["Lord, don't!"]
The scarecrow hurriedly spoke up to stop Ethan, ["Doll is immortal. If you burn away its physical body, the consciousness it condensed will very likely attach itself to other undead creatures. When that happens, it'll be even harder to deal with."]
"Can't be killed?"
Ethan was displeased.
The scarecrow shook its head, ["It can't be killed! That rag doll is just its vessel. I once heard the witch mention this!"]
"Then what do we do?", Ethan glanced at the doll screaming crazily on the ground and said, "Leaving it here isn't a solution either. If the splitting arrow stuck in it loosens and it escapes, won't it be even more troublesome?"
["There's no solution for now,"] The scarecrow shook its head again, ["Unless you can find a way to eliminate curses, or find magic that can destroy consciousness itself, this doll is basically an existence that can neither die nor be destroyed."]
"Forget it."
After learning that a mud monster would also be coming to attack Daji and the others, Ethan had no mood left to study how to kill this humanoid doll.
After all, this thing was like the evil doll from Child's Play. No matter what you did to it… It could just switch bodies and be reborn.
Saving Daji was more important right now. Ethan immediately picked up the scarecrow, mounted the bone horse, and raced toward the ruins a hundred meters away.
A hundred meters was just a few strides for a horse.
Very quickly, Ethan arrived at the ruined area.
[One meter ahead, several people are buried beneath the soil. However, there is a mud monster currently five kilometers away from this location, rushing over here at a speed of one kilometer per minute. Furthermore, the mud monster accelerates by 0.2 times for every kilometer it travels. Question: how long until it reaches this location?] [T/N: It should about 3 mins]
"Go screw your mother!"
Ethan couldn't be bothered to deal with this idiotic prompt. He directly took out a shovel and started digging at top speed.
He quickly dug into a hollow. Opening it up, sure enough, several citizens carrying Daji had all fallen into the pit together, still maintaining the posture of carrying a stretcher.
And Daji was still in a petrified state.
"Wood Eight! Herb Three!"
Ethan shouted several times, but none of them reacted at all.
He immediately jumped down into the pit and checked the citizens' breathing with his hand. Thankfully, they were all still breathing. As for Daji…
"Daji! Little brat!"
Ethan called out twice, but Daji's petrification still showed no change whatsoever.
He carefully checked Daji all over. Fortunately, the petrification on her body hadn't worsened, and there were no cracks either.
[Mid-level Spirit Pet Daji: Cat-type pet, primarily agility-based, attacks mainly with sharp claws.]
[Status: Loyalty 100%, Petrified state, Special Ability: Summon Stone Attendants]
Thankfully, a prompt appeared above Daji's head.
This prompt confirmed for Ethan that Daji hadn't been harmed, which finally allowed him to let out a huge sigh of relief.
"Grrr~"
And just at that moment, a burrowing sound suddenly rang out from underground, like the grinding noise of sand and stone made by something moving beneath the earth.
"The mud monster is here!"
Ethan immediately planted the scarecrow in front of Daji and said, "Brother Scarecrow, take good care of my cat! When we get back, I'll have Logistics help you reweave your body. Otherwise, I'll have Ivankov weave it for you."
["That's too cruel! I don't want Ivankov!"]
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"Then you'd better take good care of Daji."
After saying that, Ethan stopped wasting words with the scarecrow. He pulled out the Dragon Bow from his backpack, nocked a splitting arrow, and pointed it straight at the ground.
The moment that damn mud monster poked its head out, Ethan swore he would shoot it into a hedgehog.
[Mud Monster: A multi-tentacled creature that lives underground. It can self-split and self-grow! It is one of the witch's favorite creatures, usable for plowing fields, and even for digging sewer systems and laying foundations.]
[PS: If you can tame it, it might be able to help you with quite a bit of work.]
Pff!
Just as Ethan finished reading the prompt, the previously hard ground suddenly showed signs of turning to mud, and then a brownish-red giant earthworm poked its head out from underground.
That giant earthworm was at least as big as a washbasin, and it even had a mouth full of sharp teeth.
It looked exactly like a subterranean sandworm.
'Damn!'
'Facking disgusting!'
Whoosh!
Ethan didn't say another word and shot a splitting arrow straight at it.
After all, he was now a tycoon with a hundred splitting arrows. Why save them? Killing it was what mattered.
"Aooo!"
The mud monster let out a miserable howl, then carried the tycoon arrow with it as it quickly sank back underground.
Ethan was instantly dumbfounded.
"What the hell, why didn't it split? What's going on?"
Ethan was completely stunned on the spot.
This was a tycoon arrow worth ten spirit stones! When he used it against Doll earlier, the effect was amazing. How come it didn't work at all against the mud monster?
"Pff!"
Just as Ethan was puzzled, the ground not far from Daji suddenly loosened again, and then a huge, greasy, brownish-red head burst out from underground.
"Shit!"
Ethan hesitated for just a moment, and before he could nock another arrow, fortunately, the scarecrow, determined not to face Ivankov, jumped in place with all its might and drove its massive bamboo pole straight into the mud monster's head.
"Aooo!"
The mud monster was hit again and, in pain, immediately shrank back underground once more.
Ethan hurriedly pulled out a fire arrow. Since the damn tycoon arrows were useless against it, he naturally couldn't bear to waste them. He decided to try the fire arrow first.
As a result, Ethan had just switched arrows, when three patches of ground immediately showed signs of loosening, and then three bald worm heads actually popped out from underground.
What mud monster? This was clearly whack-a-mole.
Whoosh!
Ethan hurriedly fired the fire arrow.
The mud monster head hit by the fire arrow was instantly burned into charcoal, but the underground part of the mud monster seemed completely fine. It directly dragged the ashen head back underground.
The head closest to the scarecrow, on the other hand, was shoved straight back underground by the scarecrow's massive pole.
Only one mud monster head remained, and neither of them could spare a hand to deal with it.
At that moment, Ethan turned his head and saw that the mud monster's huge head suddenly leaped out of the ground, dragging its long purple-red worm body behind it, opening its gaping mouth and biting straight toward Wood Eight.
Its mouth full of saw-like teeth was just about to clamp down on Wood Eight's head when…
Boom!
The bone horse descended from the sky.
Its two front hooves stomped the mud monster's massive head straight into the ground.
"Aooo!"
The mud monster underground seemed to have suffered a massive shock and immediately let out an enormous scream.
And at the same time, the ground beneath Ethan's feet began to shake violently. It looked like the main body of the mud monster underground was about to go berserk.
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