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Pampered Guy was obviously an evil madman, but all the details had gone a little overboard, so he seemed like a character from a wulitou drama (1). For example, that kind of smile didn’t seem appropriate for the occasion at all. It was also possible that Poker-Face had given me the impression that the Zhang family was dull and lifeless, so this Pampered Guy acting a little more lively made him seem like a psychopath.

I didn’t know why, but I suddenly felt as if he kind of resembled Black Glasses. But it obviously couldn’t be him.

The snakes on Snake Ancestor’s body slowly calmed down as they listened to the sound coming from the earring. Pampered Guy continued to laugh and said to him, “Friend, we have an indescribable trust. You and I are one and the same.”

Snake Ancestor was obviously in a trance and didn’t answer.

Pampered Guy drew closer and continued, “I won’t hurt you, and you’ll never hurt me.” The sound became distorted as if it were coming from all directions.

Snake Ancestor began to look around, dazedly trying to pinpoint the source of the sound, but his movements had become sluggish.

I knew that bronze bells were powerful, and took almost no time to confuse people’s senses, but at this time, all I could see was that Snake Ancestor was confused and couldn’t do anything. I watched as Pampered Guy came up to Snake Ancestor and whispered in his ear: “Now, follow me.”

With that said, he drew back and ran to the top of the mountain path.

Snake Ancestor followed him up in a daze, without the slightest bit of hesitation. When he passed the letter snake, it instantly coiled back around him, but he didn’t slow down at all.

I didn’t know if it was because Snake Ancestor’s senses were distorted, but Pampered Guy was running so fast that I could hardly see his outline clearly. Snake Ancestor continued listening to the slight chiming of the hexagonal bell as he tried to keep up, and even I became a little dizzy.

I thought it would take at least more than ten minutes, but Pampered Guy climbed up to a protruding rock, stopped again, and turned back with another evil smile. At this time, everything in the hallucination was distorted and sinister, so his smile really did look evil.

Through the bell’s chimes, I heard him continue talking: “I won’t hurt you. Just do as I do, we’re the same person.” With that said, he suddenly fell back, the dropped off the cliff.

It was at least thirty meters above the river and very dangerous to dive at such a high altitude. The velocity at which you’d enter the water was likely to reach a hundred kilometers per hour. Pampered Guy flipped in the air and fell into the water with his legs down.

Snake Ancestor jumped without the slightest hesitation, imitated Pampered Guy’s movements in the air, and immediately fell into the water.

Suddenly, all the confusion disappeared, and Snake Ancestor woke up. He struggled for a moment and found himself falling into a huge, deep pool.

The sunlight reflected through the clear surface of the water above, showing a transparent aqua-green color. But the area four meters below quickly became dark and I couldn’t see the bottom at all.

It was a hole just like the ones we had seen before at the bottom of the Jinsha River. But this one was surprisingly large, and the clear water gushing out from it made the surrounding water clear. The two currents meeting here formed numerous small eddies, but they also slowed down the river’s flow.

I saw that Pampered Guy had gone deeper underwater, so I immediately swung my legs to follow him. After he dove into the darkness, I soon saw a strange light appear in the water’s depths. The green light was vague and gloomy, just like a ghost fire.

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TN Notes:

(1) Another word could be “nonsensical” I guess. But I kept the pinyin because it’s “a type of slapstick humor associated with Hong Kong popular culture that developed during the late 20th century. The humor arises from the placement of surprising and incongruous elements, and the complex interplay of cultural subtleties. Typical components include nonsensical parodies, juxtaposition of contrasts, sudden surprises in spoken dialogue and action and improbable and deliberate anachronisms.” I stole all that from Wikipedia lol but the full article is here

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