flstandardbreds Chapter 182: Mutation - Granary 27
Chapter 182: Mutation - Granary 27
The mouthparts are like the trunk of a baby elephant, raised and put down, put down and raised up again, hesitant and twisting.
There is nothing that Anjiu doesn't understand, but Shiitake Mushroom is just feeling embarrassed.
She said considerately, "I suddenly remembered that there is something I haven't picked up yet. Wait here for me and I'll be back soon."
Without waiting for its reply, Anjiu trotted away.
After a while, a joyful gurgling sound came from the leaves.
Anjiu raised the corner of his mouth, pulled out the knife and inserted it into the leaf veins, then took out a stainless steel basin from the space and placed it underneath to collect the overflowing juice.
——When you get back, just take it as a vitamin supplement.
She filled two basins and when she thought the time was about right, she reappeared in front of the mushrooms.
It was playing with the stick of a lollipop with its mouthparts, tossing it up and down, having a lot of fun.
When it heard Anjiu's movement, it stopped, its eyes big and bright, wanting to say something but being too embarrassed to do so.
There is a bit of girlish shyness.
Anjiu knew what it wanted to say, and felt a little uncomfortable for a moment.
She tried her best to remain calm and act as if nothing had happened. "Shiitake, I want to go back to the place where the hot pot restaurant appeared yesterday."
"Sure!" Shiitake put away his mouthparts, along with the candy stick, "It's safe over there now, let's go."
After the first store disappeared, many seedlings appeared in its original location. Anjiu thought that there might be the same this time.
She planned to dig more and put them into the space before the seedlings grew up.
I'll try to see if it can survive when I get back to the beehive.
Almost half an hour later, they returned to where they were yesterday.
The situation on the scene was similar to what Anjiu had imagined, but there was also a big difference - the location of the hot pot restaurant was covered by a low broad-leaved plant.
It grows close to the ground, with thick, dense leaves.
There is a circle of upward spikes on the edge of the leaves, which looks extremely sharp.
Anjiu turned his gaze and saw the orange-red fruits hanging down and hidden behind the leaves.
One is as big as two palms.
Upon closer inspection, there are countless such fruits.
The mushroom also saw it, but it screamed: "Why did it appear so early?"
Anjiu frowned: "What do you mean?"
Xianggu crouched down, poked his head in, then cried out "Ah!", grabbed Anjiu, threw it behind him, and ran away.
Anjiu didn't understand, but now was obviously not a good time to ask, so he held its neck tightly and tried to lower his body as much as possible.
At this moment, the mutants hiding in the dark seemed to have received the signal.
They ran out one after another, fleeing madly in the same direction.
Even after running out of this area, no one stopped, as if something terrible was about to happen and they wanted to run as far as possible.
The mutants did not hide their movements, and the rustling sound quickly attracted the attention of the people from the other world.
Recalling the experience of escaping on the first day, these people's faces turned pale. They jumped out from the darkness, stepped on the soft soil, and followed behind with difficulty, one step light and one heavy.
They really wanted to know what happened next, but the most important thing now was to escape.
Everyone ran as fast as they could and actually caught up with the mutant...
When passing a certain place, Shiitake suddenly stretched out its four limbs forward, sat back on its buttocks, and braked hard to stop.
Anjiu couldn't withstand the huge inertia and flew out, rolling several times on the ground, and finally stopped after hitting a tree root.
She got up and wiped the dirt off her face, and asked despite the pain in her back: "What's wrong? What happened?"
What answered her was the action of the mushroom digging at the roots of a tree.
——So Shiitake came back to get the bucket?
Although I don't understand its thought process, I have already stopped. Instead of wasting time on verbal arguments, I might as well go over and help.
The first time he lifted it, there was no movement. Anjiu immediately reached in with both hands, hugged the tree roots, and lifted his whole body up with all his strength.
The roots of the tree seem to have been deeply embedded in the ground, and each capillary root is the strongest tentacle.
It is difficult to shake Anjiu's strengthened body alone.
Veins popped out all over Shiitake's body, and his eyeballs, which were already very large, looked like they were about to pop out of their sockets.
Mutants kept running past behind him, and none of them stopped, not even one looked back out of curiosity.
Their urgency to escape was palpable.
"Shiitake mushroom, if you can't take it out, just leave!" Anjiu advised while lifting it with force - things have to be done and words have to be said.
Xianggu turned his head to look back where he came from, sweat dropping from his face as he moved.
It was extremely nervous, and its voice was almost whispering: "No... I have to get it. It will be difficult to find water to drink in the future."
There was a constant rustling sound behind him, but Anjiu couldn't hear it clearly.
Seeing it like this, I blindly guess that it has a reason to take it.
Anjiu took out a kitchen knife from his pocket and chopped at the tree roots.
The bark was hard and rough, and the force of the rebound hurt her palms.
Anjiu gritted his teeth and continued to chop down.
While lifting it upwards, Shiitake put its sharp nails into the gap and pushed to both sides, peeling off a large piece of bark.
Without this layer of protection, it would be much easier to cut inside.
After a few cuts, she cut into the deepest veins in the root system.
The light green juice trickled out.
The mushrooms were also lifted a long distance.
Anjiu finally saw the bucket. She put the knife into the space, bent down and touched the handle.
"Hurry up, little brother. I can't hold on any longer." Xianggu said gritting his teeth.
"The position of the bucket has dropped. I'll go in a little further. Hold on!" An Jiu almost put half of his body into the bottom of the pit.
She began to feel puzzled, as it was clearly a shallow pit before, and a little white could be seen from a certain angle.
How come the position of the bucket has dropped when I came back not long after leaving?
Could it be that the soil was too soft and collapsed?
The mushroom above her head was breathing heavily, and Anjiu was worried that she couldn't hold on. The tree roots smashed her in two. She reached down as far as she could, and the moment she touched the handle, she pulled it up with all her strength.
A 40-liter bucket filled with 80 kilograms of water - she was almost pulled down by the reaction force.
He quickly switched to using both hands and adjusted his posture before he was able to pull the bucket out safely.
Shiitake Mushroom could no longer hold on, and its hands loosened. The thick tree roots fell to the ground with a bang, like a taut elastic band.
Anjiu's breathing also stopped - he had never seen such elastic tree roots.
At this moment, I felt a heaviness on my head and a finger scratched it gently.
Anjiu swayed and said to Xianggu, "Stop it, I don't like people touching my head."
The fingers were still moving, crawling forward flexibly, touching her forehead, and poking her skin with their soft nails.
Anjiu grabbed its fingers and said, "I told you not to touch me—"
The sound stopped suddenly.
She raised her eyes and stared at the extremely short finger in her hand, which looked like it had been soaked in formaldehyde for years, and was stunned.
The remaining fingers that were not held in her hand were still flicking on her forehead, swollen and swollen, and soft as if they had no bones.
They pushed Anjiu's hands, trying to break free, trying to touch her face...