time to time, no matter how unexpected it is.
"Are they those kids?" Xu Chunru lowered her voice and almost mouthed the question. They were obviously very close, but they just happened to hear it.
Did those naughty kids in the surveillance show up again?
But these naughty kids, apart from being captured by surveillance cameras, can't normal people see, hear, or touch them?
How can I hear them playing games and singing nursery rhymes now?
Du Yifeng murmured: "I just said we shouldn't come, right?"
Han Jingjing curled her lips and said, "Looking at your potential, how many children can scare you like that?"
The sound of hip-hop and fighting downstairs did not stop, and the game continued.
Jiang Yue and others were standing on the fifth floor. Although they were more than ten or twenty meters away from the first floor, they all felt as if they had hit a deer and were extremely uneasy.
I was always worried that these children would fight and fight upstairs.
They were even thinking, how would they respond if they met face to face?
Did the engineers chop them up again?
It seems that these children are not normal humans at all. Humans cannot touch them at all. Can they be hacked?
Moreover, regardless of whether these children are human beings or evil spirits, most people are not mentally prepared to attack such little brats.
"Don't come up, don't come up." Everyone was praying silently.
But the more people worried about something, the more something happened.
Amidst the commotion, they clearly heard the sound of cheerful footsteps coming upstairs.
These little kids obviously changed their game, they were playing hide and seek.
While running upstairs, he shouted: "You can count to twenty before you open your eyes. No peeking! Peeping is a puppy."
Several people looked extremely ugly. The fifth floor was just a surrounding platform with no compartments or many hidden hiding places.
Unless they jumped out of the window and hid against the eaves that floated out a little outside.
But in this case, if there are people on the lawn below, they can be clearly seen.
All in all, they are always at risk of being discovered, inside and out, and there is no way to avoid or hide.
"Don't move, we'll stay here." Jiang Yue saw some people sticking their heads out of the window, so he naturally knew what they were thinking.
You must not mess up your position at this time.
Although jumping from the fifth floor is not a big problem for the awakened ones, Zhou Jian is still injured.
If Zhou Jian jumped down here, it would be no different than a weight falling to the ground.
Seeing that Jiang Yue was calm and composed, with no trace of panic on his face, the panic of the few people calmed down a little. They grasped the engineering shovel tightly with both hands.
Although they know that this may not provide them with much security.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, with no intention of stopping.
"Isn't it better to hide these stinky kids on the second, third and fourth floors? Is there any place for hide-and-seek on the fifth floor?"
Several people were anxious and couldn't help but want to remind each other not to go to the fifth floor. There was no hiding place on the fifth floor.
But doesn’t this mean covering one’s ears and stealing the bell?
What is supposed to come will eventually come.
The cheerful footsteps quickly rushed upstairs to the fifth floor. Although most of the children hid on other floors, there was still one naughty child who rushed to the fifth floor in one breath.
The scene froze for a while.
The child who rushed up looked about eight or nine years old, with a pair of dark eyes that were a bit cunning and naughty, but more of a surprise.
Both sides stared at each other for ten seconds.
The child then acted slyly and raised a finger in a quiet gesture, signaling them to be silent and not to betray his position.
This scene made several people feel an indescribable weirdness in their hearts.
It is clear that this child is very strange, and it is clear that this child is most likely not a normal human being. Why is this situation like what happened in the Sunshine Age?
A child who is playing hide-and-seek breaks into an adult's room. After being embarrassed, he signals to the adult to keep quiet and then finds a place to hide himself?
This kid was so rude, he found a relatively hidden corner and squatted down.
At the same time, he stuck out his tongue towards Jiang Yue and the others, made a face, and once again told them not to speak, lest he be discovered in advance.
After a while, it seemed like there was really a hide-and-seek going on downstairs, and all the cries of joy and surprise were all about hide-and-seek.
In the end, no other children came upstairs.
Instead, someone shouted: "He Jun, He Jun, come out quickly. Now it's Doudou's turn to look for him, so he has to hide again."
The kid on the fifth floor, probably He Jun, after hearing this, his face showed the joy of winning the game, and he came out of the corner with a smile.
They opened their mouths towards Jiang Yue and the others, seeming to make a face, and seeming to say something.
Then, the child jumped downstairs!
When they saw the child coming downstairs, although they were filled with a sense of absurdity, they also breathed a sigh of relief.
Just now, they were really frightened into a cold sweat by an eight or nine-year-old child.
The child clearly discovered them, but he didn't say anything or shout out, and he went downstairs obediently afterwards.
This was a normal thing in the sunshine era, but when it happened here and now, it seemed absurd!
Is this child human?
If it were a human, why would it appear here?
Why are you still so arrogant and playing hide-and-seek down there?