As soon as Xie Yuan's words fell, Shi Lang and Shi Tianji also experienced dizziness one after another.

"Everyone quickly tore a strip of cloth from their bodies and soaked it in water. Then wrap it around your mouth and nose and tie it behind your head. Xie Yuan ordered everyone loudly.

There was no time to ask more, everyone immediately followed Xie Yuan's instructions.

"And what about him?" Ye Ruliu pointed at Li Ruzhu and asked.

"He's easy to do." Shi Tianji said, slapping Li Ruzhu the back of her neck. Li Ruzhu immediately collapsed to the ground and passed out.

According to Xie Yuan's suggestion, everyone soaked the strips of cloth torn from their bodies in water and wrapped them around their faces. The cool water of the river suddenly woke everyone up.

The starry sky and the yellow dragon were gone. What is presented in front of everyone's eyes is still a karst cave landscape with different expressions.

"It's a hallucination! I really thought it was a real dragon showing up. Shi Tianji blinked his eyes vigorously.

"Yes, everyone is hallucinating." Xie Yuan said.

"So what's going on? What kind of corpse did you just say...... What flowers? What the hell is it? Ye Ruliu asked Xie Yuan curiously.

"It's a corpse incense konjac flower. It is the pollen of this flower that gives us hallucinations. Xie Yuan said.

"Everyone sit down and calm down, and listen to Xie Yuan's chatter." Luo Shiyin saw that everyone was still a little frightened, so he said.

"Is the stench we just smelled coming from the corpse incense konjac flower?" Shi Lang turned around and sat beside Xie Yuan.

"Yes, that's what it came from. This flower is also known as Titan konjac, corpse flower, corpse stinky konjac or giant flower konjac. Its flowers can be one to two meters long in diameter and almost three meters tall. When the corpse incense konjac flower blooms, it emits a smell similar to the smell of the corpse, so it is also called "the smelliest flower in the world".

"The corpse incense konjac flower has the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, and the pale green inflorescence can reach about three meters high. Its flowers are smaller, concentrated in the lower part of the inflorescence axis, and are divided into female and male flowers, with female flowers having only pistils and male flowers having only stamens. The female flowers are distributed in the lowest part of the fleshy spike inflorescence axis, and the male flowers are distributed in the upper part of the female flowers.

"The outside of the inflorescence is surrounded by a petal-like Buddha flame bud, and the edge of the Buddha flame bud is torn and rolled outward, green on the outside and red on the inside. Male and female flowers grow on the same inflorescence, and the female flowers will bloom first. After a day or two, the male flowers will bloom. When the flower withers, it grows a large leaf from the bulb that grows in the ground, which can grow up to six meters tall and five meters wide. The petiole is green and forks into three branches at the tip of the petiole, each with many leaflets.

"The characteristic of the corpse incense konjac flower is that it emits a smell, which is different from ordinary flowers, not only does it not have a fragrance, but it also smells amazingly, smelling very much like the smell of a rotting corpse. In addition, the temperature of the flowers themselves is much higher than the ambient temperature, which can reach up to thirty-eight degrees. It is a odorous substance that is produced through a stress response with changes in the outside temperature. This smell of freshly dead animals attracts nearby 'carrivorous beetles' to help pollinate themselves.

"Specifically, this 'carrivorous beetle' is attracted by the smell of corpses and will crawl into the huge inverted trumpet-shaped corolla of the corpse incense konjac flower, and once inside, it will fall into the bottom of the corolla. Due to the abnormally smooth surface of the corolla, it is difficult for the 'saprophagous insect' to climb out, so it has to climb up and down inside the flower. In this way, its body will be stained with the pollen of the corpse incense konjac flower, which will play a pollinating role.

"When the surface of the corolla is covered with pollen and becomes rough, the 'saprophagous beetle' has a chance to crawl out of the corolla. The pollen that sticks to its body is blown by the wind and will spread through the air. The pollen of the corpse incense konjac flower has a hallucinogenic effect. Especially those who have a knot in their hearts, they are more likely to be recruited, and in serious cases, it will lead to a short-term madness of the recruiter, and then attack others. Xie Yuan continued Shi Lang's question.

"Then General Li wanted to bite me just now, was it because he was tricked?" Shi Tianji listened to Xie Yuan's introduction and asked with some fear.

"Yes, it should be." Xie Yuan said affirmatively.

In fact, the death of General Li's father was still a big blow to him. I don't know when this knot in his heart will be untied. Luo Shiyin said.

It seems that I still heard him shout Zhuqing's name. I don't know who he is. Ye Ruliu said.

"This corpse-scented konjac flower should grow in this branch in front of us. This branch cave is the only one we have discovered that may be connected to the outside world. Shall we still walk this hole? Shi Lang asked everyone.

"Go, and you have to go through this hole. Legend has it that this flower generally grows at the entrance of the ancient tomb where the treasure is buried, and survives by absorbing the strange aura of the tomb soil and the spiritual aura of the jewelry and jade that accompanies the burial. At the same time, the strange smell emitted from its body can effectively protect the treasures inside the tomb, and discourage tomb robbers or kill each other due to hallucination.

"Because of this, the corpse incense konjac flower is also known as the 'guardian saint of the treasure of the ancient tomb'. Therefore, the other end of this branch cave should be the exit of the tomb of Jing Concubine that we found, and it is very likely that there are tall and majestic corpse-scented konjac flowers growing at the exit. Only when we enter this branch hole and continue to move forward can we get out. Xie Yuan said.

"If we go inside, we will get closer and closer to the corpse incense konjac flower, will there continue to be people poisoned by it? Isn't that self-defeating? Ye Ruliu asked.

"No, it won't. This corpse-scented konjac flower is hallucinogenic mainly because of its pollen. Just now I asked everyone to cover their mouths and noses with strips of cloth soaked in water, which can filter the pollen in the air very well and avoid hallucination from inhaling it. Rest assured, everyone. Xie Yuan said.

"In that case, what are you waiting for, let's go. I'm still waiting to go out and eat! Shi Tianji was the first to stand up.

"Okay, let's go. Don't let Lao Shi be so hungry that he can't walk. Luo Shiyin rarely spoke in such a mocking tone.

"Hehe, it's better for the commander to be considerate of me." Shi Tianji said happily.

"But what about General Li?" Ye Ruliu looked at Li Ruzhu lying on the ground and asked.

Almost at the same time, Xie Yuan and Shi Lang looked at Shi Tianji fixedly.

"What are you two doing with me?" Shi Tianji asked knowingly, and he twisted his head to the side exaggeratedly, deliberately not looking at Li Ruzhu on the ground.

Xie Yuan and Shi Lang looked at Shi Tianji with firm expressions, and at the same time, they used their eyes to direct Shi Tianji's gaze to Li Ruzhu who was lying on the ground, and inspiringly mouthed Shi Tianji Nunu.

"What's the matter? Could it be that I have to do all this dirty work? Shi Tianji said reluctantly.

"Lao Shi, you see that I have to lead the way in front, are you embarrassed to let Brother Xie Yuan carry General Li. If it weren't for Xie Yuan's idea to help everyone, maybe your old Shi would be going crazy and biting people now. Shi Lang took the torch from Ye Ruliu's hand and said to Shi Tianji.

"But ......" Shi Tianji wanted to refute, but before he finished speaking, Xie Yuan interrupted him and said: "You were the one who knocked people unconscious, shouldn't it be you who carried them?" ”

"That'...... Okay, good, I'll carry it. If you let the 'water snake waist' back, you can't squash him. Shi Tianji thought about it, but he really couldn't find a better candidate than himself, so he reluctantly agreed.

"It's still Brother Shi's high wind and bright festival." Ye Ruliu complimented Shi Tianji.

"Alas, you wanted to bite me just now, but now you have to walk on your back." Shi Tianji muttered a few words to Li Ruzhu who was unconscious, and then bent down and carried Li Ruzhu lying on the ground on his back.

"Everybody tie the damp cloth tightly. Try to talk as little as possible after entering the branch hole to avoid pollen aspiration. Luo Shiyin said as everyone was about to enter the branch cave.

The entrance of the branch cave was not too big, and the six people, under the guidance of Shi Lang, bowed their heads and entered the cave one after another.

Beneath your feet is still a potholed, damp stone road.

After walking a distance of about ten meters, my eyes suddenly opened up. The cave in front of you is as wide as the cave hall you have just walked through, the difference is that there are no stalagmites on the ground of the cave in front of you, and the further you go, the softer your feet become, and you can clearly feel that the feet are no longer stepping on rocks, but dirt, and the thickness of the soil is getting bigger and bigger.

Further on, from time to time, a kind of beetle similar to a turtle crawled under everyone's feet. This is probably what Xie Yuan called the 'carrivorous beetle'. Everyone judged in their hearts, but no one spoke.

The light in the cave gradually brightened, and the irregular entrance in the distance could be vaguely seen.

Less than ten meters away from the entrance of the cave, everyone finally saw the magical flower introduced by Xie Yuan to everyone-corpse incense konjac flower.

I saw five or six huge corpse-scented konjac flowers standing at both ends of the inner side of the cave. Their huge petal-like Buddha flame buds glowed mysteriously green, and some of the tall inflorescence shafts pierced straight to the top of the cave, and some of them had a huge blood-red corolla of fleshy flesh on the top.

"Don't stop, let's go through the cave quickly." Xie Yuan covered his mouth and nose with one hand and said to everyone.

In the open space between the flowers, you can clearly see the bones of many weathered people and a few rusty iron tools that cannot be named, presumably left by tomb robbers who killed each other after being poisoned by flowers.

The six of them quickly walked through the small space between the corpse incense konjac flowers and came to the edge of the cave.

"Alright, it's okay." Xie Yuan said, breathing a deep sigh of relief.

Everyone standing at the entrance of the cave was already in the upper reaches of the wind, and it was no longer possible to suck the pollen of the corpse-scented konjac flower.

"My mother, I'm so tall and so big. It's the first time I've seen such a flower. Shi Tianji gently put Li Ruzhu on his back on a relatively dry soil slope at the entrance of the cave, looked back at the corpse incense konjac flower in the cave and sighed.

"This thing is a famous longevity flower, and it can live for more than 100 years. It has a very short flowering period, but we didn't expect to be lucky enough to meet it. Xie Yuan said.

"This flower looks pretty beautiful." Ye Ruliu said.

"It just doesn't smell good. It's similar to the smell of a dead corpse. Shi Lang said.

"That's why it's called the corpse incense konjac flower." Xie Yuan said.

"The smell of corpses, I think it's almost the same as the smell of corpses. It should be called a corpse stinky konjac flower. Shi Tianji said.

"Such a short flowering period actually let us meet, which shows that we are still quite close to them." Luo Shiyin said.

"This is called a meeting of thousands of miles." Shi Tianji followed Luo Shiyin's words, pretending to be sour and said.

"Hahaha......" Shi Tianji's appearance amused everyone.

"Let's go, keep going." The team successfully got out of the predicament, Luo Shiyin was in a good mood, he waved his big hand, and led everyone to walk down the mountain along the small dirt road in front of the cave.

"Don't move, lay down your weapons!" The six of them had just walked out of a distance of about ten meters along the dirt road leading to the bottom of the mountain, and from the surrounding grass, a group of men and horses suddenly flashed out, surrounding the small detachment in the middle, each of them armed with strong bows and crossbows. Sharp arrows flashing with cold light were aimed at Luo Shiyin and the other six people who were caught off guard.