0023 Fire burns the man-eating flower Zhao Si shows his skills

  "Arch-nemesis, I don't believe that today we can't find your arch-nemesis." Zhao Si muttered to himself, entering a state of partial madness.

  "Is the Venus flytrap a plant, a plant, a plant?"

  "Plant? Natural enemy?"

  As I listened to this guy's words, my head was buzzing. The pitcher plant is a kind of plant in the plant kingdom, it's just different from other plants. It's a carnivorous plant, and whether or not it uses carbon dioxide filtration is unknown.

  Why not let it starve to death instead of letting it eat humans? As soon as this thought occurred to me, I jumped up from the ground with a whoosh and shouted loudly.

  "Can't you just starve it to death?"

  As soon as the words came out, Zhao Si raised his head, his eyes wide open, staring at me like a monster, and finally burst into laughter, holding his belly.

  "The man-eating flower is carnivorous, unlike ordinary plants. As long as we don't let it eat us, won't it starve to death?" Thought about it for a moment, and felt that this was the most likely possibility.

  Just like humans, if you don't feed it, it will definitely die soon.

  At this time, Zhao Si smiled and said, "I told you that you are stupid."

  Right after that, his gaze shifted to the front of the man-eating flower, and his expression changed greatly as he exclaimed in surprise: "In less than half an hour, this entire place will be filled with man-eating flowers!"

  The flower's claw has sprouted."

  "What?" I felt a chill run down my back, as if the vines were crawling all over me.

  Just thinking about the vines passing through my body, like a soy milk machine, bit by bit blowing me up into black water, not even leaving bones behind, just thinking about it makes me feel sick.

  "Half an hour?" I gazed at the constantly expanding man-eating flower, which was no longer facing me with its bud as before, but was rapidly growing in size like a dung beetle, rolling and swelling up. The green vines were like ghostly tentacles that could reach out to me at any moment. I estimated the time, from when Bai Shou and the others jumped down to now, it wouldn't be more than ten minutes, yet this man-eating flower had already occupied one-fifth of the stone chamber. At this rate, indeed in about half an hour, it would become the domain of the man-eating flower.

  "Then you'd better think of a way!" I looked at the creeping vines slowly closing in, and the sense of fear in my heart grew greater.

  "Plants, natural enemies."

  "Metal generates Water, Water generates Wood, Wood generates Fire, Fire generates Earth, Earth generates Metal. Metal overcomes Wood, Wood overcomes Earth, Earth overcomes Water, Water overcomes Fire, Fire overcomes Metal."

  "The nature of heaven and earth. The many overcome the few, so water overcomes fire. The refined overcomes the solid, so fire overcomes metal. The strong overcomes the weak, so metal overcomes wood. The concentrated overcomes the scattered, so wood overcomes earth. The real overcomes the empty, so earth overcomes water."

  Zhao Si's mouth was still muttering away, and his appearance became more and more like a madman.

  Although I didn't understand what he said, I somehow got it, and excitedly jumped up, shouting: "It's a tree, just a piece of wood! What is wood afraid of? Ah, you say what is wood afraid of? Wood fears fire, so let's use fire to burn it!"

  "Fire." Zhao Si muttered, his eyes fixed on the man-eating flower: "All things are interdependent and mutually restrictive, wood gives rise to fire, yet fears fire, how could I have forgotten this for a moment?"

  I took advantage of his muttering and opened his backpack to look for something flammable, at least a lighter.

  "My god..." I was so angry that I turned my backpack upside down, and searched it several times, but still couldn't find the lighter. The hope that had just been lit up was instantly extinguished. As I watched the vines getting closer and closer, the thought of dying became stronger and stronger in my heart.

  "How can we burn it without fire?" I kept retreating backwards, and the cyan vines were like a rolling mountain, advancing towards us at a faster speed than before.

  This speed is growing at a geometric rate, no wonder it's so terrifying.

  In the chaos, I saw Zhao Si still sitting on the ground, slowly getting up, and slowly packing things back into his backpack. Then he calmly looked at the approaching vines. My heart was anxious and I shouted loudly: "Zhao Si, hurry over! Who knows if the man-eating flower will get tired later? If we don't come over, we won't have to die!"

  I'm not sure if I'm being overly optimistic or have just seen through it all. This situation is hopeless, and if I can escape from the man-eating flower, then I must be a god.

  I don't want to die, I really don't want to die, but the situation in front of me is fundamentally unchangeable and not something we can change.

  This time, no one can save me anymore.

  Zhao Si looked much better than me, but his complexion was even paler. Then, I don't know where he dug up a knife from, and with a completely expressionless face, he slashed the knife across his own palm. I saw him not even furrowing his brow, it made me wince in pain just watching.

  Bright red, flowing down from the palm of his hand, followed by a loud roar from Zhao Si, his entire arm flung forward, and blood dripped onto the carnivorous flower.

  Looking at that scene, I feel a sour thought in my heart. If I really die, would I choose to commit suicide? Can I really do it?

  Shooting myself is the fastest way, but do I have the courage?

  Zhao Si must dare to commit suicide.

  "I'm telling you, suicide isn't the answer, maybe we can..."

  Just as I thought the vines would rush over quickly, Zhao Si's splashed blood happened to splash on those vines. Then Zhao Si drew some things randomly in the air with one hand, his lips moving as if he was reciting something.

  A bizarre scene unfolded before me, and my eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

  The fire suddenly burst into flames, and the vines really seemed to come alive, writhing wildly in the fire, swinging left and right, up and down, struggling desperately. Watching this made my heart skip a beat, and I hastily retreated several steps before plopping down onto the ground with a thud.

  The flames were getting bigger and bigger, I don't know how long it took, I hugged my head, my face was a bit tense.

  This is too eerie, the pitcher plant is like a living creature struggling in the fire, it reminds me of a fire.

  In my memory, there was also a big fire, the memory is deep, at that time, I was picking plums on the mountain, and I saw with my own eyes that the mountain was covered by a fire dragon.

  The extent of the burning at that time was much more severe than it is now, but looking at those trees and flowers being burned, no matter what, they would not struggle like they do now.

  "It's actually quite easy." Zhao Si let out a sigh of relief, and his face had already regained its usual sly and smiling expression.

  I pulled in my head, carefully looking at the fire, whispering: "This flower is really weird, I seem to have heard a voice."

  "What sound?" Zhao Si turned his head, squinting at me and said: "I only smelled the smell of burning."

  "It's hard to describe what it feels like, but it's as if the Venus flytrap is emitting a sound, similar to a human scream." I finished speaking and covered my ears: "I really can't take it anymore, it feels like someone is stabbing me with a knife."

  Zhao Si glanced at me and threw out a sentence: "Carnivorous plants are also plants, as long as they are plants, they are life, and it's normal for them to make that kind of sound. It's just that I couldn't hear it."

  "As long as those vines that have grown up are burned, it will take hundreds of years for people to eat again." Zhao Si said with a smile on his face, which seemed to be calculating others.

  "Isn't it dead yet?" I stared at the charred and burnt vines in surprise.

  Zhao Si looked at the messy things on the ground and the treasures piled up, furrowed his brow and said in a deep voice, "Speak, how did you get here?"

  "How did you get in again?" I asked back, only knowing that his name was Zhao Si and he had a past with Bai Shousheng, but nothing else.

  Zhao Si's face turned iron-green, he grasped the handgun and knocked it against my head, saying in a low voice: "My patience has its limits, those two old guys were your people, right? We need to settle this account properly..."

  I was hit on the forehead by the gun handle and I cried out in pain, hastily saying: "No, I said, I'm partners with those two people, I came with them."

  Sweat the size of beans broke out on my forehead, the gun was pressed very tightly, I carefully stretched out my hand and pointed at the gun: "Brother, back off a bit, okay? Be careful not to misfire."

  It's happened twice already, being held at gunpoint by the same person twice, and I didn't have any ability to resist at all.

  "Stop playing dumb with me and get to the point. How did you find this place?" Zhao Si cursed, his face full of impatience.

  "This...” I hesitated for a moment, thinking to myself that it wouldn't be a big deal to say what I knew, so for the sake of my own life, I said: "We dug up a piece of map in the Ghost Market, and after searching for a long time, we finally found this place. They all said that this is the Dragon's Drinking Water Cave, it's an auspicious cave, a dragon cave, so there must be an ancient tomb here, at least a noble's burial chamber, it should have some significance. That's why I came with him, I'm just helping them out, I'm still a rookie in excavation, this is my first time down the pit, I've been following their arrangements."

  The map was indeed dug out from Ghost City, and it was by looking at this map that I found this place.

  I thought of that map, and I was puzzled again. There is such a map in my backpack, but the backpack is still with Xiao Shou Hou. I don't know if that little guy will rummage through my things and see what I wrote, which would be bad.

  I just concealed the purpose of coming here, actually, I'm not very clear about my own purpose for coming here either. It was supposed to be for Grandpa, but until now, there's no clue at all, and it's not clear either. It seems like I've been walking along the way very naturally, and it has nothing to do with Grandpa's affairs.

  "It's obvious you're a rookie, but don't forget who I, Zhao Si, am. Don't lie to me." Zhao Si aimed his gun at my feet and fired, the muzzle flash making me tremble all over, my face pale: "Don't be excited, I'll say everything, whatever you want to know, just spare my life..."

  "Are you Little Ninth Master?" Zhao Fourth suddenly stared at my face and said expressionlessly.

  "That's just what they called me, I..."

  "So you're Xiao Jiu Ye, no wonder that old man was so anxious about your life." Zhao Si smiled, with a hint of slyness.

  As soon as I heard this, my heart skipped a beat and I felt something was off. It seemed like the guy was up to something, but I couldn't quite put my finger on what it was.

  "How did you get in again?" I asked softly.

  "What's with all the questions, kid? There are plenty of treasures in this Da Lou Mountain, can't let you have them all to yourself." Zhao Si glared at me with a smile. "Off you go, I'm still counting on you to find the main tomb."

  After he finished speaking, he lifted his foot and kicked me lightly.

  When we were talking, the vines of that man-eating flower tree had almost been burned out, and even the petals had been smoked black. Zhao Si picked up his backpack, took something out, and threw it over, hitting the vines right on target. This time, the vines didn't react at all. He exclaimed with joy: "Nothing's wrong for now! Now we just need to find a way out!"

  "I didn't come for the money." I explained.

  Zhao Si, who was busy searching for things with his head down, raised his eyes and smiled: "Those who come to rob tombs are not here for the money, who would believe that?"

  I hastily said: "I'm really not doing it for the money, no matter how poor I am, it's still not as valuable as a life."

  Thinking of Zhang Lao's death still leaves a shadow in my heart, even though there are treasures here, not everyone is destined to take them away.

  Danger and fear, this is the best way to describe the scene here.

  "It's also true that a murderer wouldn't admit to killing someone, you really don't know what kind of person I am?" Zhao Si shouldered his backpack, looking quite dashing.

  "They call you Zhao Si, the rest I don't know."

  Zhao Si pulled out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it and said slowly: "I'll tell you, on the road no one doesn't know me. I think you're a newcomer, so I won't bother with you. Do you know Lao Jiu Men?"

  I was so shocked that my chin trembled and I asked in surprise, "Are you from Lao Jiu Men?"