"Just walk around the pool three times to the left and three times to the right, and then the monster will appear."

Deception fit for a three-year-old.

Gregory Lawrence believed it, his eyes widened in amazement, "Is it really that magical?"

He had never heard of such a thing.

"Really." Hannah smiled slightly, with a caring look in her eyes, "The monster will come out and eat your useless brain."

Gregory was stunned.

His eyes rounded in alarm, "Are you trying to scare me?"

Hannah nodded, "Exactly."

Gregory’s face showed an expression of hurt, as he wiped his tears with the desolate black robe, "You’re being too mean!"

Desolate swiftly snatched back his own robe.

Gregory stumbled and fell to the ground.

He said, "You’re all being too mean."

Hannah looked down at him and laughed, saying he looked just like a well-behaved baby.

Gregory, furious, grabbed his hair and messed it up into a bird’s nest.

He also dared not provoke Hannah.

He used to think Hannah was like a beautiful fairy, especially when she smiled; it was like a fairy descending to earth.

But then he saw how the fairy took down Desolate with a single move.

Wielding a long sword without a tremble.

It was even more "horrific" than when she killed the mutant beasts.

So he chose to "suffer in silence."

Hannah was still studying the pool of water.

The more she looked, the stranger it seemed.

It was clearly daylight, yet the pool of water looked pitch black.

Not the black of ink, but more like the black that blankets the night sky.

She reached out to touch the surface of the water. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

Just about to touch it, Arnold Simmons grabbed her wrist, "Be careful, there could be danger."

Hannah could only retract her hand.

Arnold was still worried, he didn’t let go of Hannah’s hand and led her away from that pool of water.

Hannah asked him, "Do you think there’s really a monster in that pool of water?"

The very monster Desolate talked about that "shrouds the skies and covers the sun."

Arnold wasn’t certain either, "No traces have been found for the time being, but we can’t rule out that possibility."

Gregory was tired and simply sat on a rock next to the pool, "Maybe Desolate was mistaken, and there isn’t a monster at all?"

They had been around here for almost half an hour, checking over and over again.

Not to mention a monster, not even a trace of one had been found.

If there really was some large mutant beast hidden in the water, there would definitely be some signs around.

Unless the mutant beast never came out.

Desolate himself checked several times, he was sure this was where he had been before, "That can’t be right."

He was still recalling.

Hannah speculated, "Could it be that there’s not just one pool of water in the mist, but many identical ones?"

Arnold said, "That’s also a possibility."

Gregory raised his hand and blurted out, "I know this, I once obtained the diary of an explorer, and it recorded that deep in the desert there was a mysterious cave with paths leading every which way, nearly each intersection had a statue that looked exactly the same. Because they were too similar, the explorer at first thought there was only one statue in the whole cave, so he kept making the wrong marks on his map, but it wasn’t until the end that he realized he had been going in circles, and this cave was actually a large maze."

Scenes that were too similar could confuse people, especially in a maze.

It could easily create illusions and feelings of fatigue.

If there really were countless identical pools of water in the mist...

"Assuming your conjecture is correct, and there are many pools of water, then correspondingly, there should also be many monsters," Hannah said.