Chapter 83
Tang Zeyu opened the map and chose a direction according to the rough drawing on the map. At this point, continuing to move forward would be like taking a chance. After all, the two bases only communicated by sending electronic information and would not waste money and resources on offline meetings. Anyway, there was no trade between the bases, so even if there was no communication, it would not be a big deal. As a result, communication between the bases has been rare over the years.
Under such conditions, naturally no one would have the leisure to study the routes to other bases. If they did so, they might even be labeled a spy, which would be a waste of time.
Professor Chen didn't know how he knew the base commander, but he marked the address of the Dawn Base on the map for Tang Zeyu before the Eagle Team left.
The Eagle Squadron packed up and set off as soon as the sun began to shine in the early morning, and by noon they had already walked a long way.
Lu Shiyu was carrying a heavier backpack than when he left the base - Professor Chen had stuffed a lot of food into them, but it didn't feel heavy. The long journey over the past two months had made Lu Shiyu completely accustomed to this level of weight, which was in stark contrast to his exhausted state after just leaving the base.
Thinking of this, Lu Shiyu couldn't help but feel a little secretly happy, just like the joy of finally catching up with others after a long period of effort. Even his steps became a lot lighter.
Unfortunately, this joy did not last long. Lu Shiyu was tripped by something he didn't know because he was not looking while walking. He staggered forward a few steps with an unstable center of gravity. However, because the backpack behind him was too heavy, he was unable to adjust in time and was about to fall. Fortunately, Tang Zeyu turned around and saw it, and supported Lu Shiyu in time, thus avoiding an accident.
"Ah, thank you."
Lu Shiyu was helped up by Tang Zeyu, thinking that he had just accidentally tripped over a tree root or something exposed on the ground.
But when she turned around and saw what was on the ground, she was so scared that her soul almost flew away.
"ah!!!"
Lu Shiyu subconsciously grabbed Tang Zeyu's arm. Although Tang Zeyu didn't know what was going on, he still protected Lu Shiyu behind him.
When the other people heard the noise, they all came over to see what was going on. But when they saw what was going on, even they were shocked.
"Whose head is missing here?"
Yan Hong put her hand on Shao Xingyang's shoulder, watching the fun without minding the big deal. After hearing this, Lu Shiyu's fear was half gone, and he felt a little amused and helpless for a moment.
Chen Yunliang closed his eyes and looked at the ground.
I saw that on the ground covered with weeds, there was a place where the weeds suddenly sank. If I got a little closer, I could see that there was a complete skull in the depression formed by the weeds.
It was unknown how long the skull had been there. Both the hair and organs had long since been decomposed without a trace left. Only the completely whitened skull remained, lying silently in the haystack.
"Is that... a skull?" Lu Shiyu leaned forward and asked uncertainly.
"If there aren't any humanoid aberrations or primates nearby, that is."
Lu Shiyu frowned slightly: "But why is there a human skull here?"
Their current location is not close to Dawn Base and Dawn Base. Under normal circumstances, the exploration team cannot reach here at all.
It would take at least two weeks for a corpse to turn into bones, even in the summer. This skull definitely has not been here recently, and no signs of human life were found nearby. So whose skull could it be?
"That's not right," Yan Hong looked up and looked around: "Why is there only the head? Where are the other bones?"
Only then did everyone realize that what was really noteworthy was why there was only one skull, rather than the sudden appearance of the skull. No matter what the cause of death was, it would not be possible for only a head to be there while all the other bones were missing. It was too abnormal.
"Look around here. Remember not to go too far. Come back in time if you can't find it."
"yes."
The sudden appearance of the ominous skull seemed to indicate some invisible danger.
Although this skull may be the remains of someone who was in danger and died accidentally when the distortion disaster broke out, if there are no other bones nearby and only a lonely skull here, then the problem becomes complicated.
To be on the safe side, Tang Zeyu decided to let a few people explore the area. Firstly, it was to eliminate hidden dangers and prevent anything from attacking them when they were not paying attention. Secondly, this place was not too far from the camp where Professor Chen and Yan Ning were. Since the two sides were still in a friendly alliance relationship, they still needed to help check if there were any abnormal things that would threaten the lives of their allies.
The others began to search for other bones in several directions around them. Lu Shiyu stayed behind with Tang Zeyu because of his weak combat power, so that he could provide timely support if there was any danger.
Lu Shiyu supported his knees with his hands, leaned forward slightly, and mustered up the courage to look at the bare skull.
The color of the skull was the same grayish-white as the wall plaster, with some dirt on the sides. The empty eye sockets seemed as if a dead soul was complaining about its grievances. Lu Shiyu tried his best to shift his attention from his random thoughts to observing the skull, and suddenly realized that something was wrong.
The skull must not have been here for too long, at least not as long as they initially estimated.
This is not difficult to infer, because although there is no flesh and blood on the skull, there is no plant growing on it, not even moss.
Corpses are excellent natural nutrients for plants, but Lu Shiyu did not see any lush plants growing near the skull, and the skull was too clean, not like it had been exposed to wind and sun here.
There are many contradictions on this seemingly ordinary skull, but Lu Shiyu did not dare to draw a conclusion immediately. After all, she is just a layman, and all her guesses are based on her limited knowledge. If there is any knowledge point she does not understand, then she is no different from groping in the dark, so Lu Shiyu still thinks it is more appropriate to let Chen Yunliang come back to take a look.
Lu Shiyu picked up a wooden stick from the ground and planned to take the skull to Chen Yunliang to let Chen Yunliang see if there was any problem.
But when Lu Shiyu's wooden stick just touched the skull, the skull moved without any warning.
"Why?"
Lu Shiyu rubbed his eyes in disbelief, wondering if he had seen it wrong. How could the skull move by itself?
So Lu Shiyu tried to lift the skull with the stick again, and this time, the skull moved again.
Not only did it move, it was also moving towards Lu Shiyu at an extremely fast speed.
Lu Shiyu had never seen such a scene before. He was immediately frightened and lost his mind. He forgot about fighting back. His first reaction was to find a way to get rid of it and prevent it from touching him.
Lu Shiyu hurriedly moved a few steps to the side, but the skull also turned immediately, as if it had found Lu Shiyu.
"Tang Zeyu!"
In a panic, Lu Shiyu called out Tang Zeyu's name. Tang Zeyu, who was searching in the bushes nearby, turned around when he heard the voice and immediately locked onto the rapidly moving skull.
A stone flew over and hit the skull, rolling twice on the ground before stopping.
When it was still about to attack Lu Shiyu, Tang Zeyu had already returned to Lu Shiyu's side and kicked the skull with ill intentions, kicking it away like a football.
"Are you okay?"
"fine……"
Lu Shiyu put his hand on his chest to help himself breathe more smoothly, and his heartbeat, which had suddenly accelerated due to fear, slowed down a little.
"What is that?"
After the skull fell from mid-air, it rolled for a distance on the ground and happened to fall into a shallow pit, which got the skull stuck and turned the whole skull upside down.
Lu Shiyu immediately noticed the several legs waving randomly protruding from the skull. For some reason, Lu Shiyu thought of the deformed creature that looked like a spider that they encountered when they just left the base.
Could there be a spider hidden inside the skull?
Thinking of this, Lu Shiyu's fear of the unknown eased a little, and curiosity also emerged.
Even though he was scared just now, he was now curious about what was hidden inside the skull.
"Captain, we've looked, but we can't see anything nearby... I **! What!"
Shaoxing Yang was frightened by the skull under his feet as soon as he came back. When he saw the unknown creature retracting into the skull, he quickly hid behind Yan Hong.
"How disgusting! Is it some kind of bug?"
Yan Hong raised an eyebrow and inserted the tip of the long knife into the dark skull, trying to force the things inside out.
Just as the tip of the knife was about to penetrate the skull, several small feet covered with hard shells stretched out from the body, blocking the blade that was about to enter the skull, and took the opportunity to find a support point to turn over. The first thing he did after coming out of the pit was to run, the farther away from this group of people the better.
Yan Hong didn't expect that this thing actually had some intelligence. Fortunately, Chen Yunliang appeared in time and stepped on the skull that almost escaped.
"What happened?" Chen Yunliang, confused, looked down at the skull at his feet. "Why did this thing suddenly move?"
"I don't know, but there seems to be something inside."
"thing?"
Several people gathered together and watched Chen Yunliang carefully pick up the skull from under his feet and turn it over for everyone to see what was inside.
As if sensing the world suddenly turning upside down, the thing inside hurriedly stretched out a few legs and struggled to turn over.
From this angle, everyone can see its several legs clearly.
A walking leg has a total of four segments, one of which accounts for half of the total length, and the remaining half is evenly divided among the other three segments. There are joints between the segments as the pivot of movement.
The tips of the walking legs are as sharp as hyena fangs, and there are many tiny bone spurs on the hard shell. If you put your hand in front of these walking legs, it will probably be pierced into a sieve.
Chen Yunliang asked Yan Hong to help hold it, while he took out the tools he carried with him, reached into the skull with tweezers, clamped the body hidden inside, and tried to pull it out by force.
I don't know if it was because the tweezers were not able to exert enough force, and the thing was struggling too violently, but in the end, the skull was clamped by the tweezers and pulled hard, and the skull flew out of the hands into the air. The tweezers also separated from the skull because the contact area was too small, and the skull was thrown into the air again and fell into a pile of weeds. After a brief moment of confusion, it immediately reacted, all its legs came into play, and it ran as fast as it could.
The skull rushed around in panic and was about to run away. The crowd caught up with it and followed it into the bushes.
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