Chapter 99: The Trick of Fighting Grass

Chapter 99: The Trick of Fighting Grass

Chapter 99: The Trick of Fighting Grass
The yard is very large, with a wall of houses next to it. A few steps away is another small yard.

At this moment, Hou Cheng and others were sticking their butts out, looking for something in the grass nearby.

You can see that they are very scared.

And after counting carefully, there were only three people. One of them was the man in the hat. He was also looking for something. When he heard Liu Mao's voice, he looked up and his eyes lit up. When he saw Luo Xi and others coming over, he immediately made a gesture.

Let them pay attention to the other side.

Luo Xi noticed the other person, then realized the guidance of the other person's finger, so he turned his head to look.

There, under the eaves, sat a figure.

Besides that, there is one person.

It was the woman named Wang Tingting who was in Hou Cheng’s team before.

But at this moment, the other party looked very strange.

Wang Tingting knelt on the ground with a strange smile on her face. Then, she reached out and grabbed a stone from a bamboo basket on the ground, stuffed it into her mouth, chewed it a few times and swallowed it. Then, she picked up another one and chewed it a few more times.
You can see that her mouth is full of blood and all her teeth have fallen out.

Even the hardest teeth cannot withstand chewing stones.

Next to her, there was already a person lying, it was Han Pengyu.

But at this moment, there was no sound at all, he was deader than dead, his exposed skin was pale and bloodless, veins on his neck and face were bulging, his eyes were bulging, his belly was swollen, his death was miserable, his mouth was full of blood, his teeth were all lost.

As for the other figure, it was an old man sitting with his back to everyone.

However, the other party was filled with gloomy and dark energy.

Suddenly the old man spoke: "Someone else is coming? Great, as the saying goes, the grass fight is still going on in the depths of spring, with green leaves and red flowers competing for beauty. They pinch the flower branches to compete for victory, and pick up the grass leaves to judge their length. Now that you are here, go find some grass stems and compete with me for grass. Look carefully, or you will have to eat stones if you lose."

The old man said in a sinister voice.

Luo Xi glanced at Brother Mao, who knew what Luo Xi meant and nodded at him with a serious expression.

Maoge certified.

The old man is undoubtedly a 'ghost'.

Does this count as walking into a trap?

If you came here and couldn't find the exit, you could have just left. Why did you run over here?
So is it too late to run now?

Luo Xi looked at Hou Cheng, Chu Xu and the man with the hat who were looking for grass seriously, and knew it was too late.

If they could run, they would have run long ago.

Moreover, the consequences of failing in the grass fighting and being punished can be seen in the dead Han Pengyu and the unconscious Wang Lingling who is eating stones.

The scene was weird, but there was nothing we could do. We were already here and couldn't run away.

As I said, just looking at the way Hou Cheng and the others look now, you can tell that they can't escape at all.

Many people have played the game of grass fighting when they were young. It involves finding some plant stems, such as tiny leaf stems of leaves, and then grabbing both ends and crossing them with your opponent's leaf stems. Each of them pulls their own leaf stem, and whoever's leaf stem breaks loses, and the one whose leaf stem is not broken is the winner.

Very simple.

Luo Xi remembered that he had played with it when he was a child, and he enjoyed it for a while. He would even save a very good leaf stem after finding it. Sometimes, he would give the leaf stem a name like "General Victory" or "Invincible King".

At this time Luo Xi winked at Wu Rui and the others, asking them to keep an eye on the scholar. They then squatted down and pretended to look for leaf stems, while Luo Xi moved closer to Hou Cheng.

"what happened?"

"Brother, don't mention it!" Hou Cheng said with a sad face, "I was screwed by this place. This 10-player haunted house escape is completely different from the previous version. Zhang Lin died in the mourning hall. After we escaped, we didn't know how to get out. Zhou Fang also died accidentally. Han Pengyu lost the grass fight just now and ate a bunch of stones and died of starvation. Wang Tingting is probably dead too."

"Can't run away?"

"Wang Tingting actually wanted to run away, but somehow, as if possessed by a ghost, she became mentally ill and realized that running away would lead to her death."

"So, can't we win the fight?"

"It's a bit difficult. Han Pengyu tried several and lost every time. Every time he lost, he had to eat a handful of stones. When he ate the fourth handful, he was so full that he died." "Have you ever tried to flip the table?"

"No, how about you do it, brother?" Hou Cheng picked up a leaf and looked at the leaf stem carefully, as if he had found a treasure.

Luo Xi shook his head and looked at Han Pengyu who was lying on the ground cold. He thought that this guy was also a ruthless person. A normal person couldn't even swallow a stone, but the other party could actually eat the fourth one. How amazing.

In other words, Han Pengyu has competed with that "grass fighting ghost" at least four times.

Lost all four times?
Doucao, also known as Dou Baicao, is a popular game among the Chinese people and is a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Its original origin is nowhere to be found. "Nianhua Jili" wrote that "Dragon Boat Festival, we built a hut to store medicine, fight with hundreds of herbs, and wrap five threads." The rules can be summarized as a competition of the toughness of grass stems. The method is to cross the grass stems, and two people hold their own ends and pull them backwards. The one who breaks loses, and the other wins.
And generally, the winner will not change the grass stems.

After losing four times in a row, was it that the grass stems in the hands of the 'Fighting Grass Ghost' were really tough, or was Han Pengyu just too unlucky, or was it that the Fighting Grass Ghost was cheating?

Luo Xi shook his head?

If it is cheating, it is not allowed according to the rules of the level scene.

That is equivalent to cutting off the possibility of the Shiyi people winning.

So the possibility of cheating is extremely small.

But if it's just a fair competition, no matter how tough the grass stem is, it won't last long.

Of course, leaving aside the possibility of cheating, if you want to win the grass fighting game, choosing the type of grass stem is the key.

Generally speaking, common grasses on the roadside are used, such as foxtail grass, but in fact, according to the probability of winning, the one with the highest winning rate is goosegrass, whose leaves are similar to those of foxtail grass, both of which are long and thin, but the inflorescence is not like a hairy brush, but has four ridges. Goosegrass is also known as "cricket grass" in folklore.
Luo Xi looked at the grass around him. It can be said that there were all kinds of plants, including cowgrass.

Take a handful and select the tough and thick one.

"What kind of grass stem did that ghost use?" Luo Xi asked at this time. Hou Cheng was stunned and shook his head: "I didn't pay attention, but every time when fighting with grass, that ghost would pull a grass stem from the bush beside it. I don't think it cheated, but I can't say for sure. We didn't dare to get too close. You don't know, that ghost has no front view at all."

"No front?"

"Yes, no matter which angle you look at it from, it always has its back to us. When we were fighting over grass, it stretched out its two hands. It looked very strange and creepy."

Luo Xi already had a plan in mind at this time.

He looked at the position of the ghost over there. There were indeed some bushes around it. Because the light was dim, the bushes here looked pretty much the same.

But in fact, it is still different.

"I see!"

Luo Xi could already rule out the possibility that the other party cheated. However, although he did not cheat, he was still playing tricks.

There are many kinds of grass here, and the grass fighting is about the toughness of the grass stems. Different kinds of grass naturally have different toughness. If you regard their toughness as "data", then it is very easy to understand.

The higher the toughness value, the greater the possibility of winning.

The grasses and trees here can basically be divided into common green-leaf grass, foxtail grass, tendon grass, red-flowered oxalis, etc. Of course, even if these grasses and trees look similar, their toughness is different. If you are not familiar with these grasses and trees, you will definitely not be able to tell which is which, especially when they grow together, you have me and I have you, it is even more impossible to tell them apart.

But Luo Xi could recognize it.

And what was growing around where the ghost was sitting was different from what was growing in other places.

Plantain.

Grass stems should be the toughest among these plants.

"What are you guys dithering about? Haven't you made your choice yet? You will be punished if you delay any further. As for the newcomers, hey, you still have some time, so take your time to choose. There's no rush." ​​At this time, the 'Fighting Grass Ghost' over there spoke with a hint of pride and provocation in his tone.

Hou Cheng, Chu Xu and the hooded man were all a little anxious at this time.

If I go up to compete, there is almost no chance of winning, but if I don't go, I will still be punished, and if I run away, I will die a more miserable death.

No matter what I do, it won't work. This is a dead end.

Just as he was struggling, Luo Xi came over, suddenly pulled Chu Xu up, and walked towards the fighting grass ghost while the other was confused and frightened.

　There will be another chapter in a moment

　　
　
(End of this chapter)