Easily Settled

The middle-aged man was slightly taken aback when he saw Ye Yuan.

But he quickly recovered and said to Ye Yuan amiably,

"Young man, you're here too?"

"Uh... yes."

Ye Yuan did not know why, whether before or now,

whenever he stood before this middle-aged man, he felt as though the other man could see straight through him.

The middle-aged man's highly aggressive gaze made people shudder.

Fortunately, the middle-aged man merely spoke to him casually before shifting his attention to Zhao Xirui.

"Xirui, what's the situation inside?"

"Reporting to Instructor, we discovered a snake-type mutated beast in a cave.

According to the experts' analysis, that mutated beast is very likely the guardian beast of an ancient tomb.

So we cannot use high-destructive weapons right now, but our combat strength is not enough to eliminate it."

Zhao Xirui quickly answered the middle-aged man's question in concise terms.

"Oh? Interesting. I didn't expect there to be an ancient tomb in the outskirts of Shangjing."

The middle-aged man muttered casually to himself.

Led by Zhao Xirui, the middle-aged man and Zhao Xirui walked in front.

Xu Hang was in the middle, while Ye Yuan could only obediently follow behind Xu Hang.

Only the four of them were going down this time. As for the others, Zhao Xirui had arranged for them to remain in the Li family's courtyard.

As they entered the passageway, Ye Yuan could clearly hear Zhao Xirui introducing the middle-aged man to everything they had discovered there earlier while leading the way.

As he observed the surroundings, Ye Yuan clicked his tongue in amazement.

No wonder his perception had been unable to detect the end of the passageway from the back mountain.

This passageway was actually so complicated.

The passageway sometimes sloped downward and sometimes upward, with several turns