Plague Doctor

After receiving the alarm call, Ma Zhenxing and his colleague Bian Yi quickly went to the police.

They are all policemen from Yunlin Town, Maerwan District, Mobei City. There is usually nothing going on in this place. The crime rate is very low and the population is not large. Most of them are elderly people, so petty theft is rare. Their work The most common thing is to mediate some neighborhood conflicts.

But this time the police call in Beidian Village was very rare and strange. It might be a case of illegal logging.

Because the old man Tian Fuhou, the case owner, is now a celebrity in this area, and he is so young, no one is neglecting him.

In the morning, Ma Zhenxing and his two men arrived at the forest scene and saw Wang Fuhou and his old wife standing there, confused, nervous and uneasy.

"I still have a lot of trees that were obviously here! They are gone." As soon as he saw them, Wang Fuhou stepped forward to grab them and started talking. His wrinkled old face was filled with excitement and fear, "I pressed my hand on the trunk of the tree. , just stuck it in, as if being burned by fire, look at my skin!"

Ma Zhenxing watched the old man roll up his right sleeve. The skin on his palm and forearm did look like a burn. Maybe it was because the old man's skin was like that.

It’s hard to believe this. The surrounding trees are rarer than other areas along the way, and the land is darker. But illegal logging requires vehicles to transport the wood. People can’t lift such a big tree. Yes, but this road cannot be used by large vehicles, and there are no car marks.

"Uncle Tian, ​​did you remember it wrong?" Ma Zhenxing asked.

"I remember it correctly!" Tian Fuhou said dissatisfied, "I remember every tree here, I remember it correctly."

"There are really no more." Zhang Maidong, Tian's wife, sighed, "The tree that has been planted for decades was still there yesterday!"

"Uncle Tian, ​​do you think you can put your hand into this tree?" Bian Yiruo teased, indicating that he had drunk too much wine. "Then let me try." Ma Zhenxing felt vaguely uncomfortable, but did not say anything. Yi raised his right hand disapprovingly and pressed it against the withered trunk of the locust tree. When his hand reached in, the color of the middle-aged face changed instantly.

With a painful scream, Bian Yi pulled out his hand. His whole hand was shaking, and his face turned red and white. "Inside, it's really, really..."

Ma Zhenxing was stunned, Tian Fuhou said excitedly: "Look, look!"

Before anyone could do anything, suddenly, they watched helplessly as the locust tree seemed to have ripples on the water, and then disappeared. Just in the blink of an eye, it disappeared. Around here, the trees have become sparser, and not just one locust tree has disappeared.

"This, this..." Bian Yi murmured blankly.

Tian Fuhou and Zhang Maidong have both lived to be almost eighty years old. This is the first time they have seen such a thing, and their old faces don’t know how to react.

"Report the Secret Bureau." Ma Zhenxing finally spoke. His whole body suddenly trembled slightly, and a fear surged into his heart from nowhere. "Report the Secret Bureau."

This matter is beyond their capabilities. In a panic, Ma Zhenxing immediately made a report on his mobile phone. The police station was very nervous after hearing this and immediately took him to the Mobei Secret Bureau. This was Ma Zhenxing's first time dealing with these people. "The tree is gone, but I can reach in with my hand..."

After talking for a long time, Ma Zhenxing was able to calm down and explain the matter clearly.

For them who usually only do mediation work and the last time they caught a thief was last year, they were at a loss.

The Mobei Tianji Bureau attached great importance to them and asked them to stay where they were and not move around. Disease control personnel would soon come to pick them up for isolation and examination. Ma Zhenxing was a little confused. Although the other party said that this was a routine procedure and there was no need to be nervous, he still thought of the Legionnaires' disease last year...

"What is this?" Tian Fuhou over there was walking around anxiously, his face seemed to be getting worse, and he suddenly coughed a few times.

The uncle's cough made Ma Zhenxing and Bian Yike anxious. Ma Zhenxing asked, "Uncle Tian, ​​how are you?"

"Old man cough a few words... normal things." Tian Fuhou whispered, but he was also worried, and Zhang Maidong patted his wife on the back.

Bian Yi sighed and couldn't help but take out the cigarette case and lighter from his pocket, took out a cigarette and was about to light it.

"Officer Bian!" Tian Fuhou shouted when he saw this, but he was still very angry and said anxiously: "You can't light a fire here, don't you see there are trees all around! Hey you." Bian Yi took back the cigarette and lighter in embarrassment , Tian Fuhou added: "These trees are decades old..."

The old man murmured while looking at the sparse trees around him, "Two police officers, do you think all the trees here will disappear like this?"

"Uncle, we didn't know that this matter involved supernatural forces." Ma Zhenxing could only say this, but he was also at a loss.

In this mood, about half an hour later, the rumble of a helicopter came from the sky, and people from the Tianji Bureau arrived.

Soon, the four of them saw a group of people coming from the forest road covered with dead leaves. More than a dozen people, all wearing air-tight protective clothing and holding firearms, were the "Snow Sand Team" of the Mobile Task Force of the Mobei Tianji Bureau. , the captain is a middle-aged man, Li Weiquan, "Officer Ma, Officer Bian, thank you for your hard work, we will take over here."

Ma Zhenxing breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he had finally found his backbone.

"The disease control team will be here soon. You will leave from the ground." Li Weiquan said, "Two police officers, please indicate the scope of the mutation."

In fact, after the team members walked around, they could already see that the soil looked different because there was a relatively obvious dividing line.

They all frowned. They had fought against abnormal forces before, and there was a big base here in Mobei. The hero of Tianji, Gu Jun, was there.

Special training. They also have regular training, have been exposed to spells, and learned old seals... But it doesn't feel like darkness eroding it here. It's very strange and unusual.

Research team member Liu Wenhan took a handheld long-pole detection camera and probed into the trunk of a pine tree, and sure enough, he probed in.

On the detection screen outside, everyone saw only a blurry and distorted image, which was definitely not inside the tree trunk.

Suddenly, the image turned to black and the detection camera failed.

Under the vigilant attention of everyone, Liu Wenhan slowly pulled the instrument back little by little, only to see that the camera had been shattered, and the entire part of the instrument that had just been inserted into the tree was covered with a layer of charred black, as if it had been burned by some energy. It became like this...

Is it a magical power? Captain Li Weiquan knew that the situation was not good, and the situation here might be more serious than they expected before setting off.

"Command center, command center." Captain Li immediately used the satellite intercom to report, calling the magic department at the headquarters. "This is the Snow Sand Team. The situation is true. There is a space distortion in an area of ​​the woods here, with an area of ​​about 300 square meters." square meters. Officers on site confirmed that tree loss is continuing and the remaining trees are experiencing increased dieback and the situation may be intensifying."

At the same time, Tian Fuhou looked at these Tianji personnel and knew that the Tianji Bureau was more capable than ordinary departments. He couldn't help but ask Miss Chen who was asking him and his wife what happened: "Miss Chen, all my trees will disappear like that." ?"

"Uncle, don't worry." Chen Qiuxuan comforted him, but she didn't dare to give him any guarantee. "It shouldn't be that serious. You should rest for a few days."

"No rest, no rest..." Tian Fuhou murmured to himself, "Although I am not young, if I can still work, I will definitely do it..."

The old man looked at the woods here and there, thinking of those days in the past.

At that time, this place was still a complete wasteland. He and his wife worked early and late to level the land, then open canals and make sluices, then raise seedlings and plant plants... Many times they only had one meal a day, which was the fried rice they brought with them and soaked in water. Eat... finish your work for the day, sleep, and continue the next day.

"I also want to contract dozens more acres of wasteland." Tian Fuhou said, "This time, instead of planting other trees, I will plant Pinus sylvestris. This kind of tree can live for hundreds of years, unlike poplar trees that can live for decades and then disappear. Miss Chen, in a few hundred years, the desert here will become a forest, and these trees cannot be left out..."

"Uncle..." Chen Qiuxuan was about to say something to console her when her heart suddenly tightened, and people around her including Li Weiquan, Officer Ma and others were also surprised and suspicious.

Tian Fuhou's face was very pale, and blood was flowing from his nose.

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