The pile of diamonds trembled, and you could tell that every stone in its body was straining, but its scattered form just couldn't pull itself back together.
Xu Huo watched for a bit, "Want me to glue you back together?"
The stone pile paused, then the area shaped like a left hand started moving up and down, as if it was quite eager for him to give it a go.
Xu Huo took a bag of jerky from the luggage compartment, munching as he watched it struggle.
In this space, besides that pile of stones, none of the other rocks moved at all. While it's impossible for someone to hypnotize themselves into being a stone, the fact that they could maintain this state suggested that the mental interference in this Spiritual World was abnormally strong—strong enough to affect human senses; at the very least, he hadn't managed to tell by touch if the thing in front of him was actually a person.
And who knows how many other Stone Beings had come in; some probably starved to death already.
