C267 deep into the mountains

I was a little surprised. "Why haven't I heard you talk about it before?"

"Is that important?" Du Yue shook his head, puzzled. "Do you really think that my capture has something to do with the Nikes?"

"It's not impossible." I replied, "Since the Nikes were able to leave the southern foothills and seek refuge on the island before the catastrophe began, it means that they must have known about it beforehand. Maybe the people in the Bluebird Company thought that you went to find them because you wanted to find their secret."

Du Yue thoughtfully nodded: "This is something I did not expect."

At this point, I once again asked the moon spirit if she had found anything during their earlier conversation. However, the moon spirit still had no memory of what happened on the island.

Du Yue said that although standing at the top of the front mountain didn't feel like we were far off, it would take us a long time to reach there.

"Can you point out the Nikki?" I asked.

Du Yue seemed to think that my words were kind of funny. "Furthermore, the positions of the Nicky people aren't fixed and unchangeable. They often wander back and forth in the southern foothills."

"Is it similar to a nomad?" I asked.

"Right."

"Then what do they usually eat? Was it to grow your own crops? "

"I can grow some myself." Du Yue nodded his head, "Furthermore, you shouldn't think that the Nicky people are completely isolated from the world. In fact, sometimes they would also leave the southern foothills and go to the nearby towns and villages to buy things. They are a branch of the Tibetan race and are not uncivilized natives.

I frowned. I remember that wave of Nicky people on the island didn't seem to be speaking Chinese.

I immediately raised this question. Du Yue waved his hand and said, "There are a lot of Nikki people. There should only be a small number of Nikki people on the island."

I nodded.

When we were in contact with the Nikes on the island, Du Yue was still in a dazed state.

After that, Du Yue looked at the mountains ahead of him carefully, then pointed at a faintly discernable forest trail on the right side of the mountain. "This way, is the way we went into the rear mountains last time."

Squinting, I looked into the depths of the path and saw that it actually lasted only a short distance.

Du Yue saw through my thoughts and immediately said: "The road down there is blocked by the treetops, you won't be able to see it from where you are standing. Let's go, even if there is no path, we can still easily pass through the forest."

"Makes sense." I nodded.

However, I soon realized that I wasn't worrying about the road at all. I was still worried about yesterday's matter …

Later on, He Yunsong even consoled me by saying that those people probably weren't completely dead before, they had merely entered a fake death state caused by the virus, and then, under the trend of the virus, their bodies turned into the kind of thing that we saw.

But I still find it hard to accept.

In addition, I have another question.

If this was how the Gecko Man had been formed on land, then what was the black thing with the baby's face on the island? Was it another mutated creature?

What I am worried about is that after we enter the depths of southern foothills District, maybe I will see even more things that I cannot accept.

Soon we began to walk down the path we had just seen.

After entering the forest, a familiar feeling came back. It was as if I had returned to the island …

Honestly speaking, I still miss the life on the island a little now. Of course, I am talking about when the Bluebird Company, the Salvation Army and the Wanderers never disturbed us from our normal lives. At the very least, at that time, we could look forward to our future return to the normal society.

The woods here were similar to those on the island, because they were both in the tropical zone, and this was also an undeveloped forest.

I tried again to get the moon spirit to remember, to tell her that we used to walk together like this in the woods. The moon spirit seemed to find me tiresome, and shook her head to tell me not to dwell on this.

"Xiao Chen, since I believe you now, and I have escaped from the Bluebird Company, is this memory still important? Right now, the most important thing for us to do is to find out what exactly the people of Bluebird Company are doing. "

I said in my heart, of course this is important. Only when the moon spirit recovers her former memories will she be able to recall the matter between me and her. Only then will I have the chance to have that 'what' with her …

We were soon deep in the woods, and the path was smooth at first, but then it became narrow and difficult to walk.

Du Yue started to inquire about Duan Xiaoxiao's situation at this time. I told her that Duan Xiaoxiao's current ability was already heaven-defying, and told her not to underestimate him, especially what she saw or heard;

Du Yue nodded.

We followed the trail for more than two hours, and then the trail on the ground disappeared completely, and we began to follow the compass on my machete westward, and it was another hour before we were out of the woods.

We didn't see any animals during that time, not even the birds in the sky, but that was reasonable. After all, it was daytime and none of the animals could see the light.

What was standing in front of us was a stone wall about a hundred meters tall. Fortunately, the angle wasn't too exaggerated, and there were a lot of protruding stones on the wall.

Du Yue said that after going over this stone wall, she would reach the place she was tied up to last time.

"They arrived so quickly?" I said in surprise, "So you mean you've never been to a Nikki settlement before?"

"No?" Du Yue shook her head: "But I know the general direction, I can try to look for it later."

"In other words, you're not familiar with the terrain from here onwards, right?"

"Yes."

Damn, I told myself that I would have brought Amy here if I had known earlier. Before I left, Amy even asked if I needed her to go.

However, since he had already made it here, he couldn't possibly return.

The four of us began tying up our belongings before climbing up the cliff wall.

It took us less than ten minutes to reach the top.

There was a large area of desolate rocks. There were a few weeds and trees embedded in the cracks of the rocks. There was a lot of sparse forest in the west. Moreover, people didn't cut down the trees because they were naturally sparse.

That's right, there were already traces of human activity here.

I asked Du Yue if she was in this state the last time she came here, but she said that she and her team were ambushed as soon as they arrived.

I nodded my head, feeling nervous for no reason. I told Moon Spirit and the others to quickly bring out their weapons.

However, the moon spirit did not move.

She was standing there blankly, staring at the woods in front of her.

"Moon spirit?" I called out to her, and at the same time I saw another flash of blue in her eyes.

After a long while, Yue Ling finally shivered, looked at me and said, "Xiao Chen, I had an accident here at the time."

"Ah?" You mean last year when you were hiking in the southern foothills? "

"Right." Moon spirit nodded.

"But didn't you say you fell off a cliff?"

I stopped mid-sentence. At the same time, I turned my head to look at the stone wall that climbed up. "Did you fall down from here?"

"That's right." Moon spirit nodded.

"How did it fall?" I asked.

"I … I … I can't remember …" Moon spirit's expression seemed to be filled with pain.