Chapter 151 Flower Fairy
“Cry, hammer, that’s my blood!”
Jiang Shouzhong roared angrily, sat up with difficulty, and patted the slightly groggy person. head, looking around.
There is a faint aroma permeating the air, and the surrounding light is dim and unclear. Only a few rays of weak sunlight filtering through unknown gaps barely illuminate it. It can be seen that this is a place similar to a cave.
But in the dark cave, there are strangely growing peonies.
These peonies are looming in the shadows, like a group of ghosts watching quietly, looking particularly eerie.
What kind of broken place is this?
Jiang Shouzhong was confused.
After being yelled at, Yelu Miaomiao sat blankly. Seeing Jiang Shouzhong's nosebleed, it took a long time to realize that she had made a mistake.
A shy look spread quietly from behind the girl's ears, staining her neck like morning glow. The blush could almost penetrate her disguised face. It is not difficult to imagine that the face that should be charming and charming is already red at this moment. Like late autumn persimmons.
"Then...why do you have a nosebleed?"
Yelu Miaomiao tried to regain her face, but she couldn't find anything to say.
Jiang Shouzhong said speechlessly: "If you sit on my face, can I not get hurt? Why don't you try to sit on me for a while?"
"You..."
< br>Yelü Miaomiao puffed up her little face and stared at the man angrily.
Jiang Shouzhong was too lazy to pay attention to her and began to look for an exit.
Only after he got closer did he realize that the peonies here were larger than usual, colorful, red like fire and white like the bright moon. From time to time, slender roots hung down, matching the surrounding stalagmites. Intertwined.
While the man's back was turned, Yelu Miaomiao quickly wiped her body with the hem of her skirt. Looking at the blood on her skirt, the girl wanted to cry but secretly regretted leaving the inn.
"What happened to your broken bell?"
Jiang Shouzhong suddenly remembered the previous scene and looked at the bell tied to the girl's slender ankle.
He remembered that when the other party moved around, the bell would not ring.
Yelu Miaomiao protected her little bell and stared at the man with a wary expression, "What are you going to do?"
Looking at the girl's reaction, Jiang Shouzhong said angrily: "I'll eat it. I only miss your broken bell when I’m full. If it hadn’t been for the inexplicable golden light just now, I wouldn’t have fainted.”
“The bell is glowing?”
Yelu Miaomiao was stunned.
The girl lowered her head and thought for a while, then said: "This bell can generally resist the invasion of evil spirits, and it can also be used to defend against enemy defense. Or it will light up when it senses the presence of evil spirits. But it also requires the power of the Dharma, which is probably my Dharma. His strength has recovered a little.”
“Demon spirit?”
Jiang Shouzhong raised his eyebrows, but he knew this.
Some Tianbao floor materials will develop self-awareness after being infected and nourished by evil spirits for many years. For example, ginseng, snow lotus, spiritual fruit, etc., or flowers, trees, etc.
The most typical one is the flower fairy.
It is said that it transformed into a human form, only the size of a palm, and had a pair of wings.
“Jiang Mo, where is this place?”
Yelu Miaomiao curiously looked at the charming peonies in the cave.
"How would I know."
Thinking that Erliang and the others were still in the inn, Jiang Shou became more and more impatient. He stopped chatting nonsense with each other and wasted time, continuing to look for an exit. Every nook and cranny is scrutinized.
Yelu Miaomiao pouted and stood up.
Soon Jiang Shouzhong found a raised object under a peony flower and gently pressed it down.
There was only a loud rumbling sound, and a long, square and deep passage appeared in front of the two of them. The stone walls of the passage are smooth and seem to have been carefully carved. They are very different from the natural caves we have seen before. You can see the end at a glance.
Jiang Shouzhong was about to step forward to check, when the peonies growing quietly in the cave suddenly changed.
The flower branches began to twist slowly, stretching quietly like tentacles, dancing between the stone walls. Immediately afterwards, the flowers spread out, and fangs that were as sharp as swords and gleaming with cold light protruded silently from the flower stamens and bit them towards the two of them.
Yelu Miaomiao shrank back in fear.
Jiang Shouzhong drew his knife and cut off the branches that came towards him. The peony flowers that were cut off suddenly appeared withered, and disappeared in an instant, turning into a handful of black ashes.
However, more strange peonies appeared from the ground in a steady stream, attacking Jiang Shouzhong and the others crazily.
“Enter the secret passage!”
Jiang Shouzhong looked ugly as he split open several mutated peonies blocking the secret passage and pushed Yelu Miaomiao in.
The girl also knew that she was a burden at this moment, so she ran forward with all her strength.
Following Yelu Miaomiao's figure, Jiang Shouzhong flew into the dark passage like a swimming dragon, walking lightly and swiftly. Those mutated peonies like monsters seemed to have lost traces of their prey in this claustrophobic space. The offensive came to an abrupt end and there was no further pursuit.
But before Jiang Shouzhong could breathe a sigh of relief, he noticed that the stone walls on both sides were changing, slowly and silently squeezing toward the middle.
And there were sharp thorns emerging from the top.
The wall squirms like a living thing, as if it wants to crush all intruders here.
Jiang Shouzhong's expression changed drastically and he shouted: "Run!"
The narrow secret passage with traps made it impossible to perform the Wind Chasing Step, so he had to urge the girl.
Yelü Miaomiao’s beautiful face turned pale, and she had long ignored the slipping embroidered shoes under her feet. She ran barefoot on the cold and slippery ground, putting her will into survival in every step.
The sound of the stone wall moving became more and more urgent, almost grazing Jiang Shouzhong's shoulder.
He could only move forward sideways.
Finally, a light appeared in front of him.
Seeing Yelu Miaomiao's steps gradually faltering, Jiang Shouzhong gritted his teeth, tapped his toes to the ground, endured the pain of being stabbed in his back, and tried to throw the girl out, but found that it was too dangerous. So he forced himself to take a breath, and flew over Yelu Miaomiao's head with his body almost flying close to the ground, arriving at the entrance of the cave in advance.
Yelü Miaomiao's eyes were dazzled when she saw Jiang Shouzhong's figure passing by her like an arrow from a string, arriving at the entrance of the cave in an instant.
In an instant, a fear of abandonment emerged from the girl's heart.
Is he going to leave me behind?
This thought pierced her heart like ice, adding a touch of despair to her fatigue.
The Pearl of the Grassland, which is usually held in the palm of everyone's hands, is extremely sad at this moment.
The tears welling up in her eyes were not resentment towards Jiang Shouzhong, because she knew that the other person's decision at that moment had nothing to do with emotions, only the instinct of survival.
She doesn't blame him.
In the face of death, everyone is selfish.
But somewhere in the girl's heart, there was an uncontrollable surge of sadness. Tears condensed into pearls of sadness in his eyes, and his vision gradually became hazy and unclear.
Just when the girl was confused, the man's angry voice echoed in the narrow space, "Damn it, can you hurry up! I can't hold on anymore!"
Yelu Miaomiao was stunned, and in her blurry vision she vaguely saw a man standing at the entrance of the cave. His hands seemed to be pushing the closing stone wall with all his strength, trying to buy more time for her to escape.
The qi of the five bodies gathered on Jiang Shouzhong's arms like a tide. The man used all his strength to press his elbows against the stone wall, and the moving stone wall became stagnant. Yelu Miaomiao gritted her teeth and quickened her pace.
She threw her body out almost instinctively, stumbling and falling directly into Jiang Shouzhong's arms. Their bodies popped out of the secret passage one after another and landed heavily on the ground outside.
"Cough cough cough..."
Jiang Shouzhong's chest hurt after being hit, and he couldn't help but cough.
But the fear that was squeezed to the extreme was also released at this moment. The feeling of surviving the disaster made Jiang Shou feel indescribably happy, greedily absorbing the fresh air.
Yelü Miaomiao, who was still in shock, was lying on Jiang Shouzhong tiredly like a stamen in the wind.
Although there were scrapes and bruises all over his body, these injuries were nothing compared to the despair of being almost crushed by the stone wall.
While breathing, their eyes met.
Yelu Miaomiao's eyes subconsciously dodge, biting her thin lips, but she forgot to get up from the man, and asked in a low voice: "You...why did you save me?"
< br>"What? From what you say, shouldn't I save you?"
Jiang Shouzhong said angrily, "How about you go back again and see if I can save you."
If it were before, Yelu Miaomiao would definitely have said something back. However, at this moment, she was surprisingly calm. Realizing that she was still lying on top of the man, the girl quickly stood up.
She patted the dust off her clothes, but couldn't help turning her head, with a trace of sincere concern in her eyes: "It doesn't matter."
"I can't die."
Jiang Shouzhong moved his arms, but the pain was still there.
He endured the pain, stood up and looked around, only to find that it was still a cave. The only difference was that there were no scary peonies here, and the surroundings were empty.
On the stone wall, there are some fluorescent powder and the like, reflecting a faint light.
The two searched for a long time but did not find the exit.
Yelu Miaomiao's newly ignited hope turned into despair again. She slowly sat in the corner, holding her knees with her hands, looking blankly ahead, not knowing what she was thinking.
Jiang Shouzhong still did not give up and carefully searched for possible hidden mechanisms.
After a long time, a faint sound of sobbing sounded.
Jiang Shouzhong thought it was some kind of ghost and monster, so he subconsciously held the handle of the knife, turned his head and saw that it was Yelu Miaomiao who was crying.
The girl buried her head deeply between her knees, her long hair swaying gently as she sobbed, and her slender back also rose and fell gently as she sobbed, delicate and helpless. .
Jiang Shouzhong was very surprised.
Although this girl cried twice when he made her angry, she still had a strong character. She was either cold-hearted or harsh with her words.
I didn’t expect that there would be times when I was so vulnerable.
But then I thought about it, after all, the other party is just a little girl of seventeen or eighteen years old. She is usually taken care of by people, and she has never experienced big winds and waves.
As a princess, not only did she live in a foreign land, her most important innocence was gone, her companions were also dead, including her uncle Kamino... She was even easily controlled and even wet her pants, and now even more so. Trapped.
Under such circumstances, it is remarkable that she can persist until now without breaking down.
Jiang Shouzhong sighed, sat next to the girl and said, "Don't worry, with me here, we will definitely be able to leave this ghost place."
"I miss Uncle Kamye."< br>
The girl choked.
She raised her delicate chin, her face covered with tears.
Maybe it was because she no longer had any image to speak of in front of Jiang Shouzhong, or maybe she felt that there was no hope of getting out, so the girl finally took off her strength and exposed her weakness.
Jiang Shouzhong said softly: "I can understand, I miss Sister Ye too."
"She is dead?"
Yelu Miaomiao turned her head to look at the man, her eyes slightly red and swollen.
Jiang Shouzhong nodded and said with a wry smile: "I don't have any clues about the murderer until now. I have secretly checked all the files in the case library. I can only wait and try my luck."
Looking at the man's desolate and self-reproaching face, Yelu Miaomiao fell into silence.
Jiang Shouzhong patted his cheek hard, "Forget it, let's not talk about these sad things. Anyway, I still believe that I can get out. Girl, don't get angry easily, you must know that you will survive in a desperate situation. If it doesn’t work, I’ll tell you a joke, at least be optimistic.”
“You tell me.”
Yelu Miaomiao spoke hoarsely.
Jiang Shouzhong thought for a while and said, "Let me ask you, why does the rooster always get up early?"
The girl blinked her beautiful eyes and said, "It crows."
"No."
"Because...can't sleep?"
"That's wrong."
The man still shook his head.
Yelu Miaomiao couldn't guess it and asked curiously: "What's that for?"
"Because they want to wake up the hens."
After Jiang Shouzhong finished speaking, Then he burst into laughter.
Ke smiled and saw Yelu Miaomiao looking at him expressionlessly, as if she didn't understand why he was laughing. The smile on Jiang Shouzhong's face gradually froze and turned into an embarrassed look.
Grandma, it seems that I am not suitable for telling jokes.
The man coughed twice and said calmly: "That... seems a bit not funny."
Maybe she felt that her reaction disappointed the other person, and the girl felt a little guilty. Although I didn’t know where the smile was, I still twitched my lips and said “haha” twice.
But she felt that these two sounds were too mocking, so the girl said "haha" twice more.
Jiang Shouzhong was helpless.
The ghosts smile more sincerely than you.
At this moment, he accidentally discovered that the bell on Yelu Miaomiao's ankle was emitting a faint light.
Jiang Shouzhong was stunned, pointed at the bell and said, "It glows again."
Yelu Miaomiao looked down, also surprised.
She subconsciously picked up the bell and wanted to take a closer look, but then a dragonfly flew out of the bell... no, a very small person with wings.
This little person is about the size of a palm, has a beautiful appearance, and has a pair of wings behind him.
It was actually the Demon Spirit Flower Fairy.
Of course, this demon spirit definitely cannot and should not do it. (Veteran drivers know what the author is talking about)
(End of this chapter)