The footprints at the doorway had been buried by the night's wind and snow. The two strange creatures didn't want the snow rabbit to be buried in the snow as well, and it seemed that one of them would come out and move the rabbit to a different spot in a moment.
So all night they could hear footsteps moving around in front of the neighboring tent.
Why make such a commotion in the middle of the night, just for two snow rabbits?
The group of people had complicated expressions.
Ling Feng walked out of the tent and stared silently at the two rabbits, lost in thought.
"Captain, can we get along with them? They all seem a bit strange." The team members were very worried, especially after learning that three of the five people next door were indeed strange, which increased their psychological pressure.
Having just emerged from a dungeon teeming with dangerous monsters, they were now facing monsters head-on, leaving them constantly on edge.
"Do we even have a choice?" Ling Feng's reaction was calm, as if he had come to terms with it all. "If they hadn't come, we would have died in this snow mountain in no time. Players without strong abilities don't have the right to choose who to follow. It would be good enough if we could just get out alive."
The team members lowered their heads, thinking about it, and realized that if these people could really lead them out, what did it matter if they were monsters?
Just as they were sighing, the curtain of the next tent was pulled open, and a dark-skinned man walked out through the snow. He completely ignored the group of players and, as naturally as if he were watering flowers in the early morning, bent down, dug the snow rabbit dumpling that was almost buried in the snow to the top, and then carefully put it down.
The fact that a tiny snow rabbit that could be crushed with a single step was being so well protected by a sinister monster, who even frequently checked on it at night, left the players with mixed feelings.
Li Mo glanced up at them, and the players immediately retreated warily. But the dark-skinned man only glanced at them before turning back and not launching an attack.
For the first time, the players faced the monster in such a harmonious and friendly manner without being attacked. They stood bewildered in the snow, unsure of what to do.
When Yin Xiu slowly woke up, Zhong Mu was already at the door playing with Ya Ya digging in the snow. 408 had gone out for some fresh air, leaving only Li Mo sitting next to him in the tent, who then took out a book from somewhere and started flipping through it.
The sound of wind and snow outside continued, but the temperature was no longer as low.
Inside the tent, the heating device emitted a gentle light as it spun in the air, and in the quiet environment, the sound of Li Mo turning the pages of a book could be clearly heard.
Yin Xiu opened his eyes and stared at the top of the tent. He felt a little dazed. The feeling of seeing the little monster reading a book next to him as soon as he woke up was too strong. The only difference from his memory was that the figure that had blended into the darkness had become a tangible human form.
One of the eyes that had been staring at Yin Xiu noticed that he was awake. Li Mo immediately closed the book, turned her head and smiled, "Boyfriend, you're awake?"
"Hmm." Yin Xiu sat up and looked around. "Where are Ya Ya and the others?"
"Outside." Li Mo reached out and ruffled Yin Xiu's hair, then patted her sleepy-eyed boyfriend.
He'd heard that humans were most dazed and could be easily manipulated when they first woke up, so he decided to give it a try.
Yin Xiu, who had just woken up, did not react to his touch. He just squinted and rested his cheek in Li Mo's palm, seemingly still a little dazed.
Li Mo immediately put down the book in his hand and focused on styling Yin Xiu's hair with both hands. His slender fingers shuttled through the soft strands of hair, smoothing them out one by one. His fingertips rubbed Yin Xiu's cheeks with affection, enjoying the warm touch of a human.
Yin Xiu's eyes, which had been half-closed in a daze, slowly opened and stared intently at Li Mo in front of him. He seemed to be in a daze, yet he also seemed to be looking at Li Mo with great focus. His hazy eyes were particularly attractive to Li Mo.
"What's wrong?"
He's usually the one keeping an eye on his boyfriend, so this sudden reversal makes him feel a little uncomfortable.
"It's nothing." Yin Xiu shook his head lazily. "It feels good to wake up and see you by my side."
Li Mo happily snuggled up to him, saying, "No matter when my boyfriend wakes up, I'll always be by his side."
"But I'm about to leave the instance, and you can't go to the town." Yin Xiu remembered that Li Mo's current range of movement was not even to the town. The only time he appeared in the town was when he pulled him into the instance.
"I can use my number one tentacles to find you. I always leave a part of it with you when my boyfriend returns to town. Hasn't he noticed?" Li Mo smiled.
Yin Xiu thought about it carefully and realized that he could occasionally sense something around him, something Ye Tianxuan had also mentioned.
But I can't see it.
"That's because your boyfriend was affected by something before and couldn't see, but I've never left his side. You should be able to see now if you go back." Li Mo nodded seriously.
"So that feeling of something being around me wasn't just an illusion." Yin Xiu could imagine that dark mass always being around him, but he couldn't see it. From the Deep Sea Academy, or even earlier, he had vaguely sensed that Li Mo had always been by his side.
However, due to the gaps in his own memory, he was unsure, but now that he has remembered everything, he truly realizes that the red thread between them has always been pulling them together.
"Then I'm relieved." Yin Xiu nodded, already starting to feel that returning to the town was troublesome. Did they have to stay like this forever, having to go through a dungeon process to see Yin Xiu? Couldn't he just open his eyes and see the person he wanted to see?
"Brother!" The tent flap was suddenly flung open, and Ya Ya rushed over excitedly, holding a snowball in her hand. "Look, brother! I learned how to make a snowman from Brother Zhong Mu!"
She immediately carried the snowman to Yin Xiu, held it in her two little hands, and happily handed it to him.
Yesterday, in the dark, she gave her brother an ugly snow rabbit. Today, she asked Zhong Mu to teach her how to make a snowman and gave it to him. It was a delicate and beautiful one, not ugly at all. The ugly ones had all been stomped flat by her!
"Thank you, Ya Ya." Yin Xiu reached out and took the snowman, then patted Ya Ya.
"Hehe, if you like it, I can make a lot more for you!" Ya Ya was very proud. Anyway, she had already become quite skilled. She had been making them all morning, and the snowmen she had made were now very beautiful, much better than the ugly rabbits she had made in the dark!
Yin Xiu smiled, thinking that it was about time to leave the snow mountain and clear this dungeon.
Perhaps because he had just regained his memories, the thought of being temporarily separated from Li Mo and Ya Ya after leaving the instance made him procrastinate.
Yin Xiu looked up and saw that the snow rabbit Li Mo had given him yesterday had melted into a puddle of water. He patted Li Mo and said, "Help me make another snow rabbit when I get out of the instance. I'll take it out with me later."
Li Mo smiled and curled the corners of her mouth. "Yes, sir."
The group tidied up and prepared to continue their journey deeper into the snow-capped mountains, while Li Mo squatted by the entrance, kneading snowballs.
Several players who were about to leave stood there watching the dark-skinned man squatting in the snow, kneading snowballs. They couldn't believe that such a sinister-looking being, exuding danger and inhumanity, was squatting there playing in the snow like a child.
It's so bizarre, even more bizarre than witnessing a monster committing murder.