What to do if you receive the wrong package?

Chapter 131 Mu Qing, the Prophet Who Always Says "Lucky"

Qingri Peak.

After Su Huaiqi and Yu Zechuan arrived, the others had been waiting for some time.

Su Huaiqi deftly lifted her skirt and jumped off the carriage. She smiled somewhat apologetically at the seniors, "I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. There was a small accident when we left the city, which delayed us a bit."

"It's alright, we just arrived recently." Chen Kangnian stood beside Xuan Zhang and gently shook his head.

Because Xie Zhi was well-known, and everyone recognized his face, Chen Kangnian excluded him from this event and left him to oversee things in the courtyard.

"Let's go, the sooner we resolve this, the sooner it'll be over," Mu Qing urged from the side, arms crossed.

"Wait a moment, these are antidote pills, one for each person, just in case." Lin Feiran distributed the black pills from the medicine bag in his hand to everyone.

After taking it, Su Huaiqi looked at the round little black ball in his palm and put it into his mouth without hesitation. As a result, his whole face turned into a painful mask, and he almost spat it out.

Ouch, this is so bitter!!!

However, seeing the nonchalant and expressionless expressions of the people around her as they chuckled, she couldn't help but be shocked. Had she given them the wrong pills, or had everyone else lost their sense of taste?

"This way, seniors. I'll lead the way." Bai Heming took the initiative to walk in front, leading the group quickly toward the side peak.

As the cold wind blew, mountain mist flowed through the mountain streams. The distant peaks were faintly visible under the shroud of the mist, and although the nearby road was not greatly affected by the mist, Su Huaiqi still felt that his vision was hazy and he could not see clearly.

She couldn't help but rub her eyes, her unease slowly intensifying as the mountain mist appeared.

Yu Zechuan, who was standing nearby, noticed Su Huaiqi approaching him and took her hand tightly, gently comforting her, "It's okay, I'm here."

Su Huaiqi nodded, her unease easing slightly. She also followed her heart and tightly grasped Yu Zechuan's hand.

Bai Heming led the group a short distance. At this moment, the mountain mist, refracted by the rising sun, gradually thinned out, and the distinct shadow reappeared before their eyes.

The group stepped into the shadows and arrived at the location where Li Bai and his companion had first discovered the cave.

Bai Heming pointed to the largest cave and said respectfully, "Seniors, we have arrived. This is the place."

Su Huaiqi looked at the caves of various sizes in front of him, each with a dark entrance.

"Brother Bai, do all these caves lead to the same place?"

Bai Heming shook his head. "We don't know the situation at the other entrances. We only went into the largest one."

It's not entirely Bai Heming's fault for not being careful in his exploration. After all, the smaller of these cave entrances were too small, some even only a palm's width wide, making it impossible for a person to squeeze into them.

Thinking of this, Su Huaiqi had a flash of inspiration and asked softly, "These small holes aren't used by snakes to crawl in and out, are they?"

“Interesting. We might already be surrounded by snakes.” Mu Qing smiled mockingly as she listened to Su Huaiqi’s conjecture.

But his cold and somewhat frightening words forced Su Huaiqi to freeze in place, and he even quickly looked around to make sure that what he said was true.

“What Miss Qiqi said makes some sense. Why don’t we go in and take a look? Maybe we can find the connection.” Chen Kangnian glanced at Mu Qing with a helpless expression and called everyone to walk towards the cave.

Bai Heming and Li Hengzhi led the way, entering the cave first, followed closely by Mu Qing and Lin Feiran. Chen Kangnian, Xuan Zhang, and Gongsun Rang entered the cave together, while Su Huaiqi and Yu Zechuan brought up the rear.

The group entered the passage, the only light illuminating the path ahead in the darkness. Su Huaiqi felt a surge of tension and excitement; she knew this mission would be far from simple.

Holding her torch, she carefully examined the surrounding walls, which were mottled with moss and showed signs of disarray. The entire group was unusually quiet, with only the rustling of footsteps audible.

Suddenly, Su Huaiqi felt a sinister aura behind her, which made her shiver. She quickly turned around and saw Yu Zechuan looking at her with concern.

"what happened?"

"It's nothing, just looking back." Su Huaiqi suppressed the strange feeling in her heart, but remained vigilant. She knew that there must be some important secret ahead, and that the guardian of this secret already knew of their existence.

Finally, the group saw a spacious open space ahead, but they did not immediately go in.

Chen Kangnian stood at the edge and paced back and forth a few times. He squinted at the stone pillar in the center of the open space, then turned and asked, "Have you checked that stone pillar?"

Bai Heming said, "It was just a simple walk around. There was a giant python carved on the pillar, and there was a stone door facing the python's head."

Mu Qing wasn't particularly interested in the stone pillar in the center of the open space. He was focused on observing his surroundings and didn't find any snakes.

He casually tossed a pebble into the open space. "Where are the snakes and pythons you mentioned? Do they only appear if we don't step into the open space?"

The pebble rolled several times in the open space before stopping, and at the very moment it stopped, countless snakes gathered from the walls on all sides.

The walls of the narrow passage were soon covered with a dense swarm of snakes, forcing everyone to retreat to an open space.

"You still have such a bad mouth after all these years." Xuan Zhang glanced at Mu Qing with some helplessness, then looked at the snakes around them flicking their tongues, and had no choice but to take out a dagger from his waist and hold it across his chest.

Mu Qing probably hadn't expected that he would stir up a swarm of snakes with a single pebble, and replied irritably, "You can't change it, you'll just have to get used to it eventually."

Unlike her seniors who were still in the mood for banter, Su Huaiqi felt a chill run down her spine and goosebumps all over her body when she saw the wall covered in snakes.

She opened her handbag with trembling hands, intending to take out a tinderbox, since snakes are afraid of fire. Unexpectedly, a familiar "black" object appeared in her handbag.

"Black..." Su Huaiqi was so surprised she almost cried out, and quickly closed the bag again.

"What did you see? Are you alright?" Yu Zechuan leaned closer and asked with concern.

"It's nothing, it's just a little dark and I'm not used to it." Su Huaiqi waved his hand, making up a casual excuse, but his mind was on the "black object" in his bag.

"Don't stray too far from me, be careful." Yu Zechuan switched the torch to his right hand, getting closer to Su Huaiqi.

Su Huaiqi swallowed nervously. She carefully opened her schoolbag again, and her eyes met the "black object" inside.

She didn't know when the little black snake had crawled into her handbag.

Good heavens, she's been carrying a snake for so long.

The little black snake blinked its tiny eyes and even wagged its tail at Su Huaiqi, seemingly demonstrating its ability to hide.

Su Huaiqi reached out and poked the little black snake's cold body, intending to push it aside first and take out a tinderbox from his bag.

But the little black snake didn't seem to understand Su Huaiqi's meaning. Ignoring Su Huaiqi's stiffness, it crawled up her fingers and then wrapped itself around her wrist.

Su Huaiqi felt a chill run down her spine from her wrist; the icy touch of the little black snake made her shiver. She wanted to shake it off, but when she saw it limply curled up on her wrist, she surprisingly didn't find it so frightening anymore.

Su Huaiqi felt a surge of panic. She didn't know why the little black snake had appeared here, whether it would bite her, or what she could do in the face of a swarm of snakes. She could only pull down her sleeve to cover the little black snake on her wrist.

The swarm of snakes gradually approached the group, but the giant python Bai Heming had mentioned had not yet appeared, so the group dared not let their guard down.

"What do we do now?" Gongsun Rang deftly drew his sword and cut down three or four venomous snakes that leaped up.

Their original plan was to set it ablaze, but now they have been forced to rush to the very center. If they set it on fire now, they might also be implicated.

Chen Kangnian frowned slightly, pondering his next move, when he heard Xuan Zhang shout, "Let's kill one wave first, otherwise their numbers will be too great for us."

“I agree. Isn’t the reason we came here today to wipe them out?” Mu Qing was the first to agree.

The two exchanged a quick glance, then simultaneously grabbed their weapons and charged into the swarm of snakes. The others, not to be outdone, followed Mu Qingxuan and leaped into the snakes to begin their snake-hunting operation.

Su Huaiqi, with her self-awareness, didn't impulsively join the battle, but instead stood in the very center of the group. However, she wasn't idle either; she carefully observed the statue on the stone pillar, holding a short knife in her hand.

At the same time, he whispered to the little black snake that peeked out from his sleeve, "Blackie, the situation is very chaotic right now. You must stay firmly tied to my wrist, understand?"

Su Huaiqi was very worried. If the black snake failed to entangle itself and fell to the ground, it would be attacked by other snakes or mistaken for a "bad snake," which would be terrible.

"Hey, why are there words here?" Su Huaiqi noticed some markings on the statue's body. These markings looked like some kind of writing, but she didn't recognize them.

Just as she was about to share her discovery, she turned around and saw that everyone was busy fighting off the snakes and had no time to pay attention to her.

"Damn it, I can't kill all these snakes no matter what I do!" Xuan Zhang twirled the dagger in his hand rapidly, each turn cleaving a snake in two.

"I suspect these snakes are controlled by that giant python. If we can find the python and kill it, we should be able to temporarily solve the snake problem," Bai Heming guessed.

He recalled how the snakes had risked their lives to help him when he attacked the giant python, which might indicate a connection between the two events.

Upon hearing this, Xuanzhang immediately shouted to Mu Qing, "Qing, your jinx has come in handy! Quickly summon the giant python!"

"What are you yelling for! If the giant python comes out now, do you think you can beat it?" Mu Qing's scimitar was shaped like a crescent moon and was extremely sharp. Countless snake corpses were piled up at his feet.

Suddenly, a piercing hissing sound rang out, and everyone's eyes turned to the sound. A giant python was slowly swimming in from not far away, and the snakes even stepped aside to make way for it.

Looking at the giant python, which was more than three times as thick, Su Huaiqi wasn't feeling fear. Instead, he thought that Senior Mu Qing was truly a jinx; his casual remark had actually brought the giant python here…

I wonder if I could ask Senior Mu to say that Su Huaiqi should become rich soon, and if that wish could come true immediately.