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In the forest like a long night, a group of people stood on the ground full of rancid blood, and looked at the tree trunk in front of them, each and everyone was stunned.

This tree stump is like a natural coffin, where the body of the missing soldier is sealed. In just a few minutes, his flesh and blood has been corrupted into blood.

There is a very strong smell of blood in the air, and the blood in the trees has been sealed for a long time.

And the corpse that appeared in it shocked everyone.

How could a large living person get inside the stump since the tree was not damaged in any way?

Even the few scientists present were unable to answer this question.

All the soldiers present were from refugees. Except for a few who were educated, most of them had little education. The strange scene in front of them reminded them of the ghost legends they had heard in their childhood.

The pungent smell of blood and the strange scene in front of them all seemed so terrifying. Some timid soldiers had unconsciously moved closer to their teammates, for fear that they would become the next missing person.

"This situation is too weird. It's impossible for a big living person to penetrate a tree and fill it inside. You said, will there be any demons around here? Apart from demons, I can't figure it out. Who can do this." Seeing that everyone was silent, Ren Jiao said to Ning Zhe, "Could it be that the chaebol sent some team to infiltrate our side?"

"I'm afraid even the demons don't have this ability. Even if the opponent is a plant-based demon that can control the thorns here to attack us, it is impossible to put people down inside the trunk out of thin air." Ning Zhe shook his head and said: " And when we were setting fire just now, those plants would dodge. If the guard team really sent a demon to target us, they should have destroyed our headquarters instead of running so far with our advance team. ."

Zhang Fang also followed up: "Yes, if the experts in our team hadn't discovered the anomaly here, I'm afraid we wouldn't have discovered the strangeness of this trunk. If this is really artificial, the other party doesn't need to do this, and In the process of our march, we have always taken a defensive formation, if this is a premeditated attack, then the target should also be the person at the center of the team, rather than attacking our sentry and exposing our identity.”

Ren Jiao asked back: "But if it wasn't artificial, it would be too difficult to explain, right? There must be a reason and a law for the development of things. Now our missing soldiers have become skeletons and sealed in trees. This is something everyone has seen. How should we understand this now? Can't believe this place is really haunted, can it?"

Lin Bao heard the discussion of the three, and asked speechlessly: "Since we can't figure out what's going on here, can't we just take a detour? Is it really necessary to argue here?"

Ren Jiao responded: "Of course it is necessary, we are here to explore the way for the follow-up migration work, and the route we have taken along the way is the one with the least radiation, which means that if we make an entry into the fog, The decision to live in the forest, we all have to take this road, if we don’t investigate the dangers along the way clearly and give warnings to those who come later, we will face even greater casualties!”

Shangguan Xiaohu has a straight temper and interjected impatiently: "Since you all don't know what the **** is wrong with this tree, let's just put it down and check it out?"

The biologist in the team reminded: "Our soldiers were silent when they disappeared before. If you want to destroy this tree, you have to be careful that it spreads toxic substances and does not get infected by things like wood thorns."

"Get out of the way!"

Shangguan Xiaohu shouted at the others, then chopped down at the root of the tree with an axe, took out a high-explosive grenade, and threw it down the tree hole.

"boom!"

The shock wave swelled, the tree stump in front was blown off by the grenade, and it fell straight to the ground.

After the tree fell, the soldiers began to guard the periphery, while Ning Zhe and others followed the biologist and walked to the front of the fallen tree.

Zhang Fang glanced at the inside of the tree hole and the traces on the surrounding ground with a flashlight, and said, "This tree is indeed natural, and the blood flowing from it is also mixed with some bone residues that have not completely dissolved. , indicating that before this, a creature has been dragged into this tree hole more than once."

"It seems that my previous guess was correct. The plants here are indeed like Venus flytraps, and they need to hunt by themselves. This is a carnivorous plant! And those thorns outside are actually its hunting nets! There is no Not a forest of thorns, but a forest of carnivorous plants, and the reason why these trunks look bare is to avoid animal nibbling, which is an evolved camouflage."

The biologist looked at the debris on the ground and moved the inner wall of the trunk with a branch: "If nothing else, there should be nectaries on the inner wall of this trunk, which are used to secrete digestive juice, and then decompose into liquid. Absorb! But even if these guys can prey on their own, how do they get their prey into the tree hole?"

At this moment, Ren Jiao stood at the blown-off tree root and shouted, "I have a discovery here!"

Because of the impact of the grenade, the position of the tree root has become a big pit. At this moment, in this pit, there is a white semi-circular nest that looks like a bird's nest and is about one meter in diameter. It is filled with dense yellow balls. , each of them is the size of a human head, and the dense ones look very disgusting.

When the biologist saw what was inside, his pupils shrank: "This is a spider egg! I understand, this plant has a symbiotic relationship with some kind of spider, look for it, there must be a hole in the ground here!"

"it's here!"

Ning Zhe looked down with a flashlight, and soon found a hole about half a meter in diameter, and there were many vines inside the hole~www.readwn.com~ It is the kind of thorns outside, to be precise, these thorns All are the roots of this kind of tree, they all spread out along the hole below, and the thorns in the ground are not the dry appearance outside.

"That's right, this is it!" The biologist quickly figured out the principle: "In order to protect their eggs from predators, spiders choose to build nests under such trees, and then dig channels, while the trees are It will extend the hunting vines from this pit and drag the prey back from here! That is to say, every tree that exists here means that there is a spider nesting below.

In other words, this spider should know how to cultivate this kind of tree. They will carry the seeds of this kind of tree to plant in a suitable place, and then use it as their own nest. If nothing else, they will provide prey to the tree, and then After the tree decomposes the prey, the spider larvae located under the tree can also eat the decomposed prey sap. "

Zhang Fang looked at the huge spider eggs below, frowned and asked, "If this is the case, we only see trees from the beginning to the end, where should the spiders be?"

"Crash!"

Before the botanist could respond, a rustling voice suddenly came from the thorns behind everyone.