When Beauty Meets Beasts

540 Nightmare

The wealth contained in the mineral vein made one’s heart tremble.

But were mineral veins that easy to find?

Currently, there were no more than 10 mineral veins developed in the entire dawn continent. Eight of these mineral veins were controlled by the giants, one was on Elven God Mountain, and the last was controlled by the Goffins.

The dwarfs had also found mineral veins, but before they could mine them, they were occupied by the giants.

Hence, the relationship between the dwarfs and the giants was very bad.

In the words of the dwarfs, they were a group of lazy and unreasonable trolls!

Murphy was very surprised to learn that Huanhuan was going to look for mineral veins. “Do you know where there are mineral veins?”

“I don’t know yet. We’ll find out when we go out and look.”

Huanhuan made it seem so easy. Murphy didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

“Mineral veins aren’t that easy to find.”

“That’s why I’m going to look for it. It’s best if I can find it. If I can’t, I’ll think of another way.”

Seeing that she was determined, Murphy knew that persuasion was useless. He could only let her be.

The two of them prepared to set off that afternoon to look for mineral veins.

Since Murphy had been here a few times before, many dwarfs in Swan Valley knew him, especially the young unmarried women. When they saw him appear, they crowded over and looked at him with eyes filled with spring.

Huanhuan retreated consciously to avoid the gazes of the young girls.

The girls asked Murphy where he was going.

Even under these circumstances, Murphy remained suave and modest. “We’re going to look for mineral veins.”

The girls were in an uproar. “Wow! You know where there are mineral veins?”

Murphy was exasperated. “I don’t.”

“Then you—”

“I’m just looking around. I hope I can find one.”

A few bold girls volunteered. “I’ll go with you! I’m familiar with this area. I’ll help lead the way. You definitely won’t get lost!”

“Thank you, but there’s no need to trouble you. We’re just looking around ourselves. If we can’t find it, we’ll come back.” Murphy smiled and refused.

It took him a lot of effort to squeeze himself out of the crowd of enthusiastic girls and their pickup lines. He and Huanhuan finally left Swan Valley.

Seeing that his face was sweating, Huanhuan couldn’t help but chuckle. “It seems that you’re very popular with the dwarfs!”

Murphy wiped the thin sweat off her face and said helplessly, “They’re still young. Coupled with the fact that they’ve been living in Swan Valley, they’re innocent and ignorant. They don’t know that people like me don’t suit them at all.”

As Huanhuan walked, she asked, “Why aren’t you suitable? I think you’re quite good.”

Murphy walked a little ahead of her and helped her push away the branches and bushes that might catch onto her dress on the way. He said casually, “Let’s not talk about anything else. Just look at my personality that suddenly changes from time to time. How many girls do you think can stand me?”

“If the other party really loves you, they won’t care about your illness.”

“Love?” Murphy’s smile was dim. “Elves don’t believe in love.”

He said the last sentence so softly that Huanhuan couldn’t hear him clearly. She chased after him and asked, “What did you just say?”

“Nothing.”

Three paths appeared in front of them. Murphy asked for her opinion.

Huanhuan took out the small compass. After spinning the needle a few times, it finally pointed to the path on the right. She pointed to the right without hesitation. “This way.”

Murphy was a little curious. “What’s that thing?”

“It’s called a compass. It’s used to find treasures.”

Murphy was skeptical. “Can such a small thing really find treasures?”

“We’ll find out.” Huanhuan put away the compass and walked to the path on the right.

Usually, few people walked this path. It was overgrown with weeds and had many thorn vines on both sides. From what Murphy had said, these thorns were poisonous. It was best not to touch them.

The deeper they went, the darker it became.

When it was completely dark, they temporarily found a relatively flat place to rest for the night.

As they were in the wild, the two of them did not specially prepare dinner. They just ate some fruits.

Huanhuan sat on the grass with her back against the tree trunk. She closed her eyes to rest.

When she was in a daze, she felt a chill crawl up her fingers and quickly spread to her chest.

The temperature plummeted and became very cold.

Huanhuan was uncomfortable with the cold. She opened her eyes and found that the fire had gone out. Murphy, who had been sitting beside her, was gone.

It was dark all around. There was no one there.

Not far away, the shadows of the trees swayed gently like ghosts.

The atmosphere was perfect as a setting of a horror movie.

Huanhuan was a little afraid. She immediately sat up straight and whispered Little Brat’s name.

But there was no reaction.

Why was even Little Brat gone?!

Huanhuan was even more afraid now.

At this moment, faint sounds came from the depths of the darkness.

Something seemed to be crawling along the ground.

‘Don’t tell me there’s a snake?’

In the past, Huanhuan was especially afraid of snakes, but ever since she became mates with Sang Ye, her fear of snakes had decreased a lot.

Huanhuan took out the small crossbow and stared warily in the direction of the sound.

Before long, something dark emerged from the depths of the darkness and crawled quickly toward her.

It looked like a snake, but it had no eyes or mouth.

Huanhuan immediately released the arrow.

The little arrow flew out and stabbed into the black thing’s body!

To her surprise, not only was the black thing not shot to death, but it also split into two and continued to crawl toward Huanhuan!

Huanhuan was shocked. Damn, what the hell was this?!

The two black things crawled especially quickly. Soon, they reached Huanhuan.

Only then did Huanhuan see that they were not snakes.

They were vines.

The black vines were covered in fine barbs.

Seeing them, Huanhuan immediately thought of the Soul-Devouring Vine.

But wasn’t Xing Chen still in the Sea of Illusions? He was a homebody. Why was he here?!

Could there be two Soul-Devouring Vines in this world?!

Just as Huanhuan was at a loss, the two vines quickly wrapped around her ankles and climbed up her calves.

The barbs cut her skin. It hurt, but no blood flowed.

Huanhuan picked up the small crossbow and hit the vines with all her might.

Unfortunately, it was useless.

The more she struggled, the tighter the vines wrapped around her.

The vines wrapped around her waist and even her arms.

Finally, the vines wrapped around her neck.

They tightened.

Huanhuan couldn’t breathe. She felt like she was suffocating.

She gritted her teeth and struggled to say, “Xing… Chen…”

The words were like a curse. As soon as she uttered it, the vines suddenly loosened.

At the same time, Huanhuan heard a familiar call.

“Huanhuan! Wake up!”

Huanhuan opened her eyes and found herself still sitting on the grass, her back against the tree trunk. Murphy was squatting beside her, looking at her. His emerald eyes were filled with worry. “What happened to you just now? You kept struggling and moving. You ignored me when I shouted at you. Did you have a nightmare?”

Huanhuan heaved a long sigh of relief.

Recalling the dream, she felt a lingering fear. “It was a nightmar