[The flower plague starts in the afternoon.
All plants open their flowers at this time and spray out their own pollen. If there are wind moths, they will shuttle through the flowers and spread pollen quickly. This is the natural ecology here.
But for life other than insects, this is a desperate situation.
Pollen is a deadly virus that can quickly infect people even if it is inhaled. The initial symptom is that the joints are dry and cracked, with dark red wrinkles growing like buds. At this stage, there is no pain or bleeding. People can only feel weak and lethargic, and most people cannot wake up because of this.
Of course, being awake is not necessarily a happy thing.
Plants need water and light to grow, so you will quickly become dehydrated. Even if you start to rehydrate, it will only delay death for a moment, because the flowers will always grow faster than you can drink water. After that, you start to lose vision because the retina has been taken over by chlorophyll, which is evidence of the spread of the flower plague.
A person in the late stage of flower plague is like a plant, even the skin will turn green, the hair will fall off, and will be replaced by the plant's fine buds. If the person is not dead at this time, then the person will complete the final "blooming", and the buds at all joints of the body will open at the same time, spewing out a large amount of pollen and some bone powder, joining those plants that have opened their flowers.
From infection to final flowering, it generally does not take more than one day and night, and the flower plague can always catch up with the next noon.
——"Melgan's Rubik's Cube·Plant World"]
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Rattans penetrated into the wall, opening up large and precarious cracks in the building. You could hear the buzzing sound of insects flying in your ears. The closer you got to the ground, the darker the green haze that became, forever shrouding the land. Dark green "water" is almost formed in the place.
B3 is close to the edge of the school, and not far away is the campus wall. This time, there is nothing special in the world to seal the border. But as far as the eye can see, the buildings outside the campus are already full of huge flowers. They are compared with Lu Ning's The Rafflesia flowers of Zhihua are even bigger, and they are constantly spitting out pale golden powder in the area outside the school.
Anyone who has read those three books knows how dangerous this is.
As for although there are no flowers on the campus, there are a lot of vines growing. Standing on the third floor, you can't even see what the ground has become. No matter how you look at the dark green fog, you can't just go in.
"It's not bad. These rattans have grown to the point of building bridges between buildings. We can climb from the air." Shang Wenxue looked outside.
"But isn't your shoulder injured?" Lu Ning glanced at her. Ordinary actions may not be affected, but for such movements that require upper body strength, the wound on the shoulder is very fatal.
"Well..." Shang Wenxue stretched out his hand and pressed on his shoulder, "It is indeed difficult to use this hand..."
Before Lu Ning could think of another way, Shang Wenxue slapped her hands: "Then I can just walk over?"
walk over?
Lu Ning glanced at the vines growing between the floors. Although they were thick, they were still swaying like a suspension bridge due to the distance. This was not a little more difficult than walking a tightrope.
At this moment, Zhou Weiyuan patted her shoulder.
"The people of the Pterodactyl are all good at this kind of acrobatics. Sneaking from almost impossible places is what this group of people like to do the most."
"Hahaha, don't talk about us like thieves." Shang Wenxue smiled, then walked to the window, cut a few canes with a sweep of his cane, then stretched out his hand and pulled, testing the strength of the canes. , nodded.
"You're ready to go."
"Wait a minute, we should finish searching this room before this." Lu Ning took out her phone and shook it. "The investigation task still doesn't show that it is completed."
"Should we investigate all the worlds?" Shang Wenxue raised his eyebrows.
"No, there's nothing wrong with having no clues. We must have overlooked something."
Lu Ning turned around and scanned the entire room again. Due to the world switch, the furnishings in the room also changed to what this world looks like. Humidity and heat are obviously more likely to cause rot than coldness. The books and wooden objects stored in this room have already grown mold.
However, this eliminates a lot of useless information.
If the things that the distribution center wants tourists to investigate can be found in any world, then they must exist in any world. According to the characteristics of each world described in those three books, all items that are easily destroyed by the characteristics of the world do not require further investigation.
Wood and books rot, metal rusts, walls peel, none of these things are permanent.
Lu Ning's eyes turned to the objects in the room, and finally landed on a flowerpot in the corner.
The plants originally planted inside have long been replaced by wildly growing canes, but perhaps due to the limited nutrients in the soil of the flowerpot, those canes only extended about one meter and stopped growing. Lu Ning drew her dagger and approached it. After testing it, she cut the vine directly, and then struggled to pull the flower pot, which was about the same height as her knees, out of the vine area.
"You think the information will be here?"
"If there is no external damage, ceramic glass products have stronger environmental adaptability. Of course, what we are looking for is information. We do not consider using high-tech means and just use sharp tools to engrave, that is, this ceramic Flower pots are perfect.”
Shang Wenxue walked over and circled the flowerpot: "There are no traces outside, so it's inside?"
"Cover it with soil. In many worlds, this flower pot may just be filled with soil. There is an extra vine here. This will make it less likely to fall over and break. If it is carved inside, the soil It also helps to stain the scratches, making it easier for someone interested in dumping the dirt to see what’s inside.”
As Lu Ning spoke, she dug out the roots of the vines inside, and then began to dig out handfuls of soil.
After digging through the soil about as deep as a finger, Lu Ning could see obvious writings revealed by part of the soil seeping into the scratches.
Probably because it is inconvenient to carve words on the inner wall of a hard pottery pot. The words are upside down and the font is very ugly, but I can barely read them through the lighting.
Shang Wenxue and Zhou Weiyuan also started working together, digging and reading at the same time. There were nine lines of writing in the flower pot, which happened to be the same number.
[1, Thunder Drop, Fraternity, Cloud Eyes
2. Yu Du, Mo Nian, Rain Master
3. Weathering, disgust with wrongdoing, wind worship
4. Freeze, attack, ice core
Five, summer beetle, greedy soul, flaming stone
Six, keep the light bright, support the crowd, hold the lamp
7. Epidemic, hatred and bitterness, vine flowers
Eight, poisonous seeds, Zhengshu, burial bones
Nine, blood cage, intervening heart, red evil]
After identifying and copying the words one by one, the three of them looked confused.
"What's the meaning?"
Shang Wenxue was the first to ask.
The first word after the number probably represents a different world, and the third word should basically be the code name of the person who controls that world. This information can also be bought from merchants, but now it can be regarded as saving money.
But the second word in the middle is something I have never even seen before.
"Are there so many doorways in this scene?" Shang Wenxue stared at these words for a long time, feeling that he almost didn't recognize them, and still didn't know what they meant.
"The mission is completed. This is the key clue." Lu Ning checked her phone. The investigation mission was finally completed. It seems that this is what the tourists are looking for in the scene, not the sympathetic device.
"What do you think these represent? Since the distribution center asked us to come here, it must have some meaning."
"How to kill the final BOSS of all worlds?" Shang Wenxue's thinking was indeed in this direction. "The first one represents the name of the world, the second one represents the name of the hidden artifact, and the third one represents the world's strongest A monster, like this?”
Although I know she just said it casually, I have to say that it has some personal characteristics.
"I think the adjectives in the middle should refer to the dangers or troubles in the world they describe. For example, if the world of heavy rain corresponds to the second one, then the end of the world may refer to the hidden monsters there. The Legion of Light in the world of lights. It also corresponds to the meaning of 'supporting the crowd'. We didn't explore the cold world too much before, but judging from the aggressiveness of those creatures, the attack is not incomprehensible."
Zhou Weiyuan also expressed his views.
"You may think there is something wrong with this inference." Lu Ning smiled.
"Well, these cannot be interpreted literally. Maybe they are proper nouns. I can only explain them like this. Do you have any ideas?" Zhou Weiyuan raised his head and glanced at her.
"This is a survival scene. The help provided by the distribution center should only help us survive, but will not help us complete the task or even defeat the monsters in the scene." Lu Ning slowly typed these words into her mobile phone and sorted out her thoughts. .
"That makes sense, so what would help us survive better without helping us get the job done?"
"Of course it's the issue I've been worrying about...the unconditional death encountered by switching worlds." Lu Ning raised her head and looked at Zhou Weiyuan and Shang Wenxue, "First of all, we have to be clear about one thing. Although the words on this flower pot are "Distribution Center" What we are looking for is not the auxiliary items that the distribution center arranged for us in the scene, but things that were already in the scene. The words on it were engraved later, which means that someone discovered the secret and urgently engraved it. The tools used were not handy, so the carvings were so ugly.”
"so what?"
"Why are the words upside down? Because the engraver turned the flower pot upside down and put his hand inside. Since the diameter of the flower pot itself is not large, it is almost equivalent to blind engraving. His words must not be too small. After all, A greater error tolerance is needed. That’s why Braille fills up all the space in the flower pot. Under such conditions, there is no need to talk about logic at all. The important thing is to point out the key words so that people who come later can Necessary information can be retrieved through these keywords.”
"Like a thesis summary?" Shang Wenxue immediately gave an example.
"...Almost. In short, the engraver carved these words in a hurry, which shows that these words are the most important factors in these worlds in that person's eyes. The numbers probably refer to the experimental team responsible for studying each world. Number, the second word is the name of the world, and the fourth word represents the most powerful monster in the world. Your idea is how to defeat the monster, but the person who hurriedly carved these words was really thinking about how to defeat those monsters. ?"
Lu Ning put the phone back in her pocket, adjusted her posture, and asked Zhou Weiyuan and Shang Wenxue to digest what she said and the key points in it.
"At that time?" Zhou Weiyuan's expression moved slightly.
"That's right... If information exists in every world, it means that these words were engraved before the resonance occurred. Even if you have time to carve words after entering here, you will not come to this place again and again. Most of them will be inscribed conveniently. In summary, the engraver knew that he was about to enter this world, and hurriedly carved these words before entering to remind people who could discover them later. Therefore, the direction of these words should be - the fatal factor in the scene. "
She rubbed the dirt on her fingers and already had a rough guess about the identity of the engraver, but the more important thing was the row of words she had never seen before.
"That should represent a certain attribute that each of us has. The method of determination is unknown, but once a person with that attribute enters the corresponding world, he will die unconditionally. This is the truth about Xu Hong's previous death. His attribute is Mo Nian. "
"But how do we determine our own attributes? Do we still have to ask businessmen for this kind of thing?" Shang Wenxue asked.
"Businessmen won't tell us, that's what I think." Lu Ning waved his hand, "The distribution center directly told us the location where this key information was hidden, and also made a layer of sympathetic device skin to lure tourists to fight. Those Merchants probably wouldn’t leak this kind of core information, just like they wouldn’t sell the weaknesses of the strongest monsters.”
"Wouldn't that be nerve-wracking... Wait, I remember you just said, keyword?" Shang Wenxue remembered another point Lu Ning just said.
"Yeah. It's obvious. Being able to understand all the worlds to such a degree before entering, and even knowing the fatal factors and powerful monsters in advance, shows that this person has an in-depth understanding of each world. This is definitely not something that can be learned later. Those research team members can do it. This person should be the main person in charge of the entire research project, maybe even the supervisor. And since he knows these words, then the information storage device belonging to him must be able to pass these keywords Directly retrieve the information we need.”
Lu Ning turned her head and glanced outside. The green sunlight was fading, and another dark night was coming.
"Now, we need to find where this supervisor kept his information."
And, prevent yourself from falling into a fatal world due to any accident.
