Chapter 2801: Express suspicion first

Soon, a group of people lit a bonfire and grill at the moment the sunset completely fell.

Since everyone prepared ingredients, and Ye Chen bought some extra, this dinner was exceptionally rich.

In addition, Ye Chen bought a lot of good wine. The atmosphere was set, and basically everyone decided to drink to their heart's content this night.

So, Ye Chen specially integrated a trace of spiritual energy into the wine.

These spiritual energies could not strengthen the body or cure diseases, but they could ensure that no matter how much they drank this night, they would not yawn once.

Moreover, once this meager spiritual energy was absorbed by their bodies, it would never leave any traces, even if Wu Feiyan came, it would be impossible to notice.

Yunnan is located on a plateau, and the temperature difference between day and night is quite large. Coupled with the fact that Turtle Back Mountain itself increased the altitude by several hundred meters, the temperature dropped to a cold level after nightfall.

So everyone sat around the bonfire, borrowing the warmth of the fire and the strong wine to keep warm. Hu Leqi held a guitar, and some young people who liked to sing followed him to sing a few popular songs. The overall feeling instantly ignited, and the atmosphere was quite enthusiastic.

Lin Wan'er also liked this feeling very much, integrated into it very easily, and the whole person was exceptionally relaxed.

A young man raised his glass with everyone and said, "Oh my, tonight's wine is truly divine. It tastes good and doesn't go to the head. I usually lose my memory after drinking this much, but today I'm getting more and more energetic!"

"Me too!" Another person smiled and said, "Although I'm a bit dizzy, I don't feel like I'm going to get drunk at all. It's so comfortable!"

The man said, looking at Ye Chen and asking, "A-Chen, the wine you bought, although the taste is the same as the wine I usually drink, the feeling seems different. Is this a vintage wine?"

Ye Chen smiled and said, "The feeling is different because the atmosphere is here. Drinking is like this. The more enthusiastic the atmosphere, the higher the alcohol tolerance."

Hu Leqi agreed and said, "A-Chen is right. Whether you get drunk or not depends on three indicators: one is a person's alcohol tolerance, one is his alcohol intake, and alcohol consumption."

As he spoke, Hu Leqi added, "If your maximum alcohol tolerance at the dinner table is one jin of white wine, then when you drink alone, you definitely won't reach this amount. This is because drinking at the dinner table is chatting while drinking, physical strength and body fluid consumption are greater, and alcohol consumption is also greater, and the spirit is highly excited. These all help the evaporation of alcohol."

The man pondered for a moment and smiled, "Makes sense! It's really happy today, and once happy, I want to drink more!"

Ye Chen said at this time, "Everyone, it's rare for everyone to be so happy. Let's just have a blast until dawn tonight, and after watching the sunrise, let's have a good sleep."

Everyone almost immediately agreed without prior consultation.

Staying up late is just a piece of cake for young people.

Holding a mobile phone in bed or facing the screen in front of the computer, it is an entire night before you know it. What's more, everyone's interest is very enthusiastic tonight, and the state is surprisingly good. Staying up until dawn and watching a sunrise is completely fine.

So, a group of people really had a blast on this Turtle Back Mountain, eating skewers and singing songs, all the way until the dawn of the next day.

Before sunset yesterday, occasionally other hikers could be seen going down the mountain. After sunset until the sky began to turn white, Ye Chen didn't see anyone else appear.

At this time, there was less than twenty minutes until sunrise, and everyone added some branches and firewood to the bonfire for the last time, waiting for the moment when the sun rose from the other side of the mountain.

After about ten minutes, the horizon, which was only turning white, began to have golden glow.

This is a sign that the sun is about to rise from the horizon.

Just when everyone was looking forward to it, Ye Chen's senses suddenly perceived that someone was walking quickly towards where they were.

Due to the fear of being discovered by Wu Feiyan, Ye Chen had been operating the mental cultivation formula taught by Yun Ruge since he started drinking last night, locking his own spiritual energy fluctuation tightly in his body.

For cultivators, everyone is like a submarine sailing in the deep sea. They monitor each other by sonar detection.

Using this metaphor, people with high cultivation are like more advanced submarines. The submarine's synthesis is stronger, not only with fierce firepower and strong power, but also with more advanced detection means and longer detection distances;

People with low cultivation are like old and backward submarines, with poor firepower, weak power, and poor detection capabilities. It is very likely that they haven't figured out where the opponent is before they are destroyed by a torpedo from the other side.

Cultivators perceive each other, just like the passive sonar of submarines monitoring each other. Once they hear

However, this does not mean that everyone with low cultivation is doomed to die when facing someone with high cultivation.

An old submarine, if cautious enough, can also evade advanced submarines; one of the most common methods for this is to bottom out and maintain absolute silence.

Once a submarine enters a state of absolute silence—engines shut down, all electronic and detection equipment stopped, and all personnel on board remaining motionless without making a sound—in such a situation, it is very difficult for advanced submarines to discover the target if they rely solely on passive sonar.

Ye Chen is currently in this state of silence.

And generally speaking, even if a very powerful cultivator appears here, as long as they do not deliberately investigate every single person to the end, it is impossible for them to discover that Ye Chen is also a cultivator.

But this is not absolute; just like a submarine in absolute silence, although the opponent's passive sonar cannot detect it, if the opponent turns on active sonar to search, it is still possible to find it.

However, there is another very critical problem here: although active sonar is useful, this thing is a double-edged sword. It is like a flashlight in the dark; using it to find people is indeed much easier, but once you use it, setting aside whether you can find your opponent, you will inevitably be the first to expose yourself.

Therefore, whether in military terms or for cultivators themselves, they will not blatantly search for their own kind everywhere.

They are afraid of being targeted by experts in the shadows, so they will not casually risk their own safety, and even less will they release Qi to probe every person around them wherever they go.

Furthermore, Wu Feiyan must be very cautious and careful right now. Let alone turning on active sonar, she might even be like Ye Chen, choosing absolute silence to ensure absolute safety.

And at this very moment, Ye Chen sensing someone approaching rapidly is not relying on Qi, but on his own keen senses.

At the same time, Wu Feiyan, who was rapidly ascending the mountain, had already sensed that there were already over a dozen people on Turtle Back Mountain early in the morning.

However, she was not surprised; after all, she had encountered quite a few camping enthusiasts along the way. She knew that this kind of outdoor activity was very common among young people, so she didn't take it to heart at all.

When she stepped onto Turtle Back Mountain and saw the several tents and the dozen or so young people not far away, her brows subconsciously furrowed slightly.

These people were all looking in the direction of the sunrise at this moment, clearly waiting to enjoy the sunrise.

Wu Feiyan did not suspect them; she was just a bit annoyed and disappointed, because these people were a bit too close to the cenotaph of her senior brother, Lin Zhulu.

Her revisit to this old place was specifically to reminisce about the past before Lin Zhulu's grave and, incidentally, to say a few words from her heart to her senior brother.

But the location of these people was only two or three hundred meters away from Lin Zhulu's cenotaph. If she went directly in, she was afraid she wouldn't be able to avoid their line of sight. In this way, it wouldn't be so convenient for her to say anything to her senior brother.

At this time, Ye Chen had already caught a glimpse of the young, mature woman who had just appeared in the distance.

Relying on his superior eyesight, Ye Chen made out the woman's appearance.

It must be said that although Wu Feiyan has already lived for four hundred years, she is still beautiful and moving, seemingly no less so than Lin Wan'er.

Moreover, Wu Feiyan's expression is cold, her eyes are like torches, and her aura is extremely strong; one look and she clearly isn't someone to be trifled with.

Seemingly sensing that someone was watching her, Wu Feiyan subconsciously wanted to look at the other party as well.

When Lin Wan'er saw Wu Feiyan's figure, before she could even see her face clearly, her heart skipped a beat. She knew that the woman in the distance was Wu Feiyan, whom she had been hiding from for over three hundred years.

In this instant, Lin Wan'er's heartbeat became somewhat erratic; the mixture of anger and nervousness made her palms full of sweat.

Seeing her complexion turn somewhat pale and her being quite nervous, Ye Chen hurriedly pulled her into his arms and whispered with a pained expression, "I told you not to stay up all night, but you wouldn't listen. The key is that you also drank quite a bit of alcohol; you must be feeling terrible staying up until now, right?"

Lin Wan'er knew that Ye Chen had sensed her abnormality and was intentionally confusing Wu Feiyan. While feeling grateful in her heart, she was also somewhat nervous and shy because she was being held by Ye Chen.

She forced herself to adjust her state and said coquettishly, "Didn't I stay up all night just to watch the sunrise with you... Since we've been together, we've never watched the sunrise together."

Seeing that she had recovered, Ye Chen also felt relieved. He noticed out of the corner of his eye that Wu Feiyan might be observing them, so he intentionally glanced at her location, then deliberately lowered his voice and said to Lin Wan'er beside him, "Baby, look, someone is already climbing Turtle Back Mountain this early!"

Lin Wan'er pretended to look curiously for a moment before saying, "And she seems to be all alone. Could it be that she climbed two mountains this early just to watch the sunrise? Wouldn't she have had to set off before dawn?"

Ye Chen said casually, "Who knows? Maybe she's like us and found a place to stay halfway up the mountain for the night."

As he spoke, Ye Chen added, "But it's still a bit strange. Turtle Back Mountain isn't the highest in the vicinity, so why go through the trouble of climbing here to watch the sunrise? What's even stranger is that she's all alone..."

The conversation between Ye Chen and Lin Wan'er was heard clearly by Wu Feiyan, without a single word missed.

Their conversation didn't make her harbor any suspicion; on the contrary, after Ye Chen took the initiative to express suspicion toward her first, it invisibly reversed the situation, making Wu Feiyan realize that her appearing here all alone so early in the morning did indeed seem somewhat unreasonable in the eyes of others.

At this moment, Wu Feiyan's mindset had shifted from trying to discover abnormalities to trying to cover up her own abnormality.

Therefore, she suddenly felt some hesitation, thinking to herself, "If I go to pay my respects before my senior brother's cenotaph now, will these people notice anything unusual?"