On the island,
Clang~
A crisp impact rang beside Li Si's ear, jolting him awake from his slight daze.
Looking at the vine that had suddenly shot out from a nearby tree, Li Si frowned.
What was going on?
Why had his mind suddenly gone blank just now, and why had he reached out to pick a banana?
He looked at the banana in his hand, then at the dark green vine hovering before him, constantly writhing as it tried to bore through his shield.
Li Si suddenly realized something: the fruit-bearing trees on this island were not different species of fruit trees as they normally should have been.
For example, bananas and mangoes should have come from different kinds of trees, yet throughout this forest, there was only one type of tree as far as the eye could see.
They were three meters tall, with pale cyan trunks faintly tinged with white and branches and leaves forming emerald-green umbrella-shaped canopies.
All the fruit grew directly from the trunks. A single tree could even bear many different kinds of fruit.
The thing that had attacked Li Si just now was a thick vine clinging to one of those trunks. It was as thick as an ordinary person's arm, with a sharp tip. If Li Si had not cast protective magic on himself beforehand, that strike alone would have injured him.
Li Si hurled a fireball at it. The dark green vine was instantly engulfed in blue flames, writhed a few times, and turned to ashes.
Why had it attacked him?
Li Si pondered inwardly. Was it because he had picked the fruit?
But Aivar had done something similar just now. Why had he not been attacked?
Wait, why had he gone to pick that banana?
Given his usual habits, he