Hearing the warning from his subordinate Baron, Bai Pu withdrew from the Mind Image Space and ended this meditation.
He jumped down from the sand crab and gently inserted his fingers into the dried seaweed layer.
His fingertips felt a trace of moisture.
"You were right. The terrain is getting lower and lower, and damp seaweed has already appeared beneath the dried seaweed layer... A moist environment should be suitable for those marine monsters newly arrived on land. It is indeed strange that no monsters have appeared here."
Bai Pu raised his voice. "We've most likely been spotted! Everyone dismount, keep your backs to the mountain rocks, and protect Mr. Nicano and the other noncombatants behind you!"
The exploration team had been advancing along the Black Algae Mountain Range and quickly found a mountain hollow that was easy to defend and hard to attack.
The laborers carried the supplies into the hollow. Several Bronze Gladiators drove the mules and horses inside, along with Wizard Apprentice Nicano.
Bai Pu led the Bronze Gladiators, weapons in hand, and blocked the entrance to the hollow.
Behind them stood the massive bodies of the sand crab servants, sealing the entrance tightly and giving the slave laborers behind them, including the noncombatant Nicano, a great sense of security.
"Look at the ground!" an awakened gladiator shouted.
Several bulges suddenly rose from the black seaweed and sped toward them.
"Baron!" Bai Pu called to his subordinate.
Iron-Spine Balon answered, gripping his iron-spine whip as he leaped high into the air and stomped down heavily!
Wrapped in Battle Qi energy, the iron-spine whip slammed down in front of the underground bulges.
Crashing Waves Shatter Rocks! The dried seaweed ground exploded with a deafening boom, as if packed with high explosives.
The underground bulges were forced to burst