Chapter 394 Dust Land

"I have taught many insects before, but most of them can't learn. Even if they can, it takes a long time. None of them can learn it in one go like you do. You are very talented in petrification..."

The kind-hearted insect was not stingy with his praise and encouraged Mo Ling all the way:

"When you get to a place with denser dust, you will definitely be able to exert your potential. Failure in petrification is common. Don't give up the path you should have insisted on because of a temporary failure."

"You are right." Mo Ling also answered intermittently.

The two insects crawled farther and farther in the dusty canyon.

...

"We are almost there." The kind-hearted insect looked into the distance and said to Mo Ling beside him.

Mo Ling looked around. The petrified dust here is indeed much thicker than before.

The dust on the ground is also very thick. Stepping on it can raise thick dust. The two sides of the canyon are constantly collapsing, and dust piles fall from high places and hit the canyon.

The kind-hearted insect led Mo Ling around the dusty mountains and came to the exit of the canyon.

After passing through the exit, a huge plain appeared in front of us.

Endless petrified dust covered the ground. The gray in the sea water was even richer than the blue. The dust stuck together to form a huge net covering the sky.

As the sea water flowed, this gray giant net filtered out the petrified dust coming and going, making the dust concentration in this sea area reach an unprecedented high.

"I fell from the canyon before and found this place. It's pretty good, isn't it?" The kind-hearted bug pointed at the net that looked like a giant beast and said proudly.

"Not bad."

Mo Ling responded blankly.

The giant net blocked all the light, making this sea area appear even darker. If he could not move freely, Mo Ling would even feel that he had been buried in the dusty soil.

The sea water surged, the edge of the giant net trembled slightly, and the flocculent structure formed by the dust twisted back and forth, like the tentacles of some monster.

The mesh opened and closed, like the breathing of the monster, and the dull breath blew countless dust and gushed towards the bottom.

It wasn't long after arriving here that Mo Ling's round shell was covered with a thick layer of petrified dust.

"It's a good place indeed."

If you want to master the ability of petrification, this is undoubtedly the best place to feel the dust.

However, it seems that this place is not like what the kind-hearted bug said, and no bug has ever come here.

In the dimness not far away, many pairs of eyes appeared unconsciously.

The kind-hearted bug also noticed those eyes and became nervous instantly.

It wanted to take Mo Ling to run somewhere else, but was also blocked.

"Leave."

In the dimness, a cold warning came.

Those eyes blocked all directions, leaving only the road leading to the canyon. They didn't seem to want the two bugs to enter the plain.

The kind-hearted bug had no way to go, so he could only stand there and questioned those eyes: "Why? There is so much petrified dust here, you can't use it all, why don't you let others use it?"

"Leave." Those eyes didn't seem to intend to explain.

Not only that, they also gathered towards the two worms, as if they wanted to force Mo Ling and the kind-hearted worm out of the plain.

When they came in front of him, Mo Ling also saw their appearance clearly:

The same watermelon worm, but the body was still covered with a thick stone shell, leaving only two empty eyes.

The short limbs stretched out of the cracks in the stone with difficulty and crawled slowly on the ground. Because the stone shell was too bloated, their movement had become very difficult, but they still struggled to approach the center.

Facing these constantly approaching fellows, the kind-hearted worm did not retreat.

"When I found this place before, you were not here, and I didn't think of monopolizing it. You can't just occupy this place like this! Dust doesn't belong to any worm!"

It stood firmly in front of Mo Ling and confronted those fellows.

However, those fellows didn't seem to want to reason and ignored the words of the kind-hearted worm.

"Leave, this is ours." They continued to repeat the same words.

"This doesn't belong to any worm!" The kind-hearted worm retorted in a tough attitude.

However, things are not as simple as it thought.

As the worms approached, they rolled up countless dust vortices.

The surrounding water flow surged instantly, and the turbulence from all directions began to tear Mo Ling and the kind-hearted bug apart.

The turbulence made it very difficult for Mo Ling to move. Whenever he wanted to move, the turbulence would pull him back to the center and fix him in place.

While the turbulence covered him, Mo Ling suddenly felt that the movements of his kind became slower.

This seemed to be another way of attacking using petrified dust.

"They are peeling off the petrification on us..." The kind-hearted bug was trapped in the center of the turbulence and said in despair.

"What does this mean?" Mo Ling also felt that his body was being torn apart by the turbulence, but he did not feel any pain. He did not understand what the kind-hearted bugs were going to do.

The kind-hearted bug looked at Mo Ling for a few times and blamed himself: "I shouldn't have brought you here. You obviously don't know anything, but you have to suffer this unprovoked disaster..."

It raised its limbs and stirred along the turbulence.

"I told you before that we can roll up the petrified dust and let them go to where we want."

"When they gather on the prey, they can petrify the prey, slow them down, and finally pull the prey to the same speed as us, or even slower than us, so that we can easily catch them."

"But what about the other way around?"

"If we want to make them faster and faster..."

"Strip off the dust on them." Mo Ling directly answered the kind-hearted bug's question.

"That's right, since the water flow can gather dust, it can also strip off the dust. The method is the same. Now they are creating turbulence to strip off the dust on us and make us faster and faster."

Fast and faster?

Hearing this, Mo Ling was a little confused. Isn't it disadvantageous to make the enemy faster and faster?

Is this attack method really useful?

In the turbulent flow, the movements of those of the same kind became slower and slower, and finally they even stopped in place, motionless.

Just like... turning into stone.

Looking at the round stone shell, Mo Ling suddenly felt very familiar.

"Stalin?"

"What is a stony stone?" The kind-hearted bug asked in confusion.

"It's okay..."

Mo Ling's heart was churning. Could it be that these watermelon worms are stony stones?

"What's the point of him speeding us up?" Mo Ling asked.

"Wait for us to die." The kind-hearted bug said in despair: "The lifespan of bugs is limited. If we speed up ten times, our lifespan will be shortened ten times. If we speed up ten thousand times, our lifespan will be shortened ten thousand times..."

"From their perspective, we will turn into corpses in an instant, and then turn into ashes in an instant, dissipating in this dark sea..."