Endless route

Chapter 293 63. Something happened at the Midnight Terror Camp

Time passed slowly, and the setting sun gradually disappeared below the horizon. The lights around the Taoist ruins camp came on one by one, and layers of searchlights dispersed the darkness in the rainforest.

Night falls over the swamp.

The campground was brightly lit.

Every street between the tents, every blind spot under the simple house, inside and outside all vacant dormitories, all places are under the pure white light, and even the strands of hair can be seen clearly.

Like day.

But the light of artificial lights is still not as bright as natural light, and the missing part of the color spectrum ends up in unnatural tones, making the rainforest pale in color and with deeper shadows.

Buzz buzz.

The phone vibrated slightly.

Song Wan reached out and turned off the alarm clock on her phone. It was now 1:55 in the middle of the night. She looked back at Zheng Yun, who was sleeping soundly.

The light reflected into the room from the window and hit Zheng Yun's cheek. He slept peacefully. As the alarm clock vibrated, his eyelashes trembled slightly, but he still did not wake up completely.

I can still sleep for five minutes.

Song Wan turned her head and looked out the window. The whole camp was enveloped in a very subtle and strange atmosphere after entering the night.

As the evening fog dissipated, the concentration of water mist in the rainforest reached the thinnest moment of the day. The field of vision was very broad, and one could see a pale blue moon in the night.

That moon is not actually a moon, it is not a satellite of this planet, but a very distant star.

The watchtower sheds wisps of red light.

In the red light were a large number of people on duty, sitting in lines on the edge of the camp, staring closely at the rainforest outside the camp.

They were all wearing orange-red raincoats.

There are twenty or thirty people in one team.

Carrying a large amount of detection equipment.

The archaeological team has made very detailed arrangements, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe them as being on full alert. The monitoring rooms around the camp are as white as day, with a group of leaders guarding them at all times.

Song Wan stared at the time.

The moment the numbers jumped from 1:59 to 2:00, she turned back and reached out, gently pushing Zheng Yun's shoulders and shaking them.

"Brother Zheng, it's two o'clock."

"The time you said has come."

Song Wan called softly. In addition to Zheng Yun, Hu Ruihua and Hu Zi also fell asleep with Zheng Yun after eating, planning to get up at the same time at two o'clock.

Only Song Wan didn't sleep.

She had to keep time to call people.

Apart from her, there were only two ghost generals in the entire tent who were also awake. They were sitting on the lower bunk next to Zheng Yun, with long and narrow ghost swords hanging from their waists in closed diving suits.

"Brother Zheng?"

Song Wan recommended Zheng Yun.

Zheng Yun's eyelashes trembled more frequently, but he showed no sign of waking up, and his breathing became much faster.

"..."

Song Wan's heart skipped a beat and she realized something was a little off. She turned her head and looked at Hu Zi and others on the lower bunk opposite. They also had their eyes closed tightly and were not woken up by her.

"Brother Zheng!" Song Wan raised her voice and moved her hands harder, shaking Zheng Yun.

The two ghost generals also noticed the abnormality here, and stood up to protect Zheng Yun and Song Wan at the same time. They unsheathed their swords and stared at the door and window to create a safe space.

Nothing could break into the tent at this moment and harm Zheng Yun, who couldn't be woken up, and Song Wan, who was calling someone.

"What happened?"

Hu Zi suddenly trembled all over. He was frightened by Song Wan's call and sat up. He looked at Song Wan blankly and asked.

"I can't wake Zheng Yun up."

Song Wan's tone was slightly anxious.

Logically speaking, Zheng Yun should sleep very lightly and wake up immediately, but when two o'clock came, Zheng Yun couldn't wake up. This situation obviously had a big problem.

"ah?"

Hu Zi was stunned for a moment, then jumped out of bed and walked to Zheng Yun's bedside. He glanced at it and immediately walked towards Xiao Hu. He raised his hand and punched his thin body: "Xiao Hu!"

"..."

Song Wan couldn't care about other people.

After realizing that something was wrong, she immediately took out Zheng Yun's mobile phone and looked through the messages on the phone, wondering whether this phenomenon was unique to them or a common situation.

But the group was quiet.

It was now 2:01, and no relevant information appeared in the group. Only other camps sent some briefings, but there was no news from their Taoist camp.

Something might really have happened!

Song Wan didn't care about anything else and directly pulled out Xu Yu's phone number from the address book, pressed the call button and looked out the window.

The campground remained silent.

The guards under the watchtower were all awake. They were still patrolling the edge of the camp, warming themselves in front of the campfire, and keeping an eye on the depths of the rainforest. They had not yet discovered anything unusual.

Toot toot.

A blind tone continues to emit from the phone.

No one answered Xu Yu's call. Song Wan didn't know the specific situation, but her heartbeat was getting faster and faster.

When the phone is about to hang up automatically.

A hand suddenly stretched out, gently grabbed Song Wan's arm, shook her body, and called her softly:

"Song Wan, wake up."

…

Zheng Yun's expression was serious. As soon as he closed his eyes, the clues in the ruins of Nanze Ancient City automatically appeared in his mind.

There are auspicious murals, last year's mass tragedy, the underground cable bridge, the memorial tower, the darkroom of the collapsed lake...

The combination of various things caused him to sleep very lightly. He lay half asleep and half awake for a long time, thinking about memories in a hazy way. He was completely awakened by a voice at about one o'clock.

He couldn't tell what the sound was.

It seemed like someone yelled in the camp, or the guards were changing the guard, or maybe it was a swamp creature chirping in the middle of the night, which was vague and lasted for just two or three seconds.

This slight change.

It immediately made Zheng Yun feel sleepy.

He stood up and sat on the bedside, looking around the indoor scene. The moonlight poured into the long table from the window, illuminating Song Wan who was sleeping soundly on the table, as well as several lunch boxes brought back by Hu Ruihua.

Song Wan was sitting beside his bed, lying on her arms with her head sideways, some hair stuck to the corners of her mouth, her side face looked peaceful under the moonlight, as if she was sleeping quietly in class.

She was holding her phone in her other hand, and the screen stayed on because of the touch, showing that it was one forty in the evening.

Look up and look in other directions.

Hu Ruihua was also awake, wearing a coat and sitting in a dark place where the moonlight could not reach. When he saw Zheng Yun waking up, he stood up and nodded to him and said softly: "It will be two o'clock soon."

"Yeah." Zheng Yun also nodded.

Everyone else was asleep, Hu Zi was snoring loudly, Xiao Hu and Lao Meng were covered with quilts, and Gui Jiang was leaning on the bedside and dozing off. He opened his eyes immediately after hearing the sound.

"There are no abnormal conditions in the camp during this period. You should eat first. The food is getting cold." Hu Ruihua walked to the moonlight and sat opposite Zheng Yun with his clothes on.

"The archaeological team is very cautious."

Zheng Yun gently opened the lunch box and looked sideways out of the window. The camp was surrounded by searchlights. The night watch team members were guarding the edge of the camp. There was a slight human noise throughout the camp.

As long as people are awake, there is movement.

There may be one-third of the camp's people on duty at night, and the sounds of nearly a hundred people make the camp very lively, with the sounds of conversations, campfires, vehicles entering and exiting, and handovers.

"Xu Yu sent someone over just now and gave you a walkie-talkie, asking us to report the number of people and the situation at all times."

Hu Ruihua took out the walkie-talkie and said softly.

"You really need to be careful tonight." Zheng Yun agreed softly, turning his head to look at Song Wan. She was breathing long and soundly asleep without being woken up by him, and the corners of her mouth were still shining.

Sleeping on your stomach tends to lead to drooling.

Zheng Yun pulled some paper and wiped it with her, took out his mobile phone from her arms, turned on the screen and looked through it.

There is no news in a group.

There was no reply from Ji Dao.

Li Wu didn't send him any more messages after the last conversation, and he was probably on duty at the Sunken Lake camp.

Think about it for a moment.

Zheng Yun sent a message to Kedester, asking where he, Jias Eileen and others were, and whether they would spend the night in the more distant No. 3 Ancient City District tonight.

The Zhou Yuangang team that was sending garbled codes at midnight was in Ancient City District No. 3. The level of danger there might be the same as or even higher than in Ancient City District No. 2.

Calculated by time.

Kedester and others have arrived at Ancient City Area No. 3, but they have not sent a report. Zheng Yun does not know what is going on with them or whether they have entered the ancient building.

After sending the message, Zheng Yun put down his phone and chatted softly with Hu Ruihua, focusing on the simple lunch box in his hand.

Soon the time was approaching two o'clock.

Zheng Yun finished his meal quickly, and when he stood up to throw away his lunch box, Lao Meng also got off the upper bunk, took out a cigarette case from his arms, and wanted to give one to each of Zheng Yun and Hu Ruihua.

"I don't smoke." Zheng Yun shook his head.

"Let's go outside." Hu Ruihua stood up.

Watching the two of them open the door and go outside the tent, just to relieve their addiction by puffing up smoke in the middle of the night, Zheng Yun shook his head helplessly and walked back to the bed. The two of them, old smokers, probably couldn't hold it in for a long time.

Just smoke.

Maybe it's the same as La Maine Town.

Smoking is a good thing in the end.

Buzz buzz.

Song Wan's phone vibrated.

Zheng Yun took a look and saw that it was now one-fifty-five, five minutes before two o'clock, so he swiped the screen to cancel the alarm clock and picked up the quilt to cover her.

This is considered a tropical rain forest.

The temperature at night is also not low.

However, when the sea breeze blows at night, it will still bring cold air to cover the entire ancient city of Nanze, making people vulnerable to wind chill.

Go to the window and look outside.

Zheng Yun suddenly remembered an article he had read before. People in the ancient city of Nanze would get up at around fourteen o'clock in the evening, work at midnight, and go to bed at three or four in the morning.

At that time, the author of the data also mentioned that the ancients may have such a schedule to avoid fog miasma. The water mist in the ancient city of Nanze is thin at night, and the visual distance is much better than during the day.

Working at night is better than during the day.

However, as the archaeological work progresses, more anomalies will emerge, and several new guesses may need to be added.

The ancients may have been hiding.

What are they hiding from?

The whole city wakes up at night, and with the auspicious paintings covering the whole city, what kind of supernatural phenomenon is there in the ancient city of Nanze? Will cause them to form this habit...

Zheng Yun had previously reasoned that because the ancient city of Nanze has a large population, there should be no ghosts and ghosts around, and any ghosts and ghosts should be kept away from the city.

But the reality is.

All military households in the ancient city of Nanze.

This is not an ordinary city at all, but an important military city. During the Ming Dynasty, nearly one million soldiers were stationed along the coast of Nanze. The people in the city have been serving as soldiers for generations. Its importance is self-evident.

Situations like this.

Don't say there are magic tricks in the city.

Even if there is magic to control the city, it is reasonable.

If he were the leader of the Ming Dynasty Haiwei and had built a city on the ground deep in the swamp, and dispatched hundreds of thousands of people to guard it, he would definitely bring in Hanxian and other magical techniques to suppress the city.

Therefore, there was also a situation where from the moment they stepped into the ruins of the ancient city of Nanze, there was an unknown level of supernatural means surrounding them.

But now I have no clue.

Gods and ghosts usually have taboos and methods of restraint.

For example, the original Han Immortals had taboos such as not making loud noises and not eating in caves. As long as they did not violate these taboos, they would be able to avoid being attacked by Han Immortals to a large extent...

"Zheng Yun, do you want to wake them up?"

Hu Ruihua's voice sounded from behind. He and Lao Meng finished smoking a cigarette and dispersed the smoke before returning.

"Better call it."

Zheng Yun rubbed his brows and turned back to look at the others. Nanze Ancient City had this habit, and they should pay attention to it.

It’s better not to sleep.

Go to bed after four o'clock.

"Huzi, Xiaohu, get up." Hu Ruihua nodded and walked to the bed, calling Huzi and Xiaohu at the same time.

Zheng Yun walked to Song Wan.

It was now two o'clock. Zheng Yun gently pushed Song Wan's shoulder and called in her ear.

But Song Wan made no move.

Only the long eyelashes trembled slightly.

Zheng Yun lifted the hair from her forehead and continued to push with a little more force. He saw that Song Wan still closed her eyes tightly, but the trembling of her eyelashes increased, as if she was having a nightmare.

"Zheng Yun, something is wrong."

Hu Ruihua spoke in a low voice to Zheng Yun.

Zheng Yun glanced back. He and Lao Meng called Hu Zi and Xiao Hu respectively, but the two people also had no reaction and did not wake up even if their heads were shaken.

problem occurs.

This phenomenon is not normal.

"Song Wan, wake up." Zheng Yun's heart tightened, and he quickly grabbed Song Wan's arm, lifted her up from the table, then shook her soft body and called her loudly.

Song Wan's eyelashes trembled.

But still didn't wake up.

Huzi and Xiaohu are also exactly the same.

They also showed no sign of waking up. Hu Ruihua even slapped Huzi twice on the face, but it had no effect.

"I've been tricked, go check next door." Zheng Yun frowned, slowly carried Song Wan to the bed and lay down, then immediately picked up the phone and subconsciously checked the notifications in the group.

There was no reaction from the group.

It's possible that things just happened, and they were the first people to discover the abnormality, so there was no news in the group.

"Zheng Yun, walkie-talkie."

Hu Ruihua pointed to the intercom on the table, then immediately opened the door and walked out of the tent, going to the surrounding tents to check the situation.

Zheng Yun picked up the walkie-talkie and said directly into the speaker, regardless of whether it was Xu Yu alone or the entire channel:

"I am Zheng Yun from the Fuen Archaeological Team. Something happened here. Everyone should be on alert and try to call the sleeping teammates around them to see if they can be woken up."

Sizzle.

Radio waves spread in all directions.

Zheng Yun waited for a moment, and suddenly the camp became lively. A large number of sounds came from the intercom and the window. The noise gradually broke the quiet midnight deep in the swamp.

"I am Wang Hengzhou from the second team of the Fuen Archaeological Team. The same situation happened here and my three teammates couldn't wake up."

"Ma Xiao, a group of the Gubo archaeological team, discovered the same situation. Did anything happen to Xu Yu's command over there?"

"I am the assistant to Commander Xu Yu. I have confirmed that Commander Xu Yu cannot be woken up. I have reported the situation to my old friend, Commander Zhao Qiufu. Everyone remains calm and waits."

"Lu Xiangwu, tell your security team to stay calm, don't move around at will, and stay in place to monitor the situation in the rainforest."

…

Zheng Yun put down the walkie-talkie and looked out the window at the blue-light moon in the night sky. He then looked back at Song Wan, whose eyelashes were trembling on the bed, and felt a chill in his heart.

With the strict protection of the archaeological team.

Actually, they didn't escape this disaster.

Unknowingly, so many of them were hit at the same time, and they were so deep in their sleep that they couldn't wake up.

The Taoist temple ruins at their feet may contain deep secrets, and the source of this incident lies within...