Chapter 43: The Fruit of Ceylon

"What's wrong?" Ling Tianmao saw that the expressions of the two people were a little strange, and hurriedly asked.

"Don't you smell the fruit of Ceylon?" Timo looked at Ling Tianmao suspiciously.

"What is this 'rotten fruit'?" Ling Tianmao hurriedly called Dahl out.

"It's the fruit of Ceylon, a favorite food of our yodelers, and we are very sensitive to its aroma, which we can smell from a great distance, but it is of very little origin in the world, and we can count it on one hand. So in Bandle City, this kind of stuff is also very expensive. Dahl explained to Ling Tianmao.

"Forget it, Teemo, he's not a yodel now, and it's normal that he doesn't have such a sensitive reaction to Ceylon fruits." Tristana tugged at Timo's sleeve.

"But he can feel the portal to Bandel City." Timo was still staring at Ling Tianmao, "You don't even know what the Ceylon fruit is, do you?" ”

"How is it possible, of course I know, but you really feel the presence of the fruit of Ceylon?"

"Of course, Tristana felt it too, but you haven't answered my question yet, why you can sense the portal in Bandle City and not react to the fruit of Ceylon at all."

"I don't know, I don't encounter this situation often, I haven't figured out a lot of things in this body now, you ask me who I ask?" Ling Tianmao had an attitude of "I don't know what you can do with me".

"Enough!" Tristana saw that Timo was about to open her mouth again and shouted angrily, "We don't know what lies ahead of us now, can you both say less and stop arguing!" ”

Seeing that Tristana looked like she was about to go violent, Timo quickly shut her mouth, and Ling Tianmao was also a little weak-hearted, so naturally he didn't want to have any more arguments with Timo.

Tristana seemed to have forgotten what she had to say for a while after losing her temper, and the three of them fell silent for a while, and finally Ling Tianmao broke the embarrassment:

"Do you really smell Ceylon fruit here?"

"Well, though not very clear, the smell of Ceylon fruit wafts from the south."

"That's right, if you think about the yodelers before them, when they came to this position, they smelled this smell, then it is very likely that they were attracted by the fruit of Ceylon in this direction. This direction is exactly the direction that the bandit told us about Death Valley, and it would not be difficult to understand what happened if they strayed into Death Valley. ”

After Ling Tianmao finished speaking, he squatted down and looked around carefully, he pointed to the ground around him and some of the grass that had been trampled on:

"Look at this place again, there are a lot of footprints around here, and this road is supposed to be one of the main roads through this area, where there are both human footprints and yodelers, and there are not many human footprints in the direction to the south, because it is not a normal direction. But there are a lot of yodeler footprints on the trampled grass, which shows that they were really attracted to something here and went south, and in our current situation, this thing should be the fruit of Ceylon, which can explain why these yodelers disappeared around here. ”

"Let's go, let's look in the direction of the scent, and we should be able to see what's going on."

"Are you really going to go in like this?" Ling Tianmao saw that Tristana was going to go directly inside, and hurriedly grabbed her, half out of concern for her, and half because he didn't want to face too dangerous a situation, who knows what was in there, "Why don't we go back first, discuss it well, and organize more people, so it's always safer." ”

"No, if the problem is not solved in a day, there is a possibility that the next yodeler will be killed. And if neither I nor Teemo can deal with anything, you will just send more people over for nothing. I wouldn't have gone back today if I hadn't gone inside to see what I was going to do. ”

With the scent to lead the way, Ling Tianmao and the others didn't need any guides. After walking a few hundred meters in the woods, even Ling Tianmao smelled a vague aroma, but he didn't feel anything about it.

"Ah, it's really a Ceylon fruit, I really want to eat it." Dahl said intoxicated in Ling Tianmao's head.

The three of them continued to walk for a while, and after turning a bush, a stone wall appeared in front of them, and at the bottom of the stone wall was a verdant green branch and leaf, on which hung several clusters of bright red fruit.

The fruit is about the size of a ping-pong ball and looks a bit like a tiny tomato, but its color is more vivid than that of a tomato, and in some places it is even red and black. What's even more appealing is that the fruit is translucent, and the flesh under the thin skin seems to have a lot of juice to flow out at any time.

"Sure enough, there is Ceylon fruit, and I haven't eaten it for a long time." As he spoke, Timo tried to walk over and pluck the fruit.

"Don't move!" Ling Tianmao stretched out his hand to stop him.

"What the hell do you want to do!" Timo broke free of Ling Tianmao's arm.

"Don't you think it's weird here?"

"What's weird?" Teemo looked at the Ceylon fruit hanging there again.

"Like I said, most yodelers are attracted to Ceylon fruits, right? Then the Ceylon fruit here should have been picked a long time ago, why are there still so many bunches hanging on the tree? And there is no sign of them here, and I feel that there is something wrong with these Ceylon fruits. ”

After Ling Tianmao said this, the two of them hurriedly tried their best to suppress their desire for the Ceylon fruit, and after carefully observing it, Timo took out a blow arrow and shot it in the direction of the fruit.

The blow arrow directly penetrated the fruit and the branches and leaves next to it, and only after a few seconds had passed, did there be a "ding" sound, which should be the sound of the blow arrow hitting the stone wall.

"It's not a stone wall, it's probably that the branches and foliage of this tree are too dense to block the hole behind, and the real problem should be in this hole."

Listening to Timo's words, Ling Tianmao looked in that direction worriedly, because he was a human body, the taste of Ceylon fruit was not so strong and tempting for him, which also made his sense of smell not completely covered by Ceylon fruit.

On the contrary, long-term medical studies have made him more sensitive to some other tastes. Ever since he came here, he had smelled a strong smell of blood and rancidity, and the source of the smell was in the direction of the Ceylon fruit.