Chapter 12: Bones on the Ground

At first, the name of the Soul Eater Taro was Drunken Dream Flower, and it was spread among the lowest managers of the Great Qian Kingdom. These people have a higher status than ordinary farmers and hunters, and they are the spokesmen of the people at the bottom of the management of the vast families of the empire. Due to the fact that they usually deal with a lot of complicated things, coupled with their low cultivation, most of them can't even reach the level of refining the body. Therefore, many people will inevitably have headaches, insomnia and other symptoms after a long time.

A long time ago, a group of traders suddenly appeared in the Great Qianguo, and they carried many things that the Great Qianguo did not have. Therefore, their goods are widely loved by people from all walks of life in the Great Qianguo. Among the items is a flower called the Drunken Dream Flower, which does not have much effect and has no effect on cultivators. However, for ordinary people, he has a particularly practical effect, that is, putting the drunken dream flower in the room at night can make people fall asleep quickly. And the sleep is very heavy, has a good effect of assisting sleep, and is very popular with the lower class people. After all, people will have troubles, they will be unsatisfactory, and those with poor physical fitness will often get seriously ill if they do not have good sleep for a long time. Therefore, the appearance of the drunken dream flower soon spread at the bottom of the Great Qianguo.

In the first few months, the drunken dream flower has indeed brought good news to many people, and their sleep quality has been greatly improved. But then horrors happened.

Since everyone knew where the vendors came from, the drunken dream flower belonged to an alien species after all. When it was transplanted to the Great Qianguo, it slowly underwent a change in just a few months. The original pink flowers turned dark red, and at first everyone didn't care about this change in the drunken dream flower. But strange things broke out overnight, and many people died without the knowledge of others, without any warning and pain. The dead are still peaceful, and it seems that death is a very happy thing. For a long time, people didn't know why those people died.

It wasn't until the number of deaths increased that the upper echelons of those families began to notice the situation and began to investigate the cause of these deaths. In the end, the root cause was discovered by some spiritual cultivators, and it turned out that all of this was caused by Drunken Dream Flowers.

The drunken dream flowers in those rooms let those who are asleep dream of the life they yearn for by releasing colorless and odorless pollen. Then he fell into it, unable to wake up, and eventually starved himself to death in his sleep. After that, the drunken dream flower absorbs their bodies as nutrients. Since the spiritual power of spiritual cultivators is relatively strong, they will keenly capture the imperceptible effect of the Drunken Dream Flower. In the end, the Great Qianguo exerted all the strength of the whole country to eliminate the drunken dream flower on a large scale. Finally, it was renamed again, Soul Eater Taro.

Although the Soul Eater Taro is not very harmful to those cultivators, if it is allowed to develop, it will definitely shake the foundation of the Great Qianguo.

I didn't expect that hundreds of years have passed, and there are still remnants of soul-devouring taro in the Great Qianguo. After listening to Qin Zhan's explanation, Ling'er was speechless in surprise, she didn't expect that there were such terrifying flowers in the world, which could make people starve to death in their sleep without any consciousness.

"Why don't we get out of here, it's too weird and dangerous. We don't know where this Soul Eater Flower is, and if we fall into its trap again, we'll be in trouble," Ling'er said worriedly.

At this time, it was raining lightly outside the window, and the clothes on Qin Zhan's body were actually wet.

"Ling'er, do you remember that we had a bonfire to dry our clothes before," Qin Zhan said, touching the wet clothes on his body.

"Yes, I remember that, too, but why are the clothes on my body still wet", so the two of them looked at the ground together, where there was a trace of a bonfire.

All of this can only show that their vision was affected from the very beginning when they entered Putuo Town. At that time, Qin Zhan and they hadn't paid attention, it had been raining all the way, why was there no trace of rain when they entered Blood Raven Town. Thinking of this, Qin Zhan suddenly felt a little terrifying.

He had only heard that Soul Eater could make people die in their sleep, but he had never heard that Soul Eater could also hallucinate people when they were awake. The only thing that can be explained is that the Soul Eater Taro has mutated again, so that it can still make people hallucinate without knowing it, and from the moment Qin Zhan and they stepped into the Blood Raven Town, they entered the illusion of the Soul Eater Taro.

"Let's go, let's hurry up, the Soul Eater Taro is no longer the drunken dream flower of hundreds of years ago, it has produced a new mutation", said Qin Zhan took Ling'er's hand and ran out.

Ling'er was a little embarrassed to be rudely held by Qin Zhan, but in this case, she didn't dwell on anything, and let Qin Zhan lead her, and a touch of blush crept up Ling'er's little face.

The darkness of the night, coupled with the cold rain, made the clothes stick to the body, which made people feel very uncomfortable. The rain washed the bluestone slabs in Putuo Temple very clean, spotless, Qin Zhan led Ling'er to the gate of Putuo Temple and stopped, his little hand clasped Ling'er's small hand and said, "Ling'er, no matter what you see, don't be afraid."

Ling'er was confused by Qin Zhan's sudden words, but she still nodded seriously. Qin Zhan exhaled a long breath and pushed open the originally closed gate of Putuo Temple.

When Qin Zhan pushed the temple gate of Putuo Temple open, he saw countless white bones lying on both sides of the street, some of which were of human beings and some of which were of wild beasts. Some of the corpses were decomposing, while some of the white bones were completely weathered, and some were clearly trampled by Qin Zhan and Ling'er.

Seeing such a scene, Ling'er's body couldn't help but tremble. If it is said that she is hard-working, Ling'er is definitely stronger than Qin Zhan, but this does not mean that she is bold, on the contrary, Ling'er is very timid.

Qin Zhan and Ling'er carefully avoided the white bones on the ground, and they just wanted to leave this ghost place quickly. From time to time, the bodies of dead people popped up on both sides of the road. As soon as he walked about thirty meters, Qin Zhan suddenly stopped, causing Ling'er to crash directly into Qin Zhan's back.

"Why don't you leave, my nose hurts."

Qin Zhan swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and his fingers trembled and pointed downward. Following the direction of Qin Zhan's finger, Qin Zhan and Ling'er slowly lowered their heads, only to see a dry and highly decaying hand stretched out from the dirt and grabbed one of Qin Zhan's feet tightly.

Seeing this, Qin Zhan and Ling'er both screamed, Qin Zhan grabbed Ling'er's hand with tears and said, "Ling'er, you can't leave the handsome and dashing me and run away by yourself."

Hearing that Qin Zhan still had the mind to play tricks at this time, Ling'er felt really speechless about Qin Zhan. Slowly, Ling'er's sanity temporarily overcame fear, and she found a rusty woodcutter from nearby, closed her eyes and said to Qin Zhan, "I'm going to cut it, I'm really going to cut it."