Chapter 39 Those Who Left Me (12) (Three in One) [VIP]

Guan Hongyan looked in the direction of his finger and saw that the hillside below the cave was indeed covered with a kind of light yellow wild grass.

She Mochu was twisting one in his hand, and Guan Hongyan squatted down and pulled one up from the ground. After carefully looking around, he said in disbelief: "You made a mistake, didn't you?"

This thing can't be said to be exactly the same as the weeds Zhang Lu found yesterday, but it can be said that they have nothing to do with each other, right?

Not to mention the color, the shape of the leaves of the wild grass that Zhang Lu found yesterday is actually a bit similar to those of Chinese chrysanthemum. Both have leaves with slightly serrated edges. The leaves are not long and branch at the top of the stem. At first glance, they look like plants of the same species.

What is now in She Mochu and her hands is a kind of very short wild grass. The overall shape looks more like a silkworm than grass, and has nothing to do with the photo Zhang Lu sent them.

The comments were also confused:

[Isn't this the same thing?]

[Could it be the rhizome of wild vegetables? ]

[The rhizome doesn’t grow like this…]

[She Mochu admitted his mistake? 】

"No mistake," Bai Jinshu shook his head, pinched off the silkworm-like plant with his fingers, turned to look at Guan Hongyan, "Is there a plant called 'cordyceps' in your world?"

"Cordyceps?" Guan Hongyan repeated the name, "No."

But the advantage of this plant is that its name is very straightforward. Just by reading it once, Guan Hongyan quickly understood its meaning.

Guan Hongyan: "You mean there is a plant that turns into a bug in winter and a grass in summer? How is it possible? How is it possible for plants and animals to change with the seasons? What kind of mythical creature is this in your Cthulhu world?"

"No, this is an ordinary plant," Bai Jinshu denied her last question, "It has nothing to do with the Cthulhu worldview."

"As for this wild vegetable, I don't know how it was made," Bai Jinshu squatted down and pulled up another one from the hillside, "but I know what Cordyceps sinensis is."

Guan Hongyan listened attentively.

“Cordyceps is a combination of an insect and a fungus,” he rubbed the weeds in his hands. “The ‘insect’ refers to the larvae of the Cordyceps bat moth, and the ‘fungus’ refers to the Cordyceps fungus.”*

"On the plateau at an altitude of 3,800 meters, after winter, the temperature rises and the ice melts, the bat moth larvae begin to develop, pupate and break out of their cocoons, and begin to spread bat moth eggs in the air. The bat moth eggs that fall on the soil will hatch when the temperature is suitable, burrow into the soil, and wait for the last cold winter to pass before pupating and breaking out of their cocoons."*

"But this is not 3,800 meters, right?" Guan Hongyan asked subconsciously.

Even if she didn't have Zhang Lu's [Basic Geography Mastery], she knew that given the environmental conditions in this mountainous area, the altitude could never be above 3,800 meters.

"So these are obviously two different plants," Shemochu glanced at her from the side and continued, "I'm just talking about Cordyceps sinensis."

"Go on, go on," Guan Hongyan was so suspicious of his intelligence by the look in his eyes that she raised her hand in a gesture of surrender, "Please."

"When summer comes on the plateau and the temperature is just right for fungi to grow, it's time for the fungi deep in the soil to grow. The Cordyceps sinensis spores drill into the soil, and when they meet the bat moth larvae that have just emerged from their cocoons in the soil, they drill into their bodies and absorb the larvae's nutrients to grow." *Bai Jinshu lowered his eyes and continued to narrate.

"As time goes by, the Cordyceps spores slowly suck the bat moth larvae's body hollow, occupying its body with a web-like mycelium structure, and growing inside the larvae's shell to form 'cordyceps sinensis'."*

"At this time, the cordyceps has the outer shell of the bat moth larvae and the cordyceps mycelium inside," he peeled the weeds in his hand, "like this."

Inside the thin outer shell is a rhizome that has already turned yellow.

Guan Hongyan widened her eyes slightly.

"No wonder," she suddenly realized, "No wonder they say this kind of wild vegetable only grows all over the mountains in spring."

If the plant that Bai Jinshu described really exists, then it would be in one form before drilling into the larvae's body, and in another form after drilling into the larvae's body. In this way, it would appear to be two different plants, and no one would associate the wild vegetables that grow all over the mountains in spring with this plant that looks like a silkworm and is extremely close in color to the ground after spring is over.

Just like the previous exploration team members, they searched for wild vegetables according to the three-view image that Zhang Lu sent in the group, and did not even look at these gray-brown silkworm-like plants.

The appearance of these two plants is so different that most people would not associate them together.

"How did you find out?" Guan Hongyan was really puzzled.

There is really something weird about She Mochu.

Bai Jin said: "I saw it."

After a few seconds, he added considerately: "This time I really saw it with my eyes."

Guan Hongyan: ...

"…You might as well not explain." She said weakly.

She would rather be like Lu Changfeng yesterday and receive She Mochu's ridicule of her IQ, rather than hearing the word "saw" and then being supplemented with "this time I really saw it with my eyes".

After verifying the existence of the pattern, the team members in the cave came out one after another. Seeing Guan Hongyan and She Mochu squatting on the hillside, talking about something, they all came over.

"What's wrong, Brother Chu?" Lu Changfeng asked as he took off his coat, "Did you find anything? What did you find?"

He was sweating all over. The weather in the mountains today was different from yesterday. It was just after the sun rose in the morning. The temperature was not very low, but it had at least begun to rise steadily. It was completely different from the temperature felt by all the team members who were soaked by the rain yesterday.

In order to reproduce yesterday's pattern, they lit a fire in the cave again. The temperature rose sharply and Lu Changfeng felt himself sweating from the roasting.

After everyone had finished verifying, Lu Changfeng was the first to come out of the cave. He took a deep breath of the cool air with the breeze outside and felt that he was alive again.

"She Mochu discovered wild vegetables." Bai Jinshu was still studying wild vegetables, and Guan Hongyan stood up and answered proactively.

"Found it?" Lu Changfeng came over excitedly, "Let me see..."

After seeing what Guan Hongyan was holding, the expression on his face was the same as Guan Hongyan's just now, confused and incredible: "This..."

Does this wild vegetable look like this?

All the people who arrived here one after another behind him showed the same expression as him.

Seeing that his teammates also showed similar confusion, Guan Hongyan suddenly felt that he had experienced the same pleasure as She Mochu, who used his IQ to defeat everyone.

Who should I say? It's really cool. No wonder She Mochu likes to make sarcastic remarks.

The confusion doesn't go away, it just shifts from her face to the faces of the other team members.

Guan Hongyan took the wild vegetable from Lu Changfeng's hand, wrote She Mochu's appearance on it, peeled it open, and took on the task of telling the clue: "In your world, is there a plant called 'cordyceps'?"

By the time Guan Hongyan finished her story, everyone, regardless of whether Cordyceps sinensis existed in their own world or not, had a certain understanding of this plant.

"Cordyceps sinensis, yes, cordyceps sinensis," Zhang Lu twisted the silkworm-shaped weed beside him and muttered to himself, "Why didn't I think of that?"

This kind of plant was already known in her basic plant mastery, but she completely ignored this plant on the ground when she was looking for the cave just now, and almost missed this clue.

If the growth conditions of this wild vegetable are similar to those of Cordyceps sinensis, then everyone would look for it based on her three-view image, and even if they turned the mountain upside down, they would not be able to find the so-called wild grass here.

Bai Jinshu patted the dirt off his hands and stood up: "Because your mind and eyes were full of the wild grass you found yesterday, and you ignored all the other plants that were too different in shape from it."

"And I know that Cordyceps sinensis generally grows on plateaus with higher altitudes," he said casually, but no one dared to take his words lightly at this time, "so the first time I noticed similar plants appearing in low-altitude areas, I realized there was a problem here."

There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. The formation of Cordyceps sinensis is due to the temperature difference and biological habits of the plateau. So how could a similar plant appear in an environment without these conditions?

There must be something wrong with this plant, and it is most likely related to that wild vegetable.

This time, he really saw with his eyes.

Zhang Lu, who was standing beside him, lowered his head in shame and said, "I was negligent."

Because she had [Mastery of Elementary Botany], she relied too much on her own judgment based on miracles. If it weren't for She Mochu, they would have been misled by their own mistakes and never found the problem.

"It's okay, it's human nature," She Mochu glanced at her, "Don't compare yourself with me."

Guan Hongyan watched the whole process from the side and twitched her lips. She felt that everyone in this team would be pua by She Mochu sooner or later.

Yes, they really can't compare with Shemochu.

It's human nature not to notice, but She Mochu is not a human being, didn't he say that himself?

After learning about Cordyceps sinensis, this clue about wild grass was pushed to a direction no one had imagined.

Wild vegetables are the raw materials that villagers use to make pickles, but what are the insect bodies that they occupy?

"I don't know," Bai Jinshu spread his hands naturally, "If I knew everything, I wouldn't have to explore. I'll just fill in a rule."

It's not like he hasn't done something like filling out all the rules in advance and logging out.

Zhang Lu tried to use several miracles related to biology, including [Elementary Biology Mastery], [Elementary Zoology Mastery], and [Elementary Entomology Mastery], but did not get any information from any of them.

"Then let's not waste time here," Yun Guang interrupted everyone's thoughts, "Except for the clue of insects, the clue chain of wild grass is not independent. As long as we keep searching along these ancestral tomb caves, we will always find information about wild vegetables."

Just like She Mochu said, you can't figure out anything by trying too hard. To advance the clues, we need to discover more information.

"It's lunch time in an hour," Yun Guang looked at his watch and said to everyone, "Let's go find the cave first. Zhang Lu, you and Hong Yan should pay attention along the way. Try to draw a distribution map during lunch break so that we can calculate the direction directly based on the existing distribution pattern in the afternoon."

"Oh, right," Yun Guang suddenly remembered after walking a few steps, "I don't know if the wild vegetables are still useful after turning into this form, but it's safer for each of us to pick a little and carry it with us."

That's true.

Everyone squatted down and picked a lot of them and stuffed them into the pockets of their jackets.

Lu Changfeng even grabbed a handful, picked one and put it in his mouth, and happily told Li Ren: "In our world, Cordyceps sinensis is a very expensive medicinal material. I have only eaten it a few times."

When Jiang Jinming heard the word "expensive", he came over curiously: "What is it? How expensive is it? How much is one pound?"

"When I joined the Foundation, Cordyceps sinensis was already over a hundred yuan per gram," Lu Changfeng grinned as if in pain, "If it's a kilogram... it's about twenty or thirty thousand."

Now his brother Chu's plan has come true. If this mountain valley is really developed into a scenic spot, a bag of these wild vegetables might be able to sell for several thousand yuan.

He is so sour.

"Tens of thousands?" Jiang Jinming was shocked. "So expensive? Is inflation very severe in your country?"

"It was quite impressive in the early years, and it's still okay now..." Lu Changfeng thought for a while, "The currency is different, so I don't know how to give you a reference, but anyway, before I joined the foundation, I received a monthly subsidy of 3,000."

"That's quite high," Li Ren smacked his lips, and grabbed a few from Lu Changfeng's hand and threw them into his mouth, "It would be a waste if I don't eat them."

Lu Changfeng: ???

Lu Changfeng: "If you want to eat it, pick it yourself."

He stuffed the silkworm-shaped weed in his hand into his pocket and trotted off to find his brother Chu.

There are many caves on this mountain. Some of them look like they were formed naturally, while some look like they were artificially carved out. Almost all the man-made caves contain the villagers' ancestral tombs. Some of them are empty, but the soil inside the caves has obviously been renovated. There must have been tombs there before, but they were moved out with the descendants when the village moved.

Outside these caves, the distribution of wild vegetables was also irregular. They did not have much time to confirm what was buried in all the graves, but after digging up several graves with wild vegetables distributed outside the caves, some of them contained normal corpses, some had their skulls opened, and some were buried mixed with other bodies. It was obvious that some of the corpses were not very old when they died, probably only a few years old.

It looks totally irregular.

The group walked closer and closer to the mountains, and by almost twelve o'clock, the number of caves with ancestral tombs discovered by Bi Wu had reached a similar number. Guan Hongyan and Zhang Lu took notes as they walked, and after returning to the camp, they got together to draw a distribution map.

Bi Wu had been using fixed attributes for the whole morning and now felt a little dizzy. Cen Qiwen carefully noticed that her eyebrows were slightly furrowed from time to time, and poured her a cup of hot water from the kettle next to her. Bi Wu nodded and said thank you.

After a while, she took the initiative to say, "Actually, you don't have to be so vigilant."

Cen Qiwen seemed startled and raised her head in confusion.

"Yun Guangren is pretty good, right? He doesn't treat his teammates as consumables like those lousy guys in the mid- and low-end spaces," Bi Wuchong pointed at the teammates in the distance with his chin, "If something really happens to you, the team will definitely save you if they can. After all, we still have Lu Changfeng. They must have invited him in to ensure the survival rate of the team members."

Cen Qiwen was a little sensitive and nervous. She pursed her lips and explained in a soft voice, "I'm just a little nervous."

"I was also very nervous yesterday," Bi Wu pointed at Jiang Jinming, "He must have been very nervous the day before yesterday."

After all, no one can remain calm after not knowing that they will die today.

"Death happens very quickly, with almost no pain," Bi Wu drank up the water in the cup and comforted her out of concern for her. "You will only feel a black screen before your eyes, and then when you wake up, it will be a new day."

Cen Qiwen nodded randomly, not knowing whether she had heard it or not. Yun Guang called everyone over for lunch, and Bi Wu stood up and walked towards the small table in the camp.

After lunch break, Zhang Lu and Guan Hongyan posted the distribution map they drew in the team’s temporary channel.

"There may be a slight error," Zhang Lu explained, "but it's roughly this direction. If we go in this direction, we won't go too far. After all, the destination is an old village site with a certain size."

Although a slight error can lead to a huge mistake in map drawing, the scale of their hand-drawn maps is not large, and the destination has a certain size, so the error will not be that big.

After everyone was ready to go into the mountains, they walked out of the cave one by one.

With the map, their direction of travel became much simpler and clearer. Guan Hongyan's excellent three-dimensional construction ability made her like a GPS navigation. Even if she had never been on this road before, she could find the most convenient route according to the map.

Not to mention that this is the old site of a village. Even if it is a village deep in the mountains, it still needs to communicate with the outside world.

Since there is a need to communicate with the outside world, there must be a way. Guan Hongyan walked about one-third of the way along the location on the map and successfully found a road among the heavy shadows of trees in the deep mountains.

Although no one has passed by here for many years, and the path has been almost completely blocked by overgrown weeds and branches of shrubs, if you look closely, you can still see the difference between here and the ones next to it.

The people who led the way were Li Ren and Lu Changfeng. They both held a blade that looked like a sickle in their hands. They walked in front and cut the branches and weeds that blocked the way, clearing the way for the team members behind them.

The temperature in the deep mountains is a little lower than outside. The towering trees and dense branches and leaves block the light from above and confuse the time perception of people walking in it. When everyone feels that the view in front of them is suddenly clear, looking at the sunlight that has weakened a lot compared to the strongest sunlight in the afternoon when they came out of the cave, they have to realize that they have been walking in this deep mountain for at least several hours.

In fact, the straight-line distance was not very far, but they needed to bypass some roads that were already difficult to travel, and even needed two team members to lead the way, which slowed down their progress.

The people leading the way in front of us had changed several times. Lu Changfeng shook his sore hands, twitched his mouth and complained: "If this village was a little deeper, the sun would have set by the time we got here."

The sun could not be seen deep in the mountains, and without the help of any tools, he could not tell the directions. If it were not for this road and Guan Hongyan, Lu Changfeng had no doubt that he would have gotten lost and gone to his grandmother's house within half an hour of entering the forest.

Oh, and there's Brother Chu...

After She Mochu entered the forest, it was like he was back home. No matter how difficult the road was to walk on or how hard it was to get around the branches, he could always walk through them in a very normal and calm manner.

A few hours passed, and there was not even a drop of sweat on his head, and his face was still pale as if he was lacking blood, as if these few hours of high-intensity mountain climbing were nothing to him.

During the few hours of traveling, the barrage of comments changed from excited speculation and discussion to a few pieces of content popping up, until the entire live broadcast room's camera was focused on Bai Jinshu's face, and the barrage of comments barely increased.

【Xiao Chu was able to walk through the forest as if it were flat ground.】

[Xiao Chu doesn't sweat on his face... I envy him. 】

[He is a cold-blooded animal with a constant temperature of 25 degrees. It is not certain whether he has sweat glands or not...]

[I just woke up from a nap, why are they still walking? ]

When they arrived at their destination, the comments became lively again:

【ohhhhhhhhh】

[We are finally here! You are not tired from walking, but I am tired from watching! ]

[What are you watching in the front? Hang up the background. I have already taken a nap with this forest white noise. ]

[This village doesn’t look very old. Although the architectural styles are different, they are not as old as more than a dozen generations.]

There are not as many as a dozen generations.

Everyone finally reached their destination and sat down outside the village to rest. Only Bai Jinshu walked straight towards the village as if he had not walked on the mountain road for several hours.

Although the architectural style of this village is not very modern, it is not very old either, at least not to the extent of being more than a dozen generations old, or even hundreds of years old.

There was a patch of weeds at the entrance of the village that seemed to be growing in a wrong way, being slightly shorter than the ones next to it. Bai Jinshu leaned over to take a look, and there seemed to be something like a fence frame underneath the weeds. The weeds had no room to grow, so they could only grow around it or wrap around it in the direction of the frame before growing out.

He looked around, found a slightly longer wooden stick, and pushed the fence frame inside.

It has grown together with the weeds and cannot be easily pushed away.

But after pushing aside the weeds, you can barely see that the fence frame seems to be made of thorns, with some round spots on it, which should be the growth traces left after the sharp thorns fell off.

Bai Jinshu put down his stick, stepped past, and entered the village.

The team members behind me had almost rested, so they regrouped and prepared to enter the old site of the village.

Before entering, Yun Guang gave everyone a few more words of advice as usual. Bai Jinshu repeated his "Holy Father's Words" with an expression that made people want to hit him: "When you encounter something that makes you feel wrong, don't think about it, stay numb, come to me, and others should not go over."

"If you encounter anything aggressive, hide behind me, close your eyes, cover your ears, don't try to observe or understand what's happening, and don't step out unless I say it's okay."

However, at this time, except for Cen Qiwen who had never faced san check, no one thought that this was the "Holy Father".

——Including Bi Wu who met "Xiangcai" yesterday.

Guan Hongyan even kindly shared the secret of cutting off thoughts with everyone.

"When you realize you have to stop thinking about something, don't repeat in your mind 'Don't think about X', but think about something else. It doesn't matter what you think. I suggest you repeat some brainwashing songs or advertising slogans in your mind repeatedly. This is the most effective way."

After everyone nodded, the exploration of the old village site officially began.

Unlike Lu Changfeng's initial guess, this village was not hastily moved as the village chief said, "a serious infectious disease broke out, the sick were left in the old site, and the healthy villagers moved out." Everything here was very clean.

This kind of cleanliness does not refer to the cleanliness in terms of hygiene, but to the cleanliness in terms of display. Although the whole village is covered with dust and there are weeds growing in the corners and open spaces, it can be seen that when the last human left this space area, it must have been in order.

All doors and windows were properly closed. There were no items or luggage left on the ground from the hasty move. When the window was opened, even the furnishings in the house were very tidy.

This is a kind of cleanliness that clearly shows that the owner is ready to leave.

Of course, tidy does not mean that everything here is in order. Things on the table are also placed messily, but the first impression given is that the people who once lived here were preparing to leave, so they left behind some unnecessary items, cleaned up the entire house, locked the door and left.

It didn't seem like there was a sudden change, with the entire village leaving in a hurry, nor was there a breath of life, as if everyone had disappeared overnight.

This village gives people the feeling that it is just like what the village chief said, "the old site of the village", which is the most appropriate word to describe it.

Everyone walked around the outside of the building, but couldn't get any more information, so they all went into the house at the same time.

The bad news is that most of the doors here have locks on them, the good news is that the wooden doors are pretty much rotten.

Bai Jinshu randomly picked a room and went in to take a look. The house was very clean. It can be seen that the person who cleaned the house was still meticulous at the last moment of leaving.

He looked around inside and found that there were not many places in the house that could provide clues. At most, they could push back the time when the village was abandoned by more than a hundred years.

There are already traces of modern industrial products here.

Most of the houses here are like this. The general cultural level of the village is not high. Bai Jinshu searched several rooms but found no traces of words or books.

Just as he was about to continue looking through the books, there were two knocks on the door.

He turned around and saw Bi Wu standing at the door. She nodded nervously at him and said, "Blind Student: There is a clue in a small house ahead."

She has ptsd about her fixed attributes, Bai Jin explained it clearly.

"You said you would come to find you first if you found any clues," Bi Wu looked a little nervous. "I'll go in with you, and then I'll point the way and you can find it, okay?"

"Okay," she then saw the young man with vertical pupils nod casually, "Which house?"

"That one," Bi Wu pointed, "I'll lead the way."

As soon as Bai Jinshu pushed open the door of this house, he found that it was completely different from the other rooms.

If it wasn't for [Blind Student] saying there was a clue here, it wouldn't be long before the other team members would have felt there was something wrong here after they opened the door.

There is no other reason, this room is so full of life.

If the other rooms were like old houses that had been properly cleaned up and left, then it was as if the owner of this house had never intended to leave.

There were still bowls on the table that had not been cleared away in time, and the quilts were piled up randomly in the direction of the bedroom. The window was opened a little, apparently for ventilation, and the paper pasted on it had almost disappeared over time.

More importantly, there are patterns here. In mountain villages where the cultural level is generally low, if you want to express something or leave something behind, you can only use pictures.

But Bai Jinshu couldn't quite see what the pattern was.

"Guan Hongyan," he walked out of the room, looked around the village, and knocked on the door of Guan Hongyan's house, "Come over and see something."

Among all people, the only one he could trust the most was Guan Hongyan. Her fixed attributes had been stacked to the extent that as long as the thought of "coriander" appeared in her mind, a taste would come out of her mouth. She was able to use [Don't Eat Coriander] for years without being nauseated by the taste in her mouth. Guan Hongyan's mind control was definitely top-notch among all people.

Even if everyone is san checked, the san value she deducts will definitely be the smallest.

"Coming, coming." Guan Hongyan walked out from a room.

"What do you want to see?"

Bai Jinshu led Guan Hongyan to stand in front of the wall with patterns painted on it, and signaled Bi Wu behind them not to come over.

"Can you see clearly? What's the drawing? If you have any questions, tell me immediately or I will interrupt you."

"Wait a minute..." Guan Hongyan squinted her eyes and tried to identify it for a long time. "It's so blurry, what was used to draw it?"

"Charcoal," Bai Jinshu replied, "After it's burned."

It can be seen that the painter has no pen or paper. The carrier of his painting is the earthen wall of his home, and the brush he uses is a burnt wooden stick.

After such a long time, the black marks left by the carbon print have almost disappeared, and only slight scratches from the wooden stick remain on the wall.

She Mochu's eyes are good enough to recognize outlines, but it is very difficult for him to see such a blurry still object clearly.

Guan Hongyan observed for a long time and said, "This should be easy to see. I don't have any feelings, but I can't tell what he wants to say by drawing this... It's too abstract. Do you have a pen and paper? I'll draw it for you."

Bai Jinshu took out a pen and a piece of paper from the foundation's mall and handed them to her.

Guan Hongyan observed and reproduced it on paper. In fact, the pattern on the wall was very simple. There was a circle slightly upwards, with some small squares distributed underneath. Then between the squares were many matchstick men, with a vertical "1" on top of an "o".

Investors on the barrage became active again:

【What is this painting about? 】

[It’s too abstract. All I can see is a stick figure.]

[What is postmodern art? What is that square? ]

[Weapons? Is this a painting of war?]

[How could there be a war in such a small place? At most, a fight broke out at the entrance of the village. ]

After Guan Hongyan finished painting, she walked out of the house and compared the positions of other buildings outside the house: "Uh... he should be painting this village."

The circle in the sky represents the sun, the upright stickmen represent the villagers, and the familiar-looking squares distributed below, when compared with the distribution of these houses, should represent the houses in the village.

"Why draw this?" Guan Hongyan was puzzled. "What's the meaning of this thing?"

If this painting is meant to replace the text narrative, what does it mean? The people in the village come out to bask in the sun on a sunny day???

"Brother Chu?" Bi Wu asked from the side, "Can I take a look?"

Bai Jinshu stepped aside and said, "Okay."

Since Guan Hongyan saw that it was fine, then this thing shouldn't lose sanity.

Guan Hongyan's painting skills were average, but they were good enough for depicting simple images. After handing the painting to Bi Wu, she took a picture of her painting and the wall and posted them in the temporary chat group.

Guan Hongyan: [The pattern that Bi Wu's "Blind Student" points to, I don't know what it means.]

Guan Hongyan: [Location sharing: (38, 41), come and have a look if you have time. ]

Everyone received this message.

The team members came into the room one after another.

But the only information that everyone could see was a sun, some stick figures, and some houses. They couldn't recognize any other people.

What does this pattern mean?

"Um..." Cen Qiwen suddenly said, "Can I see what this picture originally looked like?"

"Look." Guan Hongyan made way.

"...I'll add a few strokes." Cen Qiwen propped herself up and looked at the wall for a while, then turned around and took the paper. "Sister Guan, you didn't draw anything."

"Ah? Not enough drawings?" Guan Hongyan scratched her head, "Then you can add more."

Cen Qiwen unfolded the paper, half-knelt on the ground using her thighs as a tabletop, and lowered her head to pick up a pen.

No one noticed that after she added a few strokes to the painting, her eyes suddenly became unfocused.

She felt as if something was surging in her body, and her brain seemed to be surging and trembling in a regular pattern. Those delicate and regular grooves and folds were twisting, making her almost nauseous.

She did seem to vomit something.

Her vision was filled with blurred blocks of color. In Cen Qiwen's perception at this moment, her vision was like the cheese in the Tom and Jerry cartoon, with many holes eaten away by it.

Behind those holes was another deep space. She wanted to concentrate and look inside, but the more she tried to sense inside, the more she realized that her thoughts were erratic and she couldn't find a landing point. That space was like a black hole that swallowed up everything, swallowing up her sight and her thoughts.

She subconsciously wanted to grab something, but the moment she focused her attention on her fingers, she felt that her hands were no longer her hands.

It was like... like a surging rubber sheath, something was surging through the flesh and blood.

The densely packed black holes in her field of vision were like some deep sights, or like greedy mouths drooling with saliva. A strong smell of blood penetrated into her nostrils, making her subconsciously hold her breath.

Her head ached so much that it felt like it was going to explode.

The sound of something bubbling became clearer and clearer, like the gurgling sound of a kettle about to boil, or like natto.

The feeling of rolling around in the natto with chopsticks.

The sticky soy products are pulled into long thin threads when stirred by chopsticks. The beans covered with sticky liquid roll in it as the chopsticks stir, making a "crunching" sound of squeezing, and then the filaments are wrapped around it to form a layer of thousands of silk nets, which are pulled apart again during the squeezing.

She felt that her thoughts were being torn apart like the threads of natto.

Cold sweat soaked her clothes.

Those strange holes in her vision began to consume her.

The intense dizziness made her feel dizzy and her cerebellum lost its function of controlling balance. She was in a trance and felt herself fall to the ground suddenly.

"Cen Qiwen?!" Guan Hongyan was startled by her sudden fall, "Are you okay..."

She hasn't finished speaking yet.

Cen Qiwen, who was lying on the ground, maintained a terrified expression. Her head suddenly felt like a ripe watermelon that could not be more ripe.

Without any external force.

There were no signs.

With a "bang", it exploded suddenly.

The author has something to say:

I'm sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, I'm really sorry for natto and watermelon, but I will still eat them after writing this chapter, and I hope you will too (.

The ones with * are the descriptions of Cordyceps sinensis. Although I wrote them myself, the meaning is the same, so I still marked them. They will definitely be very different from the explanations on the Internet.

By the way, the price was checked when I was writing this. I don’t know if there will be a premium for Orange Software, but it’s so expensive anyway!

It's Sunday, and this week's collective thanks! Thanks to the pretty girl for airdropping 200 Moonstones on the 6th, and the pretty girl for airdropping 4409 Moonstones on the 5th!