Mysterious creature sightings

Burying bugs are corpse-eating bugs. They have first-class resistance to eating garbage. It is a bit strange for a dying individual to appear, especially here. It appears at this time and is pointed out by Ling Jiangyue.

Lin Zheng moved his feet and squatted down to stir the burying insect with a branch. The lights of several people illuminated its cilia.

Lin Jia: "Looks like he's moving very slowly. Xu Jiayan, bring me a high-power magnifying glass."

Under a magnifying glass, there are several small gray spots on the black and orange carapace of the burying bug.

"The golden-necked burial beetles must be mites crawling around on their bodies. They often hitch a ride on the burial beetles, get on and off the corpses, and feast on the eggs of blowflies."

Ling Jiangyue frowned.

She didn't have much contact with animal corpses, and she was even less familiar with eggs and maggots. She had only seen abandoned corpses twice in the abandoned area of ​​the laboratory, and she really couldn't be as calm as them.

Jiang Yuxing: "Mites and golden-necked burying bugs have a friendly relationship between passengers and the bus. If the burying bug is on the verge of death, they will crawl around anxiously. This burying bug is going to die."

"Natural causes? Or is it related to the corpse and the mutated Ophiocordyceps hemiformis?" Xu Jiayan asked.

"I couldn't tell anyway. I just felt that it was going to die, and it smelled like a corpse." Ling Jiangyue said.

She squatted next to Lin Zheng, their legs touching each other, but she didn't feel crowded at all. It was like half a wall was blocking the wind for Lin Jia opposite.

"When a burying beetle encounters a corpse, it will secrete body fluids to wrap the corpse, which is similar to a preservative. It preserves the body for future generations to enjoy, so they have a strong ability to resist germs. A burying beetle that has just had an excited meal will not survive much after leaving the corpse. If you are far away, it will become dangerous..." Lin Zheng said while scraping the surrounding two centimeters of ground with the tip of a branch.

Before they finished speaking, they saw a few drops of blood on some withered grass.

"——Become dying, unless there is some very harmful accident, such as physical damage, or something wrong with the food." He finished slowly.

Jiang Yuxing was surprised and confused: "The burial bug ate the spoiled corpse and got food poisoning?"

Xu Jiayan was speechless: "Are you crazy? Which corpse is not spoiled?"

Lin Jia: "...Is now the time to argue about this?"

That is, there is another important point that should be focused on.

"There is blood here, which means Zheng Linlin and the others passed here." Ling Jiangyue said happily with his eyes wide open.

It was not easy. She had to reveal the key points naturally and reasonably without revealing too much of her abilities. It really tested her acting ability.

Lin Zheng put the golden-necked burying insect into the evidence bag, stood up and said: "The blood has been stepped on, which means that the bleeding place is in the front and the footsteps are in the back. It may be that the injured person's walking posture is wrong, or it may be the missing people." Individually together.”

Neither may be quite right.

He switched the searchlight light mode to ultraviolet light, and said: "Just look around, turn on the ultraviolet light to check for blood stains."

The darkness in the forest seems to be able to swallow the light of the lamp, but after switching to ultraviolet lamps, it seems to have become an inverted world where monsters are prevalent, and tiny fluorescent spots appear in the purple light path.

"The route is wrong," Lin Jia whispered, "There are several, both going up and down, and the blood stains are of different shades."

Lin Zheng: "There may be blood from other animals. Jiang Yue, can you tell anything?"

Then there are a lot of things she can see, but she really hasn't sensed the existence of Zheng Linlin and the others for the time being.

...No, the upper limit of her perception range in the experimental data is not low. Even if she can't perceive the entire mountain, she should still have a weak signal connection on the way through the mountain.

Ling Jiangyue pondered for a while, then raised his face and asked, "Is there fog on the mountain?"

Lin Zheng specially scanned it with normal light, frowned and said, "No."

"But I feel there is a layer of fog... It's not fog, it's just very blurry anyway... Am I short-sighted?" Lin Zheng frowned deeper and asked Xu Jiayan to bring out a new detector: "Check the chemicals in the air. "

Xu Jiayan scanned Didi for a while and found several unusual air components.

"When I examined the group of jellyfish on the golden beach, I conducted pheromone analysis on many types of organisms. There was an excessive amount of volatile decomposition products in the air here, and the composition of the substances was similar to certain pheromones."

Lin Zheng's voice was deep: "Those people know that you can see pheromones."

Wow, you are really looking for death. Ling Jiangyue frowned and leaned towards him fearfully: "Could this case be a test of my abilities?"

"It should be more than just that. This mutated Ophiocordyceps hemiformis that can parasitize humans is not a third-rate thing. It is also the last trump card in biological and chemical warfare. It cannot be used casually." Lin Jia said.

"Then why are you using pheromone to test me? I thought it was normal mist..."

She hid behind Lin Zheng again as if she was timid. This was the truth, so she spoke it very sincerely.

After she finished speaking, at an angle that was not visible from their lights, dark brown substance gathered in her eyes and she looked around again.

Probably because the "bacteria" person involved in the case was also a rare species, the "neighbor" became more active and a little bulge formed in her eyeballs.

If someone sees something wrong with her at this time, they will find that her eyeballs are somewhat similar to the symptoms of "peanut buds" growing in the eye sockets of the previous corpse.

The space in her eyes began to expand and shrink, ordinary creatures were blurred, and the outlines of some unusual creatures deepened and appeared in front of her eyes.

Found someone.

"Well, let me concentrate and see if I can distinguish these real and fake pheromones." She thoughtfully designed an idealist reason that could be easily accepted by the public, and then pretended to look hard.

Giving the knowledge some time to digest, she counted and said, "I saw it! There is a very light pheromone route, which is very similar to the markings made by leaf-cutter ants found in Cuiyun Gallery before. There are back and forth, and the color …The color resembles several transparent jellyfish stacked on top of each other.”

"Insects? Their destination may be those people. Let's go and follow the route to find them."

They broke through the first difficulty set by the illegal organization, but everyone's expressions were not relaxed, but became more and more solemn.

Until they followed the pheromone route and found a group of people wandering in the darkness, their hanging hearts were all hit hard.

Ling Jiangyue's light shone over and saw a familiar person.

Zheng Linlin climbed up a broken tree trunk with stiff and weird limbs. After sensing the light, she turned her head parallel to look at her.

The face was still pretty, but the eyeballs were protruding, the mouth was open and a short "ahhh" sound was made, and the tears on the face shone coldly in the light.

In the darkness, only her face was highlighted by the light, making it look particularly scary.

Ling Jiangyue's footsteps were frozen in place.

"Is she asking me for help?" she murmured to Lin Zheng.

"Is she asking me for help?" she asked the people in the laboratory five years ago.

"Of course not, she is waiting for you to become her companion." The man told her, stopping her from approaching.

She took a step closer to Zheng Linlin, but was stopped by Lin Zheng.

"Jiang Yue, she was parasitized by a fungus." Lin Zheng said in a heavy tone.