Chapter 66: Dry Palms
Early in the morning, the ghost tiger stood in place, looking back at the entrance of the roof from time to time, ready to flee at any time. Until Shadow Dance told him with great certainty that the Twins were carnivorous plants, they did not eat people, because they were afraid of humans, and human blood was undoubtedly poison to them.
In fact, the twin flowers are much gentler than Mu Zilei imagined.
When Mu Zilei lightly touched the branch of a twin flower, it was lying on the ground with a huge flower disc with a diameter of more than two meters and stood upright, and turned to him, and the branch immediately swept towards him, but as soon as it touched his bare skin, the branch retracted violently as if it had been burned. Mu Zilei tried to get close to its branches, but the branches seemed to have lost interest in him, and they all hung lazily on the ground, except for a few that occasionally stretched out in the air, swaying in the wind, as if to greet its researchers.
"The flower in the middle is the largest, with a diameter of 3.2 meters. After witnessing the interaction between the giant flower and Mu Zilei, the ghost tiger also became bolder, and began to take a tape measure to help Shadow Dance measure their measurements.
"You're not mistaken, right? Twin flowers have been recorded to grow up to 2.5 meters at most. Shadow Dance was skeptical.
"No, it's 3.2 meters," Ghost Tiger said, snorting hard, "The fragrance of this flower is so fragrant, I wonder if they can make it into a spice?"
"If this flower is ground up, its rancid smell will be much greater than that of cinnamon, you won't like it," Shadow Dance said as she wrote down the measured values, "The twin flowers have several names, one of which is called 'rotten flowers', because before these flowers are ripe, not only do they not have a fragrance, but they even emit a smell similar to rotting, which also earns it the title of 'rotten flowers', so in ancient times, the first people who discovered these flowers named them' fu', although the surface of the twin flower can give off the scent of cinnamon flowers to attract insects after it is fully matured and unfolded, the smell of its inner layer is still there, okay, let's go and measure the next one. ”
"No wonder it's called a twin flower," the ghost tiger muttered to himself, "it turns out to be fragrant and smelly." ”
Ignoring Ghost Tiger's nonsense, Shadow Dance led him to another twin flower a few meters away to continue their measurements. When all the flowers were measured, they also released the mice they had brought with them out of their cages to observe their prey.
Mu Zilei helped to keep an eye out for things like secret doors or traps with six-pointed stars and square patterns, but until their experiments were completed, he still found nothing, and the entire roof seemed to be nothing but these giant flowers that had grown for more than 300 years, and nothing else.
They walked through the entrance and down the stairs, and on the way they met Lin Dumb, who was obviously not expecting this scene, and after a brief moment of stunned, he staggered with them without saying a word, and walked straight to the top of the building.
Mu Zilei and Ghost Tiger exchanged glances, intending to follow secretly, they casually made up an excuse to get rid of Shadow Dance, but in exchange for her a big white eye.
"We've already said we're going to go to the library and look through the materials," Shadow Dance's tone turned cold, a precursor to her anger, "it's going to be handed in in a few days, and we haven't written a word yet." ”
"We'll be fine in a moment. Ghost Tiger said that he was about to push Mu Zilei away, but Shadow Dance's next words made them freeze in place like nails.
"Well, this two-meter-long parchment job, we're divided into three equal parts, 0.66 meters each. Shadow Dance said lightly.
"It's not fair," in fact, this is the fairest, but Ghost Tiger doesn't think so, "The arrangement we discussed before, the homework is mainly written by you, you will complete the length of 1.4 meters, Zilei and I are responsible for finding information, and each person only needs to complete 0.3 meters, you promised us." ”
"Who doesn't keep their promise now," Shadow Dance rolled her eyes at the Ghost Tiger even wider, "Either you go to the library with me right now, or you can write an extra 0.36 meters of homework per person." ”
Mu Zilei and the others finally gave in, so they had to follow Shadow Dance to the library stupidly, temporarily putting the tempting idea of peeping at Lin Dumb behind. Duanmu An was devouring breakfast on the first floor, and they even greeted him before leaving.
On the way, they met Po Jun, who had just returned to the school after being treated and recovering outside the school, and he walked towards the "He Yuan" canteen with an angry face, followed by a boy who looked weak.
"You'd better not be mistaken, or you'll be good-looking. Pojun said, his tone full of threat.
“...... See...... At...... Hall. The boy trembled with fear, his voice was as thin as a mosquito fly, and Mu Zilei only heard a few words.
"Except for these books that are a little bit of a stretch, all the other books about magical animals and plants have been borrowed," Shadow Dance put a large stack of books in her arms on the table and sat down next to Mu Zilei and Ghost Tiger, "I'll start making an outline for writing a topic now, and you guys can start looking for these books." ”
"Not this one. Ghost Tiger looked through the stacks of books on the table one by one, and by the time he picked up the third book, he was already yawning.
Mu Zilei couldn't get much better, after looking for so long, he found a little bit of information, and now he began to think about whether to write a little bigger when writing homework, so as to occupy more parchment space.
As he thought, he grabbed a book with a black cover, only to see the words "Dark Secrets" written on it. This kind of book must have little to do with our twin flower research topic, he thought secretly, but he still casually flipped through the middle, and a passage on it immediately caught his attention.
"Cultivation has always been gradual, and the improvement of spiritual power is even more so. However, some people who are eager for quick success ignore the laws of heaven and earth, and in order to achieve their own selfishness, they use the most evil forces in the world to observe their actions and imitate them. ”
Mu Zilei hurriedly took out the book "Strange Spirit Strategy" on his body, and turned to the end, where at least more than ten pages were forcibly torn off, leaving only some shredded paper marks at the pull line of the book, like a silent accusation of this rude behavior.
He remembered that his mentor Nie Renzhen had said that the mental method diagram of "A Trick at the Entrance" had already been torn off from the book and destroyed, could it be the same thing, he hurriedly continued to look down-
"The former is made with the extremely rare and complete heart of the evil spirit, the Zoling Rough Stone, imitating the principle of the evil spirit absorbing the spiritual power, and the person who absorbs the spiritual power by this bead first loses the spiritual power in the body permanently, and then the water in the body begins to dry up from the contact point, until the whole body dries up and dies. The title of 'Kiss of the Evil Spirit' is well deserved. This bead is made by the ghost operator of the 'Spirit Array Ghost Talent', and is still owned by his descendants; the latter is based on the process of absorbing spiritual power from the mutated corpse spirit, which is said to have been created by the 'Corpse Spirit King' Mo Shitian, and the person who has successfully cultivated has a strong ability to absorb spiritual power, and the person who was sucked also turned into a dried corpse and died, and his whereabouts are still unknown. However, whether it is the Gathering Spirit Bead or the "Secret of the Entrance" Mind Law Diagram, they are all things that are cursed by the gods, and they all have insurmountable side effects, and the users or cultivators often do not die well. ”
It turns out that the mental method diagram of "A Trick at the Entrance" is the same evil thing as the Gathering Spirit Bead, no wonder Teacher Gu Xiaolan was so jealous of "Strange Spirit Strategy" at that time, since "A Trick at the Entrance" was not created by his titular senior sister Wang Ruoran, what does it have to do with her?
Ghost Tiger shook Mu Zilei's hand, interrupting his thoughts. He followed the gaze of the ghost tiger and looked out the window, only to see the hall master and the chief instructor hurrying towards the cafeteria.
"It looks like something big is wrong. Ghost Tiger guessed.
"It has something to do with Pojun," Mu Zilei said, he noticed that the hall chief was followed by a person, it was the weak boy who was with Pojun not long ago, he suddenly came to his senses, "I met Pojun just now, he looked like he was looking for someone to settle accounts, could it be that the person he was looking for was ......?"
He glanced at Ghost Tiger, then stood up in unison, and rushed out of the library with a thud under Shadow Dance's stunned gaze.
When they were about to arrive at the door of the Heyuan Canteen, Ouyang Huo, the head of the training department, was walking out with a person on his back, the person was unconscious, his face was terrifyingly gray, and when he got closer, he recognized that it was Po Jun, his two hands were weakly crossed on the chest of the training chief, and the palm of his right hand exposed from the sleeve was even more terrifying, and the muscles that were once rich in elasticity disappeared, replaced by wrinkled skin tightly wrapped in bones, dry as an old dead person.
"What the hell is going on?" Ghost Tiger spotted Hu Fei from among the onlookers.