The fog in the forest was irregular, but it became thick again, and every time someone walked by, it would bring up these pale white gases and slide beside the silk floor itself. The air was humid and cold, and the fine rain hit the face, cold to the bone.

"Wait a minute." Before she could go far, Chen Ying stopped.

Pei Shu ordered everyone to stop, and when he stepped forward, he asked, "Are you ......?"

After saying four words, he stopped and looked at Chen Ying with a shocked expression.

Chen Ying was already squatting on the ground at this time, and was taking out a dagger and began to dig up an ordinary-looking weed.

"What are you doing here?" Pei Shu asked, the shock on his face turning into incomprehension.

Is this also a way to find a way?

Chen Ying raised her head, rubbed the rain from her face with her shoulder, and smiled lightly on her slightly pale face: "I'm not sure if this is purple jasmine, I want to dig it out and take a look." ”

"Purple Jasmine?" Lang Tingyu came over at some point, and when he heard this, the corners of his mouth straightened: "The third master is going to bring flowers home to plant?" ”

Apart from this reason, he couldn't think of a reason for Chen Ying to dig grass.

Pei Shu was shocked.

"Purple jasmine is the most common flower and plant in the garden arrangement, and the flowering period can last up to the whole summer, because it often blooms in the evening, so it is also called the dinner flower." Chen Ying replied to the question, and was actually seriously introducing this plant: "This flower has a strong vitality, and it will automatically form seeds after the flowers bloom and fail, and the seeds have a great chance of surviving when they land." In other words, purple jasmine requires little human care and can grow and bloom in situ the following year. ”

In Pei Shu's single-eyelid eyes, a sharp light flashed.

Although he was not familiar with flowers and plants, he heard a trace of strangeness from Chen Ying's words.

"Are you sure this is Purple Jasmine?" He half-squatted down beside Chen Ying, stared at the wet plant in her hand, and asked in a low voice.

Chen Ying had already dug out the root system at this time, took the whole plant in her hand and looked at it carefully, and then, her smile was a little more affirmative: "This kind of flower sometimes looks like a vegetable, but this one shouldn't be, it's the purple jasmine I said." ”

Speaking of this, she tilted her head slightly, and her voice was slightly low: "It's wild." ”

Pei Shu was stunned, and then his face became gloomy again.

It's actually wild.

Just after listening to what Chen Ying said, he thought that it was artificially planted, if so, then they were expected to find a way out, but Chen Ying just said that it was wild, and the little hope in his heart was shattered.

Chen Ying didn't think about his mood at all.

She straightened up, a smile growing on her face, and a rare joy in her words: "I think I may have thought of a way out of this maze." ”

"Oh?" Pei Shu got up at the same time as her, and when he heard this, he raised an eyebrow, his face seemed to be a little uncertain, pointed to the flower in her hand that looked like a vegetable, and asked, "Your so-called method, is this just that?" ”

Chen Ying immediately smiled and bowed his head: "Little Hou Ye is right. ”

Pei Shu's expression was a little stiff.

What kind of wild purple jasmine can really take them out of this labyrinth?

He stared at Chen Ying, with a thoughtful expression, as if he was wondering whether her words were true or false.

Chen Ying is not in the habit of playing pantomime riddles with others.

"I read a lot of miscellaneous notes related to Dengzhou Mansion a few days ago, and coincidentally, there happened to be a book among them, which specifically recorded the wild flowers and plants in several counties of Dengzhou Prefecture. According to the book, in the wild of Dengzhou Prefecture, purple jasmine does not grow. She spoke, her voice extremely quiet: "However, this kind of flower, which will never appear in Dengzhou, grows in this forest, and it is still wild. From this, I guess that the seeds of this purple jasmine should have been brought from other places by birds or some small animals such as mountain rats, rabbits, etc. ”

Without mentioning artificial cultivation, plants usually disperse seeds through animals, wind, or their own ejection ability, which is a prerequisite for Chen Ying's reasoning.

At this time, she continued: "Now we know that Nabezhuang is in this forest, and there are plants in the forest that are not produced in Dengzhou, so we can infer that the origin of this plant is Nabezhuang, and then Zhuangzi was abandoned, and the seeds of the plants were brought here by birds and insects. ”

She paused here and said, "Of course, more than ten years have passed since the incident, and the flowers and plants artificially made back then have been carried around by animals over the years, and it is likely that the Devil's Cry Mountains are all over the mountains, but if my expectations are correct, the place where it grows most intensively should be near the original site of Zhuangzi." ”

This is the conclusion reached by Chen Ying based on the analysis of the activity area of various animals.

Birds have a wider range of activities, while animals usually move in a defined circle. The Zhuangzi has been abandoned for a long time, and the probability of animals visiting it is almost 100%. Using those "abnormal plants" as the medium, and then overlapping the activity areas of birds and animals, we can basically lock the general area of Beizhuang.

The denser the vegetation, the closer it is to Bezuma.

Admittedly, this inference is not rigorous, but from the point of view of common sense, it has a certain degree of operability.

Pei Shu had been listening to Chen Ying's words silently, and it wasn't until he heard this that his expression suddenly changed.

At this time, Chen Ying said: "If this is the basis, then we only need to find out these plants one by one, and then draw a distribution map, and finally according to the density of the plants on the map, we can roughly delineate the location of the mysterious village." ”

She raised her eyes and looked around, her expression calm: "There is a lack of masters among us who understand the formation, I think this method may be a try." ”

Her voice was as calm as water, dispersed in the falling drizzle.

Pei Shu glanced at her silently, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

"Of course, I can't guarantee that this method will work." Chen Ying immediately added, looking at him, his eyes were serene: "It's just that until there is no better way, any method should be tried as much as possible." ”

Pei Shu lowered his eyes.

At this moment, his single-eyelid eyes were covered by an iron helmet, and Chen Ying couldn't see his eyes clearly, so he had to focus on the bridge of the other party's straight nose.

Pei Shu was silent for a long time, and Chen Ying finally had to look away and look around.

The sound of rain was dense, the white mist was like smoke, and the vast rainforest surrounded their team of more than ten people, which inexplicably gave people a sense of "manpower is exhausted". The feeling was frustrating, if not hopeless.

Pei Shu tightened his eyebrows, and always felt that Chen Ying's method didn't seem to be so smart.

However, looking at it from another angle, in the current situation, he could not find a better way.

Or rather, Chen Ying was the only one in the room who proposed a solution, and he had no reason to refuse.