4. Chapter IV
No matter how many times he experienced such pain, Yan Xi thought he would never get used to it.
Awakening from the pain of the dark day, Yan Xi felt as if another century had passed. It's been a long time since the monster turned into a human body and a snake tail. It was also a long time ago to smash Cheng Yue and hide in the sewer.
After the pain, Yan Xi's whole body seemed to be fished out of water, his hair was stuck to his face, and the afterglow of pain still remained in his body, but it was bearable compared to life and death at the time of the attack. Yan Xi sat up with difficulty, the whole sewer was very dark, he remembered that it was still daytime before he fell unconscious, but judging from the current dark Cheng DΓΉ, it must be night now.
Yan Xi looked around in the darkness where he couldn't see his fingers, and sure enough, he found a faint light not far away. He crawled in that direction with the snake's tail, his speed slow, but within a minute he was approaching the familiar sewer manhole cover and a small beam of moonlight from the hole above.
It seems that he didn't come and leave much from here at that time. I don't know if the voice he made in the middle of pain was heard and attracted the attention of others.
Yan Xi leaned against the wall and crawled to the position where he was staying with his snake tail, ready to sit down. The snake's tail swept away, and he felt his tail cool, as if he had swept something out.
The dark sewers were difficult to see, but with the help of the small moonlight above his head, Yan Xi could also faintly see what he had swept away.
A snake!
The snake was not swept very far, and under the cover of darkness, the snake still wanted to crawl over in a daze. Yan Xi showed no mercy, swept the snake's tail, and swept the snake ten meters away.
Smack-
Neither dead nor maimed!
The wounded snake trembled and got up, and glanced at Yan Xi with resentment. The snake's head twisted twice, wanting to get closer to Yan Xi but didn't dare, twisting its waist, it hesitated for a while, turned its head and crawled away.
A tail threw the snake out of his sight, the sewer was very dark, and Yan Xi didn't go over to confirm. So I didn't see the snake's resentful eyes at all. He continued to sit cross-tailed, his eyes glancing slightly, and he saw a few dead rats next to him that could no longer die.
The rats had two tooth holes in their necks, and the tiny blood stains were oozing out of the tooth holes, and the rats really couldn't die.
Yan Xi was stunned for a moment, wondering if he had accidentally walked to the snake's nest.
He remembered the snake that had just been swept away by himself, could it be that these rats were the prey of that snake? It places the rat there, and then it is accidentally swept away by itself. So the rats are left here?
Frowning, Yan Xi looked away from the rat and leaned against the moldy wall. Gasping slightly, he continued to recuperate.
Behind him, the fat rat hiding in the dark saw that Yan Xi had stopped, so he approached him in hiding. As it ran, it paused, its nose twitched slightly, and then a shrill chirp pierced the silent sewers, and the owner of the sound looked angry.
Yan Xi, who was a little sleepy unconsciously, opened his eyes suddenly, his eyes were dull for a second, he turned his head to look at the source of the sound, a gray fluttering, very familiar fat mouse ran to the dead mouse in a smoke, kept screaming, circled around the dead mouse, jumped on his feet, and seemed to be angry. The voice seemed to be shouting, who was it? Who is it! ! If you come out for me, I promise I won't kill you!
The fat mouse trembled with anger, and the meat on his stomach shook and trembled, which looked very funny. Yan Xi yawned, thinking in a daze, that snake was really blind, and this mouse was obviously more fleshy.
Yan Xi didn't care, the sleepiness became more and more intense, he couldn't help but fall his head on the wall, and closed his eyes tiredly. He was covered in sweat, and at this time, a few cold winds blew from the manhole cover above, and he couldn't help but shiver when he was wearing only a shirt, and the whole person curled up together, and his eyes were closed tighter.
This time is already the most comfortable period for him.
The fat mouse chattering on the side also seemed to be aware of it, its round ears trembled, and its black eyes looked straight over. Seeing the sleeping Yan Xi, the mouse described by humans as as intelligent as a human suddenly lost his voice, cautiously approached Yan Xi a few steps, saw that he was sleeping deeply, scratched his ears with his little paws, turned around and took two steps away, and turned back hesitantly. He ran swiftly into the darkness.
The stars shifted, and a small beam of moonlight at the manhole cover above quietly moved his gaze, and the sound sounded in the dark sewer, and Yan Xi, who was sleeping, couldn't help frowning. In the moonlight, a small pink snake quietly approached him from sleep.
The little snake had a large dead mouse in its mouth, which was two or three times larger than an adult's fist, and it was a strong contrast to the slender little snake.
The little snake placed the mouse in front of Yan Xi, a place that Yan Xi could see as soon as he opened his eyes. After putting it away, it circled around Yan Xi twice, twisted the snake's head, and left step by step.
On this day, Yan Xi woke up very early, in the second half of the night. He had a nightmare. A faceless man was pinching his neck, his cold hands holding his throat all the time. No matter how much he ran, he couldn't get out of that man's hand. Even when he died, the man chopped off his hand and grabbed him by the neck.
Yan Xi frowned, and reluctantly woke up from his bad sleep. He raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, feeling that he had fallen into a deep dream, and even if he woke up, he felt that his neck was cold.
He subconsciously touched his neck, and his hand was slippery and cold. Yan Xi was startled, and the little guy on his neck raised his head and rubbed it on his face affectionately. Forked tongue licked his cheek.
Yan Xi froze and didn't dare to move, his eyes moving with the little guy who was very close to him.
The little guy is a pink snake with a slender body, and it looks like the snake he is familiar with. However, the pink snake didn't seem to mean to hurt him, except that he didn't look like a cat or dog, and his snake head rubbed against his cheek in exactly the same way as a cat or dog. There is a message of affection all over the body.
Yan Xi was a little suspicious that the snake had regarded himself as his own kind.
Yan Xi stabilized his breathing, he stared at the pink snake in front of him, and the hand that was frozen at the neck pinched the other party's seven inches quickly and accurately. Lifting his hand back, he quickly moved the pink away from his own cheek. With a low look in his eyes, he looked at the little pink snake who was looking for him three times and twice.
The pink snake that was pinched by seven inches kept writhing, struggling uncomfortably for a long time, and accidentally caught a glimpse of Yan Xi's eyes staring at it. The whole snake froze suddenly, its tail hung down pretending to be dead, and its head was lowered aggrievedly, only the vertical pupils with a natural cold temperament glanced at Yan Xi from time to time, and the tip of the tail turned restlessly and gently in circles.
Yan Xi wanted to kill this snake to prevent future troubles. But the strange behavior of the pink snake just now reminded him of his strange guess, he hesitated, lowered his eyes slightly, and then, by accident, saw a group of rat corpses in front of him.
The rat corpses had tooth holes in their necks, and they looked like they were the prey of snakes. And some of the rat corpses oozed out of the blood a little dry, presumably some of which were not just hunted food.
Yan Xi frowned, this is the prey of the snake? In nature, snakes are animals that are immediately swallowed into the stomach after hunting, and even in winter, they eat more in the summer to store calories in the body. Hibernate in the winter. And now, the snake hunts its prey but does not eat it immediately, but puts it in front of him?
All these prey are for him? Is this really treating him like one of his kind?
Yan Xi's eyes fell on the pink snake who was pretending to be dead on the side. After a moment's hesitation, he reached out to pick up a dead mouse. Halfway through, Yan Xi's hand stopped.
Compared with yesterday's dead rats, the dead rats were all big, with small heads, big bellies, black-gray hair, messy beards, and big thick tails. It looks extremely disgusting. Yan Xi couldn't help but glance at it twice and took a deep breath.
He picked up the dead branch and leaf that had fallen not far away, and with a little force, he inserted the dead mouse and put it in the mouth of the little pink snake.
The dejected pink snake looked stupidly at the food handed to its mouth, and the whole snake was stunned, without any movement.
Yan Xi shook the stupid snake and spit out the only words he had spoken in the past two days, "Eat!" β
The stupid snake is also somewhat spiritual, and when he heard Yan Xi's words, he subconsciously opened his mouth and swallowed the mouse's head in one gulp. It still wanted to swallow down, but Yan Xi pinched his seven inches, and coupled with the lack of strength in the air, the whole rat was pitifully stuck in his throat.
Yan Xi put it on the ground, and the pink snake, which had not eaten breakfast, swallowed the big mouse in one bite, the outline of the mouse enlarged the body of the pink snake, Yan Xi looked at the length of the pink snake's size, and then pulled down a slightly smaller mouse and put it next to the pink snake.
The pink snake that had just finished eating writhed awkwardly, looking left and right in anticipation and not wanting to eat. Yan Xi gently tapped the pink snake's head with a small wooden stick.
The pink snake glanced at Yan Xi aggrievedly and reluctantly opened his mouth.
Seeing this, Yan Xi showed a faint smile.
The pink snake, which had eaten two large rats, was obviously overwhelmed, and it sat lazily on the ground, not wanting to move.
Yan Xi hesitated, but still didn't use the snake's tail to test. He thought for a moment, and with a wooden stick, he lowered the well-fed snake to the opposite side.
In the first three days, during the day, he had almost experienced a pain that was worse than death. Yan Xi didn't know if he would have to go through it today, but it was best not to keep that snake by his side now.
The bulging pink snake saw Yan Xi put it on the opposite side, and its vertical pupils were about to shed tears, and it was eager to try in front of the sewage and wanted to go back to Yan Xi.
"Don't come here!" Yan Xi subconsciously ordered.
The pink snake's body froze suddenly, and the whole snake was struck, and its head rested on the ground, as if it was crying silently.
It's going to be fine!
Yan Xi couldn't help but flash this sentence in his mind. However, seeing the appearance of the pink snake, Yan Xi, who did not end the trouble, let go of most of the faint anxiety in his heart.
The snake probably really thought he was one of its kind.
Similar? Yan Xi remembered his snake tail, his feelings were gloomy, the same kind! He became like this, hiding in a filthy sewer, away from humans and snakes!
The expression on Yan Xi's face became more and more gloomy, could he still become a human? Has he been like this all his life!?
Yan Xi looked at the small light at the manhole cover, where the gray cold of the early morning diffused from, but Yan Xi couldn't desire to return to that cold and biting world. Does he really want to maintain this appearance for the rest of his life and not see people?
Get out! Get out of here!
endured for a long time, such a sudden thought simply made Yan Xi unable to resist. He even thought that even if he was watched by the world, even if he was lying on top of the research room, he wanted to go out and return to the world where there were human beings.
Yan Xi's breathing became rapid, and he suppressed this thought vigorously, and hung his head with difficulty. Darkness enveloped him, and he clenched his fists. There was bitter hatred on his face.