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The platform on top of the workstations is a circular pool-like structure.

Probably considering the safety of the equipment in use, the surroundings of the platform are not metal railings, but walls nearly two meters high.A folding canopy is also installed on the edge of the platform in case of extreme weather.

At this moment, the monitoring equipment with the silver casing has been tilted, and many places have been deformed by the impact, and even the place where the machine is connected to the foundation is broken. above.There are also some small components scattered on the ground.

Fortunately, there is no such thing as corpse blood.

Qingqiu landed on the fence very cautiously, he shrugged his nose towards the machine, and then jumped down carefully.

Ming Xia was about to go down to the ground, but was stopped by Qingqiu, "Wait a minute. Don't move, something is wrong here."

Qingqiu turned his head back and forth, as if he was catching the subtle smell that flickered in the air.

"Something's wrong. There's something here..."

He carefully circled the platform with Ming Xia on his back, except for a few taupe feathers mixed in a pile of electronic component fragments, he found no traces of any living creatures.

At the corner of the platform is a two-meter-square stairway. The staircase winds down. Standing on the platform and looking down, you can only see a curved staircase.

It hadn't been cleaned for a while, and the steps had been covered with a thin layer of dust. Qingqiu tentatively took two steps down the steps, and saw a few more feathers in the corner of the stairs.

"It seems that some birds have indeed appeared. Looking at the length of the feathers, the size of this bird must be quite large."

Qingqiu comforted him, "I have opened the energy barrier. No matter what monsters are hiding here, as long as they have the intention of attacking us, they can block them back. Don't worry."

Ming Xia touched his ear to express his gratitude.

Ming Xia hesitated whether to pick up a few feathers and take them back for inspection.But now the situation is unclear, and Qingqiu also told him not to move around for the time being.He didn't want to cause any trouble for Qingqiu.

Ming Xia decided to pick it up when he returned.Anyway, there are no other living things here, and there is no wind, and the feathers will not float to other places in a short time.

The stairwell is quite spacious, and Qingqiu didn't feel cramped when walking down with Ming Xia on his back.It's just that the surroundings are quiet, there is no sound at all, which makes people a little nervous.

Qingqiu stopped when he reached the corner of the stairs.

Below their feet, the stairs ended with two metal doors.The metal door seemed to have been squeezed by some kind of force, causing both doors to deform and hang crookedly on the door frame.

Looking in from the half-open door, there is a slightly messy ground, and a brown-black thing sticking out from behind the door.

At first, Ming Xia thought that the brown-black thing was an old sweater dropped by someone.But after looking at it for a while, it seemed to be the body of some kind of bird.From the angle of the stairwell, what they saw was the back of the bird and half of its wings.The feathers on the wings spread sparsely around it, lifeless.

"Dead? No accomplices?"

"Dead," Qingqiu said with certainty, "There are no other birds."

The instigator is dead, and there are no other accomplices, why is it necessary for the staff to withdraw from Peak One?Did the bird attacking here set some kind of trap here?

Ming Xia felt that the failure of the communicator would really delay things.

"There are no other birds, and there are no other living things," Qingqiu said affirmatively, "But something is still wrong here. There is a kind of..."

Qingqiu sensitively sensed that there was something here, although he didn't see anything, but there was indeed something here.And after they came in, this thing came to life.

He would not mistake the slightly vibrating energy fluctuations that belonged to monsters.

Qingqiu made a decisive decision, "Let's go out first!"

Before he finished speaking, the gray-brown bird carcass on the ground suddenly moved.Qingqiu was looking at it nervously, so naturally he noticed it immediately.It flew up from the stairs all of a sudden, reminding Ming Xia nervously, "It's a scam... a corpse!"

Ming Xia was also taken aback by the bird corpse, but before he could take a closer look, Qing Qiu had already turned around in mid-air, and rushed towards the stairs of the platform without looking back.

The sudden rapid flight of the nine-tailed fox made Ming Xia feel dizzy, he hugged Qingqiu's neck tightly, afraid that he would be thrown off if he was not careful.

The shell of the workstation is cylindrical, and the stairs are built against the wall, which is naturally curved.This caused Ming Xia not to look back deliberately, but as the angle changed as they moved forward, he turned his head slightly and saw the two metal doors behind him that were squeezed and deformed.

Ming Xia shuddered and almost fell from Qingqiu's back.He grabbed the hair on Qingqiu's neck, and his voice was short and sharp that he didn't notice, "Quick! Quick! Quick!"

In just the blink of an eye, the two metal doors were already filled with a ball of taupe wool.The ball of wool was entwined with countless taupe filaments, which squirmed and chased them along the stairs like tentacles in the direction they left.Their speed is too fast, there are so many of them, and they are a big black mass, which makes one's scalp tingle just looking at them.

Ming Xia couldn't see what it was at all, it looked like countless entangled bugs, or like a monster growing countless tentacles.

The stairs down from the platform are less than 20 meters. Under normal circumstances, let alone Qingqiu flying up, it would not take long for a normal human being to walk up.

But instead of rushing out of the stairwell, they stopped in mid-air.

"Qingqiu?"

Qingqiu didn't move.

Ming Xia turned her head to look at his face, only to find that his eyes were slightly closed.

He fell asleep.

Ming Xia's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly felt that the light in the stairwell had dimmed.He looked up, and saw many strands of tentacles popping up from the hole at some point, they waved, probed, entangled in mid-air, and then began to spread towards the depths of the stairwell.

On the surrounding walls, countless strange thin lines suddenly appeared.They stretched out their slender tentacles tremblingly, quickly extending in all directions along the walls, and soon weaved a large net on the four walls.

And the net continues to thicken.

They were surrounded.

When Liu Enzheng led his people to the north bank of the Moon River, the sky had already darkened.

There is still a touch of orange sunset glow in the sky, but the mountains and forests in the distance have been immersed in darkness.Occasionally, there were a few calls of wild animals, which added a bit of eerie feeling to this wild picture scroll.

As soon as Liu Enzheng met, he gave Nan Jiang a big hug. The two of them beat each other's shoulders until the people around couldn't stand it anymore.

Liu Enzheng was one year younger than Nanjiang, a tall and big northern boy, who spoke and acted simply.

"You don't know how worried I am all this way," Liu Enzheng shook Nanjiang's shoulders, with a lingering expression on his face, "I'm afraid you can't wait and run away first. It's getting dark now, and everywhere is chaotic. If you run, everyone will die."

Looking in the direction of Peak No. [-], Nan Jiang pinched the center of his brows wearily, "It would be great if I knew the situation of Peak No. [-] sooner. Even if I only know the general idea...I'm worried that the two of them will be trapped inside."

Ming Xia's weapons are suitable for long-distance combat. If they are trapped inside the workstation, they will have no chance to use them at all.As for Qingqiu...

Nan Jiang found that he didn't know Qingqiu's true strength.Needless to say, it used to be a mynah, but after it regained its human form, there were not many opportunities for him to use it in battle.So much so that when they think of Qingqiu, they still have the impression of a cute and cute little toy.It wasn't until this meeting that Qingqiu's performance surprised them a bit.

To be honest, how could the nine-tailed fox on Qingqiu Mountain only be cute.Moreover, Nanjiang still had confidence in Qingqiu's character and his relationship with Mingxia.Qingqiu will never abandon Ming Xia when he is in danger, or sit back and watch Ming Xia fall into danger.

As long as they can get out of trouble, it must be for both of them.

"Who would have known earlier, so there is no need to talk nonsense. What are you going to do now?"

Nan Jiang said: "Peak No. [-] must be taken down. And the timing is just right. You also heard that people like Yiya didn't show up?"

Liu Enzheng nodded.

"No matter what big event they are going to do, it is an opportunity for us." Nanjiang looked at the distance of No. [-] Peak, which was becoming more and more blurred in the twilight, "The monsters know that No. [-] Peak is important to us, once they separate , will definitely prevent us from taking back Peak One."

Liu Enzheng nodded, "It is indeed an opportunity. I contacted Supply Station No. [-] on the way here. Do you know who is there?"

Before Nanjiang could reply, he said excitedly, "The people from the fifth team just arrived this afternoon!"

Nan Jiang felt a lot relieved.

Qingqiu and Mingxia haven't come back yet, and no one knows how the No. [-] Peak's defense is. It's just that the two teams of him and Liu Enzheng are a little bit stretched.With the addition of five teams, it is enough to be confident.

The action team of the Yaozhou branch currently has six teams. The first team was stationed at the No. [-] peak before. Almost all of them were injured during the withdrawal from the No. [-] peak. Now they have been withdrawn to the branch hospital to recuperate.

The three teams were sent to the North Peak of Leather Face Mountain and have been on mission.Details are unknown.

The fourth team and the fifth team are purely human teams, and all members are selected from the army.

The fourth team cooperated with the second team to fight. They started from the No. [-] supply station facing the monkey group, fought with the snow wolf, Zhu Huai and the skeleton soldiers all the way, and retreated to the Moon River. The wounded passed through Shilin and withdrew to the branch with the assistance of Liu Enzheng.

Zhou Liang, the captain of the sixth team, is currently sitting in the rear of the branch, and Liu Enzheng, the deputy captain, leads the sixth team to meet Nanjiang.

As for the fifth team, they had been performing peripheral patrol tasks before, and after the accident on the No. [-] peak, Commander Du withdrew them back.The people who are currently performing peripheral patrol missions are the same as the people Du ordered them to bring into the No. [-] Supply Station. They are all special agents temporarily seconded from the urban headquarters.

The fifth team, as the patch team, was sent into the formation to assist several teams in the Yaozhou branch to complete the task after all the members rested.

Liu Enzheng looked at the time, "Let's hurry up and rest, the people from the fifth team will arrive in about two hours."

Starting from the No. [-] supply station, crossing the No. [-] peak to the Moon River is the shortest road, but now the vicinity of the No. [-] peak is impassable. In the case of detours, this is already the fastest speed.

The captains of the two teams lined up the night watch and rested separately.

They chose a habitat with a relatively high terrain and a wide view.In addition, Liu Enzheng's team also brought monitoring equipment, which greatly guaranteed their night safety.

Nan Jiang couldn't sleep, so he sat facing the No. [-] peak and wiped his gun.After wiping it twice, I looked up to see the direction of the No. [-] peak.However, until the vehicles of the fifth team came into his field of vision, the direction of the No. [-] peak remained as quiet as before.