Chapter 9, Cannibal Flowers
The night finally faded, and the dawn appeared in the distant sky.
The group walked through the dense forest, climbing mountain after mountain, stepping into the depths of the Shadow Mountains in the gradually rugged terrain.
Zhang Yi stood on top of a big stone, wiped a handful of sweat flowing down his forehead, his eyes looked down the mountain, below was a deep valley, a few beast roars came from time to time in the silence, the dense forest was like covering the earth with a thick quilt of dark green, and the surrounding was full of ups and downs of mountains.
Zhang Yi glanced back again, and the mercenaries followed closely behind him, everyone's head and body were wet with the dew among the grass and trees in the early morning, and their faces were full of tiredness and sleepiness that could not be concealed.
From last night to now, their group had been on the road for most of the night, and in addition to the battle on the river beach, everyone's body was almost exhausted, and they were thirsty and hungry, and they wished to fall down and never get up again.
But without Zhang Yi's consent, the mercenaries didn't dare to stop and rest at all.
For no other reason, from midnight to now, Zhang Yi has led them around several places where monsters gather, and has also avoided many imperceptible dangers. They couldn't imagine that if Zhang Yi hadn't led the way in front, maybe they wouldn't have survived half a day in the Shadow Mountain Range.
Therefore, no matter how tired and hungry they are, as long as Zhang Yi does not stop, the mercenaries will never dare to fall behind, unless they don't want to live.
"Alright, let's take a break here." Zhang Yi jumped down from the stone and said to the mercenaries.
The men looked at each other, and then fell to the ground with a clatter, and the two girls couldn't even pay attention to the dirty dirt on the ground, and it felt like they were lying on the softest down bed.
Zhang Yi was also tired enough, but for some reason, there was still a steady stream of bodies emerging from his body, as if they were inexhaustible.
He glanced around, then bowed his head to the people who had fallen to the ground and said, "I'll leave for a while, and you will stay here, and don't run around." After saying that, without waiting for everyone to answer, he turned his head and went into the dense forest next to him.
Several of the mercenaries looked at each other, not knowing what he was going to do.
After drilling into the dense forest, Zhang Yi cheered up and searched around the forest, but it didn't take long for someone to follow him into the dense forest, Zhang Yi looked back and saw that it was now the heroic girl.
"What, are you afraid that I will leave you behind and run away by yourself?" Zhang Yi said with a smile.
"How is that possible?" Susan smiled, but there was a tiredness in the smile that could not be concealed, and a sly light flashed in her still bright eyes, "I'm just curious about what you want to do, you also said not to run around, but you didn't say I can't follow you, right?" ”
Zhang Yi shook his head, he knew what the girl was worried about, but it was normal to have this kind of worry, no matter how you looked at it, the few people who survived the Gray Dove Mercenary Group had become a burden to Zhang Yi.
The girl was also afraid that Zhang Yi would leave them behind for a while, and the mercenaries would really have no way to live.
"It's better for you to come along, just do me a favor."
Zhang Yi turned his head and continued to walk towards the forest, and Susan hurriedly followed him: "What do you need my help with?" ”
Zhang Yi didn't answer, searched in the forest for a while, and finally found what he was looking for - a big tree with lush foliage.
He dropped the phrase "Wait here" and climbed up to the canopy.
Susan waited under the tree, and after a while, she heard a "follow" sound overhead, and when she looked up, she saw red fist-sized fruits falling from the canopy.
"What is this?"
Susan exclaimed, and hurriedly reached out to take it, and it didn't take long to catch more than a dozen of them, all of them in her arms, and the rest of the fruits fell to the ground.
Zhang Yi climbed down from the tree, there was still one in his mouth, he bit hard, and asked curiously, "You don't know this fruit?" ”
This fruit can be found everywhere in the Shadow Mountains, and sometimes some small tasks in the game also need to pick it, and it feels like an apple to eat, although it does not replenish health, but it can replenish the body value consumed by the player.
Susan finally knew what Zhang Yi was going to do when she left them, and she couldn't help but feel ashamed of her doubts about him, but she didn't regret it, she just picked one up from her arms and took a bite gently: "The Shadow Mountain Range is not the same as outside, I haven't seen this kind of fruit outside." ”
The two of them soon returned to their makeshift resting place, and the wild fruits, which seemed to have an appetite, were cheered by the mercenaries, who were now thirsty and hungry, and ate this just right.
After resting for about a quarter of an hour, Zhang Yi had to wake up the group of guys who were about to fall asleep. From now on, they can be regarded as truly entering the depths of the Shadow Mountains, and they must travel as hard as they can, and they cannot stop to rest until it gets dark.
In the depths of the mountain range, there will be many night monsters coming out after dark, these monsters have no fixed gathering place, and it is difficult for Zhang Yi to grasp their movement routes, so he can only take advantage of the day to walk as much as possible, and at night he plans to find a place to hide.
Zhang Yi's words had already established a certain authority in the hearts of the mercenaries, and they had no reason to refute it, so they could only endure their sore limbs and continue to hurry.
The group walked down the hill, into the valley, and continued into the depths of the mountain.
Until noon, they had not crossed the valley, when the dense forest before them suddenly changed, and the towering trees disappeared in their place, replaced by a very strange-looking forest.
The plants in this forest are like clusters of flowers magnified dozens of times, and there are many brightly colored flowers, but each flower is extremely large, and a single petal is the size of an adult.
"Huh? It smells so good! ”
Delaney took a deep breath of air and said with some intoxication, and everyone also smelled a strong floral fragrance emanating from the air, and it was obvious that these floral scents were emitted by the huge flowers in front of them.
Only Zhang Yi's face was very ugly, to be honest, he really didn't want to take this road, but there were monster gatherings on both sides of this valley, and if they approached rashly, they would only become prey sent to the door.
Only this man-eating flower in the middle of the valley could make it possible for them to pass guò.
That's right, these huge flowers are the notorious man-eating flowers, and the fragrance of the flowers is just a temptation, if humans or monsters can't resist the temptation of the fragrance of flowers, and rashly touch the flowers, the bright and beautiful flowers will instantly become predators even more terrible than monsters.
In the past, in the game, players who wanted to enter it had to at least need the mages to blast it with a wide range of spells outside, and very few people dared to go directly into the dense man-eating flowers like this.
"Remember, we're going to walk through this flower bush now, these flowers are cannibal flowers, you must not touch the flowers......"
Now that there are no conditions in the game, Zhang Yi can only keep telling the mercenaries to instill the danger of these cannibal flowers, lest they can't resist their curiosity.
Fortunately, the flowers of these cannibals are located higher, at least they don't need to bend their heads to get to guò.
Slowly exhaling, Zhang Yi calmed down the beating heartbeat that was a little faster, and then took the lead in getting into the cannibal flowers, and the mercenaries whose faces became stern because of Zhang Yi's words followed closely behind him, and a group of mermaids rushed in, and got into the cannibal flowers that even monsters could not avoid.
As soon as he entered the cannibal flowers, the tempting floral fragrance became even stronger, but fortunately, Zhang Yi had the foresight to let the mercenaries find some dead grass to stuff in their nostrils, even the two girls were no exception, which reduced the temptation of the floral fragrance a lot.
But he still can't stay here for a long time, Zhang Yi quickly walked through the gaps between the cannibal flowers, and there was no need to look for any roads here, just avoid the cannibal flowers above his head, and then go straight through.
The mercenary at the back was a young man named Sean, who was only in his early twenties, and he followed his companion closely, but he forgot to pay attention to his feet, and soon accidentally tripped over a vine and fell to the ground.
Sean's movements were very agile, and he immediately got up again after falling, but the dead grass stuffed in his nostrils fell off the side, and when he stood up, he couldn't help but suck it through his nose, and the rich fragrance of flowers immediately rushed from his nostrils into his head.
With a bang, Sean only felt that his mind became blank in an instant, and the temptation of the fragrance of flowers made him stop, and he stretched out his hand in a sluggish manner, reaching out to a huge and beautiful flower not far from his head.
The mercenary who walked in the penultimate couldn't hear the footsteps behind him, he looked back suspiciously, and immediately saw such a scene - Sean slowly stretched out his hand and touched the petals of the huge flower on the top of his head that was biased towards bright red, the flower immediately trembled, and countless sharp tooth-like blades stretched out from the edge of the petals, and the beautiful flower instantly turned into something even more terrifying than a monster, like a huge mouth full of sharp teeth, and pounced down, directly biting the whole person of Sean who was standing still.
"Sean!"
The mercenary shouted, turned and rushed back, slashing his sword at the flower that had bitten Sean.
The sharp iron sword slashed at the petals of the flower that looked extremely delicate, but the mercenary felt as if he had slashed at the tough leather armor, and the shiny blade left only a thin mark on the petals.
The cannibal shook like a living monster, and the huge flower swept violently, knocking out the mercenaries who couldn't dodge.
The people who walked in front listened to the movement, turned around one after another, and immediately understood what was going on, and immediately returned to help.
The two mercenaries went one after the other, and the weapons in their hands accurately hit the flower of the cannibal flower, but again only left a small mark on the petal.
Susan quickly opened her bow and fired three arrows in a row, all three of which hit the same spot on the petals, but they only broke a hole in the petals, and there were four or five layers of petals in layers.
At this moment, Zhang Yi, who was at the forefront, finally rushed back.
"Get out of the way."
Hearing his voice, the two mercenaries in front hurriedly dodged to the side, Zhang Yi rushed past them, rushed directly to the man-eating flower, quickly dodged a collision of the man-eating flower, jumped up from the ground, and threw the iron sword in his hand fiercely forward, directly cutting off the thick flower stem of the arm behind the flower.
The cannibal flower let out a small wail, and then with a bang, the huge flower fell to the ground.
The three mercenaries were stunned for a moment, they didn't expect Zhang Yi to solve it so easily, and then the three of them reacted and hurriedly rushed up to break the petals on the flowers, wanting to rescue Sean who was swallowed in.
Zhang Yi originally wanted to stop them, but after seeing this scene, he swallowed the words that surged into his throat again, turned around and continued to walk forward.
Everyone thought he was angry, but soon Zhang Yi's voice came from the front again.
"If you don't want to eat something, you'd better stop looking."
The mercenaries were stunned, Delaney hesitated, but turned around to catch up with Zhang Yi, while the remaining three mercenaries and Susan did not stop, and continued to break the petals of the cannibal flower.
After the cannibal flower died, the petals immediately became soft, and soon the layers of petals were broken, revealing Sean inside.
Delaney soon heard an exclamation from them, and she was tempted to turn her head to see how Sean was doing, but was immediately stopped by a clear sound of vomiting.
Draenei remembered Zhang Yi's words and hurriedly took a few steps to catch up with him and asked, "Mr. Erwin, what the hell is going on." ”
Zhang Yi sighed, as if he remembered some not-so-good memories, and he replied: "The flowers of the cannibal flower will secrete a highly corrosive liquid, and even the shield made of steel can quickly corrode away, if it is a human body, it ......." ”
Zhang Yi can't go on, in the game, it's okay if the player is swallowed by the cannibal flower, at most it is just a quick loss of health, but if the NPC is swallowed by the cannibal flower, Zhang Yi once saw a picture on the forum, a bunch of fuzzy human shapes that were corroded into blood and water mixed with bone and internal organs, making him unable to eat for several days.
Hearing Zhang Yi's words, thinking of the clear vomiting sound behind him, Delaney's face couldn't help but turn pale.
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