(An added update for Hall Master "Flowing with the Wind"!)
Hmm, what's going on?
Mu Fan picked up his hand and saw a light red-brown slime on it. Rubbing it with his finger, it felt slippery.
What is this?
Curious, Mu Fan got up and looked at the root where he had been sitting, not noticing anything of this color there before.
Just as White Hair, who had finished drinking his water, saw Mu Fan sit down and then get up again to crouch, he asked, "What's wrong?"
There's nothing unusual on the surface...
Mu Fan grabbed another handful, and the feeling of cold slipperiness was still there under his fingertips.
Under the root?
Crouching down, Mu Fan cocked his head to look up.
A patch of red-brown slime was underneath the roots, already covering them completely.
It looked a bit like enlarged cellular tissue.
Mu Fan then lowered his head to look at several other roots, finding similar traces under all of them.
"Come check this out," Mu Fan waved at White Hair.
