"What is that sound!" Ling Mo's nerves were tense, and he thought to himself, "Assuming it crawled using its hands and feet... but one, two, three, four, five... it definitely doesn't sound like only four points of contact! Is its head involved too?" Moreover, he could distinctly sense that the creature was crawling over from the ground... that his tentacle sensing could detect this level of vibration indicated the creature's size and speed must far exceed that of the earlier mover.
What's worse, "coming from the ground" represented another layer of meaning... it meant that once the creature appeared, they'd likely face the monster directly. This wasn't what Ling Mo had planned; he was merely squatting here to closely observe this suspected Mother monster...
