flower and big devil

At this moment, what appeared in front of Luo Xiu was a spiral staircase leading to the underground. At a glance, the dim light made them who were standing at the door unable to see the end of the stairs—the basement was much deeper than Luo Xiu imagined. , which probably means that the area of ​​the basement will be wider than he imagined.

On both sides of the stairs, there is a night pearl at a distance of less than three meters. The size and brightness of these night pearls fixed by the gold metal claws embedded in the wall are not uniform. Luo Xiu suddenly thought of himself. It seems that he once saw customers using night pearls in exchange for items in the hatter's shop. From this, he speculated that these night pearls were probably collected at different times and placed on the stairs-soon, some empty, The hook claw that did not place the night pearl proved Luo Xiu's guess - a jewel that was sold and probably enough for ordinary people to eat for a lifetime has replaced the torch as a lighting object here, so far, the black-haired young man had to cast aside it again The degree of local tyrant of the red hat maker.

Ladoni walked in front of Luo Xiu. She walked almost silently. When the black-haired young man who followed her narrowed her eyes and looked carefully, she realized that the little girl's heels didn't even touch the ground at this moment—it was exposed She was no longer a human being and "walked" down without any restraint.

When Luo Xiu was in a rather speechless state, he suddenly heard the little girl "walking" in front suddenly say: "Can you stop staring at my feet?"

"...You have eyes behind your back?"

"I'm a spirit body, and of course I'm much more sensitive to human bioelectricity. I can almost feel that your sight is about to burn through the soles of my feet." Ladoni said, "Although I'm underage, I'm still a woman anyway. , you know it's obscene to stare at a woman's feet like this?"

"..." She's still a woman, she's obviously a female ghost... Luo Xiu cleared his throat and looked away.

After the black-haired young man behind her looked away, Ladoni in the front seemed to be relieved and became more comfortable. She kept floating at a constant speed and asked the people behind her: " Strange, why didn't you ask me when I followed you? You have been followed by ghosts for two days, why don't you be so calm?"

"Oh," Luo Xiu scratched his head, thinking that being followed by a ghost is nothing, what else in this world can't be encountered by him, "so why did you follow me?"

"Because this basement is connected to the Hatter's antique shop, and you are the first person who is a complete person without any disabilities and asks to see the Hatter. You are special, so I followed and wanted to see you Can you help stop the Hatter from bringing other children into his shop—you did not disappoint me, you are a meddler."

"..." Is this fucking really a compliment?You're the one who needs to read The Art of Language, and I'll burn it to you when this is over.

Luo Xiu was speechless, and concentrated on going down the stairs. The stairs were very steep, and he was afraid that he would roll down and break his neck.

After walking down a few more steps, he suddenly thought that something was wrong——

The upper part of the basement should be the hatter's house, why did Latoni say it was an antique shop?

Luo Xiu made a doubtful voice—and Ladoni seemed to know what he was curious about, she sneered and said unhurriedly: "So, the place we are going to is not called the basement, but the basement." It is better to say that it is an underground kingdom - its area starts from the place where we came down and spreads from here to the entire commercial street hundreds of meters away, the Hatter is the king of this underground kingdom."

"What about the ground?"

"Everywhere the sun shines is the domain of the Duke of Darkness."

"Who came up with such a domineering way of dividing the territory?"

"A mutual agreement between the Dark Lord and the Hatter."

"Then what is there underground?" Luo Xiu frowned and asked with some concern, "What needs such a large area to be placed?"

But Ladoni didn't answer Luo Xiu's question directly. At this moment, she sounded more like she was talking to herself: "From the other side of the basement, I can clearly hear that many people are there every day. They come and go in an antique shop, they wear different shoes and make different sounds when they walk on the ground, sometimes we just stay here, listening to those customers bargaining or whispering, all of which cannot escape our ears-so every For a period of time, we can find some special customers among the customers who come and go, most of them are rich and rich, but they don't buy things in antique shops or even take a look at them. After entering the store, they will probably show some special certificates, and then the staff will bring them to the hatter, and then the hatter will take them to this underground kingdom for another transaction."

"Another transaction?"

"They come to buy plants, plants of great value--they are the real source of the Hatter's fortune."

"plant?"

"En," Ladoni said as she rolled her eyelids, they were already about to reach the end of this passage as far as they could see, and at this moment, there was a faint blue and green light shining over. At the end of the bright stairs, the girl in the red cloak raised her hand and pulled the red cloak on herself. She didn't even look at the white wild flowers that fell out of the cloak. She ended her floating posture and landed without mercy. Stepped on those wild flowers, walked down a few steps, suddenly stopped, turned half-turned and asked the black-haired young man who followed her silently, "Poor ghost, have you ever heard of a plant called 'Human flower'?"

At this time, Luo Xiu also saw the light not far ahead.

But he still stopped his steps suddenly because of Ladoni's words.

He didn't know what the "humanoid flower" was, and he had never heard of it or seen it—but at least judging from the name, it probably wouldn't be something that would make people feel happy... Thinking of this, the black-haired young man He involuntarily sniffed his nose, and as expected, he could vaguely smell the scent of white wildflowers in the air - as I said before, if you didn't put a bouquet of flowers on the tip of your nose and smell it, you would encounter this kind of scent. The situation, unless many, many of these flowers gather together...

The Hatter also has this smell, which probably shows that this guy has been in a certain environment where wild flowers gather for a long time-to put it simply, apart from intuition, this is almost the biggest reason why Luo Xiu suspects the Hatter. The reason.

After asking Luo Xiu, Ladoni did not continue to discuss this topic with him. She raised her feet and walked down, letting the dim light illuminate her brighter and brighter at this moment Luo Xiu, who was following her, watched her pale green face gradually being reflected, and the red cloak on her body also changed into other less bright colors because of the light color... This scene gave Luo Xiu an illusion, For some reason, he always felt that Ladoni was on the road to being swallowed step by step.

However, Luo Xiu didn't pay attention to Ladoni for a long time.

Because soon, he saw what kind of "commodities" were placed in the so-called "Hatter's Underground Kingdom". The scene in front of him almost took all his attention away. With the cold air coming up from the soles of his feet and the heavy sense of reality shrouded in fear in his heart, the black-haired young man even wondered if he had a terrible nightmare——

When the sight gradually opened up, the true face of the so-called underground kingdom finally appeared in front of Luo Xiu.

There was no sound of people coming and going or talking, and the surroundings were as quiet as if a needle fell on the ground and could be heard clearly.In such a quiet environment, a huge cylindrical mechanical petri dish is placed about every two to three meters in the entire basement. The petri dish is about two meters high and about one meter in diameter. They are all filled with colorful nutrient solutions, and through the transparent glass, people can clearly see what is being cultivated in the petri dish.

Luo Xiu walked down the stairs with mechanical steps. At this time, the petri dish closest to him was filled with a light green solution, and a little girl who looked about five years old was soaked in the solution. The black, The short hair like a doll was floating around because she was soaked in the water. She closed her eyes and hugged her knees and curled up into a ball. The limbs and spine of the whole body were connected with tubes that were constantly delivering something. Luo Xiu almost thought she was a specimen or something else, but when Luo Xiu approached her, he unexpectedly discovered that the girl's abdomen, which was completely submerged in the liquid, was weakly rising and falling in an almost invisible arc ...

She is still alive.

As if to shock the black-haired young man even more, at this moment, the girl Luo Xiu thought was in a state of deep sleep opened her eyes slightly as if she had noticed it—but soon , just as the black-haired young man outside the petri dish had time to see that her pupils were beautiful golden in color, she seemed to be too weak and slowly closed her eyes again.

At the same time, she let go of her knees a little.

The body that was no longer curled up let Luo Xiu clearly see that at this moment, a large bunch of nameless white wildflowers grew on the chest and heart of the little black-haired girl. The wildflowers were soaked in the nutrient solution. The slow-flowing petals sway gently as if in the wind, full of vitality.

Luo Xiu's eyes widened slightly, he held his breath suddenly and went to the other side of the petri dish, and then, the scene that was more realistically reflected in his eyes from the side made him really almost forget how to breathe normally—

I saw that the big bouquet of white flowers was not just adorned on the little girl's body, they really used her chest as the "soil", and their roots deeply penetrated into her heart, blooming recklessly and brilliantly.

The product of the combination of white wildflowers and beautiful human life is unexpectedly full of a disgusting and morbid beauty——At this moment, Luo Xiu stood in front of the petri dish, feeling as if the soles of his feet had taken root, and he couldn't move. He couldn't move his eyes away from the "human-shaped flower" in the petri dish, even though he only felt a splitting headache and wanted to vomit at the moment, and the faint scent of flowers that got into his nose from time to time was almost overwhelming. It's mind-boggling and makes him want to yell, get angry, and smash everything in here.

"Probably something wrong with the heart."

Ladoni's voice rang in Luo Xiu's ears in a neutral manner.

It seemed that the black-haired young man had finally rescued himself from the muddy swamp. A drop of cold sweat slid down his forehead and finally landed on his collar. He lowered his head and looked at Ladoni standing beside him with his red eyes, who was also looking up at the little girl in the petri dish.

"This is just one of them."

As Ladoni said, she pulled Luo Xiu up, and let the black-haired young man who walked behind him walk like a corpse to the next petri dish——in this petri dish was a blonde girl with long curly hair, from her right Starting from the shoulder, the entire arm is entwined with vines like a three-dimensional tattoo totem. There is no hand at the end of the wrist, but a large bouquet of white wildflowers blooming like a bouquet of bouquets.

In the petri dish next to her is another child who looks a little older. The flowers growing out of her eyes almost cover most of her face, leaving only a small, upturned nose and a Zhang Cherry took a small mouth.

The shapes of humanoid flowers vary.

White wild flowers grew from every human organ that Luo Xiu could possibly imagine, making up for the lack of that body itself.

"The children who are sent here are called 'seeds', and the 'seeds' must be placed in a petri dish for a week to confirm that the dirt in the body is excreted before the initial operation can be performed-humanoid flowers with dirt in the body will affect the fragrance of the flowers Quality, after the initial operation, the puppet flower can be out of the nutrient solution after staying in the petri dish for another three years."

Ladoni stood in front of a petri dish, which contained a bright red solution, but the petri dish was empty—the little girl stretched out her hand and gently rubbed the label on the outside of the petri dish. There is a place for the name tag, and then he continued lightly: "The humanoid flower that has left the culture medium is a successful handicraft, it will not age or die, it will keep its original appearance and bloom forever, and it does not need any other nutrients except sunlight and clean water. It can also live forever - as a "noble pet" that has become popular in recent years, the price of humanoid flowers doubles every year... Isn't it ironic? The more severely disabled the body itself is , the more splendid the blooming bouquet, the more expensive the price will be—we, who are classified as 'special groups' by the world, have instead become priceless treasures for this reason."

The little girl in the red cloak seemed to sense the black-haired young man coming behind her. She smiled, took her hand away, and graciously let the other party see the name on the name plate—Ladoni windsor.

After Luo Xiu glanced at the name, he lowered his eyes calmly - the long and thick eyelashes almost covered all the emotions in his eyes at this moment.

"You see, as long as it is an operation, there will always be a possibility of failure, just like the transplanting of plants will also fail and cause the plants to die-behind these successful humanoid flowers being taken away by people at sky-high prices, In fact, many flowers actively or passively died during the process of 'repotting' because they couldn't bear the pain." Ladoni smiled, turned her head, and looked at Luo Xiu, "You came to the antique shop At the time, I was busy laying on the operating table and bleeding profusely, the soul out of my body is really a very interesting thing, when I saw myself lying on the operating table, as a human being, the last blood flowed from my side disabled I didn't really realize what 'failed basin removal' meant until the flow came out from my wrist..."

"..."

"A poor, crippled life that withered as if it hadn't been seen before, would become invaluable just because of a successful operation, and would be taken up by those arrogant rich people like a treasure—want to The desire to live and get rid of the past makes it impossible for us to refuse to lie down on that operating table."

"..."

"In a way, we're actually like Mr Hatter - the heart is weak, the greed makes us always want more than we have, and once we take the first step, there's no going back. You can go, even if everyone knows that the end of the road is death."