Lin Sanjiu felt that she had slept for a long time.
There were a few times when she was woken up by someone and asked her some questions. She didn't know who the person was, and she didn't even know what she was answering. It was as if there was a bag of water wrapped around her head. Everything was muffled and unclear.
Lin Sanjiu had never been so tired before. Her brain could barely function. Even if someone stabbed her in her sleep, Lin Sanjiu wouldn't be able to wake up.
She didn't know how long she had slept, but the thing that woke her up was her hungry stomach.
The aroma of wheat wafted into her nostrils, tickling her nostrils all the way to her stomach. Lin Sanjiu slowly opened her eyes.
Her vision was immediately filled with a bread bag that was slightly opened.
"See, I told you. You're not dead!" B.Rabbit's smug voice rang out. Then, the bread bag moved as if it was trying to move back. "You can wake me up with food!"
Lin Sanjiu felt as if she hadn't eaten for a year. Now that there was food in front of her, how could she let it run away? She sprang up with a movement that was too fast for someone who had been asleep for a long time. She pressed the bread bag to the ground.
If Xueqin didn't retract her hand quickly, she would have broken two of her fingers.
"Huh? What's going on? I'm here … Where am I? " Lin Sanjiu tore off a large piece of bread with her teeth, but the bread took up all the space for her tongue to move. "Fat … Fat Kuyan …"
"I know, I know," Xueqin knew what Lin Sanjiu wanted to say, but she couldn't help putting on a look of shame, "Take your time. Let's talk after you finish eating. We still have a lot of time."
After biting her tongue twice, Lin Sanjiu swallowed the whole piece of bread with tears welling up in her eyes. Only then did she have some free time. She looked around her.
She had just woken up, so she couldn't see anything clearly. While she was eating, Xueqin picked up her [Ability Polishing Agent] and shone it around her. Lin Sanjiu finally got a clear view of where she was.
This … seemed to be the interior of a ball.
Looking at the crude handwork and the uneven ground, Lin Sanjiu was too embarrassed to say that it was a Special Item. She walked forward and saw that there was a large plastic sheet hanging around it. He didn't know how many layers of light had been hung, but the surroundings were completely blocked, not even the slightest bit of light could pass through.
Through the plastic sheet, she could hear the familiar "hua hua" sound of the liquid flowing into her ears.
Lin Sanjiu turned her head and stared at her companions, whom she had not seen for a long time. He opened his mouth wide.
"Don't tell me … we went back to the roots?"
"Ah, you're right." The rabbit's fur looked like it had been gnawed on by a dog, but it still couldn't hide the indistinct and obviously suppressed pride on its face. "We didn't do anything. We just built this' boat 'while you were asleep. Now we're going against the current and heading back."
Lin Sanjiu looked at her companions in a daze. She had so many questions that she wanted to ask, but the question that had been stuck in her throat was the first to blurt out, "Where's Hui Chuyan?"
"Don't worry too much. She's not at the apple tree," Xueqin said. She pushed the rabbit, who was about to talk, back to her seat as she was afraid that the rabbit would talk about something else. "Her time limit is up. She was transported away while she was still in the roots."
Lin Sanjiu was stunned for a moment. Then, she remembered that Hui Chuyan did tell her that her time limit was almost up. However, it was still too sudden for her to come so early.
"Even though she seemed to be unconscious when she was transported away, it's still better than being absorbed by the apple tree." When Xueqin said that, she couldn't help shuddering despite her usual expressionless face. "Those things are really weird …"
"After you fell asleep, we didn't know what was going on, so we rested for a few days … In the end, we saw those snake-faced people eating apples …" One of the twin sisters added in a low voice. Somehow, it sounded like she was feeling guilty.
"If we continued to stay there, we were worried that the snake-faced people would find us sooner or later." Her tone sounded like she was trying to defend herself.
"Sigh …" The other twin sister seemed to be the elder sister. All of a sudden, she let out a long sigh.
They weren't the only ones who looked a little depressed. Even Snow Cherry looked embarrassed. Her face was so red that it could be seen through her beard. Xueqin glanced at them and pursed her lips coldly. It was obvious that she knew why they were like that, but she didn't want to say it out loud.
In the end, it was B.Rabbit who spoke.
"Those snake-faced people looked very angry. They dragged away the other corpse that you probably killed. They even checked the apple tree from top to bottom. It wasn't easy for us to hide from them … After they left, we woke you up and interrogated you a few times. Finally, we figured out what you know and what happened. "
B.Rabbit seemed to be a little embarrassed when he said that. After a while, he cursed, "That bastard is so useless. I'm not going to cover for him!" Then, he continued, "After knowing the effect of the meat apple, Error Code 517 took the opportunity when we were cutting off the tree bark to build the boat to …"
"He secretly ate two meat apples."
Amidst the sound of flowing liquid, a young man's calm voice came from outside the plastic sheet. Lin Sanjiu was shocked.
It was only then that she realized that Error Code 517 wasn't in this' ball '.
She only knew the five people randomly named through B.Rabbit, so she wasn't familiar with them. The light inside the ball was dim, so she didn't notice that one of them was missing.
"Why … why is he outside?" Lin Sanjiu was shocked. "What … is going on?"
This time, even B.Rabbit didn't say anything with an ugly expression on his face.
The awkward silence lasted for a few seconds before the young man outside the ball boat answered her. His voice seemed to be deliberately maintained in a calm and flat tone, "… Sister Lin, let me say it. They are ashamed of me, so they don't want to talk about it. "
"Sister Lin, we've been together for a few days. Have you seen my ability? That's normal because my ability isn't anything special … Oh, don't ask me what it is. It's all in the past anyway. "
"I've had enough of relying on others for help and holding them back. Since there was such an opportunity. Why don't I fight for it? In any case, those people are as good as dead … I can't suffer for nothing, can I? "
Lin Sanjiu listened to him blankly. She had never expected that among the companions she had rescued, there would be two of them. There were actually people who chose to eat those meat apples …
"You don't have to eat all of them. You only need to dig out the parts with the bulging veins and live reactions and eat them. That's enough." Error Code 517's tone was still forcefully calm. "Sure enough, it didn't disappoint my expectations. The two meat apples I ate gave me a great return … This price is worth it. I think it's worth it. "
Before Lin Sanjiu could say anything, Snow suddenly spoke in a hoarse voice, "What about us? To you, are the few of us not as important as those two abilities? "
There was a moment of silence outside the ship.
After a while, Error Code 517 spoke again. He seemed to be chuckling, "Brother Snowy … If it weren't for my two abilities, would we be able to swim all the way back? I don't care what you think of me … After all, we are friends and Sister Lin is my savior. No matter what, I will pull the ship back to the surface. "
It was only then that Lin Sanjiu understood why the ship could go against the current. It actually relied on 517 to pull the ship from the outside!
This time, even Lin Sanjiu was speechless. Rabbit obviously looked down on what he did, but he had to rely on him to get out. With the current situation, it was no wonder that Rabbit looked so aggrieved.
After waiting for a long time, no one in the ship spoke a word. Lin Sanjiu vaguely heard 517 sigh outside before he fell silent.
The sound of flowing liquid was the only sound that accompanied them for the entire journey.
The journey back was much longer than when they came. Error Code 517 seemed to be working himself to the bone. Every day, other than coming in to eat something, he didn't even sleep. He would go back to the outside to pull the ship. Lin Sanjiu tried to persuade him a few times. However, she was silenced by the estranged look on 517's face.
"Forget it, everyone has their own fate," Lin Sanjiu said to herself.
She had been unconscious for more than a week. After they traveled for almost a month, they finally learned from 517 that the light in the root was getting brighter. It seemed that they were nearing the surface.
They followed the direction Lin Sanjiu gave them. They walked all the way to the place she had dug out. When they were almost at the end, they broke the hard skin of the root and returned to the world.
When the long-awaited sunlight once again shone on their bodies, almost everyone felt as if they had been separated from reality for a lifetime.
Error Code 517 disappeared on the same night he escaped. He didn't say goodbye to anyone.
"Actually, I didn't reprimand him too harshly …"
"Maybe he can't get over it," Lin Sanjiu sighed softly as she rubbed the rabbit's head, which seemed to be in a daze.
Right now, there was something else that was a little urgent.
Just as she thought about that, she heard a cry from not far away, "Sister Lin, you are finally back! We're starving to death! "(To be continued.)
PS:
"Oh my god, I finally finished the second chapter. It was a little rushed … I don't think I handled the ending very well. I will go back and edit it tomorrow."
The kid on the other side of the phone remembered to clear the memory so that the edited chapters could be displayed.
Speaking of which, the traffic over the past two days is so high that I can die without regrets. If I told Winter Goddess Liu Ye that a good person will live a peaceful life, would you guys think that we had just exchanged seeds … (Huh? What kind of joke is this? Why would I know?)
I would like to thank the wholesaler, Fantastical Dream, for the 3 protective amulets and update tickets, Daydream Yaya's sachet (She must be another one of God's readers, haha), and Cloud 7 for their protective amulets and comments! I have lost a few tips. I will make up for it tomorrow!
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