Well of Mystery

The whereabouts of the island owner is a mystery, but the entire island must continue to operate.What's more, the typhoon "Dragon God" is still approaching. According to the news from the radio station, it completed the triple jump from "severe tropical storm" to "typhoon" and then to "severe typhoon" in just one night. There's even the possibility of a dire trend toward a "super typhoon."

"No matter what happens to Lao Huang, we cannot let his hard work be destroyed in this typhoon!"

Tang Yilang was ordered in the face of danger, and he left some people to continue searching for Huang Xiangyuan's whereabouts, while others quickly started patrolling the island before the typhoon arrived, reinforced the dilapidated houses, and transferred people who might be affected by the disaster. Island worse.

With an order, the workers jumped into action.As tourists, Bai Xiuqi and Jiang Chenglu were of course not assigned anything, and it seemed suspicious to continue to stay under the cliff, so they found an excuse to say goodbye to Uncle Zong, avoided Jian Tong's sight, and found a small path to Go to the hotel.

In the east, the sun has risen, and the sparkling waves shine on the almost calm sea, just like Monet's impressionist paintings.

Bai Xiuqi stared blankly for a while, then suddenly shook his head.

"I find it a bit strange. The weather is so good. There is no wind, the visibility is very high, and the clouds are high and far away. Why did the police say they couldn't come? Could it be Tang Yilang who was lying?"

"That's not likely." Jiang Chenglu smiled, pointing to the distant coast: "See, although there is no wind, the waves are higher than last night."

When he said this, Bai Xiuqi noticed that the sound of the waves crashing on the shore was indeed louder than what he heard yesterday, and the splashed water foam also accumulated a layer on the shore.

"This is what it looks like when a typhoon is about to come. It took us five hours by yacht from the shore to Rosefire Island. If there is another storm on the way, the danger will be even greater. Besides, the police are no more necessary than living in The people on the island are more familiar with the terrain, so if you want to find Huang Xiangyuan, you really can't count on them."

What he said made some sense, Bai Xiuqi nodded without hesitation, and suddenly yelled "Oops": "I forgot to take the picture of the plant to the morning market for everyone to identify!"

"Don't worry, let's go back and tell Hua Yang the news." As he spoke, Jiang Chenglu patted Bai Xiuqi on the shoulder, and the two of them quickened their pace.

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The second floor of the hotel.

After carefully inspecting the changed part of Bai Xiuqi's skin, and thinking about it silently for a while, Huayang finally nodded vigorously.

"That's right, that's the feeling. The plant you mentioned should be useful..."

"That's great, brother!" Huayin was the first to shout, hugging Huayang's arm overjoyed.

Shang Douxing's eyes also appeared brighter than usual, but he obviously had to be more cautious: "But shouldn't what we're looking for be a hot spring? Why is it a flowering plant that is working instead?"

"I thought about this last night." Bai Xiuqi replied: "I think that in the environment where this plant grows, there must be a water source that comes from the hot spring we need to find. Plants that are watered all the year round also have This miraculous effect."

This statement still sounds a little reasonable, and everyone expressed that it is acceptable.So the topic fell to how to find this plant.

Jiang Chenglu was the first to express his opinion: "Huang Xiuqi will definitely not be able to be contacted for the time being. Xiaobai plans to show the people on the island the plants he has drawn. Why don't you ask the one downstairs surnamed Zong first."

"I think this plan may have to be changed." Bai Xiuqi disagreed: "Huang Xiangyuan has such a big incident, isn't it a little too suspicious for you to show people around with a strange piece of paper?"

"Is it suspicious... Shouldn't tourists be the most curious group of people, no matter what they do, shouldn't it be strange?"

"Wait a minute." Hua Yang was a little dizzy: "Huang Xiangyuan, something happened to him?"

So the two of them spent a little more time recounting what happened last night and this morning.After listening to the remaining three people each showed a thoughtful expression.

"In any case, the situation on the island is getting more and more complicated." Shang Douxing concluded: "It's none of our business, so we should not startle the enemy. Find that kind of plant as soon as possible, finish the treatment, and get out of here."

"But this feels so useless." Hua Yin felt a little reconciled: "Obviously we can completely dominate all the situations on this island, and it is not too difficult to find out the truth."

"You see so many crime news in the newspaper every day, do you want to solve the case in the past?" Hua Yang sneered: "How many feet and how many pairs of shoes do you have? Don't worry about it. Peter is not worth the loss."

After some discussion, everyone agreed that we should try our best to find this kind of nine-color flower before the typhoon arrives.Staying in the house is sure to get nothing, so this time the whole group was dispatched to search the northern part of the island.

Under Shang Douxing's insistence, Huayang unfolded his own Hutian and let Daxiong go in, and then let him out to help after entering the northern no-man's land.The four tidied up, put on their rain gear and went downstairs.

The first floor is quiet, no one is haunted.When passing the small window on the right side of the hall that connected to Uncle Zong's room, the eyelids of Bai Xiuqi, who was walking in front, twitched suddenly.

On the window sill was a glass bottle with a wide mouth and a large belly that was used to pickle bayberry shochu. There were a lot of lush nine-color flowers in the bottle, which looked even fresher and more lovely than the one Huang Xiuqi held yesterday.

Both Huayang and Huayin had seen the nine-color flower painted by Bai Xiuqi just now, and now they also ran over.It wasn't until they walked in that they were surprised to find that there were several colored Yuhua stones and shells in the bottom of the glass bottle, among which was the jade peach fruit that they hadn't found yesterday evening.

What's happening here? !

Everyone was stunned, was Yutao taken away by Uncle Zong?Then he put the jade peach in the bottle with nine-color flowers, it must be a conscious act.He knows the purpose of this experiment?But why was the vase released in a grand manner?

"and many more."

Jiang Chenglu tapped lightly on the glass vase with his finger, and the water wave caused Yutao to turn over.

"Yutao, nothing has changed." Bai Xiuqi immediately saw the clue.

"Is it because the time is too short? Or is this kind of flower useless to peaches at all?" Hua Yang has already started to think: "If the flower is useless to peaches, is it because the origin of this flower is not the same as the one in Huang Xiuqi's hand?" ?”

"..."

Questions arise layer by layer, and soon there are so many that people can't breathe.No matter what, Huayang said that Yutao must be taken back, so Jiang Chenglu stretched out his hand towards the bottle.

"Yo, you're coming down."

After a while, Uncle Zong poked his head out of the window behind the vase abruptly.

Even Jiang Chenglu was taken aback, and retracted his claws guiltily.It was Bai Xiuqi who reacted quickly, first greeted casually, and then pretended to ask casually: "This flower is so beautiful, I saw it in the hands of Boss Huang's daughter yesterday, but I didn't have time to ask what it was called. "

"Hey, what are you talking about? I don't know the scientific name. People on the island call it Nine Color Flowers. It can repel mosquitoes, and it can also be crushed and applied to places bitten by insects."

Uncle Zong's statement was consistent with Huang Xiuqi's, and he took out a few sticks with great enthusiasm and asked them to take them.

Bai Xiuqi thanked him for accepting the flowers, and naturally asked where the flowers came from.

Uncle Zong suddenly laughed a little embarrassedly: "Actually, according to the rules of the island, this kind of flower should not exist on the South Island. Because it basically only grows on the north side of the island, inside the Great Wall, where there are guards There is a ban, these flowers are actually picked by stealing."

"It doesn't grow on the South Island?" Jiang Chenglu grasped the point: "Why? Because of the fire?"

"Maybe it has something to do with it, but it still has something to do with the soil." Uncle Zong shook his head: "You haven't been to the North Island, so you don't know. In fact, there are two completely different rocks on our island. One is The basalt you can see everywhere in the South Island is as black as scales. There is also a kind of gray-white limestone that can only be seen after passing the Great Wall, and the soil is also gray-white and sticky, but the amount is really not much. "

The nine-color flower only grows in the latter gray-white soil, so many people have tried to transplant it to the basalt soil in the north of the island, but they have never been successful.

That's right, this is a very important piece of news.Bai Xiuqi nodded to show that he had suddenly realized. At this time, Huayin who was standing beside him suddenly cried out in surprise.

"Ah, there are many beautiful stones in the water, this one is very beautiful."

As she spoke, she lit the piece of jade peach in the glass jar with her hand.

"The little girl has sharp eyes." Uncle Zong laughed: "I like to collect small stones and shells by the sea, and this one is my latest collection."

Bai Xiuqi pretended not to understand: "Is this also a shell?"

"Probably not." Uncle Zong's tone was a bit uncertain: "This is Xiao Hua who brought it over and put it at my door last night. This girl often does this kind of thing, doesn't she?"

Having said that, he reached out and touched the three-flowered female cat standing on the desk behind the window. The cat made a flattering sound, as if responding.

Was it brought by a cat?The silk sac on the outside was also untied by the cat?

Bai Xiuqi and Jiang Chenglu looked at each other, but they didn't fully believe Uncle Zong's words.But since he has said that it is his "collection", it is obviously not feasible for Huayin to launch a child offensive to come over.Anyway, knowing the whereabouts of Yutao, they finally felt a little more at ease, and everyone exchanged a few casual greetings, and walked out of the hotel quickly.

"The typhoon is coming, remember not to go far." Uncle Zong reminded him uneasy.