"Golden medal? Is that it, what happened to it?"
As he spoke, a gleam flashed in Ye Feng's hand, and a shining golden medal appeared on the table.
"That's right, it's this one!"
Wu Ye Lan glanced at it and nodded with certainty. "This golden medal was personally awarded by me to a gold-level adventurer more than twenty years ago... That person came to the Adventurers' Guild with one of the Five Great Mages of Ao Fa, the Flame Ranger, and then disappeared with the Flame Ranger..."
"For the past twenty-odd years, the Flame Ranger has vanished from the face of the earth... If you possess this medal, you might be mistaken for being connected to the Flame Ranger."
"And it is said that the Flame Ranger was hunted by the people of Ao Fa City because he stole a legendary artifact from Ao Fa City..."
"If many people know about this medal, it could bring considerable trouble, especially from Ao Fa City!"
Wu Ye Lan explained to Ye Feng while drinking. As his words fell, the three-jin bottle of strong liquor was emptied.
"I see..."
Ye Feng had found this golden medal by chance in the Goblin Kingdom. He had thought it was just an ordinary gold-level adventurer killed by goblins in the Goblin Kingdom, but he never expected the person to be with the Flame Ranger...
"Um... is it good for you to just drink like this?... This can warm your body for a short time, but it's actually... harmful to your health..."
Seeing Wu Ye Lan continuously drinking, Ye Feng couldn't help but speak.
"Young brother, you have sharp eyes!"
Wu Ye Lan was slightly surprised and then understood the implication in Ye Feng's words, but he didn't stop drinking.
"Beep beep!~"
At this moment, a bracelet on Wu Ye Lan's hand vibrated.
"Sorry, Xiao Lin, you and Ye Feng eat first, then take them around. I have something to attend to and need to leave!"
Wu Ye Lan said to Wu Ye Lin, downed the remaining liquor in the bottle in one gulp, and then left in a hurry.
...
"Ye Feng... did you... did you see something wrong with my grandfather?"
After Wu Ye Lan left, Wu Ye Lin looked at Ye Feng with great doubt, a hint of worry in her eyes.
"This..."
Ye Feng frowned slightly and said, "When your grandfather walked over just now, you should have felt an unusual cold breeze, right?"
"If I'm not mistaken, he has absorbed a lot of ice-attribute arcane energy recently, and it's likely reaching the limit of what his body can bear. This is also why your grandfather felt cold just now and kept drinking!"
"I don't know why he's doing this, but it's extremely harmful to his body..."
...
Around ten o'clock in the evening,
Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, and Qiao Ying had already left. Wu Ye Lin, with a heavy heart, walked towards an old house in the Wu Ye family, which was where Wu Ye Lan was.
...
Meanwhile,
Adventurers' Guild, the Huang Family,
"Trash, all of you are trash! So many days have passed, and there's still no news from Xiao Shang and the others!"
"Wu Ye Lin, that woman, has been back for two days, yet Yi Yuan and Qiao Yin, who left several days earlier, still haven't sent any news!"
A lean man in his fifties with a white streak at his temples, dressed in opulent clothing, was roaring. Many broken items lay on the ground, and several subordinates stood trembling, their faces ashen.
The lean man was Huang Renxin, the patriarch of the Huang family. The Xiao Shang he mentioned was Huang Heshan.
Huang Heshan, Huang Yi Yuan, and Huang Qiao Yin were his highly valued grandsons, whom he had heavily nurtured. Thus, despite their young age, they were all at the gold-level. However, all three of them were now in an unknown state of life or death...
"Father!"
At this moment, a middle-aged man who bore a striking resemblance to Huang Renxin walked in through the door. He was Huang Zhikun, Huang Renxin's son.
"Still no news about Xiao Shang and the three of them?"
Huang Zhikun glanced at the subordinates and roared, "What are you all doing?..."
"Grandpa, what's wrong?"
Seeing that her grandfather didn't respond, Wu Ye Lin walked over to him and asked with concern, a hint of worry in her brows.
"No... nothing... Don't worry, Grandpa is fine..."
Wu Ye Lan forced a smile, but it was extremely bitter.
"Grandpa, I... what is this device? It looks very similar to the mirror arcane yuan coin... Huh, it's even displaying text now!"
Seeing her grandfather lost in thought, even with a hint of despair, Wu Ye Lin's heart felt heavy, but she didn't know how to comfort him. She hastily tried to change the subject.
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