"What the hell is going on?!"
As Lin Sanjiu ran, the silver glow of the [Ability Polishing Agent] became a wobbly ball, making it hard for her to see her surroundings clearly. However, even with that one glance, she knew that she had to run as fast as she could.
When the shadow first shrouded her, she didn't feel any sense of danger at all.
The shadow was so big that it exceeded the range of the light from the [Ability Polishing Agent]. It blended into the darkness, so Lin Sanjiu didn't realize that it was a living thing.
When Lin Sanjiu turned around instinctively and her eyes met with the thing behind her, she was dumbfounded.
How many times in one's life could one see a... praying mantis that was four to five stories tall?
Lin Sanjiu raised the light in her hand a little higher. Coincidentally, the light shone on the mantis's eyes, which were as white as dead mud balls. It was obvious that the mantis's eyes had degenerated due to living in the dark. The moment the light shone on the mantis, a long and curvy shadow shot down from the sky.
Even an idiot knew what it was. Judging from the size of the praying mantis, if Lin Sanjiu was hit by its two scythes, she would be reduced to a pile of mush.
Lin Sanjiu didn't even dare to look at it. She turned and ran. In the darkness, she did not know if there were other dangers lurking in the darkness. She held her breath and ran towards the giant apple in front of her. At least, she did not find anything strange about the apple after looking for a long time. Anyway, it was safer than other places!
She heard a loud rumbling sound behind her. It sounded like a building had risen from the ground and was chasing after her. Even though the mantis had degenerated its eyes, its scythe attacks were still more accurate than before. Its front claws, which were bigger than Lin Sanjiu's entire body, brushed past her body a few times. When the gust of wind blew her to the ground, she rolled away in a flurry, flipped herself up, and continued running.
As for fighting, Lin Sanjiu didn't even think about it.
Putting aside the fact that the light was so dim that she couldn't gain any advantage, even if she had to demolish a building of the same size that wouldn't retaliate, it would take her a lot of effort!
The apple was further away than she had imagined. Even with Lin Sanjiu's speed, it took her more than ten minutes to reach it. After barely dodging the whistling wind behind her head a few more times, in the wave-like silver light, she finally gradually approached the apple.
Lin Sanjiu suddenly felt that she had been shocked too early.
If she had not seen it from afar, she would not have been able to recognize what it was. Looking up from the bottom of the apple, there was only a hazy, huge shadow, drawing a faint curve in the darkness.
How big is it …?
As Lin Sanjiu marveled in her heart, she did not stop moving. She ran as fast as she could, and in the blink of an eye, she was already at Apple's feet.
… Eh?
Her footsteps paused, and only then did she feel a little strange.
The rumbling sound had disappeared, and the whistling wind had also disappeared. Lin Sanjiu turned around and saw that the huge blurry shadow had stopped in its original spot. The shadow representing the head of the mantis turned left and right, but it did not chase after her.
As it was inconvenient to carry the [Ability Polishing Agent] while running, Lin Sanjiu held it tightly in her hand. At this moment, the silver light leaked out from the gaps between her fingers, but it was soon obscured by the darkness, so she couldn't see anything clearly.
Not far away, the shadow of the mantis moved a little. It seemed to be hesitating about something. Then, it slowly retreated. After a while, it completely melted into the endless darkness.
Lin Sanjiu felt goosebumps all over her body.
She didn't dare to look back.
[Isn't there only an apple behind us?
… What was it that made that praying mantis feel threatened?
Every single hair on Lin Sanjiu's neck stood up like an antenna, trying to detect any movement in the air.
She cocked her head and listened carefully. It was quiet behind her.
Lin Sanjiu was afraid that she might startle something, so she turned around slowly, bit by bit. Facing the blurry darkness, she slowly raised her hand and opened her fingers. The silver light regained its freedom and instantly lit up a small area in front of her.
… At first glance, she felt that the skin of the apple was a little strange.
It was neither red nor green, and the skin was very thick. It had a slightly disgusting pink color to it. It had probably fallen from the tree for quite some time. Lin Sanjiu could see patches of stale black around her feet. They looked like large patches of mildew.
Even though the apple looked strange, it didn't seem to be dangerous … "Ah?"
Before Lin Sanjiu could finish her thought, the apple suddenly swayed from side to side. Lin Sanjiu thought that it was going to change. Just when she was about to jump out, she realized that the apple did not charge at her. Instead, it rose straight into the air and left the ground as if it was flying.
"This …" Lin Sanjiu steadied herself and uttered a word.
"Why did the apple suddenly fly?"
While she was still puzzled, a dazzling light suddenly appeared out of nowhere and illuminated her surroundings like it was daytime. Compared to the light, the [Ability Polishing Agent] was like a pearl, not even worth mentioning. The light came so suddenly that Lin Sanjiu couldn't help closing her eyes. After half a second, she forced herself to open them again and looked around with narrowed eyes.
She saw a face staring straight at her from midair.
Lin Sanjiu felt a chill run down her spine.
The apple that suddenly flew up wasn't flying. Instead, it was picked up by the "person" and held in his hand.
Lin Sanjiu also understood why the mantis suddenly retreated. It wasn't that there was something wrong with the apple. It was just that the mantis used some unknown method to discover the giant "person" standing behind the apple. That was why it panicked and ran away, abandoning the prey in front of it.
… Lin Sanjiu said it was a person because she couldn't think of a word to describe it.
It was a flat face. The hard horny skin cracked under the face, and only then did one realize that it was a mouth. Its mouth was very long, and the edge of its mouth opened up to the side of its ears — if it had ears.
Be it the lines on its skin or the pair of emotionless eyes that belonged to cold-blooded creatures, they reminded Lin Sanjiu of a snake.
However, under the snake's face, there was a hand with five long fingers that was holding the apple. Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell what part of its body it was because it was too big. She couldn't even see the end of its body. All she could see was a patch of skin covered in dark brown patterns. The hard keratinous texture was visible, and each of the small round spots on its skin was as big as her head.
It was obviously in a crouching position because Lin Sanjiu's gaze swept across the area. She couldn't even make a sound. Behind the snake-faced person, there were many similar faces floating in the sky. As for their bodies, as they were too far away, Lin Sanjiu could only vaguely see their silhouettes in the fog-like air.
She felt the soles of her feet turn cold. She didn't dare to move an inch. She didn't know how these monsters were going to deal with her. With such a huge difference in size, Lin Sanjiu felt that her resistance would be futile.
However, after some time, the snake-faced person straightened its back and turned its gaze away. Lin Sanjiu was stunned. The large keratinous skin in front of her suddenly began to move. As the patterns crawled past her eyes, she felt a slight tremor under her feet. It seemed that the snake-faced person was turning around and leaving.
Lin Sanjiu didn't have the time to think. She turned around and ran like the mantis. She ran until she was a safe distance away and buried her head into a few plants. Only then did her heart start beating again.
Now that there was light, she could see clearly that the plants that were half a head taller than her were just ordinary grasses.
Rather than saying it was a surprise, it was more accurate to say that it was within her expectations.
Lin Sanjiu smiled bitterly. She thought for a while and roughly understood what was going on. To the snake-faced man, Lin Sanjiu was at most the size of an ant. Even though the snake-faced man was looking in her direction, if Lin Sanjiu didn't bend down to look carefully, she wouldn't have noticed an ant hiding in the grass.
Lin Sanjiu felt that her mind was in a mess due to the series of unexpected events. She steadied her breath and peeked her head out.
She had to crane her neck to its limit to see through the grasses on the ground and see the situation in the sky.
Just as Lin Sanjiu had guessed, there was no sky.
High above her head was a jagged rock formation. Under the illumination of a light ball in the hands of a snake-faced man, the rocks became brighter and brighter, becoming clearer and clearer in the harsh shadows.
There were a few tall apple trees a few thousand meters down from the Rocky Dome. Of course, from Lin Sanjiu's angle, she could only see a part of the trees. She saw the snake-faced man raise the apple in his hand and point at the trees as if he was saying something to his companions. That was when Lin Sanjiu guessed that the apple had fallen from the trees.
Not only the apple, but she had also fallen from the nearest apple tree.
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help thinking as she looked at the long scar on the tree trunk that was as tall as a cliff.
The mantis was nowhere to be seen under the bright sunlight. Lin Sanjiu looked around and saw nothing else. Lin Sanjiu glanced at the snake-faced person, who seemed to be talking to each other. Suddenly, she crawled out of the grass and ran toward the apple tree.
When she was in Hyperthermal Hell, she had climbed a cliff that was several thousand meters high. Now, it wasn't difficult for her to climb the tree trunk, which was almost as tall as a cliff. Aside from the fact that she had to keep an eye on her surroundings to avoid being ambushed by some gigantic creature, the process of climbing the tree branch was surprisingly smooth.
There were two identical pink apples hanging at the end of the branch. Without the stale grayish-black color, they looked even more disgusting.
"Did the tree root absorb so many creatures on the other side of the planet just to bear these weird fruits?"
Lin Sanjiu stared at the few shiny apples, her heart filled with doubt.
Judging from the time that B.Rabbit and the others were absorbed into the tree root, they should still be somewhere in the tree trunk … But how could she find them?
While Lin Sanjiu was lost in her thoughts, a hand with five long fingers suddenly appeared out of nowhere and plucked an apple from the tree branch, causing it to shake violently. If it weren't for the fact that Lin Sanjiu was so small in comparison, the branch would have been like the Golden Gate Bridge to Lin Sanjiu. Lin Sanjiu would have definitely been shaken off the branch.
A flat snake-faced person appeared from the other side of the tree. Lin Sanjiu didn't know when he had arrived.
Lin Sanjiu was so scared that she ducked her head. When she saw that the snake-faced person wasn't looking at her, she braced herself and looked at him. Even though the creature had a pair of arms, its body still looked like a snake. However, the upper half of the snake's body was abnormally muscular, reminiscent of a human's pectoral and abdominal muscles.
The snake-faced person didn't notice that a small creature was observing him. At this moment, he only had eyes for the apple in his hand. He seemed very satisfied. Then, it opened its mouth wide, and its entire face was split into two. The entire apple disappeared into its throat in an instant.
When he closed his mouth, Lin Sanjiu could vaguely hear an ear-piercing wail through her skin.
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