The little boy, who had been washed clean, stood quietly in front of Chu Mu.
“…”
It's weird, they really look exactly the same.
Chu Mu looked at the child in front of him, as if he was looking at another self from a distance.
This made him very uncomfortable.
Fan Ji was so curious that he even squatted in front of the child and said in a very gentle voice, "What's your name?"
The little boy shook his head: "My parents call me Ah Chu."
"Achu..." Fan Ji smiled meaningfully, and the ending tone was dragged out for a long time.
Qi Meng had been sizing up the child for a long time, rubbing his eyes repeatedly in disbelief. "You—have you been staying in the North Pole all this time?"
Without realizing it himself, his voice had become gentler.
"Yeah." Little Achu blinked her beautiful round eyes and leaned towards Fan Ji.
Children's preferences are the most direct. This little Chu Mu instinctively gets close to Fan Ji, but repels Chu Meng.
Chu Mu looked up at the sky thoughtfully, the doubts in his heart were like crisscrossing silk threads, all tangled together.
Is this a coincidence? Or is it another arrangement of the torrent?
“Whoa—”
The sound of scouting horse whistles was heard ahead, and soon the guys from Qizhenmen came over.
"Master Chu, the bridge across the valley is broken. If we take a detour, we'll waste a whole day's journey. It's better to take the Huayin Road instead."
After leaving Huaihua Town, they continued to move towards the capital of Zhuhua. Along the way, Chu Mu opened the panel map several times, but could not see the red dot prompt.
However, at this moment, the panel that had been silent for a long time began to flash again.
[Seven Crane Valley, Nine Infants Snake.]
Chu Mu's expectant look darkened.
Qihe Valley was the route they were originally going to take.
There used to be a chain bridge connecting the two valleys, but now the bridge is broken, so to get to the other side of the mountain, you have to go through the valley.
There is a pattern of a nine-headed snake on the valley coordinates.
There are patterns of water waves and flames near the snake's head.
When Chu Mu thought of the nine-headed snake that could spit water and fire, the first person that came to his mind was Jiuying.
The color of the Nine Infants Snake's icon is different from the previous brown-red, and there is a completely black halo around the red edge.
what does that mean?
Just as Chu Mu was lost in thought, a real scene emerged in his consciousness.
Rugged rocks, fallen trees, lifeless dry ground, cracked yellow soil, and dark clouds covering the sky.
Chu Mu recognized at a glance that this was the bottom of the Seven Cranes Valley.
At this time, a convoy of about thirty people was walking slowly in the middle of the road.
suddenly--
“Snake demon…Snake demon…Ahhhh!!!”
The scream that was so loud that it almost broke the throat startled the big guy behind the boulder.
Chu Mu first heard a strange baby cry, followed by a pair of big eyes filled with blood.
The man who shouted at the top of his lungs turned into a pool of blood the moment he met Shegui's eyes.
The convoy was in chaos in an instant.
"Hurry up and grab your weapons! Ahhh——"
Living people turned into blood one after another. The survivors no longer dared to hope for luck and fled into the depths of the valley.
“Woo-wah—woo-wah—”
The Hydra continued to cry like a baby, and suddenly, it looked straight in the direction of Chu Mu.
A chill quickly spread throughout my body.
Chu Mu left the consciousness space without saying a word.
"Huh..." He let out a long breath without leaving a trace.
The Nine Infants Snake is cunning.
The power was far beyond the monsters he had encountered before.
At the moment of being watched, Chu Mu even felt that it was not a ghost cast by the temple.
"Chu Chu, there's something strange about that snake." Lao Ba warned, "I see endless darkness on its body. It escaped from the black hole of the torrent's punishment."
Chu Mu suddenly realized:
As the master of all "things", Hongliu may have appointed other "gods" before the temple.
This snake is one of them.
It eventually violated the rules of the torrent for unknown reasons and was exiled into an eternal black hole.
[No, nothing can escape from the cage of the torrent, unless——]
It was released by the torrent himself.
At the same time as this speculation emerged, the Hydra pattern on the panel turned into a small wine bottle.
As usual, Lao Ba clicked on the details: {Nectar. Everything in the world is helpless, a drink of nectar can cure all poisons.}
This is undoubtedly an antidote.
Among the eight gods, there is the God of Poisons who is in charge of diseases and plagues.
He rarely appears in public, but his presence is often strong.
Simply because he loves to participate in the punishment of lower species during trials.
Wherever he goes, all life will perish painfully in an incurable plague.
It's a real walking poison.
This cup of nectar is the treasure that Hong Liu gave to Chu Mu to deal with him.
However, whether he can get it depends on Chu Mu's ability.
Chu Mu figured out everything in a very short time. He looked at the people from Qizhenmen who were waiting for him to speak:
"Everyone, it will take half a day to take the detour along Huayin Road. Now it's less than an hour until dawn. We might as well go down to the bottom of the valley and find a sheltered place to spend the day."
Chu Mu’s words were more useful than Fan Ji’s. The guys all nodded their heads, and then they realized that their boss was Fan Ji.
So he asked Master Fan for his opinion with a guilty conscience.
"I'll listen to Chuchu," Fan Ji picked up little Achu, "Let's go, let's go down before dawn."
The little boy lay on Fan Ji's shoulder and glanced at Chu Mu with a hint of curiosity: "Is this young man also called Ah Chu?"
"Ah, he's the big one, and you're the small one." Fan Ji touched little Achu's head. "Look carefully, you'll look like him when you grow up. Isn't it pretty?"
"..." Little Ah Chu pouted and muttered, "He's not particularly good-looking... If I had the chance to grow up, I would definitely be more handsome than him. Unfortunately... I won't live long."
When Chu Mu heard the first half of the sentence, he wanted to pinch the little brat's face twice, but when he heard the second half, he lowered his raised hand back.
"Children speak without restraint," Fan Ji pinched little Achu's mouth, "You will live a long life."
Of course.
…
Nothing unusual happened during the descent, and we didn't even encounter a single poisonous insect.
In today's world where strange things are rampant, this is like a fairy tale.
"This is weird," Shunzi looked around, "It feels like this is going a little too smoothly."
A nun from the Qizhen Sect beside her lowered her voice and said, "Generally, there's only one explanation for this kind of situation. There's a big guy down there."
Sunja gasped.
The instinct of a killer made him subconsciously tense up as he approached the valley.
He looked around vigilantly, making sure to find out any signs of trouble.
Da La.
A boulder fell not far away.
"There's something!" Qian Meng jumped over with a big knife in his hand.
"Don't do anything, it's a person..." A person crawled out from the bushes.
Chu Mu took a closer look and laughed.
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