Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Content Warning; Beware anyone afraid of snakes
You Xu, constantly being held by the collar and dangling in mid-air, felt like a teru teru bozu[1] (a Japanese doll used to ward off evil spirits), a very unpleasant experience. Her face was almost turning blue. “Put me down first. I can walk by myself. I can’t escape under your nose.”
“Don’t you want your life?” Lan Kun glanced at her and chuckled. “This ground is full of venom. What good do you think your human shoes can do? One wrong move and you’ll be dead on the spot, your bones rotting away.”
You Xu: Okay, teru teru bozu is the best.
At the end of the cave was a high platform. From a distance, it looked like a platform, but upon closer inspection, it was actually a large pit in the center.
It was filled with snake carcasses. Only two snakes were still alive, their bodies covered in wounds, the blood even obscuring their original color. One of them had its tail bitten off.
They slithered around, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, their vicious, cold eyes fixed on each other, each looking for an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.
On the brink of life and death, both snakes were extremely cautious. The snake with the broken tail deliberately exposed an opening, allowing the other snake to bite. The snake with the broken tail swiftly turned and bit back, the two snakes instantly writhing together, each exerting all its strength to kill the other.
After a fierce battle, the snake’s movements slowed, and finally, on the verge of death, it stopped moving. The snake with the broken tail had won the final victory. Its eyes gleamed coldly, and it opened its mouth wide to swallow its prize.
This kind of instinct-driven battle was the most cruel and bloody. You Xu’s pale expression pleased Lan Kun, who continued, “The hundred snakes that emerge victorious will be decided here, and only those snakes will be the most venomous and ferocious, worthy of my use.”
You Xu: Enough, I don’t really want to know.
Lan Kun led her away from this area, back to the previous cave.
You Xu curled up on the ground, motionless, her face expressionless from exhaustion.
Lan Kun sat down on the ground beside her and asked, “Are you You Jingyan’s sister?”
You Xu replied, “Good that you know. If you let me go back, whatever medicine you want, my brother will give it to you.”
“He can make poison?”
“Of course.”
Lan Kun scoffed, “The little bit of poison he makes is nothing.”
There’s a kind of insult that says you can insult me, but you can never insult my family. You Xu perked up and retorted, “You’re poisonous?”
Lan Kun replied matter-of-factly, “Of course I’m poisonous.”
You Xu: Damn idiot, you dare to answer my insults.
She secretly cursed him, and he didn’t even know it. You Xu felt instantly at peace and didn’t bother with this sick snake anymore.
“As expected of the most beautiful woman in the world, you are indeed pitiful to look at,” seeing that You Xu didn’t look at him or pay attention to him, Lan Kun pinched her chin and forced her to look at him, “However, I prefer your tearful, pale and haggard appearance.”
You Xu: Damn pervert.
He seemed to have found some amusement and suddenly asked, “I heard you like tails?”
You Xu still ignored him.
Lan Kun then said to himself, “The news I sent people to inquire about says that you enjoy touching the tail of the Heart-Eating Fox day and night. I also have a tail, so tell me whose is better.”
You Xu thought wearily, “No need.”
Completely ignoring You Xu’s resistant expression, Lan Kun’s two human legs instantly transformed into a thick and long snake tail.
You Xu: “…”
What You Xu found most unacceptable was that the tail was gaudy and colorful, with red and green stripes that looked like a mosaic, extremely jarring to the eye.
Lan Kun: “Touch it.”
You Xu: …When will this end?
Seeing You Xu back away, Lan Kun grabbed her hand and pressed it against his tail, instantly petrifying You Xu.
Lan Kun raised his eyes and asked her, “How is it?”
Seeing that You Xu didn’t answer, he pulled her hand down his tail and stroked it.
“Is the Heart-Eating Fox’s tail better, or mine better?” he threatened.
You Xu just wanted to end this painful experience as soon as possible, so she said against her will, “Each has its own merits.”
“Oh?” Lan Kun raised an eyebrow, “Tell me.”
You Xu: Can’t snakes have some self-awareness?
The snakeskin beneath her hands felt slippery and cold. Such that You Xu barely managed to maintain her composure: “One has fur, the other doesn’t.”
Lan Kun clearly had no intention of letting her go, so he asked coldly, “So tell me, is it better to have fur or not?”
You Xu: “…”
Seeing You Xu’s expression of being driven almost mad, Lan Kun laughed, the phosphorescent demonic patterns under his eyes spreading out, looking quite pleased.
“Alright,” Lan Kun said, giving her a break, “I’ll grant you two hours of rest.”
With that, he coiled her up with his tail.
You Xu closed her eyes. After a while, no matter how much she tried to mentally prepare herself, the instinctive reaction of the snake’s touch making her nerves and body tense was impossible to control. Arousing this instinctive reaction was itself a drain on her mind and body.
She opened her eyes: “Let me go, I really can’t escape. I can’t sleep at all with you tethered by your tail.”
Lan Kun: “That’s your problem. Aren’t you humans very adaptable?”
You Xu: But I don’t want to use my adaptability to adapt to you, a snake.
After cursing him countless times in her heart, You Xu closed her eyes again. She silently thought that if You Jingyan could come to save her soon, she would definitely take good care of him and see him off in his old age.
At this moment, she missed Shen Jue’s big fox tail terribly, hoping he would quickly crawl out of the ground to save her. She promised to take good care of his tail and never touch his ears or tease him again.
Sometimes, once people start reflecting, they easily rise to a higher level of life.
Like You Xu now, with tears in her eyes, she thought she would definitely become a good person in the future.
….
You Xu discovered that Lan Kun, this perverted snake, genuinely treated her as a plaything.
She didn’t know what he had gone through to become so heartless.
Regardless of day or night, he allowed You Xu only a little time where she could close her eyes. Each time as soon as she had closed her eyes for an hour or two, he would make her cheer up and interact with him. He often scared her with snakes, tied her with his own snake tail, and even built a log bridge over a pit full of snakes, making her walk back and forth, enjoying her expressions of utter despair.
The more miserable she looked, the happier he became.
He knew You Xu was cursing him in her heart, but he didn’t care. “Once I’m tired of playing with you, I’ll give you a quick death.”
So You Xu constantly teetered on the edge of sudden death, her face pale and weak. On the third day she stayed in the snake pit, Lan Kun came up with a new game. He designed a wooden running wheel for You Xu to run on, with a snake chasing behind.
He laughed maliciously: “What do you think?”
You Xu: How the hell are you so ahead of your time? Isn’t this just an enlarged version of a pet hamster’s running wheel?
Lan Kun narrowed his eyes: “Are you cursing me?”
You Xu immediately denied it: “No.” Hey, I’m cursing you, you perverted snake.
“Get on.” Lan Kun pushed her with his tail.
“…”
You Xu used all the curses she had ever uttered on this perverted snake.
Just then, a small snake demon rushed in: “Your Majesty.”
Lan Kun: “What is it?”
The little snake demon bowed, its voice trembling: “Someone is attacking! Our people…”
Lan Kun interrupted it: “Our Stone Phosphorus Demon Formation has been broken?”
The Stone Phosphorus Demon Formation was one of the strongest formations of the snake race. So far, no one had been able to break it. Countless people had turned into black blood in the poisonous mist within this formation, leaving no trace of their bodies. This was one of the reasons why the Southern Phosphorus Snakes dominated the region.
Moreover, this formation was set up ten miles away, and there are ten formations all the way to the Ten Thousand Snake Cave. Lan Kun asked: “How many did they break?”
The little snake demon broke out in a cold sweat: “All ten were broken…”
“What?!” Lan Kun’s voice suddenly rose, “Then why did no one come to report?”
“Everyone who could come back to report was killed…” Only this little snake demon, who had backed down at the last minute, escaped with his life.
Lan Kun opened his mouth, asking in utter disbelief, “How many did they kill?”
“Slaughtered ten thousand.”
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