Li Deyang put on his military coat and opened the door.
In the biting cold wind, an old man stood there trembling, his ears had turned red from the cold, and in the wrinkles on his face were frozen tears that had turned into ice marks.
"Dad?!" Li Deyang was stunned and quickly pulled the other person's hand to let him into the house.
"Deyang!!" The old man shook off Li Deyang's hand with his cracked palm and cried, "Tingting is in trouble!"
Hearing this, Li Deyang's expression changed instantly.
"What's going on?"
"After we arrived at the hotel, I went downstairs to pour Tingting a cup of hot water, and then I heard the sound of a window breaking upstairs. I quickly ran upstairs and saw a... monster that had taken Tingting away!" the old man said incoherently.
"Monster?" Li Deyang frowned, "What kind of monster?"
"It looks a bit like an ant, red in color, but very big! So big it's scary!" the old man said as he gestured.
Red ants?
Li Deyang's heart sank. "Did you see where it went?"
"He went into the forest!" the old man said anxiously, "Deyang! You are the captain of the Forest Protection Bureau, call them immediately and ask them to send someone or a helicopter to rescue Tingting!"
"The higher-ups can't do anything about this."
Li Deyang walked quickly back into the house, put on his hat, gloves and hunting rifle, and pulled out a sheathed straight knife from the corner. After hesitating for a moment, he took out a dark red cloak from the bottom of the box.
"Deyang, Deyang! What are you doing?!" The old man stared at the scene in a daze.
"Into the woods."
Li Deyang walked out of the house quickly, carrying a hunting rifle and a knife, and turned back to tell the old man, "You are old, so stay here and don't go anywhere. If I don't come back in three days, call the police.
By the way, my bed is Tingting’s birthday. You can take it back and take Tingting to a big city to buy an apartment. Enjoy your life and stop running around in this corner. "
"Deyang! I'll go with you!" Seeing this, the old man followed him stubbornly, "Back then, your father was also the most famous hunter in the village. Going into the forest..."
"This is different!!"
Li Deyang emphasized his tone, pushed the old man back into the house, and said seriously, "Dad, just listen to me and wait here. I will definitely bring Tingting back."
After saying that, he locked the door directly, and no matter how the old man shouted inside, he remained unmoved.
Li Deyang shouted in the cold wind.
"Chen Han!"
"exist!"
Chen Han walked out of the next room. The house had poor sound insulation, and he heard the conversation between the two people. He had already changed his equipment and was ready to set off.
The two men stood in the night wind holding their sheathed straight swords, and their dark red cloaks, which had not been put on for a long time, were spotless.
Li Deyang glanced at the dark and deep forest, walked forward firmly, and spoke slowly.
"Team 332, everyone move out!"
…
In the primeval forest.
Lin Qiye and his three companions walked out of a tall dense forest one after another. The beam of their flashlights flashed across a deserted open space and they slowly stopped.
"Is this the abandoned forest farm?" Cao Yuan said.
An Qingyu nodded, "This is where it's marked on the map."
Baili Pangpang used the flashlight to carefully scan the surrounding area. Most of the area around was empty mud. In the distance, there were shadows of a few two- or three-story low buildings, covered with a lot of messy vines and weeds.
"Why... is this place so eerie?" Baili Pangpang shrank his neck.
Lin Qiye glanced at him and said, "You have said this at least twenty times on the way here."
"Twenty-six times." An Qingyu said lightly.
"This, this place is really gloomy! Don't you think so?" Baili Pangpang couldn't help but retort.
"Let's go inside and take a look first." Lin Qiye ignored Baili Pangpang and walked straight forward.
Those standing in the darkness were old-style gray-white brick houses. Almost all the windows on the walls were broken, leaving only a few narrow and strange black square openings. When the flashlight shone inside, one could vaguely see broken tables and chairs, and rotten walls.
Dense vines are entwined around the walls, and overgrown weeds almost surround the entire building. Through the gaps in the weeds, you can see the dark door on the first floor of the building.
Desolate, eerie, and strange...
Even when Lin Qiye stood in front of these abandoned low-rise buildings, the hairs on his body stood up involuntarily, and he felt a little creepy.
"So why did the witness come to this kind of ghost place?" Baili Pangpang asked in confusion.
Lin Qiye and others also fell silent.
"The intelligence said that when the witness found the giant red ant, it was gnawing on a dead crow on the roof of a low-rise building." Lin Qiye broke the silence and said slowly, "If I'm not mistaken, the windows of these low-rise buildings should have been broken by these giant ants. They should be active in this area frequently. Everyone should be careful..."
"Don't worry, I will protect myself!" Baili Pangpang said courageously.
Lin Qiye glanced at him and said helplessly, "What I mean is, be careful when you do it, don't kill the worker ants, leave some alive for me."
Baili Pangpang: ...
Lin Qiye and his three companions walked through the overgrown weeds and headed towards the main door of one of the low houses.
Now the main goal of Lin Qiye and others is to find a living giant ant, and this abandoned forest farm where giant ants once appeared is the most likely place to find their traces.
They have to search the entire place.
The beam of the flashlight projected into the dark door. Baili Pangpang looked at the eerie and terrifying house in front of him. He couldn't help but swallow his saliva, closed his eyes, and walked in with gritted teeth.
Suddenly, his head hit something.
Baili Pangpang screamed strangely and took two steps back. He saw Lin Qiye standing in front of the building and slowly turned around...
"Let's go. I scanned it with my mental power and there's nothing inside."
Lin Qiye shrugged with some regret and walked towards the building next door.
Baili Pangpang: ...
You can use mental power to scan, why didn’t you say so earlier!
You made me live in fear here for so long!
After knowing that he didn't have to enter the haunted house, Baili Pangpang was obviously relieved. He just followed Lin Qiye through several buildings one by one, but did not find any trace of the giant ant.
Just when everyone was about to reach the last low building, Lin Qiye suddenly stopped and frowned slightly.
"There's no such building either?" Baili Pangpang asked tentatively.
Lin Qiye stared at the eerie low building in front of him, slowly reached into his backpack, and slowly said something that made the three people's scalps tingle.
"There's a person behind the third window from the left on the second floor."
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