People are watching American TV shows, and they are also watching American-style iaido.

All employees immediately picked up their submachine guns, pointed them in all directions, and became alert.

It has to be said, this scene is truly exhilarating.

Ding Ze lit a cigarette and silently and carefully observed his surroundings... Upon looking around, he was confronted with an extremely bizarre situation.

All those mummies they killed at the bottom of this pit that day have vanished without a trace!

That's absolutely outrageous!

Ding Ze was certain that the mummies had been completely destroyed and could no longer move... So, where did the bodies go?

“Something’s not right,” Ding Ze immediately said, telling Abruzzi and Eddie Thomas about the discovery. “Either the bodies have mysteriously come back to life, or someone came and took them away.”

After saying that, Ding Ze didn't waste any time and immediately ordered some of the employees to carefully inspect the rock walls around the pit.

Those mummies popped out of the rock face that day. If they really came back to life, they might go back into the rock face.

As for how this was done, Ding Zezhen had no answer.

Upon receiving the order, the employees sprang into action.

Eddie Thomas looked around at the ground with a serious expression. "Could it be that the cannibal tribe came here and took the mummies away?"

Ding Ze had actually considered this possibility, but he couldn't figure out why. "Why?"

Eddie Thomas couldn't think of anything for the moment and remained silent.

Ding Ze didn't ask any more questions. After a moment's thought, he lifted his foot and walked towards the entrance leading further down.

Upon reaching the entrance, Ding Ze looked down.

Within the area illuminated by the lights, nothing seemed to have changed; it was exactly the same as when they left.

This is not surprising, after all, the stone steps below are very long and winding, and the explosion that day may not have affected this section of the steps.

After watching for a while, Ding Ze casually found a place to sit down, silently smoking and thinking, while waiting for the results of his employees' search.

Time flies.

The search has yielded results.

There was nothing unusual in the surrounding rock walls, so the mummies shouldn't have gone back into the rock walls... Therefore, the most likely explanation is that someone took the mummies away.

This is very interesting!

why?

Those mummies were not only riddled with bullet holes, but none of them were intact... What use would they be if we took them away?

Unable to figure it out, Ding Ze had no choice but to set aside his doubts for the time being. He then stubbed out his cigarette, put on his gas mask, and said, "Alright, let's go down."

Swish swish.

The group of over a hundred people decisively and efficiently put on their gas masks.

Immediately, the heavily armed employees, under the captain's command, split into two teams. One team went first and crawled into the entrance, while the other team followed behind, protecting Ding Ze and his two companions in the middle.

Without saying a word, the group moved downwards step by step.

Nothing happened along the way.

The group successfully reached the end of the stone steps and saw the ancient city, which was almost half destroyed by the bomb, as well as that eerie tree...

Ding Ze saw it at a glance, and instantly, he froze in his tracks, genuinely shocked.

The reason is simple!

That big tree, damn it, not only didn't fall, it still stood firmly, and it looked completely undamaged!

How is this possible?

You should know that they had circled the tree that day and placed a lot of explosives... and the explosives did indeed detonate successfully, otherwise half of the ancient city wouldn't have been blown up.

"What on earth is going on in this godforsaken place?" Ding Ze muttered to himself, genuinely bewildered. Then, he addressed his employees, "Everyone be on high alert; this place might be dangerous."

In fact, Ding Ze didn't even need to mention it; the employees were already on edge, ready to open fire at any moment.

Not long after.

The group moved slowly forward, entering the first half of the ancient city that had not been destroyed by bombing.

The first half remained largely unchanged.

Ding Ze thought for a moment. Although he knew there shouldn't be any strange people in the houses on either side, he still sent a few employees in to check to make sure.

The houses on both sides were indeed empty, and there was nothing strange about them.

The group continued moving.

The strange thing has finally happened.

Ding Ze stopped and frowned as he looked at the rubble on the ground. "I'm sure we eliminated a lot of those weirdos here that day."

"The body seems to be missing as well."

"What's even stranger is that those bodies should have been buried under the rubble..."

John and Eddie Thomas immediately understood Ding Ze's meaning after hearing this.

From here onwards, all that's ahead is rubble... The corpses of those strange people are buried under the rubble. Who took those corpses away without moving the rubble?

"Keep going and search carefully," Ding Zezhen was almost bewildered by the strange situation here. After thinking for two seconds, he decisively gave the order.

It didn't take too long.

As the group left the ancient city, a bizarre and unsettling outcome was laid out before them.

No bodies found!

Not a single one!

This is unreasonable; it simply doesn't make sense... At least, it's absolutely impossible to explain with reasonable justification.

“I now strongly suspect that neither the mummies above nor the strange people here are real people, but some kind of creature,” Ding Ze said after a few seconds of silent thought.

“Actually, there’s another possibility,” Eddie Thomas suddenly looked at Ding Ze and said, “You experienced a very real hallucination. Although I haven’t experienced it myself, I’ve heard about it.”

Hallucination?

Ding Ze did not immediately dismiss the possibility, but instead began to think about it.

The truth is, if we remove the existence of the girl Carly and explain it as a huge illusion, it does make sense.

After all, that black mist was indeed very strange, and its purpose was unclear.

However, there's also the fact that the girl, Carly, is a real person...

"Then how do you explain the girl Carly? Was it also an illusion?" Ding Ze asked Eddie Thomas.

“Perhaps only the girl is real,” Eddie Thomas said.

This argument is far-fetched.

Ding Ze shook his head. "I don't think it's a hallucination... Let's assume that it wasn't someone who moved the bodies away, but rather that the bodies, like some kind of plant, quickly dried up and turned to ashes once they died... Then the source must be that big tree!"

"Let's go, I want to see what that big tree is all about!"

Ding Ze got excited.

no way.

With so many strange questions awaiting explanation, he wasn't one to accept things without answers.

He needs to figure this out! (End of Chapter)

Chapter 418 Returning to America, There's Still a Long Way to Go

Amazon rainforest, the Black Barrier tribe, at the end of an underground ancient city.

Ding Ze and his group of over a hundred men, fully armed and with ample firepower, arrived at the large black tree.

Upon closer inspection, aside from the disappearance of the eerie mummies, the large black tree was exactly the same as the one he had seen the last time he came here, without any changes...

Even the bullet holes in the tree have disappeared.

Ding Ze couldn't help but frown, feeling that this was just too bizarre and hard to understand.

After observing in silence for a short while, Ding Ze didn't waste any time and immediately gave instructions. He ordered several employees to climb the tree and check the condition of the canopy, and then ordered the remaining employees to quickly set up lights to completely illuminate the area.

“Take photos of every inch of this place. I want to see what’s going on here!” Ding Ze said.

The employees didn't dare to hesitate and immediately carried out the order.

Meanwhile, Eddie Thomas, who was very interested in this place and this black tree, focused intently on his research and experiments.

Time flew by, one hour, two hours, three hours...

Eddie Thomas squatted beside the tree roots, staring intently for a long time. Suddenly, he turned to Ding Ze and said, "Mr. Ding, I suspect there's a huge space down there."

Over the past three hours, more than a hundred employees have thoroughly inspected every inch of this place, but have not found any secret passages or anything like that.

Therefore, Ding Ze was genuinely surprised to hear this. "What do you mean?"

Eddie Thomas blinked. "I don't think this tree was transplanted from somewhere else. If it was, it grew out of the ground."

"There must be something very strange underground for it to grow to such a size and possess such a bizarre regenerative ability."