If he had to describe it, standing at the entrance, there was about a ter of space from the top of his head to the cave ceiling, but now the distance from his head to the ceiling had to be at least one and a half to two ters.
"What's going on? I didn't even notice this issue," Li Huai muttered.
Gazing up at the cave ceiling illuminated by the magic carriage lantern, Li Huai sank into deep self-doubt.
"It's normal. From the entrance onwards, this cave has been constantly expanding by milliters. At that rate, people gradually wouldn't notice anything wrong."
"Cognitive bias?"
"Who knows. Anyway, if I hadn't checked the cave walls just now, I wouldn't have noticed it either."
Faced with Li Wufeng's unanswerable response, Li Huai nodded, then stepped forward, preparing to continue onward.
It made sense.
It was pitch-black. If they hadn't deliberately brought the light closer to inspect it, who would have thought about such a subtle difference in size?
The key point was that it was also so incredibly uniform.
"Wait!"
Right at that mont, the petite and lovely Lysara, wearing glasses beside them, suddenly halted Li Huai and the others as they were about to step forward.
"What is it, what's the situation?"
An hour was enough ti for Li Huai to figure out the composition of this temporary exploration team.
He was even fully aware of the person trailing about a hundred ters behind them. So, when Lysara called for him to stop, he reacted imdiately.
"Mm, there seems to be sothing moving ahead. Very slowly, and it's massive in size," Lysara whispered, sweating, with one hand pressed against the cave wall and her eyes closed.
"Can you pinpoint its approximate location and size?"
"About a kiloter away. That's the limit of my perception. It's not heading toward us; it's more like it's going deeper inside."
"As for its size... it feels like it's blocking the entire cave, just like a wall."
A kiloter away, and with such a massive volu.
Li Huai's initially furrowed brows gradually relaxed.
Having walked for over an hour, they had finally run into sothing interesting.
"Then let's go up and take a look. Everyone, consu your potions and stand behind . If anything doesn't feel right, we'll return imdiately."
Looking at Li Wufeng beside him, Li Huai offered his suggestion.
After all, theoretically, Li Wufeng was the captain of this team. At the very least, Li Huai's role was to be the muscle and bodyguard.
To him, as long as he could fight, everything else was secondary.
Even the twenty percent share of the profits promised by Shang Chuan wasn't as important in his eyes as a good battle.
"Alright."
Li Wufeng agreed without a second thought.
Jokes aside, the other party had taken the initiative to step forward. What reason did he have not to agree? Doing otherwise would show a severe lack of judgnt.
And so, everyone silently retreated behind Li Huai according to his arrangent and slowly continued trekking forward.
After all, they hadn't encountered a single monster for such a long ti, and now that one had suddenly appeared, they couldn't help but be cautious.
A kiloter wasn't a very long distance for them. More than ten minutes later, they arrived at the location of the 'wall' Lysara had ntioned.
Through the dim yellow light of the magic carriage lantern, they saw a creature entirely covered in long gray hair.
However, because this creature was constantly facing away from them while slowly squirming, they had no clear idea of what it actually looked like.
"I'll go up and take a look."
Even though they were standing just ten ters behind this creature, it didn't even turn its head to spare them a glance, which Li Huai found sowhat unbelievable.
In the eyes of a combat fanatic like him, the monsters of this world were highly aggressive.
Forget ten ters; even if you stood a hundred ters away, the mont you were discovered, those monsters would run over from a mile away just to take a bite out of you.
And so, he decided to walk up and see what was going on.
He stepped forward, while Li Wufeng and the others watched nervously from behind.
After all, for an entity large enough to block the entire cave, it would be a lie to say they weren't afraid.
Sure enough.
Just as Li Huai closed within a ter of the creature, those gray hairs suddenly stood on end and thrust toward him like sharp blades.
Fortunately, Li Huai had been prepared and flew backward the mont he sensed sothing was wrong.
Yet, even so, he was a step too late.
His chin and chest were slashed by a single strand of hair, and blood freely flowed outward.
Seeing this, Li Wufeng imdiately stepped forward and, alongside Zhao Doulai, caught Li Huai and dragged him backward for a dozen ters before finally stopping.
anwhile, Lysara and Cam each pulled out a healing potion; one poured it over his wounds, and the other fed it to him.
"Hiss—I didn't expect its reactions to be so fast despite looking so clunky."
After catching his breath, Li Huai inhaled sharply.
He had clearly been prepared, yet he had still been injured by its hair. This was sowhat unbelievable.
After more than a month of continuous battle, he wouldn't dare call himself a combat master, but at the very least, he shouldn't sustain injuries when he was fully prepared.
But this big guy had managed to do it.
That left only one explanation: this big guy was of a higher tier than any monster he had encountered before.
But this big guy had managed to do it.
That left only one explanation: this big guy was of a higher tier than any monster he had encountered before.
Thinking of this, Li Huai's eyes lit up.
"Are you alright, Li Huai?"
Looking at Li Huai's sowhat odd expression, Li Wufeng asked.
"I'm fine."
Li Huai waved it off and stood up from the ground.
"I feel like I need to take back my previous judgnt."
Seeing that Li Huai was fine, Li Wufeng looked toward the creature that was now covered in spikes.
"Your judgnt regarding the mine?"
"Right."
Li Wufeng nodded.
"Looking at it now, this cave isn't so passageway leading sowhere, nor is it a mine excavated by soone. It's very likely that it wasn't even excavated by intelligent creatures."
"You an to say this passageway was likely made by this big guy?"
Li Huai frowned slightly as he looked at Li Wufeng.
"Mm."
Li Wufeng nodded earnestly, then lifted his chin toward the big guy's broad back.
"At a glance, the hair on this guy's body doesn't seem like much, but judging from how it managed to slash you just now, it should be incredibly sharp. That is to say, those so-called 'excavation' marks on the walls were very likely caused by the friction of this guy's hair dragging against the cave walls. Especially considering the fact that this guy didn't even turn its head to check on us despite knowing there were people behind it... This deduction is even more plausible."
"Are you saying this guy can only advance but cannot retreat or turn its head?"
"That's highly probable. After all, even if it wanted to turn around or turn its head, it doesn't have the space to do so."
Saying that, Li Wufeng raised the magic carriage lantern in his hand to illuminate the entire cave as much as possible.
Seeing Li Wufeng's actions, Cam, who was also holding a lantern, raised his hand as well.
With this, everyone could finally get a clear, intuitive view of the entire cave's layout.
Indeed.
The big guy's body fit the cave to a tee. Disregarding the lack of a gap, there wasn't the slightest bit of room for it to maneuver.
"That makes a lot of sense, but I have a question."
Staring at the big guy's squirming back and its now-lowered hair, Li Huai began his inquiry.
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