7. A brief illusion
◎The smell of decay◎
The worship was still going on. After Qi Qiuxue, two more people drew the red lot. One of them was the blonde woman who sat next to Qi Qiuxue at dinner last night, and the other was the short-haired girl who had come to talk to them not long ago.
It was obvious that both of them had very bad expressions, especially the short-haired girl, who covered her face with her hands and sobbed softly.
After that... the red sign seemed to have disappeared out of thin air and never appeared again.
"Let's go." After the worship was over, Xiaoxiao led everyone to walk back. Qi Qiuxue and Liu Geli Yiqing walked together. After a few steps, they saw the short-haired girl catching up from the crowd behind them.
She took the initiative to find Qi Qiuxue, and became breathless from running so fast: "Can we get to know each other?"
"Sure." Qi Qiuxue opened her mouth and gave her name, "Zhang Xue."
"My name is Zheng Miao," the girl said. She then asked for Li Yiqing and Liu Ge's names, then looked back at Qi Qiuxue. "Zhang Xue, you also drew a red ticket, right?"
Qi Qiuxue nodded: "Yeah."
"What is going on? Do you have any idea?" Zheng Miao sounded panicked, fearing that something bad would happen to him.
Qi Qiuxue began to explain her thoughts to her, saying, "I don't think this result is accidental. Remember the moving inscription we all saw? Perhaps our fate was determined from the very beginning."
After hearing this, Zheng Miao felt a little desperate. She didn't understand why she was the one who drew the red ticket when there were so many people.
But after a few seconds, perhaps she remembered something, and she cheered up again: "I remember there was a girl who got the lottery after me. Did she see anything too? I'll find a chance to ask her later."
"Maybe." Qi Qiuxue glanced back at the group behind her. The blonde girl was still standing with her companions. The four of them hadn't interacted with anyone else from beginning to end, as if they had built a thick wall around them. "But I don't think you'd be able to find out anything even if you went."
"Let's talk about it later. Let's take it one step at a time. After all, we don't know what will happen." As they were about to get in the car, Qi Qiuxue withdrew her gaze and said no more, "If there is any new information later, we will communicate again."
"Okay." Zheng Miao nodded.
Qi Qiuxue and Li Yiqing got on the car one after another and sat back in their seats. The electronic screen in the car announced the time, which was already 2:30 in the afternoon.
"I'm so hungry." A whisper gradually spread among the crowd, "Isn't it time to eat yet?"
"Stop talking." His companion interrupted him, "Who knows what you're going to do next? Just bear with it for now."
Although he said that, his stomach was already rumbling. The atmosphere in the bus was so quiet that even the slightest sound was exceptionally clear.
"Actually, I'm hungry too." Li Yiqing lowered his eyes and rubbed his stomach. He had eaten breakfast too early and had used up so much energy in the morning. It would be a lie to say he wasn't hungry. "When can we eat? You can't just let us starve like this, right?"
"Everyone, don't worry. Just bear with it for a while." Xiaoxiao seemed to have heard the players' complaints and took the initiative to introduce the next location to everyone. "Our next destination is the orchard."
"The villagers there have already prepared lunch for everyone. After lunch, I can take you to the orchard to pick fruit. Don't worry, we'll be there soon. You won't have to wait too long."
orchard.
“…”
Somehow, Qi Qiuxue suddenly remembered the strange plate of fruit from last night.
Just as Xiaoxiao said, the bus sped through the forest and stopped by the roadside again after about ten minutes.
Not far away was the orchard Xiaoxiao had mentioned. Dense fruit trees stretched as far as the eye could see, each laden with fruit. The air was even filled with the sweet aroma of melons and fruits. There were two huge pavilions on both sides of the main entrance, and bowls and chopsticks were already prepared on the marble tables inside.
Under Xiaoxiao's arrangement, everyone was divided into two groups and sat down. Just like when they were having dinner in the hotel, the masked man brought the prepared lunch to the players.
Meat, vegetables, rice, juice and a variety of fresh fruits.
"I'm so hungry, so hungry." Liu Dawei, who was sitting opposite, had his eyes light up when he saw the meat, as if he had never tasted such delicious food in his life. He quickly picked up the cutlery and ate it with relish.
The other players were not much better than him, and the sound of conversation on the table soon died down. At this moment, eating was the most important thing.
Liu Ge, who was sitting next to Qi Qiuxue, looked over and said, "Ahxue, are you still a vegetarian today?"
Qi Qiuxue nodded gently: "Yes."
Liu Ge still imitated her and pushed the meat far away: "Then I do the same."
"You guys aren't eating either?" It was Li Yiqing who just cried out for hunger, and it was also Li Yiqing who calmly picked up the chopsticks now. "What a coincidence! I'm not eating either."
"Are you a vegetarian too?" Liu Ge smiled.
"No." Li Yiqing shook his head. "I don't know how to put it, I just think this meat smells weird."
Qi Qiuxue continued, "Strange?"
Li Yiqing: "Hmm, it smells like something rotten."
Qi Qiuxue lowered her eyes and smelled the meat on the plate, but didn't find anything wrong. It was just that her sixth sense was slightly stronger than others. From the first second she saw the meat last night, she had an inherent aversion to it, so she didn't eat it.
Liu Ge also did the same action as Qi Qiuxue: "No."
"Maybe my nose is relatively sensitive." Li Yiqing said, "Well, anyway, just don't eat it."
"But the other dishes smell pretty good." She rubbed her hungry stomach again, not caring to say anything more, and buried her head in her food. "Eat quickly, eat quickly."
After dinner, everyone followed Xiaoxiao into the depths of the orchard, where a variety of fruits were grown, including apples, peaches, loquats, watermelons... Thinking that they might have a lot of plans in the afternoon and didn't know when they could have dinner, many people picked some fruits in advance to eat on the way.
Qi Qiuxue and the other two also picked some. Li Yiqing had a good nose, and every time he found a new fruit, he would go up and smell it. After confirming that it was correct, he would ask Qi Qiuxue, Liu Ge and the others to pick it.
Seeing this, Liu Ge couldn't help but smile, showing his playful little fangs: "I suddenly want to touch your head."
"?" Li Yiqing took a few seconds to react and understood what she meant. He picked up a stone and threw it at Liu Ge, then took the opportunity to complain to Qi Qiuxue, "Axue, look at her, she treats me like a dog!"
The sound was a bit loud, attracting many people to look over here. Influenced by their laughter and playfulness, they also had a smile on their faces.
Perhaps this moment is the most relaxing time for them since they entered the dungeon. The sky is blue, the scenery is beautiful, the air is fresh, the fruits are sweet, and many elements are mixed together, giving people an inexplicable illusion, as if everyone just came here to play together, and they are not in some weird and scary dungeon.
But illusions are illusions. They exist for too short a time and disappear in an instant.
Liu Ge arrived at the depths of the garden before Li Yiqing. In front of him was the last patch of fruit trees, which were full of fruits of all sizes. From a distance, they looked like longans.
Li Yiqing arrived a little later and saw from a distance that Liu Ge had stopped and stood in front of the fruit tree in a daze for a long time: "What..."
Before she could even ask the word "了", she was just like Liu Ge, frozen in place.
What they saw before them were not longans at all. They had never seen any such variety before. They had pale pink skin and bodies as big as apricots. There were so many of them, as if no one had ever picked them. Every tree was filled with them.
Li Yiqing frowned quickly. She smelled a fishy smell, a smell that did not belong to fruit. There were also ripe fruits falling at her feet. Li Yiqing did not dare to pick them up with her hands and crushed one at random.
In an instant, bright red juice burst out from the broken skin, even staining the soles of her shoes red.
【Author’s words】
I'm here. I'll reply to the comments tomorrow. I'm too busy today.
Special thanks to Xiaoyubao for his deep water, I love you so much QAQ, and thank you to all the babies who support me, I love you so much!
Thanks to the little angel who cast the deep-water torpedo: Shi Yi 1;
Thanks to the little angel who threw the rocket launcher: Qiu Lang is a beautiful fairy and has an internet addiction;
Thanks to the little angels who cast mines: Langley's dog, creeping grass, and spicy rabbit 1;
Thanks to the little angels who irrigated the nutrient solution: Lu Xunfeng 30 bottles; Bu Xiang Going to Work 5 bottles; Yi Ke Long Yan 2 bottles; Jing Ran Qin Jia Ren Yi 1 bottle;
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