Well of Mystery

"Don't be afraid."

Hua Yang comforted softly like all competent brothers in the world: "There is me."

"Fortunately, the nine-color flower grows outdoors, and we don't need to enter these gloomy buildings." Jiang Chenglu also came over to touch Huayin's head: "The stone under our feet is older than you, don't Be afraid, good boy."

"Roll!" Huayin slapped his paw away.

The North Island is vast and complex.In order to avoid getting lost and losing contact, they did not separate their actions, but continued northward together.

The sparse woods on both sides were quickly replaced by buildings, leaving only the sky like a slit overhead.These dilapidated buildings exposed muscles and bones mixed with bricks, stones and cement, with mottled and scorched fire marks, like unclaimed charred corpses one after another.The chill that spewed out from countless doors and windows wandered on the path, making people shudder.

Looking at the discarded instruments hidden in the dark room, Bai Xiuqi deliberately pretended to be nonchalant and joked: "This place is a bit similar to Xuanjing Apartment."

"It's not like that!" Hua Yin immediately retorted loudly: "It's so lively in the apartment, but here, there is only death!"

As if to prove her correctness, a pale grimace suddenly appeared on the window sill to their right, but fortunately it disappeared in a blink of an eye.

But Hua Yin was still so frightened that she screamed and kept trying to get into Jiang Chenglu's arms.In desperation, Hua Yang could only call Shang Daxiong out of the pot, originally hoping that he could be a temporary nanny or something, but as soon as Shang Douxing figured out the situation, he immediately stuck to his side .

The five people moved forward sticky like this, walking nearly 100 meters, the road ahead was cut off by collapsed buildings.Lush plants grew tenaciously from among the pile of waste bricks and tiles again.

"It's Nine Color Flowers!" Bai Xiuqi had already made an important discovery.

The eye-catching ring-shaped flowers bloomed in the ruins only five or six meters away from them.Jiang Chenglu had already stepped forward quickly and broke off one.

"Try it quickly!"

Bai Xiuqi immediately crushed the flower and applied it on the skin, and the juice stained a mark about the size of two one-yuan coins in diameter.

"How long will it take to know the result?" Hua Yin asked.

This really stumped Bai Xiuqi, there was a time difference of four or five hours between getting the Nine Color Flowers yesterday and discovering a change in her skin.You can't just stand here and wait now!

It was still Hua Yang who thought carefully and took out the pen and paper: "Let's make a mark first and move on. If it works, it's not too late to look back."

"Then Xiaobai has to make a mark on him too." He said.Jiang Chenglu took out a pen out of nowhere, and wrote three small words next to the circle of color on Bai Xiuqi's arm.

Bai Xiuqi got angry and snatched the pen from his hand: "Mark it, mark it, what does it mean to sign your own name!"

Naogui Nao, the search work has really started now.

There are quite a lot of nine-color flowers in the wasteland in front of me. To be on the safe side, Jiang Chenglu took samples from every clump. Soon, both arms of Bai Xiuqi and Hua Yang were fully marked, and Bai Xiuqi had to set off a fire. Clothes contribute their own back.

It's a pity that there is no way to mark the back by myself, so Bai Xiuqi asked Hua Yang for help.Huayang crushed the petals and wiped them off, then stared at his back suddenly and laughed again.

"What else is there to sign? Didn't Jiang Chenglu sign all of them last night?"

"I'm called the Prophet of Uncertainty." Jiang Chenglu was also boastful: "I envy you and ask your big bear to go."

Before Hua Yang had time to fight back, Hua Yin interrupted viciously and protested, "Don't you take me, a thousand-year-old underage girl, seriously!"

A few people finished inspecting this piece of wasteland in such a noisy way, and continued to move forward along the reconnected path behind the wasteland.The view at the end of the factory area is suddenly wide open, without the oppression of the tall buildings on both sides, it feels like rushing out of the canyon to the plain.

It looks from the broken road sign on the side.The area around here is considered to be the scope of the Laogai Mine in those days.A little farther to the west, you can see abandoned office buildings and fortified buildings that are suspected to hold labor camp prisoners.But after all, everyone is not here for sightseeing and nostalgia, so we chose the east side where the vegetation looks more plump.

But things went against their wishes. This time they walked in the wasteland for more than ten minutes, but they never found any trace of Nine Color Flowers.

Jiang Chenglu was a little impatient: "Huang Xiuqi said that the place where she picked flowers was full of nine-color flowers. The ruins just now didn't seem to be qualified. So, where is that place?"

"I have a discovery that may improve the efficiency of the search."

Shang Douxing, who had been taciturn all this time, suddenly spoke: "I don't know if you have noticed. The soil of the South Island is mainly black. But I just saw that the place where nine-color flowers grow, the soil is off-white."

"...That said, it seems to be true."

Bai Xiuqi rubbed his chin thoughtfully: "Do you still remember the notes left by my grandfather? It said that the Wandering Island was a part of Shengzhou Island drifted and merged with the local volcanic island. If the sulfur Mine is a special product of the volcanic island, so the nine-color flower should be a special product of the wandering island. Because it originally absorbed the spiritual energy from the wandering island, it is this thing, right?"

"That's right." Jiang Chenglu nodded: "So the white soil should be the soil of the Wandering Island. The collision made them fuse together."

"So, we were going in the wrong direction from the start?"

Huayang grabbed her own hair in annoyance, and threw the fallen hair on the ground in annoyance, "Looking for volcanic hot springs is simply a wrong choice. Because they have nothing to do with Shengzhou Island at all. We It's been a waste of time."

"But if it wasn't for these hot springs, we wouldn't have discovered the existence of Nine Color Flowers step by step." Bai Xiuqi tried to comfort him: "It's not too late."

"So we can directly observe the soil and decide what land to search for." Shang Douxing brought the topic back to the right track: "In this way, we don't have to go into every piece of wasteland."

Everyone agreed with his analysis, and when they looked around, they were surrounded by pitch-black soil, so even though the vegetation was lush, they didn't look carefully, and just continued to move forward.

"Brother, why do I feel like we've been going uphill?" Huayin asked.

That's right, Bai Xiuqi also felt it. Although theoretically they were walking on the highest ridge of Rose Fire Island, the terrain was obviously still rising.

"The soil is getting less and less." Hua Yang noticed another detail: "The ground is very hard, it's rock."

"Is it a volcano?!" Jiang Chenglu explained the secret.

That's right, it seems that the road under your feet should be the road leading to the top of the extinct volcano. As the core part of the sulfur mine, it is wrapped inside the labor reform unit, but it is still a long way from the living area.Although there is no obvious smell in the air for the time being, the nerves of several people are obviously tense.

"Do you want to keep going? Or turn around?"

Bai Xiuqi pointed to the tall bulge visible in the distance: "I guess that's the crater, it should be full of basalt and sulfide, it's impossible for the nine-color flower to grow there."

"Let's go west and try."

Following Huayang's suggestion, everyone did not continue to walk in the direction of the volcano mine, but returned along the original road to the three-fork intersection where the buildings in the living quarters of the labor reform unit could be seen, and headed in the direction of the living quarters.Pass through a scorched black iron gate.

Ignoring the part of the mine used for labor, the structure of the reform-through-labour unit actually looks not much different from that of an ordinary school.Rows of buildings, made of concrete, a playground covered with fine gravel, and of course a large area of ​​wasteland.They found some white soil on the wasteland, and nine-color flowers really grew there.

They were busy sampling in the wasteland, and before they knew it, a dark cloud floated quickly in the sky, lightning, dry thunder, and then the wind blew up.

"It is going to rain!"

Just as Huayin finished yelling this sentence, the big raindrops fell down with a crackling, almost like pouring a big basin of water over her head.Everyone hurriedly opened the prepared rain gear, but it was almost useless—the rain was so heavy that the rain jacket seemed to be seeping water, and the muddy water splashed on the ground could jump onto their knees.

Bai Xiuqi was fine, but Huayang's situation seemed a little bad. His already critical body couldn't bear the excessive water vapor attack, and immediately became a little limp.Fortunately, Shang Douxing was by his side, and as soon as he picked up Huayang, he ran into the nearby building.

The five rushed to the eaves, staring at the white water world in front of them in astonishment.It took Jiang Chenglu a long time to squeeze out a sentence: "It seems that the typhoon is really coming."

"Brother, are you okay?"

Huayin took out the prepared large towel to wipe off the excess water for Huayang, but was stopped by Huayang.

"Wait, the experiment... the experiment of Nine Color Flowers has not been completed yet."

Hua Yin was stunned: "At this time, you are still worried that the juice of Nine Color Flowers will be wiped off? Isn't it washed away by the rain a long time ago? Brother, what are you doing?!"

"Yeah, maybe my brain is starting to lose control." Hua Yang smiled wryly, and suddenly looked at Bai Xiuqi again: "You are much luckier than me in this regard, at least your head is still original."

"...I didn't think of this just now." Bai Xiuqi said awkwardly, "You should go to Hutian to avoid it."

"You can hide for a while, but you can't hide for a lifetime." Hua Yang smiled wryly, with slightly narrowed eyes with a hint of playful charm: "It's all right now, all the hard work all morning has been wasted, what should I do now, go back home?"

Jiang Chenglu suggested: "There's nothing to do when you go back, why don't you sit here and let me fly out to have a look?"

"Do you think the rain is not heavy enough?" Bai Xiuqi glared at him.