Chapter 90: Crystal Orchid on the Corpse

I slept so dazedly that I didn't know if I was asleep or awake. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info finally fell asleep in a trance, and dreamed of Lan again. In the dream, Lan was in the dark, covered in wounds. There was the familiar black knife stuck in the ground beside him. It's just that the black knife is covered with dazzling blood.

I don't know why blood red is so noticeable on a black knife. I was just thinking about going up and asking her what was wrong, but suddenly I woke up.

After waking up, I glanced around and found that He Tao was gone. The fat man was sitting at a small table next to the TV. Looking at his posture, it seems to be writing something. But when I got out of bed and asked him what he was writing, he panicked and hid a piece of paper. I cut it, and I thought of Sister Qing early in the morning, and I was bored, and I was embarrassed to tell our two old men. That's what I wrote on it to relieve boredom.

After washing, it was already dawn. At this time, He Tao happened to come back from outside with breakfast.

Breakfast was flatbread, eggs, pancakes, fruit. These two are also quite famous snacks in the north. It's just that I'm not used to the tastes, so I just sit on the side after a few bites and wait for them to finish and then set off.

There is no need to repeat the process of departure. It took us half a day to go back to the desert we had been going down again. When I looked at the tent on the desert that had been half-buried by the wind and sand, an inexplicable emotion suddenly rose in my heart.

A week ago, the place was buzzing with people. But who would have thought that these people would be left under this desert forever.

Relying on the fat man's natural ability to know the way, it only took us half a day to return from the well above the desert to the camp where we fought the human-faced birds.

When we were still standing on the cliff, the fat man's sharp eyes noticed the strange appearance of the corpses under the cliff. He beckoned me to come up and see.

I walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down, and found that there was a faint white light below, not when it started. The white glow was like the soul of the dead could not be reincarnated, and it roamed the empty underground valley.

At first, I thought it was a phosphorus fire from the decomposition of corpses. But the fat man said it wasn't quite the same. As he spoke, he wanted to shoot a flare to see it clearly, but he was stopped by He Tao. The reason is that it is not known if there are any other human-faced birds alive in this valley. You know, last time it took more than 10,000 of us to barely resist the attack of those beasts. This time there are only three of us, and more is better than less.

The fat man thought about it and felt reasonable. He didn't say anything more, and went down along the previous rope.

When we all descended, we realized that this large white glow in the valley was actually a kind of flower. And this flower is also very familiar to me. Because I also saw it once in the valley below Ximatang. At that time, because I had no experience, I was bewitched by this crystal orchid for a long time. Seeing these things this time can be regarded as a long lesson.

The fat man was also very surprised to see these flowers. I didn't expect such a dry place to have this kind of flower that likes to be moist and warm.

He Tao didn't look surprised, so he threw one in his mouth and began to chew.

I looked at He Tao's calm expression and chewed a few times and swallowed, and my stomach was full of clouds.

I forgot to mention it. Crystal orchid is also known as the flower of death. In the words of the older generation, the place where these flowers bloom must be accompanied by something dying. And in this area in front of us, in addition to the corpses of human-faced birds, there are tens of thousands of corpses lying here. In other words, these crystal orchids are grown by absorbing nutrients produced after the decay of corpses. If we eat it now, wouldn't that be eating a corpse?

No way.

The fat man watched He Tao chew and swallow it after a few bites, and he was not far behind, pulling one and grabbing it in his hand. It's just that he also thought of the same thing as me, and although he picked the flowers on impulse, he still didn't put them in his mouth.

He Tao chewed and spit out a little mud. He wiped his mouth and said, "The taste is a little light—sure enough, it's still an orange, and Huainan is an orange." ”

It's the first time I've heard that eating a corpse is too light. I couldn't help but spit it out with a wow.

The fat man patted me on the shoulder and didn't speak. It's just that I can't see where he looks at his face, obviously he just endured it and didn't vomit.

No way. In order not to delay the time to save Lan, I still resisted the urge to vomit and put Crystal Lan in my mouth.

There is sticky, slippery juice that slowly spreads out in the mouth. The feeling is like eating a slug.

Gossip aside. When we came to the lake again, it had been three days. I went from being full of hope at the beginning, to finding that the fat man had left behind the same thing, and then to being disillusioned.

Maybe Lan really had an accident down there. My heart said. But even though there was little hope, I chose to believe that there was a passage down there. Lan followed the passage to the other side. It's just that after we got there, we couldn't come out again because something happened, and we needed to go down to help.

The three of us stood silently by the lake and began to put on our gear. It's the best equipment we've ever had. Because there were only three of us, some large equipment could not be transported here. So some of the equipment can only be simplified. For example, this oxygen cylinder on each of us.

Because of the problem of weight, there is only one for each person. According to the fat man, he was because of his large lung capacity. So such a small tank of oxygen can only keep him in the water for about half an hour. If it were me, it would have been longer, about an hour. It's about the same with Tao. So we had to find Lan in half an hour to an hour. Or find the passage that Lan enters.

I also dived once while washing my horse. But that's just that time, and this time it's only twice. Therefore, in terms of the speed of wearing devices, it is not as fast as the fat man and He Tao. I'm only halfway through them when they're all done.

The fat man shook the flippers on his feet and turned to look at me. said: "Ah Cheng, to be honest. Let's come back this time to save Sister Lan, but after all, so many days have passed. Even if Sister Lan is down there, it may ......"

The fat man didn't go any further when he said this. But I also understood what he meant.

She's still alive, and she's coming back to save her. It's just wishful thinking on my part. It's just an obsession. When you get out of the water, you might see Lan stuck somewhere underwater. And her body may rot because of the three days of soaking in the lake. All I could see was a soaked corpse.

(It's a little busy, the takeaway is still on the way, so I'll make up for the debt first.) ）