Once again, a pink glow pierced through the void.
Elena opened her eyes, her entire body drenched in cold sweat.
"What a beautiful sunflower. You are so charming."
Elena's pupils instantly contracted, her head rigidly staring at the river turtle that had already appeared before her, her heart filled with fear.
How could she get out of this predicament? A large number of river turtles were approaching, but even if she called Denver over, he would never save her.
"Seriously, it's only today when I saw you that I truly understood the meaning of 'beauty is food for the eyes.'" The river turtle smiled, drooling.
Elena gritted her teeth!
"Flower Fragrance Temptation!"
She had no choice but to take a desperate gamble.
After all, if she didn't first hold this river turtle in place, her lower body would be eaten in one bite! Moreover, Elena herself wasn't sure if this was a premonitory dream or a real existence!
So she had to give it her all! Besides, even if it was a dream, she didn't want to experience that pain of death again!
"Do you have any orders, my bewitching queen?" The river turtle sniffed, enjoying itself, but its gaze was vacant as it said, as if in a trance.
The blood from Elena's clenched teeth had already seeped through.
She used "Flower Fragrance Temptation" once again, and immediately a wave of hunger-induced dizziness washed over her. She forced herself to stand, thrusting the dead spirit flower staff she held firmly into the mud underwater and shouted, "Open your mouth!"
A huge wave of hunger hit her, almost making her lose her balance.
Then!
The staff grew like a vine, its branches quickly thickening to the size of an elephant's leg and reaching the height of a giraffe.
The broad leaves were like soft blankets, and at the top of the tall branches, a huge blood-red mouth with sharp teeth swallowed her without giving her a chance to observe it closely!
Puh!
Puh!
Puh!
Puh! ...
Suddenly, a large number of river turtles emerged around the huge blood-red head of the vine.
The moment they popped up, they all bared their terrifying sharp teeth and lunged at the necrotic flower with frenzied bites!
Plants have always been their favorite food. And the necrotic flower is also a plant.
Elena sat on the slimy tongue of the necrotic flower, peering through the gaps of its huge and chaotic teeth at the river below, her heart full of worry.
Fortunately, the items sent by the system, apart from having various strange attributes, have always been reliable.
The necrotic flower, as the nemesis of the ghouls, was more than capable of withstanding the bites of the ghouls.
It was obvious that it could easily fend off these river turtles.
However, just as Elena was about to relax, she saw that the turtles stacked like human pyramids under the flower stem realized that this plant was not easy to bite.
They all stretched their necks and quickly pulled their bodies out of their shells, as if they were taking off clothes with great proficiency. Then, Elena saw one after another of these creatures without shells, with their chests and bellies covered in terrifying and dense, disordered fangs, like crouching evil spirits, quickly climbing up the necrotic flower's vine and jumping onto its blood-red head, causing the flower to shake violently.
They clung tightly to every petal of the necrotic flower, and their disordered fangs on their chests kept gnawing crazily, making a noisy "chop-chop" sound in Elena's ears. These creatures could no longer be called "river turtles";
they were monsters!
They were strange!
Every root and stem of the necrotic flower was wriggling and struggling, desperately trying to shake off the dense and strange creatures below, but it was obviously of no use and only made it shake more violently.
Elena was very worried whether the necrotic flower could withstand the terrifying attacks of these creatures with fangs all over their chests, but the violent shaking made her hold onto the tongue of the necrotic flower tightly, allowing the mucus around it to splash randomly.
Several river turtle monsters inserted their sharp teeth into the gaps of the necrotic flower's fangs, trying to pry open its mouth.
However, the splashing mucus hit the fangs that had pierced through their chests, and they were rapidly corroded.
Elena was startled by this scene.
Fortunately, the tongue bed of the necrotic flower was also equipped with a blanket, which was actually its own leaves.
Elena quickly wrapped herself in the leaves to prevent the mucus from getting on her.
The necrotic flower shook its head angrily, and many river turtles fell down.
However, they still climbed up crazily, one after another, endlessly. Elena gradually lost hope.
Fortunately, at this moment, a dark shadow slowly loomed over.
In an instant, all the river turtle monsters suddenly quieted down and looked up in terror.
There, a huge snake head was smiling at them, and around it were eight heads lowered, with their eyes closed, as if they were still asleep.
"Nine... nine-headed snake..."
The river turtle monsters' voices trembled.
"V-very sorry, we didn't know this was your territory... No! Don't!"
"Run!!"
Danver swallowed dozens of shell-less river turtles in one gulp and then playfully flicked his tongue, saying,
"Don't! Don't panic, guys. Don't worry, I only eat a hundred today. My mouth can open very wide. Just two more bites. Hehehe!"
Danver seemed very happy. His huge body rushed up like lightning, and at the same time, he didn't forget to say to the necrotic flower,
"I almost forgot to thank you, little sunflower. I really didn't expect you to bring me such a big meal."
Screams, tearing sounds, screams, and swallowing sounds.
Everything happened very quickly, as if they all occurred simultaneously and then quickly fell silent.
"Hey, little sunflower, you can come out of your house now. I've driven away all those guys who could hurt you. Hehe, I'm your savior, you know."
Danver's body was coiled around the necrotic flower, his huge head leaning towards the flower's head and pressing one of his vertical eyes against the flower's teeth, staring at Elena inside.
Elena looked at the huge vertical eye behind the necrotic flower's teeth and raised her lips in disdain.
Savior?
Hmph!
A savior who used me as bait? And to be honest, I've actually died twice already.
"Thank you for giving me this wonderful lesson as a newcomer. Now, I finally understand the survival rules of the Lost Jungle,"
Elena said, making the necrotic flower open its mouth and sitting on its tongue to look at Danver's huge snake head.
"Oh? Survival rules? I'm ashamed to say that I've been here for so long and still haven't figured it out. Can you tell me about it?" Danver tilted his head.
Elena reached out and touched the flower bud hanging above the tongue of the necrotic flower.
Immediately, the necrotic flower began to shrink.
Elena, along with the shrinking necrotic flower, fell back into the river, and the flower bud she was holding turned into the flower bud decoration on her staff.
"The survival rule of the Lost Jungle is actually a food chain of the strong preying on the weak,"
Elena said calmly, looking at the tall nine-headed snake.
"Because you eat meat, you won't eat me, a plant like me. But the river turtle will eat me, and you will eat the river turtle."
Danver tilted his head and laughed disdainfully:
"Hahaha, I thought you had discovered something, little sunflower. The strong preying on the weak is the survival rule of the whole world. I bet you were an ignorant princess living in a castle before, right?"
Elena wrinkled her nose:
"But the survival rule of the Lost Jungle is not just a simple food chain of the strong preying on the weak. In the outside world, if you're born a rabbit, you're destined to be at the bottom of the food chain for your entire life. But here..."
Elena said, and couldn't help but look at Danver's suddenly tense eyes:
"Here, the prey and the predator can actually switch roles, right?"
After Elena finished speaking, she gave a sweet smile.
[Danver's sanity value -0.2]