Lin Sanjiu did not know if the snake-faced creature could hear her, but all she could hear was her own heavy breathing.
It was as if her blood had gone numb.
"Onion … Where, did, you, come, from?" The crevice on the snake-faced creature's face deepened, forming a deep, dark, and canyon-like smile.
It seemed to find 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 never expected that the snake-faced creature could speak human language.
Even though she knew that it was an accident, regret swallowed her heart like a venomous snake. "If only I didn't touch that meat apple!" "I was too reckless!"
"What should I do now?"
Seeing that Lin Sanjiu did not respond, the snake-faced man lost his patience. He quickly uncoiled his tail and rose higher and higher. He stared at Lin Sanjiu with a pair of vertical pupils that were as tall as a grown man.
"Where … did you come from?"
Lin Sanjiu felt a chill in her heart, but she reacted faster than her mind. She 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 smashed into the ground in front of her. It was as if a meteorite had crashed into her. The tree branch beneath her feet suddenly shook violently, and she fell to the ground.
Lin Sanjiu quickly took 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 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. Perhaps she could find a way out of this conversation, "Why can you speak our language?"
Obviously, not every snake-faced creature could speak human language. Otherwise, Lin Sanjiu wouldn't have survived until now. She would have been found when the meat apple made a sound.
Look. This snake-faced man was probably the only one who understood, so he took advantage of the fact that everyone had left to quietly return.
Hearing the answer, the bridge-like shadow above his head retracted with a whoosh. It was such a big thing. It was so fast that Lin Sanjiu couldn't react in time. As they were too close to each other, 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."
Two tall vertical pupils swiveled back and forth. Under the silver glow of [Ability Polishing Agent], it looked even more horrifying.
"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 … are you not in the apple? Where are you from, from? "
Nutrients? In 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". It seemed to be choosing its words too. After a while, it slowly said, "Trees bear fruit, and the fruit contains nutrients. The ones I eat are not nutritious … But, I understand what you guys are saying. "
[No, it can't be what I think it means, right?]
Lin Sanjiu was stunned.
"Some fruits are good, for example —" This was the first time the snake-faced man was talking to 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. It sounded like a human name, "After eating one, she glowed. Some fruits are not good, but I understand what you are saying when I eat them. "
"Every fruit has different nutrients. The leader eats the best. Good. "
Even though the snake-faced man didn't quite understand, Lin Sanjiu immediately understood everything.
In a sense, these apple trees were a "reprocessing machine". The flesh and blood of the posthumans were stirred up into a ball, and flesh apples grew out one by one. Each apple probably contained the ability of a posthuman. After the snake-faced man ate the apple, he would obtain 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 apples could speak. The apple trees must keep the posthumans alive in order to retain their posthumans' abilities. However, it was not their concern whether they could live in human form or live in the form of an apple after mixing the flesh and blood of many different people.
The apple that the short snake-faced man had secretly eaten earlier might have coincidentally been a language communication skill.
Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat when she thought of B.Rabbit and the others who had gone missing. 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 buzzing voice made Lin Sanjiu's body tremble. "Could it be that the nutrients in the fruits 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. I won't affect your 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 cocked his head slightly and looked at her. He didn't say anything for a long time.
The deathly silence felt as heavy as a thousand pounds in the thick darkness.
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 spoke slowly. Suddenly, his body began to sway left and right. "I will eat you. I will also be very powerful. I will become the leader! "
"F * ck you!" 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. It went straight for her.
Lin Sanjiu finally experienced a little 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. Shrapnel flew everywhere and the ground trembled. Fortunately, Lin Sanjiu was prepared. He had already used his hands and feet to roll a good distance away, dodging the attack in a sorry state.
"Do you think I can't do anything just because you are big?" Lin Sanjiu spat angrily. Seeing that the tongue was coming for her again, she really didn't know what to do. 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 [Bubble Blowing Girl] was still here..."
Lin Sanjiu suddenly felt a jolt. Lin Sanjiu shuddered and hurriedly opened her card vault.
When she was ransacking the laboratory in Garden of Eden, she took almost everything she saw. Later on, she converted them into cards, so she had forgotten some things. She glanced at the cards in her hand and an idea came to her.
At this moment, the attack behind her had stopped. She could feel the ground trembling. 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. To prevent herself from being the only person in the dark, she had already put away her [Ability Polishing Agent]. The snake-faced man was also affected by the pitch-black darkness.
"Where are you …? So annoying. I want to crush you … "
The snake-faced man's tongue hissed as it swept across the bark of the tree. Just when the snake-faced man was about to reach its limit, a ball of silver light suddenly appeared on one of the branches and disappeared. The snake-faced man caught sight of the ball of silver light in that split second. Its tongue immediately shot toward the ball of silver light.
However, the next second, the snake-faced man didn't expect something to happen.
Its tongue seemed to have plunged into something shrouded in mist. A burning pain that it had never experienced before suddenly traveled up the tip of its tongue. The snake-faced man hissed violently and instinctively retracted its tongue back into its mouth. Then, it couldn't make another sound.
It fell to the ground and clutched its thick neck tightly. It struggled silently as its long body rolled on the ground, causing the apple trees to tremble slightly. A few apples even fell from the tree. 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 didn't shine far and was already blurry. Lin Sanjiu looked at the hill-like shadow in the distance with her heart in her mouth. She waited for a long time before she heaved a sigh of relief.
She lowered her head to look at the [Microbial Cloud] recycling device in her hand and 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 [Microbial Cloud]. The mist immediately adhered to the snake's tongue and was absorbed back into its body. Lin Sanjiu was afraid that she wouldn't need this recycling device anymore.
Once the snake-faced man stopped struggling and hissing, the area returned to a dead silence. Lin Sanjiu could hear the thumping heartbeat clearly.
"I don't have much time left," Lin Sanjiu thought. "I need to find B.Rabbit and the others before the other snake-faced men find this corpse and find a way to escape." (To be continued.)
PS:
"Thanks to Winter's Willow Leaf, the traffic of the novel has increased tremendously these two days. I'm both happy and scared. Sigh, I'm afraid that the new readers won't like it..."
"What makes me sad and happy is that the celestial chubby cat actually tipped Heshibi and Pink. Thank you very much!" However, as I was excited, I couldn't help but think, "With this, I already owe 6 chapters..."
"I also need to thank Stormy Shadow, Snake Psycho, 110212142600924, and Little White Wall for his [Protective Amulet]!"
"Thank you all for your encouragement. Actually, this book isn't that popular, and there are many parts that are a little heavy (covering face). It's really flattering to receive so much love from all of you!"
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