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Chapter 523 One Place, Two Worlds
where is this?

Thoughts for no reason came to mind.

The cool breeze is blowing in front of the face, the warm sunshine is shining on the body, and the light fragrance of nature is swirling between the nostrils.

Opening his eyes, the scene in front of him filled his eyes with joy and amazement.

Is there such a place in the bottom community?
The pure white buildings are neatly arranged on both sides of the street. Although the heights are different, the overall structure is exactly the same simple and simple.

A little bit less delicate, but adding ingenious elegance.

The emerald green ivy rises from the lawn beside the house, clings to the wall, and covers almost the entire building, making it look like a lost ancient relic.

The palm-sized round leaves swayed gently in the wind, facing the sun but casting shadows at the same time.

And he happened to walk into the mottled leaf shadow at this time.

A few rays of sunshine playfully danced on the shoulders, and the bright yellow light made people warm from the bottom of their hearts just by looking at it.

In front of him is a wide street paved with marble. Perhaps it has been left unattended for a long time. There are fine grasses growing between the stone cracks. Taking two steps forward is like stepping on cotton, and there is a vague sense of sinking.

Maybe this is a ruin?
But where do the vestiges of the lower-level communities come from?
Where did the sunshine and breeze come from?

Dirty and messy images vaguely emerged in memory, and the impressions of decades were not so easily forgotten.

However, in the next second, a strange sense of discomfort began to spread from all over the body at the same time as this kind of thought appeared in his mind, making him feel confused.

While subconsciously stopping to continue thinking, the sense of crisis coming from behind diverted his attention.

Turning sideways, from the shadow of the corridor of the small three-story building on the side of the street behind him, he felt a malicious gaze, and within a few seconds, he could vaguely see the man who was going out from the darkness. A corner of the spreading dark red carrion mass.

There are extremely scary monsters there!

I have to get out of here quickly!
Urgent and panic-stricken thoughts urged him to start forward involuntarily, but the sight behind him that frightened him did not disappear for a long time.

In a panic, a large jungle appeared in front of him, and his eyes were almost immediately attracted by a huge old tree emitting light blue fluorescence.

There you can protect yourself from the monsters that follow you!

A sudden idea took root in his mind, because he didn't know where to go, so he subconsciously ran towards the ancient tree according to this idea.

Not long after, when he entered the jungle, he unexpectedly found that there were still many people here.

It's just that there was no panic on their faces. They were all wearing pure white robes similar to their own, as if they were here for an outing, and walked slowly towards the ancient tree not far away in groups of three or four, talking and laughing.

Subconsciously joining the team of these people, stepping on the soft grass and passing through the dense forest, the old tree that attracted him finally showed its full view.

It is full of vicissitudes of time, and it takes a few people to hug together. On the trunk that can barely be surrounded is a huge green and lush canopy. Countless dark green slender vines hang down from the canopy, swaying with the breeze blowing from the forest. .

The inexplicable attraction made him go forward together with those around him, surrounded the ancient tree, and held his head up. The gaze that had made him fear before had completely disappeared at this time, because his attention had been completely focused on the crown of the tree in front of him. After a while, the vines beside him gradually covered his body.

This is contact with nature, not only does he not feel any discomfort, it even makes his body feel extremely peaceful and peaceful for a moment!

perhaps.

This is the rumored paradise?

"If hell exists in this world, it's nothing more than that."

On the roof of a building near the steel factory, Zhu Jue stood in the safe area cleared by the scavengers, looking at the scene in the steel factory tens of meters away, and murmured in a low voice.

In the steel factory at this time.

Among the black-purple amorphous colloid layer and the strangely phosphorescent follicles, a bony bone tree that looked familiar to Zhu Jue was standing there!

It's not appropriate to describe it simply as horror.

It is an image of indescribable depression and despair.

Rao is such an existence as Zhu Jue, and he has to drink Moonlight Wine to ensure his mental stability. If ordinary people were here, they would have already fallen into boundless madness.
The bare and off-white branches criss-crossed on the dry and cracked trunk, and the knots that should have grown leaves were completely surrounded by black tentacles, as if they were the claws of evil spirits emerging from the depths of the abyss, trying to Crush any existence associated with life.

The infected person that Zhu Jue was tracking was near the bone tree at this time, and after it was completely "fed", it was almost non-stop approaching here.

Not only that, Zhu Jue also saw a considerable number of infected people appear from various places within three blocks and gather under the bone tree along the way.

Although he doesn't want to tarnish the word, Zhu Jue still feels that the behavior of these infected people is a bit like a "pilgrimage".

The strangely shaped infected gathered under the bone tree, with their heads held high, as if they were waiting for something from the bone tree.

Such a scene resembles a gathering of cultists, especially intensified by the disgusting surroundings.

In fact, Zhu Jue thinks that even a slightly normal cultist would not be able to accept praying in this scene.

Of course, most of the cultists who have something to do with this kind of thing are not in the normal mind.

It didn't take long for those tentacles to hang from the branches and fall to the bodies of these infected people, and immediately it was like the state of the infected people that Zhu Jue saw in the room when they absorbed the follicles.

These tentacles either pierce the infected person's head, into the chest, or more directly enter the body through their mouth.
Zhu Jue was holding the camera in his hand, ready to record the scene completely, but he just thought about it and didn't press the record button.

The reason is simple, such a scene is purely disgusting, and there is no point in putting it in the video except to make people feel uncomfortable, not to mention it is also a troublesome thing for Suzi who processes the video.

Continuing to pay attention to Bone Tree's behavior, Zhu Jue was not in a hurry to stop it.

On the one hand, the current environment is obviously the opponent's home field, and before they figure out what happened here, they rashly point their fingers and wonder what will happen.

On the other hand, from Zhu Jue's tracking of the infected until now, even though he has come near the steelmaking plant, he still hasn't found even a member of the Ouroboros organization. Apart from the infected, there are no other people in his perception. Life form.

He even asked the scavenger to swallow a large amount of these black and purple colloids. He thought that some members of the Ouroboros organization would notice, so he could use this as a bait to catch a "tongue" and ask. anyone shows up.
Just at this time, the bone tree in the steelworks had a new change.

Suddenly, a dark red light flickered among the jagged branches, and the position was near the knotted tentacles!

Because of the long distance and the cover of the fog, the line of sight is inevitably affected. Zhu Jue can only adjust the focal length of the camera as much as possible to continuously zoom in on the picture.

When zoomed in to a certain extent, the fingers paused.

The brows subconsciously frowned.

"This kind of ghost thing can still come to fruition?"

Staring at the picture in the camera, Zhu Jue mumbled to himself.

Those red lights are clearly dark red irregular fruits.
The terrifying bone tree in the mist, the act of dropping its tentacles and piercing the infected person's body now seems to absorb the "nutrition" stored in their body, and then bear special fruits in this way.

Zhu Jue's mind suddenly appeared the bone tree case mentioned by Gu Ginkgo and the echinoderm meat ball that condensed in his body after he killed the cadre of the Ouroboros organization in the arena.

The so-called livestock in that population last night seems to have been fully verified in this state.

Gu Yinxing once said that she had the ability to plunder the energy of others after eating the fruit of the gods, and the scene caused by those black hyphae entering the human body is quite similar to the scene in front of you, isn't it?

It's just that the former is plundered from the body of ordinary people, but this bone tree is plundered from the body of the infected person. The bone tree has also become an independent existence, and the fruits it produces are naturally completely different from those produced by Gu Ginkgo.

Perhaps the Ouroboros organization is using this method to cultivate the same existence as the cadre in the arena or the guy last night?

There may be a clear gap between their combat power and Zhu Jue, but if they really face the soldiers of the security department, I am afraid it will be a one-sided massacre
But since there will be fruits, then according to common sense, there must be people who come to collect the fruits.

With that in mind, Zhu Jue immediately readjusted the camera focus, waiting for the "fruit farmer" to appear.

The development of the matter is exactly as Zhu Jue thought.

After the number of fruits between the branches of the bone tree reached two, several black shadows gradually emerged from the thick fog at the gate of the steel factory.

It's a pity that Zhu Jue guessed the beginning right.

Did not guess the ending.

　there will be another chapter later

　　
　
(End of this chapter)