The Lost City of Alien Beasts

Chapter 108 Enemies
"jump!"

White Rabbit was the first to act, jumping to where Cheng Xin was originally in an instant.

Not to be outdone, Douhu and Qingling used their hands and feet to climb up the giant tree as if they were flying over a wall.

The bark is hard and rough, with a texture like a rock wall, making it easy to climb.

Gao Yang added a lot of agility, his movements were flexible and his body was light, and he quickly distanced himself from Officer Huang and Lao Wang.

Soon, Gao Yang climbed to the place where Cheng Xin disappeared.

He held up his hands and easily climbed up a side branch.

This branch is more than one meter wide, equivalent to a trail. Looking around, you can see that there are densely packed "paths" all around, forming a huge and complex maze.

White Rabbit, Dou Hu and Qing Ling were standing on a branch not far away.

Gao Yang rushed over and was wondering why they stopped chasing him, when he was immediately surprised.

It turned out that they had caught up. Cheng Xin was lying on the tree trunk with his back to everyone. Judging from his stiff posture, he should be dead.

"Is he dead?" Gao Yang's scalp went numb, "Who killed him?"

"I don't know." White Rabbit said in a cold tone, "When I caught up with him, he died here."

"Have you been checked?" Gao Yang asked again.

"Poisoned to death," Douhu said.

Gao Yang's heart sank and he looked at Cheng Xin's exposed half of his face. His eyeballs were protruding, his skin was covered with black and purple capillaries, and his lips were blue.

"Wait a minute, he was poisoned by [Spider Venom]!" Gao Yang couldn't help shouting.

"Yes." Douhu nodded: "He was poisoned by himself."

"He committed suicide?" Gao Yang felt unbelievable.

"I don't know." White Rabbit took off his white gloves, "I searched him, and there are no rune circuits or anything like that on him."

"Cheng Xin! You bastard..."

Lao Wang and Officer Huang chased after him. Lao Wang was cursing, and when he saw Cheng Xin's body, he was confused: "He, is he... dead? Or did you kill him?"

"It seems that he committed suicide." Gao Yang explained.

"Absolutely impossible!" Lao Wang seemed to have heard a huge joke, "I know Cheng Xin, this beast cherishes his life very much, and will fight to the end even if there is only a slim chance of survival."

"He was poisoned by [Spider Venom]." Douhu shrugged, "Did he accidentally poison himself to death?"

"What?" Lao Wang hurried forward and took a closer look at Cheng Xin's face.

"Fuck! What's going on!" Lao Wang almost collapsed.

Gao Yang was also very restless. From the moment he walked into the subway, things had been in an abnormal absurdity, with too many inconsistencies.

Gao Yang looked around, and it was strange that this aerial maze composed of branches seemed different from before.

Soon he realized: the light was getting weaker and weaker.

Looking carefully, I found that the white energy in the branches was flowing downwards, seeming to be transferring to the roots of the tree.

"Something is not quite right."

Even Qing Ling became anxious. She looked at Gao Yang, as if expecting him to give a reasonable explanation.

Think, think fast.

Since everything is unreasonable, we should deduce it in an unreasonable direction.

Suddenly, Gao Yang caught something and his eyes lit up: "That Gu Ling was also robbed and beaten to death."

"That's right." White Rabbit nodded.

Gao Yang looked at Lao Wang and said, "Besides Gu Ling, does anyone in your two groups use a gun?"

Lao Wang shook his head, "No more."

"So, Gu Ling also committed suicide?" Gao Yang asked deliberately.

"Gu Ling did not commit suicide." Bai Tu immediately retorted: "A person who commits suicide will not hit himself with a gun in the chest, nor will he stuff the gun back into the holster after firing."

"Then there is only one possibility left, the most obvious one, but the one we least want to accept." Gao Yang looked at Douhu.

Douhu was startled for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "They were killed by themselves."

"I said they didn't commit suicide..." White Rabbit suddenly stopped and seemed to understand: "Ah, this is impossible!"

"Damn, what a hell!" Officer Huang finally figured it out. "What's the meaning?"

Only Lao Wang still looked troubled and anxious: "Stop playing riddles, what the hell is going on?"

Everyone looked at each other, unwilling to admit the truth for a while.

Gao Yang took a deep breath and looked around: "Do you think this tree looks like the same thing?"

"What?" Lao Wang asked.

"Hourglass." Gao Yang said.

"That's right." Qing Ling's eyes flashed, "The things flowing in the tree are like glowing sand."

Gao Yang couldn't tell whether he was excited or nervous. He nodded and said: "All the sand has flowed to the roots of the trees, so it is getting darker and darker here, and it is getting brighter and brighter under our feet."

"What does this mean?" Lao Wang became more and more confused.

"Old Wang, have you ever thought about what kind of rune circuits are hidden in this rune cave?" Gao Yang asked the key point.

Lao Wang was thoughtful and muttered: "Hourglass, circulating subway, time passes differently..."

"Ah!" He shouted: "Time and space! Time and space runes!"

"If we talk about the time and space runes, everything will be explained."

Douhu took over: "The time and space here are very abnormal, that's why there are so many strange phenomena. As for the tree hole-like thing just now..."

"It should be the core of the entire space." Gao Yang boldly speculated: "The rune circuit may really be inside, but it has been taken away."

"Who else can there be?" Lao Wang said anxiously: "There is no one else but us. Cheng Xin and the others are all dead."

"not necessarily."

Gao Yang knelt down, turned Cheng Xin's body over, and opened his clothes. His scalp suddenly became numb.

Sure enough, everything was in line with his speculation.

"Look at it!"

Gao Yang's voice trembled: "This Cheng Xin has no abdominal injuries."

Douhu snapped his fingers: "The case has been solved. This person is not the Cheng Xin we rescued."

Lao Wang finally came to his senses. His face turned pale and he was so frightened that he backed away and almost fell from the tree trunk. "You guys, don't be ridiculous. You don't want to say that there is another Cheng Xin, right?"

"Not only Cheng Xin, Gu Ling, but others," Gao Yang paused, "there may be another one."

Lao Wang's legs weakened and he fell to his knees, holding his hair with both hands: "Ahhh..."

"Lao Wang!" Officer Huang quickly helped Lao Wang up: "What's wrong with you?"

"No, it's okay, it's just that my head is in a mess..." Lao Wang's face twitched and his pupils dilated. He grabbed Officer Huang and said, "Old Huang! I saw it, I saw it all!"

"What do you see?"

"Cheng Xin, Gu Ling, they were all dead, but they are alive again. Why is this happening? Ahh..." Old Wang knelt down again, feeling a splitting headache.

While several people were talking, the white energy on the branches was disappearing rapidly, and the surrounding light was getting darker and darker, and it was almost impossible to see the five fingers clearly.

"Gao Yang, light the fire." Dou Hu said.

Gao Yang raised his hands and gathered two fireballs, and the surrounding area lit up.

When the golden light of the open fire replaced the hazy white ice light, everything around him became clearer.

Gao Yang found something on a tree trunk not far away. He was startled and immediately shouted: "Everyone, look this way!"

Gao Yang threw the fireball with his left hand forcefully.

The fireball flew into the darkness and immediately illuminated the lush branches not far away. The intricate branches were actually covered with corpses, at least dozens of them by rough calculation.

These corpses died in different ways, including stab wounds, gunshot wounds, poisoning and elemental damage, but there was no damage caused by beasts.

Every face on the corpse is so familiar yet unfamiliar. It can be seen that they have experienced crazy, chaotic, and endless killings of each other.

"No, no, it's impossible..."

Lao Wang shook his head desperately, his spirit almost collapsed.

Everyone recognized that these corpses were those of Cheng Xin, Gu Ling, and three other teammates from Group 2.

(End of this chapter)