After seeing the scene before him.
Ye Yuan was certain.
If he dealt with any one of them, he would alert the other eleven earthworms.
After all, earthworms possessed exceptionally strong senses.
Just because they had no eyes did not mean they were oblivious to their surroundings.
Ye Yuan now had two choices before him.
One was to return the way he came and report what he had seen.
The second was to stay and see whether there was any way to deal with these mutated earthworms.
Clearly, the second option was unlikely to succeed.
But Ye Yuan was unwilling to simply turn back like this.
As Ye Yuan pondered a solution, he inadvertently glanced at the broad, rushing underground river.
The instant he saw it, a thought flashed through Ye Yuan's mind.
His eyes immediately lit up.
In order to observe these mutated earthworm beasts more closely.
Ye Yuan made a bold decision.
He cautiously stepped out of the cave where he had been hiding.
The moment his entire body left the cave, he saw the full extent of the hillside.
It turned out that Ye Yuan's hiding place was not the only cave opening on this steep slope.
Looking at the densely packed cave entrances covering the hillside.
Ye Yuan was shocked by the sight before him.
He made his way down the slope, careful not to alert the earthworms that were still coiled together.
Ye Yuan chose the slope farthest from the earthworms before beginning his descent.
At this moment, Ye Yuan was more than a hundred meters away from those earthworms.
He did not know whether that distance had already taken him beyond their range of perception.
After all, these were mutated earthworms, so ordinary assumptions could not be applied to them.
He carefully reached the