In the process of running fast, the silver light of [Ability Polishing Agent] shook into a constantly shaking ball, which made people unable to see the surroundings clearly - but even with just that glance, Lin Sanjiu knew that he was now
What you should do is run quickly.
When the dark shadow first enveloped her, her sense of crisis did not arise at all.
Because the shadow is so big, it even exceeds the range that the polishing agent can illuminate, and blends into the darkness far away, making people temporarily unaware that this is actually a living thing——
It wasn't until Lin Sanjiu turned around subconsciously and made eye contact with the thing behind her that she became dumbfounded.
How many times in a person's life can he see a... mantis that is four or five stories high?
Lin Sanjiu raised the light in his hand a little higher, which happened to illuminate its two eyes that were as gray as dead mud balls - obviously because of living in the darkness, the eyes had degenerated - the mantis seemed to have something.
In response, as soon as the light shone up, a long and curved black shadow suddenly shot down from mid-air.
Even a fool knows what that thing is - judging from the size of this mantis, if it is hit by its two scythes, it will probably turn into a pulp immediately.
Lin Sanjiu didn't even dare to look at it, turned around and ran away. In the darkness, she didn't know if there were other dangers lurking in the darkness around her, so she had no choice but to hold her breath and run towards the place where the giant apple was -
-At least she didn't find anything strange about Apple after looking at it for a long time just now. It's safer than other places!
There was a heavy "rumbling" sound immediately behind her, and it sounded like a building rising out of the ground and chasing her. This mantis's eyes were obviously degraded, but the offensive of the sickle was more precise than the others -
Lin Sanjiu's large front paws narrowly missed her body several times, and the wind knocked her to the ground. She rolled around in a hurry, got up and continued running.
As for fighting, Lin Sanjiu had never even thought about it.
Not to mention that the light was so dim that she couldn't take advantage of it. Even if she just demolished a building of the same size and wouldn't fight back, it would be enough trouble for her!
The apple was farther than she imagined - this section of the road actually took more than ten minutes at Lin Sanjiu's speed. After barely dodging a few more screams of wind behind her head, the mountain swayed violently like water waves.
In the silver light, she finally got closer to the apple.
Lin Sanjiu suddenly felt that she had been surprised too early.
If she hadn't seen a clear outline from a distance just now, I'm afraid she wouldn't even be able to recognize what it was now - looking up from the bottom of the apple, there was only a hazy, huge black shadow drawn out in the darkness.
A faint curve.
How big does this have to be...?
As she was marveling in her heart, Lin Sanjiu never stopped. She used her maximum speed and almost instantly, she was at Apple's feet.
...Eh?
She paused for a moment, and then she felt something strange.
The rumbling sound just now disappeared, and the wind that would scream from time to time also disappeared - she turned around and saw that the blurry huge black shadow not far away stopped in place, representing the shadow of the mantis head on the left and right
After turning around, he didn't catch up.
Because it was inconvenient to carry the [Ability Polishing Agent] while running, Lin Sanjiu held it tightly in her hand. At this time, the silver light leaked out from between her fingers, and was covered by the darkness.
It was so quiet that I couldn't see anything clearly.
Not far away, the shadow of the mantis moved, as if hesitating for something, and then slowly began to retreat - and after a while, it completely disappeared into the endless darkness.
Lin Sanjiu felt goose bumps all over her body.
She didn't dare to look back.
Isn’t there just Apple in the back?
...What is it that makes that praying mantis feel in danger?
Every cold hair that stood up on the back of Lin Sanjiu's neck wanted to be like an antenna, fearfully listening for the movement in the air.
I listened carefully, and there was silence behind me.
Lin Sanjiu was afraid of disturbing anything, so she turned around very slowly bit by bit. Facing the blurry darkness, she slowly and silently raised her hand and opened her fingers - the silver light suddenly returned to freedom, dyeing it instantly.
A small area in front of my eyes lit up.
...At first glance, she only thought the skin of this apple was a little strange.
It is neither red nor green, and the skin is very thick at first glance, with a fleshy pink color that makes people feel a little disgusting for some reason. It was probably not short when it fell from the tree. At Lin Sanjiu's feet,
She could also see the black spots that had become stale, like large patches of mildew.
Although this apple looks weird, it doesn't seem dangerous...ah——?
Before he could finish what he was saying, the apple suddenly swayed from side to side. Lin Sanjiu thought something was going to happen to it, and was about to jump out, but saw that it didn't come towards him, but straight up.
He soared into the air and left the ground as if he was flying up.
"This..." Lin Sanjiu steadied herself and spat out one word.
Why did Apple suddenly take off?
While she was still confused in her heart, a dazzling light suddenly lit up from nowhere, making the surroundings look like daylight on the snow. Compared with it, the [Ability Polishing Agent] was like dull pearlescent light.
It's not worth mentioning - the light came so suddenly that Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but close her eyes. After half a second, she finally forced herself to open her eyes again and looked around her with half-closed eyes.
In mid-air, there was a face staring directly at her.
Lin Sanjiu's whole body suddenly felt cold.
The apple that suddenly flew up turned out not to be flying, but was picked up by this "person" and held in his hand.
The reason why the mantis suddenly retreated is also clear: it is not that there is anything wrong with the apple, but that it discovered this giant "person" standing behind the apple through some unknown means, so it panicked and couldn't even see the person in front of it.
He didn't even want the prey anymore, turned around and ran away.
...It was said to be a human being just because Lin Sanjiu couldn't think of any words to describe it.
This is a flat face, and the hard horny skin splits at the bottom of the face, which makes people realize that it is a mouth. Its mouth is very long, and the edge is deeply opened to the side of the ears - if it has ears
words.
Whether it was the lines on the skin or the emotionless eyes that belonged to cold-blooded creatures, Lin Sanjiu was reminded of snakes.
However, under the snake's face, there was a hand with five slender toes that was grabbing an apple. At Lin Sanjiu's eye level, she couldn't tell what body part it was: it was too big.
There was no head visible from the front and back, only a piece of skin covered with brown and black patterns, with a hard keratin texture emerging. Each naturally formed small round spot on the skin was as big as her head.
It was obviously in a bent-over state, because as soon as Lin Sanjiu glanced at it, he was completely unable to make even the last sound: behind this snake-faced man, there was something floating on a distant high place.
There are many similar faces. As for their bodies, because they are too far away, they can only be seen dimly as outlines in the mist-like air.
She felt the soles of her feet were cold and she didn't dare to move. She didn't know what these weirdos were going to do with her next. With such a difference in size, Lin Sanjiu felt that her resistance would probably be fruitless.
However, after a long while, the snake-faced man straightened up and turned his gaze. Lin Sanjiu was stunned, and the huge horny skin in front of him suddenly began to move, with patterns crawling past his eyes, and there was also a sound coming from under his feet.
There was a slight tremor—it seemed like it was turning around and leaving.
With no time to think about why, Lin Sanjiu hurriedly turned around and ran away like that praying mantis. She ran until she reached an almost safe distance and plunged into a few plants. Only then did her heart seem to resume beating again.
Now that there was light, she could see clearly: these plants, which were half a head taller than her, were just ordinary grasses.
Rather than saying that I am surprised, it is better to say that this is expected.
Lin Sanjiu smiled bitterly, thought about it, and almost understood. For this snake-faced man, Lin Sanjiu was only as big as an ant at most. Although the snake-faced man was looking in this direction,
If not for bending down and looking carefully, who would have found an ant hiding in the grass?
She felt that her mind was in a mess due to the repeated accidents - she took a steady breath and quietly stuck her head out.
... She had to raise her neck to the limit so that her eyes could barely cross the grass on the ground and clearly see the situation in the distance in the air.
Just as Lin Sanjiu guessed, there is no sky here.
Shrouded very high above her head was a rugged rock formation; under the reflection of the light ball in the hand of a snake-faced man, the light and dark transitions between the rocks became increasingly clear in the harsh shadows of the lines.
Thousands of meters down from the rock dome, there are several tall apple trees - of course, from Lin Sanjiu's point of view, she could only see a part of it; she still saw the snake-faced man lifting his hand just now
The apple in her hand was pointing to a few trees and seemed to be saying something to her companions. Then she guessed that the apples probably fell from the trees.
Not only the apple, but she also fell from the nearest apple tree——
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but think of this idea when he saw a long knife mark carved on the tree trunk as tall as a cliff.
Under the light of day on the snowy ground, the praying mantis had long since disappeared; looking around, there was nothing else. Lin Sanjiu glanced at the snake-faced people in the distance who did not know what they were saying to each other, and suddenly emerged from the grass.
He got out of the apple tree and ran quickly towards the apple tree.
In the extreme temperature hell, she had climbed thousands of meters of cliffs; now climbing this tree trunk, which was no worse than a cliff, was not that difficult - except that she had to always pay attention to her surroundings to avoid being attacked by some huge creature.
Besides, Lin Sanjiu's climb to a branch went surprisingly smoothly.
At the end of this branch, two or three identical pink apples were hanging; without the stale gray-black color, they looked even more disgusting.
...The roots of the tree have absorbed so many creatures on the other side of the planet just to produce these strange fruits?
Lin Sanjiu stared at the big apples with shiny flesh, full of doubts in her heart.
Judging from the time it took for the rabbits and others to be sucked into the root, they are probably still somewhere in the trunk at this moment... But how to find them?
Just when she was lost in thought, a hand with long five toes suddenly stretched out from nowhere and pulled down an apple, causing the branches to shake violently - if Lin Sanjiu hadn't been so powerful at the moment.
The branches were so small that the branches were like the Golden Gate Bridge to her, and she had to shake them down.
The flat snake face appeared from the other end of the tree, and it was unknown when it came nearby.
Lin Sanjiu shrank her head in fright. Seeing that it was not looking in her direction, she bravely took a look - although this guy had a pair of arms, its body still looked like a snake, but
The muscles in the upper half of the snake's body are unusually developed, reminiscent of human chest and abdominal muscles.
The snake-faced man didn't realize at all that there was a little thing observing him - it only saw the apple in its hand at the moment, and seemed very satisfied. Then it opened its big mouth, and the whole face was suddenly divided into two,
A whole apple disappeared from its throat in one fell swoop.
When it closed its mouth, a piercing cry faintly reached Lin Sanjiu's ears through the skin.