Chapter 33: Twin Flowers
Along the stairs, Mu Zilei and they climbed to the top floor of Heyuan Canteen. The smell of cinnamon in their noses made them hungry, and as they passed through the glowing exit, they were greeted with an unforgettable sight.
On the rooftop of the open air, seven strange giant flowers hang from the ground, their flowers resemble sun rings, at least two meters in diameter, and their petals are slender and pink densely scattered on the sides, like outstretched wings. The center of its flower is a big hollow. These giant flowers are connected by stout stalks covered with green leaves, surrounded by branches, which cover almost the entire ground like soft ropes. The scent of cinnamon emanates from these flowers.
"No wonder Duanmu An was attracted by these cinnamon scents and ran up," Mu Zilei sniffed vigorously in comfort, "This smell is so fragrant." ”
They cautiously stepped over the branches, and crouched down in front of the largest giant flower in the middle.
"Are these flowers twins? They look weird," said the Ghost Tiger, "and you see there's a slender crack in the middle of the center of the flower." ”
"Hmm. Mu Zilei echoed, he looked at the sides of the twin flowers, and remembered the long pink petals that stuck under the soles of Lin Dumb's feet when he left on the day he healed the ghost tiger in the bedroom.
He turned his gaze to the long branches behind the twins, and found that there were strange small holes growing on them. He reached out and lightly touched a stalk on the ground, and some rather viscous liquid immediately stuck to his fingers. When he looked down again, the original branch under his feet was gone. Suddenly, someone seemed to poke him lightly in the arm, and he turned his head to the ghost tiger next to him, who kept staring at the slender slit as if to see if there was anything hidden inside.
Is it an illusion? Mu Zilei buried his head again, and again, someone touched his hand.
"Ghost Tiger, it's not fun at all," Mu Zilei stood up, looked at the puzzled Ghost Tiger and said, "I know you touched me." ”
"What touched you? I didn't ...... The ghost tiger was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth, a black shadow enveloped them, Mu Zilei quickly turned around, and he saw a twin flower that was originally hanging on the ground "standing" high, and the long branches of its body also slowly unfolded.
At this moment, a small bird attracted by the scent of cinnamon flew down and landed on its flower center. Suddenly, without warning, the huge center of the flower suddenly opened from the crack, revealing a bright red flower wall, and the bird fluttered its wings in horror and flew up, but before it could fly high, it was caught by a branch of the twin flower that quickly stretched out, and the branches became tighter and tighter, until the bird could not move at all, and at the same time, the branch secreted a thick glue juice from the small hole in its body to wrap the whole bird, and then it sent the processed food into the bright red "mouth".
Seeing Mu Zilei and their dumbfounded, after the twin flower devoured the bird, it belched out a small cloud of gas, and then its huge flower disc slowly turned to Mu Zilei and their side.
"Cannibal Flower!"
"Help!"
The two of them ran away, trampling on the branches of the other twins in a panic, and the other six twins were also alarmed, and they all "stood", and some of the long branches chased after them like devil's claws.
They ran almost as fast as they flew, and then ran downstairs at once, and ran back to the dormitory in one breath before stopping. Both of them fell to the floor like puddles of mud. It was a long time before they had the courage to speak.
"What do you think they want to do with such a horrible man-eating flower on the top floor of a dining hall?" said Ghost Tiger, "and the head of the hall even said it was funny, and let us go straight without even telling us a word of warning." ”
Mu Zilei also felt very puzzled, he could only smile bitterly, "Fortunately, I ran fast, otherwise those man-eating flowers would have two more sumptuous meals today." ”
That night, Mu Zilei had a strange dream, he dreamed that he was caught in the branches of the twin flowers, no matter how he struggled, he couldn't get rid of it, just when he was about to be sent into the "blood plate" of the twin flowers, Granny Ma suddenly came out of the "mouth", she lowered her head, closed her eyes and seemed to be asleep.
"One flower is one world, one side is one pure land, one thought is pure. Granny Ma said dreamily, and then she opened her blind eyes covered with white membrane.
Mu Zilei then opened his eyes, he only then found himself lying on the bed in the bedroom, the sound of the ghost tiger's sleeping snoring reassured him, he turned his head to look at the other side of the bed, Lin Dumb's bed was empty, and his adjacent bed Duanmu An was gone.
In the middle of the night, could it be that both of them couldn't go to the toilet? Mu Zilei thought, and after a while, he fell asleep again.
The next day, Mu Zilei rushed to his tutor's small house to attend classes, and since the last time he met Nie Renzhen, who was drunk and unconscious, he had little hope that he could learn something useful from his tutor.
"Professor Nie, are you there?" Mu Zilei knocked on the door, but no one responded, could it be that he was drunk and fainted on the ground again? Mu Zilei turned to the window, opened the bamboo curtain to look east and west, and found that the room was still in chaos, but he didn't see his mentor.
It's strange, why is there no one? Where did the people go? Could it be that the professor forgot about today's lecture and went out?
"What are you looking at?" a voice came from behind.
"I'm watching if Professor Nie is not at home. Mu Zilei replied without looking back.
"Don't look at it, I know he's not at home. The voice came again.
"How do you know......" Mu Zilei turned his head and found that it was his mentor standing in front of him.
Nie Renzhen in front of him was still full of fat and hoarded on his body, and on his neck, which was fatter than Shi Chisha, was a face that might have been very handsome, but his originally strong chin was now full of fat and dense beard scum, his black eyes were scattered, his hair was greasy and tangled, and he still held a small jar of wine in his hand.
"Professor Nie!" Mu Zilei exclaimed, as he looked at the wine jar in his hand, guessing how drunk his mentor was now.
"I can't get drunk with such a little wine. Nie Renzhen noticed his gaze, looked the student in front of him up and down, and soon, his gaze was fixed on Mu Zilei's wooden leg hoop.
"The old fire monster will really arrange students for me," Nie Renzhen took another big sip of the wine jar, wiped his mouth and continued, "What is your name Sanshi?"
"Sanshi, Lei, my name is Mu Zilei. Mu Zilei said, his gaze made him uncomfortable. It seems that he has no memory of the last time he was infected with wind and cold, drunk and unconscious, and was taken care of by Mu Zilei all night.
"It doesn't matter what kind of stone it is, what kind of Lei it is, since there is a 'zi' in your name, I will call you a kid in the future," Nie Renzhen didn't care about the feelings of his students, and said on his own, "Since you are my student, I have to take on the responsibility of teaching, boy, you come with me now, I will teach you some quite useful skills today." ”
Mu Zilei was completely unprepared, he plucked out his ears, wondering if he had heard it wrong.
"What? Don't you want to learn?" Nie Renzhen turned around and walked a few steps, then turned back to the stunned student and said, "Why don't you come along?"
Mu Zilei finally reacted, and hurriedly and excitedly kept up with his mentor's pace.
"Professor Nie, there's something I want to tell you, I'm a half-spirit physique, born with only one spiritual power, and I can't learn all spiritual skills......" He walked side by side with Nie Renzhen, gritting his teeth and said.
Nie Renzhen stopped and poured a sip of wine into his mouth. He won't stop teaching him because of this, right? Mu Zilei thought uneasily, but then, Nie Renzhen's words surprised him.
"Half-spirit physique student, I have also taught one before, you are the second," Nie Renzhen said this, and suddenly brought the wine jar to his mouth and poured a few sips, he wiped the wine from the corner of his mouth, "Don't talk about this, what will teach you later has nothing to do with spiritual power." ”
It has nothing to do with spiritual power? What kind of spiritual skill is that? Could it be that some kind of powerful stunt can't be achieved? The more Mu Zilei thought about it, the more excited he became.
"Here we are. Nie Renzhen's voice sounded in his ears.