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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 a ball protruding from the apple 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 its abdomen.
Cold sweat broke out on Lin Sanjiu's forehead.
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 peered 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 if Lin Sanjiu could not understand the snake-faced people's language, she could tell from their actions that the little snake-faced person who tried to steal the apple was chased to the other side. It could only rub its hands and stare at the other snake-faced people who were busy picking the apple.
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 apples from the tree, the snake-faced man was not in a hurry to eat them. 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, there were two apples that had been 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 to the apple, the more she was shocked by the unique, meaty texture of the apple skin.
The skin of the apple trembled when there was no wind. Occasionally, a few pores could be vaguely seen on the apple skin. Then, the ripples disappeared.
Lin Sanjiu swallowed and reached out to touch the apple lightly.
"Haa!"
A voice that sounded like it came from nowhere, almost causing Lin Sanjiu to fall. Then, a hoarse and weak voice came from somewhere, as if it was trying its best to speak, "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, save …"
No matter how hard the person inside tried, he could only utter a single word, "Help."
As the snake-faced man slithered back and forth, the tremors on the ground suddenly stopped. Lin Sanjiu immediately regained her senses. She cast a quick glance at a spot not far from her. When she saw that the mountain-like shadow had indeed stopped moving, she rushed to Meat Apple and whispered urgently, "If you want to be saved, you better shut up!"
Meat Apple panted a few more times. It was obvious that it wasn't willing to shut up. However, it seemed that it had exhausted all its energy and couldn't make another sound.
When Lin Sanjiu felt the ground tremble again, she 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 and see?"
Lin Sanjiu thought hesitantly.
Just when Lin Sanjiu couldn't make up her mind, she suddenly felt her body light up.
Lin Sanjiu had always been very careful. Even without the cover of the tree, Lin Sanjiu stood behind the other apple and hid herself in the shadow. However, at this moment, the huge shadow cast by the apple suddenly rose and the light enveloped Lin Sanjiu's body.
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 didn't move with her. It was still facing the direction of the two apples as if it was trying to find 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 didn't 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!"
Obviously, the meat apple couldn't see it!
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 chilling cry of pain. It seemed to realize that it had fallen into the hands of a creature higher up in the food chain. Its skin quivered at a high speed, and it was a dazzling sight. "No … Ahhh … Phew … Don't kill me … There was another person here just now. She —"
It had finally managed to speak fluently, but before it could finish its sentence, there was a cracking sound, and it was broken into two halves in the hands of the snake-faced man. 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 notice it. There were pieces of meat mixed with the unique crimson of human blood. They 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 he broke an apple, the snake-faced men around him only raised their heads to look at him. They didn't say anything.
He licked the apple in his hand. His long, thin, forked tongue was like a knife. In an instant, he cut off a layer of the apple.
After he swallowed a mouthful of the apple, the snake-faced man tilted his head and stared at the apple in his hand. Lin Sanjiu didn't know what he was talking about. The snake-faced man, who had been holding the orb of light in his hand, hurried over. He hissed a few words and led the snake-faced man away.
Lin Sanjiu let out a sigh of relief when she saw that the snake-faced man had gone far away.
After what happened just now, she didn't dare to rush out recklessly. Fortunately, the bark of the tree 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. Most of the apples weren't ripe for harvest yet, so the snake-faced man left them on the tree branch and left with a bunch of them.
After the snake-faced man left, the light disappeared. The darkness seemed to have suddenly remembered this piece of land and charged back. Once again, it 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. Only when she was sure that there were no more sounds around her did she carefully crawl out.
The light from the [Ability Polishing Agent] could only illuminate a distance of about four to five meters. On such a large tree, such a dim light was only slightly better than nothing. After walking through a few empty branches, Lin Sanjiu started to feel anxious. At the very least, she had to figure out what was going on with the apples before she could think of her next step.
She quickened her pace and walked through another two branches. Finally, she saw the blurry shape of an apple in the corner of the silver light.
"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 speaker wasn't used to speaking like this. Every word that Lin Sanjiu was familiar with was mixed with a strange, choppy hiss. Lin Sanjiu couldn't stop her hands from trembling. She forced herself to lift up the trembling silver light and saw the face of the speaker.
The snake-faced man had a deep gaping mouth on his face, as if he was expressing his satisfaction.
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