You guys say, keep going to the newspaper office, am I afraid of you? I cooked a big bowl of egg noodles in five minutes. How about it, I can’t handle it. I’m eating now. The text only has 400 words. Everything has to wait until I’m full.
Say it again!
The tiny scream came from the snake-faced man's throat. Lin Sanjiu almost thought she had heard it wrong because of the thick layer of snake skin. She looked up and saw an apple on the snake-faced man's neck.
A spherical shape bulged out from its bottom. As the spherical shape quickly slid down, the screams became smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared into its abdominal cavity.
Lin Sanjiu's forehead was immediately covered with cold sweat.
The sound just now seemed to have alerted several other snake-faced people not far away. They looked in this direction, and then immediately moved. Everyone's eyes narrowed, and they let out an angry low roar while rolling around quickly.
He lowered his body and moved to the tree where Lin Sanjiu was.
Compared with the others, the snake-faced man who just ate the apple seemed a little smaller. Surrounded by several taller snake-faced men, he seemed to be a little uneasy. He kept nodding his head, and the one at the other end
The snake's tail was also raised, and it moved bit by bit in the air, as if it was apologizing.
...What? These apples are not allowed to be eaten casually?
Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but have this idea. She was just about to crawl closer to take a closer look, but she didn't expect that a snake-faced man suddenly turned his head without warning and stared at this yellow branch that was about the size of a room.
There was no emotion in his eyes, and a vertical pupil stood straight, facing Lin Sanjiu.
She was so frightened that she immediately fell down on a branch and hid behind a rough protruding bark, hoping that the other party would not notice her.
That vertical pupil is slightly taller than hers.
Looking out from the gap in the bark of the tree, I saw the cold transparent yellow stopped for a while. Don't turn away. You probably didn't find Lin Sanjiu, who looked like a little ant. The noises belonging to the snake-faced people were still high.
A wave of low ground hit Lin Sanjiu, who was deafened by the shock. At the same time, he couldn't help but secretly feel lucky.
After a long while, the noise gradually subsided.
Even if you don't understand the language of the snake-faced people, you can still get a general idea from their actions: the little snake-faced people who stole food were driven to the other side far away, and they could only rub their hands back and forth, with gloomy eyes.
, watching other snake-faced people busy picking apples.
They obviously have a set of standards for apples: some were picked, and some were still left on the tree. I don’t know if it’s because they are not mature enough or not big enough. Anyway, in Lin Sanjiu’s eyes, they are not big enough.
It's on the edge.
After picking the apples from the tree, the snake-faced man was not in a hurry to eat them. He just piled them all on the ground and formed a small pile. Another snake-faced man ordered them one by one, probably counting them.
Seeing the snake-faced man in charge of picking apples swinging his snake tail and swimming towards another tree, Lin Sanjiu quickly ran to the end of the branch on hands and knees.
On the branch where she was, two apples were well preserved.
Since there were no leaves on the tree, Lin Sanjiu had no cover. When she was about to get close to the apple, she had to lie down and crawl forward. The closer she got, the more frightened she was by the special fleshy texture on the apple's skin.
...The trembling, fleshy apple skin will occasionally ripple when there is no wind, vaguely revealing a few pores, and then disappear again.
Lin Sanjiu swallowed and reached out to touch it lightly.
"Aha!"
A sound like a rough gasp suddenly sounded out of nowhere, almost making her slip. Then, a thick, dry and weak voice seemed to be squeezed out from somewhere as if she had fought for her life, "Ah ha, ah ah."
,save,save...”
Lin Sanjiu stared blankly at the apple in front of her. All the hairs on her body stood up where she had touched her. Several vein-like things quickly emerged from the flesh. Along with the protruding veins, the sound came.
It sounded even hoarse, and even men and women could not be distinguished: "...Huha, help..."
No matter how hard the people inside tried their best, it seemed they could only utter the word "help".
When the snake-faced man swam back and forth, the slight tremor caused by the ground suddenly stopped. Lin Sanjiu's rationality suddenly returned to his cage, and he quickly glanced not far away, and saw that the mountain-like shadow was indeed not there.
He moved, hurriedly rushed to Meat Apple, and said in a low voice: "If you want to be rescued, shut up!"
Meat Apple gasped for breath for a few more times, obviously not willing to shut up. However, it seemed that he had exhausted all his strength and was still unable to make any more noise.
Feeling the ground shaking again, Lin Sanjiu breathed a sigh of relief.
"Is there someone trapped inside?" She murmured to herself, her voice so low that she could hardly hear it. "But this apple seems to be solid..."
Do you want to cut the apple open and take a look?
She thought a little hesitantly.
Just when Lin Sanjiu was a little unsure, she suddenly felt a light shine on her body.
... She had always been very careful. Even if there were no leaves to cover her, Lin Sanjiu always stood behind the other apple, hiding herself in the shadow. But at this time, the huge shadow cast by the apple suddenly lifted,
The light instantly enveloped her whole body.
Someone took away the apple.
She turned her head stupidly and came face to face with a tall vertical pupil.
...This time, the snake-faced man definitely saw her, right?
Lin Sanjiu suppressed her urge to scream and slowly took a step back, not daring to look away from the vertical pupils for a moment.
After taking a few steps, the vertical pupil did not move with her movement. It was still facing the direction of the two apples, as if looking for the source of the sound just now.
She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and quickly retreated deeper into the branches.
...If he managed to escape this time, Lin Sanjiu swore that he would wait until the snake-faced man left before coming out.
However, things didn't go as planned.
The apple, which still had a few veins left, suddenly started to undulate again. The flesh-like skin trembled rapidly a few times. After the apple bulged into the shape of several muscles, the voice screamed with all its strength again. This time
, it shouted more content: "Ahhh... come and save me... lie, liar... I feel so hurt..."
Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat and she screamed loudly.
Apparently the fleshy apple cannot be seen!
The snake-faced man was standing next to the apple at this time, and the sound was immediately clearly captured by it. His long five toes curled and stretched in the air, and with a "pop" sound, he pulled down the fleshy apple that kept screaming.
Meat Apple let out a chilling cry of pain, and seemed to realize that it had fallen into the hands of a higher-level creature in the food chain. Its fleshy skin trembled at a high speed, making people dizzy: "No...ah, ah...don't kill."
I...there was another person here just now, her"
It finally managed to speak fluently, but before it could finish a sentence, it just clicked and was broken in half in the hands of the snake-faced man, and there was no sound at all.
Lin Sanjiu felt as if one of her nerves had been cut off. She covered her mouth and did not dare to move. A long-lost sense of fear arose in her heart.
From where she was, she couldn't actually tell what was in the fleshy apple. The dripping "juice" dripped down the snake-faced man's hand and fell to the ground, which attracted her attention. It was unique to human blood.
The deep red color was mixed with pieces of meat, which seemed to have just fallen off the apple.
The status of this snake-faced man seemed to be much higher than that of the little snake-faced man just now. Even if he broke open an apple casually, the snake-faced men around him just looked up at it and said nothing.
It licked half of the apple in its hand, and its slender and forked tongue was like a spatula, instantly shaving off the fleshy apple.
After eating a mouthful of fruit pulp, the snake-faced man tilted his head and stared at the apple in his hand, not knowing what to say. The snake-faced man who had been holding the ball of light in his hand hurriedly approached and hissed.
With a few words, the one eating the apple was welcomed away.
Seeing that they were all gone, Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath.
After the scene just now, she did not dare to rush out rashly again. Fortunately, the bark of the tree was uneven, so it was not difficult to find a crevice to hide in.
"Just stay with them until they leave..."
Lin Sanjiu thought silently.
The activity of harvesting apples by the snake-faced man did not last long. Many fleshy apples were obviously not ready for harvest yet. The snake-faced man left them on the branches and left with a bunch of picked ones.
As the snake-faced man walked away cleanly, the light also disappeared. The darkness seemed to suddenly remember this lost land, and killed it back in one fell swoop, once again covering this space so tightly that no one could see his fingers.
Lin Sanjiu huddled in the groove of the tree bark and waited for a long time. After she confirmed that there was no more sound around her, she cautiously got out.
The bright light of the power polishing agent can only illuminate a distance of four to five meters on such a giant tree. This kind of dim light is only a little better than nothing. After walking through several empty branches, Lin Sanjiu became anxious.
At least she had to figure out what was going on with the meat apple before she could figure out what to do next, right?
She quickened her pace and walked through two more branches. Finally, in the corner of the silver light, she saw half a blurry shadow of an apple in the distance.
"I finally found it..." Lin Sanjiu rushed over and said to himself: "It's better to be quiet here!"
Just as she finished her sentence, a hissing voice suddenly sounded from nowhere, breaking through the darkness like thunder.
"Sure enough...that apple didn't lie..."
It seems that she is not yet proficient in this way of speaking. Every word that Lin Sanjiu is familiar with is mixed with a strange and strange hiss. She can't stop the trembling of her hands, and reluctantly lifts up the violently shaking silver light to see clearly in the light.
the speaker's face.
The deeply split mouth was embedded in the face of the little snake-faced man, as if to express that he was very satisfied at the moment.
