Even hybrid monsters have their day

Geng Miaowan stood up from her chair. "I'll go too."

With that, the two left the house together and headed towards the cave, and Zheng Xiuxiu naturally followed them.

“Why are you so worried about it?” Luan Hao’s voice echoed in her mind. “It might be jumping around happily in the cave right now. If you have so much free time, why don’t you just bring the energy bead into my possession?”

Luan Hao's relaxed tone did not reassure Geng Miaowan. Instead, she felt that he was saying this with the intention of watching a show, and that he might only say it to get her to collect the energy bead into his sea of ​​consciousness.

She ignored him and quickened her pace. Luan Hao seemed to realize that Geng Miaowan didn't believe him, and after saying that, he didn't speak again.

There was no trace of Little White outside the cave. Could it have really gone inside? Looking at the dark cave, Geng Miaowan couldn't help but wonder. But she couldn't figure out why it would do that…

"Little White... Little White..." she called softly into the cave a few times, "Are you in there?"

But there was no response from inside the cave; it remained deathly silent, without even an echo. Geng Miaowan's voice was like a drop of water falling into mud, utterly silent. However, the unique connection between a pet and its owner told her that it was inside the cave.

So she tried calling out a few times in her mind, "Little White... Little White..."

After a while, Xu Ruwen spoke up, "What should we do? Should I go in and check the situation?"

"I'd better go."

The powder we used yesterday was almost gone, barely enough for one person, and it all ended up on Xu Ruwen. Xiao Bai went straight into the hole without applying anything. This suicidal act made Geng Miaowan want to slam it to the ground a hundred times, then hang it up and beat it a hundred times.

She was terrified that by the time she found it, it would be hanging in the air, swaying uncontrollably.

Xu Ruwen clearly had no idea what she was thinking. He looked at her, his purple eyes unusually serious. "If you die, I'll be in a lot of trouble." His purple was much deeper than Luan Hao's, but Geng Miaowan didn't have time to compare them right now.

She choked on his words, almost unable to catch her breath. Did she really look like someone who would court death...?

Just as she was about to refute him, a slight sound suddenly came from inside the cave, like the sound of foot slipping on a stone, and a low "tsk".

"Little White!" She exchanged a glance with Xu Ruwen, a glint of light flashing in her pure black eyes. "It's inside!"

Geng Miaowan excitedly took two steps forward, only to find that she had just crossed the cave's boundary line. Startled, she looked up sharply into the cave and simultaneously channeled her spiritual energy into her hands. She planned to use the fire generated by this spiritual energy to burn the silk that some unknown insect was spitting out, hoping that even a second's delay would give her time to escape the cave.

The insects were incredibly fast, and their sheer number made it impossible to predict their attack direction—a real problem. Her mind raced with thoughts, but her eyes remained alert, carefully watching the situation inside the cave as she cautiously retreated.

As they approached the cave entrance, Xu Ruwen pulled them out.

But the cave was completely silent, without a sound, as still as the Dead Sea, and not even a single one of the glowing threads from last night was seen.

Based on what they saw yesterday, those insects should have reacted very quickly. She had been in the hole for at least four or five seconds before she came out; they couldn't possibly have missed it.

Did everything in the cave go to attack Little White?

That doesn't seem right; there's no sound coming out of it.

Just as Geng Miaowan was wondering, footsteps came from inside the cave.

"Xiaobai. Is that you?" Her face lit up with joy, but she immediately realized that it wasn't Xiaobai's footsteps. Xiaobai's footsteps were always very light, while this sounded more like human feet stepping on the ground.

Who could it be? Could something even more astonishing be hidden inside this eerie cave?

She glanced at Xu Ruwen and saw the same confusion in his eyes. However, he was clearly more worldly-wise, knowing that in this situation where the enemy was in the dark and they were in the light, the two of them standing at the cave entrance were like two targets. He quickly put one arm around her waist and pulled her back about ten meters away.

At the same time, footsteps approached the cave entrance, and a tall, imposing figure appeared at the entrance, casting a long, thin shadow in the moonlight.

As soon as he appeared, Geng Miaowan immediately used her senses, but apart from detecting a trace of Xiaobai's aura on him, all she could feel was a strong aura of death. That aura was somewhat similar to the aura of the strange creatures in the cave, but not exactly the same. In fact, she could even sense a faint trace of the aura of those strange creatures in the cave remaining on him.

However, she sensed that he was neither a demon, nor a human, nor a ghost. Could he be a monster? Thinking of the aura emanating from Luan Hao, Geng Miaowan shook her head again; it didn't seem like it.

This is so strange, how can such a species still exist in this world?

She glanced at Xu Ruwen and found that he was also looking at her. She understood immediately; he definitely didn't know what he was either. The moment he appeared, Zheng Xiuxiu hid behind Geng Miaowan. As if that wasn't enough, she drifted a considerable distance away before peeking out from behind a large tree and saying to her, more like explaining, "The aura emanating from that person is what ghosts fear most."

The person stood at the cave entrance. Because they were quite far away and the light was behind them, Geng Miaowan and Xu Ruwen couldn't see his face or expression clearly. They could only judge by feeling that he was looking in their direction.

Moreover, it carried a strange emotion that was hard to describe.

"Who are you? What did you do to Xiaobai?" Geng Miaowan asked bravely, and feeling the sharp gaze directed at her, she involuntarily took a small step back.

He just stood there without moving, and the aura emanating from him made her feel a little uneasy.

Xu Ruwen patted her shoulder and whispered in her ear, "Don't be afraid." His tone was firm and confident. Just when Geng Miaowan thought he would say, "I'm here for you," he continued, "At worst, we just have to run."

He said this without batting an eye. (To be continued.)