The rescue went more smoothly than expected. With Xiao Ya acting as a human detector, they located the other elves more and more efficiently, digging them out one after another.
The real challenge was waking them afterward.
According to Ye Rumeng, the first female elf they had rescued had already woken up. She had indeed opened her eyes, but her gaze remained vacant, and her entire body lay motionless. It seemed that after sleeping for so long, her newly returned consciousness still could not control her body.
Only after they had rescued more than a dozen did one of the elves lying all over the ground suddenly sit up and look around in shock.
This elf was also severely emaciated, but Mu You recognized her immediately. She was Meili, the elf he had met in the dream Castle, and the only elf who had remained awake in the dream world for an extended period.
"It's you?" Meili had spotted Mu You as well and spoke somewhat uncertainly. Mu You was currently using the Vampire Skin, so he looked different from when they had met before.
"It's me." Mu You confirmed that he was indeed the person she knew.
"You actually..."
Meili stared incredulously at her fellow elves who had been dug out, then at the walls of flesh surrounding them. Naturally, she understood their current situation: he really had entered the Octopus King's belly and dug them out one by one!
"You're far too bold..." Meili looked at Mu You with a strange expression.
"What about the Octopus King?" Mu You asked.
"When I left, it was raging. It had almost crushed the Castle... If it wakes up now..." Meili did not dare finish. If the Octopus King woke up at this moment, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Then help