Chapter 51: The Dead
"The name of this grass is 'Paper-Shaped Grass', which will be of great use to me in the future, thank you Brother Wei for your help. Wen Lan carefully put the five-leaf clover grass with a fist-sized stone into the herb basket, and said so solemnly for the first time.
"You saved me twice, why should you be so polite. Let's get out of here first. Wei Zhen looked at the purple-eared little beasts gathering more and more around him, and said with a little emptiness.
"Hehe, you're afraid of them!" Wen Lan curled the corners of her mouth and showed a very narrow smile.
Wei Zhen was embarrassed by his words, and was about to defend a few words, but he listened to him continue.
"These little beasts are called 'nocturnal beasts', and as the name suggests, they only walk at night, as if they are sleepwalking, they are silent in their movements, and they will sound a screaming alarm when they meet people, so they are the best guardians of the mountains. Therefore, the flower slaves and people of this Wanhua Mountain rarely come out and walk around at night. The juice that was smeared on your clothes for the first time was my own hand-concocted 'Bloody Worm Powder', and the second time I sprinkled the brown powder was 'Blood Vermistem Meat', the Nocturnal Beasts are the most afraid of being vicious, but they like to eat Blood Vermiform Meat the most, so they don't dare to get too close to you. ”
Wei Zhen listened to his detailed explanation, and finally understood the reason.
The two of them walked as they talked, and they saw that they were getting closer and closer to the first half-high hill.
"Why have all those 'Night Wandering Beasts' disappeared?" Wei Zhen asked in surprise suddenly, and just as he looked down again just now, there was not even a Night Wandering Beast at his feet.
"Oops!" Wen Lan's face changed suddenly, and she didn't have time to explain more, so she said urgently: "Let's get out of here quickly!"
The two of them walked not far away, but out of nowhere a night wandering beast came out again, and the tip of its purple nose gently shrugged off a distance of one zhang from the two of them, and it did not open its mouth, and a scream that resounded in all directions suddenly burst out.
As this scream suddenly came out, the figures of the thatched huts on the nearby mountain peaks flipped again and again, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of figures shot out of it.
"Where are the small crumbs, dare to come to Wanhua Mountain to make trouble?"
"Open the Ten Thousand Flowers Array!"
With a slightly hoarse clear cry, a crimson formation light instantly illuminated this world, after the light, the sea of flowers in the blink of an eye seemed to have undergone earth-shaking changes, as if they were alive, the fragrance of flowers overflowed, and bursts of pink mist suddenly appeared.
Wei Zhen followed closely behind Wen Lan, only four or five meters apart, but he watched his figure being engulfed by the sharp rising mist, he shouted a few times, but the other party didn't seem to hear it.
Just when Wei Zhen didn't know what to do, the little black eyes in his arms flashed suddenly, and Wei Zhen only felt that the vision was clear, and the fog dissipated.
Wen Lan remained where she was, quietly squatting down, putting on the turquoise glove in her right hand, holding a black pouch in her left hand, staring at the ground of her body vigilantly.
On the mountain peak a hundred and ten meters away, five or six figures were rushing towards him at a gallop, apparently discovering his traces early in the morning. Farther away, figures shook again and again, and a person in the air stepped on a flying spirit weapon and flew over quickly.
All this happened at the moment of lightning, Wei Zhen didn't dare to hesitate for a moment, stepped over a few steps, stretched out his right hand and slapped it straight towards Wen Lan's right shoulder.
In Wei Zhen's sense, this action was normal, but Wen Lan suddenly flashed smartly, dodged, and hesitated slightly, and his right hand was about to reach into the black pouch of his left hand.
Wei Zhen didn't dare to shout, but he saw that the pursuers were getting closer and closer.
Just as he was restless, a delicate palm suddenly gently grasped his outstretched right palm.
Wei Zhen's heart was overjoyed, and a soft and smooth touch immediately came from the palm of his hand, which made his nervous heart tremble and palpitate inexplicably, but this strange feeling was forcibly restrained by him in an instant, and he pulled Wen Lan's arm and rushed out of the mountain.
As soon as they came out of the range of the mountains and flowers, the two of them immediately returned to their normal perceptions, Wen Lan's delicate face suddenly flashed a shallow flush, he quickly let go of the hand that grabbed Wei Zhen, and without saying a word, he ran straight ahead, and jumped into the nearest cave first.
At the moment of entering the cave, Wen Lan grabbed a handful of white medicinal powder from the herb basket on his waist, hurriedly sprinkled it on the two of them, and then continued to bury his head and go straight, the two of them didn't care about any sense of direction at this time, they just wanted to escape from here as soon as possible and get rid of the pursuers behind.
Not long after the two of them left, several more figures jumped down one after another, and these people chased for a distance, and suddenly they all stopped, completely losing the direction of their target.
A moment later, a middle-aged woman dressed in a colorful flower dress appeared here, standing quietly in front of everyone.
This middle-aged woman is of moderate stature, her round white face reveals a bit of grace, but at this moment, her eyebrows are full of anger, and her cold eyes sweep over the little white powder left between the grass blades on the ground.
"Smell away?" she muttered to herself.
"Uncle Xiao, are we still chasing?" a handsome young man stood up and asked.
"Hmph!" the middle-aged woman snorted, "Do you know what is missing?"
The young man was really angry when he saw her, and he didn't dare to slack off a little, so he hurriedly replied: "The disciple has checked it, but it is just a 'paper formation grass' that has not yet matured. ”
Although he replied quickly, he didn't seem to take the lost "paperworm" to heart in his tone.
The middle-aged woman's deep gaze looked into the depths of the cave world, as if she hadn't heard his words at all, and she didn't know what she was thinking.
"I remember that you are in charge of guarding the sixth mountain, and from today onwards, you will step down from your position as the mountain master and become a flower slave. The middle-aged woman lightly announced the punishment of the young man, as if she had lost interest in it, and the figure flew away.
The young man hung his head speechless, and only then did he raise his head until the figure of the middle-aged woman disappeared completely.
"No wonder no one dares to marry her? she is so perverse that she deserves to be an old girl!"
Wei Zhen and Wen Lan ran all the way until their strength was exhausted, and then they fell to the ground in unison, lying on the ground and gasping for breath.
Wen Lan took out a jade bottle and poured out the last three pills inside, which were the fragrant pills that the two of them had taken during their rest, he handed two to Wei Zhen and swallowed the other one himself.
Wei Zhen was not polite, took it and swallowed it, and quickly meditated and recovered.
After a stick of incense, he opened his eyes, only to feel that the spiritual power of his whole body had recovered, and his cultivation had increased.
Wen Lan was lying on one side, leaning against a piece of bluestone, her clear eyes were looking at him intentionally, and when she saw him open her eyes, she immediately looked away.
"This elixir is really good!" Wei Zhen was in good spirits and praised it from the bottom of his heart, being able to escape from a spirit lieutenant made him feel very happy.
"This is called 'Yunling Pill', I will help you refine some when I have a chance in the future. Wen Lan's gaze moved back and fell on Wei Zhen, seeing that he was very uncomfortable.
Wei Zhen's heart suddenly warmed up, and he suddenly recalled the moment when Wen Lan held his right palm, that strange feeling was born for the first time in his life, although it was only a flash in the pan, but it had already made him think about it.
"I don't like the guy who doesn't look like a man. Du Xiaoqiu's comment suddenly jumped out of Wei Zhen's mind at this time, completely destroying his conjecture at the moment.
Wei Zhen's complexion was originally dark, and the sky above the cave was only slightly bright at this time, Wen Lan couldn't see any change in his mind from his face, but he seemed to see something in his eyes.
"How can you easily get out of the 'Ten Thousand Flowers Array'?" Wen Lan suddenly asked angrily.
Wei Zhenshang was immersed in the state of mind entangled in Du Xiaoqiu's comment, and when he asked so abruptly, his expression couldn't help but be a little sneering.
He lowered his head, pretending to be thoughtful, and waited until his mood calmed down a little, before he stretched out his finger and pointed to his arms, and said calmly: "I don't know, maybe it has something to do with Xiao Heihei." ”
"It?, this guy who eats and sleeps all day long, and doesn't look like a pig or a mouse?" Wen Lan said without the slightest politeness, as if she was completely unaware of the change in her tone.
Xiao Hei Hei revealed half of his small head from Wei Zhen's arms, stretched out his sharp mouth, and opened his mouth to show half of his arc hook and curved teeth, showing that it was extremely dissatisfied with this extremely derogatory evaluation, but Wen Lan's eyes were just wide, and it immediately retracted its head sharply.
"I guess so. ”
This was actually just Wei Zhen's secret speculation, other than that, he couldn't think of any other reason, although he was a disciple of the Maoshan Sect, his cultivation in the formation was far from the level of breaking the formation, so he still nodded seriously.
And the reason for this thought was that he had thought about the world where he had found the "Heavenly Star Flower" many times, and intuitively judged that it was a formation world that he couldn't see, and the mystery and strength of the old man in Mai undoubtedly added to the certainty of this conjecture, but these could not be said directly to Wen Lan.
Although Wen Lan's eyes were still a little suspicious, she didn't ask any more questions after all.
"Let's go back. ”
Wen Lan stood up, and as soon as she raised her footsteps, she seemed to have inadvertently touched something under her feet.
"Huh?"
He took a few steps back, standing side by side with Wei Zhen, the two of them looked intently, and by the faint light cast by the outside world, they saw that it was a torn arm.
The two of them were inexplicably nervous at the same time, looked at each other for a few seconds, and after a "snort", a yellowed firelight lit up just in Wen Lan's fingertips, and suddenly illuminated the area where the two of them were located within a circle of a few feet.
"Ahh
The place where they stood was the edge of a karst cave, and on the four walls of the cave, nearly 100 corpses were placed horizontally and vertically, and the corpses were covered with a thick layer of leaves.
Above the cave, there was only a narrow gap, from which long branches hung down, and I don't know what kind of beast found it by smell, and burrowed down from the gap to devour the corpse.
The two of them settled down a little, and began to grope their way inside by the light of the fire.