"Sister, why haven't Brother Luo Yi and the others arrived yet?"
An hour later, Xiao Longzhan was half-lying on the back seat, rubbing his round belly, yawning and asking Jiang Nian'an.
He was getting sleepy from waiting.
"Even I don't know." Jiang Nian'an turned to look at Xiao Longzhan and shook her head.
She was also having doubts, and couldn't help but turn to look at Shen Nanxing, "Brother Shen, do you think Luo Yi and the others might have gotten into trouble?"
"Logically speaking, no."
Shen Nanxing's deep eyes gazed into the distance, gleaming in the sunlight streaming through the window. "We've lured away the main force of the mutated rat swarm. The rest are no match for them."
"But so much time has passed..."
They had already dealt with the rat swarm and had made almost two round trips between Huaye Village and Linjiang Plain, but there was still no sign of Luo Yi and his group, which was truly worrying.
"Your Majesty, Little Silver, Little Blood Fox, go and scout out the surrounding area."
Jiang Nian'an turned around and spoke to the three little ones who were pretending to doze off in the back seat.
Upon hearing her words, the three kings opened their eyes, nodded, and climbed out of the window.
"Brother Chen, let's go check behind the village. Maybe they're over there."
"good."
Shen Nanxing nodded, started the car, and drove into the village.
The village was quiet; even the insects that had been chirping incessantly in the cracks of the rocks were silent, creating an unsettling stillness.
Something's not right...
After closing all the car windows, Shen Nanxing slowly stopped the car and glanced at the roadside weeds.
Something seemed to be moving at the roots of the weeds.
"Sister, brother-in-law, look behind us! What's that?"
Xiao Longzhan, who was pressed against the rear windshield, suddenly exclaimed in surprise, as if he had seen something extraordinary.
Shen Nanxing and Jiang Nian'an turned their heads to look back at the same time, only to see a small red tide surging towards them.
In a short time, he climbed onto their car, but without stopping, he used the car as a roadblock and climbed over it.
As they crawled over the car, Jiang Nian'an and the other two got a clear look at the crimson tide.
It turns out that this red tide was composed of a group of blood-red worms the size of a thumbnail.
It looks very much like a woodlice, with no eyes or nose, eight legs, a semi-transparent body, and blood-red liquid flowing inside.
It has two thin, long, blood vessel-like tentacles on its head.
'Coo coo'
A tiny, snow-white rabbit, no bigger than a palm, darted out from behind a house on the right front side of the car, sniffing the ground as if it had come out to forage for food.
The red tide paused its advance, then turned around, sped up, and surrounded the snow-white rabbit.
The snow-white rabbit looked at the swarm of blood-red insects in front of it, shrank into a ball in fear, and kept backing away.
The red tide surged the instant the snow-white rabbit moved, instantly engulfing it.
Shen Nanxing immediately started the car and moved it forward a few meters.
The three of them stared intently at the bulge in the middle of the red tide.
In the blink of an eye, the bulge deflated, the red tide receded, and it continued its journey.
"this..."
Jiang Nian'an looked at the dead rabbit, which had truly become a rabbit skin, and a look of shock flashed in her eyes.
"You all stay in the car and don't move. I'll go down and check."
After the red tide had receded into the distance, Shen Nanxing opened the door and got out of the car. He strode over to the dead rabbit and poked it with his hand.
The blood and bones were gone; only the rabbit skin remained intact.
Moreover, the rabbit's fur remained snow-white, without a single scratch, except for some mud on the parts that had come into contact with the ground.
"So, what did you find?"
After waiting a long time without seeing Shen Nanxing get into the car, Jiang Nian'an, feeling curious, simply got out of the car, walked over to him, squatted down, and asked softly.
"The blood and bones were gone, but the rabbit skin was intact."
Shen Nanxing stretched out two fingers and picked up the rabbit skin.
"Completely intact? That can't be..."
Jiang Nian'an quickly parted the rabbit's fur to examine it closely.
After a while, she looked away, a look of confusion in her eyes.
Just as Shen Nanxing had said, the rabbit skin was completely unharmed.
"Let's cut it open and take a look!"
Jiang Nian'an gestured for Shen Nanxing to put the dead rabbit down, then waved his hand and unleashed a beam of green light, splitting the dead rabbit in two.
"vomit--"
A stream of black liquid flowed out from the rabbit skin.
At the same time, an indescribable stench emanated from the area, causing even the extremely patient Jiang Nian'an to gag.
Shen Nanxing picked her up and quickly retreated to the front of the car, away from the source of the stench—the rabbit skin.
"Sister, what's wrong?"
Xiao Longzhan jumped out of the car anxiously, but before he could reach Jiang Nian'an, he jumped back a distance with a pained expression and lay down on the roadside to retch.
"vomit--"
"Little Zhanzhan!"
Ignoring the churning in her stomach, Jiang Nian'an turned and rushed to Xiao Longzhan.
"I'm fine," Xiao Longzhan waved to Jiang Nian'an, "but sister, what's with this stench?"
Jiang Nian'an turned around and pointed to the dead rabbit that was still emitting a foul stench, saying, "The stench is coming from the body of that dead rabbit."
"So rabbits in your world smell this bad!"
Xiao Longzhan pinched his nose, his eyes fixed on the dead rabbit, still feeling lingering fear.
"It's not the rabbit's fault; the problem is those blood-red worms from earlier."
Shen Nanxing helped the two up, then turned to look at the dead rabbit. "That black liquid must have been formed from the rabbit's bones."
"Brother-in-law, how do you know that the black liquid is the bones of rabbits?"
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