"Is that... a Gold-Eating Mouse?"
As he activated the External Soul Bone: Double Pupils, Lin Ye was stunned when he clearly saw the white shadow being chased by the Mandala Snake.
Gold-Eating Mice were small omnivorous soul beasts that lived in groups and liked to seek out and devour metal ores.
Among soul beasts, Gold-Eating Mice were small, so logically, they should have been prey for most small predatory soul beasts.
However, because they lived in groups and frequently devoured metal ores, they had developed sharp teeth and claws capable of leaving marks on hard ore. As a result, Gold-Eating Mice rarely became prey for other soul beasts.
After all, although most soul beasts could easily crush swaths of Gold-Eating Mice, if a tide-like swarm of thousands upon thousands of them climbed onto their bodies, even a Thunder Demonic Bear would not be able to withstand it.
But although it looked the same, the Gold-Eating Mouse being chased by the Mandala Snake seemed somewhat different from the Gold-Eating Mice Lin Ye knew.
Ordinary Gold-Eating Mice had brilliant golden fur, but this one being chased by the Mandala Snake had snow-white fur, with only a tuft of golden hair between its brows.
"What kind of soul beast is this? Another rodent soul beast that merely resembles a Gold-Eating Mouse, or a Mutated Gold-Eating Mouse that was driven out of its pack because of its different color and thus targeted by this Mandala Snake?"
Looking at the Mandala Snake and the White Gold-Eating Mouse in the distance, Lin Ye was deeply puzzled.
But as Lin Ye pondered, the White Gold-Eating Mouse in the distant woods seemed to notice him.
After excitedly letting out a series of "Squeak, squeak!" cries, the White Gold-Eating Mouse immediately dashed toward Lin Ye, with the Mandala Snake