Lin Sanjiu stood up slowly and scanned her surroundings again.
That's right … It was just a small forest with about a dozen trees surrounding an empty space in the center. The canopy of the trees and the leaves formed a large 'well', and sunlight shone through the 'well'. This kind of forest wasn't common, and the more she looked, the more certain she was that she was right. Everything was the same as the last time.
You can't find two leaves that are exactly the same in nature, but you can find two trees that are exactly the same?
Lin Sanjiu couldn't think of a second explanation other than someone setting a trap.
However, how did the person who set the trap know that she would rush out from the direction of the town at this moment? Or could it be that the target was someone else and she was just unlucky?
Ever since she entered this place, one mystery piled on top of another. Trying to find the answer from each mystery was like trying to dig a tunnel through the mountains with a tree branch.
She finally succeeded after repeatedly summoning her card. Unfortunately, she could only summon a normal long coat. It wasn't even a Special Item.
Lin Sanjiu, who didn't have anything she wanted, had no choice but to walk toward the edge of the forest as if nothing had happened. She would arrive at the grassland outside the forest after one or two steps. The forest wasn't far from the town. If she could rush out and run at full speed, she should be able to return to the town within ten seconds. Even though her Evolved Abilities were dormant, a starving camel was still bigger than a horse. After all, she hadn't completely degenerated into a normal person.
The question was, could she get out?
Lin Sanjiu thought to herself as she tried to walk out of the forest.
Even she didn't expect that her first step would be so smooth. The forest behind her was just like any other forest in the world. It was silent and unmoved, allowing her to rush into the grassland. She had prepared several responses for different situations in her mind, but none of them worked.
Even if everything was just an illusion, Lin Sanjiu had to struggle to the end in this illusion. She sprinted all the way to the entrance of the town before she dared to slow down. She ducked behind a truck and peeked her head out. She found that the small forest was still sitting in the grassland. There was nothing out of the ordinary.
Lin Sanjiu retracted her head and let out a sigh of relief. She quickly put on the long coat and zipped it up to her chin. Then, she covered herself with the coat and hat. Since she had no other choice, this was the best disguise she could muster.
Just as she was about to continue walking into town, she paused and looked out of the truck again.
The small forest was a little closer than before.
The branches and leaves trembled, and the treetops undulated. The entire grove was moving up and down, as if there were countless tiny winds pushing them from all directions. Only when one's gaze shifted to the roots of the trees would one discover that it wasn't the wind blowing on the grassland. It was the tree in front that had stood up and left the ground.
A pair of feet appeared under the tree.
It was as if someone had put on a tree-shaped stage suit. Only a pair of feet could be seen, and it was dragging a group of trees behind it. As it walked, the tree sat down, as if it wanted to rest for a while, and the feet disappeared.
After a second or two the tree heaved up, and again there was a little tread of feet, and the woods came swarming toward the town.
What … what was that?
When Lin Sanjiu recalled that she had rushed out from beside the pair of feet, she felt an inexplicable sense of disgust. Just then, her vision was blocked by a truck door that was pushed open.
A driver jumped out of the truck and slammed the door shut. He seemed to have noticed Lin Sanjiu's gaze, so he turned his head and saw the small forest that was swarming toward the town.
He paused for half a second, and when he turned around, his expression was so calm that it was as if the tree was born with feet.
Before they crossed the dirt road, the truck driver glanced at Lin Sanjiu and said, "Is that your friend? Is he here to look for you? "
Lin Sanjiu was shocked. Before she could process what he said, the truck driver had already walked away.
There was a message in his words, just like the conversation she had with the man in the red T-shirt. However, this time, she could almost feel the shape of the message through the words. She could even sense that it was very important. "What is it?
No, that's not right. It's not just a message. "
Lin Sanjiu clenched the thought tightly in her mind, not daring to let it go. She quickly returned to the truck and scanned her surroundings.
Since the truck driver thought that the small forest was here to look for her, it meant that the small forest could walk into the town, right?
She was already at the edge of the town, and there were only a few buildings nearby. No matter which direction she went, the small forest might catch her from afar. Lin Sanjiu looked at the back of the truck driver and suddenly had an idea. She called out to him, "Hey, wait for me!"
As she strode toward the truck driver, she saw from the corner of her eye that the forest was still swaying toward the town. It was getting closer.
The truck driver was tall and stout, so Lin Sanjiu could use him as a shield. Now that she was dressed differently, she might be able to hide herself if she had another companion. Not only would she have to slip away from the small forest, but she would also have to hide from the man in the red T-shirt.
"Brother," Lin Sanjiu tried her best to smile, "What a coincidence. I'm going this way too. Let's go together?"
The people here were friendly, at least on the surface, so Lin Sanjiu believed that the truck driver would not reject her.
"Sure, but isn't your friend here to look for you?" The truck driver hesitated for a moment. "Don't you want to wait here?"
Lin Sanjiu swallowed her reflexive question, "What is that?" She had a lot of questions, but she couldn't seem to ask any of them.
"No, I'm not waiting," she said vaguely, "Let's go now."
The truck driver did not seem to notice that Lin Sanjiu had been hiding herself in the outline of his body when they were walking. She didn't even dare to swing her arms wider than his.
There was a small farm on the other side of the dirt road. There were a lot of chickens walking around in a large low fence, picking food from the ground. There was also a row of pens behind the farm. A few pigs and a cow stood under the eaves, watching numbly as the two of them approached the fence.
Lin Sanjiu sneaked a glance over the truck driver's shoulder and was stunned. The small forest had disappeared.
It had only been a few seconds, and the forest wasn't moving very fast. How could it suddenly disappear from the town?
The truck driver obviously noticed her movement. "Ah, I get it now." He slapped his forehead and said, "Old acquaintances don't necessarily mean they are friends … Why? Did they have a conflict in the past?"
"Where did it go?"
Lin Sanjiu was full of doubts, so she didn't have time to answer him. The truck driver didn't seem to care. He continued, "Sigh, I understand. There are many familiar faces in a place like the symposium, not to mention you."
Lin Sanjiu was so shocked that she almost stopped in her tracks.
"The symposium is real?
What does he mean by "not to mention you"? "
Lin Sanjiu felt like she was a blind person groping an elephant. She had already figured out the shape of many parts of the elephant. If she put them together, she would be able to find the answer to the riddle. The words of the red T-shirt, the truck driver, and the small forest that could move, all of them swirled in her mind.
She even fell into a trance.
She looked back. There were only a few pedestrians on the dirt road in the town, and the small forest on the grassland seemed to have never existed.
"This symposium …" Lin Sanjiu pondered as she asked in a low voice, "Did you see any newcomers?"
"Yeah. I don't know what's going on today, but there's a newcomer besides you. He's looking for a place to stay. I don't see anyone like him in years."
Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat. Just when she was feeling lucky that she met a truck driver who had seen the fat man, she heard her luck take a turn.
"Unfortunately, I haven't seen him, so I don't know what he looks like," the truck driver said.
"Then, how did he know there was a newcomer here —"
Just as the question floated in her mind, a bolt of lightning struck her, illuminating all the scattered details and clues in her mind. The water stain on the stone road, the fat and ugly man, the trapped Puppeteer, the man in the red T-shirt saying that the symposium was going to be long, and he wasn't afraid of missing it for a while. "Old acquaintances don't necessarily mean they are friends" …
Almost all the dots were connected by a single line. No matter how strange the shape was, she had no choice but to accept the answer. Now that she had the answer, everything was so clear and simple. Lin Sanjiu felt ashamed that she didn't think of it sooner.
Lin Sanjiu now knew why Puppeteer was captured.
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