Garden of Eden || Apocalypse Paradise #2 [Complete]

166: The Prison Warden and the Tree Roots

Imperceptibly, the proliferation of the white radishes had far exceeded Lin Sanjiu's imagination.

After running multiple 250-meter distances, she was already far from the initial campsite. If Lin Sanjiu had to turn back now, she probably wouldn't have found the right direction.

She did not meet a single living creature within this vast area. Even posthumans, with their remarkable abilities, were nowhere to be seen. They were probably caught off guard, and all fell into the radishes' snare.

Lin Sanjiu couldn't help feeling a little worried. Even if Gong Daoyi was powerful, he couldn't fly. After she had sent out that paper crane, she had yet to receive a reply, and she couldn't help wondering how he was now.

"Hey, I think my pants are going to fall off soon. Can you think of a way to let me adjust them?"

She heard a sentence coming from the back of her head, and it immediately extinguished her anxious thoughts. She waved her hand, and her [Bubbles Blowing Girl] landed on the ground with a thud, stirring up a cloud of dust. "Climb up there to adjust your pants," she grumbled.

The numerous tiny roots that probed from the soil touched the [Bubbles Blowing Girl] briefly before rapidly withdrawing back into the soil. If Qian Zhengguan hadn't noted them specifically, they would have been overlooked, especially under the cover of night.

He clung to the large robotic doll with his forehead drenched in cold sweat. After he climbed up the doll and adjusted his pants, which were in shreds, he turned his attention to the doll. "Ah, the design of this item is pretty intriguing. What does it do?"

"Let's keep the nonsense for later. Is that person in this area?" Lin Sanjiu asked as she grabbed her digging board.

"Um, let me think. Which direction does the slime flow?"

Lin Sanjiu curbed her anxiety and waited wordlessly.

"I think it moves in that direction." After he corrected himself a few times hesitantly, he finally confirmed the direction. "But then again, isn't it incredible that the slime flows around like that."

Lin Sanjiu ignored what he had to say. According to his direction, she thrust the board into the ground and flung a clump of soil behind her. The white radishes here were even more prolific than those at the campground. The number of thin roots was, at the very least, a few times greater. Once Lin Sanjiu broke through the surface of the ground, those rampant strands of roots sprouted from the ground, probing and swaying in midair aggressively. If Lin Sanjiu used her saber now, she could easily cut down countless of them.

"Uh, it is best not to cut them..." A faltering voice came from where the robot doll was. Lin Sanjiu knew that Qian Zhengguan's face was pale even without turning to look at him. "Look at those roots..."

Lin Sanjiu lowered her head and scrutinized the ground scattered with those roots she had cut. They wiggled nimbly and burrowed back into the soil, disappearing.

"What the heck are those radishes?" Lin Sanjiu spat. "They're everywhere. Creepy."

Digging downwards. That was her only chance of figuring out that answer. While Lin Sanjiu spoke, she dug faster. Within a few minutes, the patch of radishes here was gradually exposed under the moonlight. Perhaps the white radishes had grown here longer, so they had swallowed many more creatures. Lin Sanjiu spotted a faint dark shadow encased within their hardened epidermises almost every few steps. Some shadows were circular clumps; others were long and thin; hardly anything was discernible. However, there wasn't a single shadow resembling a human silhouette.