The hard rocks beneath my feet turned into sandbars again, and I don't know if the stones were covered in fine sand, or if they had been turned into dust after tens of thousands of years of wind and sun in just a few steps. The team of only four remained, leaving several parallel rows of footprints on the sandbank, which looked quite elegant.

The problem was that as the number of steps they took increased, the footprints that had been left far behind them began to seep water at some point. When the water fills the footprints, a series of bubbles gush out from the bottom, forming columns one after the other. It was as if some kind of creature lived in the sand beneath the footprints, or maybe it was the footprints that drew them in.

It didn't take long for this to come to his attention, and Cheese began to deliberately take some arcs as he led the way, trying to observe the footprints behind him in this way. The fog in the sky has eased, and after it has been learned that the source of the steam is steam gushing from the rocks, this phenomenon cannot be said to be completely unreasonable.

It's just that in general, the fog should spread out in a uniform way, and the current scenario only indicates that there is some force forcing the smoke to flow outward, enveloping the place. But this still doesn't explain the anomaly under his feet, and as the gray robe deliberately does it, his team members gradually become aware of it.

The fine sand of "Gadagada" was pushed out of the footprints, and the originally regular edges were destroyed and turned into a canyon-like depression, and it can be seen that some insect-like thin limbs were pushed out of the fine sand. The frequency of these thin limbs is very fast, and the sound they actually make is very small, and if it weren't for the fact that there is not even a gust of wind here, except for the cheese here, I am afraid that the sound of the sand pushing would not be so easily detected.

The most sensitive eyes and ears in the team were not actually Cheese and Weiya, these two mages had been trained too much in the laboratory, and their senses were much slower than those who had been living with people and things for a long time in nature. Therefore, the first person to point to the contents of the footprints was Yoni.

It may be the effect of bestiality, the little apprentice's senses are somewhat different from ordinary people, for example, in addition to hearing the sound of sand and soil, he is the first person to see those small things.

Yuni pulled the Mentor's grey robe and whispered a few words in the latter's ear, expressing as much as she could what she had seen. Cheese listened and was a little careful, and told Yuni not to speak loudly, and to tell the other two about what he saw and heard. At the same time, their footsteps cannot be stopped.

The reason for this caution was that the grey robe didn't know how things under the sand would react if they stood in one place for too long.

It wasn't far from what they were looking for, and combined with the habits of the worm offspring, at worst, those thin limbs could actually be part of their body. Stirring it up now will likely expend too much energy on these unimportant organs before the decisive battle begins. Still, whether out of curiosity or out of necessity, it would be better for them to figure out what they are.

"Can you get the sand out of the way? A small part is fine. Cheese made a few simple gestures to Wei Ya to explain his thoughts. Her Shaping spells are very delicate in their elemental control, which is perfect for this situation.

The mage nodded, pretending to be unsteady on her feet, and bowed forward, grabbing a few grains of dust in her hand. Luo Luo made a gesture to help her, in fact, to block the magic light in his eyes. Of course, this is a play, but in fact, the female mage's footsteps are very steady. She pushed Luo Luo away and shook her hand, seemingly shaking off the sand on her hand, but in fact she had finished casting.

Not far from them, in a small puddle, the sand sloped in all directions like a pool of broken banks, and soon drained and disappeared under the grains of sand, revealing a few thin limbs sticking out. Those slender limbs were stunned for a moment, as if they hadn't figured out the current situation, and were still puzzled why the top of their heads had become dry.

A few people crept into the footprint and saw the owner of the thin limb crawling out of the sand to check what was wrong. That thing, which looks like a hermit crab by the sea, has the so-called thin limbs, which are also its forelimbs and crusts. However, unlike ordinary hermit crabs, although only a head was exposed, several people could already see the humanized light in the eyes that protruded from the torso.

Its image immediately reminded Cheese of the sea companions he had mentioned earlier, the Shell Man, who he had brought back from Heartbreaker Bay. It is a group of crustaceans that are described as having intelligence that does not belong to humans, and can establish channels of communication with humans through non-verbal means.

Cheese hadn't seen the Shell Man with his own eyes, as they hadn't traveled north with Lothar. In the Count's words, it was the icy currents of the north that would harm the fragile bodies of the Shell People, so they only gathered in a few ports in the southernmost part of the Greylion and lived a reclusive life. Could the creature with humanized eyes in front of you be a shell man, or is it some kind of variant of the shell man? Or is it actually a minion of an evil god?

Wei Ya was also the first time she had seen this magical creature, and she saw that the other party did not seem to realize that she had become the focus of the group, so she cast a spell again, raising the sand under the footprints, from a depression into a pillar of sand out of the ground.

The hermit crab-like creature was lifted to knee-high heights in confusion, and the little creature still hadn't figured out what was going on, and his eyes were looking around in a state of bewilderment. At this point, Cheese was intuitively certain that it would not be a creature related to evil gods, because any creature that had been tainted by those extraordinarily beings would basically no longer have such a natural state.

But that doesn't mean it's not dangerous, it's a base for worm heirs, and it's safe to live here, and it's definitely something special about it and its kind. If they are truly neutral creatures that live here, then they should be more careful, and if they can't get them to help, it's better than creating new enemies for themselves. Thinking of this, Cheese slightly stretched out his hand and motioned for Wei Ya to stop playing with it.

At this moment, the hermit crab finally realized that it was becoming an ornament for four humans, its eyes swept over the bodies of several people, and then it retracted its head and claws back into the sand, revealing only a spiral shell in the sand. The action looked like it was out of fear or shyness, but it soon became clear that it wasn't right.

Because at their feet and not far away, a large amount of sand was turned up, and many similar creatures were drilled out one after another under the footprints that had been dug up a long time ago, and the originally empty sandbar quickly became lively.

But the interesting thing is that although there are many bumps in the sand, the only ones who really burrow out of the ground are those who crawl out of the footprints, and the other hermit crabs seem to be trapped under a layer of invisible nets under the sand, unable to break through this layer of shackles and enter the world of air.

"They're like they're stuck underneath. Probably sensitive to the movements of creatures, Luo Luo quickly sensed the anomaly on the sand. Out of curiosity and kindness, she reached out and ripped open the nearest sand dune, freeing one of the hermit crabs inside.

The hermit crab's claws were so close to her finger that it would have left a scar on the dancer's hand if it wanted to. However, the imaginary attack did not occur, and the hermit crab quickly crawled out of the ground after confirming that it had left the sand, leaving the passage for the rest of its kind.

"Interesting. It looked like some kind of curse that they couldn't get out of the sand on their own. ”