It was very late at night, but the lights of Miss Audrey's house in the suburb of Nolan were still on. Jenkins sat on the sofa with a disappointed expression on his face. The female fortune-teller sitting next to him reminded:
"Jenkins, although I don't know what your purpose is to ask me this question, but I must remind you that time travel is a very dangerous behavior, not only for you, but also for the world. You can continue your I won’t stop you, but please don’t have any idea of bringing that fortune teller to modern times by changing history.”
"I know this, and I just regard her as a friend, and I have no other thoughts... Rest assured, every story I experience will be older than the last one, and there will be no chance to change history. I never got a chance to see her again."
I don’t know what kind of mood I went back to the bedroom of the Black Town Church, hugged the chocolate and put it on my lap and touched it for a while, then reached out to pick up the book and opened the ninth story; "Wishing Flower".
"The title sounds like something out of a fairy tale."
Jenkins thought, spent a few minutes reading the story, and fell asleep again.
This is obviously before the 13th era, because when Jenkins looked up at the night sky over the town, there was only a blue moon behind the clouds. You must know that even in the moon phase with the smallest moon disc, it is impossible not to see the red moon at all. In this era, the red moon has obviously not yet risen into the sky.
This story is similar to the seven-color flower mentioned by Jenkins in Stranger Stories, except that the wish-fulfilling flower here can only fulfill one wish, and no one uses it to make a wish in the end.
This is a story full of desires and contradictions. Under the influence of the wishing flower, the people in the town did some terrible things.
"Why does it sound like the [fantasy flower] I planted? I don't know how different the events that actually happened in history are from the records in the book."
He walked on the empty street. Compared with the dilapidated Black Town in the previous story, the development of the town in this era is very similar to the town at the end of the 18th century, but the architectural style is quite different. .
His idea is still to first go to the church to reveal his identity to inquire about the situation, and then arrange the next step based on the information he has obtained. But before he took two steps, he saw a very familiar little girl with a basket standing at the dark intersection ahead.
She wrapped her hair with a dark cloth, she was wearing a slim dress made of neat cloth, and she stood there with a pair of small black leather shoes. She evidently noticed Jenkins too, turned and smiled at him in the dark, then stepped back and disappeared into the night.
Even though the attire is very different from the tattered clothes when they first met, Jenkins will never forget his temperament and appearance:
"A-01-2-0198! [Little girl selling flowers]!"
He was forced to stop because of surprise, he didn't have much fear in his heart, and even wanted to talk to the girl. But seeing familiar people in a long time ago, the sense of dislocation and absurdity in his heart made him lose his mind for a while.
"Why is she here? It turns out that she has been active in the material world since at least the thirteenth century, but hasn't collected enough sin coins for tens of thousands of years to embark on the road to becoming a god? It seems that this The road to becoming a god is more difficult than I thought."
There are many questions in my heart, and I chased after him to ask the girl who sells flowers, but there was no sign of her in front of me. Jenkins was sure that he was not mistaken, and knew that it was definitely not a coincidence that he met her here. Maybe in this story, the master who was in charge of the Blossom Forest was also involved.
After walking around the town, I was surprised to find that there was no church. He didn't know the time now, but it was obviously still far away from dawn, so he had no choice but to go to the forest outside the town and spend the night on the big tree.
The next morning Jenkins was woken up by the sparrows on the branch. The two birds seemed to want to land on Jenkins' stomach, but when they realized that Jenkins woke up, they immediately flew away in panic.
After entering the town to investigate, it took a lot of effort to find out that there was no Orthodox Church stationed in Black Town in this era, because it was completely unnecessary to set up a church in a remote town. As for the rumor of the wishing flower, it has already started to spread among the townspeople in the small town. People don't know the origin of the flower or the origin of the rumor, but they are willing to believe it.
In the evening of this day, the hunters who went hunting together brought back the corpse of their companions on a temporary stretcher made of branches. Many people saw the body when it entered the town, and saw the small white flowers blooming on the chest of the dead man.
Jenkins confirmed with his own eyes that the flower had indeed taken root in the corpse, absorbing the nutrients of the corpse for production. The aura color of the flower is green mixed with black, which is not the aura characteristic of fantasy flowers, but even though the times are different, the two aura colors represent the same meaning, which is another powerful flower.
Rumors about the wishing flower have been circulating in the town for a while, and it is rumored that the wishing flower bloomed on the chest of the corpse, and the color, size and color of the petals are all consistent with the flower on the dead hunter.
This aroused the anger of the townspeople. When Jenkins tried to find out what happened to the hunters, the atmosphere of the town changed quietly, and an accident occurred after just a few hours.
It was already eight o'clock in the evening, and for such a country, it was already time for people to go to bed. But the town was extremely lively tonight, and the townspeople flocked to the gate of the sheriff's house. The corpse was now stored in the sheriff's backyard.
Jenkins stood on the roof from a distance to watch the commotion, and watched the sheriff standing in front of the house in embarrassment and shouting something to the townspeople, and then let the leading few people enter the door with him, and walked out together a few minutes later.
The noisy voice prevented Jenkins from hearing what the sheriff was talking about, but at least he saw who did not know who made a sudden attack, and then the middle-aged sheriff was knocked to the ground, and the scene immediately became chaotic.
When people regained their senses, there were three more corpses on the ground, one of which was that of the sheriff.
"This story is a little bit different... but I guess the ending."
Early the next morning, the news that "wishing flowers" also grew on the chests of the three dead people spread throughout the town. People moved the four corpses to the square of the town, and then crowded together to discuss the distribution plan of the four flowers. Everyone was sure that this was the wishing flower.
PS: I see that many readers are mentioning more things. In fact, I would like to write more if possible. After all, there are almost no recommended places for this book now, and I can't find a better way to attract new readers. But considering the practical reasons, a certain university I work in is a two-year program instead of the general three-year program, which means that I am very busy with my postgraduate studies. Even if I don’t go back to school now, I rarely have free time at home. Complete tasks beyond 4000 per day.
In fact, saying so much is just making excuses for myself. In fact, I have always kept the habit of saving manuscripts with at least 40,000 words in hand, so that it is convenient to delete and modify the plot before and after, and every time I add a change, I actually have to save 60,000 words before I dare to start offering rewards. Recently, there are not enough manuscripts on hand, so I try to take advantage of the May Day holiday to have more codes. The next volume will be the last volume "To Wear the Crown", and there will definitely be a reward before the completion of the book.
Thank you for your support in the past two years. I have never taken a leave of absence throughout the year. I hope that everyone has the conditions to continue to support me and I will write better stories.
Jenkins' story, like Li Gan's, will have a good ending. Life is already hard. I won't be disgusting in the novel. Please rest assured.