Chapter 60: The Fruit

However, this primeval forest is already full of all kinds of strange things, and any kind of strange scene can appear. Everyone has even seen the alien beasts in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, what else is there that can't be accepted?

There must be demons when things go wrong, but in the same way, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you will get the tiger.

It is the people who lick the blood on the tip of the knife and seek a ray of life in hell.

There's no reason not to go to the mountains to find out.

After walking in the forest for a long time, everyone finally came to the foot of the strange mountain, Rao had already witnessed the strangeness of this mountain from a distance, and the strange scenery in the mountains and forests still amazed everyone.

As far as the house can see, the mountain is full of strange flowers and plants of different shapes, all of which are red without exception.

What is even more surprising is that there seems to be only one tree on the mountain, a red kiwi tree.

The tree is more than 10 meters high, with smooth and shiny light gray bark, a rounded crown and a short trunk, and short, thick branches that are columnar.

The red leaves are elliptic, ovate to broadly elliptic, palm-sized, sharply pointed at the tip, elliptic at the base, and covered with rounded and obtuse serrations at the margins. The foliage is lush and thick, blocking out all the sunlight that comes in.

The trees are covered with small mulberry-like red fruits, which exude an enticing aroma that whets everyone's appetite.

Ye Mu had never smelled such an alluring fruity aroma, and he frowned and looked at the fruit on the tree, thoughtful.

"Can you eat it?" Dai Qing leaned his head over: "Uncle Chef is about to lose his breath." ā€

Ye Mu turned his head to look at the chef in surprise, and then he remembered that the chef's skill was related to eating.

Passive Ability: The 'Glutton' is unable to resist the temptation of good food, and as he eats more and more, his physical fitness will be slightly enhanced.

Action Skill: 'Hunting Time' gains the physique and speed of a beast for a short period of time.

This is a foodie.

Who would have thought that the enthusiastic uncle who was full of gentlemanly temperature before would awaken into a super foodie?

Since the chef acquired the skills of this 'glutton', his image in the eyes of everyone has changed drastically.

I saw the chef staring at the fruit on the tree with red eyes, his mouth slightly open, saliva constantly flowing from the corners of his mouth, and the Adam's apple trembled violently up and down.

"Stop him! Don't let him..."Before Ye Mu finished speaking, the cook had already jumped up, clasped his hands on the trunk of the tree, and opened his mouth to bite the red fruit on the tree.

The chef's movements to climb the tree were extremely fast, and it seemed that he had directly used the skill of 'Hunting Time', and even Qin Aowu, who was the most agile, did not have time to stop it.

"Delicious... It's delicious... Hey, hey..."The chef devoured the delicious fruit, the corners of his mouth were stained with bright red juice, and he smacked his lips, muttering praise for the deliciousness of the fruit.

Several people under the tree looked at each other, Qin Aowu climbed the fruit tree, dragged the cook down, and scolded coldly: "You don't want to die!" Dare to eat anything! ā€

"Ah?... I—" The chef was stunned for a moment, he came back to his senses with fright, he swallowed the flesh in his mouth, and said tremblingly, "I'm too deeply affected by passive skills... It's hard for me to control it, and the fruits are really delicious, why don't you try them too? ā€

"Do you feel uncomfortable?" Dai Qing tilted her head and asked with concern.

"Nope." The chef shook his head.

"Will the more you eat, the more you want to eat, and you won't feel full until you die?" Liu Wen remembered the plot in the novel and asked with a solemn face.

"No, I feel like I'm full." The chef touched his stomach and said.

"No side effects?" Dai Qing couldn't believe it.

"Anyway, don't eat, let's keep going." Seeing that the chef was fine, Ye Mu didn't bother to say that these fruits that looked like mulberries always brought him an ominous feeling.

"Hmm."

Seeing Ye Mu say this, everyone nodded, the dry food in the bag was enough for them to eat for a while, and there was really no need to eat the fruit on the tree.

In this dark and strange forest, it is difficult to see the smoke on the mountainside.

Fortunately, Qin Aowu had a good sense of direction, and he could barely judge the location of the smoke rising.

Rushing through the mountains, the journey is often much slower than imagined, the mountain roads are difficult, rugged and bumpy, often one road does not work, you have to find another way.

As the sun sets, the red moon rises, and the mountains and forests, which were already shaded by the shade of trees, become even darker and quieter.

Along the way, the bright red and strange fruits on the tree continued to exude an attractive fruity fragrance, and the rich fruity fragrance made everyone drool, and even Ye Mu couldn't help but look at these fruits a few more times.

But the more this happened, the more Ye Mu felt that these fruits were wrong.

How could there be such tempting fruits, and if they were so delicious, then why didn't any other animals come and pick them?

There is no doubt that this is a sweet trap.

These fruits must not be contaminated by themselves.

'It's like on a train...'

Ye Mu was suddenly stunned: 'Why did I think of the train?'

...

There are still some creatures in the mountains, but they are all small animals without exception.

The most common is a tortoise-like creature that looks exactly like a tortoise, but it has a gray body, bright red eyes, and no shell on its back, but a piece of flesh that resembles a tortoiseshell.

Ye Mu and his entourage named them 'Meat Turtle'.

Meat turtles have very sharp teeth, and they fight each other for food, and it is common to see two meat turtles that look exactly the same biting and wrestling with each other.

This strange creature is like a bloodthirsty madman, with a tyrannical and ferocious aura.

Just like the fruit on the tree, Ye Mu and his party did not dare to eat this strange meat turtle.

"Let's take a break and we'll be on our way tomorrow." Dai Qing proposed.

"I agree." Ye Mu nodded and beckoned everyone to rest on the spot.

Everyone walked all day, their faces showed fatigue, and when they heard Ye Mu say that they could rest, they all showed a touch of joy.

They gathered the gray dead wood branches on the ground and piled them together to make a bonfire.

The branches of the red fruit tree were thrown into the fire, giving off a burst of aroma like roasted meat, and the fresh branches that had not dried up would ooze a little red sap as the flames burned.

"Let's eat something first."

Liu Wen took out the dry food from her bag and distributed it to everyone.

"Is this place really inhabited?" Lu Xin said timidly, looking at Ye Mu beside her.

"If the fruit on the tree is really edible, then maybe there are living people living in this place." Ye Mu thought for a while and continued: "And when the smoke rises, it is early in the morning, it is very likely that someone is making a fire and cooking, looking at the environment here, the most likely is that they are barbecuing meat turtles."

Dai Qing added: "Maybe there is smoke at noon and at night, but because we are in this mangrove forest, we can't see it."

Qin Aowu raised his eyebrows and said, "So these fruits can really be eaten?" ā€

Ye Mu glanced at the chef and said slowly: "Don't eat it yet, I always feel that these fruits are wrong, this mountain forest is strange." ā€

"Uncle Yuhei Nonaka, why don't you eat dry food?" Dai Qing saw that the chef was holding the jerky and fruit in his hand and didn't eat for a long time, so he asked strangely.

"No appetite," the chef shook to indicate that he didn't want to eat.

"Could it be that those fruits will make people unable to eat?" Ye Mu glanced at the chef and secretly guessed in his heart.

"Finish eating early, rest early, continue to rush tomorrow, and tonight the four of us old people will take turns keeping vigil." Ye Mu yawned: "I'll take a nap first, and then call me up when you're ready to sleep." ā€

"Please take me one for tonight's vigil!" The chef suddenly said, "I always feel energetic and energetic."

Ye Mu glanced at the cook, then rubbed his eyes and leaned under the tree: "Okay, then this generation of Qing and Uncle Yuhei Nonaka will accompany me to watch the first half of the night." ā€

It was late at night, everyone was tired from running around for a day, and they had already felt sleepy, so they curled up and lay on their sides by the fire to prepare to sleep, Dai Qing stretched his waist and whispered to wake up Ye Mu on the side.

The three of them sat around the fire, observing the wind and grass around them.

In the surrounding woods, sparse sounds can be heard from time to time, brown soil, gray branches, and red leaves are clearly layered, and the three of them seem to be in a monotonous oil painting, which looks even more eerie under the light of the fire.