Chapter 304: Twisted Tree

Charlotte took off the heavy diving helmet.

The moment she looked up, her light golden hair seemed to be flying, especially under the light of the orange lantern, the hair was shining like a golden braid.

But when Charlotte looked forward along the light of the lantern and saw the dry roots of the extermination soldiers in the narrow tunnel in front of her, her brows were stained with a trace of gloom again.

Even though it was expected before the operation began, it would be impossible to easily take down the Crossroads Cult without a single soldier.

But when Charlotte saw the miserable state of the extermination soldiers who took on the most dangerous underground breakthrough mission, her compassion that should not have sprouted could not help but begin to ache.

The extermination sergeant who had resisted tenaciously to the last moment, until the kite-shaped shield in his hand could no longer withstand the attack and turned into a pool of solidified silver liquid... was now sitting quietly against the stone wall of the tunnel, with a revolver pistol with an empty magazine under his feet and a broken steel sword covered with rust and rancid mucus in his hand.

But even this elite soldier who had experienced several large-scale extermination operations could not successfully escape from the evil power of Winfreys... The hard and indestructible Noon Steel Armor had a big hole in the chest, and the edges of the rolled armor were covered with dirty and smelly blood and mucus, and the shocking penetration holes were clearly visible.

And the body of the extermination sergeant hidden under the protection of the Noon Steel Armor had also shriveled like a mummy, and his flesh and life were all swallowed up by the twisted and brittle charred roots on the ground.

The commander of the Crossroads Cult Extermination Operation gently took off the broken and dirty visor and saw the familiar yet unfamiliar face inside the helmet, as old as an eighty-year-old man.

Charlotte sighed sadly, stretched out her white and tender palm to touch the other's eyelids that would never yield until death, allowing this battle-hardened soldier to rest completely and sink into an eternal dream without doubts and worries.

"Rest in peace Cassidy, your efforts have not been in vain, your sacrifice is meaningful!"

Charlotte said so, as if she was mourning for the soldiers who died in this eradication operation, and as if she was using such a great excuse to convince her compassionate heart.

But at the same time, her overly strong rationality also praised: Yes, we should show compassion and sympathy for the sacrificed soldiers like this, so that our subordinates know that we are not simply iron-blooded and ruthless, we also have excellent leadership qualities such as caring for subordinates and sympathizing with subordinates... This is a cost-effective way to win people's hearts! If we can squeeze out two tears now, maybe we can get better results!

Perhaps she was really following the guidance of reason, or perhaps it was just the awakening of her dormant sensibility. Charlotte's eye sockets began to turn slightly red, and her light gray eyes were filled with crystal tears.

Under the dim light, the commander with golden hair looked at the sacrificed soldiers and choked with tears. The crystal tears flowed in her beautiful eyes, adding a touch of softness to Miss Holmes, who always showed a cold and elegant face.

In the eyes of the other subordinates who followed, this scene was as beautiful as a girl crying from the hands of a classical painter.

Although all the operators were silent, the scene in front of them was obviously deeply engraved in their hearts... Perhaps they would still recall this picture until they slept on the recliner by the stove in their old age.

Charlotte wiped away the crystal tears from the corners of her eyes, and once again restored her icy and firm face, and continued to move towards the underground base of the Crossroads Cult.

She first noticed that the door edge at the end of the tunnel was severely damaged as if it had been bombed with explosives, and the metal door that was as thick as a wall had a deep dent in the middle... Obviously, the extermination team did not follow the original plan smoothly - let Melanie, who had turned from evil to good, reveal the pass order obtained by Watson from Nelobax, so that the extermination team could easily break into the door and destroy the evil emerald tree before the cult members could react.

Based on the signs in front of her, the female detective was able to restore the situation at that time in almost a moment.

- The sunken metal door was three feet away from the original door edge, and it was obviously thrown back by a violent impact. The blackened marks on the edge of the door panel and the sunken marks in the center all showed that the extermination team broke through the door by force.

——And the peephole of the metal door was open. Apparently, the gatekeeper did not notice anything unusual when he first saw Melanie appear. Moreover, the cultist's mummy closest to the door panel had a thin steel needle of noon stuck in the forehead. That means that after the gatekeeper opened the window to ask, Melanie was unable to answer the correct passcode, so the extermination team had to act brazenly?

"But Watson should have successfully instigated Nello Bucks, making the deputy leader of the Crossroads cult willing to give up the dark and provide us with the passcode for tonight."

The female detective turned over her palm and found a crumpled small piece of paper with the passcode written on it - this was obtained from the first dried corpse she met in the riverbed tunnel.

She collected handwriting samples from everyone in the Crossroads Hospital and could confirm with certainty that the handwriting on the note came from the deputy leader of the Crossroads cult, Nello Bucks - that is, the passcode provided to us by the other party was a false one?

"Bucks provided false information... Does Watson know about it?"

"Or is it that Watson has already participated in it... He has established some kind of cooperative relationship with Bucks and wants to deceive us into joining?!"

After inferring that her former assistant was very likely to have betrayed her, Charlotte's gloom between her brows became more and more solemn, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly. No one knew what she was thinking at this moment.

The female detective just ordered to move forward. Several lantern lights intertwined and shot towards the thick darkness in the underground hall, which was so dark that it was difficult to see five fingers. She could only vaguely see the horrifying shriveled corpse lying on the ground, but she could not completely drive away the thick black shadow. It seemed that there was something ancient and strange in the depths of the darkness that was preventing the spread of light, and she was still stubbornly resisting the fact that the evil cult had been destroyed and failed.

The mysterious consultant who came with the Anti-Suppression Bureau team took the initiative to step forward, bit his thumb, and smeared the unusually bright red blood on the sleeping round mirror in his arms. The strong bloody smell immediately attracted the attention of the alien soul behind the mirror.

The beast-like soul from another world stretched out its hideous barbed tongue to lick the mirror on the other side. A wet spot of light appeared on the mirror of the awake world. The bright red blood had disappeared as if it had been sucked clean by the round mirror. The next second, the world behind the mirror emitted a gentle light that was not dazzling but could dispel the darkness in front of it.

The dark underground hall suddenly lit up, and the clear light like the morning sun illuminated every corner.

Then the people from the Anti-Suppression Bureau saw that in the center of the underground hall, there should be a broken and cracked dry emerald evil tree, but at this moment there was no trace of the dry and broken tree body, instead, there was a strange flesh pillar with rotten white mixed with dark red.

It was a grotesque and crazy totem tree made of twisted corpses!