Chu Ruo looked at Hei Lu'er with a blank expression. He was a little confused now and didn't quite understand what his little master meant.
"What's wrong? Why such a reaction?"
"Little Master, what you mean is..." He scratched his head, thought for a long time, and said slowly, "After my subordinate arrived at the creek that day, he actually didn't go anywhere, and there was nothing like that next to the creek. I didn’t walk back and forth on many small forked roads, and I didn’t encounter a ghost hitting the wall. I just fainted by the creek, right?”
"It can be said that it is closer to the truth."
"But there is something wrong, little master."
"What's wrong?"
"After I woke up, I felt very tired, tired, sleepy, hungry, tired, and a little cold, but I said I was suffering from hunger and cold. What I can confirm is that this feeling is not fake, but It really happened. If I hadn't done those things, how could I have such a reaction, right?"
"Do you usually dream when you sleep? Do you dream about strange scenes? For example, there are scenes of unknown people or animals chasing you? Or scenes of fighting or martial arts competitions with others? Is there such a thing? Something happened?"
"..." Chu Ruo raised her head and thought for a moment, "Well... don't tell me yet, it really is."
"Every time you have a dream like this, how do you feel when you wake up? Do you feel very tired and don't want to get up at all? Do you feel like your whole body has been torn apart?"
"This is definitely possible. My whole body feels extremely heavy."
"Tell me more about it."
"It's like someone took off my arms and legs while I was sleeping and reattached them. It's as uncomfortable as you want. And this feeling can last for several days, and it's all over my body. I am so sore. Sometimes, the children who come to the martial arts gym and the adults in their families will be very concerned about me and say whether I have been tired recently and look very haggard. I also met a child whose family is a doctor and gave me I pinched it twice and did acupuncture several times, and the situation was obviously improved."
"Think about how you feel by the creek. Is it the same as this?"
"Well...it's a bit similar, but not as powerful."
"Actually, the principles are the same."
"Maybe... you are right."
"One more thing that needs to be corrected is that you probably slept not just for an afternoon, but for a whole day, or at least a day."
"It's possible. I just stayed in a strange mountain full of dangers and ignored it."
"Now recall how many brightly colored flowers and plants there are along the creek, and what colors these flowers and plants are."
"How many brightly colored flowers and plants are there..." Chu Ruo rubbed her chin and thought about it for half a stick of incense, "When you ask this, I'm really a bit vague."
"It's okay, think about it slowly, don't be in a hurry."
"In my memory, there should be a lot of them, almost all on both sides of the creek, and they are colorful, with all kinds of colors, but they are indeed very bright. What impressed me most is that every flower looks fleshy. It's fleshy, and its shape... well... it's very familiar, but I can't remember anything it's similar to. But what I can remember is that each flower has more than ten petals, or as few as five or six, and It’s overlapping.”
"I don't know whether to praise you for your good luck for encountering this rare thing, or whether to sigh that you were lucky enough to escape this disaster."
"Little Master, what does this mean?" Chu Ruo scratched her head, "Why do you feel like I don't know anything? Have I given back to you and Master all the things I learned at home?"
"When did you learn this?" Hei Lu'er snorted, "However, I can't blame you. This kind of thing is indeed not very common. The entire Jin Kingdom... Oh, no, I should say Jin It is not common in China, Daxia, and Liao. I am afraid that it is only found in this part of the world. This flower is not a good flower, although it is very beautiful."
"Beautiful things are poisonous." Chu Ruoyi bared her teeth, "This is what you told us."
"I remember it quite clearly." Hei Lu'er shook his head helplessly, "This flower has a very Zen name, called Bodhi Lotus. It is extremely poisonous. It can cause coma in mild cases and kill people in severe cases. But this It’s extremely difficult to make a living growing flowers, so it’s said that you are lucky or have good fortune.”
"Bodhi Lotus... I seem to have never heard of it."
"Most people, especially those who are wandering in the world, will rarely encounter such a thing in their lives. They don't even know the existence of Bodhi Lotus. Who would have thought that you would encounter it like this."
"This is just good luck!" Chu Ruo sighed, "If you think about it, being stunned by it for a few days is quite worth it."
"The mentality is quite good!"
"Then what else?" Chu Ruo couldn't laugh or cry, "Anyway, we met."
"You are indeed very lucky. Based on what you just described, the toxicity of the Bodhi Lotus growing by the creek has been weakened a lot. It only made you comatose for a while and did not kill you. Otherwise, you would be It's absolutely impossible to be here." Hei Lu'er looked at Chu Ruo, "How did you come back later? Did you have any uncomfortable reactions after you came back?"
"I stopped when I got here, because I didn't know it was a dream at the time, so I felt that since I encountered a ghost hitting the wall, there was no need to continue. Why waste time rushing in? I don't have that much time. . Then, I returned along the original route. Fortunately, when I returned to the platform of Wangyue Cliff, there were not many people there, and no one paid attention to me. I went down the mountain and continued walking along the official road, and walked out for about two seconds. Shili, took off his disguise in the dense forest nearby, stayed for a night not far away, adjusted a little, and then slowly returned to the city. That night, he started to feel uncomfortable, and he didn't know what was going on. I was so tired for a few days. When I got home, I immediately relaxed and my tiredness came out. As the little master said, it was because of the Bodhi flower that I fell ill. I lay in bed for almost three or four days. It looked like the sky, and I slowly recovered."
"Tiredness is one thing, but the remaining toxicity of the bodhi flower in your body should account for a large part." Hei Lu'er sighed, "It's still...fateful! Apart from these, what else have you seen?"
"There's nothing left. It's good to be able to remember the terrain." Chu Ruo sighed, "I can be considered as one who survived the catastrophe and will be lucky in the future."
