Chapter 15: Wind and Snow Night Return (9)

The body was dug up, but it was a strange man. He was buried upright and buried in a deep pit. The man was dead, but his hair continued to grow upward, upward and upward, until he pierced the ground and turned into a sapling.
This strange and terrifying scene made everyone silent.
Tang Cuo did not participate in digging the corpse, looking around in a military coat, "The corpse has begun to rot and should have been buried for a while."
Jin Cheng is also an uncle who has enjoyed his success and said, "That's the last batch of players who did this task. If Li Shuangshuang and Qu Li were also buried in the soil to plant trees, the saplings might not have sprouted yet."
"Just look for it."
In a word, Tangcuo started the tragic career of the labor quartet. In the next three hours or so, they took all the saplings within a radius of one kilometer out of the center of where the first body was found.
Although Jin Cheng didn't do it, he had a bear. It's a pity that the big paws are not used for digging soil.
In order to verify his guess, Jin Cheng also asked the black bear to dig a big tree and dig out a pile of white bones, but it is unknown how many years it has been buried in the ground.
"What do you think the wood fired by Li Shuai will feel so smooth and have a special smell?" He asked Tang Cuo, Tang Cuo answered without thinking, "corpse oil, and corpse smell."
Not far away, Qian Wei, who was sitting down and resting, heard it and almost spit out breakfast. The first time they arrived in this copy, they checked the kitchen with great care. They had no problem thinking about meat. The problem was wood. Although firewood is not directly eaten in the mouth, what is the difference between what it can be burnt and what it has been soaked in formalin?
Qian Wei couldn't help but look at the surrounding trees, those black, twisted trunks, at this time, might it seem like a ghost struggling to escape?
East, west, south and north, the whole forest is full of such trees, how many people have to be buried?
It shudders to think about it.
But they dug for a long time, still did not dig Li Shuangshuang. Everyone was exhausted and paralyzed, the weather was so cold, and I was sweating again, and I had eaten all the food I had with me, and I would either starve to death or freeze to death before I went back.
The players in Yongye City have a habit of carrying some stuffed stuff such as dried meat or compressed biscuits on their bodies, otherwise they may not be in any situation.
Tang Cuo is a poor man, he has nothing, but everyone divided him and became the most eaten.
"Go back?" Jin Cheng said, throwing Tangcuo a slap-up hand warmer with self-heating water in it, which is drinkable. "What Xiao Wenming tamped out is useless."
Tang Cuo took a look and said, "He is engaged in scientific research?"
"He has a nickname called mobile customer service."
"why?"
Wen Yan, Jin Cheng seemed to think of something fun, with a smile on his lips, saying "because his number is 10086"
Tang Cuo was expressionless.
Jin Cheng raised his eyebrows, "Not funny?"
Tang Cuo "Did you not see that my face was frozen?"
Too lazy to care about you.
Tang Cuo stood up with his hand warmer on his face and looked up, he always had a feeling-Qu Li was not dead. She is here to replace Xiaoyuan's newcomer. According to Xiaoyuan's argument, the newcomer is still on the job training. Perhaps it is her training content to cooperate with Li Shuai to perfect this serial resurrection case. After passing the training, she has to clear the karma here, so it is impossible to die.
But if she didn't die, where would she be?
Tang Cuo wanted to find it again, but Qian Wei and others could no longer keep up with his physical strength, and his own health also dropped by 20. After thinking a little, he agreed with the decision to go back.
Peng Mingfan asked what to do with the bodies that were dug out. Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo looked at each other and finally found out that they were similar to each other-they were all "regardless of digging."
"Li Shuai will come to cut wood at night, and he will definitely bury it again when he sees it." Jin Cheng said.
The others nodded and accepted his statement, because without him, they were too tired to bury it again.
Jin Cheng then released the black bear, and the six began to walk back. As before, no matter how they turn, the compass remains unchanged. But with the experience of the last time, everyone is much calmer.
Walking and walking, suddenly a flash of red flashed in Tang Cuo's afterglow. When Huo Ran turned his head, he saw a figure flash in the forest on the left, but the figure ran quickly and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
"Red skirt." Jin Cheng cut the nail.
In a pure black snow forest, the red skirt is bright and eye-catching.
"It's Qu Li!" Tangcuo pursued with lightning.
Jin Cheng was faster than him, and flew across the big tree above his head in a blink of an eye, so light that he couldn't be alarmed by the snow on the top of the tree. When both of them rushed out, the rest of the talents reacted and chased.
Tang Cuo didn't accidentally fall to the end, but he turned early before he ran far, and several times, he actually went around Qian Wei and others.
Running, running, ran head-on with Qu Li.
Qu Li face stunned face to face, "Why are you here!"
At this time Jin Cheng came back from behind her, she gritted her teeth, and finally ran away. She ran very strangely, her figure disappeared from time to time, and disappeared when she was almost caught up.
This also confirms Tang Cuo's guess that Qu Li is not dead, she is just playing with Li Shuai's performance as nc.
five minutes later.
Qu Li completely disappeared in the middle of the forest, as if never appeared.
Tang Cuo asked Jin Cheng if he could find a way to find her. Jin Cheng shook his head and he didn't insist anymore. Qian Wei and others were quite annoyed, but he was very calm and hurried as usual.
Half an hour later, a group of six people came back to the main entrance of the hostel, and it was already 3 pm.
There was only Madoka in the hall, sitting alone, without keeping his soul. Several people went to the kitchen to see it, but the body was still there.
Zhang Zhiyu didn't know where he went, but Anning asked Xiaoyuan before saying that he had been resting upstairs. Peng Mingfan gave Qian Wei a look, and the two went upstairs together, knocking on Zhang Zhiyu's door.
Zhang Zhiqi looked bad, as if he was unwilling to do even the last disguise, "What?"
"We found the body in the forest." Peng Mingfan also froze, but he still told the discovery in the forest. After he finished speaking, he did not wait for Zhang Zhiqi to reply, and then took Qian Wei away.
A few seconds later, there was a thud of the door closing in the corridor.
Qian Wei rolled his eyes angrily, "Peng Peng, what else do you tell this kind of person, let him die, and we don't owe him."
Peng Mingfan "It's my business to say it or not, it's his business to die."
"Peng Peng you are so cool."
"..."
Anning downstairs was entangled in whether to take a bath. She was sweating and needed a hot bath, but the shower room was also burned by the boiler. The boiler is filled with firewood, not coal.
Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng did not have this concern, and went in for a shower. The hostel also changed the laundry very humanely, and put it in the locker. It is available in different sizes and for men and women.
Seeing that Tang Cuo came out refreshingly, Qian Wei felt palpitated and subconsciously whispered, "Won't these clothes be picked from the dead?"
Tang Cuo turned to look at him and smiled, "Are you okay?"
"I'm wrong brother."
Anyway, Qian Wei made up his mind not to take a shower.
By the time Jin Cheng came out of the shower, Qian Wei was too tired to take a nap on the table. Peng Mingfan is still the one who is most passionate about reasoning and decryption. He scribbled the small blackboard on the front desk used to write today's menu in an attempt to sort out the ins and outs of things.
As for Anning and Zhao Ping, they went to the kitchen to prepare dinner, because Madoka went on strike again.
Tang Cuo was alone in the armchair reading the magazine in the lounge area. Jin Cheng walked over and knocked on the table. He looked at the stack of books and said, "Are you reading again?"
Tang Cuo raised his eyes, "Aren't you still fighting puzzles?"
Half of the puzzle has been completed, and the remaining half is scattered on the table.
Jin Cheng picked up a piece and put it in his hand to play, after a while, said, "This painting is Schiller's "Four Trees." The meaning of the painting itself should have nothing to do with this copy, but he painted a tree."
"Is this some kind of reminder?"
"Maybe."
Tang Cuo didn't know much about this kind of art, but he always felt that he missed something. There was still no clue hidden in this hostel, so he turned the book on the shelf again.
Turning over, he really saw something-something that he didn't have at the last time.
That was a report on the inner page of the magazine, with the title "The best forest ranger in history hits 100 tons of firewood a year!" Won the "Heart of Nature" award! 》
The picture shows the handsome smile of Li Shuai holding the trophy, which is exactly a bronze statue resembling a little gold man.
Why would a good forest ranger go for firewood?
Tang Cuo frowned slightly.
No, it was the corpses of people who hit the wood, and the award Li Shuai took was called "Heart of Nature". Mankind felled trees, and was eventually felled as trees. Do we still use our own way?
Thinking about this, Tang Cuo has turned through several books and magazines one after another, but he has not seen the relevant content again. He put down his book and stood up and walked upstairs.
"Where are you going?" Jin Cheng asked behind.
"Find a waiter." Tang Cuo kept walking.
As the only waiter in the hostel, Madoka lives alone on the first floor. Tang Cuo knocked on her door and opened the door, "The forest outside, or this mountain, what happened before?"
"Things?" Madoka tilted her head unknown.
"accident."
"Did you say that the fire was ten years ago? A few donkeys came to the mountain to play, accidentally burned the fire, and the whole forest was burnt. I wasn't here yet, I heard It took a long time to plant trees before planting the forest back."
"Specifically how many people?"
"Hmm...should it be nine people? Or eight? It seems like eight."
"Oh." Tang Cuo was relieved and asked again, "Do you know what trees are cut by handsome Li?"
Madoka smiled, "Yes, those are the highest quality wood, and the cooked rice is delicious."
With that said, she thought of Li Shuai's death again, and her expression became sad again. Tang Cuo asked her anything else, and she couldn't answer it. She repeatedly said, "How can a handsome brother die", and "When will I be able to go down the mountain?" It is useless.
Closing the door, Tang Cuo turned back to see Jin Cheng leaning on the corridor, and asked him "Is it clear?"
Tangcuo is certainly clear.
The clues in the copy are triggered. The bronze statue is indeed a reminder, but yesterday he clearly turned over the book, but there is no content about the award in the book, and Madoka did not answer the story about the bronze statue.
But when they discovered the firewood secret in the forest, the clue came.
Jin Cheng watched the whole process. As an old player, he said bluntly,
It’s true to me, this is not the low-end game of area f. Judging from the number of corpses in the forest, the previous batches of players were almost destroyed. Perhaps the truth is not clear until death. Looking at the trigger mode of this clue, it is at least difficult."
Tang Cuo "Because of the blacklist bonus?"
Jin Cheng spread his hand and apparently defaulted on this statement.
The two no longer spoke much, went back to the lobby and briefly explained the latest findings to the others, and looked at the faces that were shocked into silence, and Tang Cuo was silent.
How bad is the luck of these four people in order to get a copy of the two blacklists.
It was already 5:15 in the evening.
Tang Cuo looked at the wall clock on the wall and said, "I plan to spend the night in the forest."
He said this to Jin Cheng, and Jin Cheng also understood what he meant in a second, "Do you want to avoid the condition of falling asleep after night?"
Tang Cuo nodded, "Li Shuai might bury Zhang Zhiyu next to Li Shuangshuang."
Peng Mingfan heard something, and asked, "Why do you have to find Li Shuangshuang, did you find anything?"
Tang Cuo "needs empirical evidence."
Peng Mingfan "Then I will go with you."
Qian Wei and An Ning looked at each other, remembering the fear of being enslaved by the duo duo during the day. After struggling for a long time, they still gritted their teeth and said, "I will go too."
"You might fall asleep when you go out," Tang Cuo said.
"And they might sleep in the ice and snow, and they would become frozen ghosts before dawn." Jin Cheng continued to threaten.
The double intimidation from the big brother is not useless. Think about the conditions outside. I really slept in the snow for a night, maybe I will hang up.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Ping finally opened his mouth, "Then we will go to hide in the cave first, and then wait for the time when we fall asleep, and then come out for activities."
The three Qian Wei cut him amazedly, and Zhao Ping smiled helplessly, "We are all grasshoppers on a rope. Looking at the content of this copy is clearly trying to kill us all. It is better to fight together than to wait here." dead."
It’s all about this, no more.
The six of them seized the time and ate dinner. After everything was ready, they set off immediately. This time they traveled a lot faster because the glowing powder had not disappeared, and they went straight down the road to the cave.
There was no other firewood in the forest. In order to make a fire for heating, everyone did not care about the taboo in their hearts. They found a lot of dry branches and lit a bonfire to wait for the passage of time.
At seven, everyone hasn't fallen asleep.
At half past seven, someone felt a little sleepy, but it was still within control.
At eight o'clock, they didn't wait for Zhang Zhiyu to carry the corpse, but they saw that in the deep night, a dark red suddenly appeared on the miserable snow.
Qian Wei stood up in shock, "Qu Li! Is that Qu Li?"
An Ning "looks very similar, there is no other red in this forest except for her."
It was then that the dark red figure swayed and appeared again a little further away from them.
Anning clenched his fists and turned back to ask Tang Cuo and Jin Cheng "Do you want to chase?"
Peng Mingfan said, "It may also be a trap. She saw us turn around and ran during the day. Why does it appear again now?"
"Let's go." At this moment, Jin Cheng stretched out and stood up, rubbing his neck, walking easily to the hole. Qu Li's figure was farther away than he could see.
Tang Cuo approached him, "Alone?"
Jin Cheng "Are you worried about me?"
"No." Tang Cuo. "I want to remind you that she is going away."
Jin Cheng was amused by him, smiled slightly, grabbed Tang Cuo's wrist and clicked and put a handcuff on him. Tang Cuogang wanted to say that you are sick, and she saw that Jin Cheng had also set herself up.
"It's for matchmaking. I'm not allowed to take it down. I won't let you go if I can't find a way back later."
Having said that, he waved his hand, leaving everyone with a chic back.
Tang Cuo glanced down at his wrist, okay, whoever is equipped is the big guy.
At 8:05, Jin Cheng and Qu Li disappeared in the eyes of everyone. Everyone has not fallen asleep, looking at the hole differently. The only thing that is the same is probably the worry in the eyes.
Except Tangcuo.
Tang Cuo didn't worry about Jin Cheng at all. Even if this copy was difficult, it was just a copy of the f district. Jin Cheng probably still has a lot of hole cards that they don't know. Even if they are all dead, he won't die.
eight thirty.
Jin Cheng hasn't returned yet, and everyone hasn't slept.
The worry in the cave was another point, and Qian Wei couldn't help but suggest going out to find someone. At this moment, Tang Cuo felt that the handcuffs were being pulled, and he stood up and walked to the hole.
"came back."
In the dark snow, Jin Cheng walked back with a man, he did not walk fast, but the pace was not heavy, and when he came to the hole, he also asked leisurely--
"Are you waiting for me?"
Tang Cuo didn't want to answer him very much.
At this moment, Zhao Ping recognized the person Jin Cheng was carrying and exclaimed, "Li Shuangshuang!"
"Huh." Jin Cheng was a little uncomfortable about being interrupted, but he saw that these people were quite pleasing to the eye. After all, he put them down without saying anything.
To be precise, the body was put down.
Tang Cuo looked at Li Shuangshuang's soles at first glance and found that there was nothing but some sludge on it. He looked up and asked Jin Cheng, "Did you dig it out of the ground?"
Jin Cheng embraced his arm. "Yes, Qu Li seems to have deliberately led me in. I have seen it, and there is no powder left at the bottom of the pit."
"What do you mean?" Qian Wei blinked and looked at An Ning and Zhao Ping. Why did he get shining powder again? Peng Mingfan seemed to think of something, but he couldn't figure out the connection, and frowned slightly.
Tang Cuo was too late to explain, and he looked at Jin Cheng.
Jin Cheng's eyes moved slightly, "You mean..."
Tang Cuo "Go back to find Zhang Zhiyu! Be quick!"
After all, the two ran outside the cave at the same time. The rest of the people haven't figured it out yet, but a few days of getting along has given them an indescribable sense of trust in the two, and they ran without saying anything.
But just when Tang Cuo's feet stepped on the edge of the hole, a heavy drowsiness hit the brain.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Six people, one left and all fell.
The author has something to say in the next chapter to reveal all the answers~