115: Chapter 115 Was that ice box filled with wolf hunters?

Hu Che's eyes were filled with grievance.

He looked like a small animal abandoned by its owner.

He wanted to approach her but didn't dare, looking at Tang Ruan with a pitiful expression.

"No, no!" Tang Ruan hurriedly waved her hands, "I just feel that Yan Qing has been hiding something from me lately."

Accidentally, she had spoken the truth.

But Hu Che shouldn't be considered an outsider, right?

Yet why did Hu Che's expression look even more shocked than hers?

"What is he hiding from you?"

Tang Ruan: ...

"I don't know."

If she knew, would it still be a secret?

Hu Che also seemed to suddenly realize that there was something wrong with his question.

He gave a light cough.

"I understand.

But if you need me, you must come find me.

I'll be waiting for you at 'our home'."

Hu Che walked over and took Tang Ruan's hand.

When he said the words 'our home', his entire being radiated an aura of happiness.

Tang Ruan opened her mouth.

She wanted to ask him if he was willing to form a contract with her next month.

But in the end, she only said one word— "Okay."

She felt that she should speak to Yan Qing first.

This was her respect for his companionship over these years.

When she entered, she saw the guard at the palace gate and asked casually, "Has the Beast King gone out?"

"In response to the Goddess, no!"

Well, that was good.

Tang Ruan searched around the Beast King Palace but didn't see Yan Qing.

There was no one in the Beast King Palace hall.

She went to the first-floor corridor and saw that same Male Beastman again, just as he was about to leave.

He met Tang Ruan's gaze...

"I haven't seen Hu Che! Goddess!"

Tang Ruan: ...

Is this guy an NPC?

"Then have you seen the Beast King?"

The Male Beastman was startled.

Ah! So she wasn't looking for Hu Che.

"I haven't seen him!" the Male Beastman shouted loudly.

He hadn't gone out, yet he wasn't in the palace.

Where could he have gone?

Suddenly, Tang Ruan thought of a place.

Beneath the Beast King Palace, there was actually a basement.

There was a room in the basement that, in the terms of Tang Ruan's original world, was a "war room."

Therefore, unless it was a Male Beastman he trusted implicitly, he wouldn't easily let anyone inside.

Tang Ruan entered the basement.

She originally intended to find him in the "war room."

But after taking just two steps, she suddenly heard a Male Beastman's wail.

"Don't kill me!

Beast King, please don't kill me!

Everything I said is the truth!"

The voice was shrill, but it was clearly a Male Beastman.

"Since you know the consequences of deceiving me, you shouldn't have done it."

"Ah!

Aaaaaah!"

The man let out a series of screams.

Thinking of the tragic scene that might be occurring nearby, Tang Ruan subconsciously clenched her fists.

But the person Yan Qing wanted to kill must be a bad person; there was no need for sympathy!

However, to Tang Ruan's surprise, after the Male Beastman's screams lasted for about half a minute,

he spoke again.

"Thank you, Beast King, for sparing my life! Thank you, Beast King, for sparing my life!

I really didn't lie to you; I really did come back from Beast God Mountain!"

Beast God Mountain?

Tang Ruan pricked up her ears.

She had heard other Beastmen mention this place more than once.

Legend had it that Beast God Mountain was where the Beast God resided, protected by a powerful Barrier that even a fly couldn't penetrate.

Of course, these were all legends.

Because the legendary Beast God Mountain was in the middle of the sea, no Beastman living on land had ever truly seen it.

But there had once been a Beastman who gave Yan Qing spirit fruits that grew near Beast God Mountain.

She had eaten them; they indeed contained more abundant Energy than crystals.

Tang Ruan suddenly remembered that the two fruits She Ming gave Hu Che before were the same, weren't they?

It seemed this place really existed.

Moreover, it was surrounded by treasures.

Did Yan Qing want to claim it?

"No Beastman can return from Beast God Mountain alive!" Yan Qing's voice was as cold as a steel blade.

"I... our Rat Tribe's Beast Form is very small.

There was a gap in that Barrier, so I squeezed through," the Beastman explained with a trembling voice.

So it was the Rat Tribe; no wonder the voice was so shrill.

The basement suddenly fell silent.

Just as Tang Ruan thought the Rat Tribe member had died or fainted from excessive fear,

Yan Qing's emotionless voice rang out: "Continue."

"The mountain is covered in lightning; no one can return alive under that lightning.

But we can dig holes.

When I saw the lightning striking toward me, I desperately burrowed into the ground, digging for my life...

Later, I don't know how long I dug for.

I entered a cave.

Inside the cave, I saw a...

An ice box, containing..."

Tang Ruan took a sharp breath.

"Who's there?"

Sensing that Yan Qing seemed to be walking toward her,

Tang Ruan turned to run.

Suddenly, she stopped in her tracks.

She turned back.

She couldn't run; why should she run?

She had to ask clearly.

What was inside the ice box?

Was it Lang Lie?

Or rather... was it Lang Lie's corpse...

At the thought of this possibility, Tang Ruan's blood seemed to freeze in an instant; her hands and feet grew ice-cold, and her body trembled slightly.

No wonder Yan Qing couldn't find him even after exhausting the power of the Beast Kingdom...

But why would he appear at Beast God Mountain?

Potato's Mother had said that the Seal of Dongdong Valley was related to the Beast God.

The Baby could repair the Beast God's Seal.

So, what kind of connection was there between all this?

Tang Ruan hurried back all the way.

She almost crashed into Yan Qing's arms.

"Is Lang Lie inside that box?"

She grabbed his arm.

Yan Qing's brow furrowed slightly, "I don't know."

Tang Ruan left him and ran quickly toward the place where the voice had come from.

A sharp-featured Male Beastman was still kneeling on the ground.

Tang Ruan lunged forward, grabbed his shoulders, and shouted, "Is Lang Lie inside that ice box?"

"That... that..."

Although the pressure emanating from Tang Ruan wasn't as intense as Yan Qing's, she was still a Level 3 Beastman.

The Rat Tribe Beastman was only a Mid-level Beastman.

Being stared at so closely by her, he trembled all over in fear.

He subconsciously looked away, only to meet Yan Qing's emerald eyes.

Yan Qing narrowed his eyes slightly.

"No! It was a giant egg!

It was an egg!

There seemed to be something inside the egg!"

The Rat Tribe Beastman shouted loudly.

"What's inside the egg?" Tang Ruan pressed, "Can you sense what kind of Supernatural Ability it has?

Is it Ice-type?"

"No, I don't know.

I only saw it was an egg, and then I fled in terror!"

The Rat Tribe Beastman clutched his head in panic and instantly transformed into a rat smaller than a palm.

Tang Ruan snatched him up.

"I'm asking you a question!"

"Tang Ruan!"

Yan Qing pried her hand open.

The rat immediately scurried into a corner and vanished.

Yan Qing pulled her up.

He held her tightly in his arms.

"He wasn't looking for Lang Lie.

I sent him to search for crystals near Beast God Mountain.

But he snuck into Beast God Mountain and then fled with the crystals he found.

I had people bring him back for questioning."

"Why would he sneak into Beast God Mountain?" Tang Ruan didn't believe it.

She just had an inexplicable feeling that the ice box... or perhaps ice coffin, contained Lang Lie!

"He encountered sea beasts; the Jiao Clan lives near Beast God Mountain.

They don't care for those crystals, but they hate being disturbed most of all.

So they released sea beasts to kill them.

If you don't believe me, you can ask Hu Che."

Tang Ruan looked at him.

Hu Che indeed understood the situation at sea best.

"Then why... did you bring him here?" Tang Ruan was still half-skeptical.

Yan Qing tucked a stray lock of her hair behind her ear.

He held her tightly in his arms.

"While the Jiao people don't care for those crystals,

the Beastmen on land do.

Therefore, the location of Beast God Mountain must not be heard by other Beastmen.

If someone disturbs the Beast God,

disaster will be brought down."

Is that so?

Tang Ruan felt that the main point didn't seem to be here.

"Does the Beast God really exist?"

"No one has seen him, but I believe he does.

Otherwise, how could a contract have been established between you and me?"

Tang Ruan lowered her head in thought: That's true, one shouldn't disturb the gods.

Yan Qing sent Tang Ruan back.

Late at night, after Tang Ruan had fallen into a deep sleep,

Yan Qing returned to the basement.

He pushed open a door; the Rat Tribe Beastman was huddling in a corner.

Seeing Yan Qing, he hurriedly crawled over.

He looked at him flatteringly, "Beast King, how did I do helping you hide it?

When will you let me go?"

Yan Qing sneered.

"I'll let you go right now—to see the Beast God."

A beam of fire instantly engulfed the Rat Tribe Beastman.

He didn't even have time to make a sound.