Pollution throughout the territory

Xia Ren called everyone in and showed everyone the text message he just found that had not been sent in time.

The information contained in it is too incredible. If the real situation is indeed consistent with what Professor Ford said, then the tragic situation outside is most likely caused by people in the camp!

This idea is too scary. Everyone probably has guesses about it, but no one dares to say it out.

The atmosphere in the tent was as cold as freezing point. The team members looked at Professor Qin, subconsciously trying to get some instructions from him to break the current deadlock. However, the latter was still in great grief and could not extricate himself. Now he could hardly stand just standing.

Professor Qin came to the Wuji Icefield, went through wind and snow, and endured all kinds of hardships. The only purpose was to confirm the safety of his wife. They were finally about to meet, but they were separated from each other in such a sudden situation. This kind of blow is enough to destroy a person. hope for human survival.

"We can't sit still and wait for death. We must investigate what happened in the camp. Let's speed up the time before it gets completely dark! If it is because of some kind of wild beast that we don't know about, it may be more dangerous to wait until night. !”

Xia Ren stood up for the first time and expressed his opinion.

Everyone looked at each other and cheered up a little.

Wen Yan echoed: "Yes! Things have already happened, we can't let the people in the scientific research team die inexplicably like this!"

No one dared to approach the pile of bloody skeletons outside. Xia Ren pulled a tent cloth and took the initiative to take on this task, temporarily blocking the source of everyone's fear. This action also won the respect of other people in the team. After all, having a brave person in the group always makes people feel more at ease.

Under Xia Ren's command, one of Professor Qin's students stayed with him to prevent him from having any accidents. The others each found something handy, such as an iron rod or something, and held it in their palms to defend themselves. Together, they nervously began to explore the situation in the base.

The corpses were all gathered together. No blood was found elsewhere. The base was not large. Soon everyone gathered together again and reported what they had discovered.

"Judging from the traces, the scientific research team lost a lot of things, but we couldn't determine what they were. We also saw cans all over the ground in one of the tents that should have been used to store food. Those cans had been opened in a strange way. , as if it was torn apart by brute force, all the food inside disappeared."

"According to the information, the scientific research team brought two assembled aircraft to the base, but we only saw one. The other one could not be found, but we saw traces of takeoff in the snow next to it."

Are there any survivors in the base?

Xia Ren couldn't help but think.

If someone really ran out, it would be much more likely that it was Professor Ford.

"And fossil samples."

One team member said: "In the text message the scientific research team communicated with us, they mentioned that they had found some huge fossil samples and had moved them back to the base, but we didn't see any of them!"

"You can't run away with long legs, can you?"

Another team member said in a half-joking tone, trying to ease the tense atmosphere.

Everyone listened as a joke, but then they saw Xia Ren lowering his head, with an expression that seemed to be seriously considering this possibility.

"By the way, where are Wang Li and Qi Ming? Why didn't you see them?"

Everyone looked around them and found that there were indeed two people missing.

"Could it be..."

Before they finished speaking, they heard a cry from not far away: "Come and see, there is something strange here!"

"It's Wang Li's voice."

"Go over and have a look!"

They walked out of the tent together. Professor Qin had calmed down a little and followed them.

On the snow dozens of meters away from the base, they saw something made of snow that was about half a meter high and in the shape of a five-pointed star. There seemed to be something buried underneath.

"Dig it up!"

Xia Ren ordered, then took the initiative to find a tool and started digging.

"Let's dig together."

Wen Yan said.

Due to the large number of people, they quickly dug up the snow to reveal the object underneath.

"Isn't this the fossil found by the scientific research team?"

one team member exclaimed.

A total of six deformed monsters that looked incomplete were carefully buried in the snow in an upright position and presented to everyone. The five-pointed star on the top of the fossil's head made them inexplicably frightened, even Xia Ren was no exception.

"Oops, just looking at this thing can cause pollution!"

He was instantly sure.

"Don't touch them!"

Xia Ren stopped a team member who wanted to touch it with his hands and found an excuse: "Have you forgotten the unsent text message from the base? These fossils may contain ancient viruses that can cause people to go crazy! "

When he said this, everyone was instantly frightened and took a step back, away from the fossils.

"But why are there only six here? And if the scientific research team buried them, why was there a five-pointed star piled on top?"

Wen Yan said doubtfully.

With insufficient information, Xia Ren could not answer his question. He just said: "Cover them again first, and look for other fossils nearby."

No one raised any objections to his order. With his extraordinary courage and calm temperament, Xia Ren had unknowingly succeeded Professor Qin and become the new leader of the team.

Half an hour later, they had searched the base and the area within a few hundred meters of the base, but no other eight fossil samples were found.

Looking back, they found that Xia Ren had opened the tent cloth again and was squatting there by himself, studying the skeleton.

"Why is he so brave?"

One of the team members said from afar.

"I didn't expect that he is usually calm and quite reliable at critical moments."

"By the way, don't you feel something weird in the base? I always feel a chill in my back, as if someone is..."

"Holy shit, don't scare me!"

"Talk less!"

As the oldest student under Professor Qin, Wen Yan still had a high status in the team. He immediately stopped everyone and said, "If you can't help, at least find a place to set up two new tents and then prepare. Everyone is hungry for dinner, it may not be peaceful tonight, so conserve your energy.”

All the tents in the base were damaged, and cold wind was blowing inside. If you slept in such a place at night, you would definitely freeze to death.

Besides, it was getting dark.

Wen Yan saw that everyone had dispersed and started to get busy. He looked back at Professor Qin who was still in grief. He seemed to have aged twenty years suddenly and was extremely haggard.

Sighing, Wen Yan looked at Xia Ren who was studying the corpse again, and he couldn't help but feel admiration in his heart. Of course, he would never dare to ask him to help in front of the pile of corpses. He could only shake his head and go over with everyone. pitch a tent.

"No infectious agents appeared."

Xia Ren took a breath of cold air with a strong smell of blood and put down the skull in his hand.

These bones were picked cleanly, probably beyond the ability of even the most skilled butchers, and they were certainly not the work of humans.

"If it's not human, then it's the eight missing fossils..."

A simple sequence of events gradually became clear in my mind.

Without knowing the danger, the scientific research team took these fossil-like things outside, but they were actually some sleeping monsters. These monsters contaminated all the people in the base, caused their sanity to decline, and began to Distortions appeared, and his words and deeds began to become weird. Professor Ford was probably the same as himself, one of those people with relatively high rationality or high pollution resistance, so he was not affected, or the degree of impact was relatively shallow, so in time I discovered an abnormality and wanted to notify the rescue team and go back quickly. However, before he could send the message, the monsters woke up and began to massacre the scientific research team. Professor Ford panicked and fled the place by plane, and his whereabouts are still unknown.

In this way, most things were explained clearly, except for the five-pointed star of snow, which he still didn't understand.

Could it be that it was actually a tomb where monsters were burying their companions?

If this is really the case, things are no longer ordinary troubles. Knowing how to bury their companions means that they have wisdom and even... a social system!

Xia Ren couldn't help but recall the mirage he saw in the morning, the huge stone city, and the five-pointed star building that appeared in the city.

"How many secrets does this world still hide from humans..."

The situation inside the Wuji Icefield was not clear to humans until more than sixty years later.

In other words, these monsters have always existed.

Just thinking about it made him feel cold in his heart.

"Something is approaching the base!"

Wen Yan ran over and interrupted Xia Ren's thoughts.

He immediately became alert and followed Wen Yan to the outside of the base.

The time has come to 4:30 in the afternoon, and the sunlight cast from the ice clouds is extremely dim, especially in this mountain range, with visibility only less than 200 meters.

About four or five hundred meters away from them, a large black shadow stood out on the white snow and was approaching them quickly!