321 The Fool’s Cage (15)_1
As the saying goes, seek benevolence and receive it.
After seeing the creature crawling on the ground, Fu Qian and Hani looked at Bella in unison.
Regrettably, the rebellious girl, who had been indolent and world-weary just a moment ago, now seemed a bit stiff in her posture.
Everyone loves the idea of a dragon until one actually shows up!
Fu Qian sighed without paying attention to her reaction and bent down to observe the creature on the ground.
This source of danger, according to Hani, wasn’t very large; with its tail, it was just over half a meter long, and if not for the typical crocodile-like snout, it would almost be a large lizard.
At the moment, its uneven skin exuded an indescribable shade of black, as if it couldn’t reflect any light.
Its eight legs were inconsistent in length and thickness, some even slick and skinless, making it look very awkward.
If this thing had come from afar, it would surely have been noticed; unfortunately, it seemed to have come around from the blind spot behind the boulder.
“Bella, let’s get out of here, and don’t even think about going any closer!”
On this side, Hani’s breathing grew thinner, and she instinctively took two steps back, almost shouting in a hushed voice.
However, her reminder was the last thing Bella needed. Startled by Hani’s shout, Bella snapped back to reality.
Turning to glance at Hani, Bella bit her lip and, far from retreating, she even took a step forward.
This inexplicable competitive spirit!
Fu Qian rubbed his face, unsurprised by this turn of events.
Bella was originally the closest to the crocodile; now that she had stepped forward, she was nearly face to face with it.
And it seemed that this odd crocodile could not speak; faced with Bella’s approach, it just rotated its asymmetrical eyes, silently staring at her.
The moment their eyes met, Bella’s body jerked, and her expression visibly became confused.
Ah!
A few seconds later, having witnessed the scene, Hani screamed and grabbed Fu Qian.
“Go, go, go!”
“We’re just leaving her?”
Fu Qian pointed at Bella, who was standing still over there.
“She can’t hear us now, and if we get close, we’ll end up like her.”
Hani shook her head while biting her lip.
“What will happen to Bella if we leave?”
“She has already entered the fairy tale; we must wait for her to find the way out before she can wake up.”
“We need to hurry and find Souffle and tell her about this.”
“What if we can’t find her?”
“How could we not… Bella is very strong.”
In response to Fu Qian’s skepticism, Hani sounded not very confident.
“I mean, what if, and you saw it too, Bella approached that thing voluntarily; maybe she doesn’t want to come out! What will happen if she never does?”
“If she doesn’t find the way out… the longer it takes, the more her memories will blur; she will forget many things, and it will become harder to leave. Getting lost in there…”
Towards the end, Hani’s voice faded away.
“Sounds dangerous.”
Fu Qian looked at Bella, who had stopped responding, and the crocodile beside her.
“If we kill this thing, would she be able to wake up?”
“To kill… I’ve never tried; I don’t know.”
Hani was evidently taken aback by Fu Qian’s idea; as slow as she was, she finally realized something was off with today’s Violetta.
“Then let’s give it a go—hey!”
Without giving Hani a chance to argue, Fu Qian greeted the crocodile with a call.
On one hand, he wanted to save this rebellious girl; on the other, he was genuinely interested in the object.
Despite Hani’s description of it as the source of corruption, it exactly represented an existence capable of traversing dimensions.
His mission was to escape from this place; how could he miss such a research subject?
The crocodile did not pretend to be wood, and at a call, its head quickly swung in their direction.
Fu Qian took the brunt of it, and even though he was standing at a safe distance, he felt a heaviness in his head when the crocodile’s amber eyes glanced at him.
The feeling of his consciousness falling into chaos, which he had experienced earlier, returned, and he could even sense Violetta’s consciousness becoming unstable.
Pretty impressive!
As someone with rich experience in losing sanity, Fu Qian immediately took a couple of steps back and picked up half a piece of cake from the rock.