Monument of Life and Death

   Chapter 823 Flower Tree

"Red?"

  The Taoist priest pointed to the medicine mortar in front of him, "Look, the other medicine mortars have green juices hanging on them. Only this medicine mortar has red marks on the inner wall."

   Indeed, the interiors of the other terracotta medicine mortars were all stained with green, and only the one in front of the Taoist priest was hung with a scarlet color from nowhere.

   "Could it be the blood of the deceased?" Xiaolan asked, "Maybe someone died nearby and the blood spurted out..."

   "Speaking of this," the Taoist chief raised his eyes and said, "You didn't notice that we have been investigating for so long, but we haven't found a trace of blood."

   "I'm thinking about this too," Miaozhen said, "more than 100 people died, but there is no blood?"

   "And the store manager said that their bodies were all miserable and had trauma," Baomu said, "What's going on?"

   "Did the police clean this place?" Xiaolan tilted her head and asked.

   "How can the police clean the crime scene," the Taoist priest almost laughed. "What they have to do is to protect the scene."

   "Did the murderer clean it?" Xiaolan crossed her arms, "Why did they do this?"

   "In order not to leave traces?" Baomu guessed.

  Miaozhen shook his head, it seemed that he didn't understand either.

   The four of them pondered the blood-stained medicine mortar for a long time. After a long while, the Taoist priest suddenly reached out and picked up the medicine mortar.

   "Daoist Master!..."

   "The Taoist..."

  The Taoist priest took the medicine mortar in his hand and looked around, then took it to his nose and sniffed it.

   "Baomu, you smell it." The Taoist priest handed the medicine mortar to Baomu.

   "You don't need to hand it over," Baomu immediately ducked, "I can smell it, it is indeed blood."

   "It looks right..." Dao Chang weighed the weight of the medicine mortar, then turned around and shoved it directly into Xiaolan's hand, "Xiaolan, take it."

   Xiaolan didn't react for a while, and subconsciously grabbed the medicine mortar, "Huh?"

  Miaozhen and Baomu were both dumbfounded.

   "This thing shouldn't be dangerous," the Taoist master stood up and blinked at Xiaolan, "Let's take it away, maybe it will be useful."

   "Huh?...Oh..."

   Xiaolan was not aware of it, although she didn't know the purpose of the Taoist priest's visit, but she instinctively felt that the Taoist priest must be saving something big.

   "This thing is ominous," Miaozhen barely followed the Taoist's thoughts and said thoughtfully, "If Miss Xiaolan has an idea, otherwise... I'll help you get it."

   "Let me do it," Bao Mu also said, "Isn't this poison poisonous?"

"It's fine, I'll just take it," Xiaolan said, looking at the Taoist priest's eyes, "Didn't Miaozhen say that when these three things are separated, there is no poison, even if it is poisonous, I have already been poisoned anyway, so I'm not afraid. "

  Xiaolan stuffed the medicine mortar into the backpack, and after putting on the backpack, he followed the three out of the vine house.

   "Now there is only the last room left," Baomu looked at the flower tree in front of the last room and said, "What is a non-blooming flower?"

   "As the name suggests, it is a flower tree that will not bloom," Miaozhen said, "Look, this tree has only leaves and no flowers."

  Miaozhen and Xiaolan looked at him puzzled.

   "It's almost winter now, of course it won't bloom."

   "No," the Taoist priest suddenly interrupted the conversation between the three of them. He aimed the light of the flashlight at the steps in front of the flower tree, "Look, there is a petal there."

"where?"

   The other three got together.

Sure enough, in the gap between the steps in front of the flower tree house, a half-red and half-white dried petal was stuck. I don't know how long the petal was stuck here, and the bright color disappeared little by little with the loss of water. Look, it's not even easy to see that there's a petal here.

   "Didn't Xiaomiao really say that this tree won't bloom?" Xiaolan was stunned.

   "According to common sense..." Miaozhen didn't understand either, "It is said... Obviously... But..."

   "I seem to know what the red tip poison is," said the Taoist priest. "It should be the root of the rootless grass, the tip of the vineless vine, and the flower without blooming flowers."

  Miaozhen's eyes widened, "You mean..."

The Taoist head nodded, "According to our understanding, the red-tipped poison used manipulation to harm people, it was originally against the Tao of Heaven, and such cruel poison should also be made of an introduction that violated the Tao of Heaven. I was skeptical about that, and seeing this petal made me more convinced of the idea."

  Reasonable and reasonable!

   The three nodded in admiration, agreeing with the Taoist priest's guess.

   They actually guessed the method of making red tip poison!

   It’s just… what’s the use of knowing this?

   "Uh...but the question is, how did these three things grow?" Xiaolan scratched his head, "If we bring these three pots of plants home, can we also learn to make red tip poison?"

   "I couldn't have guessed this," said the Taoist priest. "After all, this is their Qiqiao secret technique, and even if we make poison, it's useless."

"why?"

"Because the key to the red tip is not the red tip poison," Miaozhen said, "but the needle. The red tip poison is just a kind of poison. The real red tip is actually the needle. Qiao's psychic power, except Qiqiao, even if others get the red tip poison and the red tip, they can't use it."

   Xiaolan tried her best not to show a pity expression.

   "It doesn't matter, it's something that hurts people anyway. It's useless if it's useless."

   "The entrance to the backyard of the mansion should be in this flower tree house," Miaozhen glanced at the entrance of the last room, "We have to look carefully."

   may have been rendered by the environment, and Xiaolan became nervous.

   "Don't be afraid," Dao Chang patted Xiaolan's back, "Put your schoolbag and follow us."

"Um."

   Daoist Master and Miaozhen stood on both sides of the gate. The two exchanged glances, nodded, and then stretched out their hands at the same time to open the gate.

   creaking——

   The door opened.

   A icy cold air blows towards me.

  Xiaolan only felt that the eyes suddenly brightened.

   even a little dazzling.

"This is……"

Mirror.

   The four looked at the world behind the door in shock.

   They saw themselves.

   saw four bright beams of light.

   There is only a mirror in the room.

   Four mirrors.

  There is nothing in the flower tree house, except for four large mirrors, which divide the room into regular pentagons. The light of the flashlight is infinitely refracted in the world of mirrors and becomes as bright as a torch.

   "My God..."

   Xiaolan obediently followed behind the three and walked in slowly.

  In an instant, countless figures of herself appeared in the mirror. Xiaolan looked at those figures and felt that she almost didn't recognize herself.

"What exactly is going on?"

   "I don't know," the Taoist priest shook his head, "but the entrance to the backyard must be here."

   (end of this chapter)