Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Flower of Death

(Sorry for being late, I slept in a circle.) ）

I shook my head and took a few minutes to sort out reality and fantasy.

The fat man saw that my mind was finally clear, and reached out to pull me up from the ground. I waved my hand and motioned for me to get up on my own. But just as I was about to stand up with my hands on the ground, I suddenly felt something on my waist smack me. At first, I thought it was a stone on the ground, but when I felt it carefully, I realized that something was wrong. When I looked down, the thing hanging from my waist made me fall into the confusion of reality and fantasy again.

I had a knife hanging from my waist. And this knife seems to be the one in the illusion of Lilan.

I froze as I looked at the knife on my waist.

The fat man saw that I didn't move for a long time after I made a standing posture, and thought that my hands were numb and I couldn't use my strength after lying down for too long, so he wanted to come and help me. But when he followed my gaze and saw the knife hanging from my waist, he was also stunned. Obviously, the fat man also recognized the knife.

"What's the deal with this knife?" The fat man leaned down and pretended to help me up, leaning into my ear and whispering.

"I don't know." I said, "I'm confused, and if you ask me, who will I ask?" ”

The fat man's face turned slightly when he heard this, and he immediately returned to normal. "There's definitely something wrong here, don't make a noise about it." With that, he reached out and helped me up.

I nodded and didn't speak. But I was thinking about it. First of all, I'm pretty sure I didn't have the knife with me before I went out. Because this is Ran's saber, there's no way I'm going to come out with it. Then, this knife was indeed the one that Lan used in the Merriam-Webster ancestral hall. This can be judged by the special mark on the blade. So, how did this knife end up on me? Could it be that Lan is also in this ancient tomb? But no, Lan is still recuperating at Arin's parents' house. And according to the doctor's judgment, Lan's situation will not get better in a short time. So Lan can't be here. But then the question comes back - how did this knife get to me?

Could it be that I ran into that sea of flowers while I was in a fantasy and then what happened to me inside? This seems to be the most likely inference now.

But what happened to me in there?

I looked at Ali and He Tao who were walking in front, secretly pulled the fat man back, and asked him in a low voice, "Hey, fat man." ”

The fat man seemed to be thinking about something, and he was frowning when I called him: "Well, what? ”

"Did you see what the hell I was doing when I was crazy?" I asked him.

The fat man raised his face to look at me, and wrinkled his nose again: "It's too far away, I can't see clearly." After a pause, he said, "I can roughly see you dancing in it like a." ”

I patted the fat man and told him not to look at the joke: "You also saw that this knife is Lan's." Now in my hands, there must be something wrong with this. As I spoke, I looked at the two people walking in front of me, and found that they had not noticed that the fat man and I had slowly broken away from the group and walked behind. Then he said, "I guess this knife must have appeared on me when I rushed into this sea of flowers." ”

The fat man nodded and asked, "This knife doesn't look like it's the kind of rotten street, it must be her exclusive - since it appears in this place, does it mean that she is also in this ancient tomb?" ”

I nodded, and shook my head again. I told the fat man what I just thought.

"That's weird." The fat man said. But after a pause, the fat man said, "Hey, you say, is it possible that her illness will be cured early?" ”

I gave him a blank look: "You should have a cold and fever for this kind of mental illness?" After taking medicine and sleeping the next day, will you be fine? ”

As soon as the fat man heard that I was arguing with him, he immediately came to his senses. I just wanted to refute me, but I found that Ali and the others had stopped, so I didn't want to say anything more, so I obediently closed my mouth and pulled me to follow quickly.

Ali: They stopped in front of the sea of white flowers. When I stepped forward with the fat man, Ali turned her head and said to me, "Brother, the state you were in before was made by these flowers. ”

I said in my heart, why didn't you say it earlier, what's the use of saying it now. But even so, I subconsciously took a step back, for fear of being hit again.

Ali saw me take a step back, smiled, and said, "Actually, you don't have to be so afraid. If you know these flowers, it doesn't affect you at all. After saying that, Ali squatted down and picked one and played with it in her hand. And he said, "These flowers have a nice name, which is called Crystal Orchid. ”

"Crystal Orchid?" I was stunned, "This is an orchid?" It doesn't look like it. ”

Ali shook her head: "No, although it's called a crystal orchid, it's not an orchid. It belongs to the Cerhus family of plants. After a pause, he said, "Don't think it's a flower just because it has a flower in its name." The biggest difference between this plant and other flowers and even other plants is that it does not photosynthesize. That is, it can survive where there is no light. And," Ali motioned for us to turn off the flashlight. "It doesn't absorb light, but it emits light."

Sure enough, after we all turned off the flashlight, the crystal orchid in Ali's hand actually emitted a faint, faint white light. At the same time, the sea of flowers in front of us also emitted a soft white light. But as for why we didn't find them to be able to emit light before, I think it's very likely that we turned on the flashlight before, and the light of the flashlight overshadowed their own light.

Ali turned on her flashlight again and continued, "I forgot to tell you that this crystal orchid has another name. ”

"What's the name?" I asked.

"Don't be afraid." Ali looked at the three of us.

"What's there to be afraid of, isn't it just a name?" The fat man is disdainful.

"It's called the Flower of Death."

"Flower of Death?" The three of us were stunned at the same time.

"Well, the name sounds cool." The fat man nodded.

Aliwaner: "It's cool just to hear the name. But what I'm going to talk about next isn't that fun. After saying that, Ali casually threw away the crystal orchid that she had picked off, and said: "The reason why crystal orchids don't need to photosynthesize is because they rely on the corpses of plants or animals to provide nourishment. So where the crystal orchid has appeared, then that place has either a lot of plants have died, or a lot of creatures have died. And the name Flower of Death is how it came from. ”

I glanced at the fat man, and then at He Tao. I only heard Ali continue: "If this is above the ground, I can think that there is a large number of *** dead plants underneath these crystal orchids. But there is something special about the place we are in now - just imagine, what is the most dead thing in an ancient tomb? ”