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Chapter 142: The Blood Demon Queen

When he stopped, Xu Zimo raised his hand to look at the time, only to find that before he knew it, it was past twelve o'clock at noon.

They found a clean grass nearby to sit down and rest, and while kneading the **** who walked softly, they hungrily gnawed on Shi Lei's own dry food, which made the latter so depressed that he jumped to his feet again and again.

Ye Qing is still standing, looking through the gap between the snow-capped mountains and dense forests, and falls on a square not far away with prayer flags flying, where there are many mani piles, high and straight, each stone is engraved with dense scriptures, each stone represents an eternal soul, which is Tibetan Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Bon believers brought from the foothills during the pilgrimage, for a long time, from scratch, I don't know how many years of accumulation, to have such a peculiar and brilliant picture.

"Qing'er, don't just drink water, after walking for so long, eat something to the bottom first, right?" Xu Zimo walked over from behind and reached out to hand her two packets of compressed biscuits.

Ye Qing didn't answer, smiled, and declined: "No need Brother Xu, I'm not hungry for the time being, you can eat these by yourself, I also have them in my bag." ”

Xu Zimo didn't insist anymore, and nodded: "Well, you have to pay more attention to your own body, this is no better than other places, walking on the snowy mountains, always maintaining sufficient physical strength is the most important thing, after all, we can never predict what will happen in the next second." ”

Ye Qing didn't answer his words, but looked around and asked, "Brother Xu, do you feel that this place seems to be a little quiet." ”

It stands to reason that they have already come out of the dense forest, at noon, there is a sun shining around, and the creatures in the ice field should be in the most active period, but this neighborhood is so quiet that not even a bird can be seen, no, not only the birds, but even the sound of insects can't be heard clearly, everything seems lifeless, like a photobook imprisoned by time.

"Indeed." Xu Zimo's two straight eyebrows wrinkled together unconsciously: "Amuro, are you sure that we won't be wrong to take this road?" ”

"What, what's wrong?" Shi Lei hurriedly came over and asked.

Xu Zimo asked softly: "Listen, in addition to the sound of the wind and the sound of us talking here, is there any other sound, I can't hear it at all?" ”

He nodded solemnly.

Amuro swallowed the last bite of bread in his hand, stood up, patted his chest and promised: "It won't be wrong, you can rest assured, this road has been walked at least ten times from childhood to adulthood." ”

"Why is it so quiet in that neighborhood?" Shi Lei twitched the corner of his mouth.

Amuro smiled: "That's because there's a strange flower growing here." ”

He closed his eyes: "You don't believe in sniffing and seeing, do you smell that there is a very unique fragrance wafting in the air?" It's light, a bit like freshly baked milk bread. ”

"Freshly baked bread? Where, give me one! Nineteen unkindly ignored the first half of the sentence, and only grasped the three key words of "milk bread" in the second half of the sentence.

Shi Lei glanced at her unceremoniously, and said sarcastically: "Little Senior Sister, it's not that I want to talk about you, you, it's really time to go on a diet, with your amount of food, a man will be scared away." Also, we're talking about business now, don't get involved if you don't understand, don't get involved in everything, okay? ”

"Isn't eating, drinking, and having fun?" Nineteen touched the back of his head, looking innocent.

Shi Lei clenched his fists and beat his chest: "Ciao, count you ruthless!" ”

Amuro sensibly ignored the two of them to go crazy, and asked Ye Qing and the others, "How is it, do you smell anything?" ”

Xu Zimo snorted: "There is indeed a smell, it seems to come from the front." ”

"To be exact, in addition to the fragrance, there is also a faint smell of blood." Ye Qing wrinkled her nose and added, she believed in her sense of smell, but she felt uncertain, because since it was a flower, how could it still emit the smell of blood?

"Just standing here, you can't see anything."

Shi Lei took the lead: "What are you waiting for, let's take a look and see what it is, which can make the surrounding animals disappear." ”

After a word, the person was gone.

"Ah, be careful, it's not over there, it's over here."

Amuro was worried that he was going the wrong way, so he shouted while chasing, and led Ye Qing and the others behind him, crookedly, and rushed towards the dense grass in the east.

"Is that it?" Nineteen held Shi Lei's shoulder, panting with exhaustion, "Unexpectedly, this flower is quite beautiful, junior brother, help me pick two." ”

It is a colorful flower, a strange flower of different sizes competing to bloom, red gorgeous, purple bewitching, the big one is about the same as the mouth of the tank, and the small one is also the size of the bowl mouth.

It's a wild beauty that has never been seen before.

"Why do you pick a good flower?" Shi Lei muttered, but still obediently stretched out his hand.

"Don't move!"

Amuro looked panicked, hurriedly ran forward, slapped Shi Lei's hand, and said with a serious face: "These flowers can't be picked, just take a look, the 'Blood Demon Queen' eats people and doesn't spit out bones, you must not touch them with your hands!" ”

"Blood Queen?" Nineteen smiled, "Haha, who is so uneducated that he actually gave such an ugly name...... Wait, you say these flowers will eat people, eat people? Are you sure you're right? ”

"Do I look like I'm joking?"

Amuro was speechless, took out a candy directly from his pocket, and said, "Just look at it." ”

He walked slowly to the front of a bloody demon queen, let go of his hand, and dropped the stone in his hand into the center of the open flower accurately and speechlessly, and in an instant, he saw that the flower room that was originally as wide as a bowl shook for a while, and all the blooming petals were collected together, like an open umbrella, which was suddenly turned off, and if you looked closely, you could see that its sealed buds were constantly wriggling, and after a while, it slowly stopped.

"Hiss......" Nineteen and Shi Lei, the two senior siblings, gasped in unison.

Xu Zimo thought thoughtfully: "In this way, this should be a kind of carnivorous plant, similar to Rafflesia, Nepenthesia, sundew, and cobra Lily, all of which use the fragrance of nectar to hunt insects and animals near yin*." ”

"That is, the reason why you can't see other animals here is because they have all been eaten by these flowers?"

Nineteen shuddered: "Praise the Holy King, that's too terrifying, such a big flower, wouldn't even a mouse be able to eat it?" ”

Xu Zimo smiled bitterly: "You may not imagine the bigger, it is said that the giant pitcher plant in the Amazon rainforest area, with a diameter of up to 1.5 meters and a weight of more than 8 kilograms, is a big hollow in the center of the flower, and the top is covered, which can prey on buffalo and stork. ”

"Uh......" Nineteen was obviously frightened, "That, Sister Qing, it's not early, let's hurry early, right?" ”

"Wait, before we go, we need to collect some nectar from the 'Blood Demon Queen'." Amuro Road.

Nineteen was dumbfounded: "What, didn't you say that these flowers will eat people, and you still dare to take its nectar?" Let's go, let's go, don't laugh. ”

As he spoke, he didn't forget to retreat.

Amuro only cared about his own business, he took advantage of the closed flower to digest the candy at the same time, out of nowhere took out two wooden clips, quickly clamped the petals, did not let it open its mouth, and then used a knife to slightly pick the center of the flower, immediately, there was transparent mucus flowing out of the center of the flower, he quickly opened a prepared bamboo heart tube, caught the flower liquid, almost full, only to cover the mouth of the tube, beckoned them to continue on their way.

Following the trail at his feet, past a few ice craters, and then a col, Amuro stopped again.

He stretched out his arm, pointed ahead, and said, "Further on, there is a suspended plank road." ”

Ye Qing raised his eyes and looked in the direction of his finger, and really saw that on the mountain wall, there was a very quaint-looking draw lurking, looming in the ice mist, winding and circling.

Plank road, also known as hanging road, compound road, since ancient times, there is an idiom of "Ming plank road, dark Chen Cang" spread, the earliest was started in the Warring States Qin.

At that time, in order to develop the Bashu region, King Qin Hui began to build the Baocheng Baogu to Meixian Xiegu of Shaanxi Province, and was used by the world later, so on the cliff cliff isolated by the river, some prismatic holes were dug out with utensils, and the stone stakes or wooden stakes were inserted into the holes, and then the stone slabs or wooden planks were laid on them, which looked like a simple corridor.

But that's just the general situation.

The craftsmen who are responsible for the excavation often develop a simple one-person bird road on the cliff in order to save costs.

It's like this one that appeared in front of Ye Qing and the others at this moment.

-- Not more than two meters high, less than one meter wide, and about 20 centimeters at its narrowest point, with a snow-covered cliff on one side and a bottomless abyss on the other.

The most terrible thing is that this cliff is not standing vertically, its terrain is very strange, it is actually inclined upward, like a huge "Y" shape, if you want to pass safely, you can only keep your back against the cliff, and your chest leans forward slightly.

It's hard to imagine who took the lead in digging this aerial plank road, thinking about it, this short distance of less than ten meters must be covered with blood, tears, sweat and bones.

"No, no, no......"

Nineteen's eyes widened: "Why doesn't this plank road even have handrails?" ”

"If there are handrails, it is not called natural insurance."

Shi Lei bumped her arm: "What, you shouldn't be afraid, right?" Who swore in the morning, 'Even the most dangerous road has been walked'? ”

Nineteen swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and replied stubbornly: "Who said that you are afraid, I am just worried that you will not dare to walk over later, junior brother." ”

"Really?" Shi Lei didn't tear her down, and laughed: "Then thank you for your concern." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to () subscribe, reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )