Xie Xuan pondered and said, "Do you know the anglerfish? This fish lives in the deep sea. It has a small, glowing lantern-like structure on its head. It uses the light-attraction of other fish to lure them for food."
Song Zhixian and Xiao Yao had never heard of this kind of fish, and even suspected that Xie Xuan was making it up.
But it did not prevent them from understanding the meaning of Xie Xuan's words.
"Are you saying that this territory deliberately released these three people to lure us out?" Xiao Yao asked, "But one thing doesn't make sense. They didn't let us go to the town, did they?"
Song Zhixian shook his head and said, "I saw a study inside the wall that showed that certain types of mental infection are more likely to work on people who have memories or experiences like this."
"Something like psychological suggestion?" Xie Xuan pondered. "I've always wondered, if there were no restrictions on such a powerful ability like this domain, wouldn't it be invincible? So, is it possible that these three people first gave us some kind of psychological suggestion, causing us to fall asleep without even entering the town?"
"It's possible." Song Zhixian said.
Xiao Yao swallowed the compressed biscuits in a few bites, "But now is not the time to talk about this. We have to find a way to leave this area first."
Song Zhixian nodded, "By the way, where is Chongming?"
"He can't be woken up, so I don't dare give him an injection rashly." Xie Xuan said, "But leaving him in the car shouldn't be a problem. Bai Ze won't die that easily."
Xiao Yao held his forehead, "Don't set flags randomly."
Xie Xuan coughed lightly and said, "I won't say anything more. Let's go."
The three of them left Chongming alone in the car. Their previous protective shield device had run out of energy and stopped working, so Xie Xuan opened a new one.
After getting off the car, Xie Xuan recalled, "I checked our current position before turning off the power in the car. We haven't moved since we fell asleep."
Song Zhixian felt the heartbeats around him and said, "There are a lot of heartbeats around, but they don't sound like infected things, they sound more like infected organisms."
If the infected in the area have a heartbeat, they are generally identical, but if they are infected organisms, even if they are from the same species, the heartbeat sounds will vary greatly.
This place is more like a natural environment outside the domain than inside the domain.
Xiao Yao squatted on the ground and touched it. There was no doubt that this was a road, and a very new road at that, as if it had just been built a few days ago.
Xie Xuan never thought that one day they would not even be able to tell whether they were in the area or not.
"Let's look around first." Xie Xuan said, "I'll be alone, and you two can form a team."
Song Zhixian and Xiao Yao were not very satisfied with this arrangement, but Xie Xuan said before they could say anything: "I can sense Song Zhixian's position and status through my supernatural power. Besides, I am the strongest. It is most reasonable for me to be alone."
"Okay." Xiao Yao said helplessly.
If you take the RV as the starting point, going forward is the original town, and going backward is the route they took from their base.
Just as Xie Xuan was about to say she was going to walk forward to the town, Xiao Yao and Song Zhixian said first, "We two will go forward, and you can go behind."
Xie Xuan thought about it and didn't force it. "Okay, call me if you get into trouble."
Xiao Yao and Song Zhixian said, "I understand. You should also pay attention to safety."
After the three people separated, Xie Xuan returned alone along the same route they came.
The town built overnight was similar to what Xie Xuan had seen in the previous area. The roads and buildings on both sides of the roads were almost brand new. The only difference was that there was no one here.
The sun in the sky was rising slowly overhead, and the shadow under Xie Xuan's feet formed a round, black circle and lay quietly on the ground.
She tried to let her shadow eat some of the road, but strangely, her shadow responded that it could not be eaten. This was just a serious asphalt road with no life in it.
Xie Xuan had never encountered such a strange thing. She couldn't imagine that anything other than fungus species could turn the mushroom forest outside the wall into a deserted town in just a few days.
Was she hallucinating again? Xie Xuan wondered, was she still asleep?
Xie Xuan walked along this road for half an hour. The roads and buildings around her were still the same, without any changes.
Xie Xuan originally suspected that she was just going around in circles, but she could feel that the distance between her and Song Zhixian was indeed getting farther and farther.
After walking for another half an hour, Xie Xuan's mood began to fluctuate.
But at this moment, she saw three dark figures standing on the side of the road.
One of them was facing Xie Xuan, and she easily recognized that he was one of the three people who were brought into the base by Song Zhixian last night.
When Xie Xuan saw them, they also saw Xie Xuan.
After the three of them discussed in a low voice for a few words, they walked towards Xie Xuan.
"Hello, I'm Wang Hua, captain of Squad 6 at C7 Garrison Point. May I ask who you are?"
Xie Xuan frowned, not knowing whether Wang Hua was playing dumb or if their memory had problems again after entering the realm.
"I'm Xie Xuan, captain of Team 18, Development Department, Branch 111, District 6 Ecological Bureau." Xie Xuan said, "Don't you remember me?"
"Did I...know you before?" Wang Hua asked doubtfully. "Sorry, I don't remember. Is your team also coming to this town to carry out a mission? Where are your teammates?"
Xie Xuan took in Wang Hua's expression and asked, "What year, month, and date is today?"
Although Wang Hua was surprised why Xie Xuan suddenly asked this, he still answered Xie Xuan's question.
The only difference is that the date he mentioned was the date they disappeared in the area a year ago.
After they returned to this realm, all their memories of leaving the realm disappeared!
Xie Xuan thought for a moment and then asked, "Did you also fall asleep unknowingly and then find out that the RV had no power, so you got out and planned to look for clues?"
Wang Hua nodded. "Yes, is that the case with you as well?"
Xie Xuan said: "Yes, have you found any clues now?"
"Unfortunately, no," Wang Hua said. "We've been walking along the same path for almost two hours. Logically, we should have left the town by now, but as you can see, we're still in it. And it looks very new, completely different from when we first entered."
"Did the town look old when you first came in?" Xie Xuan asked.
Wang Hua nodded. "It's very old. It looks like an ordinary town ruin, but..."
Xie Xuan waited for a long time, but Wang Hua seemed to have forgotten what he was going to say, and there was no further news after that.
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