Chapter 46: The Apple Grove at Sunset
Another sunset, rushed a day's road, drove a day of driving Li Ang was very tired, around a forest, a big red hill came into view, in the sunset under the light of the formation of a different kind of beautiful wonder, take a closer look, it turned out to be a huge apple forest, full and round apples hung all over the branches, in the green leaves against the background of the extraordinarily bright dripping, far away can smell the attractive fruity aroma, make people's appetite greatly increased, saliva flow.
Li Ang picked an apple casually and threw it to Kongkong: "Kongkong, you taste it first." ”
Li Ang has never seen such a good-looking and smelling apple, and now everything in the world is evolving, it is not easy to say whether it is an apple or not, let Kongkong taste it first, it should resist with a high level.
In fact, Leon doesn't really let the empty go to the thunder, the empty sky has a strong ability to identify food, it can especially find delicious food, and for harmful food, it can also easily distinguish it.
Sora took the apple and looked at it, put it whole in his mouth, and chewed it happily, it seemed that there was no problem.
The apple trees in the forest are planted very neatly, scattered, there is a small road in the forest, leading to the top of the mountain, the hill is only forty or fifty meters high, in fact, it is not a mountain, that is, a small mound, there is a two-story building on the top of the hill, which should be the home of the owner of this fruit forest.
I didn't expect to be able to find a house here, and the appearance is well-preserved, and finally there is no need to sleep in the wilderness, Leon is still very happy, in fact, for Leang, there is not much difference between sleeping in the open and not, but human beings are very strange, there must always be a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and the heart can be steady.
The small building was surrounded by a half-height fence, pushing open the wooden door of the wall, Li Ang maintained three points of vigilance, and slowly walked into the courtyard, at the moment of stepping into the courtyard, Li Ang seemed to be in a trance for a moment, but recovered instantly.
There are no weeds in the yard, the cement floor is very neat, and there is a very lush apple tree in the southeast corner of the yard, four or five meters high, with lush branches and leaves, which casts half of the shadow in the yard under the light of the early morning sun.
In the southwest corner of the courtyard, there is a well, in which a middle-aged woman drew half a bucket of water with a tin bucket and watered it at the base of the tree.
"Mom, come on, Dad, he's ......!" The originally peaceful morning was broken by a teenager's shout, only to see an eleven or twelve-year-old boy running out of the house with a pale face, and a zombie staggering behind him, the boy panicked and accidentally fell, and the zombie's big mouth full of fangs was close at hand.
"Haohao!" The middle-aged woman screamed and rushed at the zombie that her husband had turned into, and she overcame all her fears and knocked the zombie away, scuffling with it.
The zombie was eventually crushed by her head with the bucket in her hand, but she was also covered in injuries and fell under the tree, blood flowing and watering the tree.
"From now on, your child will be my child, and I will protect you!" The tree miraculously awakened to consciousness under the mother's blood mixed with pale green dots of light.
Li Ang watched all this quietly, and from the first time he saw the mother through the door, he knew that all this was an illusion, after all, everything looked a little blurry, and he couldn't even see the mother's face clearly.
"Hello, friend from afar", a kind thought came from the thick tree in the southeast corner: "I am willing to exchange the fruit of life that I have condensed, and I only ask you to do one thing for me." ”
Now the big tree is a lot thicker, nearly ten meters high, the two of them hugged each other, for some reason it fell, leaning obliquely against the small building, not as fruitful as the apple tree outside, only on the top of the tree covered by green leaves, there are three apples with a large human head, emitting a faint red light, even the layers of green leaves can not block its style.
Kongkong immediately set his eyes on the three big apples, but he didn't make any moves, obviously this big tree is not easy to mess with, otherwise Kongkong would have done it a long time ago.
"What do you need us to do?"
"Please help me rescue my child, it's been three days since he was captured by a three-eyed crow, although I protected him by controlling the trees in the distance, but I can't move, I can't bring him back, but fortunately you're here!"
"Your child, the boy?"
"Yes, please help me!"
"What is the strength of that crow, you were knocked down by it?" If the strength of the mutant creatures is something that they can deal with, the task of hunting the mutant creatures can still be accepted, after all, the three so-called fruits of life look very extraordinary.
"Its strength is on par with yours, but the three of you have no problem working together to deal with it, I wasn't brought down by it, I just broke some roots." If what the big tree said was true, then the three-eyed crow was at the same level as Li Ang, but it was indeed no problem.
"Where's the boy?"
"Three kilometers to the north, there's a withered wood, in the middle of the woods."
"Okay, then we'll go."
"Thank you so much!"
Li Ang took Xiao Huang, Xiao Huang carried the empty, one person and two pets went to the place where the big tree said, three kilometers of road in a blink of an eye, sure enough, there was a withered forest, the trees in it were all black, without any leaves, not even many branches.
It was already dark at this time, and the whole forest looked particularly eerie, and from time to time the crows crowed to the sound of the atmosphere was even more depressing.
The woods were not large, and it didn't take long to come to the middle of the woods, and it was easy to recognize that a large tree ball with several large trunks and branches intertwined with each other stood impressively in the middle, and this was probably what the big tree used to protect the boy.
"Quack~~quack~~quack~~!" The Three-Eyed Raven was obviously very unkind to Li Ang's three uninvited guests, and took the lead in attacking, with its piercing chirp, Li Ang only felt that the sky was shaking, and he felt sick to his stomach, Xiao Huang was similar to Li Ang, but the empty air was completely like a bear, and continued to gnaw on delicious apples.
The attack of the three-eyed crow is spiritual, very weird, completely impossible to defend, and the effect is also very significant, but the actual damage is not, as long as the mental power is tough enough, it can be completely ignored.
Although Li Ang is not known for his spiritual power, his spiritual realm has been sublimated, and he quickly adapted to the spiritual attack of the three-eyed demon crow, and the feeling of dizziness is still a little, but the impact is not great.
The three-eyed crow in hand-to-hand combat was obviously not Li Ang's opponent, and the feathers were knocked off, but the three-eyed crow could fly, and after flying, Li Ang could only stare dryly.
Fortunately, Li Ang's attack interrupted the three-eyed crow's spiritual aoe, and Xiao Huang spit out all the apples he ate before, and he was very angry at this time, and the big fireball bombarded the three-eyed crow as if he didn't need money, and the three-eyed crow was thrown away in embarrassment, and could only keep rising, and the range of the fireball was limited after all, and finally let the three-eyed crow run.
Although he failed to kill the three-eyed crow, the boy Haohao was successfully rescued, although he has been in a coma, but his heartbeat is stable, there should be no problem.
In the hilltop yard
"Thank you for saving Hao Hao, thank you so much! Harvest these three fruits. The tree happily fulfilled his promise.
"Do you want me to straighten it out for you?"
"Thanks, but no, I'll be fine after I grow the roots back."
After a night of nothing, Li Ang and his entourage stayed in the small building for one night, and when the day dawned, the boy Haohao had already woken up, hugging the big tree and crying very sadly. The trees swayed their branches and leaves and sprinkled a faint green light, presumably comforting Haohao.
Hao Hao is a very sensible child, and when he saw Li Ang arrive, he quickly wiped away his tears and came to thank him.
Leon and the others picked a lot of apples, which were not only extremely delicious, but also rich in energy, which was also very helpful for the progress of their strength. After packing up a bit, it's time to hit the road again.
"Goodbye, I'll come back to see you when we get back."
"Brother Li Ang, take care all the way!"
Hao Hao said goodbye to Li Ang, climbed to the branch of the big tree he usually sat on, and looked at the red and bright apples all over the mountain: "Grandpa Tree, these apples grow so fast, I remember that they only bloomed when I was taken away." And it's all so fragrant, what if it attracts mutated creatures? ”
It's good to come, someone will come to save Haohao, Dashu thought silently in his heart, and didn't say anything, but now it's time to put away these apples.