"Miss Yun, Miss Yun..." the snake continued to call out urgently to Yun Qingran.
After shouting it a lot, you can feel the playful aspect, and the eeriness is reduced considerably.
"Miss Yun, Miss Yun, Miss Yun..."
"Shut up." Yun Qingran looked at the snake with annoyance. She really hated being yelled at like that.
Having been scolded, the snake seemed to have been hurt and truly stopped shouting. But the next moment, it looked at Wuyuan and began to call out, "My lord, my lord!"
The voice was urgent, as if something urgent had happened, just like when calling out to Yun Qingran.
Yun Qingran, Wuyuan: ...
"The case is solved. This stinky snake can mimic human speech. It must have been mimicking our speech to lure your servants and my companions," Yun Qingran said, pursing her lips.
If she hadn't been so cautious, she would have fallen for that stinky snake's trick just now. After all, who would have thought a snake could mimic human speech to lure people?
"Miss Yun, Miss Yun..." The snake called out to Yun Qingran again as she spoke.
"Shut up, shut up, shut up..." Yun Qingran glared at it angrily.
"Miss Yun, Miss Yun, Miss Yun..." the snake cried out more and more enthusiastically.
"Shut up, shut up, shut up..."
Seeing the man and the snake locked in this contest, Wu Yuan shook his head slightly, a helpless smile crossing his face.
"You stinking snake, where did you lure our friends?" Yun Qingran glared at the snake with her hands on her hips.
"Miss Yun, Miss Yun, Miss Yun..." The snake didn't answer her, but continued to call out.
"It probably doesn't actually talk; it just mimics human speech," Wu Yuan said.
"I guessed so too. If it could really speak human language on its own, the world would be in chaos." Yun Qingran couldn't imagine the scene of a snake having the will to speak human language.
"Miss Yun, Miss Yun, Miss Yun..." the snake continued to call out urgently.
"How can I shut it up?" Yun Qingran asked Wuyuan irritably.
Wu Yuan flashed, and in the next instant, he had the snake's head in his hand. With a twist, the snake died with resentment, and the world fell silent!
"Serves you right for lying and nagging! Now you're dead!" Yun Qingran said smugly, looking at the dead snake.
Looking at her, Wu Yuan couldn't help but smile. Why was she showing off with a snake? How adorable and quirky!
“I’ve observed it for a moment. Although this snake is strange, it doesn’t seem to be very dangerous. I think your friend and my servant should be fine. Why don’t we go up the mountain to find the Dragon Bone and the Cave King Serpent?” Wu Yuan said.
"Okay." Yun Qingran thought for a moment and agreed.
With 64 Shadow Guards plus Pei Chen, and the antidote on them, there shouldn't be much of a problem.
"Let's go." Wu Yuan reached out and put his arm around Yun Qingran's waist. The two of them swept through the forest and headed up the mountain.
Dawn bit through the lips of night, casting a crimson hue across the sky. The two had traveled all night and finally reached the mountaintop.
On one side of the mountaintop is a very high cliff, from which a stream cascades down, forming a white waterfall. Many birds fly happily around the waterfall.
"It's a cliff face!" Yun Qingran exclaimed excitedly as she looked at the cliff face.
After working so hard for so long, we finally saw the rocky cliff that Old Chang had mentioned!
"Is what you want down there?" Wu Yuan asked.
"Yes, I'm going down." Yun Qingran said, taking out a dagger and cutting the vines around her. She wanted to use the vines to get down.
“I’ll go down with you,” Wu Yuan said.
"Wuyuan, are you sure? This stone wall is too high, it's very dangerous," Yun Qingran asked him solemnly.
"You went down to find the dragon bones and the Rock Cave King Serpent, right? They are the ingredients for refining the Nine-Turn Rejuvenation Pill, which you are refining for me. It's only right that I go down, isn't it?" Wu Yuan looked at her with a clear gaze.
"Actually, you don't need to go down. You're the patient, and I'm the doctor. I promised to treat you, so finding the medicinal herbs is my responsibility alone." Yun Qingran touched her nose, feeling a little guilty. She came here only to find the Cave King Serpent, not the Dragon Bone. She had lied to him last night.
“But I’m not an ordinary patient, and my illness is not an ordinary illness. You can’t judge me by ordinary rules,” Wu Yuan said.
"Alright, alright, come down with me, but be careful." Yun Qingran couldn't argue with him; he could find ways to refute any of the messy reasons she made up.
Seeing her agree, Wu Yuan's deep eyes seemed to ripple gently as a pebble was thrown into a calm lake.
For so many years, he had lived in hatred. Everyone around him who was kind to him had ulterior motives, including the high priest who was the best to him.
But Yun Qingran was different. She didn't know any of her own identities. She helped him heal because he had saved her. Although he had been lured into saving her by Yun Qingran with the promise of healing.
Regardless of anything else, from childhood to adulthood, she was the only person who was kind to him without any ulterior motives.
"Then quickly cut the vines, cut the thicker and stronger ones, and twist five of them together so they won't break." Yun Qingran took out a dagger from her bag and handed it to Wuyuan.
"Hmm." Wu Yuan took the sharp dagger and began cutting the vines.
These vines grew very well, thick and sturdy, and we cut quite a few in no time. We bundled five together into one.
They tied the vines to a towering tree and began to descend the cliff along the vines.
Looking down at the bottomless abyss, shrouded in a layer of misty vapor, Yun Qingran felt her legs go weak.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, the vines are very strong." Yun Qingran gave herself this mental suggestion, then began reciting multiplication tables to distract herself: "One times one equals one, one times two equals two, two times two equals four, one times three equals three, two times three equals six, three times three equals nine, one times four equals four, two times four equals eight, three times four equals twelve, four times four equals sixteen, one times five equals five..."
Wu Yuan, standing to the side, was completely oblivious to the sheer cliff; all his attention was focused on Yun Qingran. He listened intently as she murmured to herself.
One times one equals one, one times two equals two, two times two equals four, one times three equals three, two times three equals six, three times three equals nine, one times four equals four, two times four equals eight, three times four equals twelve, four times four equals sixteen, one times five equals five... What does this mean?
Wu Yuan carefully pondered the meaning of these strange words. After thinking about it for a long time, he seemed to have a clue.
One is one, one is two, two are four... This seems to be arithmetic.
Her divination skills are truly interesting! Wu Yuan became even more curious about Yun Qingran. Zhao Xingyun said that she used to be very foolish, easily fooled by those noble ladies of Bei Yin, and couldn't even write her own name. It seems that was all a lie.
She is clearly a lovely, smart, and brave girl.
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