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(Friendly reminder: This chapter contains descriptions of insects~ Those who are afraid of insects, please proceed with caution~)

Xu Wan squatted on the ground, pried off two more pieces of fluorite and put them into her basket before standing up, satisfied.

"Let's go, the salt mine is on the other side."

Fox Jiu picked her up again, and she played with the glowing fluorite in her hand, letting her imagination run wild.

Based on her experience reading novels, she knew that danger would always arise in such situations.

The protagonists go through countless hardships and near-death experiences to get what they want.

So she walked with extra caution.

I lay on the back of the fox, looking around nervously, afraid that a huge creature might suddenly jump out from some corner.

Seeing her looking so alarmed, Hu Jiu patted her back reassuringly.

"Wanwan, males have excellent hearing, don't worry, there's no sign of any ferocious beasts."

Hearing him say that, she relaxed a little.

That's true, she's not the female lead in this book.

A minor character like her, who has no role to play, shouldn't be in danger every time.

"Hiss..."

Xu Wan was shaking the fluorite in her hand, unaware that Hu Jiu had stopped walking.

"Zhuyou, don't scare me like this..."

"Wanwan, that's not me."

She turned her head, held up the fluorite in her hand, and brought it close to him.

"You still say it wasn't you? Who else could it be but you...?"

The light from the fluorite swept across a few meters ahead, illuminating a dark shadow.

It was thicker than her arm, had no limbs, and was wriggling segment by segment along the ground.

After realizing what it was, she froze completely.

She opened her mouth, feeling as if an invisible hand was gripping her neck.

Before she could utter a sound, tears welled up unexpectedly.

"...There are bugs!"

Her voice wasn't loud, but it was like a stone thrown into water, stimulating the insects nearby.

The wriggling body instantly transformed into an attacking posture and pounced on them.

Fox Jiu instinctively wanted to make a move, but then remembered what she had said about not using fire, so he could only hold her and back away.

Zhu You raised his hand, and the pebbles on the ground instantly condensed into several sharp stone spikes, which accurately pierced the writhing body.

With a heavy thud, the insect twitched a few times on the ground and then lay still.

Zhu You walked up to her, speaking very softly.

"Wanwan, it's alright now."

She covered her eyes, and after a long while, she managed to squeeze out a trembling reply.

"...I...I'm scared."

She remembered when she was in school, she would open her pencil case and find a worm coiled inside.

She was so frightened that she threw her pencil case away on the spot and then developed a high fever for two days.

From then on, she felt a chill run down her spine whenever she saw these boneless, segmented worms.

Fox Jiu pulled her closer to him. "Then we won't open our eyes."

He glanced at Zhu You, and the two of them remembered the same thing.

At the tribal gathering, they encountered the original female, who expressionlessly poked a worm to death with a twig.

"Disgusting...everything here is disgusting..."

When she saw them, her blue eyes gleamed with a rare light.

Later, she chose them to become her beastly husbands.

But the little female in front of him was still trembling on his shoulder.

"Wanwan, let's go out first, and leave the rest to Zhuyou."

She shook her head, buried her face in the crook of his neck, and murmured in a muffled voice.

"This place is unstable. If Zhuyou's strength is too great, the entire cave will collapse."

Although she has no mining experience, the system will provide prompts, and she can help by watching from here without causing any trouble.

Seeing that she insisted, they didn't try to persuade her any further.

Zhu You walked towards the salt crystal layer, quickly dug out two pieces and put them into his basket. The whole process took less than a minute.

"Alright, let's go."

As soon as he finished speaking, rustling sounds came from all directions.

She secretly squinted her eyes a crack, and the rabbit ears popped out, completely obscuring her vision.

One after another, worms thicker than her arm were wriggling rapidly toward them.

Zhu You raised his hand, and the rubble in the cave transformed into spikes again, pinning them to the stone walls and the ground.

These insects aren't high-level, but there are too many of them to kill them all.

"Fox Spirit, take Wanwan and go out first!"

Since Hu Jiu couldn't use fire, he couldn't unleash his special abilities and could only carry Xu Wan backward.

But at that moment, she gripped Fox Jiu's fur coat tightly.

"Fox Jiu, take out all the moonstones and heat them up to make them shine."

He paused, but didn't ask any questions. He took the fluorite she handed him and heated it up one by one.

The light emitted by the five fluorite stones piled together grew brighter and brighter, almost blinding people.

Zhu You sensed something and slowed down.

The insects seemed to have been blinded by the light; some remained still, while others began to retreat.

"The Candle Ghosts are afraid of light. Let's take care of them now."

Without hesitation, Zhu You gripped the stone spike and charged out like a gust of wind.

After a moment, the dull thud of the heavy object hitting the ground finally stopped.

Fox held her, and could feel her body still trembling.

"Wanwan, are you alright?"

Xu Wan shook her head; the rabbit ears were still covering her eyes.

Fox tightened its grip on her arm and gently stroked her back as if soothing a child.

"Wanwan, we're here."

"……Um."

Even after leaving the cave, Xu Wan showed no intention of putting away her rabbit ears.

Fox Jiu reached out to brush her ear away, but she shrank back as if startled.

"Wanwan, we're out, everything's alright now."

"...Then let's go find Chen Shuang and the others."

Zhu You stepped forward, wanting to check on her condition first.

"Wanwan, let me and Hu Jiu take a look at you."

She shook her head, raised her hand to cover her eyes through the rabbit ears, her resistance obvious.

"I'm fine, I'm really fine..."

Before she could finish speaking, Zhu You touched the back of her hand with her clean fingertips.

"Wanwan, we are your beastly husbands. Don't keep your fears and worries to yourself."

Fox Spirit chimed in, "Yes, if we can't comfort you, then what are we for?"

She loosened her grip on the rabbit ears. "...Don't you guys think I'm useless?"

"How could that be?"

Zhu You's tone carried a hint of self-reproach.

"We're the ones who are useless; we never cared what you liked, what you hated, or what you were afraid of."

Fox Jiu nodded, then, remembering that she was blind, whispered again.

"If we knew you better, we wouldn't let Wanwan see the things she's afraid of."

Xu Wan pouted, and felt like crying again...

She actually cries a lot, but crying won't solve anything. People who have bad intentions towards you won't stop bullying you just because you cry.

Just like the person who put bugs in her pencil case back then, knowing she was scared, they'll go even further and put in even more bugs next time.

She had no one to confide in about her fears and had to solve her problems on her own.

When she was so scared that her teeth were chattering, yet she was stuffing bugs into the man's clothes, she knew that she must not let anyone discover her vulnerability.

but……

Zhu You and Hu Jiu, however, said that there was no need to hold back in front of them.