[Comprehensive] Where was your birthday this year?

Many people have the feeling that something is peeping in the dark on the silent street at night, but some people regard it as an illusion, while others know that it is not an illusion.

A cold light flashed in the shadows, followed by the muffled sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, and a light metal "click".

After all the voices disappeared, a black-haired samurai casually walked out from the shadows of the street. On his left forehead was a flame-like red streak, and his black hair, which was tied into a ponytail and still longer than his waist, was disheveled and curled up. The tail seemed to be stained with a fiery red, even under the moonlight, it looked extraordinarily hot.

The young samurai quickly crossed the quiet street and came to the desolate outskirts. In the cold and desolate wilderness, only crows were circling in the air and croaking.

After seeing the samurai, the crow swooped down, but surprisingly, it didn't attack the samurai, but landed on the samurai's shoulder.

"Your Majesty Yuan, the lord has an order. Please go to the mountains in the northeast to investigate early tomorrow morning. There have been many incidents of hunters and farmers getting lost there recently, but the ghost killer team cannot enter the mountains to investigate. All the reports returned indicate that they No matter from which direction you enter the mountain forest, you will always return to the original place."

The voice of a human woman came out of the crow's mouth. The warrior listened to the crow's report while driving, and waited for a while after it finished talking about the mountain forest, as if waiting for something to happen. Say it again.

The samurai frowned slightly, and asked, "What about the death toll?"

"Zero." The crow replied, "Although the abnormal situation in the forest has always existed, there has not been any incident of humans disappearing for no reason nearby. All lost people will appear at the entrance of the forest at the latest in the morning of the next day."

The samurai stopped walking and looked at the crow on his shoulder. He felt that this was not an ordinary investigation mission.

"If it's a ghost, there won't be a case of missing humans."

"Yes, that's why my lord asked you to investigate, Lord Yan Sheng will be waiting nearby tomorrow."

"Brother is going too?" The samurai's quiet face showed a hint of surprise. In his cognition, unless the opposite is the twelve ghost moons, there is no need to dispatch two pillars at the same time, let alone the strongest pillar among the pillars, the sun pillar and month pillars.

However, this also shows from the side that the mountain forest may be extraordinary.

After thinking for a moment, the samurai gave up the rest time after the mission, let the crow lead the way, and rushed to his next mission under the moonlight.

The rolling hills, the fog-shrouded forests, and the faint sunlight falling on the top of the hills make the forests shrouded in morning mist look hazy and dreamy.

When he arrived at the mission site at dawn, Rizhu Jiguoyuan of the Ghost Killing Team saw such a beautiful scenery. He took a deep breath of the air in the mountains and forests, and immediately the fresh air with the coolness of night filled his heart. The fragrance of flowers, the fragrance of flowers, the smell of damp soil, and the smell left by some birds and beasts.

The only thing that wasn't there was the stench of man-eating ghosts.

It doesn't look like the land is haunted.

With some doubts, Ji Guoyuan followed the crow to the temporary camp of the Ghost Killing Squad. When I was looking for a temporary place to stay, I lent them the house temporarily, and moved to live with relatives in the village down the mountain.

"Master Yuan!" The team members in the camp greeted Ji Guoyuan excitedly when they saw Ji Guoyuan coming, and received a polite nod in return, as excited as if they were about to faint.

Ji Guoyuan Yiquan didn't see the excited look of his admirer, and when he walked into the house, he saw a familiar bamboo hat standing by the door.

"Has the elder brother arrived yet?"

"Yes, Master Yan Sheng just arrived half an hour ago."

Ji Guoyuan nodded and entered the room, and saw a young man sitting in the room who looked exactly like him, even the shape of the stripes on his forehead was similar. The young man was seriously reading the investigation records of the team members these days, listening to At the sound of footsteps, he glanced up at the door.

"Yuanyi, it's just in time. Let's take a look at these reports." The young man handed out the paper after reading, completely ignoring the fact that the morning dew on the lapel of his younger brother who had just entered the door was still wet.

Obviously they are twins of the same mother, but Yuezhu Jiguo Yansheng of the Ghost Killing Team didn't even have a word of reminiscence when facing his younger brother whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

Ji Guoyuan took off his coat in silence and handed it to the team members at the side, said softly "I'm sorry", and in the intoxicated expression of "Master Yuan talked to me" on the team members' faces, he stepped forward to take it with both hands. I sat down to read the thick stack of reports handed over by my elder brother.

The report of the Ghost Killing team members is very detailed. The abnormality in the mountain forest appeared a month ago. The first person who discovered it was the original owner of the house they are temporarily staying at the moment. He caught the prey, but he turned around in the mountains, no matter what, he couldn't find the mountain road that he had walked for decades, until he felt afraid and retreated, but after turning around, he found himself standing at the entrance of the mountain forest place.

Orion went up the mountain with a few friends unbelievingly, but the group just repeated what happened to him before, and the story spread. Later, some people wanted to enter the mountain for various reasons. Without exception, they all lost their way in the end, and found themselves back at the entrance of the mountain road when they thought of retreating.

This kind of strange incident did not come into the eyes of the ghost killing team at the beginning, because no human beings disappeared mysteriously, so they only asked a few Kuizi team members to come over to check, but after a few days of investigation, those team members saw the direction of the cliff from a distance A woman with ghost horns appeared, but they would get lost as soon as they entered the forest, so there was no more information about that woman.

If the abnormality is related to ghosts, even if the ghosts do not hurt people, the ghost killing team cannot ignore them. Therefore, in order to solve the mystery of the mountains and forests, the level of the members of the ghost killing team sent here has been continuously improved. Until today, the headquarters dispatched a one-off The two pillars came over, such a big effort obviously wanted to solve the problem from the root.

After Yuanyi finished reading all the reports, he heard his elder brother ask him: "Yuanyi, I'm going to go to that mountain forest first during the day, do you want to go with me?"

Ghosts are afraid of the sun and can only come and go at night. Today is a sunny day. It is a good choice to familiarize yourself with the terrain during the day.

"Yuanyi wishes to go with elder brother." Ji Guoyuanyi leaned forward to salute, and replied respectfully.

Naturally, he couldn't see it, and Ji Guoyan Sheng looked away with a trace of impatience when he saluted.

When the two Ji Guo brothers get together alone, the atmosphere is always very weird, which is not surprising in the Ghost Killing Squad.

Ji Guoyan Sheng got up and passed his younger brother, and said indifferently: "Then let's set off when the sun is brighter."

"Yes."

The responding voice was so indifferent that there were no emotional ups and downs. In fact, since entering this room, Ji Guoyuan's expression has not changed at all. Compared with Ji Guoyan's serious but occasionally revealing small movements, he seems to have no emotion at all. , perfect in dealing with people and doing things, but not like ordinary people.

After an hour, the sky was bright, and the Jiguo brothers set off for the unusual mountain forest. The route had been investigated countless times by the ghost killing team, but they found out shortly after entering the mountain forest that they were just like everyone else before. be lost.

The soil under their feet was soft and wet, without any human footprints, and the flowers, plants and trees on the roadside did not show the slightest trace of man-made damage. They seemed to be walking on a brand new road that no one had traveled, but this was obviously impossible.

"Could it be blood ghost art?" Ji Guoyan Sheng frowned after going around for a long time. He understood why the lord sent two Zhuqian at a time. He walked in this mountain forest for half a day with his ability, but still He didn't even find a single flaw, which shows how tricky the opponent's ability is.

"Such a powerful ability... Is it the ability of space, or the ability of illusion?"

Ji Guoyuan didn't answer, he just watched the weeds growing on the ground silently, and occasionally squatted down to touch the wet soil.

After a while, Ji Guoyan Sheng heard him say: "It seems that there will be nothing to gain during the day, brother, why don't we come to investigate again at night?"

After nightfall, ghosts will come out to move around. If there are more activities, there will naturally be more loopholes. Maybe we can find some clues.

After making up their minds, the two brothers turned around and returned. This time they only walked three or five steps before they found themselves standing at the entrance of the forest path.

"...What a terrifying ability." Ji Guoyan Sheng felt the pressure, their opponents were really terrifying, if he wanted to attack them, even he would suffer.

Ji Guoyuan once again squatted down and touched the soil on the ground, showing a thoughtful expression, but shook his head when Ji Guo Yan Sheng looked over, Ji Guo Yan Sheng didn't ask any further questions, and the two brothers walked on silently. On the way home.

In the evening, the two returned to the entrance of the forest again, but this time, before entering the forest, Ji Guoyuan picked up a handful of soil from the ground and put it on the cloth towel prepared in advance, then covered it carefully, and held it in the Start walking with your hands, and repeat this behavior each time you walk.

Ji Guoyan Sheng looked at it strangely, but his younger brother raised his index finger and made a silent gesture on his lips.

It was like this until Ji Guoyuan collected the tenth pinch of soil. It seemed that he had finally confirmed something. He stopped in place, raised his head and shouted into the depths of the forest: "Miss in the forest, can I come out and see you? We I hope I can talk to you, otherwise I will have to be rude and cut down all the trees here to ask you to come out."

Ji Guo Yan Sheng looked at Ji Guo Yuan Yi in surprise, and asked in disbelief: "Yuan Yi, what did you find?"

Ji Guoyuan showed Ji Guo Yan Sheng the cloth towel that he had held all the way, and let him see the soil on it. How is it different?"

Ji Guoyan Sheng didn't notice any difference, except that the soil at the entrance of the forest was drier than that in the forest, but this is not surprising, because the soil moisture in different areas of the same forest is different due to sunlight and groundwater sources. It's a very normal thing.

……and many more?

Suddenly realizing something, Ji Guoyan Sheng rubbed all the remaining soil with his fingers one by one, and finally confirmed his idea.

"We have been moving forward, but the humidity of the soil has not changed. In other words, we have not advanced at all, but have always been at the entrance of the mountain forest!"

As Jiguo Yansheng told the truth about the lost mountain forest, the trees beside the road all made soft rustling noises. Right in front of their eyes, the trees receded to the sides as if they were alive, revealing the original mountain road hidden behind the trees.

It's not illusion or space transformation, what their opponents have is the ability to control plants.