Are they the burning torches on the wall?
It was the first thing that came to my mind, because I had once lit a strange oil lamp before, so I instinctively thought of the burning torches on both sides of the passage wall.
I walked towards the nearest torch with doubts. After some investigation, there was nothing wrong with it. The fuel used for burning the torch turned out to be kerosene.
Liu Qiaomei saw me staring blankly at the torch on the side of the wall, so she naturally guessed what I was thinking. She walked up to me and also looked at the burning torch and said, "I have already checked the torch." Yes, no problem. As for why it keeps burning without going out, I think it’s because the kerosene used in the torch is mixed with magnesium powder or scale powder.”
Liu Qiaomei's analysis was very reasonable, so this strange hallucination could not be caused by the torch.
But if not a torch, what else could it be?
I was confused about this again.
"Do you smell a faint fragrance in this passage?"
Liu Tingting suddenly frowned and started sniffing around.
"Scent?"
After hearing Liu Tingting's reminder, I quickly opened my nose and sniffed around.
Or maybe I sucked the wet cloth soaked in the Xiaoliuzi hot spring too hard, so that there was even residual liquid from the hot spring in my nasal cavity.
So no matter how hard I tried, all I could smell in the end was that pungent and strong smell.
"Well, from what you said, it does seem to have a faint fragrance, it seems to be the fragrance of flowers!"
Liu Qiaomei also nodded affirmatively.
In fact, among the six of us, it seemed that only two women, Liu Qiaomei and Liu Tingting, could smell the so-called fragrance. We gentlemen couldn't feel it at all, or maybe the men themselves are immune to the fragrance.
Liu Qiaomei said it was the scent of flowers, which was affirmed by Liu Tingting. The two women seemed to be very fascinated by the scent. They ignored us and walked forward.
Fragrance and beauty are temptations that women cannot resist in this life, even the nuns in the monastery are no exception.
Women are inherently elusive creatures in this world, so I wasn't too surprised by the actions of the two of them.
But I didn't let down my guard because of this. Instead, I called Gouzi and the others to follow quickly, just in case something bad happened to the two women.
I don’t know how long I’ve been walking, but I was able to ask about the so-called fragrance.
The scent is very strange. It can not only stimulate people's olfactory nerves, but can even go straight to the brain through the nasal cavity, giving people a feeling of being integrated into the blood.
"Auntie, look!"
Liu Tingting was the first to stop and suddenly pointed forward and exclaimed.
I was following Liu Tingting closely, so when Liu Tingting exclaimed, I also looked in the direction of her finger.
I saw an extremely beautiful flower blooming on the ground five meters away from us. The flower looked similar to a lily at first glance, but upon closer inspection, there was a huge difference.
The color of the flower is extremely bright, a delicate blood-red color, and on the petals of the flower, you can vaguely see the lines of a human face, which is very strange.
I was very puzzled at that time. As we all know, flowers and plants cannot survive without soil. In such an environment now, the stone road under our feet is almost seamless, with no gaps at all. How can these blood-red flowers grow? What about the ones that grew?
In the passage, the ground is much darker than other places, perhaps because the flames of the torches rise straight upward.
In order to figure out how the strange and strange flowers grew, I quickly took two steps forward, turned on the flashlight and looked at the blood-red flowers again.
When the flower appeared, I already thought it was weird. Now when I took a flashlight to look at it at such a close distance, it almost shocked my jaw.
Under the flashlight light, everything in front of me was so clear and unobstructed.
I finally saw clearly where the flowers were growing...
It was clearly growing in the abdominal cavity of a corpse!
The corpse's skin was livid, without any trace of blood, and there was a huge hole in its chest and abdomen. The strange flower with a human face grew out of that hole.
Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but feel stunned. It was the first time in my life that I saw flowers growing on corpses.
When we saw the dead body blooming, we were all extremely frightened. The underage Xiaoliuzi turned pale with fright. Apparently he had never seen such a strange sight.
"This...this is...the corpse-scented flower...!"
Liu Qiaomei suddenly looked at the corpse and exclaimed with a very ugly face.
"Corpse flower? What corpse flower?"
At this time, Liu Qiaomei's face was extremely ugly. Since entering this underground fortress, this is the first time I have seen her face look so ugly. I have never seen her even when Brother Bao was unconscious.
"I have heard from the older generation that this corpse-scented flower is a strange flower that comes from the Western Regions. The fragrance it emits can make people hallucinate. If my guess is correct, it was Because I unknowingly inhaled the fragrance of this corpse flower, my senses were confused..."
As she said this, Liu Qiaomei's face became even more ugly. She felt as if all her close relatives had died and she had no one left to live with.
"The Corpse Fragrance Flower uses the blood in the human body as its nutrients, so it got this name. Its survival time is very short. It only takes a few days from blooming to withering. It completely depends on the blood as the nutrition. With the depletion of time, the Corpse Fragrance Flower in front of us is already facing withering, but it has completed its mission of surviving in the world."
"Mission, mission, mission?" I asked in confusion.
Liu Qiaomei turned to look at me, then sighed and said: "The mission of plants is to spread flower seeds. The seeds of the corpse flower are as thin as pollen, and they will disperse with their own fragrance, thus finding new flowers." nutrient host.”
After listening to Liu Qiaomei's words, everyone present was shocked and speechless. After a long time of calming down, I asked again: "Auntie, what you said is that we are inhaling the fragrance of corpse flowers. At the same time, the flower seeds have also been inhaled into the body?"
As soon as my words came out, Liu Tingting immediately screamed as if she was out of control, "Oh my god, I smelled so much. Didn't I inhale thousands of flower seeds? It's over, those flower seeds It may have taken root in my blood and I’m going to die!”
Although the fragrance is very fragrant and the flowers are also very beautiful, it can be reluctantly accepted when it blooms on other people's bodies, but if it wants to grow from one's own body, I am afraid that no one will face it calmly.
Not only Liu Tingting, I was also frightened to death at this time. Thinking that it would not be long before the weird corpse-scented flowers would grow in my body, I really wanted to drink a bottle of paraquat in my stomach right now. Perhaps this is the only way to kill it completely.
"Auntie, are we all going to die?!"
I looked at Liu Qiaomei with a heavy expression, waiting for her response.
I thought she would sigh helplessly and then nod silently, but what I didn't expect was that her response to me was swaying from side to side.
"No, the conditions for the growth of corpse flowers are extremely harsh. They will only germinate and grow when the body temperature is below ten degrees. As long as we are alive, they will not germinate in our bodies. Although we will be fine as long as we don't die, but... …”
At this point, Liu Qiaomei's brows almost knitted together.
"Auntie, nothing more than what?"
Liu Tingting and I asked almost at the same time.
Liu Qiaomei frowned deeply and said in a very serious tone: "We all inhale a lot of flower seeds. Flower seeds are nectar, which can produce fragrance by itself. This means that our sensory nerves will be disturbed and produce uncontrollable Nervous hallucinations!”
