Chapter 8: Life and Death
"If I'm right, he's human." The hooked snake spitted out the letter and said to the stone vines.
"What do you have to do with it?" Shi Manman moved his body again, as if he wanted to hide Xiao Lei, who was much taller than himself, behind him.
The hooked snake stared greedily at Xiao Lei, pointed at Xiao Lei with a big tail hook, and said, "If you want to leave, you can, he must stay." ”
"Don't go! Mother, the bad goblin bullies the child. How can you let her go! Seeing that his mother was going to let Shi Manvine leave, the little hooked snake immediately stopped him excitedly.
The hooked snake turned his head and kicked hard, and the little hooked snake shrank in fright, still thinking in his mouth, but he couldn't hear what he was muttering.
Xiao Lei heard the hooked snake say to let him stay, and then Xiao Lei thought of the fate with the tips of his aching toes. He looked at Shi Manman's expression of not answering and thinking for a long time, and in addition to apprehension, there was also a trace of bitterness in his heart.
He understood that the vibration transmitted from Shi Manman's hand was a precursor to exhaustion. If Shi Manman insisted on taking himself away, then he could only drag Shi Manman's hind legs.
In front of me, I flashed like a marquee, and the moon spent with the stone vines. The surprise of eating grilled fish for the first time, the confusion of watching yourself set a trap, and the laughter when teasing the bird. Somehow, Shi Manman's smile seemed to be deeply engraved in his mind.
Thinking of this, Xiao Lei took a deep breath, took a step forward, and broke away from Shi Manman's hand to stand in front of her. Somewhere, the courage he got made him face the terrifying hooked snake, and said in a deep voice: "I stay, you let her go." ”
Shi Manman was still thinking about how to escape without the two of them being injured, but Xiao Lei said such a thing to the hooked snake. Shi Manman looked at Xiao Lei's back in front of her, and the impression of Xiao Lei, the "big bird", would actually say such a thing to the hooked snake, which really surprised her. was a little annoyed by Xiao Lei's self-assertion, but there was an inexplicable sense of relief in his heart.
The hooked snake raised its huge head and stared at Xiao Lei, "Humble human, what qualifications do you have to negotiate with me. ”
"You said that. I'll stay, and she'll be able to leave. Xiao Lei glared at the hooked snake. When has Xiao Lei been called "humble" by others, even if he is a demon stronger than himself. No matter how ordinary and useless you are, you still have your own dignity and pride.
"Huh." The hooked snake sneered, and the "prey" could be so arrogant and shouted at himself from a time of time. Thinking about it, a flat stone chip beside him flew towards Xiao Lei's legs, wanting to cut off Xiao Lei's feet to extinguish his arrogance.
"No one will stay!" Shi Manman flicked his sleeves, waved away the sharp stone chips that were galloping, and stood side by side with Xiao Lei.
"Since that's the case, then you can stay and let me grow my cultivation!" The hooked snake was furious to the extreme, and the hooked snake thought that he was the lord of one side, and saw that one person and one demon despise him so much. Angry, he didn't care that he had little physical strength left, and he attacked them as soon as he raised his tail. After realizing that his mother had completely run wild, the little hooked snake escaped from the "battlefield" early.
Shi Manman immediately pushed away Xiao Lei on the side, guarding against the attack of the hooked snake.
The hook snake's single-knife attack was false, and in the dark it smashed a stone more than one person high towards Xiao Lei. The temperament of the hooked snake is flawed, and when Xiao Lei threw a small hooked snake with a stone, he had to suffer intensified revenge.
The stone vine saw the tail of the hooked snake dangling, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a large stone flying towards Xiao Lei. Immediately appeared in front of Xiao Lei, and a jade hand split the boulder in two. But in this way, there was a blind spot in the line of sight, followed by the hooked snake's bright tail hook.
The body of the stone vine is hard and not afraid of the attack of the hooked snake, and at most it suffers some internal injuries. But when Shi Manman was preparing to defend his handguard, a dark shadow suddenly appeared in front of him. The hooked snake's hard, sharp tail hook pierced through like this, and the accompanying impact sent him flying along with the stone vines.
Before landing, Shi Manman saw clearly the person in front of him who turned his back to him, and it was Xiao Lei. I saw that the animal skin coat on Xiao Lei's chest was pierced through a hole the size of a bowl, and blood slowly but abundantly gushed out of the wound. Shi Manman froze for a moment, as if his head had been hit hard by an invisible hammer.
As soon as the two of them landed, Shi Manman didn't care whether the hooked snake behind him attacked again, and his hands condensed with aura pressed the big hole in Xiao Lei's chest indiscriminately, trying to stop the bleeding for him.
But the wound was so big that Shi Manman's two palms couldn't cover it at all, but the blood flowed more rapidly under the pressure.
"Don't sleep, don't sleep! Xiao Lei! Shi Manman called out to Xiao Lei, who had his eyes closed. In the chaos, Xiao Lei seemed to hear someone shouting his name, and wanted to speak, but only coughed up streams of black blood.
The hooked snake was frightened when he saw the stone vines, and he couldn't care about himself at all, so he got up and wanted to sneak attack. But before he got closer, a crimson light rushed up from Xiao Lei's chest. The breath in the brilliance made the hooked snake crawl on the ground in fear and fear, and a fear from the depths of its soul made it have only one thought, escape!
Thinking about it, he turned his head and fled, and he didn't forget to walk away from the little hooked snake that was shocked by the breath to tears, and his soul was broken.
Shi Manman's flustered hands were shaken away by the red light, and she looked up at the light that had dispersed into the sky until the dazzling light dissipated. She immediately looked at Xiao Lei, who had fallen to the ground, and Xiao Lei had a red rope around his neck. She suddenly remembered that she had used this rope to weave a small pocket, and her natal stone was placed in the small pocket, and now the stone pendant had been deeply sunk in Xiao Lei's bloody chest and there was no trace.
When she wanted to take out the stone pendant on Xiao Lei's chest, she noticed that the blood from Xiao Lei's wound had stopped, and the chest was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Xiao Lei was considered alive.
Confirming that Xiao Lei still had a weak aura, Shi Manman got up to look for the initiator. She hadn't felt so angry in hundreds of years, it seemed as if all the emotions of a hundred years had gathered in her chest in one day, and she just wanted to vent.
But the hooked snake immediately fled without a trace after seeing the red light, and the stone vines even stubbornly searched every corner of the hooked snake's territory. Along the way, except for the occasional scales that the hooked snake escaped and rubbed off in a panic, there were still traces of the hooked snake in this area.
The pressure on the hooked snake from that breath was too great, even if the stone vine didn't have the ability to obliterate itself. The Hooked Serpent no longer wanted to be their neighbor, and it didn't want to fall into such a panic again, which was a great shame.
In this way, the hooked snake can only take his son and leave the territory where he has lived for many years.
Shi Vine didn't know that just a burst of red light scared his powerful neighbor away. The search was fruitless, so she had to return to Xiao Lei.
After the light dissipated, the stone suspended above Xiao Lei's chest with a halo of light, and fluorescent swirled around the wound for several days.
Seven days later, Xiao Lei's chest has recovered as before, not even leaving a trace of scar like new skin, but it is fairer than the surrounding skin.
Xiao Lei's pale complexion, which had lost too much blood, gradually recovered. Because of the previous experience of blood gushing like a pillar when he touched it, Shi Manman was not very relieved and gently touched Xiao Lei's chest with his fingers. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, she was relieved. She didn't dare to touch Xiao Lei for seven days, and only then did she dare to pick up Xiao Lei and fly towards the enchantment.