Chapter 20: The Nightmare Flower
After resting for a while and feeling some strength in my body, the fat man and I helped Chen Mo out of this dark alley.
The atmosphere on the streets is very oppressive and quiet, Macau is a city that never sleeps, and after night, the lights are bright, and there should be a constant stream of pedestrians.
But at this time, there were no pedestrians on the street, not even a taxi, which added a layer of depression to our already tired body and mind.
Thankfully, it's just weird, but there's nothing weird going on the streets, and there's no ghost wandering the streets.
"What now, I can't get a taxi," the fat man asked me, gasping
"What else can I do, naturally I walk with my feet, but fortunately it's not far." I couldn't help but be a little glad when I smiled bitterly
As soon as he finished speaking, a rather magnetic voice came from behind
"Why are you here?"
When we looked back, we saw Fan Wuchang dressed in black and holding a cigarette, slowly walking towards us.
"Didn't I ask a lawyer to bail you out? How not to stay in a hotel? Fan Wuchang glanced at us suspiciously
"Alas...... It's complicated to say, long story short, short enough to say it thoroughly, so I'll explain it to you when I have time. The fat man sighed and replied
The fat man's tone directly made a black line rise on Fan Wuchang's forehead.
"I'm only worried about Brother Zheng's ancestral house, how are you doing?" Fan Wuchang stroked his forehead weakly.
"We have eliminated the yang evil, but this feng shui still has to be set up on a certain day, otherwise it will not be able to change the luck of this dead house at all." As I said this, I gently placed my hand on the handle of the umbrella floating in the air. Xiaopang, Grandma Hong, and Murong Jiajia are all souls, so I don't worry about Fan Wuchang being able to see it. However, it may seem strange that an umbrella floats in the air for no apparent reason.
Fortunately, Fan Wuchang's attention was not on the umbrella behind me, he was just worried about how long it would take for Chen Zheng's ancestral house to improve.
The fat man explained what happened to Fan Wuchang, telling him that he had to set up the Nine Yin Array in twelve days and use the heavenly power to change the fortune of the house.
After hearing this, Fan Wuchang nodded lightly and told us not to be careless, and we must deal with the feng shui of the house.
"By the way, Brother Chang, why are you here?" I feel very puzzled by Fan Wuchang's appearance, and he doesn't have a bodyguard with him, which is too unreasonable for a black boss's henchmen.
And tonight's Fan Wuchang gave me a very strange feeling, although his cold face was still calm, but through the white light, I could still see that his face was a little pale, this state, like a patient who had just been seriously ill?
"Nothing...... Yesterday the Tigers announced a war with Tanglin, and the place of the war was on the next street, I just came from there, and I was afraid that you would run around, so I came to tell you twice! Fan Wuchang took out a tissue and gently wiped the fine sweat on his forehead.
"I said, is it any wonder that there is no one on the whole street? So the two of you went to war? "Neither I nor the fat man want to get involved in the underworld, but looking at Fan Wuchang's appearance, it is very likely that he was not lightly injured in this battle.
"Be careful......" reminded me, I subconsciously patted his waist, a habitual action, but let me touch a long and hard object on his waist.
I can't help but imagine the gun, the same cold, pinned to the waist, what else can it be if it's not a gun?
It seems that this time the matter is not trivial, even Fan Wuchang, who is accustomed to using a knife, wears a pistol.
"Hehe, I'm fine......" Fan Wuchang smiled non-deniably, avoiding my hand on his waist, and he told us two more words, let's not move around randomly during this time. Then he handed me and the fat man a cigarette and walked past us.
The fat man and I lit cigarettes and helped Chen Mo to continue walking.
When I got back to the hotel, it was already five o'clock in the morning. A letter written by Yuan Qiu was left on the table, which left us a message saying that Lao Zhang was looking for him to drink, and it was estimated that he would have to play for a day or two, let's not worry, if there is any situation, call the phone number below the note.
Three people, three rooms, and one that happened to be empty after Yuan Qiu left. But when I was about to place the unconscious Chen Mo in Yuan Qiu's room, I found that the room had been locked. In desperation, I had no choice but to place Chen Mo in the fat man's room.
At this time, the fat man and I were not sleepy at all, and our minds were still thinking about the strange snake baby. Although the fat man and I are still young and have not enough experience, just because we see less does not mean that we listen less. Rao is that we have heard all kinds of strange things in Uncle Qingsong's mouth in our spare time, Rao is that we have read a lot of incomplete ancient books, and we still have not heard of this kind of monster that looks like a human but not a snake, and a two-headed human body.
"What the hell is that Nightmare Flower?" I took a puff of my cigarette and asked Grandma Hong and Murong Jiajia on the side
Grandma Red pondered for a moment, and then shook her head: "I have only heard that this is an evil flower, irrigated with the blood of virgins, and those who smell this fragrance are intoxicated, and once they are fascinated by it, they may be immersed in the environment for the rest of their lives, and they will never wake up, but I have no way of knowing the details of this flower." ”
In the end, it was Murong Jiajia who told me the origin of this smiling nightmare.
She said that the origin of this nightmare flower has to be traced back to the Han Dynasty.
It is said that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was an old man in Julu, holding a book of Taiping Heaven, passing on eight disciples, forming the Yellow Turban Force, and then intercepting the dragon vein of the Han Dynasty with his ability to defy the sky. As a result, the Han dynasty will fall, and the world will be full of smoke.
This old man is the founder of Taiping Dao, and later generations called Zhang Jiao, a great sage and good teacher. Although the dragon vein was intercepted and the Han family's automobile transportation was cut off, Zhang Jiao was also punished by God for this rebellion, and then the Yellow Turban Army was encircled and suppressed by the joint efforts of the major heroes led by Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and Sun Jian, and finally annihilated in the loess of history. According to rumors, after Zhang Jiao's death, the Taiping Book of Heaven was divided into two, and its upper policy fell into the hands of Zhuge Liang's father-in-law Huang Chengyan, and the latter strategy did not know where to go.
Of course, the above is all a later story, it is worth mentioning that in addition to Hao Hao's famous Taiping Dao, all kinds of organizations sprung up among the people at that time, also under the banner of uprising, but in the backsliding, there were many organizations that did things that were not as good as beasts, and they were well-deserved cults.
The Han Dynasty was a dynasty where witchcraft was popular, and the rise of these cults was of course inseparable from witchcraft. Among these cults, there is an organization called Huanximen, which advocates the integration of yin and yang to achieve the unity of heaven and man. And in the Gate of Joy, there is a strange "treasure" that destroys human nature. The name said: "Laughing Nightmare Flower." ”
He used a peculiar flower as its source, irrigated it with the blood of a pure maiden, and what is even more dehumanizing is that this flower was conceived from the body of a baby.
Take a baby that is less than 100 days old, plant the seeds of flowers in the baby's body, trap the baby in the soil in the way of planting, and then use evil magic to bewitch the girl, and when the girl's lust is provoked, ruthlessly destroy their intelligence, and take blood to irrigate the smiler flower
When the seeds germinate, they will emerge from the baby's body, and the baby will only be physically and mentally torn apart, and the baby will not want to live. On the day the flower blooms, that is, when the baby dies, the baby is left with only the wisdom to become one with the smiler.
Because flowers contain the innocence of a baby, as well as the beautiful longing and desire of a girl for her life, flowers bring together all this in an alternative and extreme way.
Those who smell the fragrance of flowers will immediately fall into a kind of intoxicated illusion, trance, light and shadow psychedelic, with the breath of spring, eroding everyone's heart and soul.
This is the Smiler Flower, conceived in a way that exterminates humanity, and it is also terrifying to the extreme, maybe when you are dying, you will not be aware of the coming of death at all, you will only feel that you are lying on a grass full of life, with the breath of spring, a sense of belonging to home.
Although the historical Joy Gate was later destroyed, this way of refining the Smiler Flower has also been lost. But Murong Jiajia and Grandma Hong both concluded that there was a smell of laughing nightmare flowers in the blood stains of the two-headed snake baby.
"Didn't you say that the Gate of Joy was destroyed later? This way of refining the Nightmare Flower should also be lost, right? The fat man held his chin and said with a solemn face
Murong Jiajia raised her eyebrows lightly, her breath was like an orchid, and she said softly: "The world's Taoism, the law and religion, are inseparable from the relationship with witchcraft, Huanximen is the source of witchcraft, the method of breeding the smile flower is also a kind of witchcraft, Huanximen understands, and it is difficult to ensure that the rest of the families have dabbles." ”
"But the baby snake looks like a human and not a snake, but its whole body is covered with snake scales, and even its tongue and eyes are exactly the same as the parts of the snake's body? What's going on here, but it doesn't match the legendary Laughing Nightmare Flower at all" The fat man paused, and asked Murong Jiajia very suspiciously.
"Gu" was almost at the same time, and Murong Jiajia and I blurted out the word.
The Han Dynasty was heavy on witches, and at the same time, it was also heavy on Gu, and in the last years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Hao Hao's famous witch Gu disaster was derived. The origin of witches and Gu has always been very ancient, and they have never been separated during the Han Dynasty.
For example, after the fat man and I returned from Anhui, the old woman who delivered eggs in the Zen Yi Hall kneaded Gu worms and corpses to create another evil thing.
From this, it is not difficult to deduce that this snake baby is a kneading object of the Laughing Nightmare Flower and one of the five poisons, the snake. After all, witchcraft has been passed down through the ages, and after countless people have tampered with it, there is an endless stream of righteous and evil arts. In this world, in addition to geniuses, there are also geniuses who have taken the wrong path and stepped into the evil path.
At this moment, everyone's hearts in the hotel are cold, the strangeness of this snake baby greatly surprised all of us, if it weren't for the little fat, I think everyone would not know what was going on even if they died, thinking of this, my heart swelled with a kind of horror for the rest of my life.
"Fatty, what do you think we should do now?" In the middle of my struggle, I threw the ball to the fat man.
The fat man rubbed his stuffy forehead, sighed and said: "Besides, I'm not worried about this snake baby now, but about the person who manipulated him behind the scenes, and even the person who can refine a monster like a snake baby that exterminates humanity must not be an ordinary person." ”
What the fat man said is indeed reasonable, although the snake baby is weird, the people behind it are undoubtedly more terrifying. Although both of us can ignore our own affairs and hang up safely, this kind of thing is too dehumanizing, as long as there is a little conscience, I think I will do my best to prevent such a thing from happening and bring the murderer to justice.
And once we step into this troubled water, I am afraid that countless unknowns will arise, and we may also get into an extremely huge trouble, an enemy who is extremely terrifying.