Chapter 48 Tracing Missing Persons
Lou Yi took the 'Pink Enchantress' in her hand and looked at it carefully, it turned out that it was really as Qi Zhurong said, there was a lot of mucus growing in the middle of the petals, these liquids were extremely corrosive, and they would not be found if they didn't look carefully, and there were still many corpses of black mosquitoes hidden under the stamens.
At this time, this pink false lily is fresh and delicate, and it is exuding a fragrant smell, fortunately everyone is wearing masks at this time, otherwise they will inhale too much fragrance and cause dizziness.
"How? Is it okay? Qi Zhurong, as a senior brother, rushed here first to check the situation.
"Nothing." Lou Yi smiled, then raised the flower above his head and said to everyone: "Everyone must be careful of this kind of flower, the 'Pink Enchantress' mentioned by Senior Brother Fang Cai is it." ”
After he finished speaking, he took advantage of the gap between the disciples' discussions to glance at Lu Xueyuan, but saw that she didn't care at all.
Lu Xueyuan saw that Lou Yi was rarely serious, and explained the toxicity of the 'fake lily' to his disciples, so fortunately he stood aside as an audience member and did not interject.
She saw Lou Yi coming over and smiled at her: "You can see the flower I took just now?" Don't let it fool you. ”
"How's it going? How about not seeing the reason? What injuries can you get? Lu Xueyuan was unhappy in his heart, and replied.
"What Senior Brother Zhurong said, have you listened to everything? This flower ......" Before he could finish speaking, Lu Xueyuan preemptively said, "But aren't you all right?" ”
Lou Yi was stunned for a moment, then raised the silver gloves in his hand and said: "This is a silver glove made of thousands of silks, which are invulnerable, so they can isolate toxicity, but these gloves are made according to the size of my hand, I'm afraid it's not suitable for you, another day..."
"No need!" Lu Xueyuan directly interrupted him and said expressionlessly.
"Brother Yi, let's go." At this time, Murong Yao walked to Lou Yi's side and said to the two who were talking, she also glanced at Lu Xueyuan, as if on purpose, pulled Lou Yi's arm and dragged him straight to the front team.
Lu Xueyuan glanced at the backs of the two of them, and didn't say anything, but a red glow quietly floated in his eyes, and it went out again in just an instant.
They followed the army ahead of the march.
Lou Yi glanced at Murong Yao beside him, and said in a low voice, "Just now, did you feel uncomfortable?" ”
"I don't care about my brother," Murong Yao then smiled sweetly and said, "I just picked its rhizome, I haven't touched its stamens, I haven't touched its stamens, and I haven't touched the mucus, so it's fine!" But Brother Yi can worry about me, Yao'er is really happy! ”
Lou Yi lowered his head and smiled, but he didn't say anything. He wanted to go back to see what Lu Xueyuan was doing, but she kept pulling him forward, and besides, he felt that there was something strange about A-Yuan today, and it seemed that he was deliberately avoiding him, so he had to keep walking.
But just out of sight, on Murong Yao's hand, the red dot was spreading rapidly.
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Half an hour later, the group came to a place with a beautiful view, where the air was quiet, but the smell of a wet and fresh forest was everywhere, probably because of the abundant rain and the strong sunlight, so that even the mushrooms here grew much larger than in other places.
Everyone looked at the white, red, blue, green, and colorful fungi, and couldn't help but be dazzled excitedly, and even threatened to pick a few more to taste, but Qi Zhurong hurriedly stopped them.
"Don't pick the mushrooms here, the brighter the color, the more poisonous they are, you must remember!" He taught earnestly, never forgetting to tell these young and lively freshmen disciples.
"Got it, big brother!" The disciples replied, but suddenly they heard someone say, "Wow! The mushrooms here are so cute, aren't they? ”
Everyone asked her voice to look, only to see a piece of emerald green, a red mushroom with snow-white spots on its head, like a red plum reflecting the snow, very poetic, and the pink mushroom on its side is like a rabbit's ear, long towering, extremely cute.
"Don't move, everyone!" Qi Zhurong saw that these freshmen disciples had no resistance to these lovely colors, so he repeatedly told them not to pick them at will, let alone eat them.
But at this moment, a pair of large footprints came into view, which seemed to have just been left and had not yet been covered by moss. But this place is remote and remote, who would come here thousands of miles away to leave footprints?
Just when everyone was curious about these footprints, someone suddenly asked: "It can't be the woodcutter who went up the mountain to cut wood, suddenly got lost, and then saw that these mushrooms are so cute, so let's pick them!" ”
"No, it won't! If that's the case, wouldn't it be a big problem!! A disciple responded.
"Why don't we look for footprints?" The female disciple who had just guessed said.
"Yes, senior brother, just in case, let's go look for it, if that's the case, maybe it can really save someone's life!"
The disciples discussed loudly, and some felt that it was better to admit their mistakes than to let them go. Others, on the other hand, think that it is too much trouble to go at all. However, our senior brother is a benevolent person, so he suggested that if there are disciples who want to help, everyone should go together, and the remaining disciples can rest in place and wait for everyone to come back.
As soon as this idea came out, there was silence everywhere, and the freshman disciples looked at each other, and the disciples who had opposed it just now stopped talking. Because, no one wants to be the one left, especially in this terrifying and deep place, where urine and don't, although the vegetation grows excellently, it is not necessarily what people like. Especially after the detachment from the group, who knows what will happen next.
"What do you think?" Qi Zhurong asked again.
"Why don't we all go with us and come back if we have nothing to do." Seeing that no one answered Qi Zhurong's words, Lu Xueyuan stood at the back of the group of disciples and replied.
Her voice is extremely high, but her timbre is steady, it sounds very weighty, and it is strange to say, every time she doesn't say yes, she doesn't say it, but once she says it, it is like an echo in the hollow, and there is always silence for a while.
"So be it." Qi Zhurong said and led everyone to find the footprints together.
They stared at the footprints on the ground and walked all the way north, where the vegetation was sparse, and the footprints were gone, leaving a black stone cave not far ahead.
Everyone paused, and some people began to speculate, "You won't go into that cave, will you?!" ”
"Huh? If that's the case, I'm not going! "Some of the disciples have become timid.
"I'm not going either!" Even the disciples who had just agreed to go looking for them began to retreat.
"Don't panic, let's look around here first, if not, we'll discuss how to go." Qi Zhurong said, and the disciples of the Qingya Society had been sent to each take a team of people and horses to look for them in the forest.
The forest is covered by green trees, and the trees in a radius of hundreds of miles are upright and tall, towering into the sky, and the leaves on the ground are piled up and floating, so that it is unusually soft to walk on it. The air here is thin, and it takes a few steps to trim a little, and there are some people who are not physically strong, so they simply take off their masks and breathe in the forest air. They helped each other and walked cautiously among the trees, looking for signs of footmen.
At this moment, I heard a voice from behind me not far away, "Ah! "I exclaimed, and then I heard Lou Yi calling urgently;" Yao'er! ”
As soon as everyone stopped, before they could react to what had happened, someone shouted, "No... Oh no! This... Trees eat people! ”
"What tree eats man? You make it clear! A bad-tempered male disciple rushed there.
But as soon as his words landed, he heard a sparse sound of pulling and pulling from the ground, and then several large vines appeared, directly trapping the feet of the disciples who were staying in place, dragging them directly to the ground, pulling them and galloping back.
For a while, the screams in the woods came and went.
Lu Xueyuan originally followed another group of disciples in front, but she stopped when she heard someone shouting, she originally wanted to deliberately avoid Lou Yi, so she led a team of disciples to walk in the front, and walked side by side with Senior Brother Lime of the Qingya Society.
"Check it out!" Lime made eye contact with her and spoke.
Lu Xueyuan nodded, and the two of them quickly ran towards the place of the incident.
At this moment, the last ray of sunset went down the mountain, and the light between the trees suddenly dimmed, coupled with the fact that there were vines constantly rolling up the disciples and wrapping them in the depths, the atmosphere suddenly became eerie and terrifying.
When Lu Xueyuan and Senior Brother Lime felt the place where the vines finally disappeared, they saw more than a dozen disciples, all of whom were hanging upside down on the trees more than ten meters high and could only be surrounded by several people, and they kept struggling, shouting "Help!" "Put me down!" ”
At this time, Qi Zhurong and the other senior brothers also arrived one after another, he ordered people to go to the rescue, and at the same time asked people to find the remaining disciples who were still in the forest, and after a while, a large group of people with all the remaining disciples gathered here.
"What's going on?!" Some people opened their eyes wide, watching this scene, and their faces turned pale with fright.
Seeing more than a dozen people constantly struggling, but there was still no way to cut the rattan, they could only watch their heads hanging, being strangled by the vine branches, wrapped in tendons, and suppressing the flow of blood.
"Big... Division... Brother, I... It's almost gone. A disciple under the woods called.
But all the senior brothers present, including Qi Zhurong, have tried all the methods they can try, but there is still no way to cut off the rattan, some of them have learned fire magic, some have learned gold magic, but they have all learned some fur in class, and they are not lethal at all against this thousand-year-old tree.
And Murong Yao was still shaking her body under the big tree at the moment, she was already crying, looking down at Lou Yi, and kept crying: "Brother Yi! Brother Yi find a way to save me!! Ahhh ”
"Yao'er, don't be afraid! I'll definitely find a way to save you! After Lou Yi finished speaking, he turned around and walked directly to Qi Zhurong's side, and asked eagerly: "Senior Brother Zhurong, I don't know if you have a way to save the disciples down." As I recall, you seem to be the only fire spirit root here. After she finished speaking, she glanced at Lu Xueyuan, who was standing aside, and then avoided each other's eyes very tacitly.
"This..."Qi Zhurong hesitated, but still admitted: "It's true, I didn't go to Chizhu Peak because of some personal reasons, but stayed in Qingya Mountain with my master, but the most we learned here is also wood-based spells, and I really don't have a firm grasp of the fire system." ”
At that time, Qi Zhurong was reluctant to go to the Chaohui faction and follow Chiye Shizun to learn art, Lu Xueyuan also knew a little, she was still young at that time, and Qi Zhurong knelt in front of Shizun's room for three days and three nights before Shizun came forward to agree that he would continue to stay here, and on the other hand, what he lost was the strong attribute of the innate fire spirit root, which could only be used a little at some times, and with the assistance of wood-based spells, it could generally be solved, but what they were facing in front of them was a mutated thousand-year-old demon tree.
"Well, let me try."