"Right now, Green Melon and Bai Xiaoke must be very anxious..."
The insides of the tree roots were occupied by the continuous gurgling sound of flowing water. When Lin Sanjiu opened her eyes, she realized that the interior of the tree roots wasn't as dark as she had imagined. Instead, the interior of the tree roots was filled with white mist. From time to time, she would see a large number of tentacles swimming past.
Even though Lin Sanjiu felt that it would be a little unfair to her companions if she did that, she couldn't suppress the hunger in her stomach. She took out the half bowl of instant noodles she had left from the previous time from her card deck.
All the items that were converted into cards would remain in the state they were before they were converted into cards. Hence, when she held the bowl of noodles in her hand, she could smell the aroma of assorted seafood. Before she left, she had hung her backpack full of food on the robot doll's waist. It was enough to last her for half a month, so she didn't have to worry about the three people outside starving.
Judging from the feeling in her body, it had been a day since she entered the tree root.
When she first entered the tree root, Lin Sanjiu finally got a taste of what Bai Xiaoke and her companions had experienced. The sticky mucus was so thick that it was almost impossible to cut through it. There were countless thin tentacles wrapped around them. They were like a thick piece of wet paper. They stuck to her head, face, eyes, and nose. She felt a slight itch, which meant that the tentacles were trying to drill into her body.
She had already isolated herself from the air. If she wanted to breathe, she had to suck in the little bit of oxygen in the gaps of the mucus. This was undoubtedly an unimpeded path for the tentacles. Soon, her lungs started to heat up. She didn't know if something had already drilled into her body.
Fortunately, the tentacles soon lost their passion for her.
When the suffocating, burning, damp, and itch gradually subsided, Lin Sanjiu shifted her eyes and saw a long white tentacle poking out from under her nose. She felt an itch as if someone had scratched her bones. Then, the tentacle swam out of her nose and disappeared into the white mucus.
Lin Sanjiu felt that her mental fortitude had improved once again after witnessing what had happened to her body with her own eyes. She could still calmly absorb the hot noodle soup into her mouth.
— — The reason why she could eat noodles so leisurely at this moment. It was all thanks to a capsule that he had collected during the Lunar New Year Tournament.
At that time, in order to escape from the competition, she had turned her capsule into a card. After that, things happened one after another, and more and more things were stored in her capsule. She did not even remember that there was such a thing.
Had it not been for the difficulty of breathing and the vague thought, "I wish I had a box to put me in." Lin Sanjiu was probably still struggling right now.
What surprised her the most was that the slight corrosiveness in the mucus seemed to be nothing to the capsule. After drifting for such a long time, the capsule wall still looked fine, just a little bit discolored.
Perhaps he felt that this thing couldn't provide him with nourishment — as he moved forward, he felt that this thing couldn't provide him with nourishment. On two or three occasions, Lin Sanjiu felt that the capsules were being pushed out by waves of mucus.
It wasn't easy for her to get in here. Of course, she wouldn't let the tree root "spit" her out. Whenever the capsules started to sway left and right, she would put them away. Then, she called out a long knife and stabbed it into the hard white skin to stabilize her position. After doing this a few times, perhaps the tree root also felt pain and finally acquiesced to the existence of the capsules. It wrapped the capsules in the mucus indiscriminately and let them flow in an unknown direction.
Lin Sanjiu put down the empty bowl of noodles and looked at the rope she had tied to the outside of the capsule.
She had just come up with this idea not long ago. Lin Sanjiu could tell where she was going by the direction in which the rope swayed. At that moment, the rope was swaying left and right because of the wave of slime. Lin Sanjiu observed it for a while before she realized that the rope was swaying upward.
"This means that I'm really going downwards?"
She raised her head in disbelief. Patches of mucus appeared in her field of vision, flowing like a white fog.
Even though the flow wasn't fast, Lin Sanjiu had stayed inside the tree root for more than a day. If she were to travel one kilometer in half an hour, she should be at least 50 to 60 kilometers underground now.
"However …" The interior of the tree root didn't change at all. Lin Sanjiu was still moving downwards as if she was going to reach the core of the earth.
At this depth, Lin Sanjiu could only sit in the capsule and wait. There was no other way. At this moment, the tree root that contained her had become her life-saving rope. If the tree root suddenly disappeared, or if she was pushed out of the capsule, Lin Sanjiu would sink into the deep, dark soil. Before she could suffocate, she would be crushed by the weight of the earth.
Once she thought of this, the leisurely feeling she had when she was eating the noodles disappeared. Lin Sanjiu stared at the floor of the capsule and her gaze became a little nervous. She was afraid that if she missed the slightest movement, the tree root would suddenly think of her and push her out.
As the liquid flowed, the "rustling" sound on the capsule repeated for a long time. It made Lin Sanjiu feel that she was the only thing left in the world.
The capsule swayed gently and rhythmically with the flow of the liquid. If it wasn't for the strange surroundings, it could be considered peaceful.
The fatigue she had accumulated over the past few days was numbed by the rustling sound. Gradually, it rose from her blood and bones.
Lin Sanjiu's eyelids started to feel heavy. She blinked her eyes and took a deep breath. "Even if I fell asleep, I should feel something when the capsule swayed, right?"
As soon as this thought appeared in her mind, she fell asleep unknowingly.
Just a second ago, she was still warning herself not to sleep. However, when the capsule shook, Lin Sanjiu woke up with a start. Only then did she realize that she didn't know how long she had slept. The capsule quickly stabilized. It seemed that it was just a turbulence. She picked up the bowl of noodles and looked at it. The remaining layer of soup had dried up into a hard lump. Her legs were numb because of her bad posture.
"It has been six to seven hours … Why is there no change?"
Lin Sanjiu muttered. She turned her head and was caught off guard by a pale, smiling face.
Even though Lin Sanjiu had been through hundreds of battles, she still had goosebumps all over her body. She suppressed the scream that almost escaped her throat and took two steps back. Only then did she realize that the face was outside the capsule.
She stared at the face for a full ten seconds. Only then did Lin Sanjiu feel that her heartbeat had calmed down. She went forward to take a closer look, and her heart clenched.
It was a strange man who had just drifted over along the mucus. There was almost no part of his skin that was unscathed. As he was a heavily protected target, Lin Sanjiu could only see his face. His abdomen and chest cavity had been opened. The edge of the wound was densely packed with small semicircles. It was obvious that after countless of small holes were connected, the human skin could no longer withstand the pressure and split open. Something that looked like a fascia floated in the liquid.
The place where the internal organs should have been was empty. Lin Sanjiu could see his spine and his empty abdomen. There was only a ghastly white color.
The man's face was twisted when he died. Looking through the slightly corroded capsule wall, he looked like he was smiling.
If B.Rabbit and the rest had stayed in the mucus, they would probably be in the same state as this man.
Lin Sanjiu sat down worriedly and stared at her feet in a daze. She tried to recall if they had any abilities or Special Items that could guarantee their safety.
"Huh?"
She paused for a moment and turned her head.
The pale man's corpse was still floating outside the capsule. He was still floating outside the capsule.
"Something's not right..."
Lin Sanjiu tilted her head and tried to recall the thought that flashed through her mind.
It wasn't surprising that a dead man drifted over from the roots. After all, the roots had absorbed a large number of living things. However, she couldn't help but notice something.
The dead man wasn't here.
If it was the same root that absorbed the living things, Lin Sanjiu would have noticed it. For example, the fat "ground chicken" floating above her head was her traveling companion.
Since the flow of the mucus in the roots was the same, it was impossible for the thing in front to slow down or the thing behind to catch up.
Lin Sanjiu walked closer and looked at the broken face. Her heart raced. A bold conjecture appeared in her mind.
Lin Sanjiu forced herself to calm down and waited for a while. As expected, the capsule trembled a few more times.
This time, it wasn't the roots that were pushing her out. Some of the tremors lasted for a long time, while some only lasted for a moment. Not long after the tremors ended, she noticed that her surroundings had changed.
The "ground chicken" above her head had been swept away by the turbulence, and the dead body had fallen far behind. The number of living things in the roots suddenly increased. They floated around the capsule one by one. They were all unfamiliar faces that Lin Sanjiu had never seen before.
There were a few posthumans who looked like they were still alive. They were using all kinds of life-saving measures. One of them was wrapped in a thick golden ribbon and looked like a mummy. Another was glowing in a black light. Lin Sanjiu couldn't see their faces clearly. Even so, they were only slightly better than the dead bodies.
Lin Sanjiu hesitated for a while. In the end, she decided not to put them into the capsule.
Even if they squeezed together, the capsule could only accommodate a little more than two people. Lin Sanjiu had to think about her companions.
"I'm sorry. Please hold on for a little longer," she said softly. It was more like she was comforting herself. "Now that all the mucus and living things in the roots have converged, there will be a way out."
PS:
Today's thank you list is so long. I'm so excited ~
I need to thank 941 solemnly (That's it?) Pink ticket from Dessert Classmate, 2 safety amulets from Porcelain Flower (You're so polite, I'm so embarrassed), comment ticket from Queen Mother, another perfume pouch from Grandpa Seafood, safety amulets from Kotorena, peach blossom fan from Telent ~!
The title is just to show that I have read Culture Journey before … It has nothing to do with the content of the chapter...
Lin Sanjiu felt that it wasn't good to post it after she finished writing it. She had only written down her rough ideas in the first draft. The real embellishment and revision came later. If she skipped this step and posted it now, it would be a horrible sight when she looked back.
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