The soft groan came from the snake-faced person's throat. Lin Sanjiu thought she had heard wrongly through the thick snakeskin. She looked up and saw the apple forming a ball on the snake-faced person's neck. As the ball slid down the snake-faced person's neck, the groan became softer and softer. Finally, it disappeared into the creature's abdomen.
Lin Sanjiu's forehead was instantly covered in cold sweat.
The sound seemed to have alerted the other snake-faced people nearby. They looked in Lin Sanjiu's direction and immediately moved. All of them narrowed their eyes and growled angrily. They quickly moved their lower bodies and moved under the tree where Lin Sanjiu was.
Compared to the others, the snake-faced man who had just eaten the apple seemed a little smaller. Surrounded by several taller snake-faced men, the snake-faced man seemed a little uneasy. It kept nodding its head, and the other end of its serpent tail was also raised. It nodded in the air as if it was apologizing for what it had done.
"What? Why can't I eat these apples? "
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help thinking. Just as she was about to crawl closer to take a look, one of the snake-faced people suddenly turned its head and stared at the branch. Its yellow eyes, which were about the size of a room, were devoid of any emotion. It had a vertical pupil and it was facing Lin Sanjiu.
Lin Sanjiu was startled and immediately crouched on the branch. She hid behind a piece of rough bark and hoped that the snake-faced person didn't notice her.
The vertical pupil was slightly taller than her.
Lin Sanjiu looked through the gap in the bark and saw that the cold, transparent yellow eye paused for a moment before it turned away. It seemed that it didn't notice Lin Sanjiu, who was like an ant. The noise from the snake-faced people continued to come in waves. Lin Sanjiu was deafened by the noise, but she couldn't help feeling lucky.
After a long while, the noise gradually subsided.
Even though Lin Sanjiu couldn't understand the snake-faced people's language, she could tell from their actions that the smaller snake-faced person who tried to steal the apple was chased far away. He could only rub his hands and his eyes were gloomy. Lin Sanjiu watched the other snake-faced people busily picking the apples.
Apparently, they had their own standards when it came to apples. Some of the apples had been plucked, but some were left on the tree. Lin Sanjiu wasn't sure if it was because the apples were not ripe enough or not big enough. In any case, in Lin Sanjiu's eyes, the apples were too big.
After picking the apple from the tree. The snake-faced man was not in a hurry to eat. He just piled them up into a small pile on the ground. Another snake-faced man counted them one by one, probably counting them.
Lin Sanjiu watched as the snake-faced man, who was in charge of picking the apples, swam to another tree. She quickly ran to the end of the branch.
On the branch she was on. Two of the apples were well preserved.
As there were no leaves on the tree, Lin Sanjiu had no cover. When she was close to the apple, she had no choice but to crawl forward. The closer she got, the more she was shocked by the special meatiness of the apple skin.
The skin of the apple trembled like meat. Occasionally, when there was no wind, it would faintly reveal a few pores, and then disappear.
Lin Sanjiu swallowed and reached out to touch it.
"Haa!"
A voice that sounded like it was panting suddenly came out of nowhere. Lin Sanjiu almost fell. Then, a hoarse and weak voice came from somewhere. It sounded as if it had squeezed its life out of it. "Haa, haa, help, help …"
Lin Sanjiu stared blankly at the apple in front of her. Goosebumps rose all over her body. A few vein-like bulging veins appeared on the skin where she touched the apple. As the veins popped out, the voice sounded even more hoarse. Lin Sanjiu couldn't even tell if it was a man or a woman, "Phew, phew. Help … "
No matter how hard the person inside tried, he could only utter the word "help".
As the snake-faced man swam back and forth, the tremors on the ground suddenly stopped. Lin Sanjiu regained her senses. She quickly glanced at something not far away. Seeing that the mountain-like shadow had indeed stopped moving, she hurriedly rushed in front of Meat Apple and said in a low and urgent voice, "If you want to be saved, you'd better shut up!"
Meat Apple panted a few more times. It was obvious that it was unwilling to shut up. However, it seemed that it had used up all its strength. In the end, it couldn't make another sound.
Lin Sanjiu felt the ground shake again. Lin Sanjiu heaved a sigh of relief.
"Is there someone trapped inside?" She muttered to herself. Her voice was so soft that she couldn't even hear herself. "But this apple looks like it's solid …"
"Should I cut the apple open to see?"
Lin Sanjiu thought hesitantly.
Just when Lin Sanjiu couldn't make up her mind, her body suddenly lit up.
Lin Sanjiu had been very careful. Even without the cover of the tree, Lin Sanjiu had been standing behind the other apple, hiding in the shadow. However, at this moment, the huge shadow cast by the apple suddenly rose, and the light instantly enveloped Lin Sanjiu.
Someone had taken the apple away.
She turned her head in a daze and met a tall vertical pupil face to face.
"This time, the snake-faced man must have seen me, right?"
Lin Sanjiu suppressed her urge to scream and slowly took a step back. She did not dare to look away from the vertical pupil for even a second.
After taking a few steps, the vertical pupil did not move with her. It was still facing the two apples, as if it was looking for the source of the sound.
She heaved a sigh of relief and quickly retreated into the depths of the tree.
If she could escape this time, Lin Sanjiu swore to herself that she would only come out after the snake-faced man left.
However, things did not go as she wished.
The apple, which still had a few green veins on it, suddenly moved again. The flesh-like skin quivered a few times, and a few muscles bulged on the apple. The voice screamed again, and this time, it screamed more, "Ahhh … Save me … Liar … Liar … I'm in so much pain …"
Lin Sanjiu's heart thumped. "Oh no!"
It was obvious that the meat apple couldn't see!
The snake-faced man was standing next to the apple, so it heard the sound clearly. Its five long fingers curled in the air, and with a "pop" sound, it pulled the screaming apple to the ground.
The meat apple let out a blood-curdling scream of pain. It seemed to have realized that it had fallen into the hands of a creature higher up in the food chain. Its skin quivered at high speed, and it was a dazzling sight. "No … Ahhh … Phew … Don't kill me … There was another person here just now. She —"
It took a lot of effort for it to speak fluently. Before he could finish his sentence, there was a cracking sound, and the snake-faced man's hand broke it into two halves. Instantly, there was no more sound.
Lin Sanjiu felt as if one of her nerves had been snapped. She covered her mouth and didn't dare to move. A sense of fear that she hadn't felt for a long time welled up in her heart.
From where she was, she couldn't see what was inside the meat apple. The dripping "juice" flowed down the snake-faced man's hand and dripped to the ground. Only then did Lin Sanjiu's attention was drawn to it. It was the unique crimson color of human blood, mixed with pieces of meat that seemed to have just fallen off the apple.
This snake-faced man seemed to have a much higher status than the smaller snake-faced man. Even when it casually broke open an apple, the other snake-faced men around it only raised their heads to look at it. They didn't say anything.
It licked the half of the apple in its hand. Its slender and forked tongue was like a knife, instantly cutting off a layer of meat from the apple.
After swallowing a mouthful of the apple, the snake-faced man tilted its head. It stared at the apple in its hand and said something. The snake-faced man, who had been holding the orb of light in his hand, quickly walked over. He hissed a few words and led the other snake-faced man away.
Lin Sanjiu let out a long sigh of relief when she saw that they had all left.
After what happened just now, she didn't dare to rush out recklessly. Fortunately, the tree bark was uneven, so it wasn't hard for her to find a crevice to hide in.
"I should just wait until they leave..."
Lin Sanjiu thought to herself.
The snake-faced man didn't collect the apples for long. It was obvious that most of the meat apples weren't ripe for harvest yet. The snake-faced man left them on the tree branch and carried a bunch of them away.
After the snake-faced man left, the light disappeared as well. The darkness seemed to have suddenly remembered this piece of land and charged back. Once again, the darkness shrouded the area so tightly that Lin Sanjiu couldn't even see her own fingers.
Lin Sanjiu hid in the crevice of the tree bark and waited for a long time. When she was sure that there were no more sounds around her, she carefully crawled out.
The light from the [Ability Polishing Agent] could only illuminate a distance of four to five meters. It could only illuminate a distance of four to five meters. On such a huge tree, such a faint light was only a little bit better than nothing. After walking through a few empty branches, Lin Sanjiu started to feel anxious. She had to at least figure out what was going on with the meat apple before she could figure out what to do next, right?
She quickened her pace and walked through another two branches. Finally, she stopped at the corner of the silver light. She saw half an apple in the distance.
"I finally found it..." Lin Sanjiu rushed over and muttered to herself, "It's better to be quiet!"
Just as she finished her sentence, a sudden hissing sound pierced through the darkness like a sudden clap of thunder.
"As expected... that apple didn't lie..."
It seemed that the person wasn't used to this way of speaking. Every word that Lin Sanjiu was familiar with was mixed with a strange, choppy hiss. Her hands couldn't stop trembling. She forced herself to lift up the trembling silver light and saw the face of the person who was speaking.
The snake-faced man had a deep gaping mouth on his face, as if he was expressing his satisfaction.
"There's … really … someone here."
PS:
When I woke up today, I was shocked. My results have never been this good! It's all thanks to the great guru, Winter's Willow Leaf, for your recommendation. Thank you for liking and helping me with this novel. If it wasn't for your recommendation, I wouldn't have seen so many new chapters in my life. It's better than any recommendation! Originally, I wanted to send you a private message to thank you, but my account doesn't allow me to send messages in the site, so I could only express my gratitude in the book review section and here!
Also, I would like to thank Life is Like Jade for her A + pink ticket, Big Bad Guy's pink ticket, Little White Wall's 2 protective talismans, Cha Ruchan's sachet, and Empress Dowager and Stepmother's long comments … Thank you all for your support. To be honest, if it weren't for everyone's encouragement, I might not have been able to hold on …
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