Little brat, I am your real father!

Zhang Yanliang on the side deployed his water ability at the moment of the explosion, so he was not so embarrassed compared to them.The air was filled with the pungent smell of the explosion, and the dead branches licked by the flames were crackling and burning.

Zhang Yanliang's face was ugly, "The explosion is near us, no good, the forest is dry, it will burn us all to death here."

As soon as he finished speaking, he rushed to the explosion site, Xiao Zaizi and Ye Chengqing followed closely behind, Mu Chengrui endured the concussion and dizziness caused by the explosion shock wave, and walked last.

Unexpectedly, the fire did not burn all the dead trees. After the fire spread for about an hour, except for the center of the explosion, the small fires around them were quickly extinguished.Zhang Yanliang gasped, knelt down and touched the dry tree road under his feet with his hands, which were actually covered with moss.

"It's amazing. We said before that this place is dry, without any fungi and those tiny microorganisms, but once a forest fire breaks out, the land becomes very wet in an instant, and even moss grows.

"Knowing this makes me think? It's as if the forest has a complete response system that can quickly deal with any emergency, just like the fire alarms in our public buildings. Could it be that intelligent creatures have really appeared here?"

It would be a terrible thing if these trees had the same intelligence as humans, but before the end of the world, there were creatures with some survival intelligence. Now that humans have evolved for some reason, these animals and plants should also evolve accordingly.But just because of this point of evolution, it is too early to conclude that intelligent creatures will appear.

They continued to run towards the center of the explosion, and as they got closer to the center of the explosion, they soon found Professor Li and their shadows.Mu Chengrui was very happy, and was about to go forward to join them but was stopped by the boy.Mu Chengrui expressed doubts, but found that they were all looking at Professor Li and his group with serious expressions.

Mu Chengrui took a closer look and almost cried out.Insects are everywhere, rolling in the soil, climbing on trees, and making nets with silk threads. All the insects that can be seen in the wild are concentrated around Professor Li and them.What is even more puzzling is that there are some big caterpillars. The big meat worms rushed into the fire one after another. The fire became smaller and smaller, but a large pile of charred insect corpses appeared in the fire. The smell of meat.

Mu Chengrui thought of a dish he had eaten before, the method was to wrap the meat with green vegetable leaves, and the steamed meat would have the fragrance of green vegetables.Looking back on it now, he's disgusted.

"I don't understand this forest more and more now. I thought it was because a certain species in the forest developed and evolved in one direction, and it was exclusive to other species. That's why we can't see the shadow of other creatures. But now , What’s going on here?” Zhang Yanliang pointed to the worms that were still committing suicide and said, “Look at these worms, they reacted so extremely in order to put out the fire. This is a very strange thing in the biological world.”

"Maybe these bugs are controlled by humans."

"It's possible, and not only bugs, but also those fast-moving half-human, half-animal things we encountered before."

"But what do we do now?"

Zhang Yanliang pondered for a while, "Rescue them first, I always feel that these things don't want our lives, otherwise we would have no bones left."

The first thing Zhang Yanliang had to do was to put out the fire. He called up the water in the space, and quickly extinguished the fire in the forest caused by the explosion.Qin Muzhou, Ye Chengqing, and Mu Chengrui stood vigilant to prevent insects from attacking them after the fire was extinguished.But they were too worried about everything. After the fire was extinguished, the bugs slowly faded away like a tide.After confirming that there were no bugs nearby, Mu Chengrui and the others joined Professor Li and the others.

Chief Lin and the others were not seen in the team, only a few soldiers, and about 100 students and teachers.Tong Tong was in the team, but did not see Qin Molin.

Mu Chengrui asked them what was going on, and Professor Li said that they were attacked by monsters that day, and several classmates were taken away by them.Chief Lin took some of his classmates to chase after him, and the others stayed where they were, but not long after Chief Lin and the others left, those monsters appeared again. Professor Li had no choice but to take them out of the open space together, towards the direction Chief Lin left Go and see if you can meet them on the way.As a result, no one encountered it, but a lot of bugs.Seeing the bugs, someone detonated the bomb in fear, that's why the situation happened just now.

The two sides briefly talked about their respective experiences after they separated, but Professor Li was not interested in what happened to them at the edge of the forest, and even wanted to expose it.Just talk about what to do next, whether to continue to find Chief Lin and the others, or find an open space to repair, or simply go directly to the center of the forest to see where these dead tree roads will take them.

Zhang Yanliang looked worried.

"Professor Li, why don't you tell us about Yaobeilin. It's come to this point, do you still want to just fool around like this?"

Professor Li was silent for a while, looking at him. "What else do you want to know, the answer is obvious, isn't it? We can't get out."

"Aren't you willing to stay here for the rest of your life? Even if you don't want to go out, what about these students? Do they have to be trapped here to die? I hope you can tell me everything you know, maybe we can find a way out together. Even if I really can't get out, I don't want to be kept in the dark."

There was silence, and after a long time, Professor Li sighed.

"Okay." Professor Li took off his glasses and wiped them on the corner of his clothes, then put them on again. "Before entering the forest, I made an oath to let some things be brought into the coffin with my old man. I also had the urge to tell Chief Lin or Wu Yong." Professor Li looked at it as he spoke. A glance at the assistant standing aside. "I know they have a lot of doubts in their hearts, but because they have some respect for me, they didn't persecute me. I always thought, when the time is right, I will naturally tell them all the facts I know. It's just that I didn't expect it to be like this The environment forced me to tell the secrets I knew."

"Professor..." Wu Yong called softly, but Professor Li stretched out his hand to indicate that he was fine.

“I had a close friend who had known each other for many years and we had studied at the same school and taught at the same school. It was just that we taught in different departments, one in biology and the other in history. He quit Because of the teaching work, we separated. We didn’t have much contact, but the relationship has always been very good. Even if we haven’t seen each other for many years, we can chat happily. I have been doing my own research work, but he has no news .Occasionally, when I contacted him, he talked about things that happened in the past, but he didn't mention anything about what he was doing. words.

"I majored in biology, but I am also very interested in history, because he knows a lot of colder knowledge in history. And words like 'Xian Minguo' are things I have never found in historical books, and I I believe that he is not a slip of the tongue, because in my impression he has always been a more rigorous scholar, some uncertain nouns he will go home to find information and look up the dictionary until he understands the problem. If he says something wrong, he will Corrected in next conversation. But he didn't say anything about the word 'Xian Minguo'.

"Out of curiosity, I asked him about the 'First Republic of China'. He casually said that it was a word made up by a few history fellows he knew. Of course I didn't believe it, but I didn't want to get to the bottom of it. But this word is like a nightmare. , constantly beckoning me to understand.

"I checked my friend's location according to his IP address, and found that he was in a location close to Hongying City. I also have friends in Hongying City. I asked a little bit, but I didn't find out which institution my friend is a visiting professor. Kind of. Later, I don’t know who mentioned it to me, saying that there is a research station in the primeval forest in Hongying City, and I saw a friend there.

"Actually, when I heard that my friend might be a researcher at this research station, I thought about giving up understanding about the 'Xian Minguo'. I think Mayor Mu knows this best. The research station next to Yaobei Forest has always been a mystery. No one knows how many years the station was built, only that it was there a long time ago, and it was a minefield. Few people talked about it, and everyone kept silent.

"But I was like a demon at that time. I didn't care about anything. A car came to Hongying City and called my friend. At that time, we hadn't seen each other for more than ten years. My friend was very happy to see me .We drank late into the night in a small restaurant.

"I did this intentionally at the time, because I knew that my friend had a poor capacity for drinking, would get drunk when he drank, and would talk about everything. So I took advantage of that time to ask my friend about the 'Xian Minguo'.

"He was talking drunk, incoherent and incoherent, but even so, I knew something extraordinary in bits and pieces.

"It turns out that 'Xian Minguo' does not exist in history, at least it is not recorded in the history books we know. It can be regarded as existing long ago, or it can be said that it is a term that was invented in recent years. When it comes to it Origin, I have to talk about the Yaobeilin.

"Yaobei Forest is also called the Forest of No Return. Everyone in the vicinity of Yaobei Forest knows that it is a labyrinth forest with complex terrain. Many people entered it and never came back. It was funded by the state decades ago and opened up in the forest. I took a tourist route. When I just graduated, I walked that road and gained a lot. Later, because of work and family reasons, I never came again.