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Chapter 21 Corpse Flower Ghost Vine

I was about to ask everyone to be careful. The big flower bud behind me had already bloomed with a sound of blooming. A curled thing rolled to Zhang Yan's feet with a rotten smell. The smelly water splashed all over her, which scared her to scream hysterically. When I looked closely, it turned out to be a bloody deer! Looking at the flower bud, it had bloomed to the size of a parasol and the shape of a sunflower. The flower center that emitted a foul smell was actually surrounded by several circles of dense white flesh thorns, wriggling from time to time, like dense flesh teeth, like a big mouth foraging. At the same time, the ghost flowers on our side were also spitting out undigested prey and preparing to attack us.

Seeing that I was attacked from both sides, I didn't have time to think about it, I quickly kicked my throat and kicked Zhang Yan, who was extremely frightened, kicked Liang Hu down, and then pulled Axia and jumped towards the rushing water wall. As soon as I mixed into the water flow, I saw two ghost flowers behind me groping to the place where we had just stopped, hoping to turn us into unlucky prey like a dead deer on the ground. Next, I felt like I was pushing the powerful water flow and bumping into the ground. I felt dizzy and dizzy.

This is really not a good idea. But it did save our lives.

I found that my glasses had fallen from under the waterfall. I had no idea where I had fallen. I saw that my eyes were blurred. Then I felt that the pain of free fall and the collision between the water surface was still retained on my legs and buttocks. The four of us got up from the pool and checked the situation. Only Zhang Yan and Liang Hu, who were caught off guard, were scratched on their hands and feet. A Xia and I, apart from the possible pain in our buttocks, should have escaped unscathed.

Back at the camp, I took out spare glasses from my backpack, then found the alcohol cotton balls and iodine, and threw them to Zhang Yan and Liang Hu, and briefly told everyone about the situation. After hearing this, Gao Mao looked at Lin Hui habitually, and could not make any decisions. However, the ear, when he heard it was so scary, kept clamoring to go back! Although I wanted to take Axia away from this evil and dangerous place as soon as possible, I was afraid that I would encounter the previous decline of the sea of ​​flowers when I walked blindly into the mountain. Looking around, Uncle Dachuan had not come back yet, so he had to find Feng Shui Zhou and question him about the ghost flowers. But he had known it for a long time, and he even said to us, "This thing is called 'corpse flower ghost vine'. It looks scary, but it is not powerful, and I am very afraid of being angry."

I suddenly remembered that when I was chatting with Uncle Dachuan at the microwave station on the top of the mountain, he had talked about some strange things, and this corpse flower ghost vine happened to be one of them. Seeing that I looked at her with inquisitive eyes, Axia calmed down and recalled Uncle Dachuan's words, she said to me: "Uncle once said that this flower is a poisonous flower specially planted on the corpse. It is said that it was a different species cultivated by the Western Regions using man-eating flowers to the Tibetan green vine.

In ancient times, the princes and nobles on the Silk Road had raised it on the slaves who were buried to guard the tombs." I also vaguely remembered that the flower stamens of this flower are poisonous and it is difficult to break free when touched, such as the unlucky deer. Fortunately, the ghost flower's movements are not fast, and it should be driven by the tentacle-like vines to drive the prey to the next to the flower buds and swallow them. If the tentacles evolved more flexibly and powerfully, there would be no chance for us to escape.

Liang Hu and Zhang Yan were still in amazement, and Feng Jinhua was so scared that he hurried aside to sort out the cooking utensils. I had to accompany Axia to carefully climb to the waterfall on the top of the cliff again to retrieve our climbing rope. Along the way, I carefully observed that the sudden appearance of the corpse flower ghost vine had long disappeared without a trace. The white-sexy waterfall returned to the natural calm. Could it be that, as Uncle Dachuan said, this is a rootless plant that can move and feed like an animal, and take root everywhere with the green vines full of fluffy. I suddenly thought, will this strange ghost flower crawl into our camp while we are sleeping? If that is the case, wouldn't we, who are unprepared in our sleep, become the object of this ghost flower that can only fight a siege? And Uncle Dachuan, who has not returned to the camp so far, also worried me. Could it be that he was also trapped in this strange flower... I thought about it very terrible.

When I returned to the camp, the person didn't look at it. Fortunately, I heard the sound of Uncle Dachuan being full of energy and comfortably. I hurried over to exchange the situation with him. Uncle Dachuan finally found the female snake with my head smashed. However, strangely, another similar small snake was found in the belly of the female snake with its flat head. So, the two small snakes that I broke on the bluestone once used the female snake as the host parasitic. The question is, did the second small snake found in the parasitic after the first small snake was killed, or did it parasitize in the female snake's body before? Could it be that this Gu can be implanted automatically without someone operating it? Or is the person raising the Gu hidden near here?

A series of mysteries made me feel a headache, and the disappearance of the corpse flower ghost vine just now made me feel even more insecure. I quickly suggested that the team move out of this ghost place at dawn and camp in a relatively safe place. Who knew that as soon as the words were spoken, the others looked at me with an inexplicable look. When Axia asked, we both realized that Uncle Dachuan had found the entrance.

Somewhat unexpectedly, the entrance was not close to the top of the waterfall, but behind the water curtain at the corner when I passed by when I was down the foothills.

Uncle Dachuan asked Gao Maocai for a lighter, and took Axia and I to dig a few pits at the corner of the camp, lit four bonfires with dead branches, and told Liang Hu, Lin Hui, Feng Jinhua to find some dry firewood nearby in groups to add them. To ensure that the fire is not extinguished, it can also be used as a checkpoint to prevent corpse flowers and ghost vines. Of course, you can also get water to cook. Then, I sought the opinions of Gao Maocai, who was unruly, and Uncle Dachuan planned to go into the cave with Feng Shui Zhou at dawn. I saw that Axia was a little itchy and was preparing equipment. I wanted to

Compared with the people who stayed in the camp, it was definitely safer to follow Uncle Dachuan, so he had to carry the first aid kit and plan to accompany her. Just as he was about to call him, the guy said his stomach hurt. When I asked, I found out that he had drunk the raw water from the pool while swimming. He didn't bother to blame him and took the diarrhea medicine from the first aid kit and took it. Axia also took out the water purification tablet and handed it to him, so that he could dissolve it before boiling the water. At the same time, he told him that the water must be boiled for more than five minutes before drinking. After the instructions, Axia and I followed the footsteps of Uncle Dachuan and Feng Shui Zhou and walked all the way to the entrance of the cave.

After looking at the entrance closely, Axia suddenly saw the clues and explained to me: We were mainly guided by the external terrain of the mountain to look for the entrance to the "center of the waterfall" mentioned in Feng Shui Week. If we consider that it is late spring and early summer, the snow will increase the water volume of the waterfall, and then raise the water level of the large pool under the waterfall a lot, then the location of the cave entrance will naturally be corrected downwards. I suddenly realized when I heard this. Looking at the shape of the alluvial stones around the pool, I could indeed see traces of several water levels under the water, which is also some evidence of Axia's inference. I couldn't help but admire Axia, who had a clear idea, and then thought, if I looked at this waterfall during the dry season, I was afraid that it would be several meters deeper, what a spectacular scene it would be, and I couldn't help but admire the magical skills of nature.

As I sighed, Axia and I had already followed Dachuan Shu and Feng Shui Zhou through the thin water curtain and entered the cave.

The cave was wet and dark. Uncle Dachuan and Axia turned on the pathfinding flashlights one after another, adjusted the focal length, and moved forward carefully. After walking thirty or forty steps, Uncle Dachuan gently stopped us in place and looked at his flashlight. Several tentacles of the corpse flowers and ghost vines were entrenched on the top of the cave like a snake, squirming lazily. My heart tightened and I couldn't help but take a step back, but I saw Uncle Dachuan waved his hand and let us wait in place. He calmly took out a box of waterproof matches, gently

A piece of fire was slashed, slowly approaching a ghost vine, and grinding towards the Ronghai for only a grill. The silly tentacles were as hot as insects and gathered happily, and then they were lit. The fire immediately spread along the Ronghai. In a moment, the entire ghost vine was burned. The tentacle-like vine was so painful that it immediately shrank back quickly, and it turned into a ball of fire and went deep into the cave. When I looked closely, there was not a single ghost vine left on the wall of the cave.

This ghost vine is indeed afraid of fire.

While admiring Uncle Dachuan's methods, I couldn't figure out how the wet vine was so easily lit by a thin little match. I was racking my brains but couldn't figure it out. Suddenly I remembered that "Teacher Axia" went with me in geography and biology classes along the way. I once said that although the leaves of plants seem tender, they do not store water, and the rhizomes are the main way to transport and store water, especially like plants in the desert, the leaves also degenerate into needle-shaped, such as cactus, just to reduce the amount of water.

There is less water loss. So when I think of the fluff on the surface of the corpse flower ghost vine, is it a degenerate leaf? In this way, since it has no roots, there is no root absorption. Then, in order to maintain moisture, regardless of whether the environment is humid or not, the fluff will habitually transport the water into the green vine. No wonder Uncle Dachuan only roasts those thorny fluffs, and can easily light the ghost vine in the wet hole. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sigh in the importance of knowledge and experience.

After walking a few steps, I seemed to kick a raised hard object under my feet. I looked down and saw that before I could illuminate the flashlight with the pathfinder, I felt a slight light coming from the thing, so I quickly called others. Axia gently dug out the broken piece with a folding shovel, wiped the soil with a handkerchief, handed it to Uncle Dachuan, and said, "It seems to be a silverware."

Uncle Dachuan looked at it for a while and nodded. Then he turned around and asked Feng Shui Week, do you remember that there were traces of cave burial here when you came last time?
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