In fact, if she followed Xia Qing's thoughts, she might still have to do some work, at least she wanted to study what kind of thing it would be in those fruits, anyway, she didn't want to leave now.

The reason why she is like this is partly because of the work style she has cultivated over the years, and she is always full of inquisitive mentality for any unknown thing; On the other hand, she felt that these strange plants might have some unknowable connection with the tomb of the Loulan goddess they were looking for.

Although he hadn't figured out the specific things yet, and although there were still many reluctances, Xia Qing had no choice but to continue walking towards the depths of the woods with Gao Chao and the fat man.

The dark woods were much larger than they had imagined, and after another hour of travel, they realized that they had underestimated the size of the underground woodland.

If it weren't for the fact that they had a very simple compass in their hands, they might have already begun to suspect that they had lost their way, after all, in such a dark wood, if they relied on a flashlight to grope around, they were destined to keep going in circles.

But according to the compass, they didn't go around in circles, and they were always walking in a straight line, but everything around them seemed to have never changed, the black trees, the broad leaves, and the giant egg fruits that hung from the canopy.

It all looks like it's going crazy.

However, before Gao Chao went crazy, he still found something different.

He noticed that the deeper he went, the more the giant egg-like fruits hung from the canopy. It seems to be getting bigger and bigger.

He told Xia Qing and the fat man about this discovery. The fat man didn't have much of an idea. He didn't dare to be interested in that kind of thing at all, and was even a little jealous, but Xia Qing showed a strong interest.

She told Gao Chao that it might be because the farther you go into the woods, the more ripe the dome-like fruits become, so they look bigger.

However, she also expressed some of her wishes, she hoped that Gao Chao would be able to do so at the right time, or when he was more free. Help her pluck one of those fruits from a tree, so that she may have a chance to figure out what and what kind of thing is in it.

Gao Chao listened to her request, but smiled helplessly, he didn't speak, which means that he neither agreed nor refused, the reason is that he and the fat man basically have the same idea on this issue, if you can stay away from those things, it's better to stay away as much as possible.

But what they didn't expect was this. The more you worry about something, the more you will encounter something.

At the same time that the three of them kept moving forward in a straight line. Suddenly, a muffled sound was heard in the darkness not far in front of them.

The muffled sound was not unfamiliar, in fact, they had only heard it an hour earlier.

Gao Chao reflected and said, "Oops, it's the fruit on that tree that has fallen." ”

Xia Qing looked a little excited and said, "Yes, it must be that kind of fruit." ”

As she spoke, she turned on her flashlight and ran forward.

The fat man saw that Xia Qing had run out without saying anything, so he grinned and said angrily to Gao Chao beside him: "Old Gao, how can your lady be so virtuous?" Can you still control her? ”

Gao Chao glanced at the fat man angrily, and said: "If you like such a girl, you can take it at any time, I want to see how you manage it?" ”

The two men reluctantly followed behind Xia Qing and ran together towards the place where a muffled sound had just sounded in front of them.

On the ground not far away, it was dim, and under the light of three flashlights, there was an oval-shaped fruit about the size of an adult placed there steadily, which looked particularly strange.

Xia Qing slowly approached the fruit, and Gao Chao next to her told her to be careful, only the fat man was the farthest away, because for some reason in his heart, he suddenly had a sense of foreboding.

Gao Chao and Xia Qing were getting closer and closer to the fruit, so close that they could already see some details on the surface of the fruit.

The surface of the fruit should be the film, but now it looks like the film is not as disgusting as the one I saw before, such a complete fruit surface, more like a very smooth eggshell, but its surface is gray-black color, under the illumination of the light, it seems to be somewhat translucent.

Through careful observation, Xia Qing found that there were countless tiny pores on the eggshell-like surface, and in each pore, there were even short hairs, which looked more like human skin, but it also made people feel indescribable.

Gao Chao also discovered these details, and a layer of goosebumps appeared on his body, if it weren't for Xia Qing's insistence on observing this giant egg so closely, he would probably have to get as far away from it as possible by now.

Xia Qing was also muttering in her heart, she was just an archaeologist, but she had never been a botanist, and she had no concept of this unheard of plant, but with her own experience and interest, she still wanted to check out this fruit, in case there were any secrets in it, she might get some unexpected gains.

Thinking like this, she put her strong flashlight close to the skin of the fruit, thinking that the skin looked translucent, so she wanted to see if she could peek into the inside of the fruit through the strong light.

But what she never expected was that the strong light from her flashlight seemed to stimulate something inside the fruit, and when the light pierced into the fruit, suddenly, the originally full fruit contracted violently, and an obvious depression changed in the position of the strong light.

This startled Xia Qing and Gao Chao next to him, and Gao Chao then reacted immediately, pulling Xia Qing to withdraw two steps.

The light from Xia Qing's flashlight naturally left the surface of the fruit, so when they looked at it again in horror, the fruit had already returned to its previous shape, as if it had not changed in any way.

Gao Chao and Xia Qing glanced at each other, and both of them even felt that they had hallucinated just now, and they were wrong for a while.

But the fat man, who was a little farther away, suddenly shouted in a low voice, "My grass, is there a living thing in that big fruit?" ”

The fat man's words undoubtedly strengthened Gao Chao and Xia Qing's correct judgment of what they had just seen, and when the two of them used a strong flashlight to shine back, they had already found that the "giant egg"-like fruit seemed to be squirming constantly. (To be continued.) )