"Lilia, now!"
Lin Yuan's "Reverse Scale" could only last so long. While he still had Never Skunked completely suppressed, he quickly called for the Doll Girl.
"Hang in there, Orderly Captain! Doctor Lilia is coming!"
Lilia trotted over to Lin Yuan and Never Skunked and pressed a hand against Never Skunked's head.
Never Skunked struggled desperately at first, but with Lin Yuan pinning him firmly to the ground, all his struggles were futile.
At the same time, Lin Yuan sensed an aura quietly seep out of the Nirvana Crown in the Treasure Collection Room and enter Never Skunked's body.
"Urgh-!"
Never Skunked suddenly opened his mouth and vomited a large mouthful of thick, dark-gray liquid.
The liquid seemed to have a life and will of its own. After landing on the ground, it kept twisting and changing shape, desperately trying to return to Never Skunked's body.
Why does this stuff feel a little like the Crawlers' black mud?
Lin Yuan thought as he watched the filth Never Skunked had vomited up.
The dark-gray liquid felt like a slightly paler version of black mud. Presumably, it was nothing good.
Keeping Never Skunked restrained, Lin Yuan moved a little farther away.
Unable to return to Never Skunked's body, the mass of thick, dark-gray liquid soon solidified into a gray, plaster-like substance.
The way it lost its activity was also very similar to black mud.
Could the pollution affecting Never Skunked be turning him into a Crawler?
The suspicion rose unbidden in Lin Yuan's mind, but he kept feeling that things were not so simple.
Judging by how quickly Prince had gone from a Diving Club member to a Crawler, Crawlers did not need such complicated methods to increase their numbers.
There had to be some other secret behind what had happened to