"Huh?"
Yu An paused when her superpower sensed something familiar.
Tongtong looked up, confused. "Auntie An, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing," Yu An said with a smile, playfully wrinkling her nose at the little girl. "Auntie just ate a sour berry."
With that, she continued telling Tongtong a story while multitasking, her superpower gradually enveloping the foreign object inside the girl's body.
It was a Gu Worm—strange and misshapen, with a fat body and two long antennae on its head.
Surrounding the Gu Worm was a ring of unidentified red powder. Only the worm's antennae could extend beyond the powder's perimeter.
Yu An used her superpower to extract a tiny amount. Some of the red powder slowly seeped out onto Tongtong's arm, but she was so engrossed in Yu An's story that she didn't notice anything unusual.
