Chapter 4: Songzi and the Snake

  Not even a few steps had been taken when suddenly the sound of rustling and coarse panting came from behind, getting closer and closer. I could feel my heart almost jumping out! I didn't expect his reaction to be so quick!

  In a state of panic, I quickly turned my head to take a look, just one glance, and saw in the darkness, a pair of eyes staring at me with cold green light! Faintly, I saw that Songzi's body had twisted into a strange and eerie posture. Before I could turn my head back, a chill ran down my spine, and suddenly my neck was tightened, and I was dragged to the ground by a powerful force.

  My neck was being strangled, making it hard to breathe. My legs were kicking the ground with all my might just to avoid being strangled to death. I struggled to grab and pull at the thing around my neck, which was sticky and cold. I really used all my strength to scratch and pinch, feeling like my fingernails had dug into flesh. Maybe he was hurt by my scratching, because the strangulation seemed to get even tighter, with less air coming in than going out. Just as I wondered if I would suffocate to death, everything went black and I fainted.

  Before I even opened my eyes, an even stronger stench assailed my nostrils. I felt a chill on my hand, and then something slippery slid across it. I turned my head in a daze, and what entered my field of vision was a black snake as thick as my wrist. I was so startled that I flung the snake far away and sat up with a jolt.

  "Feng Zi, you're finally awake... uh." Wu Ma Yu had just started speaking when Su Dai covered his mouth with her hand and glared at him fiercely, saying: "Shut up!"

  "Damn it......" I couldn't help but blurt out a curse, my eyes widening in incredulity.

  Here is a room-sized cave, frighteningly this is neither a snake den nor a charnel house, this is the realm of snakes and corpses!

  All around me, even where I'm sitting, everywhere I look, are corpses and snakes! The corpses glow with a faint green light, I can clearly see their rotting limbs and damp, sticky black hair, the filthy black water has corroded the tattered clothes, sticking to the corpses, it's impossible to tell what's clothing and what's limbs...

  I've never seen a dead body in my life, but today I saw a whole room full of them. The corpses were piled up haphazardly, their purple faces... I saw pair after pair of eyes that refused to close. Suddenly, I thought of the trash in the garbage can, also carelessly piled together...

  My hands and feet were icy cold, and my back was also filled with a chill. I stared blankly at everything around me, as if I was in hell. The corpses were treated like trash, and the "trash" was used by snakes as their nest and food... Although I had thought that doing this job would mean frequently coming into contact with corpses, I hadn't expected to encounter such a terrifying scene so soon. Suddenly, my whole heart turned cold.

  My stomach kept churning and I couldn't hold it in anymore. I covered my mouth and rushed to the side to vomit. I swear, I really didn't do it on purpose!

  Until I couldn't vomit anymore, I wiped my mouth. As soon as I felt a chill on my body, I suddenly lifted my head and saw that not far in front of me was a huge black snake! Hidden in the darkness, a pair of pupils shining with green light were staring at me coldly. I frowned tightly because the snake's face was Songzi's face...

  Its eyes were still cold, emitting a terrifying temperature, and I heard something shattering inside me. Dazed and sitting still, a damp feeling came over, very cool, I didn't dare to look at the scene below my buttocks, not daring to move, until after a while, that big snake put its head on the corpse again, closing its eyes to rest.

  The snakes around were still crawling all over the corpse, writhing and slithering about...

  "We have to get out of here quickly." Su Dai bumped me and whispered.

  I came back to myself, nodded lightly in agreement, and then asked softly: "How do we leave?"

  Just as I finished asking, Wu Ma You pulled at the hems of my and Su Dai's shirts, saying to us: "This might be an ancient tomb, search around, there should be a mechanism!"

  Ancient tomb!?

  I exchanged a glance with Su Dai, unsure whether to believe this troublemaker, Wu Ma You, who looked completely unreliable. Wu Ma You didn't say much and started searching under the surrounding corpses with a quiver. Seeing this, I could only silently sigh and forcibly suppress my fear, also carefully searching for mechanisms.

  As I glanced at the giant snake dwelling in the cave entrance, I knew that my worldview had begun to change...

  I don't know whether Song Zi turned into a snake or the snake turned into Song Zi. It's also possible... they have merged into one entity...

  I really don't know anything now, my mind is almost blank, just thinking about finding the mechanism quickly, and then...

  *pffft*

  At a critical moment, someone suddenly farted, I was startled, and in the blink of an eye, all the small snakes in the cave began to rise up, even the giant snake blocking the entrance raised its head, staring at us coldly.

  I froze for a moment, jokingly saying that so many snakes could easily drown us!

  "Get out of here!" Su Dai glared at Wuma You with a fierce gaze, his eyes filled with anger and hatred that made him want to kick him to death. Of course, Wuma You was also scared stiff, sweating all over, and things were getting more and more messed up!

  It's no good, they're coming!

  The snakes in the cave all swam towards us, my goosebumps rose instantly, if I was bitten to death by these snakes, it would be more painful than hitting my head and dying immediately, in a panic, I got up and started feeling around for a mechanism, hoping to accidentally trigger it.

  But the corpses here have already piled up like mountains, and with a nest of snakes, if there really are any mechanisms, they would also be crushed by these corpses and snakes. The only hope is starting to shatter, and it's even becoming desperate...

  As I looked at those ugly and icy snakes crawling onto my body, I frantically grabbed them and threw them away. Meanwhile, the thin man and Su Dai were also jumping around wildly. Perhaps this behavior thoroughly enraged the big snake, which was no longer in a state of observation, but slowly slithered towards us.

  At this moment, except that I had already made mental preparations, Wu Xiaoshuai and Su Dai were thoroughly stunned. Because of the light earlier, it was lying at the entrance of the cave and they hadn't seen it, but now, both of them saw it too...the face of this snake...

  "Song Zi?" Su Dai was stunned...

  "Is he the one you're looking for? How can it be a snake?" Wu Xiaoshou asked in surprise.

  "Luckily Song Ah isn't here." I furrowed my brow, if he were to see his own brother turn out like this now, who knows if he could accept it or not.

  "Hurry up and find the mechanism, quickly, or else we'll really have to go down with these dead people today!" Su Dai soon came back to his senses.

  It's better to have one less thing to worry about, now it's more important to find the government office. So, the three of us ran back and forth inside the snake cave, feeling around, it's strange to say, but these small snakes were all over my body, yet they didn't seem to want to bite me, could it be that they don't bite living people? Or is there another mystery at play here?

  "It's no use, there are so many corpses here, even the organs have been completely blocked. We must find He Nian Ma Yue!" On the other side, Wu Xiao Shou said desperately while fiddling with the corpses.

  "Isn't there any other way?" I anxiously sweated, looking at the threatening warning color in the big snake's eyes, my body involuntarily trembled, staring at "Songzi"'s face and not daring to move again.

  At this time, Su Dazi hurriedly said: "Songzi, I am Su Dazi, who is Feng Zidi? Don't you recognize us?" As he spoke, he pointed at me.

  The giant snake stared at us, its green eyes cold and emotionless. The enormous mouth that could swallow half a person's body was already open, with two long fangs emitting a chilling aura. Suddenly, the snake moved! It leaned back, and its human-like face charged towards us. I instinctively dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding disaster.

  "Get out of the way!" Just as Wu Ma Yu shouted loudly, I raised my head and saw that the giant snake with Song Zi's face had launched an attack. Its target was - Su Dai! I was about to rush over, but unexpectedly, Su Dai rolled away and dodged it with a smooth and agile movement.

  At this time, Wu Xiaoshou suddenly shouted and rushed towards me. I didn't dodge in time and my head plunged into the snake nest. I was disheveled and instantly felt like the whole world was filled with a foul odor, making me almost faint from nausea! But I didn't want to give up, giving up would mean death. In the midst of panic, I used all fours to scramble out, but just as I managed to climb out, my foot was suddenly grabbed, and with a loss of balance, I once again plunged into the nest of snakes and corpses. As I lifted my face, a cold, icy face suddenly appeared in front of my eyes...