Chapter 87: Nine Lotus Wood
There are a lot of baby ghosts around, and they make whispering sounds, but unfortunately I can't understand them.
When the baby ghost pulled me to stop, the purple fluorescence gradually lit up in the darkness, and in front of us was an incomparably huge ancient tree, Sanjiu couldn't help but hold my hand tightly.
I looked at him, his lips were pursed tightly in the purple light, his eyes were staring straight at the ancient tree, as if he wanted to make a hole in the trunk, I followed his line of sight and looked at the top of the ancient tree, this tree has lived for an unknown number of years, and the trunk is thick enough to be built into a tree house!
The surface of the bark is covered with fluorescent moss, which flickers on and off, strong and weak, and some resemble ...... Man's breath!
The branches of the tree are covered with dried flowers, which are dry but do not fall, and the shrunken petals do not loosen at all.
"It's actually true......"
Sanjiu muttered to himself, I suddenly became curious, did he recognize or hear of this kind of tree? Thinking about it, I asked.
"The ginseng fruit tree at the altar of the canyon, remember?"
How could I have forgotten that the carnivorous tree almost digested us as food, but I saw the roots at the time, but I had never seen its true face, and I remember that he said that there was a chance for me to see it!
"It's called Nine Lotus Wood, which sucks in vitality and gives birth to life."
After listening to his words, I took a closer look at the flowers on the branches, although they had withered, they could still make out the shape of the lotus, and so on, it was actually a lotus flower with nine petals!
Don't blame me for being lonely, I've seen the wooden lotus, but I haven't heard of it growing into such a huge and nine-layer petal wooden lotus, Sanjiu mentioned that it absorbs vitality, my body trembled, and a bad conjecture came out, the baby ghost brought us here, it won't be to feed the tree, right?
The area around the ancient tree was now crowded with baby ghosts, numbering no less than hundreds, they seemed to be eager to do something, hundreds of pairs of eyes stared directly at me, the horror was extremely terrifying, but there was no malice in those eyes.
"What do you want me to do?" I asked tentatively.
"You try to communicate with your mind." Sanjiu suggested.
"No, it seems that there is a barrier, and there is no way to communicate directly."
Just as I was about to give it a try, there was a 'boom' sound not far away, and hundreds of baby ghosts fled in all directions like frightened little animals, and disappeared completely in the blink of an eye.
They were hidden in dark corners where the purple light could not be illuminated, and a hundred meters away from the ancient tree, there was a huge stone door, which slowly opened with a 'rumbling' sound.
The sound we heard was made by the operation of the starting mechanism of the stone gate, after Sanjiu reacted, he immediately pulled me to climb the ancient tree, the nearest fork from the ground is also more than ten meters high, fortunately, the surface of the trunk is uneven, not very smooth, Sanjiu's light work is good, and it is absolutely no problem to climb the tree.
The two of us climbed the ancient tree and hid behind the fork of the tree, the stone gate opened, and a group of women wearing ethnic minority costumes walked inβthe Blazing Women!
Seeing their outfits clearly, Sanjiu and I couldn't help but glance at each other, the ancient tree seemed to sense that someone was coming, the light of the fluorescent moss had been extinguished, and in the darkness was the burning fire from the torches in the hands of the blazing women.
Each of the blazing women was armed with torches, and the other had scimitars in their hands, and several of them had strips of cloth tied around their arms or legs, as if they had been wounded.
There were no men among them, all young women, and the woman at the head was the best of the group, and she talked a lot, and I didn't understand a word.
After hearing this, the others looked heavy, but no one answered, and the woman at the head pulled out her scimitar, led the person to the ancient tree, raised one hand to her chest, and made a gesture of stroking her face with the other, as if she was saluting the ancient tree.
Without hesitation, she slashed at the trunk of the ancient tree, and the moss on the ancient tree suddenly burst into purple light, and then the light trembled and extinguished, and purple juice flowed from the cut trunk.
There was a buzz in my head, and I almost fell off the tree uncontrollably, but fortunately Sanjiu hugged me, but the buzzing sound in my head echoed for a long time, and just now, it seemed that someone had sounded a warning bell in my head.
I leaned my head on Sanjiu, my forehead began to swell again, and there were Blazing Female people below, and I could only hold back the discomfort, they took the purple juice from the trunk and drank it in turn.
After the last person drank it, there was no liquid coming out of the trunk, and a wave of anger rose in my chest for no reason, and countless whispers burst out in my head, and Sanjiu hugged me tightly, he noticed my abnormality, but there was nothing he could do now.
The stone gate opened again, the people of the Blazing Girl Clan left, Sanjiu jumped off the tree with me in his arms, he didn't say a word, I eased up in his arms for a while, and the headache and discomfort gradually subsided.
But the anger and sadness in my chest were still firmly blocked in my heart, making it difficult for me to breathe, and the inexplicable grief stirred me down, and Sanjiu gently pinned the broken hair from my ear behind my ear.
A kiss with warmth and soothing meaning fell on my lips, it turned out that I actually cried, he silently kissed away the tears that slipped from my lips, I buried my head in his shoulder socket, rubbed it twice hard, and wiped the tears away.
There were many knife marks on the trunk of the ancient tree, some of which were covered with moss, and some were obviously old wounds, and some were new wounds.
"It's alive, they kill it, kill it!"
I almost shouted this sentence in a low voice, with cold anger in my voice, Sanjiu wrapped his arms around my shoulders tightly, and his calm voice rang in my ears: "I know, but you have to be calm." β
Without his gentle kiss and soothing hug, I don't think I would have been able to calm down and my mind would have raced into the unknown.
"I will calmly and calmly punish these traitors."
As soon as my words fell, Sanjiu's face changed, he looked me straight in the eyes, and I didn't shy away from looking back at him, and finally he spoke first: "Do you remember?" β
"No, but, it's ...... A feeling. β
I was surprised by Sanjiu's reaction, so I asked, "You don't seem to want me to regain my memory?" β
He didn't hide it, and replied directly: "Yes." β
I asked, "Why?" β
But he didn't want to talk more, saying: "When you think about the day you remember, you will naturally know, and I won't take the initiative to tell you until that day comes." β
I have noticed that he has unspeakable hardships, and from every abnormal change in his mood, I can feel that my past with him must not be a fairy tale of a prince and princess.
But he loves me, and I want to be with him, and I don't care about the rest.
As for memory, as it stands, I will remember everything sooner or later, but memory is important, but strength is also essential.
The Blazing Girl Clan drank the blood of the ancient tree, they would not be idle and idle to do this kind of thing, and Lin Min was not among them, where did she go?