Suddenly, someone stood beside him, startling Shi Mu. He turned around and saw that it was Fu Ziyi. Fu Ziyi looked calm and collected, but he was actually more anxious than anyone else. The two people who came were his friends, especially Baili Xiuwen. If he wasn't anxious, it would be hypocritical.
"What are you doing standing here?" Shi Mu asked boldly. He knew that Fu Ziyi was not good at saying nice things, but he still asked the question.
Fu Ziyi gave him a meaningful look. "I thought you would ask something. Of course, you're worried about Baili Xiuwen. This is the first time this kid has done something so dangerous. As his older brother, it's normal for me to be worried."
Shi Mu didn't know what to say for a moment, and the atmosphere between the two of them fell silent. They stood on the edge of the field, looking at the distant mountains, each lost in their own thoughts, enjoying their own world without disturbing each other.
Upon learning that Xu Yuehuai might be dead, Shangguan Xi was extremely uneasy and felt uneasy all over. Nangong Yu took advantage of her state and kindly said, "Since you are so worried, why don't we go and see them together? If something really happened to them, we can help."
Shangguan Qi immediately became alert, looking at Fu Ziyi, "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. Let me tell you, give up on your plans, I won't let you succeed!"
Xi Xi had been secretly observing them. In fact, he knew who they were. He recognized Xu Yuehuai. The incident a while ago had been widely publicized, so it was hard for him not to know. On the first day Xu Yuehuai arrived here, he felt that he looked familiar. Later, he remembered what Xu Yuehuai's identity was.
He stood by the window, looking out towards Taiping Mountain.
He left the courtyard and went to Grandma Chen's courtyard first. "Grandma, I have to go out for a few days. Be careful at home by yourself. If there's anything you can't do, ask the uncle next door to help you. Be a good girl and wait for me to come back."
Grandma Chen smiled and said, "Oh my, our Xixi has grown up. Now she knows how to discipline her grandma. Alright, I know. Go ahead and be quiet."
After giving many instructions, Xixi went out and headed towards the mountain. However, he didn't take the outside road, but instead took another road in the village to go up the mountain.
Xixi observed her surroundings along the way, trying to find any signs of a fight on the ground so she could roughly determine where Xu Yuehuai and the others were.
But he found nothing along the way. Just as he was about to reach the place, Xixi stopped, frowning and hesitant. But looking at the empty surroundings, he couldn't help but feel uneasy. He didn't know who would win between Xu Yuehuai and the Black Snake. He didn't want anyone to lose, so he had no choice but to come here.
After hesitating for a long time, he finally took that step. When he entered the Black Serpent's territory, he felt incredibly light, and his eyes seemed to be able to see more things.
Xixi was a little surprised, but continued walking forward. As they passed a peculiar place, something approached him from behind. Xixi sensed it; it was it!
Xixi didn't resist or move. The black snake lay on Xixi's shoulder. "I haven't seen anyone with his scent in a long time. You're different. You still have... the scent of this village on you."
The black snake flicked its tongue, its eyes filled with a dangerous glint. Xixi said, "Yes, because I am the child of his descendants and the descendants of the village."
Xixi readily admitted it, and the black snake seemed to have not expected such a scene either. It did not show any extra emotion. "It seems that those people will stop at nothing to survive."
"No, you're wrong. They both did it willingly. Your prediction was wrong. You calculated everything, but you forgot that besides reason and interests, there's something else in this world called love." Xixi said some incomprehensible things to Black Snake.
Xu Yuehuai and Baili Xiuwen were hiding in the shadows. After discovering something was wrong here yesterday, they immediately investigated. Xu Yuehuai found that the black snake seemed to have been injured and its strength had dropped significantly. They did not act rashly, but instead chose to find a place to hide.
Fortunately, Xu Yuehuai usually liked to make some strange ammunition, and these pills were a great help this time. With the help of the pills, they successfully concealed their aura, preventing the black snake from discovering them, and also successfully saw an unexpected person appear here.
Xu Yuehuai and Baili Xiuwen were both surprised that Xixi would come up, but what she said was very strange and made it hard to understand what the inside story was.
The black snake slowly circled Xixi twice. "Have you ever told me that you and him are really similar?"
"No, because of you, all those people from back then are dead, and no one knows what they were like back then," Xixi answered crisply and decisively, without any hesitation.
"What are you doing up here?" Black Snake finally asked this question, and stopped talking about those meaningless questions.
"I'm asking you, when will this mountain return to normal?" Xixi looked into its eyes, and from those red eyes, Xixi felt that it was looking at others through her, but none of that mattered.
The black snake returned to a tree. "Why? Why are you helping those humans? Don't forget how your ancestors died, don't forget why this place became like this. If you had any conscience at all, you wouldn't have said anything about restoring this mountain to normal."
...
Xu Yuehuai felt that the information she heard contained a great deal, explaining why the black snake was entrenched here and preventing everyone from going up: it was because of the little boy. The little boy's death was not an accident, and these were inside stories that the boss did not know.
The reason the spirit beasts aren't here today is because the female spirit beasts have finished giving birth, and they've all gone back to see their babies and find them. Once they've completed these tasks, the spirit beasts will return. And while the spirit beasts are away, the black snake will stay here.
Xi Xi's attempts to persuade him were in vain. He overestimated his position in Black Snake's heart. He would never become that person, so in Black Snake's heart, he was just the child of an old friend, never an old friend.
"This isn't a place for humans, but if it's you, I'd be happy to have you come up and play with me for a while." Black Snake watched Xixi's departing figure.
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