Chapter 22: Hidden Flowers
The next morning, after discussing the route of advance, the three of them also began to march deeper into the forest.
"You said that the Mars family is so far away from the Aemia Forest, why do you have to come here to train disciples?" Hua Ye couldn't figure it out.
"Brother Yezi, where is the Mars family?"
"We are now in the Wind Silence Plain, on the southwest continent of the Gaia Continent, and the Mars family is on the archipelago of the East Continent, and there is a sea in between."
"No, that's right, take a boat across the sea, at least a month."
A few people chatted and walked like this, and before they knew it, they came to the depths of the forest, and there was already a faint white fog around them, and they could barely see things from a hundred meters away.
"It's so strange, I haven't seen any other animals except for the birds after walking for so long!" Xinqiu is very uncomfortable with such a deserted environment.
"Maybe it's because of the beast tide and some kind of expulsion incident, the animals are running away and running," Hua Ye wrinkled his nose, "Have you smelled a faint fragrance?" ”
"Okay, it seems to have flowers, flowers."
"But there are trees all around! I don't even see a single grass, where does the floral fragrance come from? ”
"This incense, aroma," Wood seemed to remember something, "yes! Yes, it's a cryptophytic flower. ”
"Holy! No way! Hua Ye was about to jump up, "Are we so lucky!" ”
"What is a cryptophyllous flower?"
"I've only heard of it, except that it hides under the bark of a tree, and when its prey gets closer, it suddenly opens its bark and opens its huge petals to wrap it around it, and then gradually digests it." Hua Ye subconsciously took a few steps away from the tree next to him.
Wood then added that the flower is a parasitic plant that not only parasitizes trees, but has also been found to be parasitic on any plant with roots that can be parasitized and adjusted to its body shape according to the host's body shape. And the floral fragrance they emit is a means to seduce prey, most of them are insects and small-sized animals, and the stronger the floral fragrance, the more cryptophytic flowers there are in this area. Due to the size of the giant tree, the cryptophylla is also large enough to swallow people, but it is also easy to spot. It's dangerous, but it's okay to be careful.
"Wow, that's not what you're talking about!" Xinqiu pointed to the front excitedly.
I saw a strange wriggling on the upper side of the trunk of a large tree, and then suddenly a crack opened, and a yellow-white flower with a similar color to the inside of the trunk popped out like a bullet, wrapping an innocent bird into the petals, and then slowly harvesting the flower bones into the trunk. In the hazy mist, it was almost impossible to distinguish a parasitic tree from an ordinary large tree without looking closely at the place where there was a very incongruous crack.
"Good, that's amazing!" Xinqiu also became a stutter.
Hua Ye also saw this thing for the first time, and he couldn't help but get goosebumps.
"Wood, I have a question, are the cryptophytes all piles long?"
"No, no, it's too long, if it's too dense, the food will, it won't be enough."
"Then around us... Why is there one in every tree..."
Wood couldn't help but widen his eyes and look around the trees carefully, sure enough, each tree had dense and incongruous cracks, large or small, "I, I, I..."
In addition to Wood's fright, Hua Ye and Xinqiu looked nervously at the large woods around them, and slowly dragged Wood's statue forward.
"Wood, how does the Cryptophytic Flower sense its prey?" Hua Ye asked in a low voice.
"Magic, magic, magic web..."
As soon as Wood finished speaking, the trunk of the nearest tree suddenly cracked, and a large earthy yellow flower ejected out and enveloped Wood with a howl of wind.
Wood, who had only seen pictures of cryptobiotic flowers in "Gaia Plants and Trees - Danger", was the first time in his life that he had seen these alluring flowers up close, with five regular pentagonal petals, each of which was the size of half a person, and the inside of the petals was densely packed with sharp thorns, and the edges of the petals had curved sharp spines that were as long as the fangs of a viper. Look closely at the spikes covered in a thin layer of mucus, which is highly toxic and used to paralyze prey and digest it into nutrients.
The stunned Wood was so frightened by the sudden attack that his mind went blank, and his first reaction was to stand in place with his eyes closed and his head in his hands, with a posture of "don't hit me".
This idiot. Hua Ye did not hesitate to fire six shots in a row, interrupting the elastic stem that connected the trunk and the petals, and the petals rushed to Wood's feet without the support of the stem, and there was no movement after convulsions for a while, and pale green semi-permeable yin juice was oozing out from the broken stem.
"Let's go, Wood!" Hua Ye pulled Wood over and prepared to quickly escape from this place of right and wrong.
After barely two steps, the knocked out cryptophytic flower was swallowed by the larger cryptophytic flower on another tree.
The frightened Wood was numbly pulled and trotted, and suddenly Wood remembered something and shouted at Hua Ye: "The faster the prey runs, the faster they catapult!" ”
"Brother Wood, you're not stammering!"
As soon as the words fell, there was a clicking sound around them, and I saw countless cracks open from the trunk of the tree, and countless hidden flowers shot away from the trunk one after another like three people.
Xinqiu was the most nimble of the three, dodging left and right and jumping up and down, and the hidden flowers that pounced on her all missed.
Dragging Woodward Ye leaves so much room to dodge.
I saw a flower pounce, Hua Ye pressed down Wood's head with his left hand, knocked it off with his right hand, and the second and third flowers pounced from the left and right, kicking Wood away, Hua Ye rolled to the other side, and at the same time shot away a few flowers that wanted to devour Wood who was kicked over, and the other flowers were shot away from Hua Ye's mouth of the blood pot.
"If you continue like this, even if you don't get eaten, you'll die of exhaustion." Suddenly regretting taking Wood's oil bottle Duo Huaye thought unkindly, "Wood! There is no solution! ”
"Yes, yes, there is a sense of magic that can be concealed, a sense of concealment of the magic web, induction." As soon as Wood finished speaking, he rolled in the other direction, dodging the attacking big flower.
"How long will it take?"
Wood opened his mouth, looked around, hesitated for a moment, but said, "Ten, ten minutes." ”
"Good!" Hua Ye shouted while shooting, "Xinqiu! You take Wood to the empty spot in front and let him cast a spell, and I'll cover you!" ”
"No problem! I'm coming! ”
Although the attack speed of these flowers seemed to Hua Ye and Xin Qiu to be in slow motion, there were too many of them, and ordinary bullets had to be fired three or four rounds to knock out one, and the thicker six bullets might not be able to hit the stem.
Damn, it looks like we're going to have to use high-grade bullets. It's distressing, it's all money.
On the other hand, Xinqiu threw and threw Wood "safely" to the slightly empty place, "Brother Wood, you can rest assured that you can cast your magic, Brother Ye and I will protect you!" ”
Wood still had the heart to think about the spell, and the starry eyes that were thrown by Xinqiu couldn't stand steadily.
"This idiot!" Hua Ye cursed secretly, the gun in his hand was not idle, spraying a blue flame tail, and a single shot could directly break a flower into pieces. Xinqiu also began to circle around Wood, attracting the attack of the Hidden Flower.
"Wood! I don't have a lot of bullets! You'd better hurry! "Actually, it's just that this small explosive bomb is more expensive, twelve rounds and ten silver coins, Hua Ye feels sorry for the money.
Wood finally came to his senses, and when he saw that the two of them were desperately trying to help him create a spell casting space, he took a deep breath, closed his eyes and began to chant the spell.