A glance at the spring breeze

Hearing this, the dark guard immediately threw the blue flower in his hand into the distance.

"It turns out! It turns out that it grew on the body of a dead person!"

The flower stem fell to the ground, and the petals connected to it changed their appearance and color as soon as they touched the ground.All the green leaves withered, and the round and sparse flowers suddenly became thin, slender and slender, and curled up into a ball. It was originally a fresh and elegant indigo blue, but under the light of the flickering fire, at this moment... Ruan Lan saw that the scarlet red The petals are curled and lingering on the ground, coquettish and terrifying.

The fire light went out for a brief moment, and when it rekindled, the red mass on the ground became more hideous.

Li Quanfeng frowned, and got closer. He didn't dare to touch it with his hands, so he could only bend over and look at it: "This is Lycoris, which likes shade. It often grows on graves and is poisonous. It looks pretty, but Everyone thinks it's unlucky, so no one likes it."

The dark guard who threw the flowers said: "The one that grew on the grave? Why did it change color! Also, the two green leaves on the stem just now, why are they all gone now..."

Ruan Lan lowered her head and looked, isn't it? The two leaves that fell just now disappeared out of thin air.

The hidden guard murmured to himself in a low voice: "It's terrible, it's too terrible...I want to get out! Let me out!" He suddenly yelled desperately as if he was scared out of his wits.

Li Quanfeng comforted the hidden guard: "Brother Fang, don't panic."

"... Lycoris." Ruan Lan looked at the flower lying on the ground, and murmured to herself, "There is a manjusawa flower in the Buddhist scriptures, and the red plant is the Bianhua, which is probably it. Symbiosis."

Before the other shore flower blooms and blooms, all the leaves will wither.

But it has never been mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures that the other shore flower will change from blue to red?

——Daoist Xuan Mo said slowly: "The flowers of the other shore are blooming on the road leading to the underworld."

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, the guard surnamed Fang suddenly roared for some reason, pulled out the sword on his waist, and cut off his legs with a sword with all his strength before everyone had time to react.

Scarlet hot blood gushed out from the severed thigh in an instant, splashing all over the person next to him.

The dark boots under the dark guard's legs were stained even deeper by the gurgling blood.

"Brother Fang! What's wrong with you!" Li Quanfeng hurried forward and hugged the secret guard surnamed Fang who was about to fall.Unexpectedly, the hidden guard seemed to be crazy, he swung his arms and wanted to chop Li Quanfeng who came to help him!

At this moment, his face was extremely ferocious, with blue veins on his forehead, his lips were pale, and his eyes were red. Even though the blood in his body seemed to be running out, he still did not forget to yell in a low voice: "I want you all to die!" , all dead!..."

Fortunately, Li Quanfeng reacted in time, and directly let go of his body, dodging the sword that was about to hit the vital point.

Unexpectedly, the sword was so fierce and swift that it still cut Li Quanfeng's cuff.

With a "plop", the dark guard, who had lost his legs, fell to the ground, hot blood flowing down his body. He lay on his back, his eyes gradually became chaotic, and then he returned to peace.

For a long time after this sudden change, there was a deathly silence among everyone.

"He—" someone finally said angrily, "Brother Fang...is he dead?"

This question brought everyone's thoughts back from shock to reality, and an uncontrollable sense of fear slowly emerged in their hearts.

They couldn't help but think of a sentence that Daoist Xuan Mo said just now.

——"The flower of the other shore blooms on the road to Huangquan leading to the underworld."

Li Quanfeng bent down and probed the hidden guard's neck and breath, nodded, then sighed, and stretched out his hand to close the dead man's eyes.

"rest in peace……"

The surrounding area became more and more silent, and the chill in the secret passage became even worse. Almost everyone was wondering if they would be the next to die.

Next to him, besides the dead guard surnamed Fang, there were also those legs that had been chopped off by himself.Just before Banzhuxiang, these two legs were still growing on the body of the hidden guard intact, and even the pair of boots under his feet now still retain the residual warmth of a living person.

Li Quanfeng stood up, with a solemn expression, and said to the rest of the people: "This secret path is very strange, we are not many in number, and no one will continue to lose their lives. Next, everyone must be more careful not to follow its path " Then he said to Ruan Lan, "Master Ruan, it's not too late, we must continue to move forward along this secret road, the other side of the secret road is the exit, I hope that the mechanism there has not failed, we can go out .”

One of Li Quanfeng's subordinates said: "The strange thing that attacked your lord before has also escaped into the depths of the secret passage, and we may encounter it again."

Another subordinate asked: "What about Brother Fang? Put him here?"

Li Quanfeng looked at the corpses and dried blood on the ground, and said: "The secret path is extremely dangerous, and what we are experiencing now is probably just a drop in the bucket. We are in the realm of fear, and we don't have the energy to carry Brother Fang's body right now. "

Li Quanfeng turned to ask Taoist Xuan Mo: "Prince Taoist, just now you said that this flower leads to the road to the underworld, what do you mean?"

The Bana flower was still lying on the ground, with two drops of blood on its petals, and it looked even more gorgeous.

However, no one dares to pick it up now.

Daoist Xuan Mo stroked his sleeves and stood up from the ground. The scarf he was wearing had obviously fallen on the wet and dirty ground of the secret road for a long time, but at this moment it was still as spotless as before.He bent down to pick up the Bana flower on the ground, and looked at it for a long time: "It means——this flower is auspicious."

"Unfortunate..." one of Li Quanfeng's subordinates asked, "Master Daoist, will there still be people who will die with Ah Fang?"

The word "ominous" aroused the fear of death among many people present.

Xuan Mo said: "It's too early to draw conclusions, but I know that this flower has been cursed."

"What spell?" Li Quanfeng asked.

"The Bianhua flower is originally poisonous, and its toxicity is not great, but this spell will intensify its toxicity, and even make it float in the air. If people inhale the poisonous gas without knowing it, they will be poisoned."

"Then we...are we all poisoned?"

Li Quanfeng's subordinates were originally dark guards who knew a little bit about sex, but after hearing Taoist Xuan Mo's words, they were all surprised and unbelievable.

Taoist Priest Xuan Mo then said: "Just now, outside the secret way door, there are only two or three manjusawah growing."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

What they saw outside just now was clearly a large sea of ​​blue flowers in full bloom.

"Could it be that the poisonous miasma released by the cursed Manjushahua can cause people to hallucinate?" Ruan Lan turned her head to look at the depressing secret door, and began to think carefully according to her memory. Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration: "So...that field of flowers used a trick to deceive our eyes. When we stepped into the area of ​​the field of flowers, we thought we were surrounded by wild flowers and plants, but in fact... there were no flowers and plants at all, but, at that time, we Already entered this secret passage?"

Taoist Xuan Mo stroked the neat beard on his chin: "Yes, Mr. Ruan, you are half right."

Ruan Lan asked curiously: "It's only half? Then ask the boss, the other half is—"

"Pindao just said that there are only two or three plants growing outside the secret path door, but it doesn't mean that there are only two or three plants here. If they are all hallucinations, why would the guard pick them up by himself, and look at them now, and they are still real flowers of the other side? "

Ruan Lan frowned, guessing in a low voice: "The Taoist priest means that the other side flower actually grows in the secret path, but we haven't found it yet."

The rest of the people heard what Ruan Lan said at this moment, their bodies tensed up instantly, they couldn't help taking a breath, and subconsciously looked back at the secret passageway.

Reflecting the faint flickering firelight, everyone could see clearly——on the top and side walls near the entrance of the secret passage, there was indeed a dense row of red and coquettish Lycoris.Even though there is an impenetrable city wall all around, those slender and dense petals are swaying and dancing slightly, slowly curling up, like big mouths that are about to open and close violently to devour their prey...

"Damn! What is that thing! Why didn't we find it when we came in!" Someone blushed anxiously and cursed, "What kind of ghost is here! I didn't expect that I would die on the battlefield like a hero in ancient times. In a secret passage that is full of gods and gods!"

Li Quanfeng hurriedly "hush" at him: "Don't be angry. Don't forget what happened after A Fang lost his temper just now."

This reminder really worked, the man calmed down instantly, and he didn't dare to make any unnecessary complaints.

After all, Afang's mutilated body was lying beside him, and even just looking at it was extremely intimidating.

Having experienced so many strange things, Ruan Lan is no stranger to "a row of flowers from the other shore growing on the wall at some point".

Someone among them spoke again: "Then Taoist priest, since you already knew that this secret passage was weird before you came in, why didn't you stop us at the beginning? Why didn't you just refuse to save Ah Fang?"

These two questions were obviously what the rest of the people were concerned about, and they all turned their eyes to Taoist Xuanmo, with suspicion, resentment, hope, and desire to survive in their eyes.

"If the poor Taoist said at the beginning that what you see is all false, would you believe it?" Daoist Xuanmo answered bluntly, "Even if some of you believe it, I will order you to come here to investigate." It's Your Majesty, will you retreat because of this difficulty?"

"Of course not!" Li Quanfeng's eyes were blazing, and his tone of voice was very firm, "It is the duty of a soldier to do nothing for His Majesty and the world, even if he dies, he would not hesitate to do so! Besides, it is His Majesty who gave us meritorious service to atone for our crimes by coming to investigate this time. Given the opportunity, how can you run away?"

Daoist Xuanmo continued: "That's it. If that's the case, why did Pindao stop you?...As for that little brother, he broke the Bi'an flower before Pindao fully realized that it was cursed. When Pindao found out later, the liquid in the flower stem had already penetrated into his skin and blood, making him as ominous as this Bana flower."

"It's as ominous as the flowers on the other side? What do you mean?"

Before Daoist Xuan Mo could answer, everyone suddenly heard a sudden voice.

--"Da da da……"

Ruan Lan followed the voice and looked.

In the depths of the dark and quiet secret passage, something seems to be moving quickly, making crisp and chaotic sounds.

and many more.

Ruan Lan suddenly took a step back.

It was as if I could hear my heart beating faster and faster.

The sound in the distance gradually coincided with a memory that was not very similar.

"Da da da--"

"Da da da da-"

These voices were exactly the same as what he heard when he came to this secret passage last time.