As Charles hurriedly rushed out of the tree hollow, he saw the object that had set off the mouse alarm already being held at gunpoint by his crew.
It wasn't the roped figure they had encountered earlier, but a person made up of sludge, only 1.4 meters tall, standing motionlessly there with a basketball-sized black mushroom cradled in its arms.
"Captain, there's a living person inside the mud. I can smell the blood flowing through his vessels," Audric revealed his sharp fangs, licking them with his crimson tongue.
"A living person?" Charles flicked out Black Blade and gently scraped it against the mud man, peeling off the dark mud and revealing the pale body hidden underneath.
"Is this tree hollow your home?" Charles asked the strange fellow.
The mud man stood still in his spot, completely ignoring Charles's words.
Charles snatched the mushroom from his hands and tossed it to a nearby mouse. "Taste this, see if it's edible."
