Actually, before the thing at the very front started spitting sludge, the two of them had already felt the Mental Attack coming from the other side.
It was just that the attack was basically nothing to them...
After all, no matter how powerful an ant's Mental Power was, it couldn't compare to a human's. It was the same principle.
Meanwhile.
While Lan Qingyou and Alisa were talking about the Mental Attack...
The things on the other side had already begun to change.
The layer of black sludge covering them bubbled as if boiling, then settled down.
After that.
Lan Qingyou and Alisa saw the sludge take the shape of a well-proportioned woman.
But since it was still made of black sludge, neither of them thought much of it.
Mimicry, after all.
That was all there was to it.
They had probably decided to mimic a woman because they'd seen the two of them, right?
That was what Lan Qingyou thought.
Alisa thought so too.
However!
Lan Qingyou and Alisa both quickly found themselves unable to laugh.
Crack, crack, crack—
Once it had finished taking shape, the wet black sludge slowly dried and cracked.
Finally, it fell away in chunks, just like real dirt.
"This..."
"I think I'm starting to understand what mimicry means."
When most of the sludge had fallen away, revealing Lan Qingyou's face and clothes underneath, Lan Qingyou scratched her head and smiled.
So this so-called mimicry didn't mean imitating the natural world.
It meant imitating other people?
Or... other animals?
That wasn't all.
After this "Lan Qingyou" finished mimicking her,
the others behind it started spitting black sludge too.
The two of them had been startled by this "Lan Qingyou," but although they'd recovered from their shock, neither of them did anything.
After all, there was already