Even with Cheng Shuang as a precedent, no one would take the place of death lightly. The two dared not rush in and make a fuss, but quietly and quickly walked towards her.
When Sihai looked down at the screen on her phone, he gasped.
Although he didn't recognize the dead woman in the bushes, her clothing told him that she was a protector. The branches wrapped loosely around her neck didn't seem to be the root cause of her death, but rather seemed to be there to keep her from leaving.
As the drone zoomed in, the people in the video had distorted and desperate expressions, showing that the pain they were enduring was unbearable for ordinary people.
"Is this a tree?" Du Jun asked softly, also looking up to observe.
"It should be!"
When the two appeared, Xiong Baobao reminded Cheng Shuang, and the little girl directly voiced her suspicions, "The plants you saw on the second floor..." She didn't know how to describe it for a moment, so she put it another way, "You mean, the sky and the ground are upside down here. The sky is the canopy of trees, and the canopy hangs down with branches, leaves, trunks and roots."
Du Jun suddenly looked down at the ground and immediately spotted the sun-like object. His expression tightened, and he immediately understood what she meant. "So what we see is not a plant growing from the soil, but an upside-down tree. In the city we are in, the sky is the ground and the ground is the sky. We are actually floating upside down in the air, right?!" It was both a question and an affirmation.
"Haven't you noticed?" Sihai said, stroking his chin. "Those arched bridges, haven't there ever been a single accident where someone fell? Or rather, did everyone who almost fell have the ability or time to save themselves? Because they simply couldn't fall!"
This is the City of the Abyss, but it is the City of the Abyss in a different sense.
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