"Captain, aren't you asleep yet...?" Zhu Mu rolled over and almost fell off the tree. Although the ground was no longer muddy and infested with leeches and strange birds, falling like that would still be a serious injury.
"I can't sleep. I keep feeling creepy." Ji Yueyao yawned, rubbed her bloodshot eyes, and looked exhausted. "I keep feeling like there are strange and dangerous things around me, but I don't actually sense any strange things in my mind."
"Hey, Captain, you're just too tired." Zhu Mu stretched, sat up, and yawned. "Captain, your ability is to receive sound waves emitted by other beings around you. You should trust your own ability."
Ji Yueyao frowned, rubbed her heart, and nodded, "You're right, but..."
"Hey Captain, why don't you take a nap first? I'll keep watch for you." Zhu Mu interrupted Ji Yueyao as she was about to say something, "Captain, your dark circles are practically covering your eyes. Why don't you get some rest?"
Is it that serious? Ji Yueyao unconsciously touched the area under her eyes, and finally nodded, leaning against the tree trunk and closing her eyes.
Zhu Mu was relieved when he saw Ji Yueyao go to rest. He sat up straight, constantly on guard of his surroundings. Honestly, there was nothing there at all.
The sunlight gradually dimmed, and Ji Yueyao woke up. She sat up and looked around, only to find Zhu Mu dozing against the tree trunk.
"..." Ji Yueyao sighed speechlessly, looked around, and then took out a compressed biscuit to eat. Fortunately, no danger was approaching them, otherwise, if they had both fallen asleep like this, the strange bird would have eaten them without them even knowing.
Standing up and stretching, Ji Yueyao looked up at the crimson sunset, slightly lost in thought... She had never noticed before how beautiful the sunset was in this world.
She had watched the sunset with her best friend in her previous world, and she never expected that she could see the same magnificent and beautiful sunset again in this new world.
Ji Yueyao blinked, sat down, and stared blankly at the sunset, lost in thought. Even she herself didn't know what she was thinking. Her mind was completely blank…
"Click-click-click—"
The instant the sun's rays fell, a violent sound wave surged through Ji Yueyao's mind. She was stunned, her body reacting before her brain could even send a signal. She got up and pulled the sleepy-eyed Zhu Mu to her feet, saying, "Zhu Mu, wake up right now!"
Zhu Mu was startled and quickly snapped back to reality. "Captain... what's wrong?"
“A massive number of aliens…” Although the power of the sky helped Ji Yueyao suppress the chaotic and complex sound waves in her mind, at this moment she felt that the sheer size of the sound waves was completely overwhelming, and the booming sound even made her dizzy. “The number is absolutely unimaginably vast!”
The sound waves came from all directions, in front, behind, and even... right under their feet.
Ji Yueyao's eyes widened suddenly. She looked down and saw the twisted and undulating tree roots on the ground, with the arched parts clearly showing signs of gathering strength.
"Zhu Mu, squat down!" Ji Yueyao suddenly released Zhu Mu's hand and then squatted down abruptly. Before Zhu Mu could react, his foot slipped and he sat on the ground. The next second, a branch slashed across their heads, and they crashed straight into the trunk of another tree.
The tree that was hit shook violently. It's not hard to imagine that his neck would have been blown off by such a powerful impact.
With this attack, the entire forest seemed to stir. Ji Yueyao and Zhu Mu crawled in the forest, looking like two humble ants in a vast desert.
"Captain, what's going on?" Takeki stared in shock at the tree in front of him, its branches beginning to heave, his mouth agape in astonishment.
“These are all exotic plants,” Ji Yueyao said coldly, gritting her teeth as she looked at the unfamiliar plants before her. She had never seen these plants before, so at first she thought they were ordinary trees… She was certain that these plants were not recorded in any human-made books about strange creatures!
Damn it, there are so many alien plants now, but she knows nothing about the enormous enemy in front of her!
At this moment, Ji Yueyao had absolutely no confidence and even felt a little uneasy.
But she didn't even have time to think of a countermeasure. A fierce attack came from behind her. Ji Yueyao turned to the side, then got up and ran forward quickly. But before she could run ten meters, the branches in front of her had already begun to form a huge net, and she couldn't get through it at all!
The tangled branches were as soft as hemp rope, but the branches that attacked them seemed harder than iron bars... What kind of bizarre plant is this?!
Despair washed over her at that moment, and Ji Yueyao felt as if she had lost all motivation to move forward.
Bamboo and wood dodged the heavy blows from the branches behind him, and he naturally noticed the situation in front of Ji Yueyao. He gritted his teeth, his eyes were dark and full of despair. He couldn't escape... he couldn't escape at all!
I don't know what he was thinking, but the next second he could only quickly pull Ji Yueyao up and run out of the woods.
"Zhu Mu, we can't go out!" Ji Yueyao quickly grabbed Zhu Mu, who was already gritting his teeth in despair. Her fierce voice almost brought Zhu Mu back to his senses. "There are leeches and strange birds everywhere outside. If we go out, we will surely die!"
"We'll die if we stay here!" Takeki's voice trembled slightly. Faced with the seemingly endless and massive enemy before him, and the seemingly never-ending attacks, Takeki couldn't even control his emotions in the pitch-black night.
"Listen to me, we won't die!" Ji Yueyao gritted her teeth, pulled out a dagger, and swung it fiercely at the countless branches behind her. "Bamboo and wood, these strange plants obviously showed no signs of activity during the day... This means that as long as we can get through this night, we'll be fine!"
This reason was also her only hope for keeping going.
"Have you made it through this night...?" Takeki's eyes suddenly lit up. As if he had just come to his senses, he took a half step back and drew his dagger, somewhat awkwardly dodging an attack from a branch. "Captain, I don't know what happened to me just now... It was like I felt completely hopeless."
“I had the same feeling at first…” Ji Yueyao narrowed her eyes, quickly leaped up, grabbed a branch, and then fiercely raised her dagger and stabbed it down. The branch beneath her trembled violently, and the surrounding exotic plant branches seemed to pause briefly as well.
At this moment, she seemed to finally have time to sort out her thoughts.
The branches of this strange plant seem to be able to change their hardness at will; the branch beneath her is as hard as stone. Moreover… this strange plant also seems to have some kind of ability to disturb one's mind; just now, she and the bamboo seemed to be infected by a negative emotion for a moment. (To be continued.)
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