"So... the reason why we people were brought to this place is because we heard those three long and two short knocks on the door?"
Xia Yuxi secretly guessed, and after thinking about it, she felt that the truth of the matter might not be like this. After all, it was difficult to remember the knock on the door, and she didn't know what the knock on the door sounded like to others.
And compared to the reason for entering this place, she was more concerned about another thing at this time-that is, how to leave here.
Although she has always had a restless heart, and she often longed to venture into restricted areas in the past, she actually knew her own limitations, and now that she was in a similar place, she felt a little at a loss.
She only regretted that she didn't bring those charms she spent a lot of money to buy before she fell asleep, nor did she bring those two pistols.
Turning his head, he saw Lu Zhan deep in thought, the guy named Bai Mo was still looking around, and the one-eyed old man was hunched over, staring at the ground, wondering what he was thinking.
This was a rather strange team, no one spoke a word along the way.
In this way, everyone had their own thoughts and no fixed direction of travel, so they followed the old man and walked into the depths of the mist.
During this period, Lu Zhan took the opportunity to glance at the writing on Xia Yuxi's left hand, then checked the ice gloves and ice carving knife on her hand, and then calmly looked away.
This place does not seem to belong to humans, or in other words, everyone here is dead, and the corpses are sleeping in the countless red coffins in the hut, destroyed with the times, and have been silent for countless years.
There are strange and powerful creatures everywhere, with fangs and claws, biting and devouring. They use the most primitive physical strength to fight each other. There is no compromise between them, only life and death. It is horribly cruel.
Everyone couldn't help but think that if this black land didn't have some kind of power that could absorb blood, this place might have turned into a sea of blood long ago.
The largest creature they saw along the way was a giant ape, covering the sky and the sun, almost as high as a twenty-story building. It was squatting and grabbing prey, but at a certain moment, it was rolled up by a tentacle that suddenly popped out of the air.
It was dragged into the clouds and disappeared without a trace.
"There is actually an ecological chain in this place..."
After witnessing all this, Lu Zhan was shocked, and then thought of something deeper.
If there is any force that has studied the restricted area most deeply, it is undoubtedly the Forbidden Bureau.
When the Forbidden Elimination Bureau was first established, it originally existed to eliminate restricted areas. However, due to the chaos caused by the subsequent increase in the number of extraordinary beings, it became more responsible for maintaining order among extraordinary beings.
The Exclusion Bureau is under the unified jurisdiction of the Parliament. However, due to the scattered distribution of the restricted areas, it is difficult for many safe areas to be connected together. Some urban areas cannot even find an interoperable road. Therefore, as time goes by, each major urban area has become relatively independent.
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Although it is still nominally under the unified jurisdiction of the Parliament, the Bureau of Anti-Prohibition has basically evolved into the power of each city district, and they also hide their own secrets.
For example, with the appearance of the taboo sequence S-gravekeeper, Dongyang City did not report the matter to the parliament.
This is not because Dongyang City has selfish motives. In fact, any S-level taboo sequence will be given special attention, let alone an active taboo sequence like Bai Mo that can freely enter and exit the restricted area.
If possible, each city district would naturally want to take them for themselves, but of course, they have to bear the consequences.
The council was well aware of the separatist state of each urban area, but they did not take any measures. Important information between the urban areas was still flowing between each other, especially the research on the characteristics of the restricted area.
People will hide it privately.
Completely clearing the restricted areas and making the entire world a safe zone is the original intention of the establishment of the Exclusion Bureau.
The first consensus reached by the Parliament on the characteristics of the restricted area is that there is no complete ecological chain in the restricted area.
In the eyes of everyone, restricted areas are more like independent small worlds with specific rules that are not interconnected with each other. They are synonymous with abnormality, and there is no unique ecosystem in them.
Just like Buyu Village, no one knows what those monster-like villagers eat to survive.
But if they don't survive by eating and drinking, where do their energy supplies come from?
If this problem can be solved, perhaps the truth about the restricted area can be revealed.
"So this place is not a restricted area?" Lu Zhan thought to himself.
The creatures that appeared before were too terrifying, and some of them would frighten even him. With that kind of size and strength, unless the ability was really powerful, there would be no room for resistance.
This place seems to have always been like this, dark and gloomy, as if no time has passed. It is difficult to judge the time by the sky. Everyone walked like this, and finally saw a small house with a door ajar.
The one-eyed old man stopped first, tightened his military coat tightly, and said calmly: "The person is inside."
Lu Zhan retracted his thoughts and focused his gaze. Is there anyone alive here?
Xia Yuxi also became wary, but Bai Mo obviously had no similar concerns. He strode into the hut and let out an exclamation not long after.
Lu Zhan hesitated for a moment and rushed in quickly.
The light of a strong flashlight illuminated the small room. Just like what he had seen before, the room was covered with cobwebs and dust. There was a big red coffin standing in the middle of the room and a row of footprints around it.
Xia Yuxi also followed in. She was shocked at first when she saw the footprints, but quickly calmed down.
The footprints on the ground were not bare feet like the ones she had seen before, but the prints of some kind of sneakers.
Papermen can't wear sneakers, right?
she thought.
The person who exclaimed was Bai Mo. He was staring in one direction with a look of suspicion on his face.
"What's wrong?" Lu Zhan asked.
He looked in the direction Bai Mo was looking, and there was nothing there.
"I just saw someone."
"Where?"
Bai Mo looked strange, thought for a while and said: "He went out through the wall..."
"Going out through the wall?"
Lu Zhan's expression changed slightly, is he a capable person?
"That's right, I went out through the wall and ran really fast..."
Bai Mo shook his head and turned around to find Lu Zhan looking at him seriously.
"Why are you looking at me like this?" he asked.
Lu Zhan hesitated for a moment and asked, "Watching a person walk through a wall with your own eyes, don't you...don't you feel a little strange?"
Bai Mo said amusedly: "What's so strange?"
"Someone will walk through the wall in the dream... It makes sense, right?"
His tone was casual, but when he said the last word, his voice suddenly became extremely sinister, startling even Xia Yuxi who came closer.
Lu Zhan secretly thought it was not good, but Bai Mo's expression and tone quickly returned to normal. He turned to look at the coffin in the center of the room and suddenly frowned.
"Who did this? The coffin lid wasn't even closed. It's not professional at all..."
He stepped forward and was about to close the coffin completely, but found that the coffin shook suddenly, seeming to stop his movement.
Bai Mo froze on the spot.
...The coffin is moving?
Lu Zhan secretly thought something was wrong, so he quickly came over and closed the coffin. While holding the coffin board firmly to resist the force coming from inside, he said, "Close it and leave. Let's go find the man who walked through the wall."
"But the coffin has moved, and there is someone inside."
"Stop joking, how could there be someone inside?" Lu Zhan said with an awkward smile.
"How is it impossible?" Bai Mo gave him a strange look, "Isn't it normal to have a dead person lying in the coffin?"
Lu Zhan was startled: "That's true..."
He had checked many coffins before and found no one inside, but he had forgotten this.
…Shouldn’t the dead person be lying in the coffin?
As he thought this, Bai Mo had already opened the coffin.