Translator: Pluto Editor: Vermillion
Imperceptibly, the proliferation of the ‘white radishes’ had far exceeded Lin Sanjiu’s imagination.
After running multiple 250-ters distances, she was already very far from the initial campsite. If Lin Sanjiu had to turn back now, she probably couldn’t even find the right direction.
She did not et 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 had 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 adjust them?”
She heard a sentence coming from the back of her head, and it imdiately 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 nurous tiny roots which probed out from the soil touched the [Bubbles Blowing Girl] for a re second before rapidly withdrawing back into the soil. If Qian Zhengguan didn’t take note of them specifically, they would have been overlooked, especially under the cover of night.
With his forehead drenched in cold sweat, he clung onto the large robotic doll. After he climbed up the doll and adjusted his pants, which were actually 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 think. Which direction does the sli flow?”
Lin Sanjiu curbed her anxiety and waited wordlessly.
“I think it moves in that direction…” After he corrected himself a few tis hesitantly, he finally confird the direction. “But then again, isn’t it incredible that the sli flows around like that…”
Lin Sanjiu ignored what he had to say. According to the direction he provided, 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 back at the campground. The number of thin roots was, at the very least, a few tis 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 ca 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 and they’re really creepy…”
Digging downwards. That was her only chance of figuring that answer. While Lin Sanjiu spoke, she dug faster. Within a few minutes, the patch of radishes here were gradually exposed under the moonlight. Perhaps, the white radishes had been growing here for a longer period of ti, so they had swallowed many more creatures. Lin Sanjiu spotted a faint dark shadow encased within their hardened epidermises almost every few steps. So of the shadows were circular clumps, others were long and thin… hardly anything was discernible. However, there wasn’t a single shadow resembling a human silhouette.
Lin Sanjiu took a deep breath, she forced herself to swallow her disappointnt. As before, she placed her hands on the radishes, planning to blast the entire layer of radishes which did not contain any humans. If she didn’t do so, the white radishes underneath would be completely buried under those above. If she couldn’t survey the situation properly, digging wasn’t the best option.
After she activated her [Mosaic Censorship], it was as if she had detonated a small explosive. The explosion sent shreds of epidermises, sli, roots, and chunks of those black shadows, which were long dead, flying into the air. Then, they fell down like rain upon the ground.
As the nearest person in the vicinity, Lin Sanjiu was obviously drenched. However, she was already used to this, she had already gotten used to being filthy. She closed her eyes tightly and waited for it to be over.
“What is that?”
While she wiped her face, Qian Zhengguan’s voice suddenly ca from behind her, “Why are there steel pipes here? Look at that, are those steel pipes?”
[Can those white radishes change their food preferences?] Lin Sanjiu turned to look behind, feeling a little skeptical. She gave it a single glance and imdiately froze. There was a tal railing on the ground, it shone with a tallic luster under the moonlight. She knew where she had seen that before—she had seen the sa tal railing when Hui Chuyan was accidentally trapped behind it. At that ti, it was as if she was trapped in another dinsion. They spend a considerable amount of effort to catch Green lon.
Lin Sanjiu felt her heart racing. She raced up to the tal railing and reached out to grab it. She was shocked when she realized that she could easily hold onto it, without any obstruction.
But, of course, the area behind the railing was empty.
The tal railing didn’t seem worthy of any attention, but Lin Sanjiu held on to it tightly. She crooked her head and examined it but she couldn’t hear anything from it.
In the pitch darkness of the night, the only other living person stopped moving… Qian Zhengguan quickly grew afraid. Since he was behind Lin Sanjiu, he couldn’t see her expression. After contemplating for quite so ti, he gathered his courage and asked, “Erm, what are you doing? Can you say sothing…”
It was fine when he didn’t speak. Ironically, once he spoke, the surrounding seed to fall into a deeper silence.
The night wind bellowed. The woman in front of him remained frozen. She did not move a single inch. Qian Zhengguan stared at her blankly. If anything were to happen to Lin Sanjiu, he would be trapped on this robot doll for the next 14 months…
Nevertheless, he wasn’t that unlucky. Lin Sanjiu inhaled deeply and suddenly started moving again. She reached behind the tal railings, and in that split second, she literally pulled a person out from thin air. Qian Zhengguan nearly slid down the robot doll. When he finally regained his grip on the doll, he saw a short teenager covered in sli.
“Cough! Sister Lin, Sister Lin! Is that you?” The teenager was evidently in a better condition that Qian Zhengguan’s previous state. A few sparse strands of roots crawled out from his nose, mouth, and ears. He was fully conscious, but his natural drake-like voice sounded coarser than Qian Zhengguan’s damaged voice. “How-how terrifying… I thought I would never get out…”
It was Green lon.
“Why is your ability so weird?” Lin Sanjiu complained but she noticed the roots from the white radishes reacting when Green lon had just stepped out. Shocked, she threw the teen over to the robot doll hastily. With that, the kindergartener had one male sitting on each of her shoulders.
The reason Green lon could survive up till now was all thanks to his ability.
[The Reasonable Prison Warden]
Oh my… Your request isn’t that simple. Recently, managent has been strict… As you know, once a person is sentenced to jail, once he is behind bars… it isn’t that easy to get him out… We have to follow the regulations!
But, of course, this depends on how you want to settle matters… Look, you can visit the prisoner sotis, and sotis, he will be imprisoned in a deeper place… Oh, what are you doing? No, I can’t take this from you. Ah, I understand… He has been slightly wronged…
Cough, the law is not without rcy! I’m a compassionate person. How about this? I heard that this prisoner’s body condition isn’t quite well, so I’ll get him released for dical treatnt!
Description: The space behind the tal railing is a dinsional “prison”. Although it is summoned through the user’s ability, and the imprisonnt and release of the targets are determined by the user, it is guarded by a reasonable prison warden. If his request is fulfilled, it is possible to et, communicate and contact the prisoner. It is even possible to get the prisoner released.
PS: Any violent attempts to break into this prison would cause the prisoner to be forcefully thrown into a deeper dinsion with a sencente of a hundred years.
“If it wasn’t for my quick-thinking, I would probably be dead if I didn’t lock myself in the dinsional prison…” Green lon was still traumatized by his experience, “Did you also save this big brother, Sister Lin? Just monts ago, I don’t even know when I could be released, I… I’m really…”
While Lin Sanjiu continued digging, her face darkened.
“Your ability really does show the ‘national culture’ of your world…” She paused as she rembered her one-minute conversation with the prison warden. She couldn’t help asking, “What did he take from anyway? I check all my items, I still have them.”
“Ugh.” Green lon uttered and scratched his head in embarrassnt.
“The prison warden took… took away so of your potential growth value…” He was so ashad that his face was as red as a cooked lobster. “But he didn’t take that much. It is only 1%. I had only ever received two points of potential growth value… I will look at the amount later… Sister Lin, I will definitely repay you for saving !”
Nüwa once made a passing remark that a person’s potential growth value was a sort of ntal strength—who would know it was sothing that could be taken away. Compared to rescuing a person, Lin Sanjiu wasn’t too concerned about the loss of that bit of potential growth value. She patted Green lon’s shoulders to get him to relax. With three of them together, they began studying the location of others.
Since Green lon was in his prison dinsion, he was conscious all this ti and could see what was happening outside his dinsion. Thus, he was of great help, “Despite the flowing fluid, the speed isn’t that fast. I think it moves about one kiloter per hour? I’m not certain as I don’t have a reference point… But, the problem lies with the complexity of this intricate network… I am not sure which roots the rest are transport to…”
“Roots?” Lin Sanjiu found Green lon’s description of the white rhizos a bit strange.
“Don’t you know?” Green lon’s eyes widened. “These are all tree roots.”
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