Chapter 72: Fairy Tale Forest (XVIII) Witch
"May I ask who you are?"
I thought it would be easy to find the wolf's teeth, but I didn't expect to meet earthlings on the way, the fairy tale characters of this paragraph.
It was a rickety old woman, who looked to be only one meter three or four in height, holding a deadwood cane taller than herself, and wearing a black robe, which was very long and wide, covering the old woman's whole body, and even her face was hidden in the black hood. Only a large hooked nose and pale and withered straw-like hair on both sides emerged from the hood, and two withered, thin hands sticking out of the robe.
One of the two hands held a cane, and the other held an apple, it was a strange apple, I had never seen an apple like that, it was divided into two distinct parts from the middle, one side was the appearance of an ordinary apple, slightly yellow, with a little ruddy, and the other side was so red that it was as if it had been dyed red with blood, and it was mysterious and bewitching, but this strange color and appearance of this apple should not be poisonous, right?
In the sunlight, the apple reflected an alluring sheen, as if in response to my thoughts, and my alarm clock suddenly buzzed, and the alarm clock was chaotic. In an instant, all thoughts were emptied, all thoughts were truncated, and looking at the tempting half of the apple, a strong desire to taste it rose in my heart, and all the confusion and confusion in my mind converged into one thing - to get close to it, to get it, to eat it!
Saliva is constantly secreted in the mouth, and the sweet and sour taste of apples overflows in the mouth, and the tip of the tongue seems to be dancing with a villain, and no taste bud craves the sweet taste of apples. With that bright red skin, open your mouth and take a big bite, revealing the bright yellow flesh underneath, sweet and sour juice will burst out from between your teeth, and with each chew, the rich juice of the apple will be squeezed out of the pulp, splashed into the tooth hall, infiltrated the tongue, flowed into the throat, crossed the esophagus, and flowed into the heart
I vaguely felt that this ** came abruptly and strangely, as if the apple had magical power and was inhaling and capturing my soul, but I couldn't resist, I couldn't convince myself to suppress this urge, I wanted to go into it, get it, taste its sweetness, and swallow it completely down my throat
"Don't leave!"
I suddenly heard a shout in my ears, a pull pulled me backwards, I staggered back two steps, and only woke up a little when I stood firm again, I looked at Fang Ruoxi who was staring at me anxiously next to me, I felt a dull pain in my head, thinking back to my feeling just now, as if I was enchanted, I turned my head again to look at the position of the old woman just now, but found that she had disappeared.
It's an earthling, a character from a fairy tale, I'm sure. Now I think back to the scene when I just saw the apple, and on the back of the hand holding the apple, there is the "E" symbol that represents the earth.
"Mo Li, what happened to you just now? Suddenly, as if he had fallen into an evil spirit, he stared at the place in front of him, and muttered something apple, apple. What apples? What's the apple here? ”
Fang Ruoxi's words made me stunned, not because of what she described about me just now, but because she didn't see the old woman just now?
"Don't you see?" I frowned, and pointed forward, "There it was, under the tree in front, there was an old woman, dressed in a black robe with a hood, with a cane in one hand and an apple in the other, very short, probably as tall as my chest, and her face was hidden in the darkness of the hat, revealing only a hooked nose. ”
Fang Ruoxi pouted: "What you described doesn't look like a normal person, right?" It's like something unclean. Put it in a fairy tale and be a witch! Right! It's a witch! And that apple, there must be something wrong with it! ”
"Witch" I thought back to the image of the earthling I had just seen, and it was really possible to say that it was a witch, "that apple is very wrong, half bright red, half is the appearance of an ordinary apple, slightly yellow with a little red, the normal half seems to be fine, the point is that the red half is really not right, I felt that red was like poison, but then my consciousness seemed to be out of my control, as if there was some strange power, which has been attracting me, I can't help but want to eat it. ”
"Witch Apple Fairy Tale" Fang Ruoxi read it several times by herself, "How does this look like Snow White?" ”
Snow White? I was stunned for a moment, and then I felt that Fang Ruoxi was right, and now this fairy tale may really be Snow White, the poisonous apple of the queen's stepmother.
"Maybe it's really that apple is a poisonous apple, no wonder Snow White would be stupid enough to eat it, if you hadn't pulled me, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to resist that kind of magic." I raised my hand and pinched my eyebrows, and the grogginess in my head finally got a lot better, "It's just that only I can see it?" ”
"I don't know about that, but since we know that this is Snow White's fairy tale, we should just be careful not to eat poisonous apples." Fang Ruoxi shrugged.
Don't eat poisonous apples, is it that simple? I frowned, but I didn't have any other clues, so I could only be careful and wait and see what happened.
"Forget it, let's go quickly, go find the wolf tooth first, I'm afraid he'll have been waiting for us for a while."
Greeting Fang Ruoxi, we walked forward again, this time we didn't encounter any strange people or things, this time we successfully found the wolf's teeth.
"Why is it so slow?" As if sensing our presence, Wolf Fang was watching us approach, he glanced at Fang Ruoxi, who was with me, and didn't say anything, but pointed to the front, "A little further ahead, there is a forest there, and there are mushrooms, you go and see if you can pick some back, and there are wild vegetables or something." Don't go too far, shout at danger, I can hear you. ”
"yes, okay." I nodded, thought about it, and said to Wolf Fang, "By the way, I met the earthlings on the way here."
Hearing my words, Wolf Fang frowned fiercely, "What kind of earthling?" What happened"
"A witch, I should say yes." I squinted and thought, "If I guessed correctly, this should be the story of Snow White, I won't say much about the story, the focus is on the witch's apple, that apple is poisonous, and it seems to have a fatal attraction to people, seeing it will produce a strong desire to eat it**, if it wasn't for Fang Ruoxi by my side just now, maybe I would really have to eat that apple." ”
Listening to my words, Wolf Fang turned his head and glanced at Fang Ruoxi, as if he was not used to the sharp gaze of Wolf Fang, Fang Ruoxi smiled and turned his head to avoid Wolf Fang's gaze.
"Do you mean she wasn't affected by the apple?" Wolf Fang immediately grasped the point, although the guess was wrong, but it was close.
"No, I'm the only one who saw the witch and the apple."
Wolf Fang thought for a few seconds before nodding and saying, "I know, you guys go pick some mushrooms or something first, and we'll talk about this later." ”
Since the wolf tooth said this, he must have a plan in his heart, so I also listened to his words and walked forward with Fang Ruoxi.
Only a little further on, we found the place where the wolf's tooth said there were mushrooms and wild herbs. It was a large treeless clearing covered with mushrooms and wild herbs of all colors.
"Oh my God! Lots of mushrooms! Fang Ruoxi exclaimed, walked a few steps forward quickly, walked into the mushroom and squatted down to observe, "Mo Li, can you tell which ones are poisonous and which ones are not poisonous?" It's the first time I've seen so many mushrooms! Just look at these colorful, many of them are poisonous, right? ”
I took a closer look and couldn't help frowning, but I still explained to Ruoxi first, "I don't know very well, but there are a few that I still know that are not poisonous, so let's only pick the ones that are not poisonous." ”
As I spoke, I squatted down beside Fang Ruoxi, pointed to several of them and said, "This pale yellow clump is a very common mushroom, it is not poisonous, and there should be one under the tree at the edge." There is also this white one, which is also non-toxic, and this kind of general growth is relatively scattered, not clumped. And this gray-blue is not poisonous."
"Huh? Wait, wait, wait" Fang Ruoxi interrupted me, I looked at her suspiciously, she pointed to the gray-blue mushroom and asked, "This is not poisonous?" Are you sure? Blue mushrooms! It's so bright! ”
As she spoke, she reached out and picked a gray-blue mushroom, took it to her front and looked at it, exclaiming, "Look, you see, the color inside the canopy is completely bright blue!" Break it and there is this blue-green juice, are you really sure that this is not poisonous? ”
"I'm sure, this blue mushroom isn't poisonous."
In fact, this is the first time I have seen this mushroom, and the reason why I am so sure is because in the days when time stopped before, I read a lot of materials and knew a lot of knowledge, including information about this blue mushroom.
"This mushroom is called blue-green lactobacillus, also known as indigo mushroom, although the color is brighter than the shiitake mushrooms we usually eat, but it is definitely an edible shiitake mushroom, which is also circulated in the Chinese market, you don't have to worry."
"Huh? What about this kind of thing? This one is also blue, isn't it not poisonous? Fang Ruoxi pointed to another mushroom like a curious baby and asked.
I took a look at it and carefully identified it in my memory before replying, "No, no, no, these two are different, this is the Xuanlan mushroom, and it also has a nice name called 'Elf's Sycamore', but this is inedible, and it is unknown whether there is a toxin or not." Generally distinguish whether the mushroom is poisonous in addition to looking at the bright color or not, you can also see whether the handle of the mushroom is thick or not, such as the blue and green milk mushroom this kind of umbrella cover is large, the handle is thicker is non-toxic, and the blue mushroom this umbrella cover is thin, the handle is thin, it is more likely to be poisonous, you should pay attention to it when you pick it. ”
"Do you learn plants? You know a lot! Fang Ruoxi sighed, and then showed a smiling face, "I know!" Blue fat shiitake mushrooms are non-toxic, blue thin shiitake mushrooms are poisonous, don't worry, I won't pick the wrong one! ”
I smiled back, Fang Ruoxi didn't say anything, and went to the side to start picking mushrooms.
After seeing that Fang Ruoxi no longer paid attention to me, my smile gradually faded, and I felt a little complicated when I looked at the colorful mushrooms all over the ground
These mushrooms are supposed to grow all over the world, and the climate in which they grow is not completely uniform, so why are they concentrated here?
With a sky without the sun and a chaotic ecosystem, is this really a fairy tale world that doesn't exist?
So are we people and I really exist here?