As expected, as soon as I finished speaking, a pack of hounds bayed in the distance. Having spent years hunting and killing game in the forest, they were far more sensitive to their quarry than ordinary dogs.

  Upon hearing the dog's barking, the snake was frightened and retreated again. At this time, human voices were heard, so I immediately hid with it in the nearby woods.

  It's not that I'm afraid of them, but rather I don't want to cause unnecessary trouble. What if we hurt someone again? They're innocent after all. So, the snake and I slowly made our way around the woods.

  Since there is a village, there must be a means of transportation. As long as we find the vehicle, then I and Glasses Snake can sneak on it and follow it to the city.

  "Ji Chen, where are you going now?" asked Glasses Snake suddenly.

  Of course what I want to do now is go home and take a look, then hand it over to be kept at my house while I go find Baimei Du.

  I told it about my itinerary, of course I also told it the same thing, that my parents were my former benefactors and that I was once raised by someone else and escaped from there, now I'm going back to rescue a friend.

  It wanted to go with me to rescue my friend, but I told it that those people were very fierce and if it went, not only would it be unable to help, but I'd also have to take care of one more person. It listened and thought the same way, saying let's talk about it when we get back.

  We climbed for a long time, but we didn't see anything like cars. I was also surprised and wondered if people here don't use vehicles at all? We didn't even see any roads.

  The village is quite big, we climbed for a long time and finally went through the whole village, but really didn't see a car, which made me wonder how we would get out.

  Although we can climb back by ourselves, the key is that we don't know where this place is and which direction to go.

  Helplessly we had to search again, and finally I found a key point, which is that although these people didn't have cars, they seemed to have a boat in every household.

  Are they living on the island? In the end, we had to lie down and rest in the nearby woods, waiting until the next day to follow these people and take a look.

  The sky was just bright, and the sound of roosters crowing and dogs barking came from everywhere. Some villagers also opened their doors and went out to work. At this time, someone said: "Dogzi, why haven't you gone hunting in the mountains recently?"

  The person calling the dog replied, "Well, since those two fools died in the forest last time, I haven't dared to enter the forest either. Forget it, let's just go fishing by boat instead, that way we'll be safer."

  "Haha, it's not safe in the big river either, aren't you afraid of being dragged down by a water monster?" another person sneered.

  The dog glared at him and said: "Pfft! You little brat can't even spit out ivory from a dog's mouth, I won't talk to you anymore, I'm going ashore!"

  After finishing speaking, Dogzi took out the fishing gear. I thought he would pull this small boat out, but unexpectedly he just walked like that. I didn't care and followed him with Glasses Snake behind.

  I soon arrived at a wide river of several hundred meters, and I saw that there were many large ships on the riverbank. It was only then that I understood that these were the boats they used, and those at home were probably just for emergency use.

  The dog hummed a mountain song and then put the fishing gear on the boat, ready to set off. The glasses snake said: "Ji Chen, shall we follow?"

  I nodded and said: "Okay, let's follow up!"

  But just as we were about to sneak onto his ship, I suddenly felt two dangerous auras, and one of them was very familiar.

  At this time, a big ship came over from the opposite side. The dog looked at it and greeted the other party: "Huozigeh, you've come back with business so early?"

  He replied, "Yes, I was resting on the opposite shore last night. Before dawn, two distinguished guests wanted to board the ship and come over here. They were very generous, so I couldn't refuse!"

  As the man's boat reached the shore, this aura grew thicker. I said to Xue, "I sense a dangerous aura, you'd better hide!"

  "What danger? And you, aren't you hiding?" It was taken aback when it heard me say that, and then asked again.

  I told him, "The people on that big ship are looking for me. This matter will have to come to an end sooner or later, and if it doesn't end now, I'm afraid we'll still have trouble when we get back. He's quite formidable, so you can't help much by staying here. You'd better hide quickly!"

  The glasses snake tilted his head and thought for a moment, saying: "Alright, you be careful yourself, unfortunately I can't help you with anything, I'm too powerless now, Ji Chen, won't you look down on me for being such a burden to you?"

  Hearing this, I comforted him saying: "How could that be? You are my friend, there's no such thing as being implicated or not, hurry up and hide!"

  As I said that, the glasses snake was excited and quickly slipped into the woods, but I felt that it didn't hide far away, guessing that it wanted to wait and see if there would be an opportunity to help me.

  When the boat stopped, two people walked down from above. I took a look and one of them was indeed someone I knew, it was Old Hou who had fought with me last time. The other person I didn't know, but he was much younger than Old Hou, not even forty years old.

  Old Hou seemed to have sensed my presence as soon as he came, although he didn't see me, his gaze was fixed in this direction. The other person also seemed to have felt a sense of danger, but he didn't know what it was. He asked Old Hou, "Old Hou, you won't tell me that we found the guy as soon as we got on the boat, will you?"

  Hou's gaze didn't leave that direction, but he said: "I can sense the aura of that ferocious snake. It seems this time it wants to escape, and we just happened to run into it. Be careful! If I'm not mistaken, it's even stronger than before."

  But that person sneered and said: "It's just a snake, is it necessary to be like this? I think you're really getting more timid with age!"

  Facing this person's ridicule, Hou Lao didn't seem to care, only coldly laughing: "Hmph! Yes, I'm old, not like you young people. If it weren't for Old Master insisting on me coming with you this time, I really wouldn't have wanted to come. You alone can handle it."

  "Haha! You're overpraising me, but wait and see my real skills later!" I only then noticed that this person was surprisingly arrogant, but I could also sense that his aura was indeed thicker than Old Hou's, and his martial arts skills should be above Old Hou's.

  If it were before, I would have escaped immediately, but now it's not that bad. After this period of continuous fighting in the forest and absorbing the sunlight of the sunflower after being injured, my body has been greatly tempered, and my strength is at least twice as strong as when I first fought with Old Hou, so facing these two people now, I'm not afraid either.

  The boatman, seeing the two guests get on board, immediately put on a look of great enemy as if he was about to face a formidable foe. He didn't know what had happened but also didn't dare ask, and simply stood on the boat with Dogzi, curiously watching.

  But the man seemed to have great confidence in his own skills, and after finishing speaking, he no longer paid attention to Old Hou, but instead slowly approached me. In an instant, my body arched, spitting out a breath of air, releasing the aura on my body, scales shrinking, and blood flowing throughout my entire body.

  I felt my powerful qi and blood, that person didn't dare to be careless, suddenly becoming cautious, also releasing the qi and blood from his body, putting both hands in front of his face, slowly approaching me.

  A cold glint flashed in my eyes as I stared at him fiercely, and when he let out a breath, I felt it - this person was indeed stronger than Old Hou.

  Within less than ten meters, he didn't move forward again, but instead narrowed his eyes and stared fiercely in my direction. Since I was hiding in the grass, he couldn't see me and could only rely on his intuition to sense that this snake wasn't easy to deal with. Big talk is just big talk, but if I really lost my life because of it, I would regret it forever.

  Compare patience with me? You little kid really can think, my patience is not something you can compare to. I'm in the light, you're in the dark, let's see who can't hold on first. Meanwhile, Hou Lao unexpectedly collected his momentum and stood there with his hands clasped behind his back, looking like he had nothing to do with it, but actually enjoying the excitement.

  I know this old man is very unhappy in his heart, the person just ridiculed him, so he wants to let this person lose some face in my hands, and also make him have some self-awareness.

  Finally, the man lost his patience, sank his waist, exerted force with both legs, and pounced on me at a speed that was too fast to cover one's ears. Seeing him make a move, I also suddenly sprang up and rushed towards it at an even faster speed.