Cool spring water poured over Bad Apple's head, leaving him drenched and chilled as he gradually came to. He had no time to wonder who was doing this; all he wanted was to flee this dangerous place as quickly as possible.
But before he had taken more than a few steps, the changes in his surroundings and the many strange questions crowding his mind forced him to turn around and see what was going on. That was when he spotted Sylutia standing not far away.
The girl held a dipper and was dousing the motionless human figures one by one. The two still left were, of course, Yan and Karl.
"What's going on?" For a moment, he couldn't quite process it.
But he wasn't stupid. It didn't take him long to figure out what had happened. He looked around and spotted the giant lizard's corpse lying beside the pool not far away.
"Is that a Petrification Lizard?" In an instant, he understood everything.
So he had been petrified, and then his other companions had suffered the same fate. They must have come to save him. He scratched his head, feeling a little ashamed.
But this Petrification Lizard must have been a third-order creature. Who had killed it? Could it have been Tia?
He stared at the girl in disbelief.
Before long, the other two also gradually woke up and regained their senses, adjusting to their stiffened bodies.
"Ahem, run!" The moment Karl woke, he tried to yell for everyone to flee. He had already recognized the third-order Petrification Lizard, and it was far beyond what any of them could handle.
When he saw that nobody was moving, he grew annoyed and was about to lose his temper. But something felt off. He looked around, then finally noticed the lizard's corpse