Come from the Sea

Bang bang! The door of the truck cab shivered for several times before being kicked open from inside. A tall middle-aged man cursed and squeezed out of the car. He was wearing the same officer uniform and tall. Although he was not as strong as muscles, his steel-like body showed strength everywhere. Unlike the soldiers under his command, he was a white man, and the long-term wind and rain dripping made him a layer of bronze. He had an old revolver on his waist, but obviously, the more dangerous weapon came from the big hands with obvious joints.

The door on the other side of the cab was also pushed a few times before it was opened with difficulty. A young man as a leopard jumped out of it, with wild and unyielding faces. He did not wear any heat weapons, but just inserted two tropical tribal-style curved blade machetes into his waist. His brown skin and angular facial features showed that this was a mixed race.

The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes, first pulled out a cigar full of tropical charm, lit it, and took a deep breath. The young man took out his telescope and looked at the coconut forest covered by mist in the distance, and was still saying: "Kabby, you asked us to set off early in the morning and ran here for several hours. We wouldn't just look at this coconut forest everywhere... Oh! Oh my god! This... this... this..."

Kabi glared at him, grabbed the telescope and looked at the coconut forest. After a glance, half of the handmade cigar in his mouth fell silently to the ground. In his vision, the lush coconut forest was only bare trunks. Such a strange scene made him feel a deep chill.

The young man had already put away his slick attitude and asked, "Kaby, what's going on?"

Kabi put down the telescope and said, "Don't ask me, I don't know. Let the young men stay and be careful, Robio, follow me to the woods to see. Put your knife and don't be careless. There may be something hidden in it that is beyond our imagination!"

Robio looked at Kabi in surprise and asked, "Maybe it's just a group of wild beasts, there's no need to be so nervous, right? You... why do you say it's equivalent to a sixth-level guy!"

Kabi smiled, pulled out the revolver at his waist, waved it, and said, "You are becoming more and more able to speak. However, my old friend told me that if you are not careful, even if you are on the seventh level, the guy in the woods may bite off your neck!"

Robio shrugged, pulled out the machete from behind his waist, followed Kabi and walked towards the Coconut Grove.

When they entered the coconut forest, they immediately experienced the mysterious cold that enveloped the entire forest. Both of them stopped talking, and at the same time subconsciously took lighter steps, observed carefully, listened carefully, and never let go of every detail easily.

After a moment, the two filtered the general environment around them and looked at each other.

Kabi opened his mouth first, looked up at the top, and said, "All the leaves and coconuts disappeared...it looked obvious."

"I'll do it!" Robio jumped up and rushed to the top of the tree in a few strokes, which was even more agile than a monkey. He looked at the broken marks carefully, and then sniffed like a beast, saying: "From the traces, they should be biting marks left by humans or monkeys, but looking at the fractured section of the fibers, it is very powerful, not like a human, even if it strengthens its strength! Strangely, it did not leave any smell. There was no biting marks."

Kabi did not doubt Robio's judgment. In the jungle, Robio's instinct is even more terrifying than wild beasts. This young man who grew up in the jungle was also an expert in tracking and counter-tracking. He has the speed and power of the fifth level, as well as the same fifth level perception, and is completely synonymous with wild beasts.

"Getting?" Hearing Robio's judgment, Kabi couldn't help but frown. He looked around the dead forest of the sniper and took a deep breath. The air he inhaled seemed to be covered with a strong smell of death, and there was nothing else.

"What do you think is it that can gnaw such a large coconut forest so clean? Or do they take all the coconuts and leaves away?" Kabby asked. "And, how did they get up." He looked around, there was no trace of any creatures falling on the ground and on the trunks.

Robio, on the top of the tree, thought of this problem and his face changed immediately. For Robio, this creature that did not leave any traces or smells except the bite marks, is actually almost the same as invisible. And judging from the smoothness of the bite marks, if this bite is bitten on him, even the hardest bone will be bitten off by one bite. Robio suddenly jumped from one tree to another, looking at the bite marks on it, he followed the seaside and then jumped back and fell in front of Kabi. Robio's face was pale, and cold sweat kept coming out, saying: "The bite marks are very new, they should be within twelve hours. The oldest bite marks appear on the beach, and ours are all very new. If we only judge from these marks, then..."

Robio swallowed hard and said, "They are likely from the sea!"

"Come from the sea?!" The revolver in Kabi's hand made a sound of metal friction with a huge grip. This weapon, which is rough, but famously durable, is almost accidentally pinched into a piece of metal by Kabi.

There was silence in the forest, and Robio and Kabi were both silent. After a while, Kabi said, "Let's look for it again. There must be other traces, but we didn't find it. What do they want coconuts and leaves? Coconuts can be eaten, and leaves? Wait! Eat! Eat so many things, you have to pull out them?"

Robio and Kabby's eyes immediately turned to the ground. The beaches on this coastline were all coral sand, white and delicate, occasionally reflecting a little fluorescence similar to the refraction of light, which was the erosion of radiation. Soon, both of them were gathered on a small piece of black sand. In the large white sand, they were actually very eye-catching. However, their attention was attracted by tens of thousands of bare coconut trees, so they ignored these gravel-like things.

Robio squatted down, grabbed a handful of black sand in his hand, sniffed it carefully, and even dipped it a little with his fingers and put it in his mouth. Then he spat out all of it again.

"What kind of feces is this?" Kabby asked with a serious look on his face. He did not mean to make fun of him, but believed in Robio's judgment.

Robio shook his head and said with a puzzled look: "This is definitely not feces. It's full of charcoal ash, but it seems like it's burned, but why does this thing appear here?"

Kabi picked up a few grains of black sand, twisted them carefully, watched it turn into powder as it floated away, and shook his head and said, "It's much cleaner than burning, it's like the residue after being roasted at ultra-high temperatures. Let's take some back!"

After noticing this black sand, Robio and Kabi saw that there were scattered sand particles everywhere in the forest. Robio took out a pocket of animal skin, carefully took a small handful of black sand, and put it in a special bag. His movements seemed inconspicuous, but they could preserve the black sand completely without any other things. While picking up the black sand one by one, Robio was a little distracted and accidentally crushed one. He stared at the powdery ash on his fingers and suddenly asked: "Don't you think, this... all this is very similar to that prophetic poem? The doomsday comes from the sea, and all trees wither withered..."

Bang! Kabi's revolver fell to the ground, interrupting Robio's words.

"What nonsense! That's just a crazy thing written by a madman before his death!" Kabby rebuked, but he was always calm, his voice trembled, betraying his true thoughts.

Although Robio is a subordinate of Kabi, his relationship with Kabi is obviously closer than that of the superiors and subordinates. While cleaning up the black sand, he muttered unconvincedly: "The crazy words written by the madman? We all know that they are just words used to deceive those innocent guys! Who would really believe it, do you? If it's just some crazy words, then why do we go to this deserted beach once a month? If it's okay if it's only us, there are more than a dozen companies that are also carrying out the same task. So what do you say? The above are just hiding it from us!"

Kabi's face turned pale, but he didn't say anything. He just bent down and picked up the revolver, poured out the ordinary bullets in the drum, then took out five special bullets painted with eye-catching red bullets, and loaded them into the drum one by one. Kabi's solemnity was also stained with Robio. He put away the black sand, tied the bag tightly, and then looked deep into the coconut forest. Somehow, Robio, who was keen to sense, always felt that there was something invisible hidden in the dark, and was observing them coldly.

"This woods are really hell. I don't like this place, so I'd better leave early. Go back and hand over the report to bother those big shots!" Robio suggested.

Kabby nodded and walked out of the woods in silence.

The two soon returned to the place where the truck was parked. The thin and short local native soldiers were still on guard around the truck. The only engineer had just filled the truck with oil barrels. At this moment, they were opening the engine cover and doing routine maintenance inspections. The car had already passed by hundreds of thousands of kilometers and was walking through the jungle with extremely harsh road conditions and had to break down if they were accidentally.

It seems that everything is normal. The warriors are full of energy and their wolves stare at the surroundings. If there is any movement, they will pounce on them without hesitation and tear the prey to pieces. Their short bodies are full of explosive power. After targeted training, everyone can easily win against a lion. Moreover, they are extremely bloodthirsty, and often like to crack their opponents and swallow their flesh and blood directly. In this polluted world, the flesh and blood of creatures are rare supplies.

Robio's eyes swept over the soldiers, very satisfied with their condition. He whistled hard, and the soldiers scattered around ran back one after another, gathered in front of the truck, and the queue was very neat.

Everything looks normal except...one person is missing.
Chapter completed!