How did this man end up here?

I shuddered and looked at him in horror.

He walked towards me step by step, staring at me with his dark green eyes, very carefully.

Coming up to me, he smiled.

That smile was ugly, but for some reason it gave me a very warm feeling.

He reached out and seemed to touch my face, and I subconsciously dodged, his hand froze.

"Ahh......hh

A strange syllable came from his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but could not speak.

His tongue was cut out!

"You...... What do you want? I asked in a trembling voice.

The snake scaly man looked at me a little strangely, and suddenly reached out and grabbed the blue cloth bag in my arms.

After seeing the longevity lock inside, his eyes lit up suddenly, his hands trembled a little, and he kept screaming, looking very excited.

But I don't know what he's trying to do!

"You...... Take it if you like it! ”

I just want this snake-scaled man to get out of me as soon as possible, I don't care about the longevity lock and the parchment roll, I just hope he doesn't pester me.

Hearing me say this, a slight sadness flashed in the snake-scaled man's eyes, and he placed the blue cloth bag in front of me and made a gesture, as if to let me go with him!

My head shook like a rattle, and I moved slightly, distancing myself from him.

This weird man didn't know where he came from, how could I be stupid enough to leave him so easily.

Seeing that I refused, he was obviously a little anxious, and reached out again to grab my arm.

At this moment, there was a slight noise above our heads, and a black mass suddenly fell from the beam of the ruined temple and exploded.

It was a large black net, covering a radius of several meters, directly covering me and the snake-scaled man.

The big black net that hung over us, some copper coins were threaded through the net, and as the snake scaled man struggled with rage, the copper coins jingled.

I didn't feel much of it, but after the snake-scaled man came into contact with the black net, for some reason, a faint black smoke came out of his body, mixed with a slight smell of burnt fish, as if he had been roasted by flames.

With the crazy roar of the snake scale man, the dense group of snakes in the broken temple also began to be restless, wandering wildly, as if looking for some target to attack.

"Wow~"

At this time, a dull voice came from outside the ruined temple.

The figure of the old beggar appeared outside the ruined temple, carrying an old gong in one hand and a mallet wrapped in red cloth in the other, walking towards the ruined temple step by step.

The snakes in the ruined temple poured out frantically and shot towards the old beggar.

"Wow~"

The old beggar struck the gong again, and his voice was even more dull than before.

I don't know what's going on, but the snakes twitched violently, and they all lay on the ground and didn't move, as if they were dead.

The old beggar ignored the snakes, walked into the ruined temple, and looked at the snake-scaled man who was struggling in the black net, and a strange color flashed in his eyes.

"Oooooo......oo

The old beggar struck the gong in a hurry, and I felt a little harsh, but the snake-scaled man seemed to have suffered some serious blow, and his mouth and nose were bleeding, but he became even more crazy.

"Dingding......

The copper coins on the black net collided with each other and sounded rapidly, and more and more black mist came out of the snake scale man's body, and the black net broke a few ropes under the struggle of the snake scale man.

After seeing this scene, the old beggar's face changed drastically, and he no longer struck the gong, but took out a yellow paper talisman from his arms, threw it violently, and threw it directly through the black net to the snake-scaled man's body.

The snake-scaled man's body trembled violently, no longer roaring, his body seemed to be frozen, motionless.

The old beggar breathed a sigh of relief, and then took out a few black nails from his arms, which seemed to be gold but not gold, like wood but not wood, and pierced the back of the snake-scaled man's neck, heart, lower abdomen and other positions.

After all this, the old beggar lifted the black net that enveloped us.

Glancing at me, the old beggar said with a complicated face: "It's also expedient to use you as bait, don't blame me!" I've been following him for a long time, and it's a fluke to catch him this time! ”

"Who is he?" I asked, steady.

"He's ......"

Before the old beggar finished speaking, as if sensing something, his face changed drastically, and his figure suddenly dodged to the side.

However, it's too late!

With the old beggar's scream, I saw a black shadow flash over the old beggar's shoulder, a very thin snake, only the thickness of a finger.

The thin snake bit the old beggar on the shoulder, and if the old beggar hadn't dodged it in time, it would probably have been bitten in the neck.

Immediately after, the snake burrowed into the cuffs of the snake-scaled man, and the snake-scaled man's originally stiff body became twisted and weird, like a humanoid snake, and the strange posture rushed out of the broken temple, and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye.

While I was still a little stunned, the old beggar again let out a miserable wail.

The shirt on his shoulder had been torn open, and there was a small wound on his shoulder, black blood was flowing, a large black patch, which looked terrifying.

That snake was venomous, and extremely venomous.

The old beggar took out a knife, tremblingly cut open the wound, and released more poisonous blood. Then, he took out a small bottle, and I don't know what kind of medicine powder it was, and sprinkled it all on the wound on his shoulder.

At this moment, the old beggar was already pale, his eyes were gloomy, and he was sweating profusely.

"Let's go, let's go!"

The old beggar led me out of the ruined temple, and had barely gone when the old beggar staggered and almost fell.

He was short of breath and said weakly, "Quick, take me to the town, don't go to the hospital, go to the convenience store on Sakurayama Road......"

Before he finished speaking, the old beggar's body went limp, and he passed out directly.

I now have no master, so I can only do as the old beggar says, and after carrying him on my back, I hurried towards the town.

Along the way, I could feel that the old beggar's breathing was getting weaker and weaker, and his body was getting colder and colder, and I was really worried that he would die, because I still had a lot of doubts that I hadn't figured out.

The ruined temple was not very far from the town, only a few miles away, and although the old beggar's weight was quite light, it also made me choke enough.

If you don't go to the hospital if you get snake venom, you have to go to a convenience store, and I don't know what the old beggar thinks!

After coming to the town on Sakurayama Road, I was sweating profusely and panting to find a convenience store, this big night, there are few pedestrians on the road, and the shops on the street are basically closed, how can there be any convenience store!

Running from the street to the end of the street, I finally found a convenience store in a remote corner at the end of the street, the only convenience store open 24 hours a day.

I rushed into the convenience store with the old beggar on my back and shouted for help.

This convenience store is more than 100 square meters, which is not small, but there are no customers at this time, only a middle-aged man in a vest at the cash register smoking a cigarette and watching a small movie leisurely.

The middle-aged man glanced at me, looked at the unconscious old beggar, his face was calm, and he walked over directly.

"Look after the store for me, I'll be back in a minute!"

The middle-aged man carried the old beggar and left, without showing any surprised and stunned expression from beginning to end, it was obvious that this person knew the old beggar.

I sat down on the side of the cash register, gasping for breath, and my bones almost fell apart along the way.

Lying on the cash register, thinking back to the past, I always feel a little strange.

The snake-scaled man, who looked at me with guilt and sadness in his eyes at that time, had mixed emotions, and absolutely did not mean to harm me in the slightest. He seemed to have a very special affection for me.

It was also strange that the old beggar admitted that he was using me as bait, as if he was sure that the snake scale man would come to me. At first I thought it was because of the parchment, but the snake scaly man didn't take it, so why?

I took out the blue cloth bag in my arms, took out the parchment roll, and when I unfolded it, I saw a very complicated pattern on it, and I didn't know what it was. The old beggar looked horrified when he saw it, as if this intricate pattern was hiding some secret.

Just as I was thinking, a crisp bell rang from the door of the convenience store.

A string of small wind chimes hangs on the door of the convenience store, which are automatically windless and gently swaying.

Immediately after, a big-bellied woman walked into the convenience store, tiptoeing and walking lightly, and went to the container to pick up something.

Just one glance, I almost screamed.

The woman looked like a normal pregnant woman from the front, but when she turned her back to me, I saw that her back was bloody, the flesh was blurry, and even the white bones could be faintly seen.