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  "We got lost shortly after we entered."

  "Perhaps it's normal for you to get lost, but as long as you follow my brother, you'll never lose your way. At the very least, you always return the same way."

  She seemed to have thought of something, and her expression turned unpleasant. "My brother's way of thinking is different from ordinary people. He is used to numbering people or things. When he's in the forest, he keeps numbering dires, locations, and any hy things around him," she paused and g Jiang g, saying, "It's not the kind of sequential numbering starting from 1 that you'd imagine, as for what it is…"

  "Let me interrupt," Jiang g said, "I’m not ied in your brother’s abilities. I just want to know about the forest."

  Su Xiaoxiao nodded. "I don’t know how to describe this forest to you. In short, it’s not something we prehend. My brother seems to uand it, but unfortunately, his way of expressing it is limited."

  "I only know that he keeps emphasizing ohing," Su Xiaoxiao suddenly sat up straight, and her whole demeanor ged, being solemn. "He says this forest... is alive."

  "The forest... is alive?" The Fatty blinked in fusion.

  He inexplicably recalled the bck mist he saw in the forest’s gap earlier. It was like quid, drawing attention with a single gnce, making it impossible to look away, and the more you looked, the deeper you sank.

  "That's right," Su Xiaoxiao seemed worried that Jiang g wouldn't uand, gng toward the forest behind and then quickly returning her gaze. "At least in my brother's uanding, when he enters the same tree at different times, he assigns it a different number."

  Jiang g leaned against a rock, his eyes still focused on the forest. "Are you saying that in your brother's perception, this tree is no lohe same tree he entered before?"

  "Exactly."

  "Then how about in your perception?" the Fatty asked. "Is there any ge iree?"

  "No."

  "How did you get those injuries?" Jiang g suddenly asked.

  Upon hearing this question, Su Xiaoxiao’s body trembled slightly, but she trolled herself well, quickly returning to normal.

  "We got lost in the forest aually found a pce..." She paused suddenly at this point. Jiang g didn't rush her; he knew she wasn’t unwilling to speak, but was searg for the right word.

  "A shrine?" Su Xiaoxiao looked up.

  The Fatty was stunned for a moment, and after reag, he thought to himself, "We're asking you, not the other way around. How would we know what strahings you found in the forest?"

  "Just describe what you saw," Jiang g forted her.

  "It was a rge, circur stoform, about 10 meters in diameter," Su Xiaoxiao recalled. "It ure white, and the area around it was filled with graves."

  Jiang g thought for a moment, then said, "As far as I know, no tribe has the of building graves for sacrifices. They only take the heads of the leaders or nobles from eribes."

  "Let me finish," Su Xiaoxiao said without any sign of dissatisfa. She was simply too nervous, so nervous that she didn’t want t up this experiehe rge stoform was surrounded by graves, but it was covered with all kinds of bones."

  She carefully swallowed, "There were human bones, and… there were bones from various creatures."

  Jiang g looked at her, clearly sensing the fear in her heart, and he uood that it wasn’t just the graves and bohat frightened her. She had definitely discovered something else.

  Especially her choice of words.

  "Various creatures," why not "various animals"? This phrasing seemed more like something a normal person would use.

  "What did you see in the pile of bones?" Jiang g asked quietly.

  Su Xiaoxiao seemed surprised by the direess of Jiang g’s question. She suddenly looked up, her trembling eyes log onto his, as if searg for some hint in his gaze.

  But clearly, she failed.

  In Jiang g's eyes, only her own refle could be seen.

  "I don’t know what they were, but they definitely weren’t creatures that belong to our world," Su Xiaoxiao said with a tremor in her voice. "They were bizarre, some looked like frogs or lizards, but much rger than normal, 2 meters... no, they were probably 3 meters tall, even bigger, and some of them had wings on their backs!"

  Remembering the sight, Su Xiaoxiao’s face turned pale, the st trace of color draining from her face. "They looked like they came from billions of years ago..."

  Jiang g was silent for a while before speaking, "Believe me, there were no such creatures billions of years ago."

  Su Xiaoxiao robably too agitated, which triggered her lung injury, causio cough violently. However, just as she was about to tio describe the most eerie and terrifying part, she noticed Jiang g slightly straighten his posture.

  It was an indescribable feeling. In that brief moment, it was as if she saw the shadow of something on Jiang g’s body, but what was it? Or perhaps, who was it?

  The strange sense of familiarity was fleeting, but Su Xiaoxiao never doubted her instincts, just as she never doubted her brother's judgment.

  "If I'm not mistaken, those things you mentioned, oar..." Jiang g exhaled and then turned his face back to normal. "They've e back to life, right?" he asked gently.

  The Fatty froze.

  Su Xiaoxiao was surprised, but she didn’t lose her posure because she uood that Jiang g must have seen the injuries on her brother, especially the gunshot wound on his back.

  "Aside from those creatures you mentiohe people oar also came back to life," Jiang g said. "Some of them had guns. It was them who shot your brother."

  "Yes."

  The Fatty, who had beeally frozen, finally began to ect the dots. "You mean... those guys who had turned into bones are back to life?"

  "And they shot your brother with guns?!"

  "Yes," Su Xiaoxiao appeared to be answering the Fatty’s question, but her attention never left Jiang g. There was something special about him, something that drew her in.

  It was a sense of familiarity.

  "I think you’ve guessed it too," Su Xiaoxiao said, "Those people were the same teammates who came ashore with the old woman."

  "But for some reason, they died in the forest. Their bones were pced oar. Then, at some opportunity, the things oar came to life, and then..."

  Su Xiaoxiao didn’t finish her sentence. After all, there was o expin further to the man in front of her.

  This seemed like some kind of automatic defense meism of the forest, or even the isnd. Osiders ehe altar in the forest is activated, and then... it’s time for the resurrected "ons" to kill.

  And the "visitors" who are killed are incorporated into this defense system, being new "guards."

  This theory wasn’t hard for the Fatty to uand, but the hard part was believing it.

  Could such a facility really exist?

  Didn’t the doctor say this was a shadow of the real world?

  If it’s a shadow, that means there's a pce like this in the real world, and that pce also has an altar.

  An altar... piled with tless bones.

  This ’t be possible.

  (End of the Chapter)

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