Chapter 393 Petrified Dust

This is an extremely dark and dirty seabed. Gray dust like dust keeps falling from the water surface that is so dark that it covers the already dark seabed.

From time to time, a bubble emerges from the seabed covered by thick gray dust and quickly floats upward.

However, the senses of the watermelon worm seem to have adapted to this lightless environment.

Mo Ling found that he did not need any adaptation process to operate this inhuman body, as if he was originally the owner of this body.

The kind-hearted worm who rescued him from the stone shell took him to jump around on the seabed while chattering to him about various things:

"I have seen many petrified people who have gone crazy. They are like you. They don't like to talk much. Their minds are full of petrification. Some of them even don't eat and starve to death. I don't know why this happens."

The kind-hearted worm stopped talking.

"How long have you not eaten?"

This question made Mo Ling stunned. After reacting, he briefly answered: "Not long."

"That's good." The kind-hearted worm breathed a sigh of relief and continued to lead Mo Ling to climb up on the dark seabed.

The dust on the seabed piled up into piles. Sometimes the kind-hearted worm would take Mo Ling to jump on the soil piles, and sometimes it would use the undercurrent to quickly pass through the gaps in the soil piles.

"Wait a minute." When it came to a canyon, the kind-hearted worm suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" Mo Ling asked curiously.

The kind-hearted worm did not answer, but stayed where it was, looking around attentively.

Mo Ling didn't know what happened, so he had to learn from it, stay where it was, and look around.

It was still filled with gray dust, a gray area, and occasionally some floating bubbles appeared.

This place seemed to be no different from before.

However, Mo Ling soon noticed something strange.

"What is that?"

In Mo Ling's strange senses, he saw some flashing white shadows.

These white shadows are like small flying insects moving at high speed. If you don't look carefully, you can't detect them at all.

Just as Mo Ling was observing, the kind-hearted bug also stared at the flashing white shadows.

Then, a scene that shocked Mo Ling happened.

The gray dust around him suddenly surged on its own as if pushed by the water flow, and gray vortices swept silently towards the position of the white shadows.

Wrapped in the vortex, the white shadows seemed to be imprisoned in an instant, and their movement speed continued to slow down, and their originally flexible movements became sluggish.

Not long after, the white shadows were "stilled" in the vortex, and a thick layer of stone shells surrounded their bodies.

"Okay."

The kind-hearted bug slowly climbed forward and used its flexible limbs to collect the white shadows trapped in the stone shells one by one.

"Do you want to eat?"

It stretched out its limbs and handed a handful of "melon seeds" to Mo Ling.

Mo Ling was still in a daze, and the kind-hearted bug stuffed the "melon seeds" into his hand.

"Take it, eat it on the way, don't get hungry."

Mo Ling looked at the melon seeds in his hand, a little dazed.

The gray stone shell exuded a strange fragrance...

He picked up one of them and put it in his mouth.

Crunch...

"Is this, dried shrimp?"

Under the crisp stone shell, Mo Ling tasted a familiar taste, like some kind of dried shrimp, with a very strong fresh taste.

In order to confirm his guess, Mo Ling carefully crushed a stone shell with his limbs and found that there was a white and tender shrimp lying inside.

"So the white shadow just now is these shrimps?"

Mo Ling finally understood what the kind-hearted bug was doing just now.

"Hunting."

And it was a strange way of hunting.

This kind of hunting reminded Mo Ling of the previous battle with the stone zombie.

The stone zombie also has the ability to petrify the enemy. What is the relationship between the two?

"It tastes good, right?" The kind-hearted bug interrupted Mo Ling's thinking.

"Very fragrant." Mo Ling answered truthfully. He had never eaten such delicious shrimps.

"How did you do it?" Mo Ling asked curiously.

"What did you do?" The kind-hearted worm was a little confused.

"That is, wrap them with stones." Mo Ling knew that his question might arouse the kind-hearted worm's suspicion, but he couldn't suppress his curiosity.

However, the kind-hearted worm did not doubt anything, but patiently taught:

"You mean the vortex? That's the power of petrification..."

It raised a melon seed and said to Mo Ling: "You should be aware that hunting will become more and more difficult after our petrification becomes higher and higher?"

"The prey that was originally easy to catch suddenly turned into a white shadow that could not be caught in front of us..."

"They are getting faster and faster, or we are getting too slow..."

"So, if we want to catch them, we have to make them slow too, so what should we do at this time?"

The kind-hearted worm looked at Mo Ling and asked him such a question.

Mo Ling looked at the melon seed and immediately understood everything.

"Petrify them too..."

"Right."

The kindhearted bug put the melon seeds in his hand into his mouth.

"You have been eating shellfish before, right? Those guys don't move. Even if you become very slow, you can still eat them."

"But this is not enough. When your petrification reaches a deeper level, you will find that they have also become elusive white shadows."

"You try it, try to use petrification on them."

The kind-hearted worm pointed at a group of white shadows nearby with its limbs and said to Mo Ling.

It probably thought that Mo Ling had not yet mastered such hunting ability, so it taught him step by step.

"Use all your senses to feel the dust around you. They are everywhere, one by one..."

"They float in this endless world, with solidified time in the center. The further out, the faster time flows. When they gather together, even time will be hindered."

"You can't affect them, you can only roll up the water flow, like a whirlpool, and take them to where they should go..."

The kind-hearted worm raised its limbs and spun in the water.

Mo Ling also followed his words and began to roll up the whirlpool...

...

Not long after, Mo Ling was at a loss with a handful of shrimp seeds.

He succeeded.

And he succeeded very thoroughly.

According to the good-hearted bug's words, he really felt the petrified dust everywhere in the water, and also caused the invisible vortex. Of course, he also got a handful of shrimp seeds.

"You are really amazing. It took me a long time to master this ability." The good-hearted bug praised seriously.

"You taught me well." Mo Ling replied modestly.

He was still savoring the feeling just now.

All of this seemed to be natural and extremely simple...