Void Mushroom Market

Where there was something abnormal, there had to be something strange at work.

Owl listened carefully, yet he could not detect anything wrong. It truly sounded like a bustling marketplace filled with human voices.

"Should we go take a look?" Sa looked at Owl and suggested.

Owl frowned, feeling that something was off. After thinking briefly, he refused. "No. We already looked over this forest from the trees earlier. There wasn't any clearing at all, which means there must still be forest ahead. How could so many people be making such a racket in the forest? Were they not afraid of dying?"

The forests of this world were unimaginably dangerous.

Gungenmir, Rainbow-feathered Leopards, Monster Bears, and other wild beasts—every one of them was extremely dangerous. If ordinary people encountered them, they would basically have only one path left: death. How could anyone make loud noises in the forest? Wasn't that courting death?

"Then should we pretend we didn't hear it?" Sa asked unhappily.

She was very curious about what was going on. What if there really was a market?

Owl said with a headache, "What if it's some strange creature? Aren't you afraid of monsters like the Ghost Mountain Elephant?"

"Then let's get just a little closer?" Sa thought for a moment and gestured with her fingers.

Seeing Sa's eager, pleading gaze, Owl sighed helplessly. She had gone so far as to act cute—how could he refuse her?

He blew a breath at the pot, shrinking it again before putting it into his brocade pouch. Then he stood up and said, "Then we'll get just a little closer. If anything seems wrong, you have to listen to me."

"Got it," Sa said happily.

She had actually listened to those human voices very carefully. There was nothing wrong with them. Every