Chapter 777 Flower of Life
Li Mobai and the other two looked at Gu Shanshui in confusion, wondering why he suddenly changed his mind and was willing to take a big risk to help them cross the Flower River.
"I wonder how I can help you, Master Gu?" Zhou Wen did not agree easily. Gu Shanshui obviously saw something from the bird.
Gu Shanshui said, "To be honest, our Gu family is also good at raising and taming Gu. I found a mythical dimensional creature somewhere and wanted to tame it, but it's too powerful, so I haven't been able to succeed. If you are willing to lend a hand, Mr. Zhou, I will definitely be able to tame it."
When Gu Shanshui spoke, he glanced at Xiaoniao. It was obvious that the person he really wanted to seek help from was Xiaoniao.
"If we can, we should help each other, but we are in a hurry to get to the Valley of No Return, so I'm afraid..."
Before Zhou Wen could finish his words, Gu Shanshui interrupted and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Zhou. I will help you get to the Valley of No Return first. After we return from the Valley of No Return, it won't be too late for you to lend me a hand."
"Master Gu, I still need to ask clearly, what kind of mythical dimensional creature do you want to tame? What abilities does it have? What do you want me to do?" Zhou Wen asked seriously.
Zhou Wen was not willing to break the contract casually, so he still had to ask clearly first.
"Mr. Zhou, can I have a word with you for a moment?" Gu Shanshui obviously didn't want others to know the information about that dimensional creature.
Zhou Wen and Gu Shanshui went to the side, and Gu Shanshui said, "The dimensional creature I want to tame is a corpse silkworm. It is in an extremely dark dimensional realm. For ordinary people, it is extremely dangerous. However, Mr. Zhou, you have the Phoenix Bird with you, so taming the corpse silkworm is not difficult."
"I can only agree to help, but I can only do my best at that time. I can't guarantee that it will succeed." After all, Zhou Wen had never seen a corpse silkworm, and he didn't know what its abilities were, so he was very conservative.
"That's good." Gu Shanshui was very open-minded.
After the two men had finished talking, they went back and set off again. Gu Shanshui led Gu Lou and Gu He to continue leading the way.
Some corpses covered with jellyfish fungi were found on the road one after another, and Gu Shanshui's expression became a little solemn.
On the way, Gu Lou and Gu He secretly looked at the bird from time to time. Even Li Mobai and others looked at the bird a few more times. Obviously, they all understood that Gu Shanshui's previous actions must be related to the bird.
The bird stood on Zhou Wen's shoulder, looking around proudly.
Zhou Wen has been using his eardrums to observe the surroundings, hoping to find the mother body of the jellyfish fungus, but he has never found the mother body, only the parasitic corpses.
Suddenly, Tai Sui came out of the backpack, flapped its wings, and flew towards the woods nearby.
"What happened?" Li Mobai and others looked at Zhou Wen.
"It's okay. My companion pet has been in the backpack for too long, so I want to go out for a walk." Zhou Wen said perfunctorily.
He didn't want to be perfunctory, but he didn't know what Tai Sui wanted to do and had no way to explain it clearly.
Zhou Wen kept using his Di Ting to observe the direction Tai Sui flew to, but there was nothing there.
Tai Sui flew out nearly a thousand meters, dived towards the ground, and then disappeared into the ground.
Tai Sui could burrow underground, and Zhou Wen couldn't hear where it went. But after a while, he saw Tai Sui coming out from the ground again and quickly flew back.
But its stomach was obviously swollen, and I didn't know what it ate.
It only took a moment, and seeing Zhou Wen's companion pet come back, everyone set off again.
Although they encountered some corpses on the road this time, no jellyfish fungus was found on those corpses. Seeing this situation, Zhou Wen probably guessed that Tai Sui must have escaped into the ground and eaten the mother body of the jellyfish fungus.
Zhou Wen felt a little regretful. He didn't even see what the mother looked like, and was actually eaten by Tai Sui.
Apart from the interference of the jellyfish fungus, everyone's progress was much faster, and Zhou Wen also gained a lot of knowledge. There were many bizarre creatures here that Zhou Wen had never seen or even heard of before.
Fortunately, Gu Shanshui and the others led the way and avoided the dimensional realm. Otherwise, if we were trapped in the dimensional realm, who knows how many terrifying unknown creatures we would encounter.
Zhou Wen saw a sea of flowers in the distance, with white petals and red stamens. From a distance, it looked like a white river with a blood-red color.
"That's the Flower River." Gu Shanshui said, pointing to the flowers in the distance that meandered like a river.
Everyone's eyes were focused on the Flower River. Zhou Wen was also using his listening device to search the Flower River, but among those flowers, apart from patches of flowers, there was no living thing at all.
The locals call this flower the flower of life. Wherever the flower of life appears, there is no room for other creatures to survive, and even weeds will not grow there.
In the past, it was very safe for humans to enter the Flower River because there were no other creatures in the Flower River, let alone dimensional creatures, so the Flower River became an important route for travel between some nearby cities.
But since half a month ago, no one who entered Huahe River has been able to come out alive. They have all disappeared, and this road has been cut off.
Zhou Wen looked at the flowers of life carefully. The flowers were not big and looked somewhat similar to peach blossoms. The clusters of them were very beautiful.
"These flowers of life don't look like dimensional creatures." Li Mobai said as he looked at the flowers of life in the distance.
Gu Shanshui nodded and said, "The Flower of Life existed before the dimensional storm. It was a poisonous flower. After the dimensional storm, the poisonous flower mutated and its number increased, forming a river of flowers. But for some unknown reason, the mutated Flower of Life no longer has any toxins. Many people have experimented with the Flower of Life and found that it no longer contains any toxins. Even if consumed, it would not be harmful to humans. But things may be different now. Please wait a moment, I need to do some experiments first."
Zhou Wen and others stopped and waited for Gu Shanshui's experiment, because no one knew what the danger in the Flower River was, so they could only analyze it from the Flower of Life itself.
Unlike the experiment Zhou Wen had imagined, Gu Shanshui opened a bamboo tube and released a worm that looked like a silkworm from the tube. It was white and fat. The worm crawled towards the Flower River, first nibbled the leaves and rhizomes of the Flower of Life, and then nibbled the flowers. It didn't seem to have any problems.
"This is a white silkworm. It is very sensitive to toxins. If it absorbs toxins, its body will appear in different colors." Gu Shanshui explained.
"Now that the white silkworm hasn't changed color, does that mean the flower of life is still non-toxic?" Die asked curiously.
As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly saw the white silkworm straighten its body and fall from the flower, dying straight away, but its body was still white and had not changed.
(End of this chapter)
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