36: The Wolf's Mental Journey

Zhou Yan walked toward the injured village chief with a wicked grin. Although the Strange Wolf was also wounded, seeing such a good opportunity, he ignored his pain and prepared to deliver a fatal blow to the old geezer.

"Yi Sanyi, if you don't make a move right now, are you waiting for the Giant Abyss Immortal to bring down judgment?!" The village chief was clearly panicking, and ignoring any sense of decorum, he began to curse.

"Boom!" Dust and smoke rose all around, obstructing Zhou Yan's vision.

"Sigh…" A sigh came from within the dust.

"I was just looking for the right moment to enter, to see if there was a chance for a sneak attack. If you weren't so useless, old man, I might have already succeeded."

"Hmph!" The village chief didn't believe a single word Yi Sanyi said, but since he needed to rely on him for now, he could only hold him accountable later.

When the dust completely settled, the Strange Wolf had already been knocked flying, rolling to the side near a tree, his health bar looking rather unhealthy.

Zhou Yan looked at the crater in the ground. The power of that sneak attack just now was not low; even if the Strange Wolf hadn't taken the full brunt of it, he might not have much combat capability left now.

With both sides having injured parties, the injured one on Zhou Yan's side was even weaker.

This was troublesome. He couldn't possibly use the Sword Seal and Formation right now, could he?

Was the difficulty of this side quest a bit too high? Fortunately, the plot did not develop as Zhou Yan had imagined.

If he had to use his trump cards just to fight two Qi Refining practitioners, it would be difficult for Zhou Yan to rely on those cards to successfully escape back to the Qingxu Grotto-Heaven.

"You two, leave."

"What?!"

Yi Sanyi's words were a bombshell, shocking even his own teammate.

Originally, they thought it would be a fierce battle, but who could have expected the other side to back down before it even started?

The village chief didn't even care about his injuries, struggling to get up.

"Do you know what you are, pfft… ugh, saying!" This sentence made the old man so angry he spat out blood again. If someone came to record a short video now, the three of them would probably be cyberbullied to death by tomorrow.

"At least I'm clearer than you!" Yi Sanyi rolled his eyes at the village chief. "Look at your current state. That young man over there probably still has trump cards."

"If we continue fighting to the end, it will just result in that beast and you accompanying each other on the road to the Yellow Springs. By then, the two of us will most likely each take a step back and leave on our own."

"Anyway, we can't stop them, so what's the difference between letting one go and letting two go?"

"Brother, your words are very insightful. If you ask me, old people are prone to being stubborn; you should educate the elderly more." Zhou Yan took over the conversation, following his lead, and after finishing, he gave Yi Sanyi a wink.

When Yi Sanyi saw it, he wanted to wink back, but he was stifled by the look on the village chief's face, which seemed to say, "Just try it if you dare."

There's no need for us to suffer mutual destruction, is there?

Zhou Yan took the initiative to set an example, putting away his combat stance and helping the Strange Wolf up, signaling friendliness.

Seeing Zhou Yan's gesture, Yi Sanyi also pulled the village chief back, and the two groups put a safe distance between them.

The atmosphere at this moment was somewhat awkward; after all, they had just been fighting for their lives, and now they were signaling friendliness to each other.

"Well then, we won't disturb you anymore. We'll be off now, let's grab a meal sometime." Zhou Yan made a move to leave.

"Wait, you can't leave."

Tsk, so we really have to fight after all? In the panel in front of Zhou Yan, his inventory was kept open at all times.

Back when Zhou Yan first signaled friendliness, he had already prepared to immediately activate the Formation the moment the other side made a move.

However, Yi Sanyi calling out to stop Zhou Yan was not because he had changed his mind and wanted to fight, but because he had something to say.

"Han Yue will be sent to the altar to wait at daybreak; you have at most three days left."

"As for what this means, that beast will explain it to you." After saying this, Yi Sanyi supported the village chief and left, not afraid of them launching a sneak attack.

From beginning to end, this Yi Sanyi was only a neutral NPC on the mini-map. Because he wasn't an enemy, Zhou Yan hadn't noticed him at first.

This guy—he didn't turn red after Code Name was killed, and he didn't turn red after the village chief was injured. Could it be that he is the BOSS?

Because the other party had no malicious intent, Zhou Yan could only see his name and basic data; other detailed data remained invisible.

[Yi Sanyi] [Rank: Qi Refining Level 3] [HP: 1000/1000]

Having had the experience of the village chief transforming into Ken Kaneki, Zhou Yan no longer blindly trusted the panel's display.

In his past life playing online games, those monsters often had second or third stages where their names or panels would change.

Not to mention that he was now facing a much more unpredictable real world; he would have to be more cautious in the future.

"I… I have to go back." The Strange Wolf supported his body, wanting to stand up on his own, but the moment he left Zhou Yan's support, he swayed and was about to fall.

"Don't mess around." Zhou Yan shook his head and caught him again.

Staying here was ultimately unsafe. Zhou Yan carried the Strange Wolf on his back and first found a place to rest under a giant tree more than ten miles away, then began to cast Healing Spell on the Strange Wolf.

"What did they mean by the altar?" "They aren't some kind of evil cult worshipping some evil god, are they?"

Since the other party had specifically reminded him before leaving, this piece of information must not be simple.

Yi Sanyi said the Strange Wolf knew, so Zhou Yan decided to take the time while healing the Strange Wolf to ask.

Unfortunately, this Healing Spell, along with things like Fireball Spell and Water Arrow Spell, were all inherent to his current Cultivation Technique and didn't really count as a skill.

Otherwise, if it received the game panel's bonus, the healing process should be faster.

"That altar is the root of suffering…" "Ouch! Why did you hit me?" The wolf demon clutched his head, somewhat confused.

"Don't play the mysterious type with me. You were the one in a rush just now, and now you're the one who isn't telling the story properly and insisting on creating suspense. If I don't hit you, who do I hit?"

"Uh…" The Strange Wolf was speechless, then, with the speed of a crosstalk monologue, he quickly began to explain the situation.

"My name is Han Wenqing, and I am Han Yue's uncle." "The altar is an experimental site where evil cultivators claiming to be Immortals are conducting human modification experiments." "Those half-human, half-monster things in the village all came from there." "My sister and brother-in-law have already been killed, and I was turned into this by her, and her next target is my niece, Han Yue."

Finishing such a long paragraph so quickly and without any mistakes, he was surprisingly neither flushed nor out of breath. Of course, this guy had a face full of fur, so even if he were blushing, Zhou Yan wouldn't be able to tell.

"Not bad, that was so concise and fluent." "Oh, you flatter me. When I was still human, I used to tell stories at a teahouse to earn some pocket money." After saying this, he subconsciously rubbed the back of his head, smiling somewhat shyly.

Zhou Yan wasn't too sure, but seeing him act like this, he was probably expressing shyness, right?

Han Wenqing told it clearly, and Zhou Yan sorted it out quickly. That evil cultivator was capable of causing so many things, and thinking back to that surprisingly large underground space beneath the village...

"That's bad. This guy is probably not someone we can easily deal with. Maybe we should go report this to the authorities first."