Cockscomb Flower City.
Unlike the two cities they'd visited before, this place worshipped the cockscomb flower.
It wasn't a plant Xu Huo recognized, but a flower-shaped growth that sprouted from the combs of mutated wild chickens. Photos of "cockscomb flowers" were plastered all over the streets, and they weren't exactly pleasing to the eye.
"Is that a flower? It looks like a bunch of tangled worms." The painted woman voiced her deep confusion.
A local passerby immediately explained that it was because, once, their city had gone to war with another city and been poisoned. When most of the city's population had been infected with a slow-acting poison and left to await death, someone had accidentally eaten a wild chicken with a flower growing on its comb...
"There were times when we went hungry before, but generally no one ate that ugly thing. Not only is it ugly, but the meat all over its body is tangled up like strips of pale, fat worms. You can slaughter it and it'll still wriggle half an hour later. What normal person could eat that? Except for people driven mad by the poison..."
Noticing the two outsiders looking at him strangely, the passerby hurriedly got back to the point. "Who'd have thought that a lucky accident would cure the poison? Once word got around, we recovered and paid them back in kind by poisoning their city with the same stuff. Then we watched them succumb to it."
"But they got lucky. Players don't care whether ordinary people live or die, but we're not heartless enough to watch an entire city die. We had no choice but to make the cockscomb flower public."
"So, now we've renamed our city Cockscomb Flower City, and they've renamed theirs Cockscomb Flower City too. They even founded a