As he was deep in thought, Tan Xiao, not far away, waved at him and shouted, "Boss! You go in first! Maybe the old man will have all the landing points worked out soon. We shouldn't be too headstrong with that toad demon!"
He did care about Shen Mo quite a bit.
Shen Mo gripped his knife, rubbing it back and forth on the shell a few times, glanced coldly at the golden sphere high above, and then crawled into the shell.
Another round of earth-shaking tremors.
...
The golden sphere came to a halt.
...
The frog emerged.
...
"Ribbit—ribbit—"
The frog, having abstained from food for two rounds, couldn't bear it any longer, and began to stir the mud with its front legs, poking at the snails in the field, trying to find a few bugs to fill its stomach.
This sudden turn of events took everyone by surprise.