Age of Heroes, 10-game winning streak

Hu Yan then gained confidence and said, "Come with me. I will take you to remove the snake venom."

"There are snakes in this den of evil? Could it be some kind of snake demon?"

"It could be called a demon..." Hu Yan asked, "Have you ever heard of a stinging snake?"

"No."

"Then I don't need to explain. You will naturally know what a stinging snake is later. This is also a rumor circulating in Xujia Village. Coincidentally, I have seen it with my own eyes."

Chapter 148 Five Hundred Years Ago

"The rumors about the stinging snake originated from the occasional disappearance of children in the village."

"But life in the village is close to nature, so it's not uncommon for children to go missing."

"At first, not many people paid much attention until someone noticed that more than a dozen children had suddenly disappeared... The village searched everywhere but couldn't find them. They even arrested several outsiders and asked them if they were human traffickers, but in the end, there was no result."

"Until many years later, I happened to pass by..."

Hu Yan was talking.

Bai Yu interrupted: "You used the first person."

Hu Yan added, "This is a story I heard from Ah Mei, so of course it should be told in the first person... Don't interrupt me yet."

"One day, Ah Mei was passing by and suddenly felt a sense of relief under her feet. She felt as if she had stepped on a somersault cloud and began to soar into the air, up to three or four meters above the ground."

"She was scared and surprised at the time. She flew for a short while before landing on the ground. After that, she came here to play several times when she was bored."

"Until one day, she brought her neighbor's dog to play nearby and wanted to let the dog experience the feeling of flying in the clouds."

"Unexpectedly, the dog never came down after it took off. It flew more than ten meters high and then fell into a crevice in the mountain and disappeared."

"At first she thought the dog had ascended to heaven and become a deity, but when she came here to check on it the next day, she saw some rotting meat and bones on the ground, as well as a bell around the dog's neck."

"Then, Ah Mei once again felt the sensation of flying in the clouds..."

"But this time, she didn't continue enjoying herself. Instead, she looked up into the air. When she was about four or five meters above the ground, she finally saw what force had lifted her off the ground and what had caused the children in the village to disappear one after another."

Having said that, Hu Yan stopped and looked around, as if searching for something. Soon she found a mark on the mountain wall and raised her head: "Right here."

As soon as they finished speaking, the bodies of the two people began to leave the ground and fly into the air.

Bai Yu wondered how this could be called flying in the clouds. It felt like he was being blown upwards by a strong wind.

But when he looked up, his scalp suddenly went numb. He kicked the mountain wall and broke free from the upward gravity.

He was already a transcendent being with excellent eyesight, so he could clearly see what this gravity was.

"This is..." Bai Yu showed his weapon and asked in a low voice.

"Hmm." Hu Yan landed on the ground and looked at the crevice. "That's a giant snake lurking in the crevice of the mountain wall... It's clearly a spirit monster. It can open its mouth and suck its prey from the ground. When it opens its mouth, people on the ground float up, as if riding on clouds. Adults are heavy enough to stay in its mouth, but any prey that's not heavy enough will be sucked high into the air and swallowed!"

"This is the stinging snake." Qin Xuezao exclaimed: "The magical nature."

Bai Yu complained: "No, no, no, this has nothing to do with nature. Nature can't create such a high-powered vacuum cleaner."

Qin Xuezao asked: "Since you knew it was there, why didn't you get rid of it?"

"Amei said it's just that it hides too well and lives too high up, so the villagers can't do anything about it. And after it bites someone, the venom will quickly take effect and kill them, so they have no choice but to let it live here." Hu Yan walked away a few steps and said, "But it seems to be stuck inside the stone wall and can't leave. Can you kill it?"

Bai Yu smiled faintly: "It's just a stinging snake. I think it's like putting its head up for sale!"

As he finished speaking, he activated the heroic spirit projection, the Ghost of Invisibility, and with the help of the gravitational force drawn in by the wind from the stinging snake's open mouth, he stepped on the mountain wall and charged upwards.

His palm brushed across the blade of Kuaiyu's sword, and blood stained the weapon.

Slashing through the air, Scarlet Mark·Blood Moon Slash!

The blood and the sword light were intertwined and turned into a blood-red crescent. This was also the most powerful attack of the heroic spirit, the Mummy Demon, Amamiya Mahiru. This was not something that the stinging snake could resist. Although its level was seventeen, it was ultimately just a standing target.

The cracks in the stone wall were filled with blood-red crescents, which widened violently. Blood flowed out of the cracks, and tragic screams were heard.

Soon, the body of a huge snake as thick as a bucket but less than three meters long fell to the ground, and it was split into a human shape alive.

It can be seen that it can't swallow it this time.

The tongue fell to the ground. Hu Yan calmly took out the prepared glass container to collect the venom from its teeth. Bai Yu also waved the knife to pick out the snake gall and found the venom sac.

[Snake Gallbladder of Stinging Snake]

【It can detoxify snake poison after taking it】

There is also an antidote, so now I don’t have to worry about being forced to drink and getting poisoned.

Bai Yu dispersed the heroic spirit projection and said, "Next is the location of the wine."

"The wine is below the ancestral hall." Hu Yan saw that things were going smoothly and said bluntly, "Let's go back now. The Ghost King's birthday banquet is probably about to begin. We must hurry and prepare."

"I have another question." Bai Yu didn't rush back. Instead, he paused and asked a follow-up question: "You are a living person, right?"

Hu Yan: “?”

If I'm not alive, then am I dead? Why am I dead? Why don't I know?

"You are a stranger, so your scent is very strong and will be detected..."

Hu Yan paused for a second and then said, "Then, shall we go to the sauna now?"

Bai Yu: "?"

He glared at her, "I'm not kidding! You think everything will be fine just by becoming acquaintances? Then you have to become completely mature from the inside out!"

Hu Yan said obediently: "You say."

"You are a living person, and your breath is too obvious. Once you enter, you will be noticed. Even if the Ghost King can't notice it, other ghosts will definitely be able to realize it. Then you will die with your brains and intestines spread out." Bai Yu described the scene, which made Hu Yan feel terrified for 0.5 seconds.

"how about you?"

"I have my own solution, but you can't use it." Bai Yu said, "If you don't solve this problem, you won't be able to go to the dinner..."

"I!" Hu Yan opened his mouth, but was interrupted by Bai Yu.

"You stay here, understand?" Bai Yu emphasized again: "I don't know why you must follow, but there's no point in you following."

Hu Yan said angrily, "I've helped you so much, how can you leave me here? I don't care, even if you don't let me go, I have to go!"

After saying that, he turned around and went up the mountain alone without caring about anything else.

"What are you going to do? Are you going to die?" Bai Yu was also a little angry and held his arms: "I finally rescued you, what on earth do you want to do!"

"I want revenge!" He shouted, his voice sharp and his eyes red. "I want revenge!"

Hu Yan lowered his arms and said bitterly, "There's no point in living for me. Apart from revenge, I can't think of anything else."

Bai Yu looked at the young man and finally asked, "Who do you want revenge on?"

"The steward of the Ghost King's residence...Xu Ying."

"What grudge?"

"Blood feud!"

Bai Yu paused for a moment, then spoke: "You really are... from Xujia Village, right?"

Hu Yan smiled bitterly: "I am."

Qin Xuezao tilted his head: "But didn't Xujia Village cease to exist hundreds of years ago?"

Why is there a modern person in a village that no longer exists?

Descendants of Xujiacun?

If they were descendants, why would there be such deep hatred?

"I can help you, but..." Bai Yu looked at Hu Yan: "This time, I just hope you won't hide anything anymore... Hu Yanluoyu, this isn't your real name, right?"

The young man raised his eyes, and his red eyes became even more feminine.

He sighed softly: "Hu Yan, that's my pseudonym, my real name is..."

She bit her lower lip: "Xu Huamei."

Qin Xuezao asked in astonishment: "But, isn't Xu Huamei a woman?"

She raised her hand, reached into her clothes from behind, and pulled something off. As the white cloth bags fell down, her chest began to rise and fall. Tears and sweat wet the makeup on her face. After wiping it off, standing there was a woman with short hair dressed as a man.

Xu Huamei said softly, "I am a woman... and the only survivor of Xu Village. I come from... five hundred years ago."

Chapter 149 Unwilling to Accept Fate

"Hu Yan, this is my fake identity."

"My real name is Xu Huamei."

"The story I told you before was indeed fabricated, but it wasn't completely fabricated..."

"Indeed, there was a person named Hu Yan... and it was me who harmed him."

……

Xu Huamei was born in Xujia Village. She came from an ordinary family but lived in harmony. Xujia Village was also a place with many outstanding people and not far from the county. There were many scholarly families in Xujia Village, and many high-ranking officials had come from it.

Her childhood was relatively happy. Unlike other rural children living in poor areas, she did not need to get up early and come back late to farm the land, and she did not have to worry about her livelihood.

Instead, she studied in a private school built in the village, planning to go to the county to manage a restaurant business in the future, find a good husband, and embark on a normal life track.

Unfortunately, life is always unpredictable.

When she was thirteen years old, a businessman named Xu Ying in the village claimed that he had discovered a mine in the mountains and planned to build a mine.

At first, the village elders disagreed because doing so would destroy the feng shui of Xujia Village... and could easily bring disaster.

He failed to get the village decision-making, but secretly recruited young and strong people, found a group of idle people to forcibly open a mine, and also used a large price to bribe some elders, dividing one group and suppressing another, using both carrot and stick.

Finally, Xujia Village agreed to open a mine, and this lasted for more than three years... There were benefits as well. The people here had an additional way to make a living, and the jade ore mined was of good quality. The local area even had a small and well-known jade market, and the economy did develop.

But the problem it brought was that the people in Xujia Village gradually became sickly, and many members of the original scholarly families also fell ill suddenly and had to move out to recuperate.

At that time, Xu Huamei didn't know what caused the result, but one of her relatives died because of it.

Her father and some co-workers went to work in a mine, but a landslide occurred. Even with the whole village's efforts, they were unable to rescue anyone.

Xu Ying only took out money to settle the matter.

How could Xu Huamei and other family members agree?

But only more than half a year had passed, and only her family was still struggling to get Xu Ying to give an explanation and kowtow to admit his mistake.

The messenger from the yamen who had originally gone to the county to look for someone only made a quick visit, said something about all the necessary documents being in place and that the mine could continue, and then left.

All the effort was in vain.

Xu Huamei vowed to make Xuying pay the price. Less than half a year after the mine collapsed, a sudden local earthquake directly caused a landslide. The excavated mine collapsed, and the entire mountain cracked and sank. After a ground dragon turned over, almost half of the people in Xujia Village were killed or injured.

The old village chief shouted that this was a punishment from heaven and wanted to go to Xu Ying to seek justice.

Xu Ying came back happily. He said that he had seen an immortal and received a message from his ancestors in his dreams. This was a great thing. If everyone followed him up the mountain, they could become immortals!

He half-forced and half-tricked the people of Xujia Village to go up the mountain.

Only Xu Huamei didn't trust him, so she hid quietly and followed him from a distance.

After reaching the mountain, Xu Ying introduced the immortal.

That was not an immortal, but a ferocious ghost king.

It emerged from the collapsed mountain, killing almost everyone on the scene and drinking the blood of all living beings.

Only Xu Ying did not die. It was not because he was special, but because he had already defected to the Ghost King.

He fawned over the Ghost King with a servile attitude and accepted a large amount of cold ghost energy from the Ghost King, but he did not die. Instead, he transformed into a half-human, half-ghost monster and became the Ghost King's steward.

Became a dog tamed by the Ghost King.

He brought the wronged souls and evil spirits down the mountain and continued to hunt down those who did not go up the mountain.

Xujia Village suddenly turned into a hell on earth, and those who returned had either turned into ghosts or corpses.

Xu Huamei knew she could no longer stay there. She was filled with hatred but was powerless to do anything. She could only think of going to the capital to file a complaint with the emperor and seek help, and left Xujia Village where she was born and raised.

Just as I walked out of the village gate, the place had turned into a ghost den.

As a result, she lost her way here and walked back and forth in the gray fog, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get out. She was thirsty, hungry, and tired, and her spirit had reached its limit.