Doomsday Paradise

Chapter 173 An apple a day keeps doctor away
"What the hell are you doing—"

In the process of running at high speed, the silver light of [Ability Polishing Agent] shook into a swaying ball, making people unable to see the surroundings clearly—but even with just that glance, Lin Sanjiu knew that he was now What to do is run.

When the black shadow first enveloped her, she didn't even feel a sense of crisis at all.

Because the shadow is too big, even beyond the range that the polishing agent can illuminate, and it melts into the darkness far away, so that people don't realize that it is actually a creature for a while——

It wasn't until Lin Sanjiu turned around subconsciously and met the eyes of the thing behind him that he was stupid.

In one's life, how many times can one see... praying mantises that are four or five stories high?
Lin Sanjiu raised the light in his hand a little higher, and it just happened to illuminate its two gray and white eyes like dead mud balls—obviously because the eyes have degenerated because of living in the dark—the mantis seemed to have some problems. Sensing, the light had just shone, and a long, curved black shadow pierced down from mid-air.

The fool also knows what it is - judging by the size of this praying mantis, if it is hit by its two sickles, it will probably become a smashed ball immediately.

Lin Sanjiu didn't even dare to take another look, and turned around and ran away.In the dimness, she didn't know if there were other dangers lurking in the darkness around her, so she had to hold her breath and run towards the huge apple in front of her - at least she looked at it for a long time just now, but she didn't find anything unusual about the apple Yes, it is safer than other places!
Immediately behind her came a heavy rumbling sound, which sounded like a building was coming out of the ground and chasing her.Even the eyes of this praying mantis have degenerated, but the attack of the scythe became more precise every time - the front paws, which were bigger than Lin Sanjiu's whole body, narrowly brushed against her body several times, and the wind knocked her to the ground. She rolled around in a hurry, turned up and continued to run.

As for fighting, Lin Sanjiu didn't even think about it.

Not to mention that the light is too dark to take advantage of it, even if it is just demolishing a building of the same size that cannot fight back, it is enough for her to work hard!

Apple was farther than she imagined—this distance took more than ten minutes at Lin Sanjiu's speed.After barely dodging the screaming wind several times behind her head, in the silver light shaking violently like water waves, she finally gradually approached the apple.

Lin Sanjiu suddenly felt that he was surprised too early.

If she hadn't seen a general idea from a distance just now, I'm afraid she wouldn't even be able to recognize what it was now - looking up at the bottom of the apple, there was only a hazy, huge black shadow drawn out in the dimness. A faint curve.

How big is this...?
While marveling in his heart, Lin Sanjiu didn't stop on his feet.She took out the maximum speed, and almost in an instant, she had already rushed to Apple's feet.

……Eh?

After her footsteps paused, 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 huge blurry black shadow not far away stopped in place, representing the shadow of the praying mantis head. Turned around, but did not 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, scattered silver light leaked out from between her fingers, and was covered by the darkness. I was so stuck that I couldn't see everything clearly.

Not far away, the shadow of the praying mantis moved, as if hesitating for something, and then slowly started to retreat—after a while, it completely melted into the endless darkness.

Lin Sanjiu had goosebumps all over his body.

She was a little afraid to look back.

Isn't there only apples behind?
...What on earth made that praying mantis feel dangerous?

Every hair that stood up on Lin San's neck after drinking wanted to be like an antenna, frightened and listening to the movement in the air.

He listened carefully, and there was silence behind him.

Lin Sanjiu was afraid of being alarmed, so he turned around very slowly.Facing the blurred darkness, she raised her hand slowly and silently, and opened her fingers——the silver light was free again, instantly brightening a small area in front of her eyes.

... At first glance, she only felt that the skin of this apple was a little weird.

It was neither red nor green, and the skin looked very thick, with a flesh-pink color that somehow made people feel a little disgusting.It must have been a long time since it fell from the tree, and at Lin Sanjiu's feet, she could still see patches of black that had turned stale, like large patches of mildew.

Although this apple looks weird, it doesn't seem to be dangerous... huh?
Before the words in his heart could be finished, the apple suddenly swayed left and right. Lin Sanjiu thought it was about to undergo some abnormal changes, and was about to jump out with a kick, but saw that it didn't come towards him, but went straight It rose up into the air, and left the ground like a soaring.

"This..." Lin Sanjiu stabilized his body, and spat out a word in a daze.

How could the apple suddenly fly?

When she was still puzzled, a dazzling light suddenly appeared from nowhere, reflecting the surroundings like snow and day. Compared with it, the [Ability Polishing Agent] was like a dim pearl. It's not worth mentioning - the light came so suddenly, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help closing his eyes, and after half a second he finally forced himself to open them again, squinting and looking around.

In mid-air, a face stared straight at her.

Lin Sanjiu felt completely cold all of a sudden.

The apple that flew up suddenly did not fly up, but was picked up by this "person" and held in his hand.

The reason why the mantis retreated suddenly was clear: it wasn't that there was something wrong with the apple, but that it didn't know how to find this giant "person" standing behind the apple, so it panicked and even saw the giant "person" standing behind the apple. The prey is gone, so turn around and run away.

...It is said that it is a human being, but it is only because Lin Sanjiu can't think of any words to describe it for a while.

It was a flat face, with the hard horny skin splitting open beneath it before one realized it was a mouth.Its mouth is very long, and the brim cuts deep to the side of the ears - if it has ears.

Whether it's the lines on the skin, or the pair of eyes that are emotionless and unique to cold-blooded creatures, Lin Sanjiu thinks of snakes in a trance.

However, under this snake face, there is still a hand with long five toes that is holding an apple.At Lin Sanjiu's line of sight, she couldn't tell what part of her body it was: because it was too big, she couldn't see her head from front to back, and there was only a piece of skin covered with brown and black patterns, showing the texture of hard horny, Each naturally formed small round spot on the skin was as big as her head.

It is obviously in a state of bending down, because Lin Sanjiu glanced at it, and couldn't even make the last sound: behind this snake-faced man, there is still floating on a distant high place. Many similar faces.As for their bodies, because they were too far away, they could only vaguely see a silhouette in the misty air.

She only 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 not be fruitful.

However, after a while, the snake-faced man straightened up and turned his gaze away.Lin Sanjiu was stunned for a moment, the huge horny skin in front of him suddenly started to move, and along with the pattern of knots, it crawled past in front of his eyes, and there was a slight tremor under his feet - it seemed that it was turning around and leaving.

Before he had time to think about why, Lin Sanjiu hurriedly turned around like that praying mantis and ran until he reached a safe distance, plunged into several plants, and his heart seemed to resume beating again.

Now that there is light, she can see clearly: these plants, which are half a head taller than her, are just ordinary grasses.

Not so much surprise as it was expected.

Lin Sanjiu smiled wryly, thought for a while, and almost understood.For this snake-faced man, Lin Sanjiu is at most the size of an ant. Although the snake-faced man's eyes are facing this direction, if he didn't bend down to look carefully, who would find an ant hiding in the grass? Ants in the house?
She felt that after repeated accidents, her mind became a mess——she breathed steadily, and poked her head out quietly.

... She had to keep her neck up to the limit, so that her eyes could barely pass over the grass on the ground, and she could see clearly the situation in the middle of the sky in the distance.

Just as Lin Sanjiu guessed, there is no sky here.

Looming very high above her head was a jagged rock formation; illuminated by a ball of light in the hand of a snake-faced man, the blocks of rock alternated in light and dark, and became clearer in the harsh shadows.

A few kilometers down from the rocky dome, there are several tall apple trees—of course, from Lin Sanjiu's perspective, she can only see a part; The apple in her hand was pointing to a few trees and seemed to be saying something to her companions. She only half guessed that the apples probably fell from the trees.

Not only the apples, but she also fell from the nearest apple tree——

Seeing a long knife mark engraved on the tree trunk as tall as a cliff, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help having this thought.

Under the white light on the snowy field, the praying mantis just now had long since disappeared; I looked around, but there was nothing else.Lin Sanjiu glanced at the snake-faced people who were talking to each other in the distance, and suddenly got out of the grass and quickly ran towards the apple tree.

In the extreme temperature hell, she had climbed thousands of meters of cliffs; climbing this tree trunk, which is not much worse than the cliff, is not a difficult task at all - except that she must always pay attention to her surroundings to avoid being attacked by some huge creatures Besides, the process of Lin Sanjiu climbing onto a branch was unexpectedly smooth.

At the end of this branch, there are two or three identical flesh-pink apples hanging; without the stale gray-black, they look even more disgusting.

...The roots absorbed so many creatures on the other side of the planet, just to bear these strange fruits?

Lin Sanjiu stared at those big, fleshy apples, full of doubts.

Judging from the time when the rabbits were sucked into the rhizome, they are probably still somewhere in the trunk at this moment... But how to find it?

Just when she was in a daze, a hand with long five toes suddenly stretched out from nowhere, pulled down an apple, and immediately caused the branch to shake violently—if Lin Sanjiu hadn't It was so small that the branch seemed like the Golden Gate Bridge to her, and it had to be shaken by this blow.

A flat snake's face appeared from the other end of the tree, and it didn't know when it came nearby.

Lin Sanjiu shrank his head in fright. Seeing that it wasn't looking in his direction, he took a look boldly—although this guy had a pair of arms, his body still looked like a snake. The upper half of the snake's body is extremely muscular, reminiscent of human pectoral and abdominal muscles.

The snake-faced man didn't notice that there was a little thing watching him at all - it only had the apple in its eyes at the moment, and seemed very satisfied.Immediately, it opened its mouth wide, and its entire face was split in two, and a whole apple disappeared in its throat.

When it closed its mouth, an ear-piercing scream came faintly into Lin Sanjiu's ears through the skin.

　Please let me first apologize to everyone!

Two days on the weekend, I posted a leave note, saying that the update will be resumed on Monday...but I don't know why it was not sent out, and I didn't find it, causing everyone to wait for nothing...I really didn't interrupt the update for no reason. ...

In addition, under the reminder of my friends, I found out that the great god @冬冬的柳叶 also gave me a tip, so excited, thank you for the sachet!Does the master have time to read? It really surprised me. If you have any suggestions, please private message me~!

Finally, I would like to sincerely thank Concubine Ni for the peace talisman and No. [-] scratching his head for the peace talisman! (name←_←)
　
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