Ten Days End

"The flower of the taro..." The earth snake thought for a moment, turned his head and said to Qi Xia, "Qi Xia, it seems that you don't know much about plants."

"Yes, although I have learned a lot of knowledge, I still can't cover everything." Qi Xia replied, "Do you know this flower?"

"The flower of the taro is also written as the flower of the taro, which is pure white, but it only blooms in one season." The earth snake said, "Do you know which season it is?"

"I don't know."

The earth snake sighed and said, "It doesn't fit the saying of "spring flowers blooming", because it blooms in "early summer" and blooms in "midsummer", and when "summer" disappears, this flower will also wither. "

Qi Xia frowned slightly after hearing this: "This flower will appear and disappear with "summer"...?"

"Yes. "The Earth Snake nodded, then walked to the corner and started flipping through the books.

Half a minute later, he took out a book of advanced plants from among the many old books. The book looked not well preserved, and it seemed to fall apart with a slight shake.

He carefully turned the pages, and then turned to a picture with a white flower, and turned to hand it to Qi Xia.

The front and back pages of this page of the book had basically fallen off, and only this yellowed picture was still hanging on it.

"The tea flower..." Qi Xia muttered softly, then took the book and looked at it.

This flower looks like a kind of rose family, each one is pure white with yellow stamens.

Qi Xia stared at the flower for a while, and asked softly: "After the tea flower blooms, isn't it autumn?"

"That's right." The Earth Snake said, "The blooming of the tea flower often means the end of the flowering period, and there will be no other flowers after this flower blooms. This flower represents "end" and also represents "end". "

Qi Xia nodded after hearing this: "Thanks to you, I have learned new knowledge."

"But you should have discovered..." said the Earth Snake, "No plant can survive in this entire city. The streets are full of withered dead trees and dried flowers. There is no rain or normal sunlight here, and it is even more impossible to see fresh plants. Why do you suddenly mention the tea flower?"

"Maybe it's because the plants here are all dry and dead." Qi Xia sighed and said, "This white flower can attract my attention more."

The Earth Snake nodded after hearing this and said, "Qi Xia, the flower language of "tea flower" is "the beauty of the end of the road."

When these four words entered Qi Xia's ears, a long-lost memory gradually emerged in his mind.

At that time, Yan Zhichun whispered to Qi Xia: "Just use the tea flower."

"Yan Zhichun... "The beauty of the end of the road"..." Qi Xia slowly narrowed his eyes, "When everything disappears, will there be anything beautiful? "

"It's hard to say." said the Earth Snake, "You'll have to ask yourself the answer."

Qi Xia paused, then nodded to the Earth Snake, turned around and walked out of the house.

The remaining people in the house looked at each other, Qiao Jiajin and Qin Dingdong followed Qi Xia out of the door, leaving only Chen Junnan.

"Old Snake." Chen Junnan shouted.

"What?"

"What's your game?" asked Chen Junnan.

"My game? Do you want to fight?"

"That's not the case." said Chen Junnan, "It's just that your venue doesn't seem to have any dangerous equipment, and the only thing that can be used for games is books."

"Books are indeed used to play games." said the Earth Snake, "but I have a lot of other props here. "

The ground snake walked to the wall and tapped it gently. A secret compartment appeared on the wall, followed by a foul smell.

The secret compartment was like a large wardrobe, with a variety of killing props hanging inside. They were stained with blood and rust, and the smell was very unpleasant.

"My game is called "Reader". No matter how many "participants" there are, I will give them books and ask them to read aloud. Then I and other "participants" will take turns to ask everyone questions in the book. As long as they can answer correctly, they will pass. Of course, it doesn't matter if they answer incorrectly, but there will be no reward. "

"Is this difficult?" Chen Junnan said puzzledly, "How do you die in this game? How do you use those killing props?"

"The difficulty of this game has nothing to do with reading." The ground snake said, "There is a death condition throughout the game, that is, before I say "Game Over", you can't show any expression throughout the whole process. As long as your expression changes, you will be killed by me."

"Expression...?" "Chen Junnan still felt a little confused, "Participating in this deadly game where you could die at any time, is there anyone who would still laugh?"

Dishe pulled out a "Jokes Collection" that was about to fall apart from the corner of the wall, turned around and handed it toChen Junnan.

Chen Junnan took the book and found that it was almost covered with pulp. It seemed that it had been read by countless people since it appeared here.

"If you read this book, will you remain expressionless throughout the whole process?" asked the Earth Snake.

Chen Junnan opened the book and took a look. It was basically a small joke of 100 to 200 words. Unfortunately, these were all old jokes. Apart from the cold jokes, there were only some very embarrassing old jokes.

"Why, do people who come here have such a low sense of laughter?" Chen Junnan asked, "I might cry if I read this kind of bad joke for a long time."

Chen Junnan closed the book, turned to the back, and found that the book was published as far back as 2001.

"Stinky boy, this book has the highest success rate in killing me." Earth Snake said with a smile, "Think about it carefully, ordinary people can stop reading if they feel bored, but in this life-threatening situation, even if they know that this book is extremely boring, they will bite the bullet and finish it."

"That's the reason." Chen Junnan nodded, "Then how should he show his expression? When the pressure is so great, shouldn't he become less and less expressionful the more he reads?"

"If you want to blame someone, blame the people in this world for being too cautious." Earth Snake said, "This book is called "Jokes Collection". Although the people who are reading this book will find it boring, they are also afraid that the next joke will be very funny, causing them to lose the game and their lives due to negligence. If it were you...how would you avoid this situation?"

Chen Junnan put himself in the role and knew that if he was reading jokes under this kind of survival pressure and made sure that he didn't show his expression, the solution he would choose should be "thinking about something sad" to neutralize his emotions.

Dishe knew that Chen Junnan already had the answer in his mind, so he walked to his side, slowly stretched out his hand, and said: "At this moment, I will gently pat the other person's shoulder and tell him to "don't be nervous." "

"You are really good..." Chen Junnan sighed helplessly and handed the book in his hand back to Dishe.