Chapter 280 Scarlet Lady
He was bathed in blood, and the blood made him feel a little irritated.

The flickering flames in the brazier not far away also made him very uneasy.

This is indeed the dormitory for the vineyard growers, but now that no one has returned, he can search here carefully.

He pushed open a half-open door in front of him. It was a narrow single room without many decorations. It was so plain that it made people doubt whether it was suitable for long-term living.

There is a huge glass jar on the table, and its original function is completely unclear. If it is not used to study alchemy, then it should be used to pickle sauerkraut.

There was a layer of leaves in the jar, and on top of it were several fat white bugs about the size of two thumbs.

【Grape aphid, lv1】

【Life: 3/3】

He leaned closer to the jar and stared at the aphids, and found that the insect was feasting on the food. Its split mouthparts when eating were like the villagers' flesh cavity with multiple rows of teeth.

The strange aphids caused him physical discomfort, but considering the mission, he suppressed his rejection reaction.

Grape aphids are raised in almost every room. There are five or six in each jar, or only two in each jar. It is very inconvenient to carry them. I can only open the jars and pour them together at eight in the morning.

But I didn’t expect these guys to have very strong jumping ability, just like a white jumping ball.

And he was accidentally bitten twice.

After finally stuffing dozens of aphids into the two jars, I breathed a sigh of relief and quickly returned to the wall with the two jars.

"Hey, I'm back."

“You brought aphids?”

"Dozens."

The voice said, "Thank you. Could you help me get it in? The door is on the other side. If you are tall, please crawl in because there is a path for children."

I followed the other party's instructions and came to the small cave, crawling in with difficulty.

This was a huge grape plantation. He had seen many videos on the Internet and had a certain idea of ​​similar plantations, but the scene before him still shocked him.

The dense vines entangled with each other and condensed into a giant tree!
Countless sour grapes were hung on the lush paper strips, each of which was as black and shiny as a gem, and even in the dim moonlight, they still reflected the moving light.

He reached out to pick a grape.

"Here!" came the voice.

I turned my head at dawn and my pupils twitched slightly, because he saw a "person" who was entangled in the "giant tree" by vines. It may be inaccurate to say so.

Because one of the roots of the vine full of sour grapes grew out of his ear.

The rhizome is connected to the blood vessels and emerges from the left eye socket.

At eight in the morning I could see his blood vessels moving with the beating of his heart, and with every movement the roots struggled, as if drawing his blood.

"What's wrong with you?" He looked at the other person.

It has a pitiful appearance of skin and bones, a hunched body, and hands and feet that are no longer human. The fingers and toes have turned into the roots of vines, which are splitting and growing into the soil.

After looking carefully, he realized that in addition to this man, there were many grape vines around that barely maintained their "human form". There were more than a dozen of them, no, there were dozens, or even hundreds!

Every vine has a life.

"As you can see," the man who couldn't tell the difference between a man and a woman spoke, "There was a plague in our village, and then a doctor who was good at healing came and used blood therapy to heal us. But it was just a scam, he contaminated our blood with the blood of magic monsters, and then planted us in the ground, our blood would grow grapes, they would use this fruit to make wine, which is his favorite food.

"But now outsiders have started to appear here. It seems that there are not many living people in the Fox Cave anymore."

I Shang Zao Ba shook my head: "No, I saw a lot of people when I came here, but they were not in good condition and were very shy." "Really?" The grapevine man thought slowly: "That's good, they should also be receiving blood therapy, just like me at the beginning."

Blood therapy is obviously the culprit that turned Fox Cave into this state, and the so-called doctor is the root of everything.

"Is there any way to save you?"

"My blood only wants to become fruit," said the vine man. "There is no other way, so you have to be careful not to be contaminated by their blood."

“What if it’s contaminated?”

"Then drink fresh blood. Fresh blood will turn you into them, just like those crazy planters."

Lose your mind and become "hospitable", but don't have to survive as a vine.

The undead man nodded. This news made him feel heavy-hearted.

This should be the secret of the fox cave. A novice village actually fell, and other novice villages, NPCs and players knew nothing about it.

“Here are the aphids you asked for.”

He placed the jar in front of the vine man, with some vague guesses in his mind.

"You can pick some grapes as payment," the vine man said. "Don't worry, the grapes grown with our lives are a delicacy and will not hurt you."

The undead who can occasionally see some less critical information certainly know the effect of the sour grapes in front of them. Indeed, apart from making people a little mentally abnormal, there is no other effect.

Judging from the reaction of the old hunter Charles, sour grapes will only make people emotionally agitated.

But when he thought that these were grown using living people, he felt a little resistant.

However, as he moved, a ripe grape was accidentally touched by his shoulder, and the fallen grapes hit the ground. The thin skin could not withstand the impact of the fall, and after hitting the ground, it instantly exploded into clusters of red pulp emitting an intoxicating sweet smell.

The familiar sweet and sour taste startled me. Every time he killed a vineyard grower, a large amount of plasma would burst out of the stomachs of those enthusiastic villagers who couldn't draw a drop of blood from their bodies.

It turns out it’s just grape juice?

Are grapes grown with human blood still considered grapes?

The vine man said, "Would you mind dumping out the aphids? They're necessary if we want to destroy this place."

“It will be painful.”

The other party smiled: "But it will be liberating."

"Can I ask one last question?" I thought for a moment and said, "Who is that doctor?"

"The Scarlet Lady, that's what she asked us to call her when she was helping us with the blood treatment. If you meet her, please run away from her. She is a bloodthirsty demon. If she wasn't addicted to the delicious taste of sour grapes, she would rather taste fresh blood directly. She can turn into a crow, a hound, a toad, and even a venomous snake. She has been wandering around the fox cave."

It was a lady again, but this time he knew more information.

"okay, I get it."

I kicked over two large jars at eight in the morning. Dozens of aphids jumped out, pounced on the grape vines and ate them, killing the grape vine men.

At the last moment, while being bitten by aphids, the man smiled.

The whole vineyard began to tremble and large quantities of sour grapes fell.

A rich, sweet scent filled the air and drifted away into the distance after the wind blew.

In the surrounding area, the hospitable villagers smelled sour grapes and immediately rushed over.

(End of this chapter)