Chapter 25: Master’s gamble

In fact, this question from Xiaoding is also my question. After all, the route of the car has always been determined by Liu Shengwang and his gang. How could we be so lucky as to get Xiaoding’s help to get out of trouble here?

Facing this question, Master smiled and said in a profound and unfathomable manner, “In life and in any top-level strategy, the most important thing is to take advantage of the situation, that is, to follow the laws of nature and the situation, and to take advantage of all the favorable conditions, such as the right time, the right place, and the right people. I’m just taking advantage of the situation, taking advantage of the situation.”

He said so cryptically, but in fact, he didn’t say anything. Looking at my master’s smug expression, I was so angry that my teeth were aching.

Xiao Ding was straightforward, looking at my master with a puzzled expression, and asked directly, “Grandpa Jiang, what are you talking about?”

“Hey!” The master slapped his forehead in annoyance, looked at Xiaoding helplessly, and said, “You really are a kid. You’ve been a stick in the mud since you were a kid. It’s not okay to be humorous in front of you, or to pretend to be deep.”

“Pretend to be cool.” I whispered, and I swear I was really whispering.

The flashlight in my hand also fell and tilted to the side.

“You really have no respect. If I don’t discipline you for a few days, your skin will itch. You say I’ve been an upright person my whole life, but why is it that I’ve ended up with such a ‘bad-tempered’ disciple who likes to be beaten?” The master scolded and scolded, and Xiaoding wanted to pretend to be calm, but in the end he couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Perhaps feeling embarrassed, Xiaoding wanted to help me up, but the master pulled him away and said, “What’s the point of caring? He’s not made of paper. Let him get up on his own.”

I had no choice but to climb up myself. But when I was picking up the flashlight, I looked up unconsciously, and the flashlight light also went crooked. Then I froze, and a chill ran down my spine.

I took a few deep breaths to hold back the urge to scream, but the immense pressure of the stare made me unable to move at all. Cold sweat ran down my forehead, and it took me a long time to react. I subconsciously whispered, “Xiao Ding, Xiao… Xiao Ding.”

Yes, when I stood up, I saw the top of the cave, which looked like a forest of stalactites. Among these crisscrossing stalactites, there was a huge stalactite with a strange pattern, which looked like a huge stone, probably too big to be held in the arms of five people.

At the highest point of the cave (about 20 meters from the ground) it continued all the way to the bottom… and I saw a huge snake coiled around this huge ‘stone tree’, even bigger than the ‘ancestor’ I saw earlier.

It had coiled around the rock several times, and there was obviously a part of its body missing. I thought that was the case at first, but after staring at it for too long, I realized that there were many gaps or small holes in the top of the cave, and the missing part of the snake was actually hiding in a small hole that looked larger at the top.

The terrain and scenery here cannot be understood without seeing it for yourself, and I cannot describe it. However, these few words can already measure how old this snake is.

I didn’t see the eyes of the white snake before, but even if the whole snake was huge, it wouldn’t give people such a big pressure. On the contrary, I could feel the gentle temperament on it. But this snake is different. It is covered with a black color that looks very tyrannical, with red stripes in the middle.

I won’t say any more. The moment I looked at it, it suddenly raised its huge head and stared at me coldly. In our eye contact, it obviously sensed my fear, suddenly spit out its tongue at me, then suddenly opened its mouth, and its head also thrust out a certain distance in my direction.

I can’t describe the pressure I felt at that moment. I’ve been through so much, I’m not so scared that I’ll close my eyes, but I can’t help but feel my throat tighten and scream out again: “Xiao Ding!”

I had probably called Ding before, and he must have heard me. After I shouted, Ding appeared in front of me and grabbed my arm, pulling me up.

“It, it…” I still felt weak in the knees when I stood up. Not to mention anything else, just the sheer size of it gave me a strong sense of pressure.

Xiao Ding laughed again and said to me, “This ancestor is good-natured, but it is also the most mischievous. It sees that you are afraid of it, so it is deliberately teasing you.”

“Teasing me?” I still didn’t believe it, but I clearly saw that the giant snake had already retracted its body, and there was a mischievous look of “scheme achieved” in its eyes. There was also an obvious emotion that I could feel, and that was that it felt bored that Xiaoding had exposed it so quickly.

I was actually being toyed with by a snake? And over there, my unscrupulous master was already laughing out loud!

Xiao Ding helplessly said to the giant snake, “Oh, my ancestors, hey, don’t scare my friends, just go and rest.”

The giant snake seemed to have really understood, and it even seemed to nod humanely at Xiaoding, and then lazily settled down on the ‘stone tree’ again.

I wiped a cold sweat and thought to myself, “Is today my unlucky day? First, I had to escape with my master in a panic, then I was scared by these strange snakes one after another, and finally I was toyed with by one of the “ancestors” here?

Thinking this way, I and Xiaoding had already walked in parallel to the front of the master. This unscrupulous old man was still looking at me with an exaggerated smile. Xiaoding, this honest child, couldn’t bear to watch anymore and said to my master, “Grandpa Jiang, don’t laugh at Chengyi. When you first came here, weren’t you also scared by this ancestor?”

The master was still laughing arrogantly and exaggeratedly. When he heard what Xiaoding said, it was as if an egg had been stuffed into his mouth. He couldn’t laugh or shut up. His face turned green and white.

My face twitched, and I tried to look at the master with a sympathetic look, then patted the master on the shoulder and said, “Master, I understand… it’s actually not funny, really not funny.”

The master had nothing to say, and he walked forward with his head bowed. The honest child, Ding, still didn’t know what had happened. I held it in for a minute, and when I got to a corner, I finally couldn’t hold it in anymore, and I burst out laughing at a stone wall.

I didn’t expect the atmosphere to be so pleasant while walking through this secret passage. The three of us walked through it easily, and the master also explained why it was so coincidental to meet Xiaoding here and break the ice.

This incident seems magical, but the explanation is very simple. If I had to say one key sentence, it would be that Master had taken precautions in advance.

“Wu Liyu has left the organization after all. Although there are loyal subordinates who have been placed in the organization as insiders, those people are not the most important figures after all, and the information received cannot guarantee that there will be no mistakes. What I can be sure of is that Yang Sheng will definitely chase us, but what if it happens in advance, when we have no time to prepare? After all, good and evil are both opposed and intertwined, and there are some characters that are not transparent. Things are changing rapidly, so under these considerations, I must think about countermeasures in advance.” The master said lightly.

I thought of myself, enjoying my ‘happiness’ in the bamboo forest cottage, but I never imagined that my master had already thought of so many things. Perhaps when I was injured, he spent night after night with me, thinking about these things.

I thought back to that day, when the incident happened suddenly and Master accompanied me to face it. The calmness he showed was not that he was being brave and calm, but that he already had a plan.

“I won’t go into the details of my calculations, but the basis of all my plans was that I knew where Yang Sheng’s lair was. I was thinking about what I could use in this regard. Then I thought that no matter which road he took, he would definitely pass through this border. And no matter which road he took, he would pass through the Holy Mountain Range of your Snake Gate! So…” Master explained here, and the context of the matter should be clear.

“Grandpa Jiang, what you said makes sense, but how did you calculate this route? It’s so close to the holy place of our Holy Mountain Range. After all, this range is so long and so large. If it were somewhere else, I might not be able to come to the rescue.” Xiao Ding couldn’t help but ask again.

“Actually, it was a gamble,” the master said calmly, then added, “But fortunately, I won.”