After escaping the attack of the rolling stone trap, Lu Qing continued to walk forward for a while, and thought after seeing the rolling stone that stopped after hitting the wall.
There was no other way. Since this road was a dead end, she had no choice but to go back the way she came and see if she could find other routes to the roots of the Tree of Thousand Hands and Thousand Faces.
With Dinah still leading the way, the two returned to the tunnel that was attacked by the Headsplitter before, found another dark tunnel that didn't know where it was going, and got into it.
........
"here it is?"
Lu Qing looked at the steel building in front of her in surprise. She really didn't expect that deep in this dark cave, there was a solid base that seemed to be made entirely of metal and cement.
This base looks like it is abandoned, there is no one around, and the building surfaces are dirty.
With some effort, the rusty metal valve was unscrewed, and a faint musty smell emanated from the building.
Frowning, Lu Qing walked into the building and found that the mess here was far more serious than she imagined.
It seemed like this was an archive. She rummaged through the table in the center of the room and nearby cabinets for a while. In addition to most of the documents that were damaged to the point of being invisible, there were also a few relatively well-preserved documents.
Able to read.
He casually took out a file and read it. After carefully reading the above file, Lu Qing couldn't help but frown.
"Is this an official document?"
Quickly picking up the next file and reading it, skipping the stinky and long content, Lu Qing gradually understood what had happened here.
To put it simply, after the government of this world discovered the dark forest, it sent many rescue teams to rescue the residents of the village, but they all failed in the end.
As for the forceful attack, for some reason, every time an attack was launched into the forest, the soldiers responsible for the operation would go crazy for no reason and start attacking each other. As a result, the government of this world was unable to send troops to forcibly enter the forest.
So they changed to another method, which was to dig a hole in the ground, dig a tunnel, and then build a research institute underground with fairly complete equipment.
The target of research is the creatures after the mutation, including those tree roots that multiply underground.
In addition, they also sent a small number of investigators to operate in the forest, responsible for negotiating with the indigenous people in the forest, and at the same time providing assistance as much as possible.
As for why only a small number of people were sent there, they were worried that too many people would cause a reaction in the forest and cause the members to go crazy.
Judging from the remaining documents of this research institute, burning parasitic wood will cause disgust to mutated creatures, as well as the design drawings of the gas furnace, which were once researched by this research institute and spread inside the forest.
The production of flesh and blood potion is a bit fantasy. It was made by an investigator after hearing a certain sound at night when he was operating in the forest. Unfortunately, the member ended up going crazy and was unlucky.
passed away.
"Huh, what an amazing and unexpected discovery." Taking a deep breath, Lu Qing carefully put the compiled information into her backpack and said.
That's all the data that can be seen. The remaining data are all in a damaged state and nothing can be seen.
After that, Lu Qing walked around the area again, and after confirming that only this archive room was left in the research institute and that the rest of the rooms were buried in the ground by rocks, he left here.
Not long after leaving the archives, Lu Qing continued to move forward and finally heard a familiar whisper in her ears.
This cheered her up and she quickly put on the earplugs she had prepared before. No matter if they were useful or not, she put them on first.
This is the only way Lu Qing can think of to deal with the Whispering Tree of Thousand Hands and Thousand Faces. At this time, before going deeper, he quickly puts it on before talking.
"Well...it feels like it has some effect."
I don’t know if it’s due to psychological reasons or because his mental attributes have improved a lot in the past two days, but Lu Qing does feel that the whispers are not as scary as before.
Continuing to walk forward, some black and red roots gradually appeared in the mine, with Lu Qing's familiar human face growing on them.
Ignoring the pleading looks of these faces, Lu Qing continued walking deeper into the cave after dodging the dry palms that were grabbing at her.
"Please, help me."
"I don't want to die yet..."
"Ahhhhh..."
"Would you like to take a look at me?"
Weird and rhythmic whispers sounded from her ears, giving Lu Qing a headache, as if her soul was being tugged hard by something, as if her soul was being expelled from her body.
"Hey, look who I see?"
A familiar greeting sounded in his ears. Lu Qing was stunned for a moment, and then looked towards the place where the sound came from.
That was on the root of the tree, no, it was a corpse lying next to the root of the tree.
The opponent's body was stuck in the heart with tree roots. There was no trace of moisture in his body and he looked very shriveled.
At this time, the corpse was lying under the back of the head using the roots of the strange tree as a pillow, looking at Lu Qing with a contented expression, although Lu Qing didn't know how he could see such a contented expression from the shriveled corpse.
.
"Who are you?"
Lu Qing looked at the corpse hesitantly, and her intuition told her that the other party was the corpse that tripped her and talked to her at the beginning of this dream.
"Hey, how long has it been and you have forgotten me?" the mummy said in an exaggerated tone.
"No, I haven't forgotten you, I just don't know how to call you." Lu Qing hesitated for a while, then came to the other party and said.
She didn't know why, but when she was talking to this corpse, she couldn't feel the influence of the whisper from the Tree of Thousand Hands and Thousand Faces.
"You can call me Corpse as you like, or you can call me the name of the corpse's original owner, Charles, whichever suits you best." Corpse shrugged indifferently.
"Okay, dear Mr. Charles, what do you want from me?" the girl asked curiously as she looked at the body on the ground.
"I'm in a good mood, why don't you come over and take a look?" Corpse, no, Charles said with cracked corners of his dry mouth.
It was really cracked. After the corners of the mouth, which had no moisture, stretched to both sides, a hole opened directly from the middle.
"Uh." Lu Qing didn't expect the other party to answer her like this, so she could only say helplessly: "Of course, but I'm still very busy. I'm afraid I don't have time to chat with you."
"Haha, I know what you want to do. You want to burn this tree with gasoline, right?" Charles laughed twice and said, "You can't burn it to death, although this tree can only be passively approached.
Its organisms cause pollution, but they cannot be burned to death by relying on gasoline."
"I have a suggestion. If you really want to burn him to death, you should use this..."
Charles stretched out a finger and lightly tapped his lips.
And just after he finished this action, the body turned into a piece of sand and fell to the ground.