It was an infant without skin, its bloody body exposed. At this moment, it was hanging upside down, gripping the webbing.
A silk-like bandage was tied around its forehead, and below that was still skinless flesh. Its eyes were bulging black pupils, and the smile at the corners of its mouth stretched to its ears, exposing a pitch-black mouth.
The muscles on its limbs continuously melted and regenerated, with nails that were pitch-black and sharp.
Just looking at the infant spirits alone, it was already quite eerie.
But more eerie was that the skull of this infant spirit had a thorny green vine deeply inserted into it, and the part of the vine exposed outside had a bright red flower blooming.
The red flower swayed in the wind, spurting copious amounts of red liquid from its stamens, which fell to the ground and eventually solidified into red wax.
When people saw the infant spirits and the flower, besides feeling eerie, they also gained some enlightenment.
They had previously speculated whether the webbing and red wax were unrelated to the infant spirits and were instead traps set by Adanis. But now it could be confirmed, it was indeed the infant spirits causing this mischief.
The webbing came from the bandage around the infant spirit’s head.
The red wax was formed by the liquid dripping from that red flower.
This bizarre pairing of the flower and the infant spirits was something they were seeing for the first time. Moreover, from the infant spirit’s strange smile, it was really hard to determine whether the infant spirit was controlling the flower, or the flower was hosting the infant spirit, or perhaps they complemented each other?
"Angel, do you plan to attack them directly?"
When the mist serpent penetrated the final layer of the webbing, Dox expressed his doubts.
Angel didn’t answer, because he didn’t need to ask; he had already shown the answer—
He did not attack the infant spirits.
The white mist-formed serpent stopped right in front of the infant spirits. With its head held high, and its eyes emerald green, it gazed down disdainfully at the eerie infant spirits climbing to the web center.
The whole scene looked like the infant spirits were not threatening the mist serpent; rather, the mist serpent was in a dominant position, suppressing the insignificant infant spirits from a divine vantage point.
Of course, this was just everyone’s imagination. They knew the reality could not be like this.
Since the infant spirits dared to be released by Adanis to block them, even Adanis clearly said, "With it here, you will never reach Qingkong Poetry Room," it indicated the infant spirits were very powerful.
At the very least, one illusion technique could definitely do nothing to the infant spirits.
However, what they didn’t quite understand was why Angel manipulated the mist serpent to stand still, staring at the infant spirits.
If Angel let the mist serpent attack, they could all understand, but looking at it now, the mist serpent was just posturing, making no further moves.
Could this be intimidation?
But the infant spirits didn’t seem frightened at all...
Stranger still, the infant spirits did not make a move against the mist serpent either, but instead swayed the red flower on its head, as if greeting the mist serpent?
"What are you doing? Are the infant spirits treating your mist serpent as a toy? Are you coaxing a baby?" Dox speculated.
"Trying to communicate," Angel said casually.
"Can it really communicate?" Dox asked in surprise.
Angel: "How would I know if it can communicate?"
Dox: "...Then why say try to communicate?"
Angel, in all seriousness, replied in the mind ribbon: "Trying to communicate, emphasis should be on ’trying’ rather than ’communicate’."
Dox retorted irritably, "Ha, you make it sound so mysterious. So, did your attempt have any results?"
Angel: "So far, no. However, it also didn’t attack my illusion, so perhaps this is the prelude to communication?"
Dox snorted a few times, completely unbelieving of Angel’s words.
But the Black Earl carefully observed Angel, seeming to discern something from his expression. However, the Black Earl didn’t speak, just stood by Angel’s side, watching quietly.
Angel and Dox’s conversation wasn’t really deceitful.
He genuinely wanted to see if there could be communication. It’s just that at present, there seemed to be no effect...No, there was effect, at least the infant spirits and that flower didn’t show malice or attack the mist serpent.
It appeared more like they ignored the mist serpent, perhaps because merely using "Nightmare Illusion" to create an illusion couldn’t convince them?
Angel had the mist serpent remain in place for several minutes, yet the infant spirits still showed no intention of communicating with the mist serpent.
However, it’s worth noting that the infant spirits hadn’t moved, nor had they attacked the mist serpent.
This was quite remarkable because the mist serpent was in a high position, overlooking a lower position, this posture of a high overlooking a low is generally unacceptable to any sentient being capable of resistance.
But the infant spirits didn’t mind the serpent’s high stance, even lowering their gaze as if to express submission.
Yet...there was no communication.
Angel hesitated upon seeing this. They couldn’t stay there confronting the infant spirits endlessly; eventually, a next step had to be taken.
But should they do that?
Angel pondered for a moment and finally made a decision. He took a deep breath and said in the mind ribbon: "I plan to approach the infant spirits to see the situation."
"Sir, isn’t that a bit...rash?" Vay said worriedly.
Dox was quite supportive of Angel’s decision: "The web is broken, we should have attacked long ago. I’ll go with you!"
Angel thought for a moment, considering it might be good for Dox to come along, at least in case of conflict there’d be a meat shield.
However, just as Angel nodded in agreement, the Black Earl spoke.