Gurong Village is a settlement by the river. It used to have a population of nearly 1,000. Villagers once lived in those low-rise bungalows and newly built small bungalows. There were also travelers and tourists in the quaintly decorated tourist B&Bs, and there were old people sitting under the banyan trees.
, there are children and dogs running on the river bank.
But now, there is silence, just an eerie silence.
There were no villagers anywhere, no dogs, no cats, and even those alert mice were nowhere to be seen.
However, there are more patrol teams from the Tianji Bureau's Operations Department in the village, and there are many newly built sentry towers, with people guarding the towers at all times.
The dark sky seemed to be brewing a thunderstorm, and the cold mountain wind blew the crumbling telephone poles on the roadside.
Gu Jun kept looking at the scene outside through the car window. The motorcade passed by a luxurious government building, which was also dilapidated. It was also the address of the "Cultural Tourism Zone Management Committee" of Gurong Village. He once went there to call
After a phone call...
"This Gurong Village is an incidence point of the strange banyan disease." Uncle Egg said to him, "I don't know whether it originated from it, but the epidemic here was the earliest."
"Well..." Gu Jun said silently, if it were now, those villagers should be able to be treated by the medical department.
Still some distance away from the big banyan tree, the convoy stopped in an open space by the river. Some prefabricated barracks were set up here, connected to several surrounding villagers' houses, and became a command center, where some Tianji personnel were busy
Move around.
After the Demon Hunter team and Gu Jun got out of the car, they met with the members of the abnormal power investigation team here.
Gu Jun just stood aside and watched. The big banyan tree in front was different from the one in the tourist promotion photos. It was no longer green and vibrant. The twisted branches and withered leaves were only withered gray and black, as if they were dead.
For a long time.
He noticed that a huge hole had rotted out under the main trunk of the banyan tree. It was very dark inside, but there seemed to be a little faint light.
"Uncle Egg, is that banyan tree still contagious?" Gu Jun looked at the banyan tree with a chill in his hair. One of the ways the disease is spread is through direct contact with the diseased tree, but how the whole village got infected is a mystery.
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"Yes, but we can't burn it for the time being. Let's wait for Captain Xue to explain it to you." Uncle Dan likes to tell people off, which is not something people like.
After a while, Xue Ba came over after talking to the investigation department personnel and said, "Ajun, do you know about the Pinturas River Hand Cave?"
Gu Jun seemed to have an impression, but couldn't express it, "I don't know..."
"To put it simply, it is a mural in a cave in a narrow valley in Argentina. It was painted by ancient humans. Among them, some dense fingerprints are the most famous." Xue Ba said it authentically, like a teacher giving a lecture, but his
Contra's bulk and academic style really don't go together.
Seeing Gu Jun frown slightly, Xue Ba suddenly became a little anxious: "Really, I'm serious! If you don't believe me, check it out."
Uncle Dan winked from behind and reminded Gu Jun, don't be impatient with Captain Xue, this guy cares most about his image as a top student.
"I believe it, I've heard of it before." Gu Jun nodded, "What's the relationship between this?"
"Look at that banyan tree." Xue Ba handed Gu Jun a military telescope, "It's right there in the rotten tree hole."
Gu Jun took the telescope and looked at it. Now he could see clearly. Around the tree hole, there were some messy handprints on the gray and rotten bark, which seemed to be the naturally occurring lines of the bark. Pairs of them
Like struggling...
His heart ached when he saw it, "Are those the villagers' fingerprints?"
"No, the investigation team has taken samples and compared them. There are 16 fingerprints there, and none of them match." Xue Ba paused, with a hint of confusion on his strong face, "16 fingerprints, 16 people, this is a banyan tree.
The current maximum capacity of the hole space."
"The banyan tree cave space?" Gu Jun was startled, didn't he just mean the tree cave? There was no way sixteen people could fit in there.
"There is an abnormal space inside." Xue Ba said directly, turning around to look for a member, "The scientific research department is going crazy, Lin Mo, come here and explain!"
Lin Mo is a scientific researcher in the team. He is in his thirties. When he was called, he did not come over. He just gave the captain a middle finger.
“Hehehe.”
You can go through the hole to other places. That banyan tree hole is like a wormhole, there is another space inside."
Xue Ba spoke in a calm tone, as if he was talking about a yard behind his house.
It seems that he has no idea what kind of impact these words and this incident will have on the perception of the entire world.
It will make countless scientists ecstatic, and it will also make countless scientists collapse.
Wormhole? Gu Jun looked at the unfathomable banyan tree hole, his heart beating a little too fast...
"I told you." Uncle Dan over there laughed. This was not something G-level personnel had the authority to know, which was why Gu Jun was special.
At the moment, Gu Jun listened to them explain the reasons in detail.
After the disease in Gurong Village was discovered and controlled, the investigation department immediately discovered this shocking situation. The three-meter area around the big banyan tree became a strange area, and the magnetic field, gravity, etc. were all confused.
Therefore, the Investigation Department, Scientific Research Department, Operations Department and other departments jointly established a "Gurong Village Emergency Team" and called in their demon hunter team for support.
Xue Ba played some images to Gu Jun on his mobile phone.
At first, the emergency team used remote-controlled robots, drones and other machines to explore the Banyan Tree Cave, but the signal was cut off as soon as they entered. Later they figured out that the outside signal could not enter the alien space, but ground wave radio could be transmitted from inside.
, but because the attenuation is too severe, only the command center can receive it.
Then came the experimental animals, but they lost control after entering and starved to death a few days later. The signals from the calorimeter and the personnel who entered later confirmed this.
"The animals are wearing cameras and recording equipment, but the images and videos taken inside are all like this..."
Xue Ba showed Gu Jun some more pictures and videos, all of which were distorted and blurry and indescribable. "The scientific researchers tried hard to recover, but it didn't work."
A week ago, the emergency team made their first attempt to let a living person in, and it was the Witcher team who took the risk.
There were originally some Operations Department personnel, but only one more person could go in. It was at this time that the "capacity" of the Banyan Tree Cave was discovered.
"After we entered, we found..." Xue Ba recalled those alien scenes, "That's inside."