Yang Yi opened his eyes and observed the strange phenomenon on the island from two viewpoints, one near and one far.
The salt on the ground seemed to come alive, flowing like liquid to form half a human body in front of the armor.
It was almost identical to the strange creatures Yang Yi had seen in hallucinations or dreams.
And the spike that had impaled the Long-Legged Sardine was very likely part of this thing too!
Without much hesitation, the armor immediately attacked, smashing the Salt Man into grains of salt with a hard slap of its shovel.
But the blow had little effect. The shattered Salt Man re-formed, turning one hand into a spike and thrusting it straight into the armor's open chest, striking the Long-Legged Sardine in the glass jar.
In less than a second, the Long-Legged Sardine shriveled. Like its companion, it had all the moisture sucked out of its body and became a salted fish.
The armor struck again, scattering the Salt Man once more.
After that, the Salt Man vanished, as though it had turned into ordinary salt scattered across the ground. Only skeletal salt crystals remained, crumbling at a touch.
This was not a human skeleton but an internal framework like a stick figure's, slightly harder than the rest, supporting the Salt Man's body.
With more of these frameworks, plus erosion from the wind, they would be essentially identical to the shrubs in the middle of the island.
So were there large numbers of Salt Men on this island?
Yang Yi could not help forming this conjecture, feeling a measure of lingering fear.
Without this suit of armor, he would probably have been attacked by Salt Men if he had gone ashore himself. If a sneak attack injured him, he would likely suffer