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Meanwhile, at home, Chen Lingya was perusing a manual.
This color-printed manual wasn't a book from the school library but a Monster Manual of Nightmare Swamp, personally given to her by the principal. Although she didn't know its value, she couldn't find any information about this book online.
"Could Little Wo really be a Taotie?" Chen Lingya compared the pictures of a benign and a malevolent snail, occasionally glancing at Little Wo beside her. On the desk next to her, Little Wo's two antennae drooped weakly as it rested peacefully.
Comparing with the high-definition pictures in the manual, the benign and malevolent snails, though closely related, still had slight differences in detail.
Though she had no evidence, Chen Lingya was beginning to believe it.
"Could it be a variant? Are you a Taotie?" she asked, prodding Little Wo's head with her finger.
"Hmm?" Little Wo squinted its eyes, uttering words Chen Lingya couldn't understand.
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