Chapter 107
Although they had never stood side by side, from a distance they looked quite tall.
Johnny already believed what Lu Jiamu said and swallowed his saliva: "Then when did this flower grow taller?"
Without a reference point, this change is not easy to detect. If it just grows slowly, it is even more hidden.
Lu Jiamu stared at the backs of the two people, with a half-smile on his face: "How should I know? But it should take a short time for it to grow out."
In the sea of flowers, Mr. David felt a numbing sensation on the back of his neck and got goose bumps when he heard Mr. John suddenly ask this question in this environment.
He instantly became angry and shouted in a strong but weak voice: "John, it's not fun to say this now!"
"No... I'm not trying to scare you. I'm serious. Do you think these flowers have grown taller?"
"Yes, but maybe it's just our illusion." David shrugged when he saw that he seemed to be really timid. "We didn't use flashlights when we came here, but we do now. The light is different."
David wanted to find a scientific explanation for everything, but he knew that even if the light was changing, the flowers were actually higher when they were close to their legs than when they came here.
"I... I have another question." John stood still, his voice trembling as he spoke, "Do imported roses from foreign countries grow bulbs?"
David heard this and retorted: "This is not a rose."
John asked, “What is this?”
As he spoke, he turned the flashlight and shone it at the roots of a flower at his feet.
Where the flower stem meets the ground, there is a small, round, pale bump, and it seems that something is buried beneath the ground.
John said, "I just kicked it so hard that I almost tripped. Wasn't this thing available when you got here?"
"No."
David subconsciously shone his flashlight at the flowers nearby and found that there was a small bulge at the base of each flower. It was just too dark and their flashlights were all pointed further ahead, so they didn't notice it when they first entered the sea of flowers.
The flower stem of this special variety is white, and the bulge below is white, which does not look out of place and does indeed look like a bulb.
David looked at those bulbs and couldn't help but have some bad associations. He felt a little scared, but subconsciously knew that he shouldn't be curious and shouldn't meddle in other people's business.
On the one hand, if there is something bad down there and they find it, they themselves will be in trouble. On the other hand, if these flowers are of precious quality and they are damaged by their reckless digging, it is unknown how much money they will have to pay.
But those bulbs seemed to have some strange attraction. For some reason, David and John swallowed their saliva, slowly squatted down around a flower, and after hesitating for a moment, they started digging in the ground with their hands.
The bulbous tentacles were cold and hard. After the two dug twice, David already felt something was wrong.
He wanted to tell John to stop and leave, but when he looked up, he saw John's face twisted and he was digging at the ground like a puppy digging for bones.
David immediately called out to him, "What are you doing? Stop digging!"
An entire sea of flowers swayed left and right in the windless night. The delicate flowers were like elves under the moon, and the rich fragrance lingered in the air, almost as if it had substance and was full of color.
John's digging movements with his hands became even more frantic.
David's heart was filled with alarm. He took two steps back and shouted, "Stop digging! Stop digging!"
But John wouldn't listen.
He seemed to be trying to hold back a smile. After holding it back for a long time, he finally couldn't hold it back anymore and burst out laughing: "Pfft...Hahahahahaha!"
Although David no longer wanted to know what was underground, the bulb was still inevitably exposed to his eyes, revealing a pair of empty holes and then the exposed teeth.
This isn't a bulb at all, it's a skull.
Those are the flowers blooming on the bones.
It wasn't that the flowers suddenly grew taller in those few hours, but that something buried underneath rose up.
Although it was obvious that it was a skull, John seemed unaware of it and still refused to give up. He laughed and tried to pull the entire head out of the ground.
He reached out and grabbed the flower stem, twisted it in a circle in his palm, and pulled it back as if he was pulling a carrot.
David didn't know what was going on. He didn't know if John was playing a trick on him or if everyone was working together to play a prank on him.
But he had abandoned John and ran away.
Under the flickering flashlight, within the range of vision, there is a bulge under every flower. Perhaps there is a dead person buried under each flower.
David shuddered at the thoughts about the rumors of people disappearing.
Behind him, John pulled hard for a long time and finally pulled the head out of the soil.
What came out with the skull was not a neck, but a wave of white roots that kept waving. They twisted for a moment and then locked onto John, but John seemed unaware.
A group of roots rotated towards him for a while and then launched an attack. Some of them pierced his face, drilled into his mouth, and some inserted into his chest.
John was holding the skull, still laughing.
Crazy, all crazy...
David was so frightened when he saw this scene that he ran faster and closer to the wasteland.
Those incomprehensible things were buried under the flowers, and maybe he could escape from the sea of flowers and everything would be fine. As long as he didn't dig around like John did.
A figure suddenly stood up at the far end of the sea of flowers. David almost bumped into him because he ran too fast and too anxiously.
The figure called him in a gloomy female voice: "David...Mr.?"
This scene was extremely strange, but David was already extremely frightened and couldn't be any more frightened, so he shouted in panic: "It's me! Help... Help!"
The flashlight suddenly shone on the person, and David saw that she was wearing a maid outfit, her hair and body were covered with dirt, and a large patch of skin on her face had shriveled away.
David saw that she also had a long plant growing out of her head, which was exceptionally strong.
And saw an axe in her hand.
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Lu Jiamu and Johnny stood and huddled quietly in the corner, looking at the two agents in the sea of flowers.
The one who was pierced by Hua had his chest pierced and lost too much blood. He finally let out a few strange and unclear laughs and then fell completely silent.
The man who was about to run away was hacked to death by a man who suddenly jumped out from the ground and chopped him to death with an axe when he was about to enter the wasteland.
After killing the man, the strange maid did not go back immediately. Instead, she grabbed one of his feet and dragged him slowly forward in the sea of flowers.
The maid seemed very happy. She kept walking around in circles on the field, muttering to herself.
A real breeze blew by, carrying her off-tune humming voice over: "Which child is hungry? Which baby wants to eat. Is it you? Is it you? Or is it you?"
She turned around again, and finally picked a place, found a shovel, and started digging in the ground. After digging a big hole, she stuffed the dead man's head up vertically into the hole: "You ate my food and got a good opportunity. You must grow up quickly~"
The land gradually swallowed up the corpse, and she went to the body that was stabbed to death by the flower.
At this time, the roots of the flower on the skull had been completely inserted into the intermediary's body, and the skull was poking at his face.
The maid looked at it quietly for a moment, then smiled and said, "This is not yours. This is for our most distinguished guest!"
When she smiled, her shriveled face looked even more hideous and ugly, and Johnny shuddered at her smile.
She reached out and grabbed the flower stem, pulled it out of the intermediary body, and then stuffed it back into the dug hole.
The maid dragged the corpse slowly forward, getting closer to the castle little by little.
As she dragged the corpse, she hummed a tuneless little song: "Some people run in the light, some hide in the dark~ But their fates are exactly the same, they will all die here, they will all die here~"
Johnny was shocked when he heard this.
Lu Jiamu listened to the maid's voice quietly and touched his chin: "It seems that she is more likely to be used as fertilizer than thrown into the lake."
Johnny knew the other person was talking about the brunette.
He watched the maid leave vigilantly, and then asked Lu Jiamu carefully: "What on earth is that?"
Lu Jiamu replied in an ambiguous tone: "Flowers are the reproductive organs of plants and also the breeding ground for the next generation. Those could be their children. Monsters usually like to use corpses to hatch their eggs."
Johnny asked again: "So who do you think... who do you think it's talking about?"
Lu Jiamu looked back and saw Johnny was so frightened that his face turned pale, so he comforted him: "Didn't we know that they had discovered us a long time ago?"
Johnny: “Um…”
Lu Jiamu smiled: "So of course it was talking about us."
Johnny was at a loss for a moment, then thought for a moment and asked again, "That flower is weird. Didn't you pass through it before?"
“Yes.” Lu Jiamu responded, “But it wasn’t completely dark yet, the height of the flowers was still there, and we couldn’t see those…”
Lu Jiamu pointed to the base of the flower as he spoke.
"There was no problem when we sneaked in. We were in there for a long time, and that girl even reached out and pulled us twice, but nothing happened." Johnny continued, "So as long as we don't cross the flower field after dark, we'll be fine?"
Lu Jiamu nodded and said that this was possible: "Didn't you say before that they wouldn't come out during the day? Of course, it could also be that there were so many of us at the time that it was difficult to do anything. And they had other guests at the time, so we were not expecting that."
Johnny looked at him uneasily: "They are all such monsters. What should we do next?"
It was almost the fifth day since they entered this world. The next option was to either spend another three days or find the family's most precious ruby as instructed in the text and then leave.
When he had nothing to do, Lu Jiamu asked Johnny, the native: "Do you think these two agents, including that family, are acting, like you did before, or do they really know nothing before they came? Is it really just a simple relationship between buying and selling houses?"
"Of course they don't know. The script is like fate. Everyone is different. Who knows what others want to do?" Johnny said immediately, "Didn't you read the book? It says in it that it will hide the truth from all citizens within its jurisdiction. We used to hear urban legends about such weird things!"
Lu Jiamu glanced at him and half-smiled: "Then you are truly the chosen one."
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