Kosmo looked in the direction that Graysh pointed.

Sure enough, at the end of the passage, behind a few jagged black reefs, there was a faint and flickering blue-green fluorescence that was not a searchlight beam? The light was hazy, like the flickering phosphorescence under the water, adding a bit of weirdness to the already gloomy passage.

Kosmo let out a warning grunt from his throat. He turned his head and glanced at Gresh, and the two of them stared at each other.

Kosmo hesitated for a moment, but finally took a step forward, taking Grayshure with him, and carefully approached the blue-green light source.

After bypassing the huge reef blocking the road, the scene in front of us suddenly became clear.

This is a natural cave hall hidden behind the main passage. The space is much wider than any passage I have walked through before.

The cave ceiling was very high, with many strange stalactites hanging down. The most eye-catching part of the entire hall was the central area - it was not a hard rock floor, but a shallow pool of water emitting a soft blue-green fluorescence? In other words, it was more like a huge "shallow pool" made of some kind of viscous, glowing liquid.

And right beside this shallow pool of mucus emitting a dreamy fluorescent light, two familiar figures were lying on the ground in a very undignified posture.

Theresa and Jizi, who were supposed to be walking in another passage, appeared here, rolling their eyes, obviously fainted.

Principal Theresa's tiny body was lying face down, her soft white hair now messily covered with the blue-green mucus, and her little face was also stained with a lot of it, making her look like a kitten that had fallen into a paint bucket.

Jizi was lying on her side, with one arm still stretched forward. She was also covered with mucus, with red hair stuck to her cheeks. Her usually lazy expression was now only a dazed look, her eyes were tightly closed, and there seemed to be a small string of mucus bubbles hanging from the corner of her mouth.

The slime covering their bodies moved slowly in the dim light, as if they were alive, but it showed no signs of further harm to them, except that they looked like they had just been fished out of the digestive fluids of some strange creature.

Kosmo paused for a moment, and his sight quickly swept across the hall like a searchlight: except for the fluorescent slime pool in the center, the two unconscious people, and the jagged rocks around, there seemed to be no other threats. There were no Honkai beasts, no enemies, only a faint smell of the sea in the air and a kind of... indescribable strange smell, similar to mud mixed with seaweed after rain.

Gresh walked over to the two of them, squatted down, checked them, and said to Kosmo, "They are all fine. This liquid... is sticky, but it's harmless."

"..."

Just as Kosmo was looking at this funny and weird scene, wondering whether to drag the two out first or wake them up -

“Plur…Plur…Plur!”

A slight, then somewhat cheerful sound, like a bubble bursting, came from the fluorescent mucus pool in the center, breaking the silence of the cave hall.

Kosmo suddenly stopped moving and looked towards the center of the pool. He saw bubbles starting to grow larger and larger on the surface of the calm mucus. When the bubbles burst, they brought up strands of fluorescent mucus, which stretched briefly in the air and then fell back into the pool with a plop, as if they were doing a funny dance. Then, near the edge of the pool where Theresa and the others were lying, the mucus began to surge violently, like boiling jelly!

puff! puff! puff! puff! puff! puff!

Six round, wet "cocoons" that were also covered with blue-green mucus and wrapped in a translucent film emerged from the mucus pool one after another like bubbles being spit out and rolled to the edge of the pool!

The shapes of these "cocoons" clearly outlined human figures, which were the six missing girls: Lilia, Rosalia, Seele, Julia, Airlie, and Sophia! There was even... a pink "cocoon" that contained Yae Rin, who had just disappeared beside Yae Sakura!

They all had their eyes closed, as if they were sleeping comfortably in the mucus, and their faces even had a bit of...peace? But everyone was wrapped tightly in that slippery film, like a strange fluorescent sushi roll just out of the oven.

"Ah...Rin is here too." Grayshure was a little surprised.

Kosmo: "..."

He was silent for a few seconds, as if he was digesting this bizarre scene, then he slowly walked forward and began to carefully tear off the sticky film, like peeling off a huge, glowing candy wrapper, trying to rescue the dizzy "candies" inside. Although his movements were rough, they were surprisingly gentle.

Just as Kosmo dragged the dizzy Theresa and Himeko away from the pool and worked hard -

"Kosmo." Grayshu's voice sounded again, with a hint of inquiry.

Kosmo stopped and looked at her. She saw that Grayshu had walked to an inconspicuous depression in the stone wall at the edge of the hall.

There, a bunch of strange, pink, mushroom-like things are growing tenaciously from the cracks in the rocks. It is about half a person's height, with a round and full cap, showing an attractive pink color, and a short and thick stem. It looks like... an oversized, perfectly shaped strawberry pudding? It is out of tune with the cold rocks around it.

Gretsch was obviously attracted by this strange "mushroom". She took out her drawing board, tilted her head slightly, her clear eyes full of curiosity, and moved closer, as if she wanted to take a closer look, and even stretched out her paintbrush, as if she wanted to poke it or paint it.

However, when her face was less than half a meter away from the pink mushroom——

Pfft——!!!

The top of the pink mushroom's cap suddenly bulged, like a giant bubble filled with mucus that was instantly squeezed and burst! A large amount of sticky mucus that emitted the same blue-green fluorescence was sprayed out accurately like a high-pressure water gun, solidly and unreservedly covering Gray Xiu's face!

"Well!"

Grayshu let out a short muffled groan, and staggered back a step due to the sudden "mucus face wash".

Her delicate little face was instantly covered with slippery, shiny blue-green slime, even her long eyelashes were stuck together, only her big eyes blinked under the slime, revealing a trace of confusion and innocence. The drawing board and brush in her hand were not spared, and were splashed with large patches of fluorescent spots.

The entire hall fell into an eerie silence, with only the "patter" sound of mucus slowly dripping from Gresh's face, and the cap of the "pink mushroom" trembling and shrinking slightly as if satisfied after the spray.