In the early morning, after a heavy rain, Beishan looked even more lush and green.
However, this rain did not make Si Tian and Zhong Ruyue feel that the air became much fresher. Instead, the air was filled with the smell of rust.
Zhong Ruyue's belly was getting bigger day by day. Si Tian would go to the mountain every day to pick some fresh fruits for Zhong Ruyue to eat. He believed that this kind of pure natural fruit would contain rich vitamins and could make up for the lack of vegetable intake.
Before leaving, he noticed that the sundews growing around the stone house had grown significantly larger. What had originally been a palm-sized potted plant had now grown to the size of a full-grown cabbage?!
The tiny pink tentacles had also become much fatter. Si Tian squatted on the ground and watched for a while. Remembering what the group of people who came to the mountain to hunt had said, he decided to get rid of these plants when he came back today. They had grown so big overnight and looked quite creepy. Although the plants in the house were still relatively small, if they grew up, it might be bad for the air in the house.
After saying hello to Zhong Ruyue, Si Tian walked down the mountain.
The mountain road was not easy to walk on after the rain. The two of them had already walked out a road that they often took to go down the mountain. Si Tian was about to walk along that road, but he was surprised to find that the road was no longer there!
No, it’s not that the road is gone, but that the narrow dirt road that was originally walked on has been covered by dense plants.
There weren't any leaves like this when he came down the mountain yesterday. How come so many leaves have grown after a rain? And in just one night?
Fortunately, he was wearing a relatively waterproof jacket and pants today, so he was not afraid even though the leaves of the plants were dripping with water. He pushed aside one plant after another and walked towards the woods where there were fruits.
As he walked, Si Tian felt something was wrong. The route he was familiar with gradually became unfamiliar, and some of the plants and trees he was familiar with also became different from the day before.
Especially the Dicranopteris dichotoma, the most common fern on this mountain. Most of them were less than one meter tall, but now many of them have become as tall as a small tree!
In the past, the edges of this plant had some irregular cracks, but they were not the kind that would scratch the skin. Now those parts have all turned into dark green thorns.
Si Tian touched it with his hand, and the leaf directly pricked his finger and made it bleed!
What is going on?
His strong curiosity drove him to continue walking forward and observing. Although there were thousands of plant species on Beishan Mountain, he had always been confident that he could recognize most of them. But now he was confused. Are these plants really the ones he knew before?
Finally, he came to the place where wild fruits grew. Fortunately, the fruit trees did not seem to have changed much, and the fruits on them were as pleasing as before.
He picked up a homemade pair of bamboo scissors placed next to the tree. He left it there specifically for the convenience of picking fruits every time he came down, as no one would come to take them anyway.
The bamboo scissors successfully cut off a branch full of fruits. Just as he bent down to pick up the branch, he suddenly felt a pain in his back. Then, he saw a fruit rolling around him and stopped.
He breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that a fruit had fallen from the tree and hit him. However, such a small fruit still hurt a lot.
As the second and third fruits fell and gradually hit him, he realized something was wrong. He found that wherever he walked, the fruits would fall in that direction. The falling of fruits stopped until he stepped back a few meters and left the growth range of the tree. But as soon as he took a step forward, the fruit attack came again.
This made him feel a little funny. Could it be that this tree had become a spirit?
Become a spirit, become a spirit?
He repeated the word silently several times, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and ran back madly!
Si Tian is a speed-type mutant, and he should be able to run very fast, but on this mountain full of obstacles, he could only slow down. However, he was too worried about Zhong Ruyue, and his fast speed caused many scratches on his originally sturdy jacket and pants by the hard plant leaves.
He even got his ankle entangled by a vine that suddenly appeared. Fortunately, he had a dagger with him and cut the vine to get out. Looking at the light red liquid on the dagger, he ignored the shock and continued to run to the top of the mountain.
Finally, he climbed to the top of the mountain, and their stone house still looked so quiet standing there. He breathed a sigh of relief and slowly walked back.
"Ruyue, I'm back," Si Tian shouted from afar.
No one answered.
His heart skipped a beat, he pushed open the bamboo door and looked inside, and found Zhong Ruyue sitting upright on the bed facing him.
"Why don't you answer me? Do you know..."
Si Tian looked at Zhong Ruyue. It wasn't that she didn't answer him. Her mouth was opening and closing as if she was saying something, but no sound came out.
Si Tian frowned, and Zhong Ruyue's mouth seemed to be saying: Run.
Run?
Si Tian looked behind him, but there was nothing.
"Do you have a sore throat?"
Si Tian finally took out all the fruits from his pockets and walked forward.
A bloody smell filled my nostrils.
Si Tian looked in horror at the pool of blood flowing from Zhong Ruyue's body, and the dense tentacles lying behind her. Connecting those tentacles were several huge sundews by the wall that had turned dark red!
"Ruyue, Ruyue, don't scare me."
Si Tian took out the dagger from his body and chopped at the tentacles. The tentacles were cut off one by one, but Zhong Ruyue's back was already covered in blood!
"Leave me alone, run"
Zhong Ruyue seemed to have used up all her strength to say this.
"No, Ruyue, Ruyue, don't sleep, I'll go get the medicine box."
Si Tian was about to stand up, but he felt a numbness in his neck. After a burst of pain, he felt that he didn't even have the strength to stand up.
Drosera is a perennial herbaceous carnivorous plant with glandular hairs on its leaves that can secrete dew-like mucus to stick to insects. The leaves then secrete proteases to digest the prey, and insects that cannot escape will be digested and absorbed.
The introduction of the sundew emerged in his mind, and he suddenly felt that he was like a worm, tightly stuck by the mucus on the countless tentacles extending from behind.
He didn't even have the strength to break free.
He finally understood why Ruyue had just said to him: Go quickly.
Because he was in pain at the moment, he wanted to scream, but he had no strength to make a sound.
He also wanted to try to mobilize the supernatural powers in his body, but he found that it was futile...
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