Chapter Forty-Eight: The Serpent of the Netherworld Under the Black Clouds
I got up from the ground, my heart pounding wildly.
The screams coming from the courtyard of the Wang family were shocking. Apparently, there is a ghost who is now suffering terrible torture. And, how does this voice sound like - Lao Xie's!
I suddenly tensed up and licked my lips with a dry mouth. No, Lao Xie won't be caught by those ghosts in the royal mansion......
Just when my body began to tremble a little because of nervousness, "Boom...... Whew......", just above the big tree where I was standing, the originally gray and dark night sky suddenly gathered from all directions, and black clouds quickly gathered from all directions, and thunder and lightning sounded above my head again and again.
Fierce winds were blowing in my direction from all directions. These winds are cold, fierce yin winds!
I don't know what's going on, but a strong hunch tells me that something is definitely ominous.
I quickly unzipped my backpack and pulled out ten ghost-fighting talismans and the only two remaining ghost-fighting talismans. If those evil ghosts of the Wang family come to arrest me, I will kill one and earn one.
Even if Lao Xie is caught and confesses to me, I won't be easily arrested.
The continuous yin wind swept around me and blew wildly, and the long and hard grass that was unique to the underworld around me was pulled up from the ground and rolled into the air.
I couldn't stand still, I held on to the tree with one hand, and with the other I quickly stuffed the twelve talismans into my pocket, otherwise a sudden gust of wind would roll the talismans away, and I would be depressed.
Suddenly, the black cloud that gathered at a height of forty or fifty meters above my head was dozens of meters long and several meters thick, and suddenly a hole spread out from the center, and the hole expanded rapidly from the center of the black cloud to all sides, until the diameter reached nearly ten meters, accompanied by the sound of "boom, boom, boom, boom......", a long dark green thing slowly stretched out from the hole, slowly stretching out to the ground.
Suddenly there was a louder and louder sound in my ears, faster and faster, "pop", something hit my head and fell to the ground.
It was windy, and I thought it was raining.
"Smack!" Suddenly, a long strip fell and slapped me in the face. It was cool, it hurt, and this thing that fell from the sky almost made me throb and fall.
"Pop ......"
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
"Bang ......"
In the blink of an eye, the sound in my ears became faster and louder, and I saw to my horror that it was not raindrops that fell from the sky, but ...... Snake!
Countless finger-thin, half-meter-long black, white, green, red, and multicolored snakes fell from the sky and fell to the ground around me.
The snakes spit letters, twisted, entwined with each other, and crawled.
"Damn, how can there be so many snakes!" Seeing hundreds of snakes falling from the grass in front of me, I cried out in horror.
These snakes are not aimed at me, they spit red letters and crawl in different directions, some crawl through my feet and some crawl to the surface of my feet from different places in all directions.
I want to jump, I want to run, but there will be at least one snake every half meter in a radius of hundreds of square meters in all directions, and there are even seven or eight snakes in a square meter in a dense place, and I have nowhere to run!
"you!"
"Get out!"
I don't care if the screams coming from the Wang family's compound are Xie Shanlin's, I have to save my life first. I was surrounded by snakes, at least 10,000 of them in a few hundred square meters. If I don't run, I'll die if I get bitten by the poisonous one.
I lifted the snakes that crawled to the top of my feet and slowly wrapped around my ankles and threw them away. I saw that there were fewer snakes in the grass on the left because the grass was deeper, and there were far fewer snakes in the direction of the way forward than in other places.
I was just trying to run for my life in that direction, "Huh...... Hoo ha......", suddenly there was a deafening gasp from the black cloud overhead.
I had already taken a step and ran, turning my head and casually sweeping over there.
Oh my God, oh my God! I thought it was a dream!
An earth-shattering huge snake tail stretched out from the hole in the center of the black cloud with a diameter of more than ten meters to the ground!
The dark green tail of the giant snake has descended from the hollow for more than ten meters, the diameter of the snake's body is as thick as a bus, and the tip of its thinnest tail is wider than the width of a pig's body.
"What the hell is ......" I can't put into words the serpent that came out of the sky.
Isn't this a dream, isn't there only ghosts and animal dead spirits in the underworld, even if it is a snake that died from the yang world, how can it be so big!
I ran and watched the serpent, and I wanted to see where it came down from the black clouds. Don't be stupid and run in the direction where there are few snakes here, it will crawl down from the hole and come this way, but it will be broken.
I kept my eyes on where the serpent had descended. Damn, this snake is so long and too big, it has descended almost half its length from the black clouds, and I have estimated that only half of it is at least twenty meters!
I think it's incredible, this huge snake with the width of a bus would be at least forty or fifty meters long and fifteen or sixteen stories tall if its entire body reached the ground.
I remembered what I learned in nature class when I was in school, and even the Titan python, which could wrap around the Tyrannosaurus Rex tens of millions of years ago, was only one-third the length of this snake.
Sister, it's really weird, how can there be a super giant snake in the world of the underworld!
"Hoo ......"
Just as I was jumping and running away among the thin snakes on the ground, the forty or fifty-meter-tall serpent had coiled down from the hollow of the black clouds. Its tail and body of about 30 meters on the lower body are coiled on the ground in a spiral, and the body of more than ten meters above stands straight in the air, just like the posture of a rattlesnake standing on the ground.
I had already run a long way out, a hundred meters away from the big tree just now, and at least two hundred meters away from the big snake.
I looked back, and oh my god, it was far away, but I estimated that the snake's head was the size of a family car, and one of its eyeballs was the size of five basketballs.
"Shhh...... ...... "The serpent spat long letters of dark red beneath the black cloud.
"!"
As I ran, I suddenly felt sad, and I remembered that I had only put twelve talismans in my pocket when I ran. No wonder I ran so fast as a swallow, and the blue schoolbag with gold and silver ingots and my big backpack were still under the tree.
You can't throw those things away!
I was thinking that I should find a place to hide, and when the serpent got where it wanted to go, I would come out and get my backpack. I turned my head to find a place to hide, and suddenly, there was a "boom" sound from far and near behind me.
I quickly turned my head to look, sister!
It doesn't matter what it looks like, there is no longer a big snake under the black clouds, and its body of more than forty meters like an ordinary snake has fallen to the ground, spitting out letters and chasing me at a very fast speed.
When I was a child, it was already terrible to be chased by dogs, and with the sound of the snake rubbing against the ground behind me, the giant snake as high and wide as the bus had chased me to a distance of fifty meters behind me.
Its large, slender snake body twisted behind a snake's head the size of a car. I couldn't outrun it on two legs. The loud sound of the snake's body rubbing against the ground was getting closer and closer behind my ears, and I could even hear the "hissing" sound of spitting behind me.
"I see where you run...... Hahaha......"
"Boom, boom, boom......"
Damn, this underworld forest is big, and there are all kinds of birds. My ears could hear it clearly, and after spitting out a letter for a while, the serpent behind me suddenly opened its mouth to speak!
It's a scary rhythm of not wanting money.
However, I am a big living person who came from the yang world to the underworld, and such strange things have happened, so what's so strange about being chased by a giant snake that can talk in the underworld.
I guess the serpent was probably thousands of years old when it was alive, and when it died, it was still the same when it came to Hades. Sister, it's terrifying that a snake can grow so long and talk.
I can't care so much, the only thing I have to do is how to shake off the serpent that is getting closer and closer behind me.
The thousands of small snakes thrown from the air had a limited range of landing, and without this throw, I was almost already jumping and running. But the sound of chasing behind me was getting closer and clearer.
"It's useless to run, I don't use it to watch! I can capture your heat! The serpent said as he spat out a long, dark red letter behind him.
I didn't reply, because I walked ten kilometers back and forth from the Wang family's mansion, and I was almost tired.
But its words really reminded me. Snakes rely on the heat on their prey to determine their direction. And I was running in front of it, and the hotter my body was running, it was impossible to shake it off.
What can I do?
Just as I was worrying, there was a "snap". A cool, wet thing wrapped around my neck.
This is the serpent's letter!
I panicked all of a sudden, my God, can a snake on a cloudy day even haunt people. Apparently I had overestimated it, and the serpent had already chased me so close behind me that it spat out a letter and struck me in the neck, and soon it retracted it into its mouth.
And I was so frightened that my steps below were obviously out of order. One didn't pay attention, and my foot stepped into a hollow dirt pit. There was a "click" sound, and my foot and neck were broken again, and I lost my center of gravity and fell to the ground.
I sat on the ground and turned around quickly, while my right hand touched a stone on the ground. I waited and stoned the head of the snake when it came. But before I could lift my hand, the head of the huge snake as big as a car was pushed against me.
There was darkness in front of my eyes for a moment.
I don't know how long it has been, and I don't know where this is. My eyes were in the dark all the time. It's over, I've been caught. My eyes were covered with a black strip of cloth, and my body couldn't move, and I was tied with a rope.
"Brother Xie, are you there? Hey, Brother Xie, are you here? I asked softly.
My eyes were blindfolded and I couldn't see anything. There was no wind in the place where I was locked up, and nothing else was passing by, so I guess it was a cabin.
If I am locked up here and Xie Shanlin is also arrested, it should be in the same place as me. But I asked a few times and no one answered. Strange, where did Xie Shanlin go, my bag ......
I remembered that I didn't run away before I was hit by a giant snake and fainted. I don't know where my bag is now, it's possible that the two bags are still under the tree, or maybe the snake caught me and found the bag and took them to a place I don't know.
And now I am tied, and it is difficult for the mud bodhisattva to cross the river to protect himself!
I don't know where this is, is it inside the palace?
"Hmph, I knew those two guys weren't good stuff. I even took the money to buy insoles and came in to the banquet, and I could tell at a glance that they were thieves. Old fellow, don't look at your age and educate me every day. Hmph, I see a lot of things better than you! ”
Suddenly, a familiar voice came from not far away. I could tell it carefully, and the voice was the voice of the young ghost maid outside the courtyard wall.
"Alright, don't blow it. You only ate a few catties of salt when you were alive, if I wasn't sure that those two were thieves, I would report to the old man to send transparent ghosts to follow. One of the horses in the stable has already been stolen at this time, and it is not us who are unlucky. ”
I also remember this voice, it was the voice of the old ghost maid who let us in.
"Phew, how do you know I'm bragging. I'll tell you, I didn't blow it at all. I can see it from my own strength. Come on, I won't grind with you. The old man and the young master instructed us to go and boil the oil, and in a while, the old ghost named Xie Shanlin and the living person who still had half a life were fried, and cut them into diced meat for everyone to satisfy their hunger, hahaha......"