"Tumihua ......" The earth snake thought for a moment, turned his head to Qi Xia and said, "Qi Xia, it seems that you don't have much research on plants. ”

"Yes, I've learned a lot, but I still can't do everything." Qi Xia replied, "Do you know this flower? ”

"Tumihua is also written as Tumihua, pure white, but it only blooms at one time." "Do you know what season it is? ”

"I don't know."

The Earth Serpent sighed and said, "It doesn't fit the term 'spring blossoms', because it blooms in 'early summer' and blooms 'midsummer', and when 'summer' disappears, the flower will also fall. ”

Qi Xia frowned slightly after hearing this: "This flower will follow 'Xia'...... Appearing and disappearing together? ”

"Yes." The Ground Serpent nodded, then walked to the corner and flipped through the book.

Half a minute later, he pulled out a book of higher botanical illustrated books from among the many old books, which did not seem to be very well preserved, and seemed to fall apart with a slight flicker.

He cautiously flipped through the pages of the book, then turned to a picture with a white flower, turned around and handed it to Qi Xia.

The first and second pages of the book had largely fallen off, except for this yellowed picture still hanging wakily on it.

"Tumi Flower ......" Qi Xia muttered slightly, and then took the book and looked at it.

The flowers look like a species of the Rosaceae family, each one white and flawless, with yellow stamens.

Qi Xia stared at the flowers for a while, and asked softly, "After the flowers bloom, isn't it already autumn?" ”

"That's right." The ground snake said, "The blooming of the flower often means the end of the flowering period, and there is no other flower after the flower." This flower represents "end" and also represents "end". ”

After hearing this, Qi Xia nodded: "Thanks to you, I have learned new knowledge. ”

"But you must have found ......," said the serpent, "that there is no way for any plant to survive in this whole city, and the streets are full of withered dead trees and dried flowers, and there is no rain or normal sunlight here, and it is impossible to see living plants, so why do you suddenly mention the flowers?" ”

"Maybe it's because the plants here are all dry and dead." Qi Xia sighed and said, "This white flower can attract my attention even more." ”

After hearing this, the earth snake nodded and said, "Qi Xia, the flower language of 'Tu Mi Hua' is 'the beauty of the end'. ”

When these four words entered Qi Xia's ears, a long-term memory gradually surfaced in his mind.

At that time, Yan Zhichun whispered to Qi Xia: "Just use the flowers." ”

Yan Zhichun...... "The beauty of the end of the road......" Qi Xia slowly narrowed his eyes, "When everything is gone, will there be anything beautiful?" ”

"I can't tell." "The answer is probably for yourself." ”

Qi Xia paused, then nodded to the earth snake, turned around and walked outside.

The remaining few people in the house looked at each other, and Qiao Jiajin and Qin Dingdong then followed Qi Xia out of the door, leaving only Chen Junnan.

"Old snake." Chen Junnan shouted.

"How?"

"What's your game?" Chen Junnan asked.

"My game? Have you ever thought about it? ”

"Not really." Chen Junnan said, "It's just that there doesn't seem to be any dangerous equipment in your venue, and the only thing that can be used to make games is books." ”

"You do use books to play the game." "But I have a lot of other props here. ”

The ground snake walked to the wall and patted it gently, revealing a dark grid from the wall, followed by a fishy smell.

The dark compartment resembles a large wardrobe, with a dazzling array of murder props, stained with blood and rust, and smelling very unpleasant.

"My game is called "Reader", no matter how many "participants" there are, I will give them books to read aloud, and then I and other "participants" take turns to ask everyone the questions in the book, as long as they can answer correctly, it will be passed, of course, it doesn't matter if they answer wrong, but there is no reward."

"Is it hard?" Chen Junnan said suspiciously, "How is this game going to die?" What are you going to do with your killing tools? ”

"The difficulty of this game has nothing to do with reading." "There is a death condition throughout the game, which is that until I say 'the game is over', I can't show any expressions during the whole process, and if my expression changes, I will kill you." ”

"...... expression?" Chen Junnan still felt a little incomprehensible, "Participating in this kind of deadly game that will die at any time, will anyone still giggle?" ”

The ground snake pulled out a copy of the "Joke Collection" that was about to fall apart from the corner of the wall, turned around and handed it to Chen Junnan.

Chen Junnan took the book and found that the book was almost covered in pulp, and it seemed that it had been read by countless people since it appeared here.

"If you read this book, will you keep it expressionless the whole time?" The Earth Serpent asked.

Chen Junnan opened the book and looked at it, it was basically a small joke of one or two hundred words, but unfortunately these were all old-fashioned jokes, except for cold jokes, there were only some very embarrassing old stalks.

"Why, do the people who come here laugh so low?" Chen Junnan asked, "This kind of bad joke may cry after reading it for a long time." ”

Chen Junnan closed the book, flipped to the back, and found that the book was published in 2001.

"Stinky boy, this book is the one with the highest success rate in killing people." "If you think about it, if you feel bored when you read a book, you can stop reading it, but in this life-threatening situation, even if you know that this book is extremely boring, you will finish it." ”

"That's right." Chen Junnan nodded, "Then how is he going to show his expression?" Shouldn't the fuck be more and more expressionless the more you read when you're under such pressure? ”

"If you want to blame, blame the people in this world for being too cautious." "It's called The Book of Jokes, and while people who are reading it will find it uninteresting, they're afraid that the next joke will be so funny that they'll lose the game and lose their lives if it's you...... How would you prevent this from happening? ”

Chen Junnan took on the role and knew that if he read jokes under this kind of survival pressure and promised that he would not show his expression, the solution he would choose should be to "think of something sad" to neutralize his emotions.

The earth snake knew that Chen Junnan already had the answer in his mind, so he walked up to him, slowly stretched out his hand, and said, "At this moment, I will gently pat the other party's shoulder and tell him to "don't be nervous". ”

"I really have your ......" Chen Junnan sighed helplessly and handed the book back to the earth snake.