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Chapter 189 The Mantis Catches the Cicada Oriole Behind
night.

The prefabricated houses standing in front of the "little forest" are like isolated fortresses hanging in the abyss.

The weak foam wall became the only barrier for those staying in the house to protect themselves from the monsters in the night world.

In one of the brightly lit board houses, Xue Qian leaned on a plastic chair near the window.

Besides him, there were several other investigators from the Foreign Affairs Bureau in the small board room.

However, Xue Qian, the director of the Tiandu Bureau of Foreign Affairs, had no intention of speaking, and naturally none of those people dared to disturb the chief director Xue who seemed to be thinking about something.

At this time, Xue Qian lowered his head slightly, as if he had fallen asleep, but anyone who knew his nature knew that he was thinking about something like this.

That's exactly what happened.

On Xue Qian's face hidden in the shadows, the two thick eyebrows were deeply frowned, and the eyes were full of deep suspicion.

His lips moved slightly, as if he was mumbling something.

It was only when he leaned in and listened intently that he realized that what he was saying was "what the hell is going on".

It would make his "pillar" so uneasy that he couldn't fall asleep when he should normally be sleeping at this time.

Just now, he brought the investigators from the Bureau of Foreign Affairs to this camp. After assigning tasks, he prepared to relax and wait for the possible battle after dawn tomorrow.

Unexpectedly, when Xue Qian returned to the room and was about to go to sleep, that familiar yet unfamiliar feeling of whim appeared without warning.

And compared to before, this time it came so fiercely, as if something was about to happen.

Xue Qian immediately became alert and notified the investigators in the camp that they were also ready to fight.

After he conveyed this order, the camp that had already begun to rest suddenly boiled.

All the investigators put on the equipment they had taken off, ready to meet the coming enemies.

The guards guarding here seemed to be in a hurry, but they quickly calmed down with the help of the investigators.

It took less than 5 minutes for the entire camp to go from "boiling" to "quiet".

It's just that compared to before, the current "silence" is full of a chilling flavor.

However, what no one, including Xue Qian, expected was that in the next two hours, there was no wind or wave in the "grove" or near the camp, and there was no so-called "enemy" at all.

But at this time, the sky has completely darkened, and the outside of the board room is already a world of night.

Even though the whim hadn't stopped, Xue Qian had to give another order to cancel the alert.

Otherwise, the investigators will always stretch the string in their minds too tightly, which may affect tomorrow's battle.

"Damn, what's going on?"

Xue Qian, who still couldn't find the reason, was a little irritable, and suddenly stood up from the chair.

His movement immediately attracted the attention of several other investigators in the room, and they all cast doubtful glances at him.

Xue Qian ignored them, walked to the window, and stretched out his hand to open the curtain to see the scene outside.

But before his hand touched the curtain, he shrank back again.

The outside world is in the night world, full of all kinds of monsters.

If you open the curtains hastily, it is likely to bring disaster.

As a "pillar", he is naturally not afraid, but besides him, there are several ordinary investigators in the room, for them, that would be a disaster.

Xue Qian gave up watching the outside world, but did not leave the window. Instead, he put his ear on the window, wanting to hear if there was any change outside.

It's been almost three hours since that whim started to appear, and it hasn't slowed down at all, on the contrary, it has become more intense.

Xue Qian felt that his heartbeat was at least several times faster than normal. The blood was flowing in the blood vessels, and the force of washing the walls of the blood vessels was very majestic.

Thanks to him being the "pillar", an ordinary person, even a "demon hunter level" investigator, probably wouldn't be able to stand the whim for such a long time.

Xue Qian, who didn't know that he was already flushed, held his breath and listened carefully to the movement outside the board room.

There was no strange sound, just a rustling sound, which seemed to be the sound of the wind blowing the branches.

Not hearing the strange noise he imagined, Xue Qian's frown relaxed slightly.

His strange behavior was noticed by several other investigators in the room.

When they saw Xue Qian standing up and approaching the window, as if he wanted to reach out to lift the curtains, the investigators' hearts were already in their throats.

Several people wanted to stop Xue Qian's reckless behavior, but they all suppressed their silence.

When Xue Qian retracted his hand, several people breathed a sigh of relief.

But at the same time, Xue Qian didn't sit back in his original position, but put his ear against the window, and made them look at each other again.

Several people exchanged eye contact for a moment, and came to a conclusion - their Director Xue should be paying attention to the situation outside.

However, it is dark now, what can happen outside?
Besides, even if there really is a situation, it's not their turn to take care of it, right?

The doubts of the few people did not ease because they guessed Xue Qian's intentions, but became more and more confused.

After a while, when several people saw Xue Qian's face frowning, his expression eased, as if he hadn't found anything, and they took a deep breath before letting out a sigh of relief.

However, before everyone could finish their breath, Xue Qian's face suddenly changed, and he quickly opened the curtains that had tightly covered the windows.

At this moment, everyone subconsciously forgot to breathe, forgot to stop, and their eyes moved involuntarily to the window without curtains.

Or it could be the land outside the window shrouded in light red moonlight, and dozens of figures moving fast on the land.

There are really people!

This was the first reaction of several investigators.

Immediately afterwards, they put on a horrified expression—there was someone outside!
In the world of darkness, human figures actually appeared. This was something that had never happened before.

Investigators who have no experience in dealing with such situations can only look to the "backbone" Xue Qian, hoping that he can give instructions.

Unexpectedly, Xue Qian opened the window and jumped out without saying a word.

This couldn't help but startled the investigators again.

Outside is the night world, a mysterious world where you will get lost if you enter it, and you can never return.

Xue Qian jumped in just like that, is he dying?
Several people looked at each other and saw the horror in others' eyes.

After a few seconds, when Xue Qian's figure had disappeared into the distance, everyone came back to their senses.

After discussing with them, they decided to first tell the others about the situation through the exclusive channel of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, and then go after their Director Xue.

the other side.

Shen Xiu who was the first to enter the "little forest" had already arrived at the cabin.

The outside of this log cabin looks like an ordinary log cabin, somewhat similar to the place where hunters temporarily settle down for hunting in the deep mountains.

The furnishings in the house are also quite simple, except for a chair, a small round table and a few broken iron pots in the living room, there is nothing else.

After Shen Xiu entered the wooden house, she glanced casually and found that it was exactly the same as in the movie, so she didn't waste time here.

According to the experience of the "protagonists" in the movie, these things in the living room are ordinary items, and there is nothing worth paying attention to.

The secrets in this "grove" are all hidden in the basement of this wooden house.

The foresighted Shen Xiu walked straight to the only bedroom in the wooden house.

Coming to the bedroom, Shen Xiu moved the wooden bed placed in the corner, smashed the floor, exposing the soil below.

Seeing that it was not the entrance to the basement, Shen Xiu was not surprised.

Because if it was discovered so easily, the people from the Bureau of Foreign Affairs would not have discovered nothing.

In the movie, the fat girl, one of the "protagonists", was overweight and the wooden bed was overwhelmed. She fell on the ground and smashed several pieces of the floor, and the edge of the broken wooden floor scratched the fat girl's body.

A few drops of blood dripped from the wound and spilled on the ground, revealing the real entrance to the basement.

Knowing that blood is the key to open the basement door, Shen Xiu naturally did not hesitate, took out the bone dagger, pricked her finger lightly, forcefully squeezed out a drop of blood, and dripped it on the soil.

The blood soon seeped into the soil.

Shen Xiu squatted on the ground, looking at the muddy ground where there had been no movement for a long time, and murmured:
"Could it be that there are not enough drops of blood?"

After thinking about it, Shen Xiu stretched out the pierced finger again, and was about to squeeze out another drop of blood, but found that the wound had healed.

The corner of his mouth twitched, and he had no choice but to take out the bone dagger.

I was about to do the same thing as before, and then I went up and down on my finger, but suddenly I heard rustling footsteps coming from outside the wooden house.

someone is coming?

Shen Xiu immediately frowned, stood up, stretched her neck, and looked out the window.

At this time, the outside world is already in the world of night, so it stands to reason that no one will come in.

But if it's not human, could it be the monsters that belong to the world of night, or the monsters that originally belonged to this "little forest"?

When her eyes touched the window, Shen Xiu couldn't help being stunned.

The owner of the footsteps is not a monster, but Alia who has gone and returned.

"Alia, why are you back again? Didn't I ask you to wait for me outside?" Shen Xiu asked with a slight frown.

Aliya stood still instantly, with her head slightly lowered, a little afraid to look at "Father".

Seeing her look like this, Shen Xiu sighed helplessly. She didn't want to say anything harsh, so she could only wave to Aaliya and signal her to come in first.

Although Aliya lowered her head, she could still observe Shen Xiu's movements from the corner of her eye.

Seeing that "father" was not angry and let her go, Aliya suddenly turned from grief to joy, and quickly jumped in through the window.

When Aliya entered the room, Shen Xiu sighed again.

This girl was still looking pitiful one second, and became lively again the next second. This acting skill even deceived him.

However, the previous worries were still there, Shen Xiu didn't cut her fingers and squeeze out the blood immediately, but told Alia:
"Alia, I'm going to open a passage leading to the ground later, you just wait for me above, you can't go down without my consent."

Aliya bit her lip lightly, although she was a little unwilling, but she had already disobeyed Shen Xiu once, if she did it again, I'm afraid "father" would really be angry.

"Well, Aliya knows." Aliya nodded.

"Remember, you can't go down without my consent."

Shen Xiu warned again, and then planned to continue with the previous plan.

But at the moment when the dagger was about to cut through her fingers, Aliya suddenly said:

"Father, in fact, Aliya didn't deliberately disobey you, father."

Shen Xiu paused and looked up at her, as if he wanted to hear her "quibble".

Aliya said seriously with a small face:

"Father, just now you asked Aliya to wait for you outside the woods. Aliya had already gone out, but when Aliya came outside the woods, she found that whoever brought a lot of people came over."

"that whoever?"

Shen Xiu frowned, not knowing who Alice was referring to.

Aliya frowned, not knowing how to describe it, she hesitated for a while before saying:
"It's the heads of those people outside, with messy hair and a little thin."

"Xue Qian?!"

Shen Xiu blurted out, then immediately frowned deeply:

"No, how did he know that I was here, and brought a lot of people here? What is he trying to do?"

Just when Shen Xiu was thinking about Xue Qian's reason for coming, Alia said again:

"Seeing that person, Aliya actually stayed outside the woods, but when it got dark, many people came again, whoever saw those people also came out of the house, Aliya felt that those people I came here for you, father, so I thought about coming in first and telling father you."

Hearing this, Shen Xiu's face became solemn, and she turned her head to look at the lush forest in the distance.

Besides Xue Qian and those investigators, someone else came?

Moreover, after Xue Qian discovered those people, he even voluntarily left the board room and entered the night.

Doesn't Xue Qian know what his actions mean?

Certainly not!

The reason why he knows and still does this is because there is a more important reason, so important that he can even care about his life.

But, what is the reason?

Shen Xiu thought for a while, and a thought suddenly flashed in her mind.

He looked at Aliya and asked:
"Alia, did Xue Qian and those who came later come into the woods?"

Aliya nodded without any hesitation:

"Ah."

Shen Xiu's eyes changed a few times, and she quickly put the broken floor back in its original position, and restored the position of the wooden bed, and then quickly ran out of the cabin with Alia, hiding in the dense canopy of trees quietly. wait.

Alia wanted to ask a few times, but he stopped him with his eyes.

According to his guess, those people Xue Qian wanted to stop regardless of his life should be members of the old sect.

Presumably, people from the Old Days Sect knew about the cracks in the "wall" and that he was going to repair the "wall" with the "angel" Lilith. After confirming that he had come to Tiandu, they planned to keep him in the here.

As for Xue Qian and the others, most likely it was news from Tiandu that they came to escort them.

"It seems that the 'lunatics' who came this time are important enough to let that Director Xue take action in person, but I don't know if that guy is here?"

The face of a middle-aged woman suddenly appeared in Shen Xiu's mind, with a stern look in her eyes. .

Soon, there were small but clearly audible footsteps in the silent woods.

Shen Xiu searched for the sound, and a dozen figures appeared in the distance.

All of them hid their faces under cloaks.

Through those cloaks, Shen Xiu probably could tell that the people who came were from the Foresight Society and the Eternal Life Society, but it was impossible to know who they were.

At this time, Aliya suddenly poked and pulled Shenxiu secretly, and pointed her small hand towards the back of the old sect.

Shen Xiu frowned and looked along.

A figure followed far behind the people from the Old Days Sect.

According to what Alia said before, if nothing else happens, that person should be Xue Qian.

(End of this chapter)