Chapter 187 Crop Circles
Thinking of this, Liu Mang asked, "Is the next route complicated?"
The driver quickly responded, "Your Excellency, it's not complicated. The roads in West Market are not well maintained, and there is only one route to the market."
Hearing this, Liu Mang's heart sank.
Just by looking at what he had encountered the previous times, he could guess that this route was not peaceful.
Apart from those we have experienced before, I am afraid there are still many difficulties.
But once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back.
If we change the route, the situation may be even more difficult than it is now.
He had suffered so much to get here, how could he give up halfway?
Liu Mang ignored the pain from the wound and was extremely cautious.
After a while, the carriage arrived at a flower field outside the West Market.
This should be the land specially leased by a businessman, and it is planted with flowers and plants.
The manors of the rich and powerful in East Market are usually only used by their own families, and only a few are open to the public like Peach Blossom Spring.
The farms in West Market are mostly owned by merchants, and they grow things that can make money.
For example, the flowers and plants in front of you are materials specially used to make gardens, rouge, powder, medicinal herbs, etc.
This is an industry specially cultivated for the powerful and wealthy in the East Market, and it caters to their needs. The flower field is surrounded by a fence made of thorns, and ordinary people really cannot enter.
Of course, this place is the most pleasing to the eye.
In order to please the powerful people in the East Market, merchants did everything they could to collect rare and precious herbs.
Although those rare and precious plants will not be displayed, the surrounding area is a beautiful sight that is difficult for ordinary people to see.
The people next to the carriage all looked out several times.
Liu Mang, who was in the carriage, didn't know what was going on, but after walking for a while he smelled a strong floral scent.
Only then did he stick his head out.
When he saw the large flower field, he frowned instantly:
"Don't look at what you shouldn't look at. Plug up your noses."
There was a warning in his voice.
The others immediately lowered their heads and dared not look anymore.
Only then did Liu Mang sit back in the carriage.
It's not that he is harsh, it's just that this place makes him feel alarmed.
As a person who has been studying esoteric arts for many years, he knows very well that the carriers of esoteric arts are mostly things that can be captured by vision, smell and hearing.
And this flower field is simply a natural container for mystical techniques.
The scent of countless flowers and plants plus the visual impact, if someone arranged it, the person being plotted against would definitely fall into the trap easily.
He had suffered a setback in his hearing before, which made his nerves extremely sensitive.
After the carriage had been moving for a while, Liu Mang's heart was still beating fast.
Because he always felt that Lin Zhiqing would not miss such a good opportunity.
So he knocked on the wall of the carriage, signaling the driver to stop, and wanted to get off and keep an eye on it to prevent any accidents.
But after knocking twice, he didn't get any response.
He frowned, feeling a sense of foreboding.
He knocked several more times without giving up.
The carriage still didn't stop and no one responded.
No, this is totally wrong!
Could it be as I thought?
Liu Mang's hand instinctively reached out for the curtain, but stopped just before it touched it.
This unknown situation made him a little apprehensive.
It was obvious that most of the people outside had been under the spell of a mystic technique.
If he goes out now and is not careful and falls into the trap, what should he do?
completely annihilated?
Although he felt that Lin Zhiqing did not have that ability, he could not think of a foolproof plan at the moment.
Just when he was feeling anxious, the carriage suddenly jolted.
Liu Mang was already injured and was completely unprepared. He was thrown forward in an instant by the shock.
With a loud bang, the car door was pushed open and Liu Mang fell to the ground due to inertia.
Fortunately, he supported the driver who was leaning against the door, which provided some cushioning and prevented him from falling too hard.
After he struggled to get up, he found that the carriage had stopped.
Not only the carriage, but everyone else also stood there in a daze, with their eyes losing their former luster.
Only one horse stared at him.
Liu Mang's expression froze. In the blink of an eye, the floral scent he had just smelled in the carriage became stronger.
This fragrance is very special. It is fragrant, but also a bit pungent.
Although it smells bad, it's not smelly in the traditional sense.
He searched his mind but couldn't find the source of the smell in his memory.
His intuition told him that this smell was the culprit that caused people to fall into the secret magic circle!
So he quickly raised his sleeves to cover his mouth and nose, and after making sure that he couldn't smell any particularly strong odor, he turned around and looked at the flower field.
But as soon as he turned around, he regretted it.
Within the flower field, a field of purple flowers comes into view.
The flower stems are slender and tough, standing straight up, and the flowers are strung around like small trumpets.
From the appearance alone, there is nothing special.
But from the overall perspective, it's too terrifying!
On the flower field, someone had pressed out a huge circular pattern.
The outermost part is a particularly large circle, and in the middle, the more you look at it, the more it looks like a person's eye, staring straight at the person coming.
In addition to the eyes, there are five small rings strung together.
Between the outer large ring and the middle small ring is a crescent-shaped shape, a bit like the wrinkles on a bun.
The patterns are of exactly the same size and arranged very neatly.
People who don’t know the inside story may think it is very unique and beautiful.
People's attention can be easily attracted.
Including Liu Mang, his eyes were fixed on the ring and he couldn't move away.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to move, it’s that he can’t move.
A dizzy feeling rose in his mind.
Liu Mang knew in his heart that he had been tricked!
Because in his eyes, the rings began to move.
The eye in the middle moves with the outer shapes, as if it has come to life, exuding an inexplicable weirdness.
Staring at the pattern, Liu Mang always felt that he would be dragged into the abyss. The hairs on his body stood up, and anxiety and fear swept over him in an instant, as if to swallow him up.
It's not that he doesn't understand the function of those rings, because he has used this element to deal with others.
In esoteric magic, this kind of ring is an extremely commonly used element.
Because when a person stares at the circle for a long time, the circle will make people feel dizzy and dynamic.
This is very deadly.
Dizziness is a sign of being trapped in a mystical formation.
This is something Liu Mang figured out after years of exploration.
He had given up on the circle as an element of the occult over the years because it was too simple and too easy for people to see.
But he just happened to fail on such a simple pattern.
At this moment, Liu Mang did not know that the pattern was not simple, and had no idea that it was actually called a crop circle.
He felt ashamed, angry and frightened, and his perception of Lin Zhiqing rose even further.
Lin Zhiqing clearly took advantage of the fact that his means of transportation was a horse-drawn carriage. If he could deal with the others first, he would surely fall into the trap.
What a deep scheme!
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