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He asked in surprise, “Why are you all following me?”
“We might still need a backup.” Liu Tong was a careful man. If Sun Jiayuan failed, someone had to take over his task.
So a dozen of them hurried to the riverside and had a good roll in the mud, caking themselves in three layers of mud. When they stood up again, they were unrecognizable from one another, as only a pair of eyes showed through each figure of mud.
Even Willow did the same, rolling about without a care until she was smeared from head to toe.
He Lingchuan also took the chance to refill the waterskins.
Skinny spat out a mouthful of muddy, fishy water. “Ptooey. This stinks like hell!”
He did not dare think about what might be in that mud.
They returned to their original position, the closest spot to the den. Sun Jiayuan slung his bow and quiver over his back and nodded to Liu Tong. “Ready.”
A dozen mud men burst into a sprint together, but whenever a spider drew near, they immediately stopped.
A strange scene unfolded. The burrow spiders went right past them when they stood still, treating them as if they did not exist.
Of course, the heavy reek of mud on them smothered the scent of human flesh.
Spiders that lived in the earth all day would not react...
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