Douluo: Starting from the Nine-Curved Vine Dragon

Chapter 341 An Encounter in the Dark
As one of the top cities on the entire continent, Wuhun City boasts an exceptionally well-developed sewer system.

The entire sewer system is interconnected, like a top-notch maze. If you accidentally wander into it and don't have a sewer map, finding the exit is extremely difficult.

Even with Tang San's Purple Demon Eye, which allows him to use his mental power to investigate the sewers, finding an exit is still not an easy task.

Tang San wandered around in the sewers for more than an hour before finally finding an exit that connected to the outside world.

To confirm that the outside environment was safe, Tang San quietly climbed down to the bottom of the manhole cover. After carefully probing with his spiritual power for a while and confirming that there was no danger, he lifted the manhole cover and climbed out.

As a result, just as Tang San was about to turn around and leave, he happened to bump into Xue Qinghe, who had just finished the banquet and was on his way back to the hotel, along with two attendants disguised as the Porcupine Douluo and the Serpent Spear Douluo.

"What's that smell? It's so pungent!"

The night was pitch black, and Xue Qinghe couldn't see the dark figure in front of him clearly at first. He only smelled a stench coming from the figure and immediately covered his mouth and nose in disgust.

Hearing the familiar voice, Tang was extremely excited.

At this moment, for Tang San, there was nowhere safer than being by the side of Xue Qinghe, the Crown Prince of Tiandou.

"Brother Xue, it's me, Tang San!"

Perhaps due to excessive excitement, Tang San shed tears and couldn't help but rush forward to give Xue Qinghe a heartfelt hug.

"Tang San?"

Xue Qinghe was completely bewildered.

In the pitch-black night, he only saw a dark figure reeking of a foul stench rushing towards him, and his obsessive-compulsive disorder caused him to scream inwardly:

"Don't come over here!"

Fortunately, the Serpent Spear Douluo was quick-witted and nimble-fisted. Just before Tang San was about to touch Xue Qinghe, he raised his thigh and kicked the shadowy figure hard in a certain spot.

The immense force sent Tang San flying more than ten meters away, his face landing on the ground first after he tumbled through the air.

"Are you really Tang San?"

At this moment, Xue Qinghe put on a silk scarf as a mask, took out a lighting soul tool and shone it forward. Instantly, the bright light shone on the dark figure, revealing Tang San's appearance at this moment.

Although the person lying on the ground was covered in filth and had a bruised and swollen face, Xue Qinghe could still vaguely discern the person's identity from his face and confirmed that it was Tang San without a doubt.

"Brother Tang, what have you done? How did you get yourself into such a mess?"

As he spoke, Xue Qinghe couldn't help but glance at the sewer entrance with the manhole cover lifted not far away, and immediately understood where Tang San's filth came from.

But precisely because of this, the look of disgust on Xue Qinghe's face grew even stronger. However, because he was wearing a silk scarf and the night was dark, Tang San was unable to detect this look of disgust on his face.

Even the Serpent Spear Douluo, who had kicked Tang San, had his pupils shrink slightly because of this. He quickly took off his shoes under the cover of night and threw them into the sewer, then put on a new pair.

Just as Tang San was about to say something, Xue Qinghe threw out several large leather water bags from his soul tool and spoke first:
"Brother Tang, let's talk about this later. You should wash yourself with this water first; it'll be good for everyone."

A few minutes later.

Beside the mountain of empty water bags, Tang San drained the last drop of water from his own bag, casually tossed the empty bag aside, and shouted behind him:

"There's no water left, is there any?"

"..." After a long silence, Xue Qinghe replied without hesitation, "That's all. That bag was the last bag of water."

Upon hearing this, Tang San, though still feeling that he hadn't washed himself properly, had no choice but to give up. He used his soul power to evaporate the water stains on his body and then took out a new set of clothes from his soul tool and put them on.

"Comfortable!"

Tang San stretched lazily, then looked at Xue Qinghe, who had her back to him, and asked with some curiosity:

"Brother Xue, what do you do with so many large water bags filled with water when you're a man?"

What for? Of course, it's for bathing when you're out and about!
However, Xue Qinghe couldn't possibly say these things to Tang San's face, so he changed the subject, saying:

"Brother Tang, when I passed by the hotel where the Poseidon team was staying, I found it was incredibly lively there so late at night. It seems that some of the team members you injured this morning have run into trouble."

"We're so close, just tell me the truth. It's the middle of the night, why aren't you staying in a hotel? Why are you here, and in this way at that? Could it be...?"

Xue Qinghe didn't finish her sentence, but Tang San understood the implication: she believed that he was the one who did it.

To be honest, Tang San did have that idea at first, but when he thought about the level 99 peerless Douluo Poseidon staying at the inn, he immediately gave up that wicked thought.

Tang San was now at a loss for words, unable to explain why he was there.

Seeing Tang San's stammering appearance, Xue Qinghe became even more certain that the incident that happened to the Sea God Team tonight was the work of the other side.

"He was quite lucky, managing to avoid the actions of those forces tonight by some twist of fate. But who would have thought that Tang San would dare to provoke Poseidon?"

After thinking it over, Xue Qinghe lifted his foot to leave.

"Brother Xue, don't you want these water bags anymore?"

Tang San quickly caught up, determined not to leave Xue Qinghe's side for his own safety.

"Uh……"

Xue Qinghe paused, looking at the mountains of empty water bags piled up on the street, his eyes full of disgust.

"No, these are just worldly possessions; I'll give them to Brother Tang."

What a joke! Those water bags were touched by Tang San's hands. Just thinking about those filthy things made Xue Qinghe feel nauseous, so she quickly stopped the imagery in her mind.

"Forget it, I don't need it anyway."

Tang San himself was quite disgusted by the empty water bags and politely declined.

To have a good reason to stay by Xue Qinghe's side, Tang San asked about the results of tonight's match.

"Tonight's game? You've asked the wrong person."

Xue Qinghe shook his head, subtly moving a few steps away from Tang San, and explained:
"I had other things to do tonight, so I didn't go to watch the match live. I don't even know who will win between the Four Elements Academy and the Body Sect!"

This was actually a lie to Tang San. Although Xue Qinghe hadn't been there, someone had already informed him of the competition results.

Xue Qinghe said this only to prevent Tang San from having an excuse to pester him, and to prevent himself from being reminded of those filthy things again because of having such a person around him.

(End of this chapter)