klisemfg Chapter 196 Hills, Peaks and Mountains
Chapter 196 Hills, Peaks and Mountains
Hilly Peak Mountain has two parts, divided into North Peak and South Peak.
The North Peak is located at a higher altitude, with trees towering into the clouds. At a glance, it is all lush forests, and the ground is covered with brightly colored forsythia, making people feel like they have entered a fairyland.
If Lu Qingqing didn't know the names of these flowers, they might have really been deceived by these flowers.
These flowers emit a fragrance that confuses people. Once prey enters their territory, they will immediately emit a fragrance to stun the prey.
Afterwards, their roots deep underground will come out and drag the prey into the ground and bury it, using the prey as their fertilizer!
Usually in this situation, the prey that they knocked unconscious and dragged underground is not dead yet, and they will wake up in the soil underground.
But now they have been buried underground. If they want to escape, they can only struggle to break free from the strong roots that are bound around their waists!
But how could these flowers possibly let them succeed?
So, the two forces competed underground.
Unfortunately, the prey could not bear the lack of oxygen for too long and suffocated to death.
From then on, they will be buried deep underground forever and serve as fertilizer for flowers.
If someone is unfortunate enough to be dragged underground by them, their loved ones may not be able to find their bodies until they die.
Because the roots and stems of these flowers release a strong acid that directly corrodes human bones and turns them into mud and is absorbed by them.
Hearing Lu Qingqing say this, everyone suddenly felt scared.
It also came to a conclusion that things that seem beautiful and harmless are actually demons that kill people without blinking an eye.
Everyone quickly left this beautiful yet dangerous sea of flowers and continued to move towards the South Peak.
The South Peak is in sharp contrast to the North Peak. Its terrain is relatively gentle, but it is full of mystery.
Seen from a distance, the South Peak looks like a sleeping giant, lying there quietly, giving people a feeling that it is not something that can be easily approached.
Lu Qingqing looked around and didn't find anything unusual, but she always felt that the South Peak was no less dangerous than the North Peak.
Lu Qingqing looked at Liang Pei, who always had the most ideas, and asked, "Did you find anything wrong?"
It really does.
Liang Pei pointed to the weeds not far ahead and said, "Have you noticed that the light is the same, but the grass on both sides grows very differently?"
After hearing what he said, everyone's eyes immediately turned to where he was pointing, and they found that the grass on the left was indeed much shorter than that on the right!
Lu Qingqing asked everyone to stay where they were, and she and Liang Pei went forward to take a closer look.
After a while, they figured out the clue. The reason why the grass on the right grew so short had nothing to do with nutrition and light, but was caused by external force stepping on it.
Lu Qingqing noticed that a lot of the grass on the right was broken in the middle.
It seems that someone or some large animal passed by not long ago!
Lu Qingqing's face looked grim, and she heard Liang Pei pointing at the ground and saying:
"Someone just passed by here."
Lu Qingqing walked towards him quickly and saw a pair of adult's footprints on the ground. Looking up along the footprints, she found a few drops of red blood that had not yet dried!
The footprints were there first, and the blood came later.
Obviously, someone was carrying prey on his shoulders or going into the mountains.
Lu Qingqing squatted down and took a look, then used a stick to turn over the bloodstains on the ground and found that all the bloodstains were still fresh.
Perhaps within an hour before they arrived, someone had carried people or prey towards the South Peak.
There are many forks on this road, and the bloody footprints disappeared after the first few forks.
Several forked intersections are bare dirt roads without any vegetation, and the ground is clean and smooth.
For a moment, Lu Qingqing and Liang Pei couldn't tell which direction they went into the mountain.
Both of them looked unhappy and quickly turned around and left the area.
Their expressions were seen by the people waiting there.
Lu Hu frowned and asked, "How?"
Lu Qingqing said quickly: "There are fresh bloodstains on the ground, and there are footprints of adults. It looks like someone just carried prey or people in. But when we reached the fork in the road, the footprints disappeared. It seems that the danger of the South Peak is no less than that of the North Peak."
She couldn't decide which way to go, so she just raised the issue and let everyone consider it.
Lu Hu understood what Lu Qingqing meant and quickly analyzed it:
"Besides being high and steep, the North Peak also has many patches of man-eating flowers and perhaps trees. We might get caught if we're not careful."
"The South Peak is relatively better, but there may be wild animals or people. We don't know where these people come from. We also don't know where the wild animals are. They may suddenly jump out and attack us by surprise. But these can be predicted in advance. We are not afraid if we are careful."
Land Rover analyzed these words and also showed his choice to take the South Peak.
After saying that, he looked at everyone, waiting for their answer.
Yang Liuqing said directly: "Let's go to the South Peak. Be careful. As long as we pass the South Peak, Shuiwan City will be in front of us."
Lu Yuanzheng also supported taking the South Peak, mainly because he was afraid after hearing Lu Qingqing say that the North Peak would drag people underground.
But he didn't choose blindly. He felt that visible danger was better than hidden danger.
The family of three all supported going to Nanfeng. Liang Pei and Lu Qingqing looked at each other, and their ideas were almost exactly the same!
Liang Pei led the way, and Lu Qingqing followed behind.
Several people walked inside cautiously.
The further you go in, the more you smell a faint smell of blood in the air.
Lu Qingqing's heart tightened and she quickened her pace.
Suddenly, she heard a faint cry for help.
The sound came from the bushes ahead, and Lu Qingqing signaled everyone to be on guard.
She and Liang Pei stepped forward cautiously.
After a while, it was discovered that the sound for help came from the bushes.
Lu Qingqing stood where she was, while Liang Pei was on guard all around. After making sure that there were no other abnormalities, Lu Qingqing quickly grasped the sword and pushed aside the bushes.
I saw a man covered in blood, lying on the ground with his eyes closed and his mouth open, weakly calling for help.
Lu Qingqing frowned. There were many knife wounds on the other party's body. Obviously, they were aimed at his life!
But he survived tenaciously. Lu Qingqing really admired his perseverance!
The other party seemed to sense someone coming, and his eyes suddenly opened. He looked at Lu Qingqing in horror, with a hint of despair in his eyes.
But seeing that Lu Qingqing was a stranger and not one of the people chasing him, the man suddenly cried for help: "Save me,... Please, save me..."