Chapter Twenty-Three: The Filthy Dream Poppy
"Plop, plop, plop!" Zhang Xiao and the three fell into the magma together, but found that they had fallen into the water, the rope in their hands was gone, and the surroundings were relatively bright, but they couldn't see the surface of the water or the bottom of the water, and of course they couldn't breathe.
Just when the three of them couldn't tell the direction, the mushroom demon also appeared in the water, pointing in one direction, and a small island appeared in that place, as long as they got ashore, it would be safe, so they all swam vigorously to that side.
But not long after swimming, two sharks appeared in the direction of the island, opened their bloody mouths and bit the three of them.
Zhang Yao was not afraid, and swam directly over, although she was very weak in the water, but she still waved the bamboo sword, and when she was about to cut the shark, the shark's tail became a chain, tightly tied Zhang Yao's hand, and quickly swam to the bottom of the water, at this time Zhang Yao had begun to breathe.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Xiao and Le Yangxue immediately swam forward to help Zhang Yao untie the chains, but the shark's speed was too fast to catch up at all, so Zhang Yao disappeared from the field of vision of the two.
There is another shark here, and it must be destroyed, otherwise it will be like Zhang Yao.
But Zhang Xiao and Le Yangxue also began to have difficulty breathing at this time, and the shark also swam quickly towards them. Zhang Xiao also took the initiative to meet the shark at this time, but the shark suddenly bypassed him, tied Le Yangxue's hand, and swam towards the deep water.
Zhang Xiao wanted to chase after him, but it became more and more difficult to breathe, so he had no choice but to go to the island first and then make plans.
Finally, he finally swam to the shore, Zhang Xiao knelt on the ground and gasped, and when he recovered, he looked around, this is no longer on the island, but in a passage, both sides, the top, and the soles of the feet are made of stones, each piece is very even, the passage is very long, and there is no end in sight in front and behind, where is this?
Zhang Xiao had no choice but to continue moving forward, but there was still no end in sight to the road ahead.
But after walking for a short time, he noticed a door in the wall, and walked in, and it was a very large cave, not high, only his height and an arm, and it was full of mushrooms, as small as a hair's hair, and as big as a large round table.
He had not been walking long inside when he heard a voice behind him, and when he looked back, he saw a man with two knives in both hands, an owl mask on his face, and a man dressed like a savage, tall and stooped to walk around the cave.
The man rushed towards Zhang Xiao with a knife, and the surrounding stone pillars and mushrooms were all cut off with a knife. Zhang Xiao saw this formation and immediately ran inside.
Running and running, Zhang Xiao heard someone calling him, and listened carefully to the voice of the mirror demon, the mirror demon said: "Zhang Xiao, what's wrong with you, are you having a nightmare, look at the three of you sleeping in pain, I'm talking to you in a dream now, can you hear it?"
"Nightmare?" Although Zhang Xiao didn't understand what was going on, he thought that after following the mushroom demon, the magma, water, islands, passages and caves he experienced were so weird, he must have fallen into the illusion of the mushroom demon.
"Then how can I get out?" Zhang Xiao said anxiously to the mirror demon.
"Wait a minute, leave it to me. After the mirror demon finished speaking, there was no more sound.
Since it's all hallucinations here, there's no need to run away, Zhang Xiao thought so, so he stood in place and waited for the man's knife to swing over.
Seeing the man's knife swinging over, Zhang Xiao was still very worried and closed his eyes. After a while, I didn't feel anything, and when I opened my eyes, it turned into a prison cell, and I was locked in a cage in the cell.
The door of the cage was not locked, Zhang Xiao walked out of it, there were cages everywhere, there was no person, and there was no sound. After walking cautiously for a while, Zhang Xiao seemed to hear someone snorting, and after searching for a long time, he found that Le Yangxue was tied to a huge mushroom stone statue with a rope and a cloth in her mouth, so she immediately stepped forward to save her.
Zhang Xiao and the three of them woke up at the same time, their bodies were covered in cold sweat, and the surroundings returned to pitch black. Le Yang Xue summoned the listening wheel again, emitted a bright light, and looked around, yes, this is the original cave.
After calming down for a while, Zhang Xiao said to the mirror demon, "How did you crack this illusion?"
As a result, the mirror demon directly denied it, and said: "I didn't crack it, every demon will have talent, my talent is a mirror image, your real body is now in my body, your current body is just a mirror image, I swapped you with the consciousness of the mirror image." Although you are now a mirror image, do not die, or your consciousness will not return to your body, and you will never wake up. ”
Hearing the mirror demon say this, it turns out that it still has such a powerful talent.
"How did we fall for the illusion, how can we unravel it?" Zhang Xiao asked the mirror demon, thought about it and said, "Could it be the filthy dream poppy that the mushroom demon said?"
"That's right, the Filthy Dream Poppy will emit a psychedelic scent in the five miles around it, and any living thing will be psychedelic, except for fleshless ones like us. The mirror demon said proudly.
There is nothing to be proud of without flesh and blood, Zhang Xiao asked the mirror demon about the direction of the Filthy Dream Poppy, and the three of them walked towards the Filthy Dream Poppy. On the way, Zhang Xiao felt that this mirror image was no different from his original body, just like his original body, but it lacked touch.
After walking for a long time, I came to a corner of the cave, and the Filthy Dream Poppy was in the middle of this corner, with blood-red petals and purple stems. Upon closer inspection, the Filthy Dream Poppy already had about twenty flowers, the flowers were very tall, almost two stories high, and the purple stems were covered with barbs, which would be terrible if they were stabbed.
If you look closely, there is a pink flower in the center of the flower, which looks like it is about to wither, and there is a large ball at the bottom, which is the fruit, and this filthy dream poppy is really about to ripen.
Zhang Miao wanted to get closer to see the fruit, but as soon as he got closer, he smelled a smell like dust, which was very pungent. At this moment, Zhang Miao saw that the bottom of the Filthy Dream Poppy was full of bones, and there were human and animal skulls among them.
Zhang Yao was startled, sat on the ground, and made a loud noise.
"Why are there still people, you all have to dream about the nourishment of the poppy. On the cave wall, a huge yellow mushroom pulled out of the cave wall and quickly moved towards Zhang Xiao and the others.
It turns out that this mushroom demon will use the scent of the Filthy Dream Poppy to stun the intruding creatures, and then make them nourish the Filthy Dream Poppy. Everyone didn't want to entangle with the mushroom demon, so they ran out, but before Zhang Yao ran out, he pulled out his bamboo sword, and pierced the stem of the Filthy Dream Poppy, and the white glowing liquid flowed out of the Filthy Dream Poppy.
"No!" the mushroom demon roared in despair, then roared in extreme rage, "I want you all to die." ”
Zhang Xiao and the three of them didn't dare to stay, and used all their strength to escape, the mushroom demon is plant moved relatively slowly, and was gradually thrown away by the three of them.
After feeling that the mushroom demon couldn't catch up, the three of them finally stopped. Summoning the mirror demon, swapping the body back as planned, and waiting for the filthy dream poppy gas in the body to dissipate, you can naturally wake up.
"Wake up, wake up!" Zhang Xiao felt that someone was pushing him, and he wanted to sleep for a while, so he barely opened his eyes and saw Le Yangxue looking at him with a smile. Zhang Xiao immediately sat up, looked around vigilantly, there was no danger, and he felt that there was nothing wrong with his body.