After Transmigrating, I and the Female Lead Both Found It 'Really Fragrant' (GL) - Chapter 35
The lake wasn’t large; its clear waters rippled under the sun. Several tall trees lined its edge, their sprawling green leaves like a series of split bird feathers, wide and sharp, casting a blurry shadow over the center of the lake.
Getting closer, Shen Qiqi stared at those trees. With her limited knowledge of plants, she guessed these were the kind of coconut trees commonly found by the sea. She wondered if she could eat the coconuts hanging from them directly.
It was too hot. Some people couldn’t bear it anymore and squatted by the lake, cupping handfuls of lake water and gulping it down. Some even wanted to take off their shoes and soak their feet, but were angrily stopped by others.
Everyone splashed water around and shouted happily, “It feels so good!” “Hey, this water is pretty sweet…”
Amidst the splashing, Liu Shuang pursed her lips and looked at Shen Qiqi beside her.
In her previous life, her junior sister had ordered people to stop Liu Shuang from drinking the lake water to quench her thirst, and as a result, they had both fortunately avoided the oasis and survived.
She also couldn’t forget Shen Qiqi standing in front of her with her hips akimbo, with towering splashes of water behind her, looking regretful, “You’re lucky!”
She regretted that she had stopped Liu Shuang from approaching the lake.
Shen Qiqi wanted to kill her using external objects without violating the rules.
But now, Shen Qiqi had once again done something contrary to her previous life, and this wasn’t the first time.
Instead of harming her, she wanted to save her.
This made Liu Shuang feel that there seemed to be a completely opposite soul in Shen Qiqi, contradictory and fragmented.
She had some guesses in her heart and suddenly asked, “Junior Sister, how do you know the water have a problem?”
Shen Qiqi’s expression was calm, without a trace of a flaw, “There’s nothing but wilderness all around, and suddenly an oasis appears, doesn’t it seem strange?”
As soon as she said this, the faces of several people who were eager to drink water changed, and they stopped.
What Shen Qiqi said actually made sense. This was the Nightmare Realm, full of dangers, and you never knew where a monster would hide and bite you, let alone this inexplicable oasis.
Liu Shuang narrowed her eyes slightly, her doubts not dispelled.
She quietly sneaked into Shen Qiqi’s mind, only to see the other person looking at the distant coconut trees with a sigh of infinite melancholy, “Sigh, I really want to drink coconut juice…”
Liu Shuang: “………”
The people by the lake finished drinking the water and sat down to rest, while also calling out to the people standing by, “What are you standing there for? Come over and take a rest? Aren’t you thirsty?”
Everyone was hot and tired, and they looked at each other hesitantly, “It seems a bit strange here. Maybe we shouldn’t stay here any longer?”
“Where’s the strangeness? You’re thinking too much. It’s just an ordinary lake!” A man sitting by the lake disagreed, “Besides, there are so many people here, what are you worried about?”
“That’s right, you’re just being paranoid.”
“I’ve been playing in the water just now, and I’m still alive and well!”
Shen Qiqi turned and looked at those people with the eyes of someone looking at the dead, so careless, they deserved to die.
A female cultivator standing beside her whispered, “But I think what Junior Sister said makes sense… How could an oasis suddenly appear in a wasteland? It’s better to be cautious…”
Someone sneered, “Could it just be a coincidence? I drank so much water and I’m fine. Listen to her nonsense…” Before he finished speaking, he suddenly fell backwards, half of his body falling into the water.
The people around were startled and immediately surrounded him, “Senior Brother, what’s wrong with you!”
The man’s eyes rolled back, and his whole body convulsed. A large amount of bl00d gushed out of his seven orifices, and the clear lake was instantly dyed a deep red.
The faces of several people changed drastically, and before they could react, the people around the lake fell down one by one, all falling into the water.
Although Zhao Ke had agreed to everyone’s proposal, he didn’t go over to taste the water himself. Instead, he found a shady spot to sit and rest.
Hearing the screams from a distance, he quickly stood up and ran over, “What happened?!”
When he arrived, those people were already dead, floating on the surface of the water with their bodies intact. The bl00d had dyed the lake a deep crimson, looking very scary, and even the breeze carried a hint of rust.
Everyone present was pale and complex, and some of the timid ones were even so scared that they cried and held onto the clothes of the people beside them tightly.
Seeing this, Shen Qiqi couldn’t help but pinch her nose and step back, shielding her frail senior sister behind her, blocking the gruesome sight from her view. “Senior Sister, don’t be afraid, I’m here!”
This scene was much better than the high-definition uncut footage of a disembowelment she’d seen before. It wasn’t as shocking and was still within an acceptable range.
Liu Shuang paused, complying by grabbing Shen Qiqi’s sleeve and lowering her eyes slightly, whispering, “…Thank you, Junior Sister.”
Shen Qiqi turned around and saw Liu Shuang, who was “clinging to her like a bird” and covering her lips with her sleeve, and felt infinitely distressed: Look at what this broken place has scared my senior sister into!
Zhao Ke, standing nearby, looked at all this, his face pale with fear and shock, “What’s going on?”
“We don’t know either!” The female cultivator beside Shen Qiqi gritted her teeth, “As soon as those people drank the water, they… ”
Someone sighed, “As Junior Sister predicted, luckily we didn’t go down!”
Zhao Ke clenched his fists, his eyes filled with deep self-blame, “…If I had known, I shouldn’t have agreed to bring everyone here.”
“Senior Brother Zhao, don’t blame yourself too much,” someone persuaded softly, “No one wanted this to happen.”
Others echoed, “Yeah, yeah, don’t think about it! The most important thing is to be happy.”
“We all advised them to be careful, but they wouldn’t listen to Junior Sister’s warning, and this disaster happened…Alas!”
Shen Qiqi counted the number of people who had fallen behind. There were about a dozen people, and there were about a dozen others left alive. She didn’t know how many would make it to the final circle.
Zhao Ke was silent for a moment and said in a hoarse voice, “I understand what everyone means. But no matter what, I’m the leader, and now that everyone has died innocently, I feel responsible… Well, how about we bury everyone’s bodies…”
Unexpectedly, a bright and cheerful voice came from behind, “Innocently died? Bury the bodies? Senior Brother Zhao, that’s a bit much.”
He turned around and saw Shen Qiqi looking at him with her almond-shaped eyes, smiling mockingly, “They killed themselves, why should we bury them for them? They didn’t feel guilty at all when they were drinking the water, did they? Besides, this is the Nightmare Realm, isn’t life and death normal? Do you have to stop and bury every time someone dies?”
Her series of questions caught Zhao Ke off guard, “Junior Sister…”
Someone whispered, “I think Junior Sister is right.”
“Me too…”
Seeing that the situation was one-sided, Zhao Ke frowned in difficulty, “But, don’t you all feel sorry for your fellow disciples’ corpses lying cold here?”
Everyone was speechless and looked at each other. Zhao Ke’s words were very powerful. Once they refused, it would seem like they were heartless.
Such a saintly martyr, she’s even whiter than the female lead!
Shen Qiqi folded her arms and smiled, “If you must bury them, go ahead.”
Zhao Ke was overjoyed, “Then…”
“No need.” This time it was Liu Shuang who spoke. She stared at the calm lake behind her and said calmly, “There’s no time.”
What did she mean by no time?
Before everyone could figure it out, they saw the lake water suddenly churn, and a snow-white wave rose up, forming a curtain of water that crashed down on them!
Everyone was dumbfounded.
“Oh my god!”
“My goodness…”
“Is the lake going crazy?!”
This was a rhythm to drown people on the spot!
Several people at the scene immediately ran away, dodging the oncoming wave. The lake water overflowed the wasteland, sizzling under the scorching sun, and then there was an earthquake, and smoke began to rise from all sides of the oasis!
Shen Qiqi almost fell over, but fortunately, Liu Shuang grabbed her in time and pressed her against her.
Shen Qiqi barely held onto her shoulder and gave her a thumbs up, “Senior Sister, you’re so quick!”
“What the hell is that thing?” someone exclaimed.
She narrowed her eyes. Amidst the smoke, the oasis suddenly rose up a large section at an extremely fast speed and charged towards them. The ground beneath it had actually grown… four legs?!
Meanwhile, the sect masters in front of the water mirrors also changed color.
He Yeyu exclaimed, “It’s a Mirage Turtle!”
Mirage Turtles are very cunning spirit beasts, huge in size and skilled at camouflage. They look similar to turtles, but the difference is that they have a lake oasis growing on their backs, and at first glance, it’s very difficult to notice that such a piece of land is actually a living creature.
Mirage Turtles usually appear in deserts and wilderness. They like to dig a hole, bury their bodies in the mud pit, and expose the lake oasis on their backs to the surface, using it to attract thirsty travelers to let down their guard, and then swallow them whole. This trick usually works every time.
Liu Shuang said, “Don’t look, run.”
Without a word, the two of them ran as fast as they could, but the Mirage Turtle, although called a turtle, was several hundred times faster than its kind. It charged towards them like a flash of lightning, and it swallowed several lagging cultivators whole.
After eating a few people, it seemed that it was still not full, and it chased after the remaining few.
Shen Qiqi said, “It has a big appetite!”
Someone beside her sighed, “It’s so big after all.”
Shen Qiqi turned her head and saw that the person running beside her was the sanctimonious Senior Brother Zhao Ke, so she teased, “Senior Brother Zhao, aren’t you going to bury the bodies?”
Zhao Ke rubbed his nose and smiled bitterly, “Junior Sister, don’t tease me anymore.”
His expression suddenly changed, and he said solemnly, “What should we do now, Junior Sisters? I can’t see through the cultivation level of that spirit beast, I’m afraid it’s already reached the Nascent Soul stage. If we want to fight…”
Liu Shuang looked up, the Mirage Turtle was already at the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage, half a level higher than everyone present.
Shen Qiqi looked at the Mirage Turtle, then at her small body, and shook her head, “I don’t think I can beat it.”
Liu Shuang smiled lightly, “If we can’t beat it, let’s run.”
Zhao Ke widened his eyes in shock, “How can we just run away without a fight!”
Senior Sister knows me best! Ignoring Zhao Ke, Shen Qiqi turned to her and smiled, suddenly feeling like a wildflower at the end of its life.
Liu Shuang looked at her and took something out of her pocket.
Suddenly, a round, hard object was stuffed into her hand. Shen Qiqi quickly held it with both hands and opened her eyes wide in surprise when she saw it, “This is…”
“A coconut,” Liu Shuang said, “I picked it just now.”
I’ve kept you waiting for a long time, sorry QVQ
Thank you all very much! Your lazy author tried to update six times a day but failed. Next time, I’ll definitely try harder!