Madam, please listen to my explanation.

Chapter 137 Head bowed, feet invisible; not Gu Niaoniao

Xu Jinhuan 'saw' himself walking on a crooked path, with lush, towering vegetation on both sides.

His vision was going up and down, as if he were jumping around, and the key thing was that it felt like something was tied to his chest, making him feel trembling. It was a feeling he had never experienced before.

His mouth opened and closed, humming some inexplicable lullaby—

"The bluebird flies with apricot blossoms in its beak—

The white deer comes carrying the morning dew,
The stone bridge turned into a dragon.

Traveling around the world with a full load of dolls——"

Don't stop!
It was clearly a magnetic and pleasant voice, but unfortunately, the tune he sang was nonsensical and he was clearly tone-deaf.

No, now doesn't seem like the time to care about these things.
What did I do with this?

Whether it was a meeting of minds or some other reason, I don't know.

The owner of this body suddenly stopped.

With a sudden, sweeping motion, his alabaster-white fingers pointed straight ahead:

"I've arrived in Yunliu Town!"

it is good!
Ignoring my somewhat childish behavior, as long as this body doesn't have to continue singing, I'm fine with anything.
Xu Jinhuan was extremely depressed.

He never imagined that the tribulation of inner demons could unfold in this way.
This can no longer be called a tribulation; it's downright mental torture!
As soon as the noise subsided for a moment, the ear-piercing singing started up again.
"Crush the moonlight and twist it into thread."

Fishing up the mist spirit and wearing the silver ring

The blue carp carries the dream boat away.
"One step, one small universe"

I don't know how much time passed, but I could hear nothing else except a buzzing sound.

Xu Jinhuan felt that his soul had been completely cleansed, and without any external assistance, he was already in an extreme state of sage mode.

He finally had the energy to start thinking about everything in front of him.

Undoubtedly, although she was in a first-person perspective, this body was completely out of her control.

He could only helplessly follow the woman's hopping and skipping movements, trying to perceive what she saw through her ups and downs.

After trying for a long time, I finally managed to shift my gaze slightly downwards.

Hmm. You can't see your feet when you look down.
It can be confirmed that it is not Gu Niaoniao.

Even if they are singing familiar songs, it is definitely not the same person.

His eyes are like a ruler; he can't be wrong.

Just as she was lost in thought, the woman suddenly screamed and leaped into the air, floating in mid-air!

She looked around as if facing a formidable enemy:

"Who?! Who's inside me???"

A town has come into view. It doesn't look very big, but it's teeming with people.

They stared blankly at the woman who had suddenly taken flight, gathering in twos and threes, pointing and marveling.

Xu Jinhuan wanted to raise his hand to cover his forehead, which he didn't even know existed.

A strange inner demon has appeared!
Suddenly, it was like an electric current flashing through my mind.

She just said this is...
Yunliu Town?!

Just before I lost consciousness, it seemed like there was something dirty outside.

Luckily, I just casually boosted my favorability with the silly boy and the scheming girl, so it should be fine.
It's just a mental tribulation, it'll be over soon!
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Outside the post station.

The doorman, dressed in a fur coat, sat by the fire, dozing off, with glistening drops of drool hanging from the corner of his mouth.

'Stop fooling around'

'I have a wife, hehe'

In his dream, it felt as if a soft, boneless hand was gently stroking the back of his neck, making him feel restless and itchy.

It's just that her hands are a bit too thin.

Hiss. It's cold!
His little hand reached down his collar to his chest, and he shuddered violently.

Not only was she thin, but her hands were also unusually cold due to the freezing weather.
Perhaps his movement startled the girl, for he abruptly pulled his hand out from his collar.

Don't.
He opened his eyes groggily, and for some reason, his nose was filled with a fishy, ​​foul odor.

As his vision gradually cleared, he instantly felt a chill travel from his tailbone straight to the top of his head!

What was stroking me just now wasn't a beautiful hand at all; it was clearly a long, scarlet tongue with a forked tip!

"what!!!"

The doorman's legs went weak. In an instant, all around him were pale green eyes, gleaming with an eerie green light in the hazy snowy night!

Behind that long tongue was clearly a monster with a human head and a snake's body!

No, it's not just one.
The doorman waved his hands wildly, but unfortunately, he didn't have any suitable weapons at hand.

This caused his panic to gradually intensify, making it difficult to suppress.

Behind those pairs of eerie green eyes are monsters!

Their fur had long since disappeared, and their wrinkled faces were covered with fine scales.

Some of them are on all fours, while others have no lower body at all, leaving only a long snake tail.

The one that had just had 'intimate contact' with me was covered in slime and had a long tongue sticking out of its mouth.

It let out a strange cry, suddenly opened its blood-red maw, and pounced towards itself!
A gust of foul wind swept overhead, and the doorman instinctively shrank back, falling off his chair with a thud.

Although they were in a sorry state, they escaped a terrible ordeal because of it.

His legs had completely given way, and he could only use his hands to quickly claw at the ground as he moved backward toward the courtyard.

My heart was pounding in my throat, but those half-human, half-snake monsters were getting closer and closer.
Just when all hope seemed lost, a hand finally grabbed something furry.
The doorman turned his head sharply.

It was a specially made pair of fur-lined boots that snow water could not easily penetrate, clearly the kind that could be worn for long periods of time in the snow.

The doorman was absolutely certain that such a thing had never existed in Nanliang City.
He had just seen them not long ago. These were the boots worn by the escort team that was planning to cross Nanliang to Youzhou!

"Help!"

Before he could finish speaking, a tremendous force struck him from his collar, throwing the doorman high into the air.

"We're saved!"

The scenery before my eyes changed rapidly, and my neck felt cold, accompanied by tingling, itching, and slight pain.

He instinctively reached out and touched it, his smile instantly freezing on his face.

So much blood!

The fishy smell in my nose is getting stronger and stronger!

The direction he was flying towards was not the post station behind him, but the swarm of snakes in front of him!
"Do not--!!!"

The screams were fleeting, drowned out by the frantic sounds of chewing.

Heguta held up a bow in one hand, and the fresh blood on his fingertips still emitted a little warmth in the cold night wind.

He squinted, watching the doorman being swallowed by the swarm of snakes, and began to observe him closely.

"Intellectually deficient. Has an instinct to pursue flesh and blood."

As he muttered to himself, he saw some of the snake monsters, who had failed to get any flesh and blood, suddenly break away from the group and rush towards this place again.

He instantly drew his bow to its fullest extent, released the bowstring with two fingers, and after a piercing sonic boom, an arrow flashing with silver light arrived in front of the basilisk in the blink of an eye.

'puff--'

The seemingly extremely sharp arrow failed to achieve its intended purpose.

The arrow pierced the snake's scales, which were covered in slime, leaving only a faint white mark before sliding to the side.

"what--"

The basilisk was in pain, opening its blood-red maw and howling! The next moment, a silver light shot straight into its mouth and pierced through its brain.

A large spray of blood rained down.

The basilisk's eerie green eyes instantly lost their luster, and it collapsed to the ground, swaying unsteadily.

The spraying blood and fresh corpses instantly attracted countless others of their kind to swarm forward.

"Snake scales are slippery and extremely defensive, so you can't attack them head-on. First, lure them to open their mouths, then attack their weaknesses, and you can kill them."

"promise!"

Behind the Hegu Tower, dozens of black owls swarmed forward.

They worked together seamlessly and instantly engaged in a fierce battle with the dozens of snake-men who had surrounded them.

Heguta leaped onto the roof of the post station, holding a bow in one hand, and looked around.

The city's defense forces have already mobilized, and sparks can be seen everywhere.

A large number of people were gathered at a section of the city wall, and it was vaguely visible that a hole had been breached.
Shouts of killing and screams of agony rose and fell.

It's all messed up—
In the courtyard, Xiao Han and Li Junruo knocked on the door for a long time, but when no one answered, they simply kicked the wooden door open with a heavy kick.

"Ouch——!"

Xiao Han rushed in and saw the fat orange cat baring its teeth and claws, and the unconscious person lying on the ground. His face immediately darkened.

"Give me a break, fat cat, you really think you're a tiger!"

"Meow!"

Fearing that the person on the ground might wake up and start talking nonsense again, Xiao Han hoisted him onto his back without saying a word.

Recalling how the other party had transferred their true energy to heal him earlier, he gritted his teeth, grabbed Sang Biao, and threw him to Li Junruo.

"go!"

"Brother Chen, what is this?"

"Perhaps she was exhausted from healing me just now; she just seems to have fainted. It's nothing serious!"

"Well, that makes sense. After all, it was noon, and he was just rescued by us; his old injuries hadn't healed yet."

"There's no time to say more, let's go out and check the situation!"

The two arrived at the entrance of the post station, where the fighting had already ceased.

"Be careful, son!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Han quickly withdrew his foot, thus avoiding stepping on the pool of blood in front of him.

He looked around and saw only a few dozen corpses of monsters with human heads and snake bodies on the ground.

On the other hand, their own side only had a few people with injuries, but no casualties.

Li Junruo squatted down and began to observe carefully.

The ground hissed and crackled.

The snake blood, with its distinctly abnormal color, actually corroded the bluestone pavement beneath our feet, creating pits of varying sizes.

The Hegu Tower suddenly landed in front of him, and said in a deep voice:

"These beasts must have used their own blood to create some holes in the city wall and crawled in through them."

The group we've encountered isn't particularly intelligent, but there are bound to be some exceptional individuals among them. Gentlemen, this place is not safe to linger.

"Meow!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a yellow ball of flesh suddenly broke free from Li Junruo's embrace, pounced on the snake blood, and began to lick it greedily.

Hey! You stupid cat!

"Sang Biao!"

The two spoke in unison, extending their hands simultaneously. Behind them, Hegu Tower spoke again in a cold voice:
"There are countless serpent monsters like these outside the city. Forgive my bluntness, but carrying around two such burdens is a truly unwise move."

"Master Gu is right."

Li Junruo stood up, ignoring the fat cat at her feet.

"This cat is asking for trouble, so let's ignore it. As for Brother Chen, even if he's not good enough, he can still lead the way, so let's keep him with us for now."

"Yes."

Xiao Han lifted the man on his back a little higher.

He knew that the reason why Hegu Tower deliberately abandoned Chen Xinghe was not only because he was currently slumped on his back like a salted fish, but also because he suspected the other party's identity and purpose.

From the other side's perspective, this unstable element mixed in with the group could cause them immeasurable losses if they suddenly cause trouble once they reach the outskirts of the city.

He thought Li Junruo was going to follow Heguta's advice and was about to speak up to state his position.

Fortunately, it turned out to be a false alarm.

"Brother Chen, don't worry. You just saved me, after all. I won't let you die before I, Xiao Han, fall!"

If it weren't for his disregard for his injuries and his forceful use of his extremely hot true energy to dispel the cold within his body, there would be more than just Chen Xinghe as a burden around everyone else.

"But Master Gu, the snake demons are besieging the city now. Rather than going out at this time, it would be better to defend the inn and let the Southern Liang city defense army and the snake demons fight to the death. After all, it's better for a friend to die than for me to die."

Li Junruo looked at the Hegu Tower and almost blurted out something like, "Anyway, it was all Yan people who died."

Out of caution, they eventually changed their story at the last minute.

She knew that every tycoon who had taken root in the Great Yan was definitely not a fool. After all, she was new to the world of martial arts, and she still needed to consult them on many things.

Seeing that the two had reached an agreement on Chen Xinghe's matter, Heguta stopped insisting.

Instead, he looked towards the city gate and said in a deep voice, "What Young Master Fan said is certainly reasonable. However, after observing for a while, I have some different opinions."

"These serpent monsters seem to have an unusual obsession with fresh flesh and blood, especially the smell of blood."

"If we can make good use of this, with such a large city like Nanliang serving as bait, sneaking out of the city now might be the best option."

Li Junruo and Xiao Han exchanged a glance and almost instantly understood the meaning of the Hegu Tower.

"Let's do as Master Gu says!"

Hegu Tower nodded and took the lead in walking towards the city wall.

Before leaving, Li Junruo took one last look at the scattered limbs and fragments on the ground.

That silly cat has disappeared without a trace.

That's fine, let it live or die as it pleases.

Having swallowed so much snake blood, it probably wouldn't survive.

Li Junruo did not linger and followed in the footsteps of Heguta and the others.

Xiao Han carried Chen Xinghe on his back with a miserable expression, without saying a word.

I can't explain why, but I always feel like the person on my back is getting heavier and heavier.
Xu Jinhuan, who had been lying motionless like a corpse, suddenly heard a voice he hadn't heard in a long time:
'Xu Jinhuan, how long have I been asleep? Where am I?'

'Finally awake? That's been quite a while. As for where we are, this is Nanliang City, very close to the Boundless Sea.'

"Wow! Yay! But why are you pretending to be asleep on someone's back? Are you secretly up to something again?"
And who is that bearded woman?

"He doesn't actually have a beard. It's glued on! Besides, I, Xu, am an upright and honest person. What do you mean by 'scheming against others'?"

Within her sea of ​​consciousness, Qingluan, having finally opened her eyes, gave herself a very human-like glare and said disdainfully:
"Come on, that time with the old woman doesn't count. You were only open and honest with that Miss Yun twice."

Xu Jinhuan was greatly alarmed and immediately realized the problem with the other party's words.

'Wait a minute. Why twice?! You...you were really sleeping?!'

'ah!'

Qingluan's eyes darted away instantly.

'No, I didn't peek! Don't talk nonsense!'

(End of this chapter)