"Are they on the bones too?"

Qin Sheng squatted down, peeled away the flowers, and revealed the skeleton beneath.

A small blue spider lily is blooming in his left eye.

When you crack open the bone, you'll find that the root system has already penetrated the skull, so its nutrients should completely prevent it from growing.

But the flowers on the corpse continued to bloom.

Looking at the blue dots around them, a wave of wind swept out, revealing many humanoid skeletons.

Anna looked through them and found several medals on them, then sighed.

These are clearly the people from Grizzly City who came to explore the Tears of Winter.

She blasted several craters, and Anna buried them in them.

"Sure enough, these red spider lilies no longer look like plants at all."

Prosa held a plant and examined it carefully, his expression solemn.

Sakura Uesugi nodded. After all, these flowers were blooming everywhere, even at the base of the walls, and they didn't look like ordinary plants at all.

"The degree of mutation is quite large."

Qin Sheng pondered, recalling the first two places, where at least there was still soil to provide the nutrients the plants needed.

However, the red spider lilies here are no longer limited to these places.

"Let's go."

After Anna finished, Qin Sheng reminded her.

She led the group deeper into the area, and along the way, in addition to human skeletons, they gradually encountered the skeletons of strange beasts.

Without exception, they all radiate that dazzling blue.

"Um?"

Qin Sheng paused, then saw two skeletons lying on the ground.

"What's wrong?"

"That's a bit strange."

Qin Sheng parted a flower petal, revealing the cracked bone beneath.

Looking at the positions of the two skeletons, it seems as if two strange beasts perished together here.

Anna came to this conclusion and asked, "Is there anything strange about it? It's not uncommon for strange beasts to perish together."

"Mutual destruction is indeed not uncommon, but this is a trace left by continuing the attack after killing the other party."

Anna asked, puzzled, "What do you mean?"

Prosa pondered: "Continuing to attack after the opponent is dead is a pointless act for most beasts, except for a few that go berserk after a battle."

Qin Sheng nodded.

The relationship between the beasts is like that of hunter and prey; whoever dies becomes the other's dinner.

Now, the marks on the bones look like someone who, after eating the meat, continues to gnaw on the bones.

After scanning the skeletons of the two strange beasts, Qin Sheng found the corresponding beasts, neither of which were the kind of beasts that went berserk after a battle.

Beasts slaughtering corpses...

Qin Sheng narrowed his eyes. This might be the characteristic ability of the alien beast parasitized by the red spider lily.

Anna then realized, "These beasts have been dead for a long time. Were they killed by plants?"

"It's hard to say, let's see."

As they continued forward, the number of strange beasts decreased, but they appeared in large groups.

After checking them one by one, they were all found to have died in mutual slaughter, and all showed signs of torture.

Qin Sheng became increasingly certain that this was the masterpiece created by the strange beast hidden here.

"Brother Qin Sheng."

As they walked, Uesugi Sakura suddenly spoke up: "Isn't that person a little strange?"

"Um?"

In this group, the only one referred to as "that person" is Prosa.

The two looked back and saw that Prosa was still walking, completely unaware that Qin Sheng and the others had stopped.

"It's so quiet," Eurosa remarked.

"That's true. Luckily we came together, otherwise I probably wouldn't have made it this far."

"It's alright. Since we're here, we might as well collect more so we don't have to come back next time."

"Haha, that's true, we might not be so lucky next time."

He seemed to be talking to someone, walking and talking to himself.

Anna frowned, then shook her head: "I didn't sense any energy fluctuations, yours?"

Qin Sheng also shook his head: "No, when did you get infected?"

He paused for a moment, then pondered, "Besides, are you serious?"

"I have the same problem."

“Brother Qin Sheng is definitely real,” Uesugi Sakura affirmed.

"Indeed, we are not so easily fooled, and he must be too weak."

Qin Sheng stepped forward and placed his hand on Prosa's shoulder, allowing strands of energy to seep into his body.

"stop!"

But Prosa suddenly roared and rushed out, grabbing the large sword he had taken from his spatial bracelet.

The next second, the snow in his sight disappeared, his hand holding the big knife froze, and he saw Qin Sheng's mocking expression.

"W-what happened?"

Prosa was stunned, and quickly scanned his surroundings, trying to find any trace of Bai Xue.

"Stop looking, you seemed to be hallucinating just now," Anna guessed.

"Hallucination?"

Prosa shuddered: "When?!"

Qin Sheng pointed to the red spider lily and said playfully, "Didn't you come here to study the red spider lily? Didn't you notice that as we went deeper into the garden, the fragrance of the flowers became stronger?"

"The scent of flowers?"

Prosa's face stiffened, and he said awkwardly, "I subconsciously overlooked it."

Qin Sheng ignored him, picked a flower, and brought it directly to his nose for a top-notch filter.

"No response?"

Qin Sheng frowned; he hadn't used any energy defense either.

Anna, who was standing next to him, did the same thing and shook her head at Qin Sheng.

"Put on your gas masks and keep going."

Qin Sheng gave Prosa a warning, but they continued walking without any precautions.

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