[This is anti-theft. Don't buy it if you can't download it again. Also, Sogou and Baidu are all pirated versions. If you can't download it again, I can't help you.]
Lin Sanjiu felt that she had fallen asleep for a long time.
There were a few times when someone woke her up and asked her some questions. She didn't know who the person was, and she didn't even know what she answered. It was as if there was a bag of water wrapped around her head. Everything was muffled and unclear.
She 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.
Lin Sanjiu didn't know how long she slept, but her stomach was the only thing that woke her up.
The aroma of wheat wafted through the air, tickling her nose 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. The bread bag moved as if it was trying to move back. "You can wake up with food!"
Lin Sanjiu felt as if she hadn't eaten for a year. She had food in front of her, so how could she let it run away? She jumped 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 fast enough, 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. All the space for her tongue to move was occupied by the bread. "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 took out her [Ability Polishing Agent] and shone it on her. Lin Sanjiu could finally see where she was.
This … seemed to be the inside of a ball.
Lin Sanjiu was too embarrassed to say that it was a Special Item when she looked at the crude handwork and the uneven ground. She walked forward to take a look and found that there was a large plastic sheet hanging around it. Lin Sanjiu didn't know how many layers of plastic sheet there were, but it blocked the light from entering the room.
Through the plastic sheet, she could hear the familiar "hua hua" sound of the flowing liquid.
Lin Sanjiu spun her head around and stared at her companions, whom she had not seen for a long time. Her jaw dropped.
"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. There were so many questions in her mind that she wanted to ask them. In the end, the question that had been stuck in her throat blurted out first, "Where's Hui Chuyan?"
"Don't worry too much. She's not at the apple tree," Xueqin said. She pushed the rabbit back to its seat as she was afraid that it 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.
It was only then that she remembered that Hui Chuyan did tell her that she didn't have much time left. 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," Xueqin said. Even with her usual expressionless face, she couldn't help shuddering. "Those things are really weird …"
"After you fell asleep, we didn't know what was going on, so we rested there for a few days … In the end, we saw those snake-faced men eating the apple …" one of the twin sisters added softly. For some reason, it sounded like she was feeling guilty.
"If we continued to stay there, we were worried that the snake-faced men would find us sooner or later." Her tone sounded as if she was trying to defend herself.
"Sigh …" The other twin sister, who seemed to be the elder sister, suddenly let out a long sigh.
Not only did the two of them look a little dejected, 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 this, but she didn't want to say it out loud.
In the end, it was B.Rabbit who spoke.
"Those snake-faced men 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 before we figured out what you know. "
B.Rabbit seemed to find it hard to continue. After some time, he cursed angrily, "That son of a bitch 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 advantage of the time when we were cutting off the tree bark to build the boat …"
"… and 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 the '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 person was missing.
"Why … why is he outside?" Lin Sanjiu was shocked. "What … is going on?"
This time, even B.Rabbit didn't say anything, his face dark.
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 now, 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 I have such an opportunity, why shouldn't I fight for it? After all, those people are as good as dead … I can't just suffer for nothing, can I? "
Lin Sanjiu listened to him in a daze. This was completely beyond her expectations. She didn't expect that one of the companions she had rescued would choose to eat those meat apples …
"You don't have to eat them all. You just 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. "You didn't let me down. The two meat apples that I ate gave me a great reward … I think it's worth it."
Before Lin Sanjiu could say anything, Spring Cherry suddenly spoke in a hoarse voice, "What about us? Are the few of us not as important as those two abilities to you? "
There was a long silence outside the ball 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. I will pull the ship back to the surface no matter what. "
Lin Sanjiu finally understood that the reason the ship could move against the current was because of 517 pulling it from the outside!
This time, even Lin Sanjiu had nothing to say. 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.
She waited for a long time, but no one said a word. Lin Sanjiu vaguely heard 517 sigh from outside. Then, the ship fell silent.
The sound of flowing liquid was the only sound that accompanied them all the way back.
The journey back was much longer than the journey to the ship. Error code 517 seemed to be working his ass off. Every day, other than coming in to eat something, he didn't even sleep. He would go back to pull the ship again. Lin Sanjiu tried to persuade him a few times, but she was silenced by the distant look on 517's face.
"Forget it, everyone has their own fate," Lin Sanjiu said to herself.
She had been in a coma for more than a week. After they traveled for another month, they finally learned from 517 that the light in the root was getting brighter. It seemed that they were nearing the surface.
Following the direction that Lin Sanjiu gave them, they moved toward the place that she had dug out. When they were almost at the end, they broke through the hard skin of the root and returned to the world.
When the long-awaited sunlight shone on them again, almost everyone felt as if they had been separated from reality for a lifetime.
Error code 517 disappeared on the same night that he escaped. He didn't say goodbye to anyone.
"Actually, I didn't blame 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.
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