The sky in the east gradually brightened. Lin Sanjiu sat cross-legged on the ground and stared into the distance.
She was still sitting next to the bonfire from last night. Beside her were the few backpacks that belonged to Green Melon and the others. She had opened them and found that the things she had given them last night were still in their backpacks.
From the looks of it, they seemed to have been taken away unknowingly.
Even though Lin Sanjiu knew that it was dangerous to sit there, she did not want to move.
In fact, no matter who or what took B.Rabbit and the others, she couldn't wait for that thing to attack her. That way, she could find out where B.Rabbit and the others had gone to and what had happened.
However, Lin Sanjiu was disappointed. She waited until the sun was high up in the sky, but nothing happened. Sunlight pierced through the clouds and shone on the ground, adding some warmth to the chilly weather. She could only hear the rustling of the grass. The world was very quiet.
Lin Sanjiu waited for a while more, feeling impatient. Finally, she couldn't help but jump up. She packed her things and took the initiative to go deeper into the forest.
"Since it didn't come looking for me, I can go look for it, right?"
Lin Sanjiu cursed in her heart as she nimbly jumped down the first ridge. This was also the place where Snow had disappeared. Then, she moved on to the second ridge.
This strange landscape stretched on endlessly, but other than the inconvenience it caused to pedestrians, there seemed to be nothing special about it. After climbing up and down countless ridges, Lin Sanjiu finally felt a little tired. She sighed and sat down on the ground dejectedly.
"Everyone was taken away. Why didn't they come looking for me? Bastards! " She took out a bottle of water and gulped down a few mouthfuls. She had nowhere to vent her pent-up emotions. Suddenly, she kicked a piece of wreckage.
That thing looked like a metal plate, but Lin Sanjiu did not even budge it when she kicked it.
"I don't believe that I can't even do this!"
Lin Sanjiu didn't know where the fire came from, but she really wanted to challenge the metal plate. He immediately stood up, gathered his strength, and gave another fierce kick.
It was not that she was hot-tempered, but ever since she entered the Garden of Eden. She had been through too much. Not to mention the nightmarish darkness of the people in the Garden of Eden, or the grand plan of Nuwa to destroy the human race and rebuild a new species, even the days of wandering and struggling outside, carrying the fate of her companions on her back and worrying about whether they could survive the next day was enough to make one collapse.
Especially when he had no friends to support him. When Lin Sanjiu was suddenly left alone, all the emotions that she had been suppressing, mixed with anxiety and anxiety, erupted at once. After all, no matter what, Lin Sanjiu was just a normal person.
Her emotions might be ordinary, but her strength was extraordinary. Her kick could even overturn a heavy truck. But the strange thing was, the plank-like thing only shook slightly, as if it had grown out of the ground.
"Eh …?"
Seeing this, Lin Sanjiu's turbulent emotions finally calmed down. All that was left in her mind was doubt.
"What is this thing?" Lin Sanjiu knew her own strength very well. The thing in front of her was no more than a meter long and no thicker than a finger. There was no reason that she couldn't kick such a thin and light thing.
"Isn't this the wreckage of a vehicle? It shouldn't be that long. It shouldn't be that hard to pull, right? "
With some doubts, Lin Sanjiu grabbed the edge of the plank and tried to pull it out. The thick plaster that had accumulated on the surface of the plank fell down in clusters, forming a small rain of dust. The dust drenched Lin Sanjiu's face, but the plank did not budge.
Lin Sanjiu stopped and thought for a moment. She called out the [Mosaic Censorship].
Due to her forceful blast, the plank connected to the ground was blasted apart. Rocks and soil flew everywhere, and for a moment, it was so blinding that Lin Sanjiu couldn't see clearly. Lin Sanjiu coughed a few times and patted the soil off her face. Then, she lowered her head and studied the plank under the ground.
It turned out that there was more than one plank. The plank seemed to be a sliding door of something. As she dug through the sliding door, Lin Sanjiu soon discovered that the plank was connected to a large part of the tank.
Even though this was a type of robotic vehicle that she had never seen before on Earth and could only accommodate two people, its extremely intimidating appearance and the densely packed gun muzzles below the cockpit all indicated its combat use.
But even so … It shouldn't be so hard to kick it, right?
Even if Lin Sanjiu didn't dig for the wreckage, she didn't know what to do. She simply dug a few more times and finally, she could vaguely see the cockpit. A humanoid figure was buried about ten meters deep in the soil. The helmet on the figure's head could still be vaguely seen. Below the figure, there was still a small part of the tank that had not been dug out.
"So, it's a dead person."
Even though Lin Sanjiu had experienced so much, she still didn't like seeing dead people. She glanced at it and instantly lost interest. Just when she was about to leave, she suddenly froze. She quickly turned around and patted the soil off the cockpit. Then, she put her face closer to it, trying to get a better look at the dead person inside.
Would a corpse that had been buried in the soil for decades … be so fresh and tender?
Even though she couldn't see clearly due to the dust, she could still vaguely see the white and tender skin underneath the helmet. If she had to say, it couldn't be human skin. That white and tender skin didn't seem to be human. Instead, it was more like … a white radish.
However, it was beyond Lin Sanjiu's imagination to see such a large white radish wearing a helmet and a suit.
Regardless of what it was, Lin Sanjiu would know once she opened it. She placed one hand on the cockpit and the other on the edge of the tank that had sunk into the soil. She activated her ability and a small sandstorm immediately appeared in front of her eyes. The debris of the tank flew everywhere like an explosion.
When the dust finally settled, Lin Sanjiu spat out a few mouthfuls of soil and looked at the 'white radish' with narrowed eyes.
She couldn't figure out what she was looking at even after two to three seconds.
"What … is this?"
She believed that she had seen a lot of the world, but she couldn't figure out what the thing in front of her was no matter how hard she looked.
Lin Sanjiu took a few steps forward and carefully reached out with two fingers to take the helmet off the helmet.
When her gaze fell on the thing below, her hand trembled. The helmet hit the tank with a clang and rolled far away.
So, the 'white radish' wasn't completely white.
At least, she could see some black strands where the hair should be.
Lin Sanjiu endured the churning in her stomach and looked at the helmet carefully. She finally understood.
It was indeed a human.
The driver probably died in the tank during the battle and was buried by the changes in the landscape brought by the passage of time. However, the strange thing was that his corpse was somehow wrapped by a layer of hard, white skin.
Under the hair, through the layer of white skin, Lin Sanjiu could vaguely see the facial features of a shriveled corpse. There were two empty eye sockets that cast a shadow on the white skin. Further down, his neck, torso, and limbs were all wrapped tightly by the layer of white skin.
Lin Sanjiu endured the discomfort she felt as her gaze moved down the white skin. It was only then that she was truly shocked.
Under the corpse's feet, the white skin continued to spread. It formed a thick, rhizomate-like thing. It did look a little like a white radish. The bottom half of the tank was resting on an even larger 'white radish'. It was as wide as a road and could allow ten people to walk side by side on it. Compared to it, the 'white radish' that was wrapped around the corpse was like a whisker.
After a few decades, the gigantic "white radish" had grown together with the war chariot. The ground that Lin Sanjiu blasted open only revealed a small part of the "white radish". The "white radish" continued to grow forward, and Lin Sanjiu had no idea how long it was.
Lin Sanjiu stared at it blankly for some time. Then, without saying a word, she started to dig frantically.
She moved very quickly. She grabbed another plank from the tank and used it as a tool. Soon, she dug a long trench along the 'white radish', exposing everything underneath to the sunlight. However, she did not stop. It was as if this was the only thing she wanted to do. After digging for three to four hours, she threw down the plank with a pale face and ran back.
There were a few mountain ridges behind her, and they were higher than the others. Lin Sanjiu did not dare to take a single breath. She crawled on all fours until she reached a higher spot. Then, she looked down.
After three to four hours of digging, she had uncovered the surface of a large piece of soil.
Under the surface of the soil, there were many layers of intertwining giant white rhizomes. She couldn't see the top or the end of the coiled rhizomes. The shallowest part of the rhizomes was only a finger's length away from the surface of the soil.
These large rhizomes were also covered with countless smaller roots — some were as long as a person, some were only as long as an arm, some were wrapped in dried corpses, and some were wrapped in animals that could no longer be identified.
There was no doubt that these roots were alive. When Lin Sanjiu accidentally touched them, they would tremble slightly, but that was all.
"Damn it, this isn't a pocket dimension at all —" Lin Sanjiu felt goosebumps all over her body. She immediately turned and ran. She ran straight to the spot where Snow Cherry and the others had disappeared.
She finally understood. All the missing people were still at the same spot. (To be continued.)
PS:
Thank you, Big Baddie, for your pink ticket support ~! You guys have a lot of pink tickets recently. Is it the season for pink tickets?
Speaking of radishes, I bought a bag of peaches today (Does it matter?). I bought 8 peaches for 10 dollars. I washed them and ate them after I got home. Oh my god, they taste as bad as they can get. They are all red and tender. They don't have any integrity as peaches!
I asked Hera, and I told her that they taste horrible. I will send them to you, but she said she didn't want them.
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