"This time, the handling was quite quick and efficient. Let's go. If we don't leave now, they'll be here soon."

A familiar male voice emerged faintly from the gradually dispersing gray fog. It was Murong An!

He was standing less than 10 meters away from her, just looking at her silently, and was not surprised at the pile of dead earthworms behind her.

Xiao Bai thought, "I guess he didn't go far." She had originally thought, "This guy left her alone and went somewhere unknown. If she found him, she would definitely give him a hard time." But after this killing spree, her emotions had calmed down, and she was able to start looking at her own heart. She suddenly felt that it was pointless to argue with him about what happened before. After all, he didn't seem to have said anything wrong.

Oh, forget it.

Xiao Bai sighed. After all, she couldn't beat him even if she hit him. So she just scolded him. Although he didn't seem to talk much usually, once he started nagging, it seemed like she couldn't win the argument!

Otherwise, next time this situation happens again, will she use her trump card - make trouble unreasonably?

After all, as long as I'm unreasonable, no one can defeat me! Unfortunately, she still has a little conscience and is not so thick-skinned.

Xiao Bai lowered his head and gritted his teeth, secretly making a note of this matter first.

The gray fog completely dissipated, and Lai Fu's cheerful figure came running from not far away. The originally clean dog was now covered in mud, with some dark red meat and wet mucus on its fur, and it seemed to be holding something in its mouth.

Seeing that Lai Fu was about to rush in front of her and pounce on her, she quickly turned around and hid behind Murong An. Lai Fu, who had no time to brake, bumped into Murong An's trouser leg.

Murong An, who had been calm and composed all along, finally had a look of composure on his face.

He frowned, took a step back in disgust, made a hand gesture with his right hand, and quickly threw a cleansing gesture at himself and Lai Fu, glaring at the dog with disgust as its tail was wagging slower and slower.

Lai Fu: ········

It just wanted to give the treasure it found to its owner out of kindness...

The dog felt wronged, so it could only drop the dark core in its mouth to the ground, blinking its drooping eyes and looking at Xiao Bai.

Xiao Bai looked at Lai Fu, then at the obviously large dark core on the ground, then at Murong An, and asked doubtfully:

"So, what is this thing used for? I think I saw you collecting this stuff before."

"It's of no use to you right now."

"What do you mean it's useless to me now? Is it useful to you?" Xiao Bai asked curiously.

Murong An glanced at her and waved his right hand. A palm-sized flower pot appeared out of thin air in his right hand. He bent down, picked up the dark core on the ground and placed it in the flower pot. Then he replied lightly, "Growing flowers."

Xiao Bai:········

What kind of flowers can be grown with this thing?

She was just about to open her mouth to ask when suddenly a wave of air came from the front. Someone was attacking them!

A strong dark matter energy wave suddenly appeared not far in front of them, and attacked Murong An at an extremely fast speed, targeting his right hand holding the flowerpot.

"careful!"

Xiao Bai screamed out loud, his heart in his throat!

Not only did this attack appear sudden, but it also looked incredibly familiar! Wasn't that the attack launched by that mysterious, cloaked, high-level dark creature at the East City School?! Those familiar colors and energy fluctuations! That energy could destroy an entire building! If it had directly hit Murong An's right hand, his entire arm would have been crippled!

Just when Xiao Bai was getting nervous, he saw Murong An raising his left hand and quickly changing the finger gestures. A ray of white light shot out from his fingertips and hit the gray-black light that was attacking from not far away. The two rays of light, one white and one black, collided with each other a few meters in front of him, emitting a huge energy shock wave.

Xiao Bai was pushed back by the air waves caused by the collision of these two huge energies. He stepped on empty air and fell backwards!

As luck would have it, there was a crack behind her. It was created by the contaminated earthworm when it came out from the ground. When she fell backwards, she fell into the crack!

Xiao Bai:...

The good news was that she wouldn't be attacked by the high-level dark creature that appeared out of nowhere anytime soon! The bad news was that she was still falling, and there was no telling how deep the crack was! Furthermore, the high-level dark creature outside would definitely attack Murong An and Lai Fu, so there was no telling how the situation would turn out!

She struggled to pull out the long stick from behind her in mid-air and stabbed it hard into the mud beside her. She felt a sharp pain in her right hand and after sliding down a few meters, she finally stabilized her falling trend.

After the black stick was half deeply inserted into the soil, her right hand was pulled by inertia and it hurt. She stretched out her left hand, scratched and grabbed the stick, hugged the stick with both hands, and flipped up with her waist, finally sitting on the stick.

Only then did she feel like checking out her surroundings.

Wow! It was pitch black! There was no light at all underground, so what could you see?

So she pulled out a fire-gathering talisman from her small waist pouch. Wow, the mutant fire she'd just collected from the mutant parrot was now ready for use! Not only did it require no fuel, but the flame could burn for a long time in the air—perfect for this situation!

Bright yellow flames lit up in the darkness. Wow, the entrance to the underground crack doesn’t look small, but it’s really big inside!

Xiao Bai shone the flame above, below, left and right of herself, and only then did she discover that this was actually a naturally formed underground crack. The depth and width inside were far beyond her imagination!

Xiao Bai began to worry secretly: If this crack was really formed naturally, then besides the contaminated earthworms, are there other contaminated animals underground?