"Tap, tap, tap..."
Several sets of hurried footsteps echoed down the stone steps in the dark Underground Palace.
Zhang Lanhe could see everything clearly in the tunnel with his snake pupils, but Xie Huizhou's human eyes could not.
Xie Huizhou took out a palm-sized Luminous Pearl and used it as a lantern to light the tunnel.
"Good thing I prepared ahead of time, or I could've fallen to my death."
"Your Highness, you even bring this along when you go out to fight?" Zhang Lanhe smiled at the Luminous Pearl in Xie Huizhou's hand. It looked as though it had come from his storeroom, too. "Where exactly were you hiding that Luminous Pearl?"
Some of the things Xie Huizhou did always took people by surprise.
Too embarrassed to admit that he was sometimes afraid of the dark, Xie Huizhou said, "Quiet. I have my own rhythm."
I couldn't just light a fire on the spot, could I?
It was so damp here that a flame might go out easily. What if the firewood turned the great white snake into a roasted snake?
For convenience's sake, Xie Huizhou had chosen the more convenient Luminous Pearl.
The narrow passage led straight underground. The deeper they went, the heavier the moisture became. Moss covered the walls, showing that no one had come or gone here for a long time.
"The conditions here are awful. It's dark and bare. How could my beautiful great white snake live here?" The farther Xie Huizhou walked, the more upset he became. "Lanhe, they're so stingy. They wouldn't even give you a mansion."
They had imprisoned the innocent Zhang Lanhe for power, made him suffer, and would not even give him a decent place to live. Stingy and vicious.
Xie Huizhou went through every curse he had learned