So the two of them went to the outskirts of the community together and walked into the gray fog to check.
The gray fog here was not much different from what they saw when they came in from the main gate. It was shrouded in thick fog. If someone had a bad sense of direction, they would definitely get lost as soon as they came in.
Fortunately, Murong An and Xiao Bai both had a certain sense of direction, so they quickly found the center of the gray fog.
There was complete silence in the gray fog. Apart from the rustling of dead branches and leaves underfoot, there were no other sounds such as birds singing or animals running.
The silence was a little eerie, and coupled with the extremely low visibility, Xiao Bai always had a bad feeling. It reminded her of a similar movie she had seen before. She was always afraid that a large group of monsters would run out of the gray fog in the next second.
"Did you notice anything unusual?" She carefully approached Murong An and quietly pulled his clothes. She was really a little scared in her heart, but she was embarrassed to go up and hold his hand directly, so she could only secretly hold his clothes, so that she would feel a little safe.
Murong An glanced at the tightly clenched white fingers under the corner of his clothes, without saying a word, and replied lightly:
"I didn't find anything unusual, but that's exactly what's strange. There's not even a crack on the ground. If the gray fog was caused by the rift between the two worlds, then this crack should be very obvious."
"Then, should we dig it up and take a look? Maybe the crack is buried underground?" Xiao Bai looked at the land covered with dead grass under her feet, and then looked at Lai Fu, who had been tied up with a leash by her since entering the gray fog. Lai Fu had been walking and sniffing vigilantly since he came in, but it was obvious that the time he was sniffing around here was getting longer and longer.
Murong An obviously also noticed Lai Fu's situation, so he did not question or ridicule the questions raised by Xiao Bai. Instead, he frowned and seriously thought about the possibility of this matter.
“It’s not like there haven’t been such cases…”
"careful!"
Xiao Bai suddenly shouted, grabbed the hand that was holding Murong An's clothes and grabbed it upwards, then lunged forward and knocked the man to the ground. After rolling a few times, the two of them moved away from the area they were in.
Behind Murong An, where he had just stood, a long crack suddenly appeared from the ground. A soft, sticky, tentacle-like thing as thick as a bowl suddenly attacked upward from the ground, creating a deep pit where Murong An had just stood!
“This…this is…”
Xiao Bai looked at the tentacles that were squirming on the ground in front of him. The tentacles continued to wriggle upwards from the cracks and extend a longer distance. It looked really scary and disgusting!
"This is a polluting animal." Murong An looked at the tentacle monster not far in front of him, but his tone of voice was extremely calm, as if he didn't care at all about being almost attacked.
Xiao Bai was so angry at his frivolous tone that his heart stabbed. He widened his eyes and said in disbelief, "Pollution animals? Isn't this some strange mutated species?"
"Mutated earth dragon, is it a very strange animal?"
"Earth Dragon?"
"Oh, you call it an earthworm now. By the way, can you let me go now?"
Before Xiao Bai recovered from the fact that the giant tentacle monster was a ground dragon, oh no, it was an earthworm, she heard Xiao Bai's next sentence. Before she could react, she followed the other person's gaze and looked at herself - his hands tightly hugging the other person's thin waist.
"Oh! Sorry!" She quickly got up.
While they were talking, the earthworm had already wriggled its entire body out of the crack in the ground.
Xiao Bai had never seen such a large earthworm before. It was as thick as a bowl and about ten meters long! When the earthworm's two ends were on the ground and arched up, it was more than three meters high.
The earthworm arched its body high, then raised the part that was on the ground, which was unclear whether it was the head or the tail, high up, and then threw it heavily towards Xiao Bai and the others.
The two of them quickly dodged, and with a "pop", the earthworm hit the ground, and a crack appeared on the ground instantly!
"Damn! Is this still a soft earthworm? I whipped it on the ground just now, and it had about the same effect!"
Xiao Bai exclaimed, and quickly pulled Murong An and Lai Fu back a few steps, away from the contaminated earthworm. The earthworm's huge body immediately disappeared into the gray mist again.
Murong An looked at Xiao Bai who was retreating in a hurry and asked in confusion, "Why are you retreating? Isn't this a very good training opportunity?"
"Are you a devil?" Xiao Bai's eyes widened in surprise, and he pointed at his own face and asked, "Do you think I can defeat it?!"
Seeing this, Murong An narrowed his eyes and said with a slightly dissatisfied tone: "Don't you realize that there is a big problem with you?"
"ah?"
"Have you not noticed that when you encounter difficulties or problems, you always subconsciously avoid the battle? In other words, you are subconsciously running away!"
Xiao Bai was stunned, his pupils shrank, and he subconsciously retorted: "How can I possibly defeat such a big and powerful earthworm!"
"How do you know you can't win? Since you were able to spot the opponent's attack immediately and dodge it, it means you are not incapable of fighting. So why do you keep dodging? Or rather, running away?"
"I didn't!" Xiao Bai roared loudly, and only after she finished roaring did she realize that she had overreacted. Looking at Murong An's calm eyes, she tried to calm herself down and tried to change the subject: "Well, the contaminated earthworms can appear at any time, so we should first..."
"Go fight! Face it, face the thing that makes you subconsciously escape and fear in your heart!" Murong An interrupted Xiao Bai and said, staring into her eyes.
Xiao Bai looked at Murong An's determined eyes, his pupils trembling, but he still tried to refute: "I didn't..."
"You do! Perhaps you haven't noticed, but every time you fight, you usually avoid direct combat, subconsciously hoping or using other auxiliary means to win. This was very obvious when fighting the mutant parrot. You could clearly defeat it directly and neatly, but you chose the more troublesome method of depleting its physical strength. So what are you afraid of? Are you afraid of getting hurt?"
Murong An had never spoken so many words to her before, and considering the meaning of his words, Xiao Bai didn't react for a moment, nor did she want to react.
"Let's leave first..."
"So you are afraid of getting hurt? Have you been seriously injured before?" Murong An asked persistently.
"Stop asking! Ask, ask, ask, what's there to ask? Isn't the most important thing right now to deal with the polluted earthworms? Besides, what does my life have to do with you?!"
Under Murong An's repeated questioning, Xiao Bai finally exploded!
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