Bai Mo was obviously very obsessed with the invitation from Masked Beast Mountain, or maybe it was because he was resistant to the taboo sequence. He quickly got rid of the influence of the truth certification and insisted on going up the mountain.
He was even touched by Lu Zhan's support and kept promising that he would be a person who sticks to his promise.
Lu Zhan was helpless, but he had to go on the road with Bai Mo. He happened to also want to see what was strange about this newly appeared C-level restricted area.
"What should I do with this body?"
Xia Yuxi did not object to his choice, but she cared more about the corpse.
She had just found an opportunity to secretly tell Lu Zhan the two memories she saw on the corpse, and since then, Lu Zhan has been thinking about it.
Facing her question, Lu Zhan was still thoughtful, so he did not answer.
After a long while, he finally came to his senses and said to Xia Yuxi: "You and Mr. Bai go first, remember to protect him, I will be here right away."
Xia Yuxi hesitated slightly.
Me? Protect Bai Mo?
What a joke!
However, when she saw Lu Zhan's serious expression, she still nodded and said, "Okay, then be careful."
Of course she understood what Lu Zhan meant by "protection", which was nothing more than fooling Bai Mo to prevent him from noticing anything unusual.
Moreover, the reason why Lu Zhan made this decision is that he probably discovered something that he didn't discover...
"Well, you should also be careful. Although this mountain is only a D-level restricted area, the terrain is rather weird, and the information is unknown, and there is no telling what dangers are hidden there." Lu Zhan reminded in a low voice.
Seeing that Lu Zhan did not intend to go with him, Bai Mo also wondered: "Won't Lu Zhan go with us?"
"I have to contact someone to come and dispose of this body." Lu Zhan said calmly, "Don't worry, I will follow soon."
"All right."
Bai Mo didn't ask any more questions, he just looked at the body a few more times and quickly continued walking up the mountain.
Xia Yuxi and Lu Zhan exchanged looks and quickly followed.
The figures of the two gradually disappeared, leaving only Lu Zhan, the blind yellow dog—and the body on the ground.
He stared at the corpse, not knowing what he was thinking, and did not move for a long time.
The air was dead silent, and nothing seemed to have changed.
But at some point, the temperature around this road dropped sharply.
Everything nearby was covered in frost—
Except for the body.
…
The journey up the mountain was much farther than imagined. It clearly didn't look that far, but we still couldn't reach the top of the mountain.
Bai Mo didn't feel tired either. He looked around all the way, looking at the surrounding scenery with novelty. From time to time he said with emotion: "It's so beautiful."
Green is the main color of this mountain, with low trees standing on both sides, and unknown flowers and plants dotted around, some red and blue. Although it is not stunning, it is quite attractive and full of natural freshness.
“It is indeed beautiful.”
Xia Yuxi couldn't help but echoed.
Bai Mo could be big-hearted, but she didn't dare to be so. She had been carefully paying attention to the movements around her along the way, but fortunately, no accidents occurred.
She has never seen such a scene.
Since the world is densely populated with restricted areas and the land in safe zones is scarce, most of the land today is used to build cities or grow crops, and true natural green plants are rare.
If anything, it is the environment in the restricted area that can be called truly green and natural, because few people will destroy it. In fact, most of the beautiful scenery does exist in the restricted area.
The more beautiful something is, the more dangerous it is. This saying is very applicable in restricted areas.
Xia Yuxi had been living in the city before, and most of the scenery she had seen came from restricted area videos, but she had not seen the real moving scenery a few times. Therefore, even if the scenery around the path was not amazing, it could still attract her deeply and make her
Relaxed physically and mentally.
She had always longed for the restricted area. Although she was a little scared at this time, she was more excited.
"Officer Xia, are you really here to arrest the criminal?"
The two of them walked along, and the scenery along the way changed. As Xia Yuxi lingered, Bai Mo's voice suddenly sounded in her ears.
"It's nothing, I just think that if it is to arrest people, there seem to be too few of you in this vast mountain." Bai Mo looked at her and said, "And the hiking bags of both of you are very bulging, like
I am prepared to stay here for a long time, but the key is to bring a blind dog with me, which is so strange..."
"Can you tell that the dog is blind?" Xia Yuxi asked curiously.
"Of course, the eyes are the windows to the soul, and its windows have been closed."
"Really? But you may be too optimistic about the situation in the mountains. Our backpacks are designed to deal with various situations that may arise in the mountains."
Xia Yuxi said seriously, "Especially in a forest with dense trees like this, any slight change in the weather will have a big impact, not to mention arresting people. No matter how well prepared you are, you can't be too prepared."
"We have already explained the problem of the number of people before. This mountain is too big. It is impossible to search the mountain. There is no point in having too many people. Therefore, Lu Zhan and I just set up an outpost to see if there are any relevant clues."
"As for that dog, it's actually a police dog named Panda. Although he can't see it, his sense of smell is extremely keen and he's very smart. In fact, without the help of his sense of smell, we wouldn't dare to run into the vast mountains to find him.
people."
"Panda is so powerful?" Bai Mo was surprised, "Then why didn't you bring him here?"
"It's not because of your willfulness."
Xia Yuxi frowned and said, "The mountains and forests where criminals are lurking are too dangerous, so the task Lu Zhan has given me now is not to find the criminals, but to protect you, so there is no need to bring Panda here."
Bai Mo felt a little ashamed after hearing this. After thinking about it, he asked, "When we met before, why didn't you say you were a policeman?"
"Is that necessary?" Xia Yuxi said angrily, "Do I have to say that I am a policeman when I go out to buy groceries?"
Her heartbeat quickened, but she forced herself to forget Bai Mo's identity as the tombkeeper, and tried to maintain her original character when talking to him, so as to keep her tone normal.
"That's not necessary."
Bai Mo sneered, suddenly remembering the sound of bullets being loaded in the Sunshine Apartment, and suddenly became enlightened.
He looked around and asked: "Then if I really encounter a murderer, can you protect me?"
"You are a grown man and you still want a woman to protect you?" Xia Yuxi pushed her messy hair to her ears and sighed, "Don't worry, just hide away when the time comes. I will protect you."
But even though she said she was awesome, she actually had no clue in her heart——
Although there are no murderers in this place, there must be monsters.
The danger level of the D-level restricted area is naturally not higher than that of the C-level restricted area. Even if there are dangers, they are mostly monsters that can only hurt people with their claws. They generally do not have extraordinary abilities. With her strength as a D-level extraordinary person, she is not.
I must not be able to handle it——
Unless a restricted area is very special.
Judging from the dog named Xiao Yinzhi, Hiyoshi Mountain might be the more special one among the D-level restricted areas...
And the secret behind that corpse...
Thinking of the contents in her memory, Xia Yuxi became more and more frightened as she thought about it, and couldn't help but glance at Bai Mo.
Unexpectedly, the latter also looked at her at the same time. The two looked at each other and Bai Mo said, "Officer Xia, I had a dream a few days ago."
"No need to call the police officer, just call me by my name."
Xia Yuxi was shocked, but she still showed an interested expression and asked, "What kind of dream?"
"I dreamed about you."
"Dream of me?" She smiled, and then said angrily, "Isn't this dream inappropriate?"
Bai Mo thought for a while and concluded: "Four men and one woman, exciting."
"..."
Xia Yuxi was speechless. This guy's summary was appropriate, but why did it always feel weird...
"What kind of stimulus?"
"The sky in the dream was always dark, surrounded by densely packed identical huts. There was a red coffin in each house, and there were many strange monsters outside..."
Bai Mo's description was very vivid, and unknowingly it brought Xia Yuxi's thoughts back to the place where the coffin was buried.
"Then what?" she asked.
"Then we saw a one-eyed old man, his back was hunched, and the crutch in his hand seemed to be made of spine..."
When she heard this, Xia Yuxi was suddenly stunned.
One-eyed old man?
One-eyed?
She suddenly remembered the one-eyed man in Bai Mo's memory, but she couldn't think of anything similar between the two.
...The only thing that is the same is the one eye.
However, according to what the one-eyed old man said, his eyes were thrown away in the coffin burial ground. I don’t know if this is true.
but……
Xia Yuxi suddenly had a bold idea.
Is there such a possibility... that the place where the coffin is buried is actually a microcosm of the era in the corpse's memory after the destruction? Bai Mo should also belong to that place, but somehow it survived until now.
"By the way, that carving knife is quite nice. Where did you buy it?"
Just when she was thinking about it, Bai Mo suddenly asked as if unintentionally.
"no……"
Xia Yuxi was thinking about it at this time and almost blurted out the words "I didn't buy it". Fortunately, she reacted in time and changed her words, "No, what knife are you talking about?"
Bai Mo looked at her expression and suddenly chuckled: "It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered that in the dream you were holding a carving knife."
"There are monsters and swords, your dream is quite bizarre." Xia Yuxi said in a nonchalant manner, but in fact, cold sweat was already pouring down her back.
Test...
This guy is actually testing me?
Could it be that he has begun to doubt the authenticity of the burial place?
Is this suspicion due to the influence of the truth certification, or because he himself sensed something was wrong?
Xia Yuxi didn't know the answer to the question, but obviously, she needed to be more cautious.
Lu Zhan had repeatedly told her that she must not let the tombkeeper notice anything strange.
During the conversation, the two of them had reached the top of the mountain, and were greeted by a particularly refreshing breeze.
The huge trees are connected together like giant umbrellas, blocking out the sky and the sun. The forest is deep, quiet and extremely deep.
This is just like a primeval forest.
Xia Yuxi looked at it and asked, "Do you really think anyone will invite you to this place?"
"That's hard to say," Bai Mo looked around, pointed in one direction and said, "There is a small road over there."
Xia Yuxi looked in the direction he pointed, and there was indeed a forest path on the right, but it was relatively hidden and overgrown with weeds, as if no one had walked it for a long time.
"It has been abandoned for a long time," she analyzed, "which means this road has been abandoned a long time ago."
Bai Mo said: "But this is the only way here, isn't it? Unless you can find a way through the forest."
Xia Yuxi noticed the strangeness in Bai Mo's words, raised her eyebrows and said, "We can also go back."
"You can go back, but I have to go in." Bai Mo said stubbornly.
He said and walked towards the path. Xia Yuxi hesitated for a moment and had no choice but to follow.
Something is obviously wrong with the Hidden Beast Mountain. It has always been too quiet, and there has never been any danger.
If there is really a problem, it must be in this forest.
