645. Met You in a Dream

Just before his palm touched Lu Ban, Byron suddenly stopped.

"Have we met somewhere before?"

Byron still wore a calm smile as he asked.

"Possibly. Maybe in a dream."

Lu Ban answered casually.

"Ah, in a dream, I met you in a dream, sweetly smiling so sweetly..."

He even sang a short verse.

Hearing Lu Ban's singing, Byron's lips twitched.

He leaned close to Lu Ban's ear and whispered.

"I've heard the melody of this song before."

Hearing that, Lu Ban whispered back to Byron.

"Then I guess we're fellow countrymen."

The next moment, Lu Ban reached for Byron's hand.

But something moved even faster. Lu Ban's hand began to swell.

Like a balloon inflated far too much, Lu Ban's entire body began to writhe and twist, starting from his arm, as if something were blowing him up from within.

In an instant, Lu Ban's stomach bulged and ruptured. His organs spilled out, bursting open like a blooming flower.

Byron immediately tried to retreat and put distance between himself and Lu Ban, but that hand moved toward him like a ghost, clamping tightly around his arm.

"Got you."

A strange smile appeared on Lu Ban's swollen face. Even Byron found it frightening to look at.

A stream of light bloomed from that hand. As the radiance spread, Byron's arm became immobile and faded into gray-white.

Petrification.

It only took one glance to understand. Byron, who had become a Mud Monster, was turning into actual stone.

Byron tried to struggle, but the petrification spread far faster than he had imagined. Within moments, he had completely transformed into a stone—a lifelike statue.

Looking at Byron, now a stone statue, Lu Ban felt that he looked vaguely familiar.

After thinking briefly, he realized that this resembled the situation at Jiangcheng Mountain.

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