The men disappeared into the jungle one after another, and silence returned to all around us.

Well......

What those people just said was actually a reassuring thing to me, because it showed that not only were there very few search parties nearby, but most of them didn't dare to go deep into this place at all.

The most dangerous place is the safest place, which is exactly what we are in.

I asked everyone to continue in the same formation as they had just started to move closer to the place where the white mist erupted, and at the same time, I tried to fully open my five senses......

I raised my senses of sight, hearing, and smell to the highest level of vigilance, and everything in my vicinity could not escape my eyes.

As we got closer, we could get a real sense of the eerie nature of this no-man's land, which was at the lowest end of several nearby mountain ranges, almost equivalent to a small hollow valley.

The closer we got, the heavier the chill became, and when we finally got to the edge, I felt like I was shivering.

However...... This kind of shaking is not a shiver brought by the cold, but a cold breath that hits people's hearts, a sensory experience that has nothing to do with the coldness of the body.

"Damn! What the hell is going on here!" Liu Yong scolded: "It doesn't seem to be the same as the Holy Maiden Peak!"

Needless to say Liu Yong, I have already felt it myself, although the aura here seems to be somewhat similar to the Holy Maiden Peak at first glance, but the longer I am in it, the more I can feel that in addition to those familiar chills, there are more strange atmospheres here, but let me express it concretely, I can't express it.

Well...... To put it simply......

It gives me the feeling that I'm being haunted!

I'm a bit of a loser myself, and if there's something here that I've never seen before, then everything we do next will have to be improvised.

I asked everyone to prepare the three main weapons that they came with when they came: the Gravel Gun, the Psionic Gun, and the Gu Musket Gun, so that they could be prepared against all kinds of threats, and then let Dawn and Gochai continue to conduct meticulous reconnaissance on the ground, trying not to miss the slightest clue.

After walking about fifty or sixty meters, we suddenly noticed that the trees in the forest had also changed.

The woodland is a typical subarctic coniferous forest, with few tree species, mostly fir, larch, pine and other tall, cold-tolerant trees, which still retain the most common green color of trees despite being in cold regions.

But from now on, all the trees in the forest ahead that could be seen were dead.

This is the deadwood forest......

There is no life at all, let alone birds and beasts, and even a single insect can't be heard.

It was here that we found a second snow leopard footprint.

This footprint is exactly the same size and depth as before, it must still be stepped on by the ice flower, but unfortunately this frozen ground shape is really difficult to leave more marks, we searched around the area again, but still couldn't find any other footprints.

But we have no way back now, so we can only bite the bullet and continue to go deeper.

Everyone was very tacit, kept absolutely quiet, and now even a pin could be heard when it landed.

Strange to say, it stands to reason that in such a quiet environment, I should easily hear the noise on the outskirts of this no-man's land, such as the movements of the other wanderers searching for us in the nearby woodland, which I should have heard clearly, but now they are not there.

This gave me a very bad premonition, as if we were imprisoned in a rift in time that we could not break through.

And the others obviously felt that way, and Amy whispered to me that she felt like she was isolated.

The dead silence grew more and more frightening as we went deeper, and I could now even hear the heartbeats of others.

However, despite the extreme depression, I still maintained a high level of clarity, and I had gone about half a kilometer from the edge of the no-man's land we had just stepped into, and according to the area I had seen from the observation platform at the summit, we had now crossed a third of the distance of the no-man's land.

So far we had not encountered any danger, so I began to cheer up the people and tell them to take courage, not to ask them to fight or anything, but to keep them highly alert to the dangers around them.

After all, I'm still prone to missing out on my own.

It turned out that I was right, and it wasn't long before Dawn noticed something I hadn't noticed, and Dawn said that a strange smell was beginning to fill the air in the woods.

The smell is not bloody, it is light, and it should be a little bit, which is why most of us don't notice it in the first place.

How so...... The smell is somewhat similar to the herbic smell that is unique to us.

The smell of herbs on our bodies actually came from the catalyst of the Gu worm virus, and when we returned to the mainland, I injected the catalyst into other people one after another, causing them to have this smell to varying degrees.

But as time went by, the fusion between everyone and the Gu worm virus became more and more perfect, so this taste gradually disappeared, but I didn't expect it to appear here again.

As soon as we noticed the smell, the concentration of the smell began to climb rapidly, and soon I felt like I was surrounded by these smells.

"Dawn!" I said, holding my throat, "can you ...... Tell where the smell comes from?"

Actually, I wanted to rely on myself to find out the source, but after a long time of discerning, I found that I couldn't find it, and it felt like these smells appeared around us out of thin air.

However, Dawn couldn't find it either, and he crawled down like a hound, sniffing at our feet, and finally could only shake his head to show that he was puzzled.

At this time, the other people also noticed that this smell was the same as the smell that appeared on our bodies before, and everyone began to wonder if there were some people hiding in this no-man's land who had just been injected with the catalyst of the Gu worm virus.

But that's not right, because the smell is very strong now, and by our previous standards, how many people would it take to achieve such a concentration of smell?

What's more, we can't even see a ghost shadow around us!

Say what...... Whatever comes......

I had just thought of this, when I suddenly noticed something black like smoke coming out from under a fir tree not far ahead, and upon closer inspection, I saw that it was actually a child's apparition!

The child's bald head was particularly bright in the moonlight, but the rest of his body was very illusory, and half of his body was suspended above the frozen ground, which looked very strange.

I've seen ghosts like this before, the ghost kids I met when I was walking in the basement with children like Yabu and Zaka.

Directions......

Could it be ......

The ghost that appeared this time is also to give me some guidance?

Based on my previous experience, no one else should be able to see this ghost.

Sure enough, when I pointed in that direction, everyone else shook their heads and said that they couldn't see anything, and Liu Yong actually thought I was deliberately scaring him, and told me to stop joking.

I scolded him and told him to shut up, and then I said with a serious expression: "Listen, everyone! I'm not kidding!

With that, I leaned over to the ghost, my eyes fixed on the ghost child, trying to see his facial expression. However, this ghost boy is now a phantom shadow except for the moonlight on his head, not to mention his expression, I can't even see his facial features clearly, and it feels as if his body is wrapped in a thick and strange gas, so that the whole body is deformed by the refraction of the light.

The others followed me with a blind look, and now that I was carrying the life of a cadre, I naturally did not dare to slack off, and as I walked forward, I also began to pay attention to whether there were any new ghosts nearby.

When I approached the first ghost child about ten meters away, the ghost appeared to spiral into the sky, and then disappeared into a puff of black smoke, and I rushed forward to check, and found that there was only a puddle of traces on the ground that looked like it had been burned by fire.

This trace can be seen by other people, and after Chenxi and Gechai checked it successively, they all said that this was the burn mark left by an ordinary open flame, and looking at the location and size of the burn mark, there is a high probability that it was left by burning the fire for cooking.

Soon Amy found some food scraps next to the tree, and Gochai was sure that this trace would not appear for more than half a day, which means that there are actually people in this "no man's land" area now.

Since he wants to eat, he won't be a ghost.

Convinced of this, I felt a little lighter, but the ease quickly shattered the second ghost.

Because......

The form of the second ghost shadow turned directly into the appearance of the moon spirit!

This time, the ghost shadow continued to go about fifty meters deep into the no-man's land from where I was standing now, and the figure of the moon spirit was still suspended in mid-air like the first ghost child, but her clarity was much higher than that ghost child, and it could be called the whole picture of herself.

But this is also what scares me the most, the lifelike face of the moon spirit now looks extremely hideous, and its gaze is like a sharp sword directly stabbing at me.

The others still couldn't see it, but I didn't dare tell them what I had seen, and I just continued to pretend to be calm and approached the moon spirit's figure.

Soon I heard the subtle murmur of the moon spirit in my ears: "Xiao Chen...... Close to me...... Follow me...... Your destiny is much more than that...... There are many more missions for you to accomplish......"

At the same time, the other people began to have puzzled expressions on their faces, I thought they had also heard the voice of the moon spirit, but when I inquired, I found that all the others heard was a chaotic sound, not a talking sound at all, but more like a noisy noise.

This made me even more uneasy, because it seemed to show that the ghost of the moon spirit in front of me had a self-ideology, otherwise how could it be possible to treat me differently?

I continued to get closer to her, and when I was also close to less than ten meters, the moon spirit's figure disappeared with it.

This time, there were no burn marks left by the fire on the ground where she was, but there were a few more blood stains, which were hidden in the frozen ground, and they should have been frozen by the cold environment before they could dissipate.

Fire Marks...... Bloodstain......

It seems to indicate that not only are people cooking on fires, but there are also people who have been hurt.

Then came the third ghost.

Although I had expected it, I was still frightened by the apparition of the moon dust.

If the figure of the moon spirit just now was only infinitely close to reality, then now the figure of the moon dust is completely "realistic...... If it weren't for the fact that the others still couldn't see it, I could almost have concluded that this was Yuechen herself.

She didn't hover in mid-air like the first two ghosts, but her feet were firmly on the ground, and she looked at me with an eerie smile on her face.

"Moon dust ......," I blurted out.

This sound almost scared Liu Yong and Zhao Tian to death, both of them hid behind me like a ghost, Liu Yong asked where Yuechen was with a thief's eyebrows.

I never knew that Liu Yong was so afraid of Yuechen, because after all, she had never met Yuechen at all.

I'm afraid that this guy had already heard of Yuechen's "glorious deeds" when he was in Jiuhe City.

Zhao Tian's fear was "justified", because the group of wanderers he was in was directly attacked by Yue Chen.

Now, I didn't think I needed to continue to hide it, so I told everyone the truth that I had seen the phantoms of the moon spirit and the moon dust, so that everyone cheered up.

Then Amy reminded me of a crucial point.

I already knew that Moon Spirit divided her spiritual energy into many carriers, the purpose of which was to let herself survive under the umbrella of the Blue Bird Company and the Salvation Army and other related forces, and now that she has appeared in this no-man's land, could it be because one of the carriers exists here.

It's still quite possible, and while I can't explain the reason for the other two ghosts, it at least shows me a way.

The carrier must be someone related to the Gu worm virus, and we have seen the cooking fire and blood stains before, which means that the person who left these traces is most likely one of the carriers planted by the moon spirit.