"Look, there's no title... You guys know..."
"So, this is really... the 'Garden of Eden'!"
When Lin Sanjiu finally recognized the environment she was in, her skin began to tremble as she muttered those words under her breath.
As she was too shocked, her eyes were glazed over. She stared blankly at the scene in front of her. Unbeknownst to her, a gigantic figure had appeared behind her and cast a huge shadow over her.
She felt something strange behind her and turned around. She couldn't help cursing softly.
"What the hell?"
Half an hour ago, Lin Sanjiu was still sitting in the capsule, drifting uncontrollably in the mucus.
Her prediction of the "Convergence of Tree Roots" was correct. As the flow of the mucus gradually increased, the current became more violent. From other directions, a large number of black figures were swept into the "river" she was in. Soon, the capsule was filled with all kinds of corpses.
Wave after wave of turbulence surrounded the corpses and hit the capsule, causing it to sway and spin non-stop. For a moment, Lin Sanjiu felt dizzy and her vision blurred. She couldn't see anything clearly. All she could feel was that the flow had suddenly accelerated and she was falling rapidly.
Some of the parts in the capsule were knocked off by the violent waves. As the capsule spun upside down, the parts hit the wall of the capsule one after another. Lin Sanjiu's face was almost disfigured a few times. "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!" Lin Sanjiu's head was down, and her legs were up.
While Lin Sanjiu was in a panic and couldn't even take care of herself, she only realized that the capsule was being attacked after a minute.
The capsule was designed to imprison female posthumans, so it was impossible to open it from the inside. On the other hand, it was not difficult to destroy it from the outside. Just when Lin Sanjiu was on the alert, an indistinct figure rushed through the flow of mucus and struck the capsule door. The joint between the capsule door and the wall of the capsule shook violently.
Lin Sanjiu was startled. She tried to pull the door open, but there was nothing in the capsule that she could use as leverage. Just as she cursed, the black figure rushed forward again. This time, it managed to grab the handle of the door and shook the door vigorously.
This time, Lin Sanjiu could see clearly. The person standing outside the door was a very muscular man. His clothes were torn and tattered, revealing his pale wounds. Only the mask on his head was intact. A pair of long and narrow eyes were staring at Lin Sanjiu through the mask.
— This person wanted to come in!
Lin Sanjiu finally understood what was going on. In this strange tree root, all the creatures that were sucked into it had to rely on their physical bodies, abilities, or maybe one or two Special Items to survive. But no matter what method was used, the corrosive mucus and thin tentacles were enough to make people suffer unspeakably. Most of them couldn't even hold on and had long since become a broken corpse.
In this case, a capsule that could accommodate and protect people like a boat became an extremely coveted item.
The man outside must have reached his limit. He could tell that Lin Sanjiu couldn't hold the door, so he kicked and kicked with all his might. It seemed that he would perish together with Lin Sanjiu if he couldn't get in.
Lin Sanjiu felt that the capsule was about to fall apart after a few attacks from the man. A nefarious flame had long been ignited in her heart. She quickly summoned her sword and stabbed the door once it opened.
Suddenly, a sword appeared from inside the capsule and pointed at the gap of the door. The man stopped and looked around with his long and narrow eyes.
"Bastard, if you dare to come in, I will cut you with my sword!" Lin Sanjiu cursed even though she knew that the man outside couldn't hear her. "If you know what's good for you, get lost!"
The turbulence became more intense. Even though the man had grabbed the door handle, his body was still swaying. He couldn't even keep his balance, so it was almost impossible for him to dodge the sword.
After staring at Lin Sanjiu with his bloodshot eyes for a while, the man finally gave up. He let go of the door handle and swam away with difficulty.
Lin Sanjiu gripped her sword tightly and didn't dare to relax. She only heaved a sigh of relief when the man disappeared from her sight.
But before she could even catch her breath, she felt a strong force coming from behind the capsule. Lin Sanjiu was caught off guard and knocked her head against the wall of the capsule. If she hadn't turned her sword into a card, she would have been the first one to be cut.
Before she could stabilize herself, she felt another powerful kick from the same direction. The pair of long and narrow eyes that had appeared behind her seemed to be surprised that Lin Sanjiu wasn't dead. The moment he regained his strength, he slid and swam toward the capsule.
"Since you want to die, I will grant your wish!"
Lin Sanjiu's heart was filled with murderous intent. She quickly put away the capsule. Her body was immediately submerged in the mucus and she felt a slight prickling pain on her skin. However, before she could draw her sword, the man suddenly swam upward in a panic. Lin Sanjiu was stunned. Then, a tsunami-like turbulence came crashing toward her.
In an instant, all five of her senses lost their function. Her vision turned black, her body ached, and her nose was filled with acid. In the messy feeling, her body was pushed far away by the turbulence and crashed into a hard surface.
"Is this the corpse of some creature?"
Just as this thought emerged from Lin Sanjiu's confused mind, she suddenly felt an emptiness behind her. The hard, wall-like thing had disappeared. A thin tendril pushed her waist and she was pushed forward.
The hard skin of the rhizome had opened.
This "nutritionless" creature happened to be next to the hard skin, and the rhizome almost couldn't wait to squeeze her out. The man in the turbulence in the distance watched this scene with his mouth agape. Then he frantically used both his hands and feet, but in the end, he couldn't get close to the hard skin before it closed.
Outside the rhizome was thousands of meters deep.
"I'm really going to die this time …"
The rhizome kept moving downwards. It had probably reached the core of the earth by now. Lin Sanjiu closed her eyes and waited for the rock layer to crush her to death. Suddenly, she felt her body lighten and was enveloped by a sense of weightlessness.
She opened her eyes when she heard the howling wind. She was so scared that her heart almost leaped out of her chest. She was falling from a great height, and the wind slapped against her body. The stinging pain made her tear up. However, at this moment, nothing could beat the fear of falling to her death. Lin Sanjiu quickly summoned her sword and stabbed it into the pile of things beside her.
The thing might be the wall of a cliff, but unexpectedly, the sword stabbed into it smoothly. Lin Sanjiu immediately slowed down her fall. Even though her body was still falling at a rapid speed, at the very least, she wouldn't die from the fall. Lin Sanjiu gripped the sword tightly with both hands. She saw sparks flying from the friction of the sword, and the edge of the sword was quickly chipped off. The dark shadow that represented the earth was getting closer and closer. Lin Sanjiu decided to let go of the sword and jumped.
Lin Sanjiu's body slammed into the ground. She tasted sweetness in her throat and quickly rolled to the side to lessen the impact of her fall.
Fortunately, the ground she landed on was soft and somewhat elastic. She touched her body and found that other than some bruises on the surface of her skin, there wasn't even a single broken bone.
Lin Sanjiu's heavy breathing took a long time to calm down.
"What … What's going on …" Her mind was a mess. "Aren't we almost at the core of the earth? Why … did I fall from such a high place? "
The sparks were extinguished. Lin Sanjiu was surrounded by darkness. She couldn't see anything.
Lin Sanjiu had seen her fair share of dark places, but she had never seen a place as dark as this one.
Everyone had experienced this before. Even in the darkest place, there would always be a sliver of light. No matter how faint it was, after one's eyes adjusted to it for a while, they would be able to see some outlines. For posthumans, they would be able to see more clearly.
However, there was only pure darkness in this place. There was no light at all. If it weren't for the sparks from the friction of the sword, Lin Sanjiu would have thought that she had suddenly gone blind.
"Huh?"
Lin Sanjiu suddenly shuddered. She felt a drop of cold sweat trickling down her forehead.
She subconsciously put the fragmented clues together.
The roots of the tree were under a shallow layer of soil. The deeper she dug, the thicker the roots became.
After going down for tens of thousands of meters, all the things in the roots converged...
She should be at the core of the earth, but she had fallen from such a high place.
There was no light here. It was like a dead room...
Compared to Nvywa, Lin Sanjiu's intelligence was indeed lacking. However, when the truth was laid out before her eyes, she couldn't help shuddering. She had finally figured out the mystery of the tree roots.
Lin Sanjiu took out the [Ability Polishing Agent] with a trembling hand. The silver light immediately illuminated the space around her. However, as its owner's hand was trembling, the light seemed to be trembling as well.
She didn't have the time to look around. She quickly lifted the [Ability Polishing Agent] and looked above her.
There was only darkness that seemed to devour everything. There was nothing else.
Clang! The [Ability Polishing Agent] fell and rolled on the ground, illuminating a small area around it.
"This is indeed the core of the earth …" Lin Sanjiu said softly. She felt that every word she said was irrational. "However, the core of this planet is … empty."
This world was more like a ball that had its center hollowed out. Hence, when one arrived at the core of the earth, they arrived at a void. After being pushed out by the slime, it was only natural that they would fall.
No wonder the roots grew under the shallow layer of soil. This was because the tree was growing upside down. The roots were on the outermost layer of soil. They absorbed a large amount of nutrients from living things, penetrated through the crust, and transferred the nutrients to the trunk and crown of the tree. The latter two were growing in the empty core of the earth.
Lin Sanjiu guessed that the place she fell from must be the "tree" that she couldn't find.
However, Lin Sanjiu didn't see the tree when she looked around. There were quite a number of tall plants around her. However, they seemed to be some kind of tall herbaceous plants. She had landed on the leaves of these plants.
Lin Sanjiu picked up the [Ability Polishing Agent] and squinted her eyes. She could vaguely see a round black shadow at the end of the silver light. From this distance, she could see that it was about the size of a truck.
"… What is it this time?"
Lin Sanjiu stared at the thing for a long time, but it didn't move. It didn't seem to be a living thing. "Since it's not a living thing, it's much less dangerous …" Lin Sanjiu mumbled to herself as she cautiously walked toward the black shadow.
As she got closer, the light also dyed the object more and more clearly.
It was an apple that was taller than her by half.
It had the unique shape of an apple. It formed a reflective line in the silver light. Even though Lin Sanjiu couldn't see its color or its full appearance, even though the apple was at least twice the size of a truck —
Lin Sanjiu's jaw dropped. She couldn't believe her eyes for a long time. After a long time, she finally managed to mutter a few words.
"So, this is really … the Garden of Eden …"
While she was still in shock, a black shadow that was a few times bigger than the apple quietly approached Lin Sanjiu from the silver light of the [Ability Polishing Agent].
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