Falling into the Abyss

According to their footsteps, they should be able to see the city of Anas on the fifth day, but for some reason, the dense forest spread endlessly around them, without any shadow of the city, and they couldn't even see a road.The GPS positioning in the hands of the soldiers also failed, and the arrow marking them has been frozen at a certain point and has not moved.They tried radioing the nearest teams, but received no response.

They did not dare to set off signal flares, fearing that they would attract people's attention. In the end, they could not use the most traditional compass to locate, but found that the magnetic field was chaotic.They were caught in a dilemma.

And at night, the strange chants still follow them like ghosts, and the bonfire lights that appear and disappear from time to time flicker in the depths of the forest, like will-o'-the-wisps that attract people into a trap.But once approaching the fire, it was found that the ground was empty, without any trace of fire.

It wasn't until the fifth night when they reached the lake that things started to go wrong.

It was a not-so-large lake in the forest, probably formed by the accumulation of snow water flowing down from the nearby snow-capped mountain.The water of the lake is peacock blue, with some purple-red aquatic plants floating underneath, occasionally bubbles can be seen coming up, or some kind of unclear fish inside is churning on the water surface, disturbing the rhythmic ripples layer by layer.They camped on the sandbar by the lake. In order to save the rations they carried with them, they took water from the lake to catch fish and roasted them on heating stones that could be heated quickly without burning smoke.The lower lip of those fish is much more protruding than the upper lip, with dense fangs, which looks a little scary, but tastes quite good.Everyone temporarily forgot the distress of losing their way, and planned to enjoy the rare delicacy during the march.

Suddenly someone said that his brother had disappeared.

The pair of brothers Ethan in the team numbered 252 also knew that they were both in their early twenties, they accidentally killed someone during a robbery and were sent to the Forbidden City, they were called Little A and Little B.Little A said that his younger brother went to relieve himself before, but he hasn't come back yet.

Wilson called out a non-human positioning device. Although the GPS positioning function has basically been disabled, the inertial tracking and infrared tracking functions can still be used. Soon, it was located that the location of Little B was 100 meters away from the camp. Touched the cordon of the collar, so the soldiers' escape warning was not triggered.

Wilson cursed and went to find someone in the woods with a cigarette in his mouth. Little A followed closely.However, not long after, there was a scream in the woods, "No!!!"

Other soldiers and several inhumans, including Samuel, ran over.I saw that the dense bushes had been pulled away by Sergeant Wilson. A human body was lying on the ground, but the head was gone. The cross-sections of the blood vessels, larynx and trachea on the neck were clearly visible, and the collar that was originally on the neck was also missing. In pools of blood everywhere.

There was no sign of struggle around, and they did not hear any suspicious noises.How could there be no sound here so close to the camp?

Everyone rushed back to the camp, grabbed their weapons and stood ready.The non-people who didn't see that scene didn't know what happened, and thought that the horned people were coming to attack.

Samuel picked up Ethan who was still sitting on the ground, "The horned man attacked us!"

"Huh?" Ethan quickly grabbed the knife he stuffed in his backpack, looking around, "Where is it?"

Yes, where is the horned man?

Everyone froze in the woods for a while with swords drawn, and everything was quiet.Ethan suddenly noticed that it was a little too quiet.

Even if there are no insects and birds, even if there is no wind, there will be no sound in nature, right?It was as if the sound had been sucked clean by an invisible mouth.

After waiting for a long time without any movement, Wilson made a gesture to signal the crowd to divide into three groups, and each soldier led a group of non-humans to search in different directions.Derek stared carefully at the screen of the thermal sensor, but he didn't even see a beast bigger than a rabbit.

At this time, a female Alpha non-human suddenly pointed to the ball-shaped braids hanging on the tree and said, "I always feel that these things are not hung casually. Look, standing here, no matter from which direction you look, these sepak takraw The placement is the same."

When she said this, everyone noticed something strange.Ethan looked ahead, there were three on the left from near to far, the one in the middle seemed to be slightly smaller than the other two, and there were two on the right side.He turned his head to look to the left again, there were also three on the left, and two horizontally on the right.He looked behind and to the right again, and it was the same layout.As he walked forward, he found that with the help of the cover of plants, this layout has remained unchanged, and it would not be visible if it was not broken.

Derek stretched out his hand to grab a sepak takraw ball, and said, "I remember that in the ancient times of the earth, there was an Asian country that had a thing called Bagua array, which used some walls or decorations to create a certain visual illusion for people. It is said that it can hypnotize people at the subconscious level, making people stay in one place forever and can’t get out. It’s very interesting.”

His relaxed tone like sarcastic remarks made many non-humans very dissatisfied. Taifeng asked, "So the reason why we got lost is because we were confused by these things? But how did the horned people know what the formation of the ancient Earth people was?"

"Maybe it's not the gossip array, they developed it themselves?" Derek shrugged, "I don't understand either, don't ask me. But if you give me a computer, I might be able to write an artificial intelligence program to analyze it. "

"Don't talk about that is useless." Samuel gave Derek a warning look.

Wilson scolded, "Damn, what's the matter, just tear them off!" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and yanked.Other non-humans followed suit, and the nearby sepak takraw ball was wiped clean after a while.They're going to keep going and dragging until the annoying things are cleaned up.

Until the female Alpha just now turned her head, her eyes suddenly widened, showing an expression of extreme horror.

Seeing her expression, Ethan and Samuel also looked back, and their eyes fell on the last non-human at the end of the line.

The non-human didn't realize it, but looked at the three people staring at him inexplicably, and asked "What?"

However, before the two syllables were pronounced, his words stopped.He has never seen that one of the twisted trunks that were static like coral just now moved, and the color gradually faded into some disgusting flesh gray. The wrinkled body was like an old water pipe, round and round. There was a small hole at the top of the head surrounded by more folds, and it landed quickly and silently on top of the head of the inhuman at the end of the line.

When Ethan and the others turned their heads, they saw that the small hole at the top suddenly expanded rapidly, and the dark red mouth inside was covered with layers of sharp teeth like a meat grinder.The thing wrapped around the inhuman's head like a bag, and then the top quickly tightened again.Everyone present heard the clean, sharp sound of a half-frozen meat being cut through with a sharp knife.

Everything happened in an instant, and the huge worm quickly retracted into the tree canopy. The inhuman body that lost its head instantly collapsed to the ground, and the collar rolled into a pool of blood.The whole process lasted less than three seconds, without any screams or struggles.

The three people who witnessed this scene froze until the female Alpha suddenly screamed.

"On the tree! They're on the tree!"

Obviously, Wilson also saw the scene at the last second, and shouted with a pale face, "Everyone get down! Watch out for the overhead!" Another soldier had already fired several shots at the place where the worm retreated, and the sound of the gunshots echoed among the trees. There are countless echoes.

Wilson kept calling the other two teams nearby, and received some responses one after another.But judging from the chaotic voice on the other side, they also encountered similar things.

"There's a snake-like thing on a tree that can eat people!" The voice of another female Alpha sergeant leading the team was also a little unsteady.

"All teams gather at the base!" Wilson ordered loudly.Ethan quickly got up from the ground, turned around and ran back with the rest of the people.At this time, he was suddenly pushed by Samuel, and he fell to the ground, only to find that a bloody mouth like a meat grinder was closing.He was almost turning into a headless corpse like those two inhumans!

Ethan's heart was beating wildly, and he broke out in a cold sweat.Samuel grabbed him, rolled and scrambled to his feet, and rushed back with all his might.The worm-like thing was still protruding from the tree, quickly eating the person's head and then retracting.Wilson and two other soldiers kept firing, and the sergeant seemed to hit the thing with one shot, and a puddle of foul-smelling dark green liquid dripped down right on the face of the man who was nearly eaten.The man let out a heart-piercing scream, and a puff of smoke rose from his face. The blood turned out to be corrosive.

The original team of thirteen people was quickly reduced to eight people, but at this time there was a change in the forest, and the bushes shook violently.All the non-humans stopped abruptly and raised their cold weapons one after another, while the three soldiers pointed their guns at the place where the disturbance came from.

Then a person rushed out, it was the chief of guards.

Following behind him were Chen Zeng, Jiawen, Huimao and a few unfamiliar non-humans.None of these people were numbered by them, so the team kept moving separately when they set off.But at this moment, looking at them with disheveled faces, grass leaves and leaves all over their clothes, and scratches on their faces, they are not much better than them, and most likely they also encountered incidents of escape from control.

"Our own people! Our own people!" Jiawen shouted loudly.

Wilson recognized the chief of the guard, ordered his men to withdraw their guns, and asked with a frown, "Where are Corporal Powell and the others in your team?"

Gray Mao interjected coolly from the side, "The heads were all eaten, and there were heavy casualties."

Wilson looked very frustrated, and growled, "Then what the hell is it! I have served on this poor planet for three years, but I have never heard of such a thing in the forest!"

"Sacrifice..." Ethan said in a low voice, "I heard from your soldiers before that they saw those horned people performing living sacrifices?"

Wilson stared at Ethan, "So what!"

Chen Zeng sighed, "Using living people to sacrifice is probably to summon something. After all, we don't know much about this planet. Who knows what kind of creatures are hidden, maybe monsters awakened from hell. "

His words made some non-human beings tremble behind him, obviously terrified.

"Don't talk such nonsense! Now the first thing is to go back to the lake and join the others!"

They had just walked a few steps when they suddenly heard the surrounding bushes shaking and the wind rumbling.I don't know if it is another lost person from other teams, but I suddenly saw a ray of silver light flashing past the trees.Wilson yelled, "Oops! It's the horned man!"

Just as the gun was raised, before it could fire, a nimble figure suddenly rushed over and threw Wilson to the ground.The person who came was silver and white, with a slender figure, with strong arms and long legs bent back like reindeer joints, wearing a heavy jacket and leggings.Wilson saw a pair of slender purple pupils staring at him coldly, and a short knife across his throat.

At the same time, about a dozen horned people rushed towards the panicked non-people.They leap as high as cats, literally falling from the sky, throwing non-people to the ground with precision, or knocking people over with their feet that are hard on their heads.Samuel wrestled with a horned man, who was stronger than he imagined, but his name of Iron Fist was not in vain. He took the opportunity to punch the opponent's jaw, and then put the dagger in his hand Insert into the other's chest without any hesitation.

The horned man wailed, and his body twitched violently on the ground, as if he had been electrified.He died shortly after.Samuel was dizzy and his ears were buzzing from the punch the horned man had just given.He immediately looked around to find Ethan, but only saw an extremely chaotic fight.Some of the non-human beings were pressed to the ground and their throats were cut, while others were pressed to the ground and beaten to death.He noticed that an extraordinarily tall horned man was carrying Taifeng up. The latter struggled with all his strength, and stretched out his hand to him, shouting for help.

Samuel rushed forward and knocked down the horned man who was a head taller than him. The man was knocked off his back by his brute force, and Taifeng also rolled to the side.The horned man let out a terrifying roar and swung his fist.Samuel wanted to block it with his arm, but the opponent was too strong to block it.He felt his whole brain fall to the ground, and the next moment the horned man had already thrown himself on him, with one hand firmly stuck to his throat, and the other raised a sharp knife full of barbs to stab him. down.He reached out and grabbed the opponent's wrist, but his strength was greatly reduced due to lack of oxygen.The blood filling his face made him feel like his head was going to explode, and seeing the point of the knife getting closer to his eyes, Samuel knew that the next moment the sharp thing would traverse his brain.

Suddenly, the horned man's eyes widened, a sharp purple blade pierced his throat, and blue blood dripped down Samuel's face along the blade.Samuel pushed the dead body away forcefully, and then saw Ethan staring at him in a daze and panic, his glasses were splashed with blue blood, and his mouth was open as if lacking oxygen, gasping for breath.

This is Ethan's first kill.