Chapter 581

The plan to go to Tianhai has been postponed because of something temporary.

Du Deshou stayed in the Lin family that night and took Xu Shaotang to their village in a hurry the next morning.

When they arrived at the village, it was just dawn. Xu Shaotang was not in a hurry to investigate the incident. Instead, he was following Du Deshou around the village, hoping to learn about it from other villagers.

There are very few people in the village, only some old, weak, sick and disabled people are in the village. The atmosphere of sadness diffuses in the village, and the suppressed cry reverberates in the village. Everyone's face shows worry and fear, and they gather together to comfort each other.

"These are the only people left in our whole village." Du Deshou looked at the villagers gathered together. His face was full of worry. He said with depression: "the younger people have been captured, and the young people who have escaped by chance have left the village to run for their own lives..."

Xu Shaotang once came to this village. Compared with the bustle at that time, now it can only be described as desolate and dead.

Looking at the old, weak, sick and disabled people gathered together, Xu Shaotang frowned slightly and asked, "are all the mysterious missing young people?"

He can't help but connect the things here with the hand of God. He remembers that the hand of God also captured many young people to do experiments in the base at the beginning. Did those people do the things here?

Du Deshou shook his head and said, "not all of them are young adults. Many people in their 50s and 60s have been arrested, and there are still some teenagers..."

Even people in their 50s and 60s and teenagers? This seems to be different from the type of people caught by the hand of God.

Xu Shaotang's thoughts are running fast, thinking about what these so-called Yin soldiers are going to do with the people in the surrounding villages.

"By the way, you said that all the trees where the Yin soldiers passed died. Take me to have a look!" Xu Shaotang suddenly said to Du Deshou.

He has always wondered how the trees died. The most direct way to know whether these so-called Yin soldiers are true or whether some people are playing tricks on them is to find out the reason why the trees died. If the trees died artificially, there is no need to think about it.

Du Deshou nodded and immediately took Xu Shaotang to the entrance of the village.

They soon came to the forest outside the entrance of the village. It was the beginning of September, when the trees were supposed to be the most prosperous. However, the forest in front of them was withered and yellow. As long as they were close to the forest, they could feel a cold breath. Maybe this is what the people in the village said?

This feeling of coldness is not really cold. In fact, it is more due to psychological effects. However, the temperature around the woods is a little lower than that in other places. If these trees are still luxuriant, this can be explained. After all, it is midsummer, and the woods should be cooler than other places. But since these trees have died, the temperature is still lower than that in other places It's a little difficult to explain if the circumference is lower.

Xu Shaotang turned to Du Deshou and said, "I'll go in and have a look. You can wait here now."

He knew that people in the village must be afraid of the forest. Most of Du Deshou did not dare to enter the forest.

Du Deshou looked at Xu Shaotang gratefully, nodded and said, "be careful yourself. This place is very evil."

Xu Shaotang smiles and nods. He doesn't know whether it's evil or not, but he knows that there must be something strange in it. Let's not talk about the dead trees first, but the cold smell makes him curious enough.

In Du Deshou's worried look, Xu Shaotang walks slowly into the woods.

The forest is full of withered and yellow leaves, and a thick layer has been piled up on the forest land, almost knee deep. Stepping on it, it makes a fragmentary sound. With the cold smell around, it makes the bare forest look very strange.

Xu Shaotang went to a dead tree and knocked on the trunk with his fingers. There was a clear sound on the trunk. He knocked on more than ten trees in a row, which proved that these trees were dead from the inside to the outside.

"It's really strange that it withered and died overnight!" Xu Shaotang inspected the trees in the forest and muttered to himself, "how do these people do it?"

There are many ways to make a tree wither, but these trees wither from the inside to the outside overnight. It's really weird.

Xu Shaotang squatted down and planed all the fallen leaves under a tree, hoping to find a clue from the root of the tree.

The soil at the root of the tree is intact, and there is no color difference between the soil and the surrounding soil. It seems that no one is doing anything at the root of the tree.

Xu Shaotang slowly touched the dead bark of the big tree. With his hand, he peeled off the bark of the big tree. The trunk had lost water and the bark was extremely brittle. He could easily peel off a large piece of bark.

There's nothing unusual about the bare part of the bark, which is similar to the normal dead trees.

The more Xu Shaotang thought about it, the more strange he felt. He picked up the fallen leaves on the ground and crushed them on his nose. There was no strange smell on the leaves."Strange, are these trees really withered by Yin Qi?" Xu Shaotang frowned tightly, and his head was in a mess.

Just as Xu Shaotang was about to leave the woods, a possibility suddenly occurred to him. He quickly threw away the leaves piled under his feet and revealed a large open space around him.

Break off a branch and pry up a piece of soil from the ground. The bottom of the soil turns white slightly. Put the fresh part of the soil on the tip of your nose and smell it gently. Suddenly, a slight pungent smell comes.

So it is!

He and Du Deshou both went into a misunderstanding from the beginning. They all thought that these trees died overnight, but they didn't know that it was a kind of illusion. As long as we calculate the withering time of the trees and put on a play of the passing of Yin soldiers one day ahead of time, we would get the wrong impression that these trees would die the next day after the passing of Yin soldiers.

As long as we pour some defoliant under these trees on the night when the so-called Yin soldiers cross the border, we can make the leaves fall out overnight.

In fact, these trees have been withered by excessive fertilization for a long time. The white crystal under the soil is the deposited fertilizer. The reason why it is colder than the surrounding is not only due to its psychological function, but also due to the heat absorption of the crystal fertilizer.

Up to now, he can be absolutely sure that the so-called Yin soldiers crossing the border is that someone is deliberately pretending to be a ghost!