Chapter 213 The World in the Painting
"Maybe the layout here was artificially created. It looks a bit weird. I can't really explain it."
Vic explained himself in his mind. Behind him, Rebecca and Wendy were holding Ian's hands each, chattering and looking around with curiosity.
The group walked at a fast pace, because there was blue land on both sides of the road and they wanted to enter the sea of flowers.
Having passed several waves of cargo trucks along the way, Vic discovered that these people had something in common: they were all dressed normally. Although their clothes were not brand new, there were no signs of mending. It seemed that their living conditions were decent, and at least they could afford to buy clothes regularly.
But these people looked a little thin, and they didn’t look very well, as if they had indigestion. It would be fine if it was just one or two people, but basically everyone Vic saw was like this, and those who were close to them didn’t even talk to each other.
They look pale and thin, with dull eyes, as if they are not full. But when you look at their clothes, that doesn't seem to be the case. They have money to buy clothes but not money to buy food. This is not right.
With such doubts, Vic continued to walk forward. The distance was not very far, only about one kilometer, and soon they arrived at the edge of the sea of flowers.
Ahead is an endless sea of pink flowers. Even the air smells sweet. It's like a boundary line, transitioning directly from blue to pink. The pink sea of flowers is wrapped in a thick halo under the sunlight, as if you have arrived in heaven!
If Vic uses the Moon Step to reach the sky above the island, he will find that the island is composed of three circles: the outermost blue soil circle, the middle pink flower sea circle, and the inner white building circle. They are staggered in height, and the royal capital has the highest terrain.
The island is divided into several areas by several roads. The end of the road is the island's pier. The whole island is like a big cake with distinct colors cut through the center.
The taste of each layer is also very different. The outermost blue is sour, the middle pink is sweet, and the middle white contains all the flavors of life. That is life.
"What kind of flower is this? It's so beautiful! I've never seen or heard of it before. This sea of flowers looks so romantic!"
The one who spoke was Wendy. Seeing this scene, Wendy also revealed her emotional side. You couldn't tell that she was an expert driver.
From time to time, pairs of young men and women can be seen among the sea of flowers, some of them even hugging each other. This kind of free love makes her yearn for it very much.
Wendy looked back at Barnett and saw that he was whispering something to Fredek. He didn't seem to be interested in the current scenery at all. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart, wondering why there were only pieces of wood like this around her.
"Yes, it's really beautiful! There are many girls picking flowers among the sea of flowers. The scene is like a painting. These flowers are completely new to me! Vic, you know a lot. Do you know what kind of flower this is?"
Rebecca was also very excited now, thinking that Vic was an encyclopedia, maybe he knew about this flower, and it would be nice to hear some love story about it.
Vic is not really an encyclopedia. He knows a little about spiritual practice, but if you ask him about flowers and plants, he will be confused. There are too many exotic flowers and species in this world, and many of them are cannibalistic.
Although he has a photographic memory, he spends most of his time practicing. How can he have the time to read all kinds of books? He hasn't even looked at the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia so far, let alone the varieties of flowers.
Vic did not answer Rebecca, but carefully observed the pink flowers in front of him. The flowering plant was about one meter tall, and the bottom of the flowers were all covered with green leaves.
The reason why it is hidden is that there are many flowers on each plant, crowded together, and it is difficult to see the green leaves underneath if you are not careful.
Each flower bud grows individually, and below the flower bud is a bare stem about 30 centimeters long, which grows from several scattered main trunks of the plant below.
Each flower bud grows vertically, like the ribs of an umbrella with a bud growing vertically at regular intervals. Each individual flower bud is also surrounded by several trumpet-shaped flower tubes like morning glory, except that the trumpet of this pink flower is thinner.
Several small trumpets combined together look more coordinated and beautiful. Many of the small trumpets have burst open, as if they have bloomed again. The petals are scattered all around, intertwined with the cracked petals of other small trumpets. The long filaments exposed in the trumpets are also slightly dispersed and appear on the top of the flower. The whole thing looks like it has several layers of artistic conception.
Although the land where the flowers grow here is not blue, it has a faint blue hue, as if forming a transition with the land in the outer circle, and also gives the air here a sour and sweet taste.
Vic leaned in to smell the flower and discovered that the sweet smell was coming from the exposed stamens. This also gave many people the illusion that this smell was a psychological illusion created by the affirmation of the feelings of the two parties in love, and that this smell came from the heart.
"This flower looks like red spider lily. I wonder if it's called that here. Does red spider lily exist in this world?"
Vic was lost in memories as he looked at the flowers in front of him. Not to mention what the plant under the flower was, but the appearance of the flower alone was really similar to the red spider lily in his previous life, except that the flowers here were pink.
"It looks like red spider lily, I wonder if it is." Vic answered Rebecca casually. After all, it was the first time he saw it in this world and he really didn't recognize it.
"Higanbana? Send people to the other side of love? This name is really nice. This is the first time I've heard of such a flower name. It's so poetic! Is there a story behind it?"
Rebecca thought about the names of the flowers and found that they fit the island very well. The romantic sea of flowers will help lovers get married, which is the other side of love, and brings the artistic conception of this island to a higher level.
However, Vic was not very confident about what he said, because the leaves and petals of the red spider lily do not meet each other. The flowers will not bloom when there are leaves, and the leaves will fall before the flowers bloom.
It is exactly 'The flowers of the other shore bloom on the other shore, and they will never be seen again after the flowers bloom and the leaves fall. Cause and effect determine life and death, and the fate of the previous life is on the Three Lives Stone. The flowers and leaves are always wrong, and they wait for the previous year on the Naihe Bridge. Meng Po's bowl of soup goes into her stomach, and it is hard to forget the love by the Three Ways River.'
Although there is a touching love story in Red Spider Lily, the flower and leaves only meet once in the story, and it ends in tragedy. This is not an explanation of sending love to the other side, Vic thought to himself!
Moreover, Vic had never heard of the pink red spider lily. There are similarities, but there are more differences. Although they are different, what does it matter? It's just a name. It can be separated from the flowers on the island and told as a completely new story.
So Vic gave a brief account of the story he knew about the red spider lily, which was the love story of the two fairies, Manzhu and Shahua (book lovers who are interested can search for this love story on Baidu themselves, I won’t go into details here).