I made myself the protagonist

The sky was slightly bright, and even during the day, the woods were shrouded in gloomy fog, but the fog had dissipated a lot compared to last night, and I could barely see clearly in the distance.

"It's daybreak. There seems to be no movement outside." Hubert said in a low voice.

Ling Yun nodded, woke up his sleeping companion next to him, and took the lead to go out to investigate the situation.

Hearing the sound of someone opening the door, Shen Tinglan opened his eyes in a daze, but suddenly found that Su Li's beautiful face was less than ten centimeters away from his.

At this moment, he was resting on Su Li's arm, and the two of them slept together in an ambiguous position like a couple.

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The moment his brain shut down and restarted, Shen Tinglan sat up suddenly, really not knowing what he had done last night.

After noticing the movement, Su Li also opened his eyes.

"Are you awake? Do you feel better?" Su Li probed Shen Tinglan's forehead, his eyes full of worry: "The fever hasn't gone down yet."

"I...I'm fine. I feel much better now."

Shen Tinglan stumbled to answer the other party, and when he saw Su Li rubbing his sore arms, his ears turned red. He was trying to put on clothes in a hurry, but the wound on his back was involved, and he suddenly grinned.

"Raise your arm gently." Su Li took the coat and calmly helped Shen Tinglan put on his shirt and protective gear, while not forgetting to tell him to pay attention to his injuries.

Feeling the other party's hand gently passing through her waist, Shen Tinglan hesitated and said: "If I offended you in any way last night, I apologize to you. I don't know what I did..."

"It doesn't matter." Su Li didn't seem to care. He tucked up all the clothes for the other party and picked up the belt.

"Here, I can do this myself." On the contrary, Shen Tinglan was as shy as a girl, blushing and snatching the waistband from the opponent's hand. Su Li did not insist anymore, she took out a rubber band from her pocket, Spread your silky black hair over your shoulders.

Although there was no makeup and there was some dust on her face, it did not affect her beauty at all.

Su Li used her fingers to comb her hair, letting a few strands of hair hang down by her ears, and calmly tied it into a high ponytail. Compared to her usual image of an ice beauty with long hair, she was now wearing a military uniform. , looking particularly heroic.

Shen Tinglan looked a little dazed, and only after a few seconds did he remember to buckle his belt.

One of the two was calm and composed, while the other was in a hurry. This scene really made people laugh.

Shen Tinglan secretly rejoiced. If it weren't for Ling Yun, Zhao Sicheng and others had already gone out to check the situation. Seeing such a scene, they would definitely laugh at themselves.

"Okay, let's go out and take a look." After putting on clothes, Shen Tinglan adjusted her mood and finally regained her usual composure.

Looking at the forest through the thick gray fog, the trees with beards are crowded together, like ghostly figures, with hunched backs, bared teeth and claws, gathered in various strange postures, and silently staring at the wooden house.

Ling Yun opened the door and walked into the courtyard. Looking at the woods in the distance, his originally relaxed expression suddenly became strange.

Soon, other companions woke up and walked out of the cabin one after another.

"Why did those trees become like this?!"

Tang Yao looked at the woods ahead in surprise. The forest at this time was different from yesterday. After a night, it had become like sunflowers, showing the same growth trend: the dark tree trunks were like soft snakes, moving towards each other in tacit understanding. Nodding deep into the forest.

These trees look like a group of believers worshiping something devoutly.

Tang Yao suddenly realized that the direction of the twisted forest should be the location of the tree temple in the center.

"Not only that, in front..." Ling Yun raised his hand and pointed somewhere: "There is an extra tree."

By this time, other people had also come out of the shelter.

Everyone was an experienced player. Although they knew that the strange situation in front of them indicated that there would be danger in the future, they all calmed down and did not panic too much.

Zhao Sicheng stepped forward wearing his coat, squinted his eyes carefully, stretched out his hand and gestured for a long time, and then retreated to the door of the wooden house.

After a while, he suddenly said seriously: "Hey! Ling Yun is really right!"

He pointed to an old tree with a crooked neck in the forest ahead, and vowed: "I kept staring at the gate during the vigil last night. I can confirm that this tree did not exist at that time. It definitely appeared out of thin air!"

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"Are you sure?" Hubert asked.

He and Ling Yun were responsible for guarding the last shift. Hubert clearly remembered that around five o'clock in the morning, the fog outside became thicker and thicker, and even the shadows of the trees could not be seen.

But even so, there was always silence in the forest. If it was like what Zhao Sicheng said, at least when these trees moved, he and Ling Yun would hear the rustling of leaves. It couldn't be possible. This tree grew out of the soil by itself.

Come out.

The blood tide had disappeared. With Su Li's support, Shen Tinglan followed the others to the tree pointed by Ling Yun and Zhao Sicheng.

The strong smell of blood in the forest had not completely dissipated. Ling Yun stroked the rough and slimy tree trunks and saw that the moss near the roots was still stained with some dark black substances, giving off a vague smell of decay.

"Really,"

Zhao Sicheng walked over calmly and looked up at the treetops: "Look at this tree, it looks exactly like the one on the poster of "The Conjuring 1"! It has such a unique shape, how could I not be impressed by it? This tree comes from

Weird, be careful when you stand under the tree, don't let a hanging rope hang down at once."

After hearing what he said, Wei Chongming, who was stroking the tree trunk and looking around, suddenly trembled and withdrew his hand.

He rolled his eyes at Zhao Sicheng and rubbed his palms angrily: "It's broad daylight, don't mess with those gods and ghosts!"

"It seems you are right." Lin Qing used a shovel to dig up the ground near the old tree and found that the soil did have signs of being turned.

There were still black stains of blood and turf in the soft soil that exuded a fishy smell, and a few chicken feathers could be vaguely seen in it, which must have been left by the pheasant that was devoured last night.

Ling Yun observed the strange trees in front of him: Poland has vast virgin forests, and its trees are mostly world-famous for pine, beech, fir, yew, larch, etc.

The pine tree should give people the impression of being tall and straight, but now, the tree in front of them is almost bent into a C shape, and even the exposed roots are twisted like several thick black pythons.

It looks like it's a hundred years old, and it takes four or five adults to hold it together to surround the trunk.

The surface of this tree is covered with dense, tumor-like galls. What’s even more weird is that the lines on the tree galls are winding and twisted, and when combined they look like human faces with painful and ferocious expressions.

At first glance, the tree seemed to be covered with human heads. Those dark heads were crowded together, as if they would rush to fall from the tree and pounce on the people below.