"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 saw 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, Lin Sanjiu would probably be smashed into a pulp if she was hit by its two scythes.
Lin Sanjiu didn't dare to look at it again. 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 take advantage of the situation, she would have to spend a lot of effort just to demolish a building of the same size that wouldn't retaliate!
The apple was further away than she had imagined. Even with Lin Sanjiu's speed, it took her more than ten minutes to reach the apple. She barely dodged the whistling sound of the wind behind her. In the wave-like silver light, she finally 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. It drew an indistinct 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. The howling wind from time to time had also disappeared. She turned around and saw that the huge, blurry shadow had stopped not far away. The shadow representing the head of the mantis turned left and right but 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 seeped through the gaps between her fingers, but it was soon obscured by the darkness, so she could not see anything clearly.
Not far away, the shadow of the mantis moved a little, as if it was hesitating. Then, it slowly retreated. After a while, it completely melted into the endless darkness.
Lin Sanjiu felt goosebumps all over her body.
She did not dare to look back.
Wasn't there only an apple behind her?
… What was it that made that praying mantis feel threatened?
Every hair on Lin Sanjiu's neck stood up like an antenna, trying to detect any movement in the air.
She listened carefully, but there was only silence behind her.
Lin Sanjiu was afraid that she might alert something, so she slowly turned around. 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 pinkish pink color to it. It had fallen from the tree for quite some time. It was right beside Lin Sanjiu's feet. She could also see patches of stale black, 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, so she wanted to jump out. However, the apple did not come for her. Instead, it flew straight up into the sky and left the ground.
"This …" Lin Sanjiu steadied herself and uttered a word in a daze.
"Why did the apple suddenly fly?"
While Lin Sanjiu 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 that was not worth mentioning. The light came too suddenly, so 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.
In midair, a face was staring straight at her.
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. Instead, it 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 wrinkles 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 see the end of its body. All she could see was a patch of skin covered in dark brown patterns. The hard keratinous texture appeared on its skin, and each of the small round spots on its skin was as big as her head.
It was obvious that it was in a crouching position because Lin Sanjiu glanced at it. Behind the snake-faced man, there were many similar faces floating high up in the sky. As for their bodies, because they were too far away, he could only vaguely see their silhouettes in the fog-like air.
She felt the soles of her feet turning cold. She didn't dare to move. She didn't know what these monsters were going to do to 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 started to move. As the patterns crawled past her eyes, she felt a slight tremor under her feet. It seemed that it was turning around to leave.
Lin Sanjiu didn't have time to think. She turned around and ran like the mantis until she was a safe distance away from the creature. She dove into a few plants, and her heart seemed to have resumed its normal beating.
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 like she had expected it.
Lin Sanjiu smiled bitterly. She thought for a while and roughly understood what was going on. To this snake-faced person, Lin Sanjiu was at most the size of an ant. Even though the snake-faced person was looking in her direction, if she didn't bend down and search carefully, she wouldn't have noticed it. Who would notice an ant hiding in the grass?
Lin Sanjiu felt that her mind was in a mess after the series of surprises. She steadied her breathing and peeked her head out.
She had to stretch her neck as far as she could before she could see past the grasses on the ground. She had a clear view of the sky in the distance.
Just as Lin Sanjiu had guessed, there was no sky here.
High above her head was a jagged rock formation. Under the illumination of the light ball in the snake-faced person's hand, the rocks intersected with each other and became clearer.
A few thousand meters down from the rocky dome were a few tall apple trees — of course. Of course, from Lin Sanjiu's angle, she could only see a small part of it. It was only when she saw the snake-faced person raise the apple in his hand and point at the trees as if he was saying something to his companions that she guessed that the apple had fallen from one of 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 knife mark 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 looked at the snake-faced person, who was talking to each other. Suddenly, she crawled out from the grass and ran toward the apple tree.
In Hyperthermal Hell, Lin Sanjiu had climbed a cliff that was several thousand meters high, so it wasn't difficult for her to climb a tree trunk that 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 a large creature, Lin Sanjiu's climb to the 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 sucked into the tree root, they should still be somewhere in the tree … But how do I 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 its 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. (To be continued.)
PS:
Please allow me to apologize to all of you first!
Over the weekend, I sent a notice saying that I would update on Monday … However, I don't know why I didn't send it out. I didn't notice it either. I made you wait for nothing … I really didn't mean to stop updating for no reason …
Also, after my friend reminded me, I found out that Winter's Willow Leaf had also tipped me. I'm so excited. Thank you, sachet! I'm surprised that Winter's Willow Leaf has the time to read. If you have any suggestions, please message me!
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