Thanks to the sunlight, the shadow stretched smoothly beneath the bed frame, merging with its shadow.
The tentacles emerging from the human-shaped shadow immediately caught Tangyuan's attention.
"Woof!" Tangyuan barked.
Ke Meng was standing by the window, basking in the sun. At the bark, he quickly turned and saw several tentacles extending from Mi Jingyun's shadow.
Like a gibbon's long arms, the shadow tentacles bent sharply and shot backward toward the shadow at Ke Meng's feet.
They moved so fast that her tentacles reached him almost in the blink of an eye.
A powerful wave of drowsiness washed over him, making him want to sleep.
Ke Meng hadn't expected her to still be capable of fighting back, much less to attack in broad daylight.
Why didn't she do this earlier?
Wouldn't last night, while I was asleep, have been a better chance for a sneak attack?
Why wait until now, when I've crushed her to death, to attack? Could this ability require specific conditions?
Thoughts flashed through Ke Meng's mind, his brain working at full speed.
Despite the intense drowsiness, Ke Meng didn't fall asleep. He felt some inexplicable force within his body resisting its encroachment and beginning to fight back.
Resistance +0.1!
A line of text popped up from the system. Ke Meng's resistance had risen to 9.2.
Previously, Ke Meng had used the water-drinking mechanic to grind out 4.7 points of resistance, raising his resistance to 9.1. Now it had increased to 9.2.
His body shuddered, and the overwhelming drowsiness vanished completely.
With his mind clear again, Ke Meng looked down at his shadow. The tentacles were breaking apart inch by inch.
Mi Jingyun's human-shaped shadow returned to normal once more, but this time, it was a size smaller.
That hadn't been an ordinary attack. She