The Death Knell

It was autumn in the northern hemisphere, and spring in Australia in the southern hemisphere, but the forest where the three of them settled did not have any warmth at all.

The gloomy and pale sunshine enveloped this strange forest. It was as strange as sleeping in a dream of death. Even during the day, there were still strange animal sounds coming from nowhere, echoing from time to time in the forest, but if you look carefully Listen, but only the leaves are rustling.

This makes one's hair stand on end instinctively.

The deeper you go into the forest, the less it seems like reality. In the video, you can see that Diana walked into an old and thick oak tree at that time. However, now, the surrounding trees have completely changed.

The twisted ancient trees that had never been seen before seemed to absorb all the light, turning the forest into a place of black and white. Their white leaves held up dense umbrellas, blocking any gaps where the sky could be seen. Leave room for people to breathe.

In this world of black and white, nameless beetles with gorgeous colors are crawling freely on the ground and tree trunks. They live in groups like ants and are busy carrying a two-color fruit similar to human eyeballs.

From sight to hearing to the smell of the forest, everything is weird.

The dark wind in the forest was blowing Bobo's hair, and the detective's response was to tuck them back under the brim of his hat. He took a long puff of his pipe, bent over and picked up a magnifying glass to search for clues.

But the only source of light here is the God Killer in the hands of Deathstroke. The lightning-shrouded weapon is good for killing people, but if it is used to provide illumination, the light is not stable.

The flickering shadows, the flash of unknown creatures in the distance behind him, and the suspicious gazes on the treetops all made Bobo's beastly instincts set off alarm bells in his heart.

Harley remained calm. She blew bubble gum and hummed a song. She used a knife to carve on the tree nearby, and drew a head of a girl with two ponytails sticking out her tongue, which represented her ‘visit here’.

"There are no traces of Diana's arrival. Look at these fallen leaves." Bobo used his fingers to dig at the ground in front of him. In the moist humus under the leaves, some small white bugs scattered in all directions: "The fallen leaves are all intact, at least. No human-sized thing has stepped on them, and if I look at the coordinates you provided, I can be sure that my feet are where Diana disappeared."

"But the tree is gone." Su Ming nodded and looked around, seeing only the red light in the eyepiece in the forest.

"The tree is gone." Bobo agreed with this statement. He straightened up and pointed to one side: "The nearest big tree, I mean a big tree about the same thickness as a human being, is dozens of meters away from this coordinate point."

As he spoke, he took a few steps and shook the sapling in front of him. This was obviously not the one Diana touched.

Harley also walked over holding her chin. She walked around the small tree in a decent manner, raised her foot and shook the leaves on her boots: "Could it be underground? Maybe the big tree It was an elevator, and when Diana got in, it sent her underground in a whoosh."

"That's not the case. Come and see." Su Ming shook his arm, and Strangler conjured a tablet in his palm: "This is Sepulk's real-time monitoring. Did you find any problems?"

Bobo was too short, so he could only climb up along Deathstroke's legs and hook the black and yellow shoulder armor.

At this sight, he also frowned: "We disappeared?"

Yes, just like what the orangutan said, Sepurk's surveillance was locked on the same coordinates. Logically speaking, Su Ming should be able to see the three of them.

But the fact is that there is no such thing. What the surveillance camera captured there was only an ordinary forest with leaves still swaying, but there was no image of the three people in the forest at all.

"We should now think about whether we have entered some special dimension? Or did that dimension suddenly activate when Diana walked into the forest?" Su Ming withdrew his hand, and the strangulation sank into the host's body like black mud.

Bobo jumped down, took a sip from his pipe, and asked again: "I didn't feel any sense of entering the dimension. In addition, you said before that Diana was carrying X metal, but you couldn't hear it in any dimension. Resonant echo.”

"This is the problem. If we solve the mystery, I think the case will be solved." Su Ming took out a cigarette himself and smoked smoke with the orangutan: "But the problem now is, Diana Did she really enter that tree? If the second possibility I mentioned is true and Diana happened to activate this illusion when she entered the forest, then her whereabouts after that will be completely uncertain."

The orangutan detective took off his hat, ran his paws through the black hair on his head, chewed the mouth of his pipe and thought for a while.

"Tell me, could it be that she didn't want anyone to find her on purpose?"

"It doesn't make sense logically. Donna and Supergirl are still trapped in madness and are being imprisoned on Paradise Island. The Laughing Virus has not been eliminated. Diana will not leave her sister to take risks." Su Ming shook his head. He had actually thought about this. It's a possibility, but the logic doesn't seem to fit.

She is not crazy herself.

Even if she wants to go somewhere alone, she will definitely make it clear to the nosy Justice League, 'I'm going to that place, don't follow me.' This is her character.

Leaving without saying goodbye is the biggest suspicion. After all, a person's behavior is different from the past, which is called abnormal.

"You've stumped me, the orangutan. God, you haven't allowed any sorcerers to travel with us. You said it was to avoid being eavesdropped by the Troublemaker, and it doubled the difficulty of decryption." Bobo muttered complaints. , but his body was very honest, and he went back to looking for clues.

"Can this be eaten?" Harley didn't seem to listen to the two people's analysis at all. She snatched a fruit from the beetle passing by her feet.

He casually wiped the eyeball fruit on his body and pinched it back and forth in his hands.

The small black and white fruit looked quite elastic, like a bouncy ball in her hand. However, according to the 'Xiao Wang Recipe' that Su Ming had eaten, anything that looked like an eyeball, or was an eyeball itself, The taste is not liked by humans.

"Are you Constantine? He's the only one who puts anything he doesn't recognize into his mouth." Su Ming took the fruit and gave her a pack of spicy sticks in exchange: "I know he once ate the devil's feet. Skin, just to track the other party’s traces.”

"Hey!" Harry gritted his teeth and stopped talking about eating wild fruits.

Su Ming suddenly narrowed his eyes, stared at the eyeball in his hand and thought for a second, then raised his head and looked in all directions. After receiving Harley's reminder, he discovered something.

Although these gray trees around have never been seen before and do not look like earth plants, they are obviously not fruit trees.

So where does this eyeball fruit come from?

Immediately, he set his sights on the busy traffic lines of beetles crawling on the leaf litter in the forest, pushing their eyeballs like dung beetles.

Could this be a reminder from the Red of All Things, asking him to 'see' where these beetles come from? Or is it another trap?

Anyway, this might be a clue.