"Uh, this is... Fang, get back here! Aren't you bothered by how filthy it is?"
The moment the words left his mouth, Luo Bin figured it out himself. Fang was a dog. Some things that humans found foul and disgusting were supreme delicacies to dogs—excrement, for instance!
"Luo Bin, stop keeping us in suspense. What exactly is this white stuff?"
Hermione made it clear that being kept in the dark was not a pleasant feeling at all.
Luo Bin took a mask and leather gloves out of the Blue Cloth Pouch. Only after Hermione had put them all on did he explain, "It's spider incense—in other words, spider excrement. Spiders eat all sorts of things and have strong digestive systems. Besides, they're poisonous themselves, so their excrement contains toxins too. A Thousand Ways to Fight Poison with Poison does mention that spider incense can expel parasites, but... it's far too potent. One little mistake could poison someone to death!"
"This is the Forbidden Forest, so this pile... was probably left by Aragog's descendants. But Little Red was fine!"
"Which means we need to find out where the green juice on Fang's right front paw came from!"
Luo Bin had intended to put on shoe covers and wade through the piles of white lumps after the wildly running Fang. Before he could even get the covers out, however, Fang came racing toward him with a purple-flowered herb in his mouth.
He ran so fast that the fur on his face and his large ears streamed backward. Once he was out of the field of dung, he laid the herb at Luo Bin's feet, then sat beside him with his head tilted up, waiting for praise!
"Good boy, Fang! But next time you want to race off, could you give us a