The painter's screams woke up almost everyone in the house, including the neighbors.

It's just that the door of the painter's bedroom is locked, and the family members who heard the sound have to bang on the door desperately and ask loudly what is wrong.

When the painter saw that his skin was peeling off, revealing the new skin inside, he immediately guessed that it was he who had exchanged blood with Cynthia, which caused him to have the ability to molt like a snake.

And Cynthia was also unbelievable when she saw that the painter would actually shed her skin, but after all, she was simple-minded, and she was not a human in the real sense, and her way of thinking was completely different from that of humans.

So she was surprised, she didn't feel anything wrong, she wasn't afraid, but like a child, she thought it was funny and happy, naively thinking that the painter was actually a snake like her.

In this regard, the painter knew that it would be difficult to explain it to Cynthia for a while, and Cynthia's language skills were very weak, so she should not tell others what happened to him, so the painter did not deliberately emphasize it, and asked Cynthia to keep the events of that night's life secret.

However, he also understands that this matter can only be a secret between him and Cynthia, and must not be known to others, even his family. Otherwise, with the social background at the time and people's ideology, his wife Cynthia would have been executed as a demon.

So he naturally wanted to put this matter in the end.

In a hurry, he hurriedly endured the pain in his body, shouted in the direction of the door that it was okay, and lied that he just had a nightmare, and now that he woke up, he was fine.

When the family heard him say this, they were relieved and went back to their rooms to continue sleeping.

As for the police who arrived later, they were told by the painter's family that it was a misunderstanding, so they did not investigate deeply and returned to the police station.

Although the misunderstanding was resolved, the painter never fell asleep that night, because when he felt that the molt on his body was over, he went to the bathroom to take a bath, and was surprised to find that some parts of his body were not normal skin, but turned into snake skin.

If this continues, then in time, won't he really become a person with snake skin all over his body! At that time, once the family finds out, it is very likely that the secret that Cynthia is a snake girl will be exposed again, and Cynthia will be killed again.

In order to avoid this outcome, he was ruthless and used a knife to cut open the skin that had turned into snake skin and peeled it off.

As he cut through the skin, he bit a towel in his mouth, so there were no more heart-pounding screams.

After the cut, the bleeding was stopped in time, and the wound was bandaged with gauze, and then he returned to bed and continued to sleep.

Fortunately, the skin that was cut this time was all on the chest, abdomen and thighs, as long as he wore an outer garment, others could not see it, and these bandaged wounds on his body would not appear.

In order to prevent Cynthia from knowing and accidentally revealing her mouth, he decided to hide the truth from her and bury the secret deep in his heart.

In order to cover up his injury, the next day he still followed his usual habits, doing what he should do, and no matter what he did, even if the wound on his body was particularly painful, as long as there were family members or neighbors around him, he still insisted on it, without showing a trace of pain.

Only when he made sure that no one was watching him would he frown and make a few gentle noises to relieve the pain.

Considering that this was not a solution, the painter temporarily thought of a solution, falsely claiming that someone from other places invited him to come to the door to create a painting, and he needed to travel for a period of time.

After about twenty days, the wound healed and the scarring fell off, and after the original skin was completely restored, he returned home with peace of mind.

I thought that this molting storm would be quietly covered up.

However, a few days later, at midnight, he felt hot all over his body again, and knew that he was about to molt again, so he hurriedly stumbled into the bathroom, and bit the towel tightly in his mouth, so that he did not yell in pain like last time, which not only alarmed his family and neighbors, but even the police came to inquire.

When this molting process was over, he was stunned when he looked at his body in the mirror!

I saw that my body had turned into snake skin except for the part that he had cut with a knife and peeled off with a knife, and it had turned into snake skin, even on his face. In other words, his molting ability has been extended to the whole body.

But when he saw that there were a few places on his body that still retained his normal skin, he felt very familiar, and suddenly remembered that the skin in these places was the place where it turned into snake skin after molting last time, and it was cut with a knife by himself and peeled off.

In this way, you just cut the snake skin with a knife, peel it off, and wait until the wound heals and the scar falls off, and the skin returns to its original shape.

It's just that the process is too painful, and this time he is all over the body, and it is impossible to complete it by himself.

In desperation, he had to wake up his wife Cynthia and tell her the truth about the last molt, and the fact that he encountered the same trouble this time.

even told her that Cynthia failed below the calf in the process of molting into a human, but at that time she listened to the witch's advice and used the method of blood exchange to make her completely human.

He also told Cynthia the reason why he was hiding all this, that is, he was afraid that the other humans would find out, and the lighter punishment was to keep her in a cage and sell her to the circus as a rare animal to earn money from the audience. The heavier punishment is that she will be cruelly burned to death as a demon.

When Cynthia understood everything, she realized that the painter and her were not the same kind of person at all, she was a snake, and the painter was a person in the true sense.

If the painter hadn't fed herself with his blood and sucked the blood below her calf after her failed transformation, she would still be a half-human, half-snake monster who couldn't walk.

And if it weren't for the painter who endured the severe pain and cut off the skin of his body that had transformed into snake skin with a knife, the secret that she was a snake girl would have been revealed to the world a long time ago, and maybe at this moment, she would have been either sentenced to death as a demon, or she would have been sent to the zoo and locked in a cage to become a tool for some people to make money.

After knowing the truth of all this, Cynthia was moved to cry for a long, long time before she gradually calmed down.

Later, after bringing a knife and gauze, and an oil lamp, Cynthia followed the painter to his studio, locked the door, and was surprised to see that the painter actually carved out a very beautiful woman's beautiful eyes, and after rotating them three times, with the sound of gears, a lift slowly descended above one of the walls of the studio.

The painter then let Cynthia enter the elevator first, and taught her how to operate the elevator, considering that the elevator can only be ridden by one person at a time, so he asked Cynthia to take the elevator to enter the small attic secret room first, and then he took the elevator to enter the secret room.

The reason why there is such a secret room in this studio is that the painter must not be disturbed in any way when conceiving a new oil painting, after all, some inspirations are fleeting, and if you miss the best time to capture it, and do not follow this inspiration to complete the whole oil painting in time, it is difficult to create a work that will amaze the world.

Therefore, the painter spent a lot of money to build this secret room, and apart from himself and an expert who specializes in the mechanism of the secret room, even his parents and other relatives and friends did not know about the existence of this secret room.

The painter's purpose in doing this was to never let anyone break in and disturb him.

And he also made a very thick soundproof layer in the secret room, even if he shouted wildly inside, the people outside could not hear the slightest sound.

As for the design of the elevator in the studio, the mechanism design that can only open the elevator after the eyes of the female sculpture are rotated three times is so cruel and perverted, but also to prevent someone from showing this mechanism, after all, such a beautiful female sculpture, normal people will not bear to pick her eyes, so his secret room has never been seen by family or other friends.

At the beginning, it was only a secret room for creation, but now it has been turned into an operating room by the painter, that is, Cynthia helped him cut all the snakeskin places on his body with a knife, and then disinfected to stop the bleeding, and wrapped it with gauze.

At first, Cynthia naturally couldn't bear to do this, and even proposed that it would be a big deal for them to exchange the blood back, and she would still be her snake and paint a normal life.

Of course, the painter was reluctant, because he loved Cynthia so much that he would never regret it even if he turned into a snake.

Finally, at the painter's insistence, Cynthia began to cut the snakeskin on the painter's body little by little, and the whole process lasted for a whole night, during which the painter would shout a few times to vent his pain so as not to faint.

Cynthia, on the other hand, wept while cutting as lightly as possible, and when the cutting was finally completed, and the bleeding stopped, and after being wrapped in gauze, the painter's body except for his eyes was entangled in gauze, and at a glance, it looked like a mummy.

During the next month of recuperation, Cynthia lied to his family at the artist's behest that he had recently been in retreat to create an important painting, and that no one was allowed to enter and disturb him except Cynthia was in charge of bringing him food.

The family did not doubt this, after all, the painter had done this before, and he often locked himself in the studio for a month or two in order to create a painting, and even the meals were put at the door of the studio by his family, and no one was allowed to knock on the door to disturb his creation.

After a month and a half, the painter was fully healthy again, and the skin of his whole body was better, whiter and more elastic than before.

In this way, the two of them unknowingly concealed the molting experience.