3. Chapter III

As the manhole cover fell, the entire small waterway was also plunged into darkness. Only a faint ray of moonlight fell from above the manhole cover. Sewers are pipes that drain sewage and rainwater, and we don't dislike the dirty floor of sewers. He sat down in a spiral away from the moonlight, staring silently upwards.

The sewers were quiet, and the noise of the world was far away, and the clearest thing was the sound of the soo not far away, which was probably the rats living in the sewers foraging for food.

Yan Xi couldn't help but lower his eyes and leaned against the wall of the sewer.

The walls of the sewer are cold, perhaps because it is covered in moisture all year round. However, Yan Xi was only wearing a white shirt and did not feel cold at all.

Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he was now a semi-cold-blooded animal, he thought!

Yan Xi hugged himself and bowed his head in contemplation. But what could he have in mind? After so much experience, my head is still empty.

In the empty sewer, the sound of chirping in his ears became clearer, and in a trance, Yan Xi seemed to feel that those rats were wondering what he was doing here.

Yan Xi couldn't help but chuckle.

When did he become so pitiful that he fantasized about the comfort of the rats.

Still, the voices were close. Yan Xi raised his eyes and looked at the source of the sound. In the half-hidden darkness, several gray and shiny rats were slowly approaching him, their dark eyes seemed to be shining, one by one, they were fattened by the garbage of the sewers. Compared with the usual rats, they are so strong that they make people feel worried.

Yan Xi has heard that some rats are indeed not afraid of people, and sometimes, they will automatically attack people.

Yan Xi's eyes were gloomy, when did he become the target of rat bullying. His back strained, and the snake's tail moved, the tip of which was quietly cocked.

As if sensing Yan Xi's unkindness, the mice stopped, they turned their heads to each other and chattered a few times, under Yan Xi's eyes, two of them turned around and ran away, and the other stayed in place and circled around Yan Xi, and shouted at him twice from time to time.

Yan Xi stared at the strange behavior of the rats quietly, not understanding what they were thinking.

After waiting silently for a long time, the ambulance outside the sewer rang far away, and the noisy sound gradually faded away. Except for the rat standing next to him, nothing happened in the entire sewer. Time passed little by little, the moonlight outside became more and more clear, Yan Xi's eyes turned blue, and he felt a little sleepy.

He glanced at the rat, barely moving, and the tail of the snake coiled in the ground curled up, and the thick tail of the snake coiled around him in a circle on the ground. He leaned slightly against the wall and closed his eyes gently.

Yan Xi just wanted to close his eyes and take a small rest, after all, there were many snakes, insects, rats and ants in the dirty small waterway, and he couldn't sleep peacefully at all.

But he didn't expect to just close his eyes gently, open them again, and wake up the next morning. A small beam of sunlight shining in from the manhole cover

Yan Xi's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he reluctantly opened his eyes.

Because it was daytime, the light in the sewer was much brighter, at least Yan Xi could clear the sewage from the waterway next to him, as well as the layers of dirt on the ground where he was lying on the ground.

He familiarly relaxed the snake's tail, blinked his still somewhat blurry eyes, and began to look around the sewers, which were similar to his impressions, the sewers were dirty, but they were wide and wide, intricate, and suitable for his life.

However, Yan Xi's gaze moved to a small corner not far away, and a pot-bellied mouse was hiding to the side, staring straight at him with black eyes.

Yan Xi couldn't help frowning, why is this mouse still there?

Yan Xi couldn't help but flick the snake's tail, wanting to drive the mouse away, but he suddenly felt the tip of the snake cold, as if something seemed to be wrapped around his snake's tail. Yan Xi was startled, and the snake tail subconsciously slammed to the ground. Trying to shake off the guy who was messing around on his tail.

However, Yan Xi's movements were fast, and the movement of that thing was even faster, and he ran all the way up along the tip of his tail, and in an instant, he came to the middle of the snake's tail.

Yan Xi thought it was something like a rat at first, but as soon as this thing moved, he felt wrong. When he looked back, his eyes couldn't help but flash with surprise.

The thing that climbed on his snake's tail was not a rat, nor was it a bug. Instead, there was a pink snake the size of a thumb and about a foot long, which was hissing and sticking out its tongue at this time, staying in the middle of his snake's tail. Scream at him.

Generally, the more showy the snake, the more venomous, and it is a means of warning others. Although the little pink snake in front of me is not gorgeous, as far as this special color is concerned, it is definitely not easy to mess with.

Yan Xi couldn't help but stiffen his body, this snake was small in size and extremely fast, if this snake attacked, Yan Xi knew that he might not be able to dodge. And if he was bitten by this snake, he had no way to remedy it.

Yan Xi couldn't help frowning, wondering if this snake could let him go in a place where he was half similar to the place. However, in the eyes of this snake, he is probably also a monster among snakes.

One person and one snake froze, and the little snake didn't attack, but kept staring at Yan Xi with vertical pupils, swallowing out a forked tongue, and only heard the hissing sound of the pink snake in the silent sewer, Yan Xi listened to it twice, and his pupils couldn't help but float a little weird.

He had the illusion that the snake in front of him seemed to be communicating with him. Could it be that he has become a half-snake, and he also has the ability to communicate with snakes?

Yan Xi suddenly had a sense of ridicule, and felt that the thought that flashed just now was very ridiculous.

His eyes became more and more vigilant as he stared at the pink snake in front of him. Knowing that such a stalemate is not the way to go, the longer it drags on, the more detrimental it will be to his situation.

The more anxious he was, the more silent Yan Xi became. He was ruthless in his heart, and he felt that he still had to fight. Yan Xi's pupils contracted quietly, and the snake's tail relaxed.

The pink snake that had been hissing suddenly paused strangely, as if he had discovered something, and almost at the moment of Yan Xi's action, the tip of his snake swept over, and the pink snake also reacted quickly and jumped out of the middle of his snake tail.

A pink shadow flashed in his eyes, the tip of the snake waved in the air, Yan Xi's heart suddenly tightened, but the imaginary sting did not come, Yan Xi looked at it and found that the pink snake had fallen from him, not far from him, the snake's tail was coiled in a circle, the snake's head was raised, and the whole snake seemed to be fried, and the hissing sound echoed throughout the sewer.

Yan Xi felt that the snake must have been provoked by himself, and he stared at the snake tightly, not giving the other party a chance. The tail under him gently pumped the ground. The advantage of size made Yan Xi's hostility and vigilance clearly conveyed to the pink snake opposite.

Yan Xi didn't know if it was his own delusion, after he made this behavior, the pink snake seemed to have wilted throughout the snake. The snake's head hung down, and there was an aura of grievance on his body.

Thinking like this, Yan Xi did not relax, animals are different from people, his kind of thinking is just self-righteousness.

The pink snake didn't dare to approach Yan Xi, he slid left and right in a hurry, and when he saw Yan Xi's indifferent vigilance, its orange vertical pupils silently glanced at Yan Xi. Only turned around aggrievedly and turned back three times in a step. Reluctantly, he slipped and walked.

Yan Xi saw that the pink snake who was reluctant to leave his prey was reluctant to leave, and he was not secretly relieved until it disappeared from the end of sight. However, when he relaxed, he realized that his back was completely soaked. His forehead was also sweaty.

Yan Xi stood leaning on the snake's tail, his upper body leaning against the stone slab wall covered with dry moss, and deeply exhaled the turbidity in his body. His eyes touched the thumb-sized beam of light projected above the manhole cover, and he comforted himself that it was morning exercise.

However, realizing that the morning is coming, the hunger pang of an empty stomach also comes.

Hunger was nothing, but immediately after the hunger, the familiar pain imprinted into the bone marrow gradually diffused, and Yan Xi's face turned pale.

He clutched his stomach and shivered involuntarily.

What to do?

This time the pain seemed to come more quickly than the last time. Yan Xi noticed that hunger began, and in just half a minute, the hunger spread to all internal organs, and then the signs of pain began to strike. The beads of sweat on Yan Xi's head flowed down instantly. The snake's tail was also supported, and his whole body collapsed to the ground.

Biting his lip, Yan Xi suppressed the voice in his throat stiffly.

Now it was just a sign of pain, Yan Xi was still conscious, his fingers clasped to the ground, his face was twisted with pain, Yan Xi trembled and crawled into the depths of the sewer.

Can't be discovered!

Never be discovered!

His suppressed wheezing echoed in his ears, and the pain in his body surged back and forth in waves, becoming more and more painful. The arm that crawled forward trembled like a sugar sieve, the green tendons on the forehead burst out, and the sweat on the forehead smashed to the ground drop by drop, and the sweat rained down.

Yan Xi's strength was getting smaller and smaller, he didn't know how far he had climbed, but the pain was about to overwhelm his reason, and in his increasingly blurred vision, Yan Xi felt as if he had seen a mouse that had been guarding him since yesterday.

The mouse looked at him curiously, his eyes sparkling. The mouth was chirping, and it circled around him. Yan Xi gasped, his drowsy head intermittently thinking, what the hell did this mouse want to do... What if he takes advantage of this time to entangle his brother and gnaw him......

In this worry, Yan Xi fell into hellish pain for the third time.