Chapter 1765 — To the Cave Again, Part One: "Sister Yunyun and Sister Yaoyao are first wives side by side; I'm the little wife — no second wife, no third wife!" said Shen Yushu.
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"Little Yi's back?" Grandpa Wang turned around, a pheasant clutched in his hand, and grinned: "When did you get back?"
"Just today. I'm looking for Ergoudan — have you seen him, Grandpa Wang?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Saw him — went up the mountain. He's up there!" Grandpa Wang said. "Only that boy, with his heaven-sent strength, dares go up there to hunt. An ordinary man goes up and never comes back down! And you — you two really are something..."
"Haha, I've been training with the old man since I was a boy," Wei Zhao laughed. "I'll head up, then."
"Go on. Come by when you've got the time!" Grandpa Wang said.
Everyone in the village knew Wei Zhao had some skill, but no one knew just how formidable it was. Most people assumed he merely kept himself fit and was a little stronger than an ordinary man.
"Who's there?" Ergoudan's instincts were sharp too — otherwise a beast could have ambushed him from behind and that would have been the end of him! Though immensely strong, his defense was no different from anyone else's, so he had to stay intensely alert, reacting the instant a beast drew near.
But what he heard was the sound of footsteps — not a beast's, but a person's — which puzzled Ergoudan, for in West Star Mountain Village no one but him dared enter the mountain.
"It's me." Wei Zhao was rather pleased with Ergoudan's keen instincts; he had deliberately kept his footsteps audible in order to test him. No cultivator would come into this jungle to attack Ergoudan — only beasts would — and beasts cannot muffle their footsteps.
"Boss?" Ergoudan started, then whirled around in shock and delight, staring at Wei Zhao as though he could not believe his eyes: "Boss, you're back?"
"Didn't I say so? I'd definitely be back in August." Wei Zhao nodded. "I got in just today. Tang Zhi and the others came too. Come over to my place tonight?"
"Sure, I'll bring Yuanyuan." Ergoudan nodded, then remembered that when Wei Zhao had first left, he had said he would be back in August for certain. He hadn't thought much of it at the time, and only now did it come back to him.
Wei Zhao was to enter the cave behind the mountain on the night of the full moon this August. He did not know who had set this agreement of five years and then another five, but it was true that for now the cave could only be entered once every five years, so this time Wei Zhao absolutely could not miss it.
There were still a few days until the full moon, and Wei Zhao was in no hurry.
"How's the hunt today?" Wei Zhao glanced behind Ergoudan and saw that there was nothing there yet, which struck him as odd.