Chapter 738 - 699: Looks Like a Little White Rabbit, But Actually a Man-Eating Flower
When Zhao Rong and his party of five witnessed a vibrant flower that was actually a ferocious tiger and an adorable rabbit that was in fact a Man-Eating Flower, they found this prehistoric civilization utterly inconceivable.
Zhao Rong scanned his surroundings cautiously before reminding the three women, "Lili, Yu Lan, Xuelian, this world is filled with all sorts of inconceivable and bizarre things. You must always think twice before you act. Otherwise, a single misstep could lead to a lifetime of regret."
Recalling the beautiful flower, Lili felt a lingering fear. "Thank goodness I was stopped by the natives behind me when I saw that flower and went to pluck it," she said. "Otherwise, I would have died in that tiger’s jaws for sure."
Yu Lan, thinking about the little rabbit she had seen, felt as though she had narrowly escaped death herself. "Luckily, I didn’t try to pick up that cute rabbit and carry it away," she said. "If I had, I would have fallen into that trap and been dissolved by the Man-Eating Flower’s digestive acids."
While Lili and Yu Lan were expressing their relief, Xuelian suddenly spotted a strange tree not far away. A human face was growing on it—moreover, it was the face of a handsome man, and it even smiled at people.
When Xuelian saw the handsome face, she found herself unconsciously drawn to it. Admiring the face, she reached out to touch it and murmured, "How can a handsome man’s face be growing on a tree? And it smiles... It’s utterly mesmerizing."
But before Xuelian could touch the face, a few of the natives rushed over, carried her a hundred meters away, and said in great fear, "Young lady, you must not touch the face on that tree! That’s not a human face at all, but a human-faced bee lying in wait for prey."
When Xuelian heard that the perfect, handsome face on the distant tree was actually a disguised human-faced bee, she exclaimed in astonishment, "No way! You’ve got to be kidding me! If that was a human-faced bee, it would have stung me to death!"
Before she could finish her sentence, the handsome face hidden in the tree instantly transformed into a deadly human-faced bee.
Xuelian gasped. She thanked the natives, saying, "Thank you all for stopping me in time. If I had reached out to touch that handsome face, the bee would have surely taken the chance to kill me."
Before she could even finish speaking, a wild boar passed under the tree. The human-faced bee instantly stung it to death with its venomous stinger. It then grabbed the carcass and flew up into the branches. The bee used its saliva to dissolve the boar, sucking the liquefied remains into its stomach for a slow digestion.
When Xuelian saw the hidden bee devour the passing wild boar, she was terrified. "Thank goodness I didn’t touch that human-faced bee disguised as a handsome man," she said, shaken. "Otherwise, the one lying dead on the ground right now would be me."
Just as Xuelian was sighing in relief, the assistant standing beside her suddenly noticed a voluptuous beauty lying on the grass not far away, waving at him.
Upon seeing the woman, the assistant’s hormones surged. Unable to control himself, he started walking toward the woman on the grass. As he walked, he mumbled to himself, "Holy crap, am I seeing things? To find such a gorgeous woman in this prehistoric world... Calling her a nation-toppling beauty would be no exaggeration!"
However, before the assistant could reach her, several natives rushed over, seized him, and gave him a thorough beating. After they had beaten him black and blue, they dragged him a hundred meters away before speaking to Zhao Rong. "Big Brother Zhao Rong, this friend of yours must have been entranced by the Siren’s Scent."
Lili was very curious about the woman on the ground. She asked the natives, "That voluptuous beauty over there—is she human, or a ghost?"
With a look of terror, one of the natives told her, "Miss, you don’t know. That thing on the ground over there that looks like a beautiful woman... it is neither human nor ghost. It’s a type of highly toxic mushroom."
When Lili heard that the voluptuous beauty waving to the assistant was actually a mushroom, she collapsed in shock, unable to process it. "Oh my god! This prehistoric world... there’s no end to the strangeness. Just when you think you’ve seen the weirdest thing, something else comes along! My mind is blown; I think my brain is short-circuiting..."
Yu Lan, standing nearby, was confused as to why the natives had been so rough. She asked them, "If the assistant made a mistake, why didn’t you just pull him away? Why beat him so violently that his face is all bruised and swollen?"
One of the natives explained, "You don’t understand. That Beauty Mushroom lying on the ground over there emits a toxic vapor we call ’Siren’s Scent.’ Anyone who sees the mushroom and gets too close will be poisoned. Their soul gets hooked, and they are drawn directly toward it. We had to hit him because the gas had already taken control of his mind. If we hadn’t, he would have struggled free and rushed over to embrace that Beauty Mushroom."
Hearing this, Yu Lan finally understood why the natives had to beat the assistant so violently, leaving his face swollen like a pig’s head.
However, Xuelian, standing to the side, still couldn’t understand. So what if the assistant embraced a mushroom that looked just like a beautiful woman? What would happen?
So, she asked the natives, "Can you tell me what terrifying thing would happen if he were to embrace the Beauty Mushroom?"