Early in the morning, Tang She, He Chenxue, and He Changqing woke up almost at the same time because they smelled the aroma of wine. The three of them woke up, but saw Wei Chiran and Hu Shuntang standing on the tree, smelling towards the place where the fragrance of wine wafted from, with a vigilant look on their faces.

After Hu Shun Tang and Wei Chi jumped from under the tree, Tang She asked, "The direction where the aroma of wine wafts should be Dionysian Villa, right?" ”

"Maybe," Hu Shuntang moved his body, "It's time for us to go, and we can go as far as we can at dawn." ”

He Changqing looked at the electronic map and said: "No, the direction where the aroma of wine wafts is not Dionysian Villa, although the location of the villa is not marked on the map, but the direction cannot be wrong." ”

So what's the deal with the aroma of wine? And it was so strong, but there was no one who knew too much about wine among the five, He Changqing proposed to take a look, but was opposed by Hu Shuntang.

Hu Shuntang said: "We should rush to Dionysus Villa as quickly as possible now, instead of looking for the source of the wine." ”

He Changqing held the opposite opinion: "Such a strong aroma of wine, maybe what is the clue?" ”

Hu Shuntang said: "It may also be a trap, in short, we just go to the south, the aroma of wine comes from the east, and the direction we are moving is different, we can't take risks." ”

He Changqing said: "Why don't you go first, I'll take a look?" ”

Hu Shuntang frowned: "I can't care if you are alone on weekdays, but now the five of us are one, if something happens to you, it will bring danger to others." ”

Wei Chiran didn't understand why He Changqing had to look at the location of the wine, of course Tang She and He Chenxue only supported Hu Shuntang, although they didn't say it, they stood by Hu Shuntang's side. Wei Chiran stood in a dilemma between the two, and had no choice but to say: "Senior, why don't I accompany the master to have a look, and you go first?" ”

Hu Shuntang didn't want to embarrass Wei Chi when he heard this, so he had to say: "Collective action, let's go together." ”

It was still Hu Shuntang who took the lead, and after Wei Chi broke off, the five of them walked towards the position of the wine, and after walking through a few big trees, they saw the flowers growing in the woods, those flowers were very bright, they looked like peonies, but they were much taller than peony flowers.

"The aroma of wine comes from these flowers," Tang She sniffed closely, and was about to get closer, but was directly stopped by He Changqing.

Hu Shuntang immediately asked, "What?" ”

He Changqing frowned and said, "Sure enough." ”

Wei Chiran asked, "Master? ”

He Changqing squatted down and pointed to the bottom of the flowers: "Look here." ”

Looking at He Changqing's fingers, everyone found that the roots of all the flowers were exposed on the soil, and they were connected together, like a net.

Tang She asked, "What kind of flower is this?" ”

"It stands to reason that this flower should be extinct," He Changqing looked at one of the flowers, and a transparent liquid flowed from the center of the flower, and the aroma of wine also emanated from that liquid. He Changqing pushed the flowers and looked at the position of the roots under the flowers near the center, where there were all animal bones.

He Chenxue gasped: "Are these man-eating flowers?" ”

He Changqing got up and said: "This flower is translated as food spirit in the indigenous language of Southeast Asia, which means that the soul will be eaten. ”

The reason why this flower is called a spirit eater is because it is said that if you use the liquid secreted by the flower, you will lose your soul, but you will not die. When Western colonists set foot on Southeast Asian soils, a group of adventurers also heard about the plant and brought gifts to the natives to help them find it.

The local natives chose a wizard with a legend of great mana to accompany them and led them to find the Eater Flower. When approaching the Soul Eater Flower, the group of colonists smelled the aroma of wine, all of them were excited, and despite the persuasion of the wizard, one of them directly ate the liquid in the flower, who knew that he fell to the ground immediately after drinking it, but he still had breathing and pulse, but he couldn't wake up.

The colonists were horrified and brought the man back for healing, but the sorcerer told him that it was useless, that his soul had been taken away by the flower, and showed them the bones of the soul-eating flower, which were people and animals who had eaten the nectar and fell to the spot, and finally starved to death of thirst.

When the colonists brought back the so-called soulless companion, they could not wake him up by any means, and in the words of modern medicine, the companion became a vegetative state. Later, the colonists took the seeds of the Eater Flower with them, hoping to bring them back to the mainland for planting research, but found that they could not survive on the European continent at all, and later one of the colonists brought the seeds to China, who knew that they were successfully planted, but they were only planted near where he lived, but they could not survive in other places.

After this person told the story of the soul eating flower to the people around him, some people collected the liquid in the flower with the mentality of trying it, and then put it in the enemy's wine, who knew that the enemy really didn't wake up, as if he had lost his soul.

At that time, it was the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and even the Western doctors at that time couldn't figure out what was going on, let alone relying on traditional Chinese medicine that "looked at and heard", so the matter of that person at that time did not attract anyone's attention, but when the person suddenly contracted the disease, the victim's family did not report to the official.

However, the victim has a close friend named Ye Guoan, who is ostensibly a Langzhong, but is actually a heterogeneous bone hunter. After checking on his best friend, he thought it was too strange, why was there a heartbeat and breathing, and the person was still alive, but he couldn't wake up? Of course, this kind of thing happens, but most of those people have brain injuries, and some are caused by excessive drinking.

After learning that his best friend had been drinking before the accident, he found the person who poisoned him, and the poisoner's name was Wan Jie, who was a comprador and a little steward. When Ye Guoan found Wan Jie to ask, he found that Wan Jie's words flickered, and he seemed to have something to hide, but when he asked what kind of wine he drank, he answered happily, but when Ye Guoan asked him where the wine vessel he used that day was, Wan Jie said that he accidentally broke it.

It was the six words "accidentally broken" that aroused Ye Guoan's suspicions, and he thought that it was very likely that Wan Jie had poisoned the wine, but what kind of poison could produce such a result? Even Ye Guoan, Lang Zhong, didn't know, he also asked his colleagues in the different ways, and they all said that there was no such poison.

So, Ye Guoan began to pay attention to Wan Jie, and Wan Jie also thought that after the rumors passed, he used the spirit flower to commit the crime again, this time the government still did not target him, but Ye Guoan noticed it, why did the people who drank with him twice become like that?

Ye Guoan followed Wan Jie several times without results, so he could only come hard, he directly tied Wan Jie with his face, and after some torture, Wan Jie confessed everything. But Ye Guoan still didn't believe it, and after letting Wan Jie go, he squatted near the foreigner's house to observe, and really found that Wan Jie went to check the Spirit Eater Flower. Although Ye Guoan also found those flowers when he followed Wan Jie before, he didn't pay attention to them because the flowers were too similar to peonies.

Ye Guoan immediately took the liquid of the flower and experimented on cats and dogs, and found that it was exactly as Wan Jie said, but he couldn't find a way to cure it, and he couldn't help his best friend, so he had to give up.

Ye Guoan stole the seeds of the flower, but never succeeded in planting, he found that it could only be planted around the foreigner's house, so he decided to study that kind of soil, and then brought the soil there to a person who studied Western chemistry, and finally found that the soil was very high in mercury. This mercury is known as mercury sulfide, which is traditionally known as dansha in China.

The place where the foreigners lived was a printing factory, and the printing factory would use a lot of pigments, and these pigments happened to contain mercury sulfide, and people at that time had no environmental awareness at all, so the mercury in the natural soil would also exceed the standard.

In other words, the food flower should grow in soil with high mercury levels.

After Ye Guoan was determined, he began to plant the Spirit Eater Flower by himself, and cultivated it in large quantities, and his purpose in doing so was also to have selfish desires in it, he hoped to refine the liquid in it, and then develop an antidote, and then put this liquid everywhere in large quantities, and then only he could have a cure and become famous in the world.

Although Ye Guoan thought well, he overestimated his ability, he spent his whole life without researching the so-called antidote, but before he died, he told his son the secret, and his son did not hide the secret, but told his classmates.

Since then, the Bone Hunters have their own Soul Eater Flower, but they do not dare to plant it on a large scale, after all, excessive mercury will destroy the land, China used to be a purely agricultural country, and land is the foundation of survival. However, there are people among the bone hunters who are studying this process, brewing the spirit flower into wine, using a combination of brewing and distillation technology, in this process, but accidentally remove the toxins in the spirit flower liquid, people will be drunk for more than ten days after drinking the wine, of course, drinking too much will also cause the "soul out of the body" consequence, later, the bone hunter named this wine "soul breaking".

Therefore, He Changqing analyzed that the reason why there is a spirit flower here is precisely because Huang is studying the brewing methods of various wines, and even has a broken soul.

He Changqing pointed to the surrounding plants and said, "You should pay attention, the roots of these plants are blackened, and most of the plants are dying, which indicates that the soil in this place exceeds the mercury standard." ”

Wei Chi suddenly realized: "Master, so to speak, you have smelled the aroma of this spirit-eating flower before, so you only know?" ”

He Changqing said: "Not only have I smelled it, but I have also drunk Soul Breaker, to be precise, it should not be called wine, it should be said that it is a chemical liquid, I just took a small sip, and I was in a coma for three days, it was not drunk at all, it was a coma, that thing was harmful to the body, just like the alchemists used to eat pills is a truth, and many of those pills contain mercury and other harmful substances." ”

As soon as He Changqing finished speaking, everyone heard a "buzzing" sound, and then found that a large number of bees flew in groups from a distance, and the strangest thing was that those bees were bigger than the wasps, and their bodies were silver and white.

Seeing this, everyone ran away and took out the insect repellent spray, but the silver-white bees did not chase them, but burrowed into the spirit eater flowers and began to collect honey.

Seeing this, He Changqing said: "These bees should not be wild, we can follow them, maybe we can take a shortcut to Dionysian Villa." ”