My wife is the stand-in.

Granny Yu's entire demeanor changed, transforming her from a refined old woman into a graceful noblewoman.

She gazed into the distance, her eyes piercing through the heavily guarded lines, over the blood-soaked boulders, over the torrential rain on the river, over the Queen Fish that had gathered countless gazes, until she reached the other side.

[Current Awareness: Emerging Talent (3%)]

Unbeknownst to her, Yubaba had further restored her abilities.

The aura of the proprietress who has run her bathhouse for centuries is undeniable.

She closed the glass umbrella, dispelled the witchcraft, and let the wind and rain fall on her.

Yubaba took a breath and felt that the cold dampness and water droplets were nothing compared to the steaming hot water vapor in the bathhouse.

Amanosaki quietly followed Yubaba, not disturbing the lady's performance.

In fact, when Yubaba reached the edge of the giant rock, the surrounding heroes had to spare some attention to watch her. They did not sense Yubaba's gradually rising aura, but the old woman's calm and composed expression in the face of the bloody battlefield told them that.

This person must be extraordinary.

Only the clueless blond-haired boy drew his javelin, saw Granny Yu, and exclaimed in horror, "Grandma! What are you doing here! I told you to run!"

He wanted to mutter a few more words, but the next moment Yubaba made him swallow back all his words.

She stepped into the crimson shallow water with her low-heeled shoes.

Centered on her, the river water that had been rising and falling due to the struggle of the four-clawed fish instantly calmed down.

Amanosaki raised an eyebrow, concentrating intently.

His magic attribute is water, and Yubaba's kick was truly awe-inspiring.

The turbulent, flowing water was firmly held in its grasp at this foot, like a kitten being held by the neck; no matter how quick your mind is, you can only remain obedient.

This small-scale disturbance quickly caught the attention of the HR staff in the live stream. At their instruction, a spotlight was turned on on the dam, focusing on Yubaba.

Granny Yu threw down her cigarette butt, grabbed the hem of her bubble skirt with one hand, and lifted one leg to straighten it.

The surrounding heroes seemed like an audience, the strange fish in the distance were like dancers on a dance floor, the river was the stage, and the spotlight illuminated the protagonists of the night.

Amanosaki's breathing immediately became lighter.

Grandma Yubaba tapped her cane on the river and strode forward!

All the strange fish that dared to surface were pushed back into the water by an invisible force, not daring to challenge her. The churning lake water, like the churning mirror world in Doctor Who, returned to calm as she took each step forward!

The Queen Fish noticed something amiss. She opened her mouth and roared, and countless four-clawed fish swam in the water, emerging from the surface far away from Yubaba, and howling at the old woman!

Countless cacophony of shouts rose higher and higher, making one dizzy and unsteady on their feet.

"Shut up! Didn't you learn to respect the elderly?"

With a flick of her finger, Granny Yu sealed the mouths of thousands of four-clawed fish on the river with an invisible zipper, and the Queen Fish's roar was abruptly cut off with a "snap!"

No matter how much she scratched her throat, she couldn't make a sound again.

The Queen Fish secreted a large amount of pheromones from the gaps in its scales beneath the water's surface, causing the four-clawed fish in the river to become agitated and begin to attack the river surface that Yubaba had flattened.

Grandma Yu pointed to the searchlight on the dam and her voice was louder than ever before:

"spotlight."

Then all the searchlights lit up at once. To the astonishment of the knights guarding the dam, the searchlights slid beams of light across the river, just like a stage set up, attracting everyone's attention.

Ultimately, the focus shifts to Yubaba and the Queen Fish.

On one side is the "water ghost," a kind of evil god who led countless descendants to wreak havoc on the Yangtze River for hundreds of years.

On one side was an old woman dressed as a noblewoman, her whole body sparkling with jewels, holding a glass cane.

Dodo.

The cane tapped on the river surface, producing a dull thud as it struck the oak floor.

As a result, the river water paused.

The yellow dragon gushing from the dam froze, hanging like icicles.

The river water, hundreds of meters deep, froze, trapping all the swimming fish and strange creatures inside.

The Queen Fish found herself unable to move. She struggled, gripping the frozen surface of the river with her claws, her mouth agape, but she could not make any threatening sounds. She could only drool and writhe.

Amanosaki stared in amazement at everything before him.

Although it was still a fluid, it could not flow under the influence of witchcraft, turning into a solidified liquid that enveloped everything like a slime.

"This hot spring pool is quite large, but the temperature is too low."

Granny Yu raised her chin and looked around with disdain, while lightning flashed in the leaden clouds like a spider web.

As these words were spoken, the stray lightning bolts gathered above Yubaba's head amidst flashes of light.

"Damn, I just called her 'Grandma,' she's not going to kill me, is she?" Yellow Hair tugged at the taciturn swordsman beside him and uttered a jarring remark.

The swordsman silently moved a few steps to the side, keeping his distance.

"Heat it up!"

That's what Granny Yu said.

Then lightning began to fall like a torrent.

The golden and silver lightning struck the river like noodles being thrown into a pot, just as the ancient poem describes, possessing the power to "crack and shatter mountains and hills!" All the heroes scrambled off the giant rocks, fleeing this cage of lightning in a chaotic frenzy.

The solidified water absorbs all the heat and converts it into pure thermal energy.

The water began to heat up rapidly.

The humidity from the riverbank rose in the high temperature, turning into a thick fog that surged towards the sky.

Yubaba approached the Queen Fish, who was much taller than her, step by step, strolling leisurely through the thunder, as if she were wandering in a garden.

"In my bathhouse, besides herbal soups to cleanse the body, there is also fish soup to nourish the skin and promote longevity."

Yubaba tapped the Queen Fish's armor-like thick scales with her cane.

"Since we're all women, we won't charge you this time."

She crossed the Queen Fish and walked towards the other side.

Then, a huge, blinding thunderbolt, like ten thousand drums pounding in one's ears, struck the Queen Fish's head!

The frozen water collapsed during the lightning strike and began to flow again.

The rich aroma locked in the soup bursts forth like a lid being lifted, enveloping the entire Sanjiang Dam and its surroundings in the steaming air.

"Holy crap! This broth is amazing!"

The blond-haired man, standing far away on the riverbank taking shelter from the lightning, had his eyes gleaming. He wiped the drool from his mouth and thought to himself, "A rich woman like this is the kind of person I would pursue my whole life!"

"I'm determined to win over her best friend!"

"Nozaki, cross the river."

Yubaba's voice reached the ears of the dazed Amanosaki. The newly minted magician stepped into the milky white river water, which quickly cooled down to warm water. Under the complicated gazes of everyone, he awkwardly waded across the river, one step at a time.

"Hey bro! Can you give me this lady's phone number?"

Upon seeing this, the blond-haired man immediately shouted.

Amanosaki waved helplessly:

"Next time, definitely next time!"

Chapter 50: An Old Married Couple

In the dim light, the river surface as far as the eye could see was a milky white, like the benevolent milk squeezed out by Mother Earth.

The rich aroma of fresh river and seafood stew, spreading with the rising steam, attracted birds and animals from all directions.

I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry!

Yellow Hair wiped his blood-stained hands on his body, took the water bottle from his waist, poured it all out without hesitation, then ran to the riverbank, hung it on a rock, and let the water bottle soak into the fish soup.

Hey! You're really drinking it?!

The taciturn swordsman stared dumbfounded at the blond-haired man, and finally uttered a sentence.

The blond-haired man sneered, "What? They're allowed to eat people, but I'm not? Let me tell you, there aren't just fish, shrimp, and clams in here, there are demons too! It'll definitely be a great tonic!"

After saying that, he took a sip, his brows furrowed deeply, and his face scrunched up.

Under the watchful eyes of the surrounding swordsmen, he exhaled a long breath of hot air, his face covered in sweat: "Wow! This is so delicious, even better than Buddha Jumps Over the Wall!"

With the aroma of fish soup filling their mouths and noses, and their mouths watering, the chivalrous knights, upon hearing Huang Mao's evaluation, secretly took out their water bottles, thinking, "I'll take a bite; maybe it really will nourish my kidneys."

Lightning flashed intermittently across the sky, and the searchlights had been turned off, but the live stream room was still filled with a large expanse of milky white light. Newcomers to the live stream were asking what had happened, while bystanders who had witnessed everything were excitedly typing away on their keyboards:

"Holy crap! I've never seen this old lady before. Is she really a newbie? Are newbies this terrifying these days? This level is definitely at the branch level, right? Why didn't she sign with a branch or conglomerate and instead came here to do manual labor?"

"'Spotlight!' Hahaha, this grandma has such a cool presence. I now think that old people can be very charming too."

"Hey, this is the 'Douwu' platform, don't expose your fantasies! If you're going to do something lewd, go to 'Wulinfeng' instead, okay? I'm leaving now."

The chat quickly shifted from discussing combat strength to revealing fanfiction, allowing new viewers to seamlessly join in, creating a joyful atmosphere in the live stream.

But unlike the viewers who were just having fun, the HR staff who were watching the live stream were extremely busy.

A genius, an undisputed genius.

This is the judgment of all HR professionals.

Regardless of the elderly woman's actual age in the video, her appearance in the live stream and the fact that she has no information in the hero's profile means that she is a complete newcomer.

If she has already reached this level so soon after awakening her superpower, then she has the potential to reach the level of the headquarters in her lifetime!

Every conglomerate has no shortage of directors and secrets that need protection. The addition of a chivalrous figure with the potential to become a top-level leader would undoubtedly be of great help in stabilizing the stock market and increasing user confidence in privacy!

I absolutely must get her!

However, when the HR staff were bidding in the background of the "Douwu: Sexy Fish Boss Kills Fish Online" live stream, they found that they could not find the old lady's contract auction information at all.

There wasn't even any contact information!

Gan!

What's going on here!