[Not bad. Even though I wrote it late today, it went well. I reckon I can update it between 12 and 12: 30 pm.]
At this moment, Green Melon and Bai Xiaoke must be feeling extremely anxious and irritated …
The insides of the tree roots were occupied by the continuous gurgling sound of flowing water. When Lin Sanjiu opened her eyes, she realized that the interior of the tree roots wasn't as dark as she had imagined. Instead, the interior of the tree roots was filled with white mist. From time to time, she would see a large number of tentacles swimming past.
Even though Lin Sanjiu felt that it would be a little unfair to her companions if she did that, she couldn't suppress the hunger in her stomach. She took out the leftover bowl of instant noodles from her card deck.
All the items that were converted into cards would remain in the state they were in before they were converted into cards. Hence, when she held the bowl of noodles in her hand, she could smell the aroma of assorted seafood. Before she left, she had hung her backpack full of food on the robot doll's waist. It was enough to last her for more than half a month, so she didn't have to worry about the three people outside starving.
Judging from the feeling in her body, it had been a day since she entered the tree root.
When she first entered the tree root, Lin Sanjiu finally experienced the pain that White Xiaoke and the others had experienced. The sticky mucus was so thick that it was almost impossible to cut it. There were countless thin tentacles wrapped around them. They were like a thick piece of wet paper. They stuck to her head and face. She could feel a slight itch in her ears, eyes, and nose, which meant that the tentacles were trying to drill into her body.
She had already isolated herself from the air. If she wanted to breathe, she had to suck in the little bit of oxygen in the gaps of the mucus. Undoubtedly, this provided an unimpeded path for the tentacles. Soon, her lungs started to burn. She didn't know if something had already drilled into her body.
Fortunately, the tentacles soon lost their passion for her.
When the suffocating, burning, damp, and itch gradually subsided, Lin Sanjiu shifted her eyes and saw a long white tentacle poking out from under her nose. Accompanied by an itch as if someone had scratched her bones, the tentacle swam out of her nose and disappeared into the white mucus.
Lin Sanjiu felt that her mental fortitude had improved once again since she could still calmly suck the hot noodles into her mouth after experiencing such a situation.
She could eat her noodles so leisurely thanks to a capsule that she had collected during the Lunar New Year Tournament.
In order to escape from the tournament, she had turned her capsule into a card. After that, as more and more things happened and she collected more and more things, she didn't even remember that she had such a capsule.
If it weren't for the fact that she was having difficulty breathing and her muddled mind thinking, "If only there was a box to put me in," Lin Sanjiu would probably be struggling right now.
What surprised her the most was that the slightly corrosive nature of the mucus seemed to be nothing to the capsule. Even after drifting for so long, the capsule's walls still looked fine. It was just a little bit discolored.
Perhaps it was because Lin Sanjiu sensed that the capsule could not provide her with any nutrients. Along the way, there were two or three times when she felt that the capsule was being pushed away by waves of mucus.
It wasn't easy for her to get in, so of course, she wouldn't let the tree root "spit" her out. Whenever the capsule started to sway left and right, she would put it away. Then, she took out her long knife and stabbed it into the hard white skin to stabilize her position. After doing this a few times, perhaps the tree root knew the pain and finally acquiesced to the existence of the capsule. It wrapped the capsule in the mucus indiscriminately and let it flow in an unknown direction.
Lin Sanjiu put down the empty bowl of noodles and looked through the capsule's wall to see the rope she had tied to the outside.
She had come up with this idea not too long ago. She could tell where she was going by looking at the direction of the rope. At that moment, the rope was swaying left and right because of the waves of mucus. Lin Sanjiu observed it for a while before she realized that the rope was swaying slightly upward.
"This means that I'm really going downwards?"
Lin Sanjiu raised her head in disbelief. Patches of mucus flowed slowly like a white fog in her vision.
Even though the flow wasn't fast, Lin Sanjiu had stayed inside the tree root for more than a day. If she were to travel one kilometer in half an hour, she should be at least fifty to sixty kilometers underground.
However, there was no change in the white interior of the tree root. Lin Sanjiu was still moving downwards as if she was going to reach the core of the earth.
At such a depth, Lin Sanjiu had no other choice but to sit in the capsule and wait. At this moment, the tree root that was holding her had become her life-saving rope. If the tree root suddenly disappeared, or if she was pushed away by the tree root, she would sink into the deep, pitch-black soil. Before she could suffocate, she would be crushed by the weight of the earth.
Once she thought of this, the leisurely feeling she had when she was eating the noodles disappeared. Lin Sanjiu stared at the ground of the capsule nervously. She was afraid that if she let go of the rope for even a moment, she would be pushed out of the capsule by the tree root.
As the liquid flowed, the "rustling" sound on the capsule repeated for a long time. It made Lin Sanjiu feel as if she was the only thing left in the world.
The capsule swayed gently and rhythmically with the flow of the liquid. If it wasn't for the strange surroundings, it could be considered peaceful.
The fatigue that she had accumulated over the past few days was numbed by the rustling sound. Gradually, it rose from her blood and bones.
Lin Sanjiu's eyelids started to feel heavy. She blinked her eyes and took a deep breath. She thought in a daze, "Even if I fall asleep, I should still feel something when the capsule swayed, right?"
As soon as that thought appeared in her mind, she fell asleep.
Just a second ago, she was warning herself not to sleep. However, when the capsule shook, Lin Sanjiu woke up with a start. Only then did she realize that she had slept for an unknown period of time. The capsule soon stabilized. It seemed that it was just a turbulence. She picked up the bowl of noodles and looked at it. The remaining layer of soup had dried into a hard lump. Due to her bad posture, her legs were numb.
"It has been six to seven hours … Why is there no change?"
She muttered. She turned her head and was caught off guard by a pale, smiling face.
Even though Lin Sanjiu was a seasoned veteran, she still felt goosebumps all over her body. She suppressed the scream that almost escaped her throat and took two steps back. Only then did she realize that the face was outside the capsule.
Lin Sanjiu stared at the face for a full ten seconds before she felt her heartbeat stabilize. She went forward to take a closer look, and her heart clenched.
It was a strange man who had just drifted over along the mucus. There was not a single part of his skin that was unscathed. As he was a heavily protected target, Lin Sanjiu could only see his face. His abdomen and chest cavity had been torn open, and the edges of the wounds were densely packed semicircles. It was obvious that after the countless small holes connected together, the human skin finally could not hold on any longer and split open, and something that looked like fascia floated in the liquid.
The place where the internal organs should have been was now empty. Lin Sanjiu could see his spine. His abdomen was empty, and there was only a ghastly white color.
When this person died, his face was twisted. Looking through the slightly corroded cyst wall, at first glance, it looked like he was smiling.
If B.Rabbit and the others had stayed in the mucus, they would probably be in the same state as this man.
Lin Sanjiu sat down worriedly and stared at her feet in a daze. She tried to recall if they had any abilities or Special Items that could ensure their safety.
"Huh?"
She paused for a moment and turned her head.
The pale corpse of the man outside was still floating outside the capsule.
"Something is wrong..."
Lin Sanjiu tilted her head and tried hard to recall the thought that flashed through her mind.
It wasn't surprising that a dead man drifted over from the roots. After all, the roots had absorbed a large number of living things. However, there was something that caught her attention.
The dead man wasn't here.
If it was the same root that absorbed the living things, Lin Sanjiu would have noticed it. For example, the fat "ground chicken" that floated above her head was her traveling companion.
Since the speed of the mucus flowing through the roots was the same, it was impossible for the thing in front to slow down or the thing behind to catch up.
Lin Sanjiu walked closer and looked at the mutilated face. Her heart raced, and a bold conjecture appeared in her mind.
Lin Sanjiu forced herself to calm down and waited for a while. As expected, the capsule trembled a few more times.
This time, it wasn't the roots that were pushing her out. Some of the tremors lasted for a long time, while some only lasted for a moment. However, not long after the tremors ended, Lin Sanjiu noticed that her surroundings had changed.
The "ground chicken" on top of his head had been swept away by the turbulence, and the dead body had fallen far behind. Suddenly, the number of creatures inside the root increased. They floated around the capsule one by one, and they were all unfamiliar faces that Gu Xijiu had never seen before.
There were a few posthumans who seemed to still be alive. They were using all kinds of life-saving measures. One of them was wrapped in a thick golden ribbon and looked like a mummy. Another person was covered in a black glow and her face couldn't be seen clearly. Even so, they were only slightly better than the corpses.
Lin Sanjiu hesitated for a while, but in the end, she decided not to put them into the capsule.
Even if they were squeezed together, the capsule could only accommodate a little more than two people. Lin Sanjiu had to consider her companions.
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