Infinite: Starting from Resident Evil

She looked at Shen Ye, hesitant to speak, and the same problems Shen Ye had encountered earlier were now manifesting in her.

But after thinking for a moment, she smiled and called out, "Little brother..."

Shen Ye quickly stood up: "Mother-in-law."

Fresh ginseng's face immediately fell.

“I haven’t agreed to her marrying you yet!” Fresh Ginseng said coldly.

"That's only a matter of time." Shen Ye clasped his hands in a fist. "In a few years, I will marry Meng'er."

Chi Meng is only fifteen years old now, younger than Manuella and Fabiola. Shen Ye's affection for her is greater than simple love.

But Fresh Ginseng coldly replied, "I already said, I haven't agreed yet."

"Old..." Chi Meng almost called out "Mom" again, but it was obviously not as natural as calling her "Dad," so she quickly changed her address to "Mother..."

"Whatever you call me won't make a difference." Fresh Ginseng glanced at her and said indifferently, "Your dead father hasn't come to see me once in all these years. Are you calling me so affectionately because you want me to forgive your father?"

Chi Meng immediately shut her mouth, pouting, not daring to say a word.

"Hmph, you're really not like me at all. You were so sharp-tongued just now, how come you can't even speak now?" Fresh Ginseng had an unusually bad temper and was not forgiving at all.

Seeing Chi Meng being criticized by the fresh ginseng, Shen Ye couldn't sit still any longer and cupped his hands again, saying, "Mother-in-law..."

“Call me sister…” Fresh Ginseng glared at him.

"That's not a good idea..." Shen Ye shrank back guiltily. Who calls their mother-in-law "sister"? They'd be struck by lightning!

"She can call her whatever she wants, you can call yours, what's wrong with that?" Fresh Ginseng said casually, but it sent a chill down Shen Ye's spine.

Shen Ye looked up at the sky and, through the building's atrium, saw that the clouds... seemed even thicker.

Hopefully it will only rain later...

he thought.

But he still didn't dare to change his mind.

“Mother-in-law, Chi Meng really misses you, and so does his father.”

Shen Ye's words were filled with unease. Even in the original story, Chi Meng's father only gave the token to Chi Meng under duress, and he never mentioned Chi Meng's mother's name before, which seemed... heartless?

“Little brother, you’re just like me when you lie.” Xiancan looked at Shen Ye, who kept looking up at the sky: “When I lie to those old fogies, I don’t dare to look them in the eye either.”

But then she sighed, "But what can I do? He's my husband... Tell me, where is he now?"

“I don’t know.” Shen Ye shook his head: “Only the Witch King knows where he is imprisoned, but I can’t deal with the Witch King.”

“Twin miasma…” Xian Shen murmured, then looked at Shen Ye and Chi Meng and continued, “The Twelve Caves, is there anyone who can cure it?”

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(I was dizzy from drinking, but... at least I managed to write it down, and it only took me an hour. Sure enough, when you're drunk, relying on your subconscious is much better than racking your brains.)

Chapter 467! Ruins

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Before we knew it, it was the next day.

"Mother, are you really not coming with us?"

At the foot of the stone temple steps, Shen Ye and his group, who had rested overnight, were ready to set off. At this moment, Chi Meng, who had been chatting with Xian Shen for almost the entire night, held her mother's hand affectionately and asked reluctantly.

Regardless of their previous misunderstandings and conflicts, they were mother and daughter after all. Although they hadn't seen each other for more than ten years, blood was thicker than water, and their long-standing longing for each other quickly brought them closer together.

Looking at his daughter's reluctant eyes, Xiancan sighed: "Alas! Didn't I tell you? I made a mistake and was exiled here by the Twelve Caves. I can't go out freely."

“But Mother-in-law, you have already been exiled for fifteen years. That should be enough. After all, how many fifteen-year periods does one have in a lifetime? You are still young. Why waste your youth here?” Shen Ye also tried to persuade her.

“Call me sister…” Xiancan looked at him, correcting his way of addressing her, and then said, “Of course I know that staying here is a waste of my youth, but what can I do? I am the Holy Maiden of the Twelve Caves, and there are some rules that I must abide by.”

“But rules are made by people, and since they are made by people, they can naturally be modified or broken.” Shen Ye looked at the fresh ginseng: “If Mother-in-law is worried about being punished by the Twelve Caves in the future, then you can rest assured. I may not be good at other things, but I am quite good at fighting. When the time comes, I will go to the Twelve Caves, surround the chiefs of those Twelve Caves, beat them up, and force them to change those so-called rules. Of course, if they still disagree after being beaten, I don’t mind if the Twelve Caves are stained with blood.”

Shen Ye spoke these words in a calm tone, but no one doubted the truthfulness of his words, because he truly could do it.

Chi Meng chimed in, "Yes, Mother. If they don't agree, let Big Brother beat them until they do. Big Brother is very powerful."

Hearing their conversation, Xiancan helplessly raised his hand to rub his forehead: "Little brother, I know you are very capable, but some things cannot be solved by force. Besides... besides, I don't want to go out for the time being."

"Why?" Chi Meng asked hurriedly.

Xiancan didn't speak immediately. She just looked at her and Shen Ye, and finally sighed, "I still have some things I haven't figured out. I need to think about them quietly by myself, so you should go first."

"But……"

Chi Meng wanted to say something more.

But Xian Shen waved his hand to interrupt him: "No need to say anything more, you can go now, I need to go back and think about the problem."

"Also, keep that sign safe and don't lose it. When you get to the Twelve Caves, show that sign and someone will greet you." She continued to Chi Meng.

Upon hearing this, Shen Ye and Chi Meng could only nod. Shen Ye then clasped his hands and said, "Mother-in-law, please take good care of yourself. We will come to pick you up from here after we leave the Twelve Caves."

"Sister understands." Fresh Ginseng nodded, turned around and went up the steps, waving to everyone from the stone temple.

Shen Ye and the others waved to the Korean ginseng, then turned and left, with the Korean ginseng seeing them off in the direction they had indicated before leaving.

After walking a few steps, Shen Ye suddenly remembered something and said to Lu Linxuan and the others, "You guys go first, I forgot to give something to my mother-in-law."

Sitting on the steps, Xiancan saw Shen Ye return and asked with some surprise, "What's wrong, little brother? Are you reluctant to leave your sister and want to stay here with her?"

"I just wanted to give you something." Shen Ye shook his head slightly, reached into his pocket, and pulled out a handful of candy.

Shen Ye placed the candy in Xian Shen's hand and said, "Mother-in-law, your hard times are about to end."

After saying this, he bowed again and left.

After watching Shen Ye's departing figure for a while, Xiancan looked down at the candy in his hand again, a bitter smile appearing on his lips.

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After leaving the stone temple, Shen Ye and his group walked about ten miles in the direction Xian Shen had indicated, and arrived at a village.

This village is the location of the Twelve Caves in Miao legend, before the Twelve Caves went into seclusion. Now, it has been abandoned by the people of the Twelve Caves and has become an abandoned village.

The village has been abandoned for an unknown period of time. Most of the houses, which have not been maintained, have collapsed. Even those that have not collapsed are mostly incomplete, offering neither shelter from the wind nor protection from the rain.

The totem statues in the village were covered by weeds. Lu Linxuan and the other girls carefully used their weapons to clear away the weeds and looked curiously at the totem statues that were so different from those in the Miao villages outside.

Shen Ye was also looking at the stone statues in the village, but his gaze fell directly on the stone statue that still stood in the village but was missing a head.

Having read the plot, he naturally knew that there was a secret chamber left by Li Chunfeng under this stone statue, which was specially prepared for Li Xingyun. However, even Li Chunfeng in the afterlife could not have imagined that Li Xingyun had not come at all.

"Is this what Twelve Caves looks like? There's not a single person here, and this village has clearly been abandoned for a long time."

Lu Linxuan and the other girls searched the abandoned village for a long time, but they didn't see a single person.

"Did your mother remember wrong?" Lu Linxuan turned to look at Chi Meng, who had the same puzzled expression as her.

"How would I know?" Chi Meng pouted; she wanted to ask the same question.

Lu Linxuan could only sit down on a rock in frustration, propping his chin up and looking at Shen Ye who was deep in thought.

At this moment, Shi Yao walked to Shen Ye's side, who was deep in thought, and asked softly, "Young Master, what should we do now?"

Shen Ye gently shook his head without speaking, then glanced at Hou Qing, who was fiddling with a bone flute, before saying:

"Brother Hou, you've been here before, you should know something, right?"

"I don't know much," Hou Qing said. "I've searched around here, but to no avail. Many roads lead to dead ends."

"So that means there are places that aren't dead ends?" At this moment, Lu Linxuan and the other girls walked over, and Miao Chengtian thought for a moment and asked.

"Hmm." Hou Qing nodded, pointed in a direction with the bone flute in his hand, and continued, "I didn't go all the way to the end of this road."

"Why?" asked the older sister beside him.

"Because I find women troublesome," Hou Qing said earnestly.

Then he discovered that all the women, including his sister, were glaring at him.

"I didn't say you guys." Hou Qing then realized that most of his group were women, and quickly explained, "If you keep walking along that road, you'll pass through a place called Painting Valley. In Painting Valley, there's a Falling Flower Cave, which is full of women. I didn't want to deal with them, so I turned back when I got to the entrance of the valley."

Speaking of which, Brother Shen, you're quite adept at dealing with women. Why don't we try that side this time?

As Hou Qing finished speaking, he suddenly looked at Shen Ye.

“Let’s go that way then.” Shen Ye nodded, then added, “Actually, I’m not good at dealing with women.”

The reason for this was that after Hou Qing said that the Falling Flower Cave was full of women, all the women around him turned to look at him.

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(Tsk, Falling Flower Cave!)

Chapter 468! Falling Flower Cave

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