The human head tree is very smart, which is a good thing, because it can communicate normally with the other party, exchange interests, and negotiate.

But this is also a bad thing.

If they are too smart, they can infer each other's thoughts, and it will be very difficult to fool them.

So Lin Mo directly put forward a request at this time, which was that they had to leave this place safely.

Each of them had more than a dozen puncture wounds on their bodies and was bleeding, so the most urgent task at the moment was to get out quickly and send them to the hospital for treatment.

If we delay for too long, even if the person can be saved, he will be useless.

No one wants to be bedridden all their life.

Therefore, it would be better to be direct in the next negotiation.

Save time.

I thought the human-head tree would also put forward some conditions, but in fact it didn't.

The other party actually agreed to let Lin Mo and the others leave.

This surprised Lin Mo.

Lin Mo asked this strange human head tree, "Aren't you afraid that after I get out, I will directly order the destruction of this place?" "You won't do that." The heads on the human head tree said in unison.

Lin Mo asked, how do you know I won’t do that?

"I don't even know what I will do." Lin Mo told the truth.

"I have already implanted seeds in the bodies of several of you. If you attack here, the seeds will take root and sprout immediately, bursting through your bodies, growing vigorously, and becoming another me."

It’s amazing that this strange plant called the human head tree has been used in several idioms.

It is used very appropriately.

"seed?"

Lin Mo raised his arm and looked at the bloody hole on it.

The opponent's roots have penetrated into the body before, so it is very likely that seeds have been implanted.

And Lin Mo felt that the other party was not lying.

Obviously, the seeds are the "insurance" of the human head tree. Lin Mo threatened to destroy this place, and the human head tree implanted seeds in himself and Xiao 6's bodies as a threat.

The human head tree is very confident about its 'seeds'.

In other words, if this place is attacked, the seeds will automatically grow quickly, and the consequences can be imagined. That way of death cannot be said to be unprecedented, but it can also be said to be unprecedented. The most important thing is that it must be very painful.

At this time, the human head tree gave a reminder.

"The seeds are not only in the body, but also in your soul."

Lin Mo knew that the human head tree referred to the nightmare world.

This is why the Human-Headed Tree was willing to let them go.

Because it already has checks and balances.

If each side has the means to threaten the other, then a certain balance can be reached and they can live in peace.

This human-headed tree not only understands idioms, but also military strategies and tactics.

This is for the postgraduate entrance examination.

Knowing this, Lin Mo didn't waste any more words. He gritted his teeth and stood up with the help of the wall.

Xiao Liu's physique was stronger than Lin Mo's. After resting just now, she was able to stand up at this time. She covered a wound on her stomach with her hand and stumbled towards Lin Mo.

As for the four members of the action team, they couldn't even stand up.

Lin Mo used his mental power to lift them up and started walking out.

This place can't stay.

We have to go to the hospital immediately.

As expected, the human-head tree did not stop them. The journey was extremely difficult. Lin Mo even felt that this was the longest and most painful journey he had ever walked in his life.

If his willpower wasn’t strong enough, Lin Mo felt that he wouldn’t be able to get out of this.

He was already out of strength when he approached the exit. He looked back and saw blood everywhere he passed. He didn't know whether it was his own blood, Xiao Liu's, or the blood of the four members of the action team.

"Attention, there is movement in the corridor."

"Someone came out."

"It's Expert Lin. Quick, get a stretcher over here."

Hearing the shouting outside, Lin Mo finally reached his limit at this moment. If it weren't for Xiao Liu supporting him, he would have fallen to the ground.

Lin Mo didn’t know what happened next, he fainted.

It stands to reason that after the body falls into a coma, the consciousness will still enter the nightmare world.

But not this time.

Lin Mo felt like he was in a chaos. He didn't even feel anything at all and didn't know how much time had passed.

It was like a dream.

But dreaming was so unfamiliar to him that he was not sure whether it was a dream or just a sudden imagination.

He dreamed that the seeds in his body suddenly sprouted, and blood-stained saplings grew from the corners of his eyes, ears, mouth and nose.

The next moment, Lin Mo woke up.

The ward was clean and tidy, with the gentle dripping sounds of instruments and intravenous drips all around.

This is obviously a hospital.

"woke up?"

A woman's voice sounded.

Lin Mo turned his head and saw that it was Xiao 6.

He was wearing a hospital gown, with bandages wrapped around his neck, head and arms, and was sitting on the bed next to him eating canned food.

It seems that they are still eating canned yellow peaches.

"Where did the cans come from?" Lin Mo asked.

Xiao 6 said that someone gave it to you, but you haven't woken up yet, so I'll help you try a few cans.

"You know what, it's delicious."

Lin Mo moved his arms. It wasn’t a big problem. Although his physique wasn’t as abnormal as Xiao Liu, who was created in a laboratory, it was still much stronger than a normal person.

He looked at his arm and saw, besides the infusion tube, there was also gauze bandaged around it. He guessed that the wounds on his body that were pierced by the roots of the human head tree had also been treated.

"How long have I slept?"

Lin Mo asked.

Xiao 6 said seven hours, thirty-eight minutes and fifteen seconds.

"It could be sixteen seconds. I didn't count."

Xiao 6 finished eating and burped.

"How about you?" Lin Mo asked how Xiao Liu was doing.

"I didn't sleep. I was awake during the surgery. The anesthetic had no effect on me. You didn't see the doctor's expression at the time. It was so funny."

Xiao 6 told Lin Mo that two of the other four members of the operation team had minor problems and would probably recover after lying in bed for a month.

One is still receiving emergency treatment and his condition is not good.

There is another one who cannot be saved.

Lin Mo considered this situation, but there was nothing he could do. After all, the situation at that time, the physical injuries and the lack of food for several days and nights were indeed not something that an ordinary person could withstand.

That's pretty good.

Even the dead members of the action team can continue to shine for the General Administration in the nightmare world.

In the past, many experts and action team members of the General Administration have sacrificed their lives in the real world. As the number of people continues to increase and accumulate, the General Administration's business in the nightmare world has become even bigger.

The bustle in the workplace is even more exaggerated than in the real world.

At present, death in the real world is no longer a big deal.

Knowing that Lin Mo had woken up, the attending physician immediately brought people over.

In addition to the doctors, there were also a lot of leaders from the General Administration.

Lin Mo felt overwhelmed by what he saw.

It is said that there are still some people waiting in the corridor. This is definitely a big scene, also because Lin Mo is one of the four special experts in the General Administration, and the only living special expert.

Just this identity alone is worthy of everyone's flattery.

When do you show your social skills? Weddings, funerals, housewarmings, job promotions, and hospitalizations are all opportunities. You can grab any one of them and have an excuse to come visit and show your concern.

Fortunately, the director came in person later and finally shocked everyone back.

The director was also quite efficient. He came in and asked how Lin Mo was doing.

Lin Mo said it was okay.

"I'm glad you're okay. Stay in the hospital for a few days. I'll have an important mission for you later."

He said a few more words and asked about the situation inside the Netherworld.

Lin Mo naturally told about the transaction with the human head tree.

The director frowned as he listened.

I called the doctor and he said that when they tested the blood, they did find something special.

Some kind of 'spore'.

That must be the seed of the human head tree.

"Can you get rid of it?"

The director asked the key questions directly.

The doctor shook his head and said that even hemodialysis would not work because the virus was in the internal organs and even in the brain, and it was impossible to remove it.

The director looked grim.

Lin Mo said it was okay, this thing was like a strategic weapon, the other side had it and we had it too, as long as we could intimidate the other side, the Human Head Tree would not dare to act recklessly.

"Also, these spores can't be removed in the real world, but that's not necessarily the case in the nightmare world. We'll always find a way."

Although Lin Mo has not tried it, he is confident.

After the director left, Lin Mo took the time to write a detailed report on the incidents of Qianlong Palace, Netherworld Road and the strange human head tree in the underground palace and sent it to the director.

He has done everything he should do for this matter. Next he needs to rest and recuperate.

"Our motto is that to deal with something weird, we must first start by understanding it."

Professor Xie is right.

Especially strange things like the human head tree, they need to be studied carefully.

Although Professor Xie was also very busy, he was not as hurried as the director. At this moment, he had a good chat with Lin Mo.

After hearing about this experience, especially knowing the weirdness in Qianlong Palace, the Feng Shui formation, as well as the Immortal Palace and Yama Palace that Lin Mo had never set foot in, Professor Xie thought about it carefully.

"As it stands, nightmare events have existed since ancient times, and in different eras, these horror events are always given something that fits the background of the times, and even mixed with some religious, cultural, and belief factors. Because things like religion are inherently linked to mystery and the unknown."

After a pause, he said he would give Lin Mo an example.

The things recorded in some ancient books unearthed from ancient tombs in various places are absurd, surreal and illogical if viewed from the perspective of the real world.

In the past, people would think that this was caused by the superstition of the ancients or the exaggerated narrative techniques.

But now, considering the situation in the nightmare world, in fact, most of the things recorded in ancient books can be found in the nightmare world.

For example, there was once a man who spent the night in a dilapidated temple in the wild. He met a beautiful woman in his dream and spent the night with her. When he woke up, he was still unsatisfied and told others about it. Naturally, others did not believe him, but this man came to the dilapidated temple every day for the next few days until he died of exhaustion and his body was found lying in the dilapidated temple.

This essence is energy.

It is also possible that one was killed directly in a dream.

Perhaps, he just had a quarrel or argument with his dream lover, which led to the murder.

For example, there was a pastry chef who made a living by making and delivering pastries. One day, he received an order saying that a certain house had ordered a few boxes of pastries, which needed to be delivered in the middle of the night.

When the pastry chef finished the cake and went to deliver it, he found that the outside of the house was extremely dilapidated. When he knocked on the door, it opened automatically. As a result, the pastry chef accidentally fell and fell heavily to the ground.

When he got up and looked again, the house, which had been dark, was now brightly lit.

There are quite a few more people.

A man dressed as a servant came and asked the pastry chef who he was looking for, and the pastry chef said he was delivering pastries.

The servant led him into the house, asked him to put the snacks away, gave him money for the snacks, and let him go back immediately.

The pastry chef went out, but found the streets outside strange and empty. There was no moon in the sky and no light in the neighborhood. The road that was once very familiar looked so strange at this moment.

Very weird.

Some unknown things seemed to be hidden in some dark places.

The pastry chef felt something was wrong. He was so panicked that he could only quicken his pace and walk back.

As he was walking, someone called him.

He was in a trance for a moment, and when he looked again, he found himself back in the house.

The difference is that there are no bright lights here, nor many servants. What you see is shabby and dilapidated, obviously a dilapidated house that has been abandoned for a long time.

Someone was calling him outside.

The pastry chef panicked and quickly stood up and stumbled out.

It turned out that the pastry chef's family was outside and came looking for him because they saw that he had not returned yet.

When I got to the place, I didn't dare go in and could only call for help from outside.

When they saw the pastry maker stumbling out, they immediately surrounded him and asked what was going on. When the pastry maker told them what happened, someone said that they had inquired around and found out that the house had been abandoned for a long time and no one had lived there for a long time. He was most likely seeing a ghost.

The pastry chef had no suspicion and was shaking with fear.

As a result, he fell seriously ill when he returned home and died in his sleep.

Professor Xie has a talent for storytelling. He told this story with so many ups and downs that Xiao 6, who was in the same ward, kept calling him "Professor 666" and asked him to tell another one quickly.

"There are so many similar ancient stories. If you are interested, you can go back to the Academy of Sciences to read them. We have the originals there, but you have to know a little bit of ancient Chinese, otherwise it will be difficult to read, and they will definitely not be as vivid as what I tell."

Professor Xie told Lin Mo that this is actually one of the key research directions of the Academy of Sciences at present.

That is to seek "experience" from our ancestors.

Since nightmare worlds have happened in the past, how did people in different periods of ancient times deal with them? This even leads to another possibility.

"Those historians and scholars who study ancient Chinese culture have been very happy recently. They have dug up some things from some religions and historical events. Even the current trend of Chinese civilization, which has so many schools and branches passed down, is most likely related to the nightmare world."

Professor Xie and Lin Mo have a very good relationship. They were discussing, or just chatting.

"What I mean is that to understand the underground palace and the human head tree you mentioned, you don't necessarily have to risk going in. Maybe you can find clues from some ancient books."

It has to be said that Professor Xie's ideas opened a new window for Lin Mo.

"In fact, there may have been people in the past who had the seeds of these human head trees planted in their bodies. Of course, I mean maybe, possibly, probably..."

"Understood!"

Lin Mo expressed his understanding.

He also asked Professor Xie to have some classic books sent to him. Since he had to recuperate in the hospital anyway, he might as well take advantage of this time to read more books and gain some experience.

Professor Xie nodded.

That's what he meant.

Old Xie is gone.

After all, Professor Xie is quite busy. There are a lot of things to do at the Academy of Sciences. It is not easy for Mr. Xie to work so hard at his age.

So it was someone else who delivered the things. He just dropped off the things and left. There were several big packages full of photocopies with a lot of notes. It was very thoughtful.

In the following time, Lin Mo really agreed to be a patient.

In addition to cooperating with the treatment, resting and taking medication, they read books and materials and play with the nurses who take care of them.

This is a hospital specially equipped by the General Administration.

The doctors are all top-notch in their respective fields, and the quality of the nurses is also quite high. They are all young nurses, some of whom are very naive.

Lin Mo's rank in the General Administration is very high. After all, he is one of the four special experts, so he is equipped with a full-time nurse to take care of him.

The young nurse in charge of Lin Mo is called Zhou Xiaofei. She is just 20 years old, petite and timid.

Every time the young nurse came to change the dressing, she would secretly look at Lin Mo.

The problem is that she was peeking and felt that no one else knew. But the problem is that both Lin Mo and Xiao Liu have perception abilities far beyond ordinary people, so in their eyes, the little nurse's little thoughts are as childish as a kindergarten kid who steals chocolate and doesn't wipe the corners of his mouth clean.

"What's so good about you? Why does she have to secretly look at you every time she comes in?" Xiao Liu came over and held Lin Mo's face with both hands, looking at him carefully from top to bottom.

Saying that you don't feel anything is a big deal.

"You two-year-old kid, you know nothing. Nowadays, many young girls like my type. It's called charm. Do you understand? If you don't understand, go play your game console."

Lin Mo was afraid that Xiao Liu would be bored, so he bought her a game console so that she could play it when she had nothing to do.

The main thing is that Lin Mo feels that Xiao Liu spent the same childhood as he did.

Children should like this.

As for what he just said, Lin Mo was actually talking nonsense.

It is true that I am very handsome and charming, but I feel that the young nurse Zhou Xiaofei is not secretly looking at me because of this.

There was a look of fear in the other person's eyes.

Obviously this is definitely not worship.

Very curious.

Lin Mo has always been a straightforward person. If he has any questions, he likes to ask directly.

He planned to ask Zhou Xiaofei when she came again.

In fact, Lin Mo has more than one full-time nurse.

After all, he had to work in shifts, so the hospital assigned three people to Lin Mo to work in three shifts.

But when it was Zhou Xiaofei's class in the afternoon, she didn't show up, which caught Lin Mo off guard.

I was so anxious that I couldn't concentrate on reading.

The head nurse on duty was called over and asked directly why Zhou Xiaofei didn't come.

"You mean Xiaofei? I don't know. Usually she'd come early, but today she didn't come during her working hours, and I couldn't get in touch with her even when I called her."

When Lin Mo heard this, he thought there was something wrong.

Just ask her if she has looked for it at home?

"No, that's not the case. Usually nothing will happen. She might come in a while."

The head nurse didn't take it seriously.

Lin Mo, on the other hand, felt that this matter was not simple, so he asked the head nurse if Zhou Xiaofei had been late before. The head nurse shook her head and said that she had never been late.

"Has she ever been unable to get through on the phone or contact you?"

“It seems, not really.”

"Does she live alone or with family?"

"And her mother. His father is dead."

"Call her mother."

Lin Mo said.

The head nurse went out to make a phone call and came back soon to tell Lin Mo that no one answered Zhou Xiaofei's mother's call.

"Do you know where she lives?"

"Know."

Lin Mo got the address, calculated a few times with his fingers, and immediately arranged for an action team to check it out.

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been together with Xiaoyu for too long, or maybe it’s because I learned some rough divination methods from my second brother, but I just got a bad result from the divination. In short, Lin Mo felt that something had happened.

Moreover, it may have something to do with myself.

So he immediately arranged a small action team to go there.

A team consists of twelve people, which is considered a large team. It might be difficult for others to mobilize them, but Lin Mo can get everything done with just one phone call.

Not only that, a few minutes later, a team of action members in uniform walked into the ward and placed some equipment next to Lin Mo's bed.

It's a monitor.

And a headset.

The action team members are equipped with cameras, so they can directly view the on-site situation through the monitor. In addition, the headsets can directly communicate with the action team members and issue orders directly.

On the screen, I saw that the action team members had already gotten out of a car, holding weapons, and quickly rushed into a residential building.

(End of this chapter)