Chapter 59

"Village Chief, do you have any blank white paper? Could you also help me find a pen, please?" Lin Xiao turned around and asked Wang Guoqiang.

"Sure, I have some here. I'll get them for you, just wait a moment." Wang Guoqiang nodded and turned to fetch the pen and paper.

Lin Xiao took the pen and paper from Wang Guoqiang and began to think carefully. Following the inspiration that flashed in his mind, he started to draw bit by bit.

He first traced the first picture, copying all the lines on it. Lin Xiao traced each of the nine pictures one by one, copying all the lines from each.

Wang Guoqiang, seeing Lin Xiao's actions, also knew what he was trying to do. In the past, there were smart people who had done the same, eventually forming a strange flower, a type of flower that had never been seen before. However, they couldn't proceed further after this step.

As all the lines were traced, the different lines from various positions formed a flower. The petals were large, resembling those of a king flower, while the stem was thin.

Lin Xiao looked at the drawing in his hand, feeling that he had seen it somewhere before, but something seemed off, though he couldn't pinpoint what.

Frustrated, he stared at the drawing in his hand. Since he felt he might have seen it before, it must be mentioned in the system's data. Lin Xiao delved into the data, searching for a similar strange flower.

After comparing, he found that only one flower resembled the drawing in his hand, called the Yinyuan Flower.

Yinyuan Flower: One of the rare flowers, a plant that grows naturally. Its petals resemble those of a king flower, blooming once every eighty years. It belongs to the special category, and each time it blooms, it causes a riot among all animals and humans within a hundred miles, driving them to seek mates frantically. The strong aphrodisiac effect, if absorbed into the body without yin-yang balance, leads to death within ten days.

Half a month after blooming, the flower bears a fruit called the Huizheng Fruit, which can extend the lifespan of ordinary people, hence its name.

"Wow," Lin Xiao drew a cold breath upon reading the description. There was such a thing, where the flower and the fruit were completely different, with no apparent connection, yet both had astonishing effects.

After reading the description and the picture, Lin Xiao continued with his task. He took out another sheet of white paper and compared the nine-line drawing with the data in his mind.

The nine-line drawing had many unnecessary lines that were not in the data. Lin Xiao tried to redraw those unnecessary lines on a new sheet of paper.

Looking at the drawing in his hand, Lin Xiao extracted all the unnecessary lines. At this moment, "Mr. Lin, why are you tracing the lines from the fifth picture again?" Wang Guoqiang, who had been watching, couldn't help but ask when he saw Lin Xiao trace the fifth picture again.

"Is that so?" Hearing Wang Guoqiang's question, Lin Xiao compared the drawing in his hand with the fifth picture. He realized that the extracted lines were identical to the fifth picture.

It seemed that eight of the lines formed the Yinyuan Flower, while the other one might be about something else, Lin Xiao thought, stroking his chin.

Half an hour passed, and Lin Xiao kept staring at the extracted lines, but he couldn't form a picture, no matter how hard he tried.

"Mr. Lin, why are you staring at these two characters?" Wang Guoqiang asked, puzzled, as he watched Lin Xiao stare at the paper for half an hour.

"Characters? It seems I was too focused on the details. Who said it had to be a picture?" Lin Xiao slapped his forehead, suddenly enlightened, and said to Wang Guoqiang, "Village Chief, thank you. I finally figured it out."

"I still don't understand. Why are you thanking me, Mr. Lin?" Wang Guoqiang scratched his head, confused.

"Village Chief, call me Lin Xiao or Xiao Lin in the future. 'Mr. Lin' sounds too formal," Lin Xiao smiled, seeing Wang Guoqiang's expression, but didn't explain further.

"That won't do. I'll still call you Mr. Lin," Wang Guoqiang shook his head.

"I've come here, and you've helped me a lot. We'll be neighbors in the future, so it's fine," Lin Xiao reasoned. After all, they were only about four to five hundred meters apart, which could be considered neighbors.

"Alright, I'll call you Xiao Lin then," Wang Guoqiang relented, seeing Lin Xiao's insistence.

"Then, Uncle Wang, please take care of me in the future," Lin Xiao smiled, seeing Wang Guoqiang finally agree.

"Mr. Lin," Wang Guoqiang couldn't change his habit immediately and called Lin Xiao "Mr. Lin" again. Under Lin Xiao's gaze, "Oh, Xiao Lin, look at me. Did you figure out anything?"

Lin Xiao looked at the drawing again, this time with a calm mind. The lines formed two characters: 'Guardian.' There was no further explanation, so Lin Xiao was a bit puzzled.

Could it be telling future generations to guard the Yinyuan Flower? Or is there a guardian of the Yinyuan Flower, warning future generations to be careful?

Regardless, Lin Xiao was determined to go in. Missing such a rare flower would truly be a regret, and he wanted to add it to his collection.

Thinking again, Lin Xiao reviewed all nine lines, this time looking at them as characters. Surprisingly, he found characters hidden in the first, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth pictures. When read together, they formed a sentence: "Beware of the flower guardian." This must be the entire code, Lin Xiao thought.

If his guess was correct, the Yinyuan Flower had its guardian, making it much more difficult to obtain. He needed to prepare.

However, Lin Xiao didn't reveal his findings to Wang Guoqiang, only saying that he had reached his limit in deciphering the code. Wang Guoqiang didn't doubt it, as no one had solved it in so long, and Lin Xiao had already done a great job.

This was a shocking matter, and Lin Xiao felt it was best not to tell others, as no one else would recognize the Yinyuan Flower.

With his mind full of thoughts, Lin Xiao bid farewell to Wang Guoqiang and walked back to the villa alone.

Back at the villa, he saw the Zijin Mastiff holding the remote, watching TV, not even noticing Lin Xiao's arrival. It was fixated on the TV, which was showing "Animal World." He wondered if the Zijin Mastiff could understand it.

Recently, the Zijin Mastiff had been going out on its own to find breakfast and lunch, only returning home for dinner, greatly reducing Lin Xiao's expenses.

The Zijin Mastiff's meal portions had increased from a small amount to at least three pounds of meat per meal. With three meals a day, that was at least thirty pounds of meat a day, and over a month, it added up. Now, Lin Xiao only needed to prepare its dinner, saving time and effort.

After playing with the Zijin Mastiff for a while, Lin Xiao went upstairs to his bedroom, closed the door, and lay on the bed, thinking about the events of the day.

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