One passenger offered a suggestion, and then the person got right back to making the leaf skirt.
Reminded of this, the other passengers hesitated for a moment before getting up to pick leaves and find tougher wild grass to string the huge leaves together.
"Sigh, we're so pitiful we're speechless. If I can make it back alive this time, I'll definitely exchange for more clothes, so that even if I die, I can at least die with some dignity."
"We don't even know how they'll die in the end. Like that guy Lu Xingkai pushed out to be eaten by the man-eating flowers, he was still wearing his clothes, right? Did he die with dignity? He didn't even have a whole body."
The two or three passengers nearby who were diligently stringing leaves together were suddenly jolted by this and dropped their leaves and weeds, collapsing to the ground to prepare for sleep. "Let whoever wants to do it do it, I'm not doing it anymore."
"If the captain and Wen Zuo see you, be careful they don't scold you."
"Hmph, she can't control what I wear, even if she cares about my life or death."
Although they knew he was just saying it in anger and shouldn't take it to heart, the passengers who heard it subconsciously turned to look at Mo Shuwan, who was patrolling around. After a moment, they quickly looked away, only to find that Wen Zuo was actually not far from them. He might have already heard what he said...
"What nonsense are you talking about! The captain and Wen Zuo are only doing this for your own good!"
The three passengers lying on the ground fell silent, and the other passengers' fears did not come true. Wen Zuo simply walked around without approaching them.
"Yang Zhou".
"Um?"
Look at me!
Yang Zhou sighed helplessly and had no choice but to put down his work for the time being. He looked up at Cai Zhongqi beside him and saw him twisting his waist and looking at the leaf skirt he was wearing from all sides. The posture was really an eyesore. After a few seconds of silence, Yang Zhou suddenly closed his eyes and lowered his head, pretending not to see it.
"What do you think of my leaf skirt? Is it alright? Can you check if my butt will show in the back?"
Yang Zhou's temple throbbed, and he forced himself to pretend he hadn't heard anything.
Cai Zhongqi persisted and asked several more questions. Finally, probably because he didn't hear a reply, he got impatient and started hitting him directly.
Forced to lift his head by having his cheeks grabbed, Yang Zhou could no longer bear it and pushed Cai Zhongqi's hands away. "It's very beautiful, you don't need to ask anymore."
"Really? You're not lying to me."
Cai Zhongqi seemed not to notice Yang Zhou's perfunctory attitude. He twisted and turned to admire the dress one more time before untying and taking it off. He carefully folded the dress, sat down next to Yang Zhou, sighed, and stared blankly at the dress.
Yang Zhou initially didn't intend to pay attention, but he couldn't stand Cai Zhongqi's constant sighing and finally asked, "What's wrong with you?"
As if he had finally gotten the question he wanted, Cai Zhongqi immediately replied, "Nothing much, I just thought of my wife. This dress was made for her. She has a similar figure to me, so if I can wear it, she definitely can too."
Unexpectedly, Yang Zhou turned to look at him in surprise. His impatience subsided, and he looked down at the leaf skirt that had already been folded. After a moment of silence, he smiled and said, "She can wear it, but are you sure she'll like it? It has no decorations at all."
What decorations do you need for a skirt made of leaves?
"Aren't there flowers nearby? Let's string them together."
Cai Zhongqi's eyes lit up, thinking that Yang Zhou's words made a lot of sense. He quickly picked a handful of flowers and plants and, under Yang Zhou's direction, strung all the different colored flowers onto the wild grass that served as a belt. It was indeed an embellishment, but it would have been better if it hadn't been. However, Yang Zhou and Cai Zhongqi, with their straight male aesthetics, not only didn't think it was ugly, but also thought it was beautiful.
Cai Zhongqi carefully put away the leaf skirt as if it were a treasure, and said with a smile, "Hehe, thank you! I'll make a few more for her to wear when she leaves!"
Yang Zhou opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.
Mo Shuwan, who happened to be walking over and overheard their conversation, darkened her eyes. She found a place to sit down, picked up a huge leaf from the ground, and started tearing it apart. She didn't notice that there was a shallow footprint where the leaf had been.
The passengers, absorbed in their own world, didn't notice that the surroundings seemed to be getting quieter and quieter...
The bloodthirsty demon vine, which had looked like an ordinary tree, suddenly swayed its tendrils and cautiously reached out towards Mo Shuwan. Before it could get close enough, it was intercepted by a hand halfway.
Liu Dongcheng frowned as he looked at the cunning-looking, bloodthirsty demon vine. He tightened his grip on the vine slightly, and raised the hand holding the large knife, as if he were about to strike at any moment.
Under the threat, the Bloodthirsty Vine fell completely silent, but this silence lasted for less than five minutes before it quietly stretched out its tendrils again. This time it was clever; it didn't reach out from the open but from underground, so Liu Dongcheng, who was sitting in its inevitable path, naturally couldn't see it.
Mo Shuwan, who was idly tearing leaves against the tree trunk, paused slightly. She looked down at her ankle, where a vine covered in mud was poking at it. Mo Shuwan stared at it for a few seconds, then silently looked up at the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine not far away.
The vines that had attracted Mo Shuwan's attention moved even more frequently.
Mo Shuwan's expression shifted slightly. She dropped the remaining half of the leaf, got up, and walked towards the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine. Unexpectedly, an unexpected event occurred as soon as she got close.
"team leader!"
No one expected that the normally well-behaved Bloodthirsty Vine would suddenly entangle Mo Shuwan with its vines, and before anyone, including Mo Shuwan herself, it would simply wrap her up and run away at high speed.
Wen Zuo, who had been being pulled by a passenger to answer a question, suddenly shoved the passenger aside and, shining his flashlight, chased after the bloodthirsty demonic vine that had disappeared into the darkness. Liu Dongcheng, who had been stunned for a few seconds, followed after him.
From the time the incident occurred until Wen Zuo and Liu Dongcheng chased after them, less than half a minute had passed. Even though the passengers had reacted by then, they could no longer see them. Needless to say, the speed of the Bloodthirsty Demon Vine was incredible, and Wen Zuo and Liu Dongcheng were running too fast. In such a short time, they had already disappeared.
With three key combatants suddenly gone, the passengers panicked. "What...what should we do?!"
"Wait, wait a little longer. I believe in the captain; she can definitely handle that monster!"
The passengers were still comforting each other when suddenly several screams rang out. They were already terrified by the earlier incident, and upon hearing the sounds, they all huddled together in alarm, thus seeing who had made the noise.
They then discovered that there was nothing unusual in the surroundings.
Startled and breathless, Yang Zhou scolded, "Don't shout, or you'll attract monsters."
"That's right, the captain is in trouble, and you guys are still lying there, making fun of us!" A group of passengers who were frightened by the screams had anger in their eyes.
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