The crystal flower is also known as the flower of the underworld and is recognized around the world as the flower of death.
Legend has it that the white light emitted by the crystal cup-shaped flowers can absorb the souls of people and animals. Although the flowers are beautiful when they bloom, they are more ominous plants than the flower of the other side.
Xu Wenying was a little surprised when she saw so many crystal flowers. She squatted down and stretched out her hands to touch those crystal clear flowers.
"Be careful, don't pick that flower! It's highly poisonous!" Professor Zhang was shocked when he saw this and hurriedly took Xu Wenying's hand to stop her.
Xu Wenying retracted her hand angrily, and looked at the strange and beautiful flowers on the ground with some reluctance.
When Professor Zhang told Xu Wenying the origin of the crystal flower, I took the flashlight from Fu Jie's hand and shined it around to observe the surrounding environment.
This place looks a bit weird. Except for those weird crystal flowers, there are lush trees growing everywhere. You can't tell what kind of tree they are. The leaves are very big and layer upon layer, blocking out the sky and the sun. When you look up, you can see nothing but large piles of leaves.
Not a trace of sky could be seen, and not even a trace of light could shine through the gaps in the tree canopy.
There were no other sounds among the few of us around, not even the chirping of insects or birds. It was eerily quiet. It reminded me of everything I encountered in Shouning Village at that time.
I felt a little uneasy in my heart.
"Professor, have we come out of the ancient tomb? Otherwise, why would there be a forest here?" Qian Zhiqi looked at Professor Zhang and asked.
After coming down from the cliff, although Qian Zhiqi was still not convinced by me, his attitude in speaking was obviously much better, and he no longer snorted weirdly. His relationship with Fu Jie seemed to be much closer.
No longer always whispering to Zeng Yichen.
Professor Zhang did not answer him, but began to look at the surrounding environment like me.
"Look, the thick fog seems to be coming here again!" Zeng Yichen suddenly pointed to the place where we passed and said in horror.
We looked back in the direction of his finger, and sure enough, those weird and rich white fog slowly spread from behind us, and the trees that could still be seen clearly had gradually become blurred.
"Let's keep walking!" Professor Zhang said and looked at me, "Girl, do you think we should go in that direction now?"
I took a rough look at the direction, pointed in the direction of Shengmen and said, "Let's go northeast, there should be no problem."
The thick fog did not spread very quickly. Now we could see the road clearly and hear the sounds. In order to walk more conveniently and quickly, we all untied the ropes that were originally tied to our bodies.
"Pay attention to safety, try to avoid those crystal flowers under your feet, and don't step on them!" Professor Zhang ordered everyone.
This time no one questioned the direction I pointed out and ran forward in large strides.
After running for about half an hour, everyone was exhausted and panting. Looking back, the place illuminated by the flashlight was clear and the weird mist was gone.
Qian Zhiqi sat down on the ground and gasped: "I'm exhausted. Let's sit down for a while, drink some water and eat something!"
Professor Zhang looked back and sat down.
Fu Jie found some branches and broad leaves nearby and lit them with a lighter, hoping to make a fire.
Unexpectedly, those leaves and branches couldn't be ignited at all. Even if alcohol was poured on them, they would only emit a thick, pungent smoke without even a spark of fire.
The smell of burning branches and leaves was very strange, much like the smell of rotting corpses. It was so nauseating that you couldn't even drink the water in your hand.
"Don't burn it. We should still be in the ancient tomb. The yin energy of these trees is very strong and it is impossible to light them!" Professor Zhang said, taking out a Luoyang shovel from his backpack, shoveling up the soil on the ground, and removing the
Covered by smoky branches and leaves.
The pungent stench finally disappeared.
"Professor, why do you think we are still in the ancient tomb? If we are really in the ancient tomb, why do so many plants grow?" Qian Zhiqi asked Professor Zhang with some curiosity.
Professor Zhang told us a story while eating compressed biscuits.
That was twenty years ago, when Professor Zhang had just left school and joined the archaeological research team.
That was the first time that Professor Zhang went out with his colleagues. The place they went to was the Qinling Mountains. Some villagers accidentally discovered an ancient tomb when they went hunting in the mountains. They reported it to their superiors. According to preliminary surveys, the area of the tomb was very large, so
We then sent people from the research institute to conduct on-site inspections.
Before, he had been studying the antique artifacts dug up by others at home, and now he could practice it. Professor Zhang was very excited. He had such a passion for ancient tombs that he could forget everything.
A total of eight of them entered the tomb, and all of them were masters in the archaeological field. Not only did they have excellent professional knowledge, but they were also very skilled. Professor Zhang was almost the weakest among the group of people.
But just because everyone was a master and no one was convinced, not long after entering the tomb, the eight of them got separated without knowing it.
Professor Zhang was originally following a very senior expert, but after walking into a huge tomb with many corridors, he got distracted and the expert didn't know which corridor he walked into.
He stood at the entrance of the corridor and shouted for a long time, but all he heard was his own echo. He had no choice but to walk into one of the corridors based on his intuition.
Even he himself didn't know how long he had been walking. He never met any companions. At the end, the corridor was almost at the end, and there was a dark hole not far away in front of him.
In a daze, he seemed to see a glimmer of light coming from the entrance of the cave. He thought it was his companion and ran towards the entrance of the cave without thinking.
When he was approaching the entrance of the cave, something tripped under his feet. Before he could see what was holding him back, he fell headlong towards the entrance of the cave.
The whistling wind came to his ears, but it never came to the end. Just when he thought he would fall to death, he fell into the crown of a tree.
The leaves of that tree are very large, densely piled together, the leaves are very thick, and there are even snow-white and huge flowers blooming on them.
Those flowers are almost as big as the mouth of a bowl, and the largest is even the size of a small basin. They exude a rich and sweet fragrance, and the crystal clear pure white petals look particularly beautiful.
When I heard this, my heart moved, and I blurted out in excitement: "The flower you are talking about is called the tomb flower?!"
Professor Zhang looked at me with a smile, nodded and said: "So you also know about Tomb Flowers? Yes, later I read a lot of information and found out that those flowers are called Tomb Flowers, and that big tree is the legendary flower.
Yellow spring wood."
I looked around and looked at the trees, feeling excited. I never thought that I would encounter the tomb flower when I got to this place. If I found the tomb flower that Professor Zhang mentioned, I could take it back and replace it.
Gu Xiwen is healed!
Thinking of this, I hurriedly asked: "Are these trees around us also the Huangquan trees you mentioned? Can they also bloom tomb flowers?"
Professor Zhang shook his head, "I'm not sure about this. These trees are not big, and the leaves are somewhat like the leaves of the yellow spring tree, but they are not as thick as the yellow spring tree leaves I saw."
I hung my head in disappointment.
Professor Zhang patted my shoulder and comforted me: "I don't know why you want to find the tomb flower, but if you are destined, you will definitely find it. Didn't your hexagram say that there is good luck in the bad luck!