The Tale of the Kraken

Chapter 148 The Second Cave

After entering the cave, Yang Yang found that the cave was bigger than the one they had seen Chacha before, but there was nothing else, and it was just a temporary settlement.

In addition to the collapse of the white jade in the innermost part of the cave, two or three tents have been set up on the open space inside the cave.

Chacha still maintained her half-human, half-snake posture, coiled on top of the white jade soft bed, rubbing the medicine by herself silently.

On the other side, Wu Zhongwu and Zhou Liang leaned against the fire, talking to each other in low voices.When they saw Yang Yang and Yuan Mu coming in, they were taken aback for a moment, and then quickly got up to meet them.

"How long has it been?" Yu Zhongwu stood up and walked to Yang Yang and asked, "Are you okay?"

Even though he said so, his eyes stayed on the snake egg held by Yang Yang. Looking into his eyes, Yang Yang nodded and said: "Well, I'm fine." His behavior was a little disappointing, but he still chose to understand.

Especially these days, after knowing that the person who escorted the remnants of the Wu clan to Shiwan Dashan was Dance in the Rain, he understood better.

As the totem of the Wu Clan, Ba Snake, when he was powerless, handed over the Wu Clan as his own responsibility to Wu Zhongwu for escort, which shows the friendship between the two.Therefore, Yang Yang chose not to care about his behavior of eagerly caring about Ba Snake.

"The snake egg is fine." Yang Yang smiled at him as he said this, and comforted him: "I have been protecting it all the time, and it has never been harmed in the slightest."

Hearing what he said, Yuan Mu gave Yu Zhongwu a reproachful look. The latter nodded silently, turned around and sat down by the campfire without saying anything, and continued talking to Zhou Liang.

"Okay, you're tired today, go and rest quickly." Yuan Mu glanced at the people in the cave, and said softly to Yang Yang: "Tomorrow morning, we have to hurry."

"Oh." Yang Yang responded and got into the tent.

Before going in, he turned his head and glanced outside, Chacha still maintained the posture he had just entered, without even moving his brows, but Zhou Liang raised his head and smiled at him after feeling his gaze.

Yang Yang smiled back subconsciously, and then zipped up the tent.Not long after he entered the tent, Yuan Mu followed in, the two talked for a while, and then went to rest.

At this time, he suddenly realized that except for Wu Zhongwu and Yuan Mu, no one else talked to him today?Especially Chacha, she was terribly quiet, and she didn't know why, was it because she didn't bring Meng Xiu back?
Thinking this way, he was about to go to Yuan Mu for verification, when suddenly he felt flustered for no reason, and inexplicably remembered what Yuan Mu said to himself before we parted today, he said, no matter what time, don't let go of Ba Shedan .So he crawled up again, picked up the egg from the coat beside the sleeping bag, and put it in his arms.

"What's wrong?" Yuan Mu raised his eyebrows and asked when he saw his movements.

"Oh, it's cold in the mountains at night, I'm afraid the snake will freeze." For some reason, Yang Yang subconsciously lied to Yuan Mu, but when he realized that he wanted to explain, the other party nodded in agreement. Let him rest quickly.

Yang Yang felt a little strange, he himself didn't believe this reason, how could Yuan Mu believe it?
While thinking about it, he answered absently, and got into the sleeping bag again with the snake egg in his arms.

This time he slept very deeply, but he was restless. He always felt as if he had forgotten something important, but he still couldn't remember what it was.

Until he was woken up in the middle of the night by the scalding. At the beginning, he thought it was Ba Snake's egg, which was hot again, but he couldn't feel it after touching it for a long time. Yang Yang, who was still dazed at that moment, was startled awake.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw a black figure squatting next to his sleeping bag, holding Ba Snake's eggs in his hands.

"Who!?" Almost without thinking, Yang Yang shouted.

His sound made the black shadow turn around, it was none other than Yuan Mu.

Seeing that it was him, Yang Yang breathed a sigh of relief, slowed down his tone, and asked, "Why are you? Why don't you sleep at night?"

"I saw you fell asleep kicking the quilt, so I got up and covered you with the quilt." Yuan Mu glanced at him, and replied as a matter of course.

Yang Yang nodded, looking at the light of the bonfire outside the tent, he saw half of Yuan Mu's side face hidden in the night, inexplicably gloomy in the beating firelight.

He suddenly realized that the person in the same tent with him was not someone else, but a monster who had lived for an unknown amount of time.The unprecedented fear choked his heart, and he could even feel his heart beating louder than before.

"Why don't you talk?" Just when he was in a daze, Yuan Mu spoke. He glanced at the flames outside the tent, turned his head to look at Yang Yang and said, "Did you not sleep well? How did you wake up?"

"No...no." Yang Yang replied in a panic, looking elsewhere but not daring to meet him, and fumbled around in the sleeping bag with his hands.

"Sleep well if you don't, tomorrow will not be easy." Seeing him like this, Yuan Mu said softly, handed him the snake egg in his hand, and said: "Hold it carefully, don't break it. gone."

"Oh." Seeing this, Yang Yang immediately stretched out his hand to catch the snake egg, but inadvertently ran his fingers across his chest and touched something, nothing else, it was the pharmacist bead that Yuan Mu gave him not long ago.

Ever since what happened on Danxun Mountain last time, Yang Yang accidentally lost the pharmacist bead, Yuan Mu punched a hole in it and made it into a necklace for him to wear on his chest, in case he accidentally lost the bead again. throw away.

I still remember that when Yuan Mu handed the bead to him, he specifically told him that although this bead is not a rare treasure, but there are not many of them, let him cherish it and don't lose it again, otherwise it may not be the next time. It was so easy to pick it up, and he couldn't find a second one for himself.

But now, the bead, which had always looked ordinary, emitted unusual heat like a snake egg.

Yang Yang even felt that a large part of the credit for being awakened by the heat came from this pharmacist bead.

But he was too sleepy. After taking the snake egg and confirming that there was nothing unusual about it, he retracted into the sleeping bag again and continued to sleep.

This time, Yang Yang was never woken up by anything, and he slept until the next morning when Yuan Mu asked him to have breakfast before opening his eyes.

Looking at Yuan Mu who was still concerned, he suddenly felt that he must have lost his mind last night to suddenly become scared.

For him, even monsters, Yuan Mu, Yu Zhongwu and others are completely trustworthy and trustworthy friends.He didn't know what was wrong, but he actually thought he was gloomy. Thinking of this, he spurned himself in his heart, and then followed Yuan Mu out of the tent to wash up.

After a few people finished their breakfast, they discussed on the spot, and finally decided that the purpose of coming this time could not be given up. No matter how the Malays and the others obstructed them, Suiyu must be found.But instead of looking for it now, the most urgent task now is to find Meng Xiu who left the team first.

"He's still too young. The Hundred Thousand Mountains are no better than Danxun Mountain. In addition to many monster clans he has never seen, there are also many witch clans." Yuan Mu explained to Yang Yang while packing up the luggage of several people. : "Even if those monsters don't care about him because he is a child, those witches may not let him go."

"But didn't the witches say yesterday..." Yang Yang recalled what the witches said yesterday, and said hesitantly, "Didn't he say that the witches are... dead?"

"He didn't say that the Wu Clan is dead, but that the Wu Clan's strength is not as good as before." Yuan Mu said, packed his sleeping bag, and turned to look at Yang Yang, "The Wu Clan has existed for tens of thousands of years. It is so easy to decline, and it was wiped out by you when you were the weakest during the war, how can you wait for now?"

That's right, what they said at the time was that although it was impossible, it was still possible to deal with you guys.

Now that Yuan Mu and Yu Zhongwu can be dealt with, it is no problem for a minor Meng Xiu.Thinking of this, he nodded without making a sound.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Yuan Mu told him to wait outside, and went to tidy up the tent by himself.Yang Yang knew that he couldn't do anything while holding Ba Snakedan, so he didn't express his opinion, and obediently obeyed.

Ten minutes later, led by Yuan Mu, the group left the cave and started again, but this time, Yang Yang didn't feel at ease with the group before.

He looked at the back of Yuan Mu in front of him, and then at Zhou Liang who was always beside him. For some reason, that kind of unknown panic came to his heart again.

At this moment, Zhou Liang also noticed his gaze, grinned and smiled at him.

I don't know if it's because of his own heart, Yang Yang felt Zhou Liang's smile made him very uncomfortable, he was startled, and quickly turned his eyes away.

Yuan Mu in the front seemed to have noticed the strange atmosphere between the two, so he stopped and walked to the two of them and said to Zhou Liang, "Go ahead and lead the way, I will rest in the back for a while."

Zhou Liang nodded without any objection, and quickly walked to the leader of the team.

But even if the person next to Yang Yang was replaced by Yuan Mu, he still couldn't feel any peace of mind and relaxed atmosphere.

"You seem to be..." Yuan Mu glanced at him, and said hesitantly, "Are you afraid of me?"

"No!" Yang Yang retorted subconsciously: "Why am I afraid of you? I was frightened by what happened yesterday, but you must know that I am just a mortal! It was the first time I saw so many monsters yesterday, and I had to Scared to death."

"It's okay, it's all over." Yuan Mu smiled when he heard this, and patted him on the shoulder reassuringly.

But Yang Yang, who was patted on the shoulder, felt goose bumps all over his body for some reason.

(End of this chapter)