Started as a mute girl? I prospered in the lean years

The two of them walked down the dark passage one after the other. After a while, Shen Huaixu felt that he had overthought before.

The mechanism set up by Qiao Man was deadly enough for ordinary people, but it was child's play for the two of them.

After successfully dodging the last arrow, the two found themselves in a dark and damp basement with boxes of gold piled up in the corner. Shen Huaixu threw a stone in his hand onto the open space in the room, then stopped and looked around - there was no change.

"After dealing with Qiao Man for a long time, I always feel that I have become a little abnormal..." Shen Huaixu breathed a sigh of relief and found a reasonable excuse for his restless suspicion.

Fu Yin heard this and said seriously: "It's not that you are abnormal, there is indeed something strange here, but I don't know what the strangeness is."

Hearing him say this, Shen Huaixu couldn't help but get nervous. He became more alert to everything around him, "It's okay, let's be careful."

She tugged at Fu Yin's sleeve and said, "Let me make this clear first. If there is any emergency later, don't try to resist. Run if you can. Of all the thirty-six strategies, running away is the best. Saving your life is the most important thing."

Fu Yin responded, retracted his mental power, slightly turned his body to block in front of Shen Huaixu, and said: "There are three rooms here in total. The weapons and potions are in the innermost one."

Shen Huaixu opened a box nearby and was dazzled by the golden light. She squinted and looked inside. The box was filled with gold bricks of the same size, neatly stacked.

At the same time, a strange smell also occupied Shen Huaixu's nose. She leaned in to smell it and asked doubtfully: "Do you smell a strange smell?"

Fu Yin walked over to Shen Huaixu and sniffed carefully, "No. What's that smell?"

Shen Huaixu looked at him in confusion. Logically speaking, Fu Yin's sense of smell was as sensitive as hers. The smell was not strong but it was not so strong that she could not smell it at all. She was silent for a moment, wondering if it was the smell of money that only she could smell?

She followed the source of the smell and collected all the boxes of gold she came across. Soon she came to an iron box.

The iron box was covered tightly by the wooden box containing gold, and only Shen Huaixu's bandit-like effort to move it all the way was able to bring it back to the light of day.

Just as Shen Huaixu was about to touch her, Fu Yin grabbed his wrist.

"Don't touch it!"

She obediently did not move, and scanned the iron box. The box was not big, but it looked very heavy because it had been reinforced many times. She asked Fu Yin: "What's in it?"

Fu Yin's face looked a little ugly. He met Shen Huaixu's gaze and shook his head, "I don't know."

Shen Huaixu's heart trembled, and he pulled Fu Yin back a step.

So far, this is the first time I have seen something that even Fu Yin cannot detect.

"Its outside has been reinforced. Could there be some living thing inside? Or a dead object with radioactive effects?" Shen Huaixu guessed.

Fu Yin fell into deep thought.

Things that could not be captured by spiritual power, dead things he had never seen, but living things he had heard the clan leader mention before, but how could such a thing appear here? Even if there was space, Qiao Man could not bring it here.

Shen Huaixu was still talking: "How about trying it out? Things that can be put into the space are dead, and things that cannot be put into the space are alive. How about that?"

She looked at Fu Yin, but found that his face was as dark as water, and his expression was gloomy and terrifying. She couldn't help but feel frightened. She stepped forward and tugged at his sleeve, and the gloom on Fu Yin's face immediately receded like the tide, as if the previous glance was just her illusion.

"Don't be afraid." Fu Yin saw Shen Huaixu staring at him, and his eyebrows softened, his voice low and pleasant, "I just remembered that the tribe leader once told me that in our world there is a creature called sand boa that not only has strong vitality, but also has a strong ability to reproduce.

They once occupied an entire planet. Because of the presence of a rare metal on that planet, they and humans had fought several wars, and even with advanced weapons, humans were still unable to completely eliminate them.

Sand anacondas are the only creatures that cannot be captured by mental power. At the same time, the sounds they make can in turn destroy the mental power user's brain and make them fall into a coma. If this box contains sand anacondas, Qiao Man's purpose in bringing it here is self-evident. "

From Fu Yin's words, Shen Huaixu could sense how tricky the things in the box were, but she still had some questions in her mind. Thinking that now was not the time to talk, she only said, "Qiao Man was able to bring it here, so I should be able to put it into the space. We shouldn't stay here for long, let's take the things and leave."

"Let me do it." Fu Yin stood between Shen Huaixu and the iron box and glanced at it. "The things inside have been quiet. They should be in a dormant state and can't cause any harm to me."

In fact, Fu Yin had another consideration.

When the patriarch talked about the sand boa, he emphasized the impact of the sand boa on Fei Yuan, and only briefly mentioned the war between the sand boa and humans. He didn't know how the sand boa would harm humans.

Since they noticed the box and no sound was heard from it, Shen Huaixu did not stop it.

She quickly searched the room and cleared out everything, then returned to the first room to reunite with Fu Yin, but the iron box was gone.

The night was still dark when the two left the Princess's Mansion.

After returning to his residence in the palace, Shen Huaixu paid close attention to the iron box in the space.

She placed two teacups in front of them, poured a cup of tea and drank it all in one gulp. After moistening her throat, she asked, "It's strange. Qiao Man knew your weak spot. As long as your mental power went riot, there was a great chance that she could kill you. Why did she bother to get the sand anaconda?"

Fu Yin also took a sip of the slightly cold tea and answered the question irrelevantly: "Do you know why she repeatedly reinforced the iron box?"

Shen Huaixu was stunned, "The iron box can't contain it?"

Fu Yin nodded, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be them. The body of the sand boa can secrete a kind of mucus that is corrosive, and they will come out of the box sooner or later. If their existence is not to target me, then..."

He didn't say the rest, but Shen Huaixu already understood. Her face looked very ugly. "As expected of Qiao Man, she is so cruel that she would not want us to have an easy life even if she died."

They have strong reproductive ability, tenacious vitality and are corrosive.

These few words made Shen Huaixu think of the hell on earth that this world would become after the anaconda corroded the iron box.

"Her mind is twisted, why does she have such strong hatred?" Fu Yin seemed to be asking Shen Huaixu and himself. He had read many books on psychology, but still did not understand why human love and hate could be so strong.

Shen Huaixu let out a sigh of relief. She didn't know how to answer this question.

Silence flowed between the two of them like a river. After a while, Shen Huaixu asked, "How do we get rid of the sand anaconda?"