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Wang Xuan glanced back. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 をティンストラック climbs onto the deck from the handrail in the middle of the ship. He used to have dexterous legs and feet, but at this time, because he was wearing a full set of thick leather armor, his movements became sluggish and he looked a little clumsy.

"Blackie, what are you dressed for?" he almost burst out loud.

Chang Yutong hurriedly trotted two steps, stopped in front of him, and gasped: "My lord, you don't know, the scorpions on this scorpion island are very scary, and I am taking precautions." ”

His voice was particularly nervous.

Wang Shu raised his eyebrows and glanced at the green-bearded old man with his peripheral vision. The old man tried his best to hide it, but the feelings in his heart were still clearly written on his face, but he no longer dissuaded them.

"My lord, the master has invited the troupe, and the stage may be set up today, why do you have to go to Scorpion Island?"

Ouyang Feng dared to go to the island, why didn't he dare? Seeing that the old man's eyes were still staring at him, he quickly pretended to cough twice to cover up, and said, "Don't you know, don't you like to join in the fun?"

It was Zhang Changbei who went to Scorpion Island as usual. In the past, he would go to Scorpion Island on the first day, and it would not be easy to catch three or two scorpions in two full days. Since Yin Chen agreed to help get ten "flying scorpions", he was happy not to have to go to the island to take risks, and naturally he didn't care how long it would take people to catch the scorpions.

When he was in the turtle room, Chris heard that Yin Chen wanted to help Zhang Changbei catch scorpions, so he offered to help. Yin Chen saw that Ouyang Feng's light skills were more powerful than himself, so he didn't think much about it, so he agreed. It's at this point that I don't know how much trouble I caused him. How would he know that Chris could be described as pulling a hair and moving his whole body. Xiong Daiying was determined to follow, Teng Chuliang and Qin Yujiu had no arrangements for the second day, and they also said that they would go together, and Hong Qili and Ning Yifei naturally followed. The female Taoist priests have long been tired of flying flesh and blood, and several little junior sisters are all child-like, and they are all clamoring to follow. Qiu Yulong didn't dwell on it anymore, although he was lustful, but he didn't want to risk his own life, it was better to stay comfortably on the main island and wait to pass the time while listening to the play. Don't be surprised when you hear that the island is full of poisons, where can you still sit still, you naturally want to go to the island to see it.

At this time, the number of people on the island increased suddenly, forming a huge team, which was so lively.

How could such a bustle be without Lord Wang? Li Qing agreed neatly this time, and sent Chang Yutong to lead a large number of heavily armed escorts to accompany him to the island.

Li Qing said that he couldn't get out of the matter after the arrangement, and before leaving, he still issued a warning to the people on the island, he told everyone that the scorpions on the island are highly poisonous, and if they really meet, don't panic, don't move, don't make a sound. As for the prisoners of Scorpion Island, they have always taken advantage of the innate conditions on the island, and generally hide in the valley and deep in the woods, and will not take the initiative to escape.

Chang Yutong added, but the iron brand on Scorpion Island is a temperamental master.

It's a pity that Xiong Daiying knows that the iron brand has been cleaned up by the blood shadow last night.

On the sly.

Departure early in the morning. Scorpion Island was in sight, and everyone walked out of the cabin. Scorpion Island is actually the northernmost island among the Salmon Islands. Viewed from the air, its shape truly resembles a large scorpion, a stroke of genius from nature. Two medium-sized islands shaped like scorpion pincers are at the forefront, and the body of the scorpion is composed of a large island, and the tail end is the upturned scorpion tail, which is vivid. The three pairs of scorpion legs on both sides of the large island are dozens of small islands that are connected. Because of the low-lying terrain of the adjacent areas, they are swallowed by the sea at high tide, forming isolated islands.

Zhang Changbei told Yin Chen that every year he goes to a cliff to catch scorpions, and the cliffs on the island are very steep, and the scorpions on the island are called "flying scorpions" because they like to build nests on the cliffs.

The team arrived at Scorpion Island, and the captain of the guard first set the destination in a low-lying basin not too far from the landing site according to the map of Scorpion Island given by the deputy master.

The journey was very smooth, and everyone was attracted by the rare and unique scenery of the island, which stretched out in all directions, and the beauty was fascinating. After a huge descent that curved gently, they came to a circular basin with warm and humid air.

The chief of the guard acted cautiously, and chose a small high ground to the north, and walked up a slope, inside which was a small valley, and the soldiers also found a grotto cave in the deepest part, and the captain himself took a few men into the cave to investigate, probably the lair of some wild beast, now abandoned. He saw a huge stone wall on one side of the entrance, and a hidden rock on the other, on which he could clearly see the basin without being discovered. So he consulted with the deputy lord and finally decided to set up camp here.

The soldiers were busy, and Hong Qili and Xiong Daiying said that they would go around the basin separately and go to investigate. After a while, Chris also walked down the high ground, and she squinted at the tall Dao Gu standing on the lookout stone, as if looking out for something. In her impression, this woman is always such a cold style.

But when Chris turned around and walked down the slope, Gao Liang'er's eyes returned to the back.

In summer, the basin is full of life, full of fresh greenery, and the trees grow so high that they almost obscure the clear blue sky. As soon as she got out of the high ground, and within a few steps of her life, Chris crouched down and carefully pushed the bushes away, and she found clusters of blackberry-like fruits.

She picked a few and chewed them in her mouth, not blackberries, but some kind of small wild berries, with a faint sweetness.

"Brother Xiaoyi, what are you doing?" Zi Ling's voice sounded behind him.

After picking some more wild berries, Chris stood up and turned his head to see that not only Zi Ling, but also Huang Jingjing and Mi Yu were also standing in front of him.

Chris put the berries in the palm of his hand, handed them to them, and asked, "I picked this, would you like to taste it?"

Mi Yu said: "Didn't you listen to the deputy lord say that there are some strange flowers and plants on this island, poisonous insects, snakes and beasts, and I don't know if there is poison, so you let us eat it?"

"Uh......" Chris was stunned for a moment, and said: "Then you still don't eat it, as for whether it is poisonous or not, I have already eaten it, and I will know in a while." With that, she put a small handful of black fruits into her mouth, chewed slowly, and then, her eyes swept over the three female Taoist priests, as if to say: Wait a minute, see if I am poisoned?

Mi Yu said secretly: This Ouyang Feng's eyes are sometimes bold and staring straight at you, but unlike Qiu Yulong's lewd thief, there is no trace of evil thoughts.

Despite thinking so, feeling such a gaze still made her a little uncomfortable.

Suddenly, Chris clenched his throat and screamed in a strange voice, "Ah, I'm going to die, I'm going to die." ”

Mi Yu's heart tightened when she heard this, revealing a frightened expression.

With a snort, Zi Ling laughed and said to Mi Yu: "Senior sister, he deliberately teased you, this berry is not poisonous." After saying that, she also leaned down, picked a dozen or so, and then distributed them to the two senior sisters, and ate the rest by herself.

When they were in Mount Tai, Zi Ling and Huang Jingjing were responsible for picking herbs on the mountain, and Zi Ling followed his master to learn to make pills and refine medicines since he was a child.

"I forgot, Master said that you are the best at distinguishing medicinal herbs. After saying that, Mi Yu gave Chris a blank look.

Before the reproachful words could be spoken, Chris smiled flatteringly, and then stuck out his tongue, which was stained black with berry juice.

Huang Jingjing saw it and hurriedly covered her mouth: "Tongue...... It's darkened. ”

Several people stuck out their tongues at each other, but they all laughed.

Together, they continued on their way, and behind a meadow, a small stream lingered. A few soldiers were fetching water, and Bei Sanqi was also standing aside, looking out into the water.

When they walked to the water's edge, they saw that the puddle was black.

Mi Yu remembered that these people were the cooks on the island, and hurriedly asked, "Don't you want to use this water to cook?"

Several people replied in unison: "Yes".

The water was black and oily, and it was cloudy and bottomless.

Several soldiers looked at each other and smiled. One of the big men said, "You don't know, this water looks black, but you can drink it." ”

The other nodded: "We use it all the time to cook for a few of us." ”

Originally, the fresh water on Salmon Island was all this black spring, which converged into a river, flowed through the inland of the islands, and finally reached the mouth of the sea to converge with the sea, which is how Heishui Bay got its name.

Chris said: Black water is common in tropical rainforests, is there a large concentration of humic acid in this water?

Seeing that their faces were grim, as if they didn't believe what they were saying, they pointed to the stream, and the soldiers said in unison: "Look!"

When a breeze blew, I saw the fish leaping up on the surface of the water, shining with rippling scales.

"The fish are all alive, how can there be a problem with the water. The big man said.

Another soldier added: "The fish in the black water grow big and strong, and the guests who come to Salmon Island love to eat them." ”

They were chatting here, but Bei Sanqi came over.

He pointed to the middle of the water and asked, "The purple flowers in the water are beautiful, but it's a pity that the little old man is small and doesn't know water, so dare to ask Brother Bing to help pick a few?"

A few people looked along his dwarf-like big knuckles, and there were several mud puddles in the middle of the Black Water Creek, on which there were some purple flowers growing here and there, each with three flowers, one large and two small, and the petals were gorgeous.

Don't say anything politely, the big man said, "What is this difficult?"

With that, he took off his shoes, pulled up his trouser legs, and walked out into the water.

The brook was not deep, it had just reached his knees, and when he reached the muddy puddle, the water would reach the base of his thighs, but if he had not come to the top.

The big man was just about to pick the flowers with his hands, but Zi Ling immediately glanced at Bie Sanqi, and his lips that were closed just now showed a weird smile at this time, "That's it, pick it quickly." He urged.

"Wait, beware of poison!" shouted the spirit.

Chris also remembered that in the animal and plant world, the brighter the color, the more poisonous it is.

The big man's hand froze in mid-air.

"Pick it up!" Don't jump to your feet in a hurry.

Several other soldiers glanced at each other, and they were all suspicious, except for Zhang Changbei, there were very few martial arts people in the rivers and lakes who were selected to Scorpion Island in the previous island-grabbing conferences, although the poisonous scorpion has the greatest reputation, but the island is full of poisonous insects and poisonous weeds, who knows if this is a poisonous flower.

The warning of the Lord of the Heavens swirled in his ears, and the big man quickly withdrew his hands.

Bei Sanqi took out a golden bean from his sleeve pocket, held it high above his head, and said, "You picked it for me, and I will give it to you!"

Now it's the big man's turn to look confused, as if to say is this true?

Bei Sanqi snorted coldly and said: "The old man will not say anything, he will definitely do what he says." ”

The big man thought for a while: As long as you don't touch it, don't you have to be afraid? He gently dug up the soil at the root of the flower with both hands, and dug out the whole flower in a few clicks.

When he walked back, he was also a little more careful, and it was not until he walked ashore and put the flowers on the ground in front of Bie Sanqi that he breathed a sigh of relief.

Bei Sanqi immediately threw the golden bean into the air, and the big man grabbed it in his hand.

He grinned, then spread out his hand to see that there was not one golden bean in his big palm, but two.

Why did this man give two?

A few soldiers next to him leaned over curiously, and he excitedly pinched a golden bean with two fingers, a small round one, which was real gold, shining dazzlingly in the sun. This one is enough for a family to eat for several months, right? Everyone showed envy.

At this time, another small golden bean rolled in the palm of his hand, and when he looked down, it turned out to be a small ladybug, and his whole body was golden.

Bei Sanqi didn't pay attention to these people, he put his huge head close to the purple flower. He watched cautiously, and there were dozens of round golden beans on the purple petals.

However, at this moment, a few black round spots slowly appeared on those golden beans, and after a few shakings, they spread their wings, golden but transparent wings. The next moment the most incredible thing happened, they all flew up and flew towards the big man.

Then a scream rang out across the basin, and the bugs bit the big man, and he kept slapping himself with his hands.

Someone took off his clothes and tried to help him fan away these strange bugs, but it was too late.

He had fallen to the ground, his skin covered with black bubbles, and he was seen twisting and struggling in pain, rolling on the ground, trying to crush the insects on his face and body. But it didn't work, and he gradually lost his mind.

In an instant, the heart-rending howl ceased, and the man who fell to the ground was motionless.

Zi Ling didn't dare to look at it, and turned his head away. Huang Jingjing was also frightened and hid behind Mi Yu.

Chris's expression froze instantly, as she saw the group of little golden ladybugs fly again, they flapped their wings at a rapid speed, hovering in mid-air, and the black spots on their bodies seemed to grow larger.

Before the rest of the soldiers could react, the little ladybug circled twice in the air, and everyone hurriedly ducked backwards. The hearts of those present were terrified, because no one was sure that they would be able to dodge the attacks of so many bugs.

The group of flying insects seemed to have chosen the next target, and went straight to Bei Sanqi who was guarding the flowers.

Bei Sanqi stood up slowly, and when he saw that the group of poisonous insects was about to fly to him, he took out something from the leather bag on his waist and threw it at the group of poisonous insects.

No one could see what it was, but they saw seventeen or eighteen egg-sized hairballs, drawing strange curves in the air, flying towards the group of poisonous insects.

Hong Qili and Xiong Daiying, who were exploring the valley outside, rushed over first, and the people of the escort team also came from the camp, and the old man with green beard, Wang Xu, as well as Ning Yifei and Teng Chuliang were seeing this amazing scene.

Looking intently, the group of furballs with brown-yellow wings flew up and down at a rapid speed, swallowing the golden ladybugs one by one.

The golden ladybug was not good at stubble, and concentrated its forces to attack one of the hairballs, like a mist covering the enemy, and finally one of them took a bite, and the hairball fluttered twice, and fell straight to the ground. After a long time, the hairball devoured all the enemies,

Bei Sanqi shook his head a few times and pursed his lips vigorously, as if he was whistling, but he didn't make a sound. He raised his hand, and there was a row of leather buttons on his floor-length hanging sleeves. As if they had received a signal, the furballs circled and flew back, hanging upside down on the buckle one by one.

It wasn't until this moment that everyone could see that it was a strangely shaped bat, the size of a baby's fist, covered in brownish-gold fluff, and a pair of black wings that were like a membrane.

Chris exclaimed: bats are generally only active at night, and other three strange people can domesticate them to such an extent that they can command them to launch an attack at will.

Bei Sanqi sighed and said: "It's all because my father guessed wrong, I thought that the grass was a powerful thing, but I didn't expect that it was the insects that lived on it that were powerful, and you killed your brother." After saying that, he was a little choked, sighed and said, "Fortunately, today's harvest is not small, and it can be regarded as flat." ”

Everyone saw him take out more than a dozen small bamboo tubes from his body. Opening the plug, Bei Sanqi aimed the mouth of the bamboo tube at the mouths of those bats, and under its ugly nose lobe, there was a blood-red mouth, and it actually spit out the golden ladybug that had been swallowed alive and spit it into the bamboo tube.

Let all the bats vomit, Bei Sanqi put away the bamboo tube, and then swept the hanging sleeves and put those bats into the leather bag.

After taking two steps, Bei Sanqi picked up the dead bat with a piece of cloth, and not far away was the corpse of the big man, whose bare skin had turned dark purple, almost exactly the same color as the flower, and the scars from the insect bite had turned into black spots.

Seeing this tragic situation, Bei Sanqi seemed to take it completely inappropriately, as if this person's death had nothing to do with him. He only held the corpse of the bat in his arms, with a sad face.

Then look at the purple flower on the ground, withered and withered, and turned black.

Chris said softly, "Could it be that this flower and this insect are symbiotic?"

The scene in front of them was so weird that everyone didn't come back to their senses for a while, only the spirit closest to Chris heard what she said, and then muttered: "You mean that this flower and the insect are in the same breath and branches, living and dying together?"

Now everyone understood the meaning of the words, so unbelievable, unbelievable, everyone looked at the purple flowers in the river, and no one wanted to inquire whether this was true or not.

Xiong Daiying and Hong Qili looked at each other, both of them shook their heads, neither of them found any trace of the wooden sign in the basin, but despite this, they did not dare to relax their vigilance. The lord and deputy lord reminded them many times, but there was still such an accident, and everyone became angry and did not dare to breathe, and they could be regarded as seeing how dangerous Scorpion Island was.

Afterwards, the captain of the guard had the body of the big man cleaned up, wrapped in several layers of thick cloth and mats, and buried it deeply. There was no sound in the basin, but people had the illusion that they could still hear the terrible cries of the big men.