Tomb raiding: Today is another day I don't want to go home.

Chapter 157 Yan Huai's Age Revealed

Questions lingered, but Zhang Qiling didn't have a chance to ask them because Yan Huai had already pulled him away and headed towards Hei Yanjing and the others.

"Qi Yu?" Zhang Qiling had almost forgotten that there was another person in his mind who knew Yan Huai quite well.

"Hahaha..." Qi Yu could only manage an awkward laugh when Zhang Qiling called it. Sure enough, what was coming would come.

"How long has Xiao Huai's older brother been in the Qinling Mountains?"

"It's been a long time!" Qi Yu said, emphasizing each word with utmost seriousness.

Zhang Qiling sensed something fishy was going on: "How long?"

Qi Yu slumped into the sea of ​​consciousness with a miserable expression, the whole ball lying motionless on the water's surface. After a long while, it mumbled, "Thirteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine years."

As Zhang Qiling listened to Qi Yu's increasingly hushed reply, a dazed expression appeared on his face. He looked at the back of Yan Huai's long, flowing hair and gradually fell into deep thought.

Units in ten thousand...

"what happened?"

Suddenly, Yan Huai tightened his grip on Zhang Qiling's hand. When Zhang Qiling came to her senses, her gaze instinctively met his.

"fine!"

His tone was stiff, and he even shook his head. This was very unlike Zhang Qiling; something was wrong!

Yan Huai narrowed his eyes, but Zhang Qiling was already prepared, so it was difficult for him to see anything.

Never mind, let him go for now...

"Hmm~ We're almost catching up with them. It'll be very hot up ahead. Get closer to me."

The bodies of the Azure Dragon clan can sense and adapt to the environment, keeping them warm in the cold winter and cooling them down in the scorching sun. It is a fact that if Zhang Qiling gets closer, he can alleviate the discomfort caused by the temperature to some extent.

Yan Huai's purpose was only this, and he definitely didn't want to take advantage of anyone; his clear eyes were proof of that!

“Okay…” Zhang Qiling pursed her lips, not exposing his lie.

The two remained silent for the rest of the journey, but held hands the whole time, until they caught up with Black Glasses and Xie Lianrui. Only then did their hands, which were stuck together, reluctantly separate.

"Have you finished whispering?"

A familiar voice with a hidden meaning suddenly came from not far ahead. Yan Huai looked up and saw that Black Glasses was holding a pair of binoculars, one end of which was pressed against his sunglasses and the other end was pointing at the hands that the two of them had been touching palm to palm just a second ago.

Yan Huai & Zhang Qiling: "......" This guy never learns his lesson!

Black Glasses put down his binoculars, a wicked smile playing on his lips, completely ignoring the couple's aggressive stares.

Firstly, Zhang Qiling is emotionally stable and would never take action unless he is truly angered;

Secondly, although Yan Huai holds grudges, he is very principled in his dealings. Unless something happens to Zhang Qiling, he will not go to great lengths.

Thirdly, these two must still have some feelings for him, so how could they bear to beat up Blackie, who is so concerned about their relationship? Unless one of them doesn't want to get married and the other doesn't want to be married, but is that even possible? Impossible!

And that was indeed the case. Faced with Black Glasses' teasing, Yan Huai simply rolled his eyes, seemingly having inherited Black Glasses' thick skin.

As for Zhang Qiling, perhaps because he had spent too much time with Hei Yanjing, he had become accustomed to the other's unreliability, so he was not uncomfortable with the teasing. Compared to this, the fact that he learned Yan Huai's real age from Qi Yu was a bigger shock to him.

Sixty-three thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine years old, which is equivalent to twenty-three years old in human years... Which one should he use as the standard? The former is too shocking, but the latter... gives people the feeling of committing a sin! Zhang Qiling's mood was complicated, and he had no intention of paying attention to anyone for the time being. He needed to be quiet.

This was the first time Zhang Qiling had faced so many perplexing questions. As his thoughts raced, he even began to think outrageously: Does the dragon belong to the demon family or the beast family?

Until Xie Lianrui's voice saved him...

"Have you noticed that the temperature has been getting higher and higher as we've traveled this far?"

The group's attention was drawn to Xie Lianrui, who, after standing for a while, squatted down, brushed aside the dead leaves, and rubbed the soil on the ground with his index finger: "The ground here is very damp, there should be a large water source nearby, but I don't know why the temperature is so high. Did we encounter a hot spring?"

“Ordinary hot springs shouldn’t reach this temperature; it’s more like geothermal.” Black Glasses rubbed his chin, his gaze behind his sunglasses looking at Wu Xie and the others in the distance with a hint of distress.

If it really is geothermal, then if something goes wrong, we'll be in for a lot of trouble!

“Geothermal energy comes from deep within the Earth’s crust and is stored in rocks, rock pores, or cracks. In other words, there must be a low-lying area in front of it.”

After hearing Black Glasses' explanation, Yan Huai suddenly remembered something. When he was crossing a hot waterfall, he seemed to have seen several fault cliffs exuding malevolent energy. Their average depth was two to three hundred meters, and they were not far from the hot waterfall, possibly even connected at the bottom...

"If you keep going forward, you should be able to hear the sound of the waterfall. The temperature there is the highest, and the water flow is also very large. Ordinary people can't stay there for long. If you accidentally fall in, you might really get cooked."

As for the low-lying area the blind man mentioned, I guess it was a few cliffs. The malevolent energy there was extremely strong, exceeding the typical concept of a burial pit and almost reaching the level of genocide.

I've never seen anything like this before, but my brother should know something about anything that happened within the last ten thousand years.

Black Glasses gradually became stunned, Xie Lianrui remained silent, and Zhang Qiling had already gotten used to it. It seemed that Yan Huai was the most oblivious.

The reason is simple: not all of these inferences can be derived through reasoning; rather, they are more like the result of combining observations from a broader perspective.

Yan Huai didn't think his words would have much impact on the emerging humans. He even thought that, given Yan Chen's personality, while it wouldn't be considered admonition, the latter would definitely not take the initiative to lead people in that direction.

Judging from the direction they're heading, they're clearly heading towards the hot falls...

Does this mean that someone's goal is to go there? What is this person's basis for their claim? And could this person be the Wang family member they are looking for?