Flower Moon

Tao Yue'er fell asleep with the pain in her back.She didn't know whether she was fainting from exhaustion or pain. She only knew that she kept lying on the animal skin and let the young man scratch her back with the sharp animal bones.

Yes, she could only think of the word 'swipe'.

Maybe it's not just 'scratching', but also needling, puncturing, and a series of torture-like actions.She didn't know what the boy was doing, she only knew that she might die next moment.

It was only then that she realized that he was not a Hua Ling, and there was no way he was a Hua Ling.

Hua Ling was not willing to let her get hurt in any way, but the boy tortured her physically and mentally - he might as well kill her.It was better than her suffering in such humiliation.

"Tao Yue'er, hold on. Kill him and you will be free, and we can leave the wilderness."

In the dream, Tao Yue'er couldn't open her eyes, but Hua Ling's voice kept echoing in her ears.

Tao Yue'er wanted to cry out. She wanted to tell Hua Ling: "It hurts so much... I really can't hold on anymore..."

Her body seemed to be torn apart by a powerful force, starting from her back, all the way to her chest, back, and heart.The pain is overwhelming.

But the more painful she was, the more conscious she seemed to be, but no matter how awake she was, her body still couldn't move.

She lay there motionless, letting the boy hurt her, until she could no longer hear Hua Ling's voice, and could no longer feel the pain...

The next day, when Tao Yue'er woke up again, the door of the tree hole was already open, the boy was nowhere to be found, and her clothes were no longer useful because they were scratched by the boy.I don’t know where I went now.She was still lying down, but at any rate, he still left some animal skin covering for her.Let her not even have the courage to go out.

Outside the cave, the heavy dark clouds floating in the sky were lighter than in previous days. The dark clouds dispersed, and it seemed that a little bit of sunlight could be seen shining on the earth, allowing the surrounding thick fog to be blown away. ——After the storm, Tianning was desolate, and even the branches and leaves of the big trees became more lush and stretched out, as if like a person, spreading out his limbs, allowing himself to be fully and relaxedly exposed to the sun, Enjoy this moment of joy.It's like a new life.

Tao Yue'er's back still hurt a little, and she wanted to know what happened to her back.She followed the route in her memory and went to the waterside alone.

Nowadays, the river water is steaming again, and it is obvious that it has become very hot again. Tao Yue'er dare not approach it, so she can only stand by the water, carefully turn around, and look at her own reflection in the water - , the place where there were some red birthmarks on her back suddenly turned into a complete shape, it was a vine, wrapped around a flower.It was a plant Tao Yue'er had never seen before.

Even though her flower room was full of flowers all year round, she had never seen plants or flowers with such shapes.

A word suddenly appeared in Tao Yue'er's mind - Cuscuta.

The term the boy said yesterday echoed in an instant.

That's right, he used a razor blade and a needle tip to tattoo a dodder on her back where there was originally a vague birthmark.

Although Tao Yue'er didn't know what dodder was, she had heard of dodder flowers.

Dodder, a parasitic vine plant.The stems are thin and winding, yellow, leafless, the bracts are small and scale-like, the flowers are in clusters, the pedicels are thick, and the calyx is cup-shaped.When it encounters a suitable host, it will wrap around it. It has strong vitality and vigorous growth. The parasitized plant may die because it absorbs too many nutrients.It is a seemingly harmless but actually terrifying parasitic plant.It is often used to describe women who are dependent on men and later cause the destruction of their families.The meaning of dodder flower is not so beautiful, so what is dodder flower?

Or is it that the dodder flower is the dodder grass, but it has a different name in the ancient times?

Tao Yue'er looked at her back, which was enchantingly entangled with vines and flowers. Although she felt that the process of having it was scary and painful, with the embellishment of this pattern, her originally ugly birthmark seemed to look better.The whole person also has a more coquettish temperament, as if a fairy who never messed with the mortal world fell into the endless hell and became a ghost by the Santu River.And she was surrounded by burning karma fire, and she laughed wildly in the fire.

Tao Yue'er was shocked by the scene she imagined.Her thoughts seemed to have become a little dusty with the arrival of this touch of dodder.

Tao Yue'er hurriedly pulled the animal skin up to her shoulders, hiding all the tattoo marks on her back.It seems that as long as she can't see it, she can pretend that this thing doesn't exist...

But the tattoo of dodder can be invisible, but the unforgettable pain scratches the heart, scratches the liver, gnaws the bones and burns the heart.

Why did the boy do this to her?

If she couldn't kill the boy the day before, then today, as long as possible, she would not let him go - because he was not a hualing.

He is a prehistoric monster.

A monster that shouldn't exist in this world.

Tao Yue'er returned to the big tree, picked up all her jewelry from the hole, and put it on.Because her hair was messy, she couldn't put on her hair accessories, so she just put them all on her wrists except for the earrings.

The luxurious jewelry combined with the skin of a wild beast made her look very fragmented and funny.But she couldn't care less about her own funnyness. She just thought that if she met the boy again, even if she couldn't beat him, at least she wouldn't be humiliated by being pinned to the ground by him all night!
She must find a way to kill him!

"Where is he?" Tao Yue'er asked Dashu angrily.

Seeing Tao Yue'er's expression, Dashu probably saw what happened last night. He hesitated for a moment before pointing in the direction down the mountain.

At the foot of the mountain is a young man's arena.He has to deal with monsters coming from down the mountain every day - his status is not static.Every monster here covets this peaceful and pure land on the mountain, as well as the rivers and lakes behind the mountain.He wanted to protect his position and had to fight among the monsters every day.And this is not a simple matter without risk.For example, yesterday, he broke an arm and narrowly escaped death.

If Tao Yue'er had made a sneak attack yesterday, the young man might not have come back alive.But she didn't do that yesterday.She also thought about the young man's life-saving feelings and his face that was similar to Hua Ling.

But today, she has completely realized that the young man is not a charlatan. If given the chance, she will never show mercy again.

The world under the mountain was even more severe than Tao Yue'er imagined.If yesterday's situation was just a bloody storm, then today, it can only be described as an overwhelming situation like a mountain roaring and a tsunami.From a distance, she could smell the strong smell of blood and the roar echoing in her ears...