Chapter 13: Flowers and Insects

Fang Rui had a hard time carrying Xiaobao on his back, after all, he was too thin and didn't have much strength. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 Fang Rui, who was panting and stopped to take a break, suddenly heard the same panting sound around him, but this panting sound was more rapid and intense, like a broken bellows. Raising his head, Fang Rui saw the monster standing behind some crystals. Their appearance was very familiar, as long as Fang Rui thought about it a little, he remembered where he had seen them. Lin Mo showed them the photo on the plane, the newlywed wife of a wealthy businessman who forcibly took possession of the blue rouge box. Identical, with shriveled brown skin, skinny as a wood, arms long enough to touch the ground, and legs that were oddly short and seemed to be missing. There is no hair on the body, and the gender is not visible. Only this time, they are alive.

Everyone didn't dare to come out, and several gunmen on the periphery seemed to be so frightened that their hands holding guns trembled a little. Is it that scary? Bai Jingjing was a little disdainful, but she soon knew the reason. A monster closest to her suddenly exploded and leaped in, its bounce was amazing, and in an instant, it had leapt past several gunmen on the periphery to Bai Jingjing's eyes. Bai Jingjing blasted up with a punch, and the monster took a solid punch. But the monster's body only slowed down slightly, but Bai Jingjing felt like his fist was hitting a hard iron plate. The monster stretched out its hand and grabbed Bai Jingjing, and the staff with the gun began to fire and shoot wildly at the monster. Bai Jingjing bent down and rolled on the ground to dodge the monster's attack. The monster was shot several times in the back, but it seemed to land unresponsive before turning around and lunging at the gun-wielding group. In the blink of an eye, he pounced on one, and his fingers plunged straight into his head like sharp thorns. With a single stroke, the whole head cracked open.

"With a knife!" Lin Mo roared, and at the same time, he pulled out a black soft sword from his waist and stabbed at the other monsters that pounced.

Everyone immediately threw away their guns and took out a short knife from their backs, and fought directly with the monster. Bai Jingjing jumped up from the ground, but she didn't expect to be careless and let herself suffer a loss. Angry, she immediately stretched out her right hand, and a golden bone claw emerged from her body and covered her hand, and another punch was blasted, and the monster was immediately knocked away to the full moon on the side.

Full Moon saw the monster flying towards him, and lightly slapped it in the air, and a peachy air flow immediately enveloped the monster. Bai Jingjing grabbed the monster with another claw, and suddenly a fishy reddish-brown liquid splashed out of the monster's body. The monster raised its hair and let out a scream, as if something was wriggling in its throat, and with a snap, its throat cracked, and out of its wide open mouth flew a blue, somewhat golden beetle. The beetle flew to the nearest crystal, stabbing it with a small spine at the tip of its tail. The seemingly hard crystals were just pricked slightly, and they were instantly shattered. With the sound of the crystal shattering, the stems and leaves of strange flowers emerged from the shattered crystals, and they rolled towards several men with short knives as if they had eyes. Everyone was completely shocked by this scene, and before they could come to their senses, the blue beetle flew towards another crystal and stabbed it. Fortunately, Lin Mo reacted quickly, and swung his sword at the blue beetle to cut it in half, preventing it from piercing more crystals.

But even if there are only two strange flowers, everyone is a little overwhelmed, and those stems and leaves are not afraid of bullets and cut with knives, but there is only a small gap. But once it is completely reeled, it swoops towards the stamen. The small bumps on the stamens of the flower pierce into the roof of the human head like a thick needle. At the same time, the crystals that had been shattered to the ground turned into liquid-like jelly-like clusters, and after a while, the strange flowers were wrapped again, only this time the crystals had one more person. Now everyone finally understood how the corpse they had seen before had entered the crystal. What's even more terrifying is that the person caught in the crystal doesn't die immediately, you can even see that he is still struggling slightly until he is completely unable to move.

"Kill the bugs in the monster's mouth, and don't let them touch the crystals again." Lin Mo shouted as he stabbed a monster to death with his sword, and when a blue beetle also flew out of its mouth, Lin Mo split it with another sword.

It seems that it is not those monsters that are really terrifying, at least they can be slashed by cold weapons, but the strange flowers in the crystals seem to be invulnerable. After losing five people, the monsters were finally frightened, and they did not dare to step forward, but they did not leave but followed closely around them. Lin Mo commanded everyone to move forward slowly, and the two sides did not fight again, but they were also facing each other in a tense manner. Finally walked in front of the largest pyramid building in the ancient city, those monsters didn't seem to dare to enter inside, and watched Lin Mo and the others walk in.

"They don't seem to dare to come in." Bai Jingjing asked the full moon beside her, "Have you seen them before?" Do you know what they are? ā€

"I haven't seen it!" Full Moon shook her head, she couldn't fully use her tears for the time being, not only its mana but also its memories. Therefore, the full moon simply said that he didn't know.

"They are the same as the new wives of rich merchants, what happened to that wife? Dead? Does it have bugs flying out of its mouth too? Fang Rui asked Lin Mo.

"It's not dead, it's locked up. We didn't detect any blue beetles from its body. Lin Mo replied, and then looked at the only half of the entourage, in order to catch the rich merchant's wife, he also lost his soldiers, but now, he has just lost half of his men and horses.

Although those monsters didn't follow up again, Lin Mo didn't take it lightly. Looking around, there was only one stone staircase spiraling upwards in the small stone chamber. After taking a breath, everyone walked up the stone steps, about six stories high, and finally reached the end of the stairs.

Beyond the stone steps is a towering wooden building, with a strange architectural style, like a tower not a tower, but like a wooden pyramid on a trapezoidal stone base. It's just that there is no pointed tip, and the top end is flat, as if the top has been truncated.

"Daddy!" Yu Nana, who had not spoken and seemed to have been completely frightened, suddenly screamed and pointed to the top floor of the wooden building, where there seemed to be a man whose body was half suspended in the air, and with Yu Nana's scream, the man was pulled in again and could not be seen.

"Go up!" Lin Mo waved his hand and let everyone enter the wooden building, each floor of the wooden building was run through by a wooden spiral staircase, and everyone couldn't help but be even more frightened on each floor. The higher you go, the more human corpses are scattered on the ground. Moreover, these corpse pieces seem to have crystallized, which looks crystal clear but shocking. There were so many corpses, but there was not a single blood on the ground. When everyone went up the third floor, they found that a blue beetle had appeared in the floor that had previously flown out of the monster's mouth. Only this time, they were all sparkling like sapphires. Fang Rui thought of the legend of Lop Nur in the Death Worm, where the immortals who lived in the mirage would give a blue gem to those who entered it. Perhaps, this is the legendary blue gemstone.

They rested silently on the walls of the wooden building, dazzling like dazzling jewels. But everyone didn't dare to act rashly, even if there were no strange flowers in the wooden building, but the crystal-like corpses in one place made them not even dare to come out of the atmosphere. At this moment, the little treasure that Fang Rui was carrying let out a soft snort, as if he had woken up slowly. When he opened his eyes and saw the sapphire beetle on the wall, he smiled and slowly stretched out his hand. The sapphire beetle that had been standing still began to flapped its wings as thin as cicada wings and flew towards everyone, and with the continuous dancing of the wings, it even fell with a little blue light, and when these fragments stuck to the head of an entourage, his head immediately began to crystallize from top to bottom, as if it was wrapped in a thin layer of crystal.

Bai Jingjing saw that the situation was not good, and knocked away Xiaobao's outstretched hand. At the same time, he pulled him off Fang Rui's back, slapped Xiaobao in the face, and shouted at the same time: "Wake up!" ā€

Xiao Bao shook his head and his eyes returned to a clear state, and he saw clearly the sapphire beetle flying towards him, and immediately let out a clear whistle from his mouth. The sapphire beetles that came in the air flew back to their original positions and came to a halt.

Everyone watched as the man who had been touched by the broken mangs before slowly his entire body was wrapped in a blue crystal, Lin Mo walked quickly to Xiaobao and ordered: "Save him!" ā€

Xiaobao shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, I can't do it." All they get is death, but they weren't like that before. ā€

"What's that like? Is this your home indeed? What are they? Lin Mo asked in an unkind tone.

"I only remember a few things, this is supposed to be my home. But in my memory, it's not like that, there are no crystals at all, and the flowers in the crystals are called shore flowers. The realm of life and death is this shore, and Nirvana is the other shore. We only have this shore flower here, and its nectar and fruit are our food. It never eats people! These flowers grow and reproduce by the scarab beetle, which is as beautiful as a sapphire as you see. But it didn't attack humans before. The flowers and insects we have here don't kill! No, it won't! Absolutely not! The more Xiao Bao spoke, the more excited he became, and the tears left in his eyes and fell straight to the ground.

"And how long ago do you remember they were all harmless? Or, in your memory, how many years? Bai Jingjing asked.

"Uhhh Xiaobao was suddenly stunned, and it took a long time before he replied: "I don't know, I have never lived here and never gone out." As far as I can remember, no one else has told me. ā€œ

"Are the other people you are talking about who live in this ancient city like you? Where have they all gone? Bai Jingjing asked again.

"yes, the others? Why didn't you see it? Xiaobao spun around in a circle as if looking for something, and muttered to himself, "I... Where's my aunt? I... I seem to ... It seems that there is a younger sister! ā€œ

"Alright, don't ask him again." Full Moon pulled Bai Jingjing and signaled her not to ask any more, and then said, "Let's go up first to see if Yu Nana's father, Yu Zhenbang, is on it!" ā€œ

"Good!" Lin Mo also thought that no matter how much he pressed, there would be no result, so he took the rest of the people and walked up together.