6. Chapter VI
No matter what happens, time moves forward unhurriedly. The next day, the sun crept in as promised. Yan Xi opened his eyes with difficulty. Look at the beam of light that falls above the manhole cover.
From that beam, it can be seen that today is a rare good day, the sun is dazzling, and the smell of the sun is wafting into the rotten sewers little by little.
Yan Xi lowered his head as if he had been stabbed, and the pink snake on the floor was circling back and forth beside him, occasionally rushing towards a dark place, swallowing his tongue and hissing sound.
Yan Xi looked over and found that there was something hidden at the corner of the sewer, quietly moving. Under his gaze, slowly, the little thing came out slowly.
Yan Xi looked a little familiar. It wasn't the little mouse that had been with him a few days ago, with a fat belly, a small thick black tail, and a big beard that shook and wentled.
The big rat was pulling at a big black plastic bag with its two paws. Pulling hard, carefully pulling into Yan Xi's sight, the closer he got to them, the slower his movements became, the big mouse walked halfway, looked up at Yan Xi with his little head, and then shrank his head to look at the pink snake on the side.
The pink snake hissed and stuck out its tongue to scare it.
The big rat stiffened. I was so scared that I stayed where I was.
The pink snake writhed its tail triumphantly. The hiss is more diligent.
Yan Xi stood up with the snake's tail, picked up the dead branch placed next to him, and crawled to the side of the big mouse. The pink snake on the side was stunned for a moment and crawled over.
The big rat was afraid of the pink snake, but he was not afraid of Yan Xi, who was countless times larger than the pink snake. It looked at the pink snake proudly, and flatteringly pushed the black plastic bag behind it to Yan Xi's side.
The pink snake's cold vertical pupils stared at the big rat that didn't know whether it was alive or dead, ready to move.
Although I guessed it, I saw that the big mouse was really here to deliver something to me. Yan Xi was still stunned for a moment. He sat cross-tailed on his snake's tail. Seeing that the mouse did not mean to approach him, he touched the pink snake that stood up soothingly, and opened the black plastic bag with a withered stick to see what the mouse had given him.
Rats are very intelligent creatures with an IQ comparable to that of humans. It may be that the plastic bag will wear out on the ground in the process of pulling over. There were several bags. Yan Xi struggled to get it open. And seeing the things inside the plastic, Yan Xi really felt the cleverness of the mouse.
In Yan Xi's heart, the little pink snake is a relatively spiritual animal. It knows how to give away with what it likes. For example, the pile of dead rats. But the mouse in front of him is more spiritual, and he knows how to give people away with things they like.
Yan Xi picked up the small snacks in the black plastic bag. It occurred to me that pain and exhaustion filled all his time. He seems to have not eaten in a long time.
Yan Xi touched his stomach, he didn't feel hungry, it seemed that only before the pain came, he would suddenly feel bone-crushing hunger, and then the pain was worse than death.
Yan Xi stared at the food in the black plastic bag. I flicked it inside with a wooden stick to make sure there were no bugs or anything like that. I picked it up with my hand and checked the products that were not expired one by one, and the seal was not deflated. He packed it up. He lowered his head to the big mouse next to him, thinking of the mouse that escaped from the pink snake yesterday, and said lightly, "Thank you." ”
The big rat chirped and seemed to be happy.
Yan Xi frowned and paused, happy? Lately, he has been adding affection to the behavior of some animals.
Yan Xi didn't pay attention to the big mouse, crawled back with a snake tail, returned to his original position and continued to sit down. The little pink snake that was left in place wrapped around the dead branches and sticks left behind by Yan Xi, and crawled back slowly. It was flatteringly placed next to Yan Xi.
Yan Xi didn't touch the dead branch, but just touched the head of the pink snake rewardingly.
The pink snake twisted its head ripplely, wanting to wrap around Yan Xi's wrist, but didn't dare. When the rat in the distance saw the pink snake, he hesitated, but he didn't dare to go to the pink snake, turned his head and left silently.
Yan Xi left as soon as he touched it, he calculated that the time for the pain to come was approaching, and picked up the food that the mouse had given him just now. Came to the inner part of the sewer, a little farther away from the manhole cover.
The pink snake scurried forward, trying to keep up. Yan Xi hesitated. He let the Pink Serpent follow him. The pink snake hissed excitedly, and when he saw the dead branch on the side, he knew that Yan Xi always held it. Its whole body was tightly wrapped around the dead branches, rolling behind Yan Xi.
The sewers in the depths were darkened because there were no manhole covers. The ground is also a little wetter.
Yan Xi waited here for a while, feeling the familiar prelude to hunger begin to permeate. He immediately picked up a bag of bread in the plastic bag next to him, tore open the package, and quickly began to eat.
As the food entered the stomach tract, the hunger pang was gradually suppressed. Yan Xi's eyebrows moved slightly, he didn't dare to slow down. As soon as he slowed down a little, the hunger pangs would return.
A loaf of bread did not last for two minutes at the speed of a strict mat. After eating, Yan Xi felt it. I found that the hunger was only slightly suppressed, and the waves hidden in my heart were ready to move.
Yan Xi did not hesitate, he continued to pick up the food in the plastic bag and began to eat.
It's just that soon, Yan Xi was molded again, and the food in the plastic bag was empty.
Yan Xi's body stiffened, and he was suppressed for a long time and was rushed up by hunger. His face turned pale, and he hurriedly held on to the wall beside him.
After eating a lot of food, it was only able to withstand it for a short time.
Yan Xi silently waited for the pain after the hunger spread, but after waiting for a while, he found that only hunger was raging.
Yan Xi's eyebrows were stunned for a moment, and the pain that had been delayed suddenly hit like a wave. He fell to the ground at once. Sweat came out all at once.
Seeing this, the cheerful pink snake, which was playing with the dead branches, immediately jumped to the side in fright, as if there was something it was afraid of.
Yan Xi's nails were desperately clasped on the ground, suppressing his breath and sweating like rain. The cramp-like pain gradually intensified, and his eyes flashed black from time to time, as if he was about to faint. Yan Xi shook off his already wet hair. He gritted his teeth and waited for the blood to come out. It was as laborious as Tarzan pressed down to look down.
Then, he bit his lip and fainted.
The blood flowed out of the body of the mat in a steady stream, it ran down the sewers, through the sewage, to the walls, and they were less like a mass of liquid, more like a mass of monsters. They don't devour, they don't fuse. Wrapped in a film. There is no trace left on the surface of the water (ground), and there is a faint heartbeat in the blood-red blood. What is done is diffuse. Throughout the sewers, blood red obscured the sky.
The Pink Snake hid to the side, trembling as he watched the scene in front of him. Or rather, the animals of the entire small waterway watched this scene with trepidation, their eyes filled with fear and surrender.
The blood spread for a long time, and when the sun went down, it was like a child who had been playing around for a day and should go home. The blood that flowed out was recycled and wrapped around Yan Xi. While bringing him pain, it gently healed the small scars on his body.
After Yan Xi's legs turned into snake tails again, they were much bigger than before. The cold, dark scales look terrifying. The blood flowed backwards, and the new snake tail subconsciously pounded the wall because of the pain. There was a hunting sound of breaking the air, and subtle cracks in the wall sounded, and there were suddenly a few more cracks on the wall.
The blood came back quickly, and after a few strokes, the last drop of blood returned to the body, and Yan Xi's day's pain ended. The snake's tail behind him hung down with all its might.
After being silent for a while, Yan Xi's eyelashes trembled slightly a few times before he opened his eyes angrily.
Another pain, it's over!
The pink snake who had been hiding on the side saw that the blood was over, and only then did he dare to return to Yan Xi's side. Of course, it didn't forget the dead branch. With his tail curled, he crawled to find Yan Xi. Not far in front of him, he walked around not far away.
Yan Xi rested on the ground for a while, and only when the sweat on his body dried up a little did he tremble his hands and prop himself up. With the help of the power of the snake's tail behind him, his abdomen touched the ground and slowly crawled back little by little.
After lying on his stomach for a while, Yan Xi frowned, I don't know if it's an illusion? His belly seemed to be a little bigger.
Back in front of the manhole cover, Yan Xi, who was barely recharged, sat down. With a heavy breath, he rested for a while, his breath was even, that is, he smelled a faint rancid smell.
Yan Xi lowered his head and frowned, he picked up the dead branch that the pink snake had been entwining, plucked a dead mouse, and put it in the pink snake's mouth.
The two rats in the body of the pink snake are about to be consumed, and it is indeed the next time it eats, but it is only a fresh prey that it eats, which has been dead for a day or two, it spits out its forked tongue, hesitates, don't overdo it.
Yan Xi didn't continue to force it, and seeing that it didn't want to eat, he tentatively commanded it to throw the mouse away. The pink snake tilted its head, and completely understood what Yan Xi meant, and slowly threw the mice away.
Yan Xi looked at it for a while, and felt that some of the feelings he had about the pink snake before were not all his own guesses. The thought flashed through me. Yan Xi sat on the side, taking a breath, he thought he could find a chance to give it a try.
Putting this matter aside for the time being, Yan Xi thought of what he had thought about the day before yesterday, his body was so exhausted that he endured his sleepiness, looked up at the manhole cover above his head, and looked at the small night through the manhole cover. It's hard to make a decision.
The pink snake on the side was not lazy, it transported the prey it had hunted with great difficulty one by one without complaint, and threw them into a corner that Yan Xi couldn't see.
The night was breezy and Yan Xi was pondering, when Yan Xi's familiar voice suddenly came from above the manhole cover.
"What are you going to do?"