Everywhere you looked, grayish-white worms covered the ground.
They were over a meter long and twenty or thirty centimeters in diameter.
The most hair-raising thing about them was their faces.
They looked remarkably like human faces, with two round, bulging eyes that glowed bloodred.
Their undersides were covered in countless short legs.
They were constantly gnawing at the bones exposed to the air.
And the most terrifying part was...
There weren't just a few worms, or a few dozen...
They stretched as far as the eye could see, packed together by the hundreds and thousands.
Many viewers who were eating lunch took one look at the Live Stream Room's footage and immediately threw up.
Even maggots in a toilet weren't as disgusting as this.
Host Xiao Ying was covered in goose bumps.
The thing she hated most was bugs.
The worms before her far exceeded her mental limit.
Her stomach was churning violently.
The food she'd eaten that morning surged upward, threatening to come back up.
If she hadn't been forcing herself to hold on, Xiao Ying would have thrown up her breakfast by now.
In fact...
It wasn't just host Xiao Ying.
Even Brother Qiang, Warrior King, and Director Zhang—three grown men—felt sick to their stomachs.
The worms were so huge that...
The production team didn't even need to zoom in. They could clearly see every detail on the screen.
It was enough to make anyone's skin crawl.
They were horrifying!
And that wasn't all...
As the worms moved, they made an extremely strange sound.
It sounded like the anguished screams of human beings.
If you closed your eyes, it was as if thousands of people were wailing right beside you.
Viewers who couldn't stomach it simply muted the sound.
Some even left the Live Stream Room altogether.
In no time, the number of viewers online in the Live Stream Room plummeted.
"Look at how fast those worms are eating..."
Brother Qiang fought back his nausea and spoke slowly.
Onscreen, the worms were devouring Wolf Ancestor's bones at an absurd speed.
With every bite, they tore away a small piece of bone.
And...
Their saliva seemed to have corrosive properties.
It was horrifying.
"Quick, run!"
"What are you waiting for?!"
"If one of those things bites you, it might melt your whole arm!"
Every viewer staring at the screen held their breath.
If they could, they would have reached right through it and dragged Xu Fan out themselves!
[Yan Kingdom contestant Xu Fan has discovered a Forbidden Land creature!] [Name: Nuger Worm!] [Threat Level: E+ Rank. Feeds on bones and flesh, and prefers dark, damp environments. Its movements produce a sound much like human screams. It can also speed up its growth by devouring others of its kind.]
In an instant...
The Mysterious Voice and mysterious text appeared at the same time.
The entire Live Stream Room exploded once more!
"Holy crap, that thing's disgusting, and it eats its own kind too. Ugh, I'm gonna puke, guys."
"I'm already throwing up. That's definitely the grossest thing I've ever seen!"
"Why hasn't Xu Fan run yet?!"
In terms of threat level, these Nuger Worms were naturally no match for the Snow Wolf King they'd encountered earlier.
But the problem was...
There had only been one Snow Wolf King.
Even counting all its underlings, there had only been a few dozen.
But the Nuger Worms before them were packed together in enormous numbers!
Even if each one wasn't particularly strong...
Their sheer numbers were enough to turn quantity into quality!
And...
Xu Fan, deep inside the Forbidden Land, could sense things beyond what the viewers could see and hear.
Smells.
The closer he got to the Nuger Worms, the stronger the stench became.
Xu Fan had to hold his breath from time to time.
The smell was like a piece of pork getting stuck between your teeth, then being picked out half a month later.
It was foul and unbearable.
"If I'm not mistaken, these Nuger Worms probably live in caves and feed on Wolf Ancestor's bones..."
"The tremor just now must have exposed them."
"No."
Xu Fan quickly shook his head.
Perhaps one Nuger Worm had discovered Wolf Ancestor's remains, then begun reproducing in huge numbers.
Their feeding must have triggered the landslide!
However...
Though these Nuger Worms lusted after Wolf Ancestor's bones, they craved the flesh of living creatures even more.
Within a few breaths, they had noticed Xu Fan and the Female Snow Wolf beside him.
The Female Snow Wolf lowered her body and bared her sharp fangs.
Every strand of her white fur stood on end.
She was warning the worms not to come any closer.
But the Nuger Worms paid no attention to her warning.
They were no smaller than the Female Snow Wolf to begin with.
And there were so many of them.
Most importantly...
Their eyes gleamed with greed.
Many of the Nuger Worms turned toward Xu Fan and the Female Snow Wolf, opening their mouths.
Their mouths looked like human anuses.
They spiraled inward, their inner walls lined with tiny, razor-sharp teeth.
Even a D-Rank Beast like the Female Snow Wolf found the sight terrifying.
Her legs trembled uncontrollably.
If it had been a one-on-one fight, she wouldn't have been afraid of these creatures.
But there were far too many of them.
They stretched as far as the eye could see.
There were dozens, even hundreds, of times more of them than in the wolf pack she had once belonged to.
After wrestling with the decision, the Female Snow Wolf finally gave up on confronting the Nuger Worms.
She opened her mouth, clamped down on the corner of Xu Fan's mouth, and used all her strength to drag him backward.
Clearly, she wanted Xu Fan to run away with her!
"You don't want to leave me behind?"
Xu Fan noticed what the Female Snow Wolf was doing and glanced at her.
Using Observation Haki, he could clearly sense her emotions.
She was worried about him.
He'd assumed the Female Snow Wolf only stuck around for his roasted meat and fresh water.
He thought she would turn and flee as soon as she faced a life-threatening danger.
He hadn't expected the little thing to be so reliable.
Still...
Xu Fan had no intention of running.
He crouched down and gently stroked the Female Snow Wolf's forehead, hoping to calm her nerves.
At the same time...
Xu Fan sensed a murderous aura surging toward him like a raging sea.
It was...
The Nuger Worms' most honest thoughts!
They came crawling toward him at full speed.
Their eyes gleamed with greed.
Every one of them wanted to claim Xu Fan and the Female Snow Wolf for itself and savor them.
The viewers in the Live Stream Room all sucked in a sharp breath, their scalps prickling.
The sight had stunned them into silence.
The host and guests in the Live Stream Room were pale, drained of color.
They had thought that after surviving the landslide, Xu Fan would emerge from disaster and find good fortune.
But they never could have imagined...
In the blink of an eye, Xu Fan had run into another enormous crisis!
It was just...
Misfortunes never came singly!
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