Plague Doctor

After receiving a police call, Ma Jingxing and colleague Benyi quickly went out.

They are all police officers in Yunlin Town, Ma Bay District, desert city. There is usually nothing wrong with this place. The crime rate is very low, the population is small. Most of them are elderly people, so petty theft is rare. Their work is mostly to mediate some neighborhood conflicts.

But this call to the police in the village of North Dynasty is rare and strange, possibly a case of banditry.

Due to the fact that the case owner, old Tian Fuxiao, is now a famous person with no small size, and at his age, no one is lazy.

Also at this morning, Ma Renewal and the two arrived at the site of the forest, only Wang Fuhou and his old wife stood there, confused, nervous and disturbed.

“I still have a lot of trees right here! It's gone.” As soon as I saw them, Wang Fuhou grabbed them and said, his wrinkled old face was excited and frightened. "I pressed my hand against the trunk of the tree and I penetrated it. Like being burned by fire, look at my skin! ”

Horse Revitalization looks at the old man lifting his right hand sleeve, and the skin on his palms and small arms does look a bit like a burn, or maybe the old man's skin is what it is.

It is hard to believe that the surrounding trees are scarcer and the land is blacker than other areas along the way, but the robbery requires the vehicle to carry the timber, so big the trees, people can't lift, but this road can't walk the big car, and there are no car marks.

“Master Tian, are you mistaken?” Ma Jingxing asked.

“Exactly!” Tian Fuxiao was dissatisfied, "I remember every tree here, yes. ”

“Really no more.” Tian Wife Zhang McDong sighed, “planted decades of trees, yesterday was still there! ”

“Master Tian, can you reach into this tree?” If there's a tone, it's too much wine, “I'll try.” Horse revitalization seemed inappropriate, but he hasn't said anything yet. Benyi didn't think he could lift his right hand and press it toward the trunk of the acacia tree, reaching in, and the middle aged face instantly changed color.

A painful scream, Benyi had already drawn his hand out, his whole hand trembled, his face was red and white, “Inside, really, really...”

Horse revitalization stunned, Tian Fuhou excited: “Look, look! ”

And they waited not yet, and behold, suddenly it seemed that the tree was overflowing with ripples of water, and vanished. In a blink of an eye, it disappeared. Around, trees become thinner, not just a acacia tree.

“This, this…” mumbled with perseverance.

Tian Fuxiao and Zhang Maidong are almost eighty years old. This is the first time I've seen anything like it. My old face doesn't know how to react.

“Report to the Sky Machinery Bureau.” Horse Revitalization finally said something, suddenly trembling slightly, a fear that didn't know where to come from, “reported Sky Machinery Bureau. ”

This is beyond their capabilities. Ma Zhenzheng panicked and immediately reported it on his cell phone. The police department was also very nervous, and immediately took it to the Aphid Sky Machinery Bureau. Ma Zhenxing was still dealing with these people for the first time, “The tree is missing, my hands can penetrate...”

After saying half a tone, the horse revitalization can calm down and make things clear.

The last time they caught thieves or last year, they were overwhelmed.

Asahi Sky Machinery Bureau attaches great importance to keeping them where they are, and soon they will be picked up for quarantine inspection by disease control personnel. Horse revitalization is a little overshadowed. Although the other party says this is a routine procedure, don't be nervous, he still thinks about the New Legion illness last year...

“What do you call that?” Tian Fu walked around anxiously, his face seemed to get a little worse, and suddenly he coughed a few times.

With this cough, Ma Jingxing and Benyi were all in a hurry. Ma Jingxing asked: “How are you, Master Tian? ”

“The old man coughed a few words... normal things.” Tian Fuhou whispered, but he was also worried. Zhang McDong patted his wife on the back.

Benyi sighed and couldn't help but take the cigarette case and lighter out of his pocket, smoke a cigarette and light it.

“Border officer!” Tian Fuxiao sighed a loud drink, but he was still very cheerful. "Can't you light a fire here? Don't you see there are trees all around! Hey, you.” Benyi was embarrassed to take back the cigarette and lighter, and Tian Fuhou said, “These trees have been here for decades...”

The old man muttered and looked around at the trees that had become scarce, "Two officers, do you think all the trees here will disappear like this? ”

“Sir, we have no idea that this involves supernatural forces.” That's all Ma Jingxing can say, and it's also vague.

It was in this mood that, after about half an hour, a helicopter rumble came from the sky, and the people from the station arrived.

Shortly afterwards, four people saw a group of men and horses coming from a forest road filled with dead leaves. A dozen people, all wearing airtight protective clothes, armed with guns, were the mobile task force "Xuesha Squad” of the Desert North Sky Machinery Bureau. The captain was a middle-aged man, Li Yiquan, “Officer Ma, Border Officer, hard work, we started to take over here. ”

Horse revitalized and relieved, feeling finally recovered the main bone.

“The CDC team will be here shortly, and you will be on the ground.” Li Weiquan said, "Two police officers, please indicate the extent of the variation. ”

In fact, the team members walked a lap, and they could already see it, because there was a more obvious demarcation line, and the soil looked different.

They frowned. They had dealt with unusual forces, and there was a large base here in the desert north, where the astronomical hero Gu Jun was specially trained. They also have regular refresher training, contact with spells, learned old stamps… but this is not the feeling of dark erosion, which is strange and unusual.

Scientific research team member Liu Wenhan took a hand-held long rod probe camera and went to the trunk of a pine tree to probe it.

And on this outside probe screen, people see a blurred, twisted image, which is definitely not in the trunk.

Suddenly, the image turned black, and the probe camera failed.

In everyone's caution attention, Liu Wenhan slowly pulled the instrument back a little bit, but saw that the camera had broken. The whole instrument had just penetrated the tree with an extra layer of coke black, which seemed to have been burned by some energy...

Is it the power of spells? Captain Li Weiquan knew it was bad, and the situation here might be worse than they had expected before they left.

“Command Center, Command Center.” Captain Li immediately reported on a satellite walkie-talkie to the Headquarters Spells Department, "this is the Snow Sand Squad, and it's true that there's a spatial distortion in an area of the woods, about 300 square meters. On-site police officers confirmed that trees continued to decline and that the remaining tree fragmentation was on the rise, which may be exacerbating. ”

Meanwhile, Tian Fuhou looked at these astronomers and knew that the astronomical bureau was more capable than the general department. He had to ask Chen Girl, who was asking him and his wife about the past, "Miss Chen, will all my trees disappear like that? ”

“Don't worry, sir.” Chen Qiuxuan consoled him, but didn't dare to give him any assurance. "It shouldn't be that serious, so take a few days off. ”

“I can't stop...” Tian Fuhou muttered to himself, "I am not too young to work. I can definitely do that...”

The old man looked at the woods here, at the woods there, and he remembered the old days.

At that time, it was still a wasteland. He and his wife got up early and greedy, first leveled the land, then opened the canal to make the gate, then nurtured the seedlings, planted... often one meal a day, eating the fried rice with them, and eating it with water... after one day of work, sleep, continue the next day.

“I also want to contract dozens more acres of wasteland.” Tian Fuxiao said, "If you don't plant other trees this time, plant camphor pine. This kind of tree can live for hundreds of years, unlike the Yang tree, it will be gone for decades. Miss Chan, after hundreds of years, the desert here must be forest, these trees can't be without..."

“Sir...” Chen Qiuxuan was about to console him. Suddenly, his mind was tightened, and the surrounding officers Li Qiuquan, Ma and others were surprised.

Tian Fuxiao's face was pale and his nose bled out.