"Truth be told, I'm not going to meet you guys. Let's all go to sleep..."
Lin Sanjiu did not know if the snake-faced creature could hear her, but all she could hear was her own heavy breathing.
Even her blood seemed to have gone numb.
"Onion... Where, did, you, come, from?" The cracks on the snake-faced creature's face deepened, forming a deep, dark, and canyon-like smile.
It obviously found the language that came out of its mouth very novel. It curled its forked tongue and showed some interest in continuing the conversation, "You, speak."
Lin Sanjiu did not expect that the snake-faced creature could actually speak human language.
Even though she knew that it was an accident, regret swallowed her heart like a venomous snake. "If only I hadn't touched that meat apple!" "I was too reckless!"
"What should I do now?"
Seeing that she did not respond, the snake-faced creature couldn't wait any longer. Its curled tail quickly uncoiled, and its body rose higher and higher. It stared at Lin Sanjiu with a pair of vertical pupils that were taller than a grown man.
"Where... did you come from?"
Lin Sanjiu felt a chill in her heart, but her reflexes were faster than her thoughts. She immediately put away her Ability Polishing Agent and turned to run under the cover of the sudden darkness.
However, just as she took a step, something fell heavily in front of her. It was as if a meteorite had hit her. The tree branch that had been stable under her feet suddenly shook violently, and she fell to the ground.
Lin Sanjiu quickly called out her [Ability Polishing Agent] and saw a black shadow that looked like a bridge above her head. The other end of the line was forked, and it had pierced into the bark of a tree not far away from her. It was the snake-faced creature's tongue.
If she had run a little faster, she would have been the one who was pierced and flattened.
A large droplet of saliva suddenly fell and landed on Lin Sanjiu's body. She was instantly drenched. It was only a droplet of saliva, but it was so powerful that she felt a slight pain all over her body. "If this snake-faced creature wants to hurt me..."
Lin Sanjiu couldn't think of what she should do.
"I... I came out from the tree..." Lin Sanjiu wiped her face as she couldn't outrun it or fight it. She had no choice but to speak. Perhaps there would be a turning point in the conversation. "… Why do you speak our language?"
Obviously, not every snake-faced person could speak the human language. Otherwise, Lin Sanjiu wouldn't have survived until now. They would have already found her when the apple made that sound.
It seemed like this snake-faced man was the only one who understood. That was why he took advantage of the fact that everyone had left to sneak back.
Hearing the answer, the bridge-like shadow above his head retracted with a whoosh. Despite its size, it was so fast that Lin Sanjiu couldn't react in time. As they were too close, Lin Sanjiu couldn't see its expression. She could only hear the snake-faced man hissing, "Tree? That's strange … impossible. "
But he did not answer her question.
She rubbed her ears and said, "I'm not lying to you. I really came out of the tree."
The two vertical pupils rolled back and forth, looking even more terrifying under the silver glow of [Ability Polishing Agent].
"Impossible … All the nutrients should have been absorbed," the snake-faced man stared at Lin Sanjiu and stopped moving. He seemed to be guarding against Lin Sanjiu trying to escape again. "You, why aren't you in the apple? Where did you come from, from? "
"Nutrients? Inside the apple? "
Even though Lin Sanjiu had a vague premonition, she still felt a chill run down her spine.
"Nutrients … are you referring to us humans?" she stammered. She felt as if she had asked a nonsensical question.
However, to her surprise, the snake-faced man denied it.
It stuck out its tongue and uttered a syllable that sounded like "no". After a while, it spoke slowly, "Trees bear fruits, and the fruits contain nutrients. The nutrients I ate were not good … But, I understood what you said. "
"No, it can't be what I thought it meant, right?"
Lin Sanjiu was stunned.
"Some fruits are good, for example —" This was the first time the snake-faced man was conversing with a creature other than a Naga, so he seemed to be in a good mood. When he said that, he uttered a very complicated syllable with his tongue. Lin Sanjiu felt that it was a person's name, "After eating one, she glowed. Some fruits are not good, but I understood what you said when I ate them. "
"Every fruit has different nutrients. The leader ate the most. Good."
Even though the snake-faced man didn't quite understand what he was saying, Lin Sanjiu immediately understood everything.
In a sense, these apple trees were a "reprocessing machine". The flesh and blood of posthumans were mixed together and turned into meat apples. Every meat apple probably contained the posthuman's ability. After the snake-faced man ate the apple, he would gain the corresponding ability.
In the snake-faced man's mind, nutrients were not humans, but the abilities of humans.
If that was the case, it was easy to explain why the meat apples could still speak. The apple trees must keep the posthumans alive in order to retain their posthuman's abilities. However, whether it would live in the form of a human, or whether it would live in the form of an apple after the flesh and blood of many different people were mixed together, was not something they cared about.
The apple that the short snake-faced man had secretly eaten earlier might have coincidentally been a language communication skill.
When Lin Sanjiu thought of B.Rabbit and the others who had gone missing, she felt her heart tighten. She wanted to look at every branch of the tree, but she couldn't move.
"You … said you came from the tree," the snake-faced man spoke again. His voice was so loud that it made Lin Sanjiu's body tremble. "Could it be that the nutrients in the fruit are things like you?"
"That's right!" Lin Sanjiu was a little surprised that the snake-faced man didn't think about the source of nutrients. Then, she tried her luck and said, "I just want to find a few friends of mine. Once I find them, we will leave immediately. We will not affect your eating of the apple … Is that okay?"
When she was drifting in the roots, she had thought of saving a few people within her ability. Now, she had given up on that unrealistic fantasy.
Lin Sanjiu would be satisfied as long as she could save B.Rabbit and the others … However, the snake-faced man tilted his head slightly and looked at her. He didn't say anything for a long time.
Surrounded by the thick darkness, the dead silence seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
Lin Sanjiu became more and more nervous. She quietly put her hands behind her back.
After a long time, the snake-faced man finally spoke.
"You can escape from... the tree. Very powerful." He still spoke slowly. Suddenly, his body began to sway from side to side. "After I eat you, I will also become very powerful. I will become the leader! "
"Motherf * cker!" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help cursing B.Rabbit when the vertical pupil in front of her suddenly rose. Almost at the same time, a black shadow shot out from the snake-faced man's mouth and attacked Lin Sanjiu.
Lin Sanjiu finally had a taste of what it felt like to be hit by the Golden Gate Bridge.
With a loud bang, the tongue plunged deep into the bark of the tree. Pieces of the tongue flew into the air and the ground shook. Fortunately, Lin Sanjiu was prepared. She rolled a good distance away and dodged the attack in a flustered manner.
"Do you think I can't do anything to you just because you are big?" Lin Sanjiu spat angrily. Seeing that the tongue was about to attack her again, she really didn't have a good solution. She leaped and landed on another branch not far away from her.
The moment her feet left the ground, the place where she was standing was smashed into pieces. The familiar mucus splattered everywhere and drenched her as if it was raining.
"I can't keep hiding like this. If only the [Bubble Blowing Girl] is still here..."
Just as this thought crossed her mind, Lin Sanjiu suddenly jolted. She quickly opened her card vault.
When she was ransacking the laboratory in Garden of Eden, she took almost everything she saw. She only converted them into cards after that, so there were some things that she had forgotten. She glanced at the cards in her hand and suddenly had an idea.
At this moment, the attack behind her had stopped. She could feel the tremors from the ground. It seemed that the snake-faced man was circling the tree and searching for her.
As Lin Sanjiu was hiding behind a branch, she was in the snake-faced man's blind spot. In addition, she had already put away her [Ability Polishing Agent] so that she wouldn't be the only target in the dark. The snake-faced man was also affected by the darkness.
"Where are you? You are so annoying. I want to crush you... "
The snake-faced man's long tongue hissed as it swept across the bark of the tree. Just when it was about to reach its limit, a silver light suddenly appeared on a branch and disappeared immediately. The snake-faced man caught sight of the silver light in that split second. Its long tongue immediately shot toward the source of the light.
However, in the next second, the snake-faced man did not expect an unexpected turn of events.
It felt as if its tongue had stabbed into something shrouded in mist. It felt a burning pain that it had never experienced before. The pain traveled up the tip of its tongue. The snake-faced man hissed fiercely and instinctively retracted its long tongue back into its mouth. Then, it could not make another sound.
It fell to the ground and clutched its thick snake-like neck tightly. It struggled silently. Its long body rolled on the ground, causing the apple trees to tremble slightly. A few apples even fell from the tree trunk. After some time, the tremors that resembled a small earthquake finally subsided.
The black shadow that represented the snake-faced man lay motionless on the ground like a mountain.
From one of the branches, a small ball of silver light lit up. The light couldn't shine far and was already blurry. Lin Sanjiu looked at the hill-like shadow in the distance with her heart in her mouth. After waiting for a long time, she finally let out a sigh of relief.
She lowered her head and looked at the [Microbe Cloud] recycling device in her hand. She smiled bitterly.
The simple trap she set up just now was indeed effective. The snake-faced man really stuck its tongue into the small purple mist formed by the [Microbe Cloud]. The mist immediately adhered to its tongue and was absorbed back into its body. Lin Sanjiu was afraid that she wouldn't have to use this recycling device anymore.
Once the snake-faced man stopped struggling and hissing, the area returned to silence. Lin Sanjiu could hear the thumping heartbeat clearly.
"Time is running out," Lin Sanjiu thought to herself. She had to find B.Rabbit and the others and escape before the other snake-faced men found the corpse.
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