(Two in one) [Okay, okay, the feature film is here, Brother Lu is looking for something to eat!]
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The ancient road is a man-made path, one end leads to the mouth of the sea, and the other end connected to the interior, crossing several swamp clusters in the Haunted Forest Swamp.
As time goes by, both sides of the ancient road have long been covered with vibrant trees, shrubs and weeds. It is unknown how long it will take, but perhaps one day, this ancient road will be completely covered with vegetation and disappear silently.
Where Lu Liran and Ke Ji are standing now is on the edge of a winding section of the ancient road that surrounds a swamp. There are bushes and vegetation forests on both sides. It is also possible that there is a small swamp under the bushes. No one can tell clearly.
The swamp zone is such a very deceptive and dangerous area. In addition to the places that are clearly swampy waters, there are also hidden mud swamps covered with vegetation that look like solid land.
This is also one of the reasons why people have been dying on the ancient roads. Some people just disappear while walking.
Lu Liran and Ke Ji looked at the fresh footprints that appeared on the ancient road. The toe prints were towards the waist-high grass that had been cut open, which meant that someone ran out of the ancient road and ran straight into the grass!
It should be the same person, or the same group of people.
Lu Liran also found different shoe prints on the soles, proving that there were at least three people there.
“They ran out of the ancient road and turned around and ran into the weeds that were completely wild, secluded and easy to lose my way…” Lu Liran whispered, “Why?”
Ke Ji frowned slightly and looked at the ancient road behind them. Suddenly something flickered in the light, catching Ke Ji’s attention.
He strode over and saw a small camera bag hanging on a tree branch beside the ancient road. What was reflecting just now was the camera lens in the bag.
Seeing this, Lu Liran came over and took a closer look: “Why is there such a thing here…”
Could it be that they came here for sightseeing and taking photos? He sneered inwardly and shook off these unreliable thoughts.
Lu Liran took a closer look and saw that the outer layer of the black camera bag was soaked in blood. The blood was dried, so he didn’t notice it at first glance, but the amount of bleeding was a bit alarming.
“See if there are any photos of the victims in the camera, and I’ll contact the search and rescue team.” Lu Liran said.
Ke Ji responded and turned on the camera. There was still 40% battery left, indicating that the camera had not been away from its owner for too long.
Looking through the photos taken in the camera, there are no portraits from the beginning to the end. Most of them are flowers, plants and trees in the swamp. Occasionally, there are photos of the water surface of the swamp. However, they’re all turbid and it is difficult to see what is underneath, so the meaning of the photo was unknown.
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The further they scrolled back, the more photos there were of the water. Some of them even went underwater to take pictures, as if they were purposefully looking for something.
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The latter one is obviously in the same place, probably taken continuously. There is no difference between the two photos before and after, except that the area of the black shadow at the edge has become much larger, and it seems that the distance is closer.
“If we compare it with reference objects in the water, the size of the shadow should be no smaller than the giant-mouthed catfish we met before.” Ke Ji said.
Lu Liran nodded and continued to look back. The three pictures in a row were almost the same, and the only thing that changed was the shadow.
“What is that?” Lu Liran was a little confused. He always felt that the purpose of the camera owner was to take pictures of the shadows underwater.
Ke Ji continued to scroll back, but the next picture made both of them feel their nerves shiver with cold!
It is completely different from the previous three pictures. The next picture is almost completely black, except for an abrupt yellow ring on the left half with a slightly shiny bump in the middle. It looks very small in the picture, but it is probably only small in reality, only as big as a fingernail.
Lu Liran’s eyelids twitched, those were the eyes of animals!
Ke Ji flipped through another picture, and the fifth picture turned into the same underwater environment, but even the shadows in the first few pictures were gone. He took two more pictures in succession, and the same thing happened.
Lu Liran was almost certain that the almost completely black photo was part of the shadow in the water.
The owner of the camera captured what was meant to be captured.
Lu Liran’s heartbeat was a little fast, not because of the footage captured in the photo, but because of the meaning behind the footage.
He spoke a little fast, as if he was trying to clear his thoughts: “Judging from the first photo, the shadow should be quite far away, so the camera owner should have taken the photos quietly from such a distance. Looking at the water plants and their positions in the next few shots, there is almost no change, which shows that the camera owner took rapid continuous shots underwater.”
“This underwater creature is about the same size as the previous giant-mouthed catfish. If such a big underwater creature swam over, anyone’s instinctive reaction would be to dodge, but the camera owner pressed seven or eight consecutive shots.”
Ke Ji nodded slightly, took over Lu Liran’s words, and said in a deep voice: “If it wasn’t that he was immobilized somewhere and couldn’t dodge, then it was that the thing was so fast that it swam close and darted away again before he had time to react.”
“Such a big body, and such amazing speed…” Lu Liran took a gentle breath.
He quickly went through the large and fast creatures that lived in swamp waters in his mind, but he couldn’t find one that matched them.
[Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh, help, the appearance of this camera instantly makes me feel like I’m watching a live horror game TAT]
[I didn’t understand it at first, but after Beauty explained it in detail, I felt completely bad—— FattyBeefinDryHotPot gifted the anchor 1x Sukiyaki Pot]
[Me too…]
[The bloody camera bag, the footprints of several people running out from inside, the strange photos in the camera…Brother Lu, do you really want to enter that ancient road!!!—— FriedChiliPork gifted the anchor 1x White Truffle]
[I don’t think so! It feels like they’re going to be cold inside the old road……]
Lu Liran contacted the search and rescue team, but because there were no photos of the target and no one had reported missing cases recently, he finally just filed a record and promised to search near the coordinates.
After ending the communication, Lu Liran told the live broadcast room: “We have done what we can, and the rest depends on the luck of the search and rescue team and those few people.”
Although he said this, he was not very optimistic about the fate of those people.
The search scope of the search and rescue team usually takes the missing location as the center and radiates out to a circular area with a radius of two hundred meters. This area is called the golden rescue zone. The vast majority of survivors who are found and still alive are in this area, and the farther away they are, the smaller the chance of survival.
But the swamp is a special place and cannot be measured entirely in this universally applicable way.
Once those people get into the Shumui forest, or groups of large shrubs and trees, whether they are two hundred meters away or less than a hundred meters away, their probability of death will be greatly increased.
And from the direction of the makeshift path found earlier, the group of people was heading towards the other end of the waist-high pasture, where the cedar forest is. The cedar forest is rooted in solid land, although there will be no swampy waters there, it is like a maze.
If you are an experienced bounty logging hunter, entering the cedar forest will not be a problem, but if they are just a group of ordinary people, who are panicking to avoid underwater creatures, then the cedar forest will become completely different.
But these have little to do with Lu Liran. If the search and rescue team with professional quality and professional equipment cannot find that group of people, let alone him.
Lu Liran said: “Let’s continue walking towards the ancient road.”
“Not only because the ancient road can lead to the civilized world and obtain rescue,” Lu Liran said, “Another reason is that someone once saw a legendary creature on the ancient road and is convinced that they haunt the ancient road.”
“This time when I entered the Ghost Swamp, my purpose was not only to leave alive, but also to see such a legendary creature with my own eyes.”
[Wait a minute, the Great God is not talking about the swamp ghost crocodile, right??]
[Prick up your ears]
[There has always been a legend in the Ghost Forest Swamp, there is a swamp creature guarding a road leading to endless wealth. Anyone approaching that area will be killed by the guarding creature. The guarding creature is the Swamp Ghost Crocodile]
[Wait a minute, that road to endless wealth…is it the ancient road?]
[Sure enough, legends are just legends. What road to endless wealth, isn’t it just Belt and Road Initiative? It’s so funny]
[It seems that this guarding creature’s statement does not need to be taken too seriously]
Lu Liran glanced at the live broadcast room and nodded slightly: “Yes, I am talking about the swamp ghost crocodile, but it is not actually a legendary creature. Their survival signs and habits were confirmed more than ten years ago——”
“They mainly live in groups, with ten to forty individuals living in a population. Experts estimate that the survival size is at least 100,000. However, because of their small size, good concealment, and certain toxicity, very few people have seen them.”
There are a lot of swamp ghost crocodiles in existence, so even if no one has seen them, they are not considered protected animals.
While talking, the two of them had already walked into the path of the ancient road.
The trail itself is narrow, and now most of the area is occupied by swamp vegetation growing wildly on both sides, making the visible trail area even narrower and pitiful.
As they walked forward, there were two bifurcated paths in front of them.
Lu Liran stopped and the people in the live broadcast room were also surprised——
[Eh, why is there still a fork in the road, they are all in a ghost place like swamp that looks like a maze, can’t the road builders stop this nonsense]
[I thought the ancient road was just one road leading to the end…I was too naive]
[Then which direction is Brother Lu going?]
[It’s all ancient roads anyway, it’s the same no matter where you go, you have to reach the terminal in the end]
[Right?]
Lu Liran frowned slightly, but he was not as relaxed as the audience in the live broadcast room thought.
He carefully looked at the two forks. One path was obvious, and the other was a little messy, both covered by vegetation.
Everyone thought that Lu Liran would take the obvious path, but they didn’t expect that Lu Liran turned around and walked straight to another path.
Scary
I love him. I really do
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