met free Chapter 222 Strange Fruit
Chapter 222 Strange Fruit
The gray and white wild horse slightly bent its front legs and lowered its neck, indicating Chu Xiaomu and the other man to get off its back.
Chu Xiaomu carried Zhou Weide down from the horse and laid him aside. He was pale, breathing weakly, and completely unconscious.
The wild horse suddenly jumped up, stretched out its neck, and picked a green fruit from the dense leaves. Then it jumped again and picked up a second one.
Chu Xiaomu looked up and saw that the leaves above his head were densely packed, one next to the other. Even the branches were covered tightly. How could he see any green fruits?
The wild horse picked two fruits and then stopped picking. It tapped the two fruits with its right hoof a few times and shook its head.
Chu Xiaomu asked, "Are you asking me to give him this fruit to eat?"
The wild horse nodded, it really could understand human language.
Chu Xiaomu saw two fruits, one big and one small. Their shapes were very similar to the common pears on Baihua Island, except that their bellies were more bulging and rounder. The big one was about the size of an ordinary person's fist, while the small one was only the size of an egg. Both were dark green in color, with a glowing light flowing on the skin, unlike ordinary fruits that were green, white, yellow, or red, with inconsistent colors on the surface.
Chu Xiaomu was overjoyed, and laid Zhou Weide gently on the ground, and pried open his upper and lower jaws to feed him wild fruit. Suddenly he thought, "This fruit looks so strange, what if it is poisonous? If I am poisoned by this strange fruit, I will be doomed." Seeing that a wild horse had picked two fruits, he decided to give it a try himself.
I picked up a smaller one and put it in front of my nose to smell it. The green fruit didn't have any strong smell, only a faint scent of grass and wood. Then I took a small bite. It tasted light, not bitter or astringent, unlike most poisonous fruits that have an astringent or bitter taste. When I looked closely at the flesh, its color was exactly the same as the skin, also dark green, with a faint fluorescent glow. I waited for a while, and the flesh at the bite did not change color at all, so I could roughly determine that these fruits were not poisonous.
Chu Xiaomu threw the bitten fruit to the ground, drew the iron sword from his waist, cut the remaining slightly larger fruit into thin slices and fed them to Zhou Weide. Zhou Weide was in a coma and couldn't swallow, so Chu Xiaomu had to gently pinch his jaw and use the force to smooth his throat to help him swallow slowly.
This process of pinching and smoothing was extremely time-consuming. It took almost half an hour for Zhou Weide to swallow four thin slices of green fruit. Chu Xiaomu was anxious, but helpless. After finally feeding him another slice, he suddenly felt Zhou Weide's throat move slightly, and he swallowed the green fruit slice in his mouth on his own. Chu Xiaomu was overjoyed.
After feeding him four or five more slices, Zhou Weide finally opened his eyes and asked, "Xiao...Xiao Mu, is that you?"
Chu Xiaomu was so excited that he spoke incoherently, "Yes... it's me... Oh... you're awake... you're finally alive..." When he looked at the wound on his thigh, there was no more blood dripping, and the bleeding had obviously stopped.
Zhou Weide asked: "We... where are we? Where are my brother and the others?" He spoke fluently and seemed to have recovered a lot of his spirit.
Chu Xiaomu said: "Your brother and the others are fine. Don't worry about these for now, eat this quickly, it can heal your injuries." As he said this, he handed the remaining green fruit to Zhou Wei De's mouth.
Zhou Wei De didn't want him to feed him. He reached out to take the fruit, started to eat it himself, and said, "What kind of fruit is this? It tastes good..." He ate it up in just three or two bites. The fruit didn't even have a core.
Chu Xiaomu said, "I don't know it either. It was Shenma who led us to find it." Seeing that he had finished eating, he said, "I'll pick two more for you." He stood up and was about to climb up the tree to pick the fruit.
When the wild horse heard him say this, it came over and stood in front of him. Chu Xiaomu didn't understand what it meant and wanted to go around it to climb the tree to pick green fruits. The wild horse wheezed twice and knocked him to the ground with its head.
Chu Xiaomu then realized that the wild horse did not allow him to pick any more fruits, so he had to give up and said to Zhou Weide: "It seems that I can only eat one. The wild horse does not allow me to pick any more."
Zhou Weide said: "One is enough. My legs don't hurt so much anymore. The numbness feels much better." After saying that, he actually struggled to stand up from the ground.
Chu Xiaomu thought that it had only been more than half an hour since Zhou Weide unconsciously ate the first piece of green fruit and stood up now. It was really incredible that the effect was so great. It was really incredible that Shenma had found such a good medicine for him. It really had no malicious intent. Instead, he was wary of it. It was really wrong.
Chu Xiaomu bowed twice to the wild horse and said, "Good horse, good horse, thank you again. I will definitely find a way to repay your kindness..."
The wild horse pointed at the green fruit that Chu Xiaomu had discarded on the ground, and then pointed at himself. Chu Xiaomu asked, "Are you asking me to eat this too?"
The wild horse yelped and snorted twice.
Chu Xiaomu said, "But I'm not injured, so I don't need to eat this." The wild horse simply picked up the green fruit that fell on the ground with its mouth and put it in Chu Xiaomu's hand. The horse nodded several times, as if to signal him to eat it quickly and not waste such a good thing.
Chu Xiaomu thought, Brother De'er ate one of these fruits, and his leg injury seemed to have healed for the most part. This fruit has such a magical effect, it must be something extraordinary. Maer asked me to eat it, either to tell me not to waste this magical green fruit, or it is extremely beneficial to me. So he said, "I'll listen to you, such a good fruit can't be wasted." I felt a little hungry, so I ate a few bites of the green fruit. The flesh was delicate and smooth, with a strange fragrance in the mouth, and an endless aftertaste, which was different from any fruit I had eaten before.
As the fruit pulp passed from his mouth into his throat and then into his stomach, Chu Xiaomu felt a sense of floating, as if his spirit became more active, as if it was about to jump out of his body. Even when he looked at the things around him and heard the birdsong and beasts in the forest, he seemed to understand them much more clearly. He knew that it was the effect of this wild fruit, or perhaps it was a slight hallucination, so he hurriedly gathered his mind, suppressed his spirit, and calmed himself down little by little.
Zhou Weide asked: "Xiao Mu, what is the name of this fruit? It is so magical, why don't we pick more of it, it will be useful in the future, and we can also..."
Before he could finish his words, the gray and white wild horse suddenly stood up tall and neighed loudly, as if expressing its strong dissatisfaction with Zhou Weide's words.
Chu Xiaomu hurried over, gently stroked the horse's back, and said, "Don't pick them. They've already eaten two. You can't pick any more..."