Chapter 61 The Bud of a Red Rose
Gradually, some crawling sounds were heard all around, and soon, a horrifying scene appeared.
The man's screams attracted countless small skeletons half the height of a man. They moved as fast as four-legged wolves and soon tore the screaming descender into pieces. They carried the pieces of flesh into the large and small flower beds.
The few little skeletons that arrived late picked up all the debris and internal organs on the ground and licked the blood on the ground intoxicatedly.
The two companions of the dead man were so frightened that they fell to the ground, trembling constantly, covering their mouths and not daring to breathe.
These little skeletons acted as if they didn't see the two people. They just licked the blood on the ground and then left.
At this moment, a man who had been sitting on the ground suddenly found the strength to run wildly.
He was so flustered that he stumbled and bumped into the pear blossom fence, and the iron fence made a sharp clanging sound.
The little skeletons that had already left halfway suddenly stopped, and then slowly gathered towards the pear blossom fence.
Under the pale moonlight, those little skeletons looked like evil ghosts seeking revenge.
The man who hit the fence was so scared that he didn't care about the blood flowing from his forehead. He screamed and ran away.
It was this cry that made the little skeletons identify the direction, and they all jumped towards the man. They were extremely fast and threw the man to the ground in one fell swoop. More little skeletons climbed on him and wrapped him up.
After a few faint screams, the man's voice was no longer heard.
After a while, the group of little skeletons gradually dispersed and returned to the flower beds carrying some broken flesh and limbs.
After a while, the little skeletons that didn't get any meat licked the blood on the ground and then scattered away.
There was only a bloodstain left where the man had been, and the surroundings began to become quiet again, as if nothing had happened.
The man slumped on the ground at the main entrance had a puddle of water between his legs. In the bright moonlight, one could clearly see that the fabric in the crotch of his pants was visibly wet.
Hong Guo came back to her senses in a daze and whispered, "What is that?"
Xie Liang was still in shock, but after calming down, he said, "It looks like a child's corpse."
"Their bones are black. Are those black spots you saw before the ones?"
Xie Liang shook his head: "I don't know either."
Long Qingye's low voice came from behind Xie Liang: "They are neither tall nor big. At such a distance, they would have to be two or three times bigger to be visible."
Then, Long Qingye made a conclusion: "Go back. If you want to get in, you can only work hard on the assessment." After saying that, he yawned.
Xie Liang looked at Long Qingye with sleepy eyes and couldn't help but sigh inwardly at the man's inner strength - he could still be so sleepy after just seeing such a scene, he was indeed a veteran player.
"I'll take you home." Xu He whispered.
Xie Liang turned around and said to him, "You go back with Miss Hongguo. They use sound to determine the direction, so if the noise is not too loud, it's usually fine."
The man who was slumped by the main gate stood up and walked cautiously out of the pear blossom fence. He soon walked away and could not be seen.
Hong Guo said to Long Qingye, "Brother Ye, it will be dawn in a few hours."
Long Qingye yawned and said, "Mr. Xu, I'll leave Hong Guo to you to escort!"
Xu He glared at Long Qingye.
Long Qingye gave Hong Guo a look.
After receiving it, Hong Guo tugged at Xu He's sleeve and said, "I'm really a little sleepy. Let's go back together so someone can take care of us. Brother Ye is an old man after all. With him around, Xie Liang will be fine."
Xie Liang whispered to Xu He, "Let's go back first."
Xu He had no choice but to nod helplessly.
The group walked lightly out of the fence together.
Only after watching Xie Liang and Long Qingye walk away did Xu He turn around and walk in another direction with Hong Guo.
The next morning, everyone arrived at the open space in front of the pear blossom fence on time.
The clock on the roof of the manor chimed at eight o'clock sharp.
The main gate of the manor opened, and some rose gardeners in blue work clothes carried repair buckets and walked towards the sea of flowers behind them.
After a while, the four gardeners came out.
The crowd quickly divided into four teams and stood in front of their respective gardeners.
After a while, the man in the suit from yesterday came to the crowd.
The man in the suit surveyed the crowd and began to speak: "Each of you will be assigned a rose garden. After three days, the team whose flowers bloom the most brilliantly will pass the assessment directly.
"Of course, to demonstrate the manor's benevolence, each eliminated team will have a chance to answer questions. As long as they can answer correctly, they will pass the assessment."
The crowd began to discuss:
"Is the mission this time to plant flowers?"
"If you pass the test, the door will appear, right?"
"Impossible! That's too easy! It doesn't seem like a dungeon..."
Xie Liang also felt that things would never be that simple.
Just as everyone was discussing, the man in the suit gathered the four gardeners from yesterday together and said something. After he finished speaking, the four gardeners came to their respective teams and led them to different places.
The female gardener led Xie Liang's team down to the fields at the foot of the slope.
As he passed by clusters of roses, Xie Liang noticed some gardeners busy collecting morning dew from the flowers.
After walking for a while, the female gardener stopped and said, "This flower bed is yours to take care of. Whether you can make them bloom depends on your ability."
The rose garden in front of me is about half an acre in size. The tops of the rose leaves are covered with rose buds that are about to bloom. Looking around, there is not a single blooming rose in the entire field.
Xie Liang found it extremely strange: how could they all be in bud, waiting to bloom, if their flowering periods were different? Moreover, each bud was the same size, bright and juicy, with full buds, as if they would bloom at any moment.
Long Qingye pointed at a tool bucket in the hands of a gardener in the sea of flowers and lazily asked the leading female gardener, "I say, you have to give us some tools, right? Otherwise, how are we going to irrigate these flowers? And where's the water source? You have to tell me clearly, right?"
The female gardener glanced at him and said, "That's something you'll get after you pass the assessment. As for how to irrigate," she smiled, "you can figure it out for yourself."
A girl in her twenties, wearing a pink T-shirt, timidly said to the female gardener, "So how do we take care of these buds..."
The female gardener said indifferently: "That's your business, please do as you please." After that, she left the flower garden and walked towards the sea of roses in the distance.
After she left, the people in the team introduced themselves briefly.
The girl in the pink T-shirt was called Huang Tao. She asked Long Qingye softly, "What should we do next?"
"Ah! I don't know what to do either." Long Qingye said in a soft voice.
"These flower buds look like they are about to bloom. Maybe they will bloom tomorrow without any care." said a man named Liu Boyuan in the team.
"Yes! I think we just need to loosen the soil and catch the insects, and they will bloom on their own." Liu Boyuan's companion Zhao Nanyang echoed.
Afterwards, everyone in the team sat lazily on the edge of the flower garden and chatted casually.
The rose bushes were half a man's height, blocking out most of the sunlight. A gentle breeze blew, and the rose buds swayed, making a rustling sound that made people drowsy.
After an unknown amount of time, Xie Liang woke up from his drowsy state.
He stood up and looked at the sea of flowers around him, and saw Xu He on the plain in the distance to the south. Xu He's black shirt and casual pants were particularly eye-catching in the sunlight.
Xie Liang pointed to where Xu He was and said to the dozing Long Qingye, "I'm going to go over to him. Do you want to come with me?"
Long Qingye responded: "Let's go."
Xie Liang and Long Qingye walked along the ridge of the rose field towards Xu He.
After seeing them, Xu He and Hong Guo were also walking towards them.
The four of them met in the middle and sat down on the edge of a field with taller rose bushes.
Hong Guo looked at the sea of flowers in the distance and said, "Except for the four flower beds allocated to us descenders, the roses here are all in full bloom."
"Have you visited other flower gardens?" Xie Liang asked.
Hong Guo nodded. "They were right over there on the plain. We thought you were there, but when we couldn't find you, we circled back."
The sun gradually grew bigger, making Xie Liang feel listless.
"Xiaoliang, come here." Xu He said, pulling Xie Liang to his side.
Gusts of wind blew through the gaps between the flowers, and Xie Liang suddenly felt a lot refreshed.
"Brother Ye, if the flowers in the four teams' flower gardens bloom equally brightly in three days, will they all be considered to have passed the assessment?" Hong Guo asked.
Long Qingye narrowed his eyes, held his chin in his hand and said, "No, those people just want us to kill each other."
Xie Liang's thoughts became much clearer after hearing his words: "The other teams will definitely understand this. They might destroy the flower beds of other teams to ensure that their own team's flowers bloom the best."
Hong Guo looked around at them and said, "So what should we do now?"
Long Qingye: "Do nothing."
Hong Guo was puzzled: "Do nothing? But..."
Long Qingye lazily lay down on the grassy ridge: "No buts, let's all go to sleep. It would be a shame not to sleep when the breeze is so comfortable."
Hong Guo sighed helplessly, looked towards the flowerbed in the distance, and said worriedly, "What if the flowers haven't bloomed by then?"
"Then it all depends on whether you can pass the final question." Xie Liang said.
"Don't talk, just take a nap." Not long after Long Qingye finished speaking, he closed his eyes as if he was asleep.
In the distance, a sea of roses stretches like rolling hills, filling the air with the rich fragrance of roses. The breeze rustles the blossoms, creating a soothing, lullaby-like sound.
In the blue sky, white clouds gradually blocked the dazzling sun, and the sunlight began to soften. Xie Liang suddenly felt that it would be a pity not to take a nap in such weather.
Xu He noticed Xie Liang's sleepiness and said softly, "Sleep on me."
Xie Liang found a comfortable position and leaned on Xu He's shoulder without any hesitation. He closed his eyes, listened to the rustling sound of flowers in the wind, and fell asleep unknowingly.
Perhaps they didn't sleep well last night, or perhaps the wind was too comfortable, and the four of them fell asleep on the edge of the field in no time.
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