Chapter 145: The Giant Serpent's Vessel

The passage was extremely narrow, making it impossible for two people to walk side by side. Tuer held his phone and walked in front.

I surveyed our surroundings. The lower level had already been excavated very crudely, but this place was even more primitive and rough, resembling a tunnel burrowed out by a giant python.

He suddenly stopped, and caught off guard, I crashed right into his back.

"Have we reached the spot?" I asked, looking ahead. The path did not seem to end, but it was growing increasingly narrow.

"I think we might have taken the wrong turn," he said.

I could not help but be taken aback.

What the heck! Swayed by the suspicious and overanalytical attitudes of Old Man Ma and Third Master Guo, I had actually started believing that this guy was extraordinary and full of hidden depths! But making stupid mistakes like this wasn't the first or second time for him! Back in the vine forest, he had mistaken me for Zeyi before coming to my rescue!

To think I had just started doubting him, only to find out that this guy was purely going on a "feeling" again! There was no solid basis whatsoever!

So, even if this guy truly had some unusual background, it was definitely nothing like what Old Man Ma and the others had imagined...

"Aah—" A miserable scream echoed from afar.

Judging by the sound, it didn't belong to the village chief or Yang Baoshu, which meant it had to be one of the lackeys. Something had gone wrong on Third Master Guo's side!

We immediately turned back to head outside. The screams continued one after another, accompanied by the sound of panicked footsteps. It sounded ominous, and I had no idea what was actually going on.

Although I didn't have much to do with Yang Guangyu and his crew, and to be precise, we even had some bad blood, I couldn't just stand by and watch them die. Besides, if anything truly serious happened while we were all down here, none of us would be able to escape!

Running back outside, the yin energy had grown even denser. A heavy wave of yin energy rushed toward us, carrying a faint, foul stench of blood!

A panic-stricken figure came running from the front, shouting in sheer terror: "Luozi! Save me! Save me!"

I gave a sharp start. It was that familiar-looking face from among the lackeys! He really did recognize me!

He sprinted right up to me, slipped heavily on the ground, and took a clumsy face-plant. Without even bothering to get up, he scrambled forward on hands and knees, practically clinging to my thigh as he cried out in blind panic, "Please, save me! I'll give you drugs! I'll give you however much you want! Do you remember me? I'm Ah Hao!"

A chill struck my heart, and I felt a surge of freezing dread pour straight down from the crown of my head! Ah Hao! So it was him!

Back when I used to hang out with those bad influences and do drugs, this guy was the one who supplied them!

I had been wondering why he looked familiar yet unfamiliar. I was arrested the second time I did it, so I had only seen him twice, never even speaking to him, only knowing his alias!

But how could it be this guy, and how on earth did he end up mixed up with Yang Guangyu? There was no way this fellow had a proper job, and moreover, Yang Guangyu treated him like an underling boss! Could it be...

Hah, pulling in millions a year with lackeys following him around—that guy really had gone down a dark path!

And to think the villagers still held him up as a role model!

A ball of pale blue fire appeared ahead. A figure with a lowered head moved toward us, accompanied by the flickering flame.

"Cough... *cough cough*..." The hoarse coughing sound rang out.

This situation, this stance—it was identical to what appeared in the woods every single night! Could the person appearing in the forest every night have been him? Yet this bluish fire and the coughing sound were unmistakably identical to those of the three-headed giant snake!

"It's coming! It's coming! It's here!" Ah Hao shrieked in absolute terror, diving behind my back.

And to think those worthless friends of his used to call him "Brother Hao." He was such a coward, hiding behind someone with impaired mobility like me.

The figure drew closer and closer. An immensely heavy wave of yin energy pervaded the air, carrying that thick stench of blood along with it.

As they got nearer, I saw that the pale blue glow was actually hovering right over the person's chest. The figure also looked somewhat familiar, especially the clothes and styling, as if I had just seen them very recently.

A realization hit me hard. Wasn't this person Yun Mutian?! Wasn't he already dead?! And hadn't he been bitten to death right in front of everyone by that three-headed giant snake?!

What was going on with him? Had he come back from the dead?!

The fellow raised his head. There was not the slightest sign of him being dead. Unlike the corpses possessed by the snakes, he looked lifelike and vivid. Only, his expression was completely calm, unlike his usual self.

"It's coming! It's coming!" Ah Hao screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Shut up!" I snapped in a low voice.

I looked at Yun Mutian with extreme vigilance, my hand reaching for the paper talisman tucked inside the inner pocket of my jacket. No matter what, one thing was certain: when this guy was bitten by the three-headed giant snake, he had definitely stopped breathing. Whether he had resurrected or there was some other reason, it was undeniably abnormal!

Tuer stepped in front of me with one arm raised protectively: "He has been possessed by that large snake."

Possessed by that three-headed giant snake? Really?! That snake was much larger than Yun Mutian! Even if it wrapped human skin directly around itself, possession like this should have been impossible!

Besides, wasn't that giant snake sealed away? It shouldn't have been able to get out!

Wait! No. If it truly couldn't come out, then what was appearing in the forest every night? That signature flame and coughing sound were identical to those of the three-headed giant python!

What on earth was going on here? If it really was possessed by the three-headed giant snake, how on earth did the possession happen? Had that thing actually become a demonic spirit?!

Yun Mutian walked to the front and suddenly stopped. His calm gaze landed on this side, his demeanor and expression so lifelike that he looked just like a living stranger!

"You're back..." A hoarse voice sounded.

This voice was identical to that of the long-haired woman from earlier! Could it be that the woman had been possessed by the giant snake from the very beginning?!

I had actually been talking to that woman earlier. If that was really the case, then at that moment, I had been only a step away from death! Even more shocking was that this creature could still speak after possession and retained its own consciousness. If I hadn't known that scoundrel Yun Mutian, I never would have been able to tell this was a possessed corpse!

Was this... really still a corpse?

Yun Mutian's gaze fell upon Tuer, and those words had been spoken to Tuer.

I turned my head to look at Tuer. Since Yun Mutian was possessed by the giant snake, the one actually speaking was that three-headed snake. Why would the three-headed snake say something like that? Did it know Tuer?

Tuer looked at him in bewilderment, his expression even more puzzled than mine, and said honestly and firmly: "I've never been here."

"It's you, it's definitely you, you're back... It's been so many years... You're back..." Yun Mutian muttered to himself, just like the long-haired woman before, his mind somewhat disordered.

Perhaps, although the giant snake's possession ability was formidable, it was still just a snake at its core, and its intelligence could not compare to that of a human.

"I keep telling you it's not me," Tuer said, feeling depressed. This felt more like encountering a rival in sheer lack of intelligence.

"It's you... I've been staying here for a long time, staying for a long time..." The hoarse voice babbled incoherently.

"Luozi! Get out of the way!" Old Man Ma's voice suddenly rang out.