Chapter 1: The Strange Serpent

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"Don't come here, isn't it enough that you've pestered me for so many years? Please, will you let me go? I looked at the huge white snake in front of me in horror, and I was covered in cold sweat.

But it ignored my pleas and wrapped its tail around me again, and threw me into the bottomless snake cave again.

The snake cave was full of poisonous snakes, and they spat out long snake letters and poured at me again, and I closed my eyes in fright, and then I was sprayed with the venom of these poisonous snakes.

I knew the white snake was watching, and I wanted to beg it to let me go, but I was paralyzed by the venom and couldn't say anything, just curled up and let the venom invade my body.

After a long time, I listened to the hissing snakes around me, and slowly opened my eyes, and saw that my original white skin had turned blue, then purple, and finally slowly returned to its original appearance.

I didn't know what was going on, and I didn't dare to move, for fear that they wouldn't poison me, so they came and bit me to death.

However, the sound of the white snake hissing came, and the poisonous snakes receded like a tide, and in a short time only me and the big white snake were left in the cave.

It just looked at me quietly, but this time it felt a little different in its eyes than before, and it was full of surprise.

I was so nervous that I didn't know what it was going to do next. Will it sweep me into the deep pool on the other side, as it did before?

Thinking about the biting cold and the pain in the deep pool, the feeling that life is worse than death makes me chill when I think about it.

Before I could think about it, all of a sudden, it opened its mouth and pounced on me.

A snakey smell came to my face, but there seemed to be a faint fragrance mixed in with it.

"It's over!"

It doesn't play its cards according to common sense, and it's going to eat me.

I tensed up, ready to be swallowed into the belly of the snake, but in the next second, I woke up from the bed and found that I was covered in cold sweat.

Fortunately, it's still just a dream.

Even though it was just a dream, I had a bad feeling that something was going to happen.

The place where I live is called Yunjia Village, according to the people in the village, the day I was born happened to be the traditional Halloween, my mother went to burn paper bags for her ancestors with her stomach, but she didn't expect it to start suddenly, her stomach hurt so much, and the people next to her carried her to the hospital in the town.

The originally clear sky suddenly covered the sun, lightning and thunder, and some people even heard all kinds of strange cries echoing in the air, like a hundred ghosts walking at night, and people's hairs stood on end.

And my mother was scared to death just one look at me after giving birth to me, because I had a huge birthmark on my body, which stretched from my back to my collarbone, and my whole body glowed white, and it looked very strange in the daytime when I couldn't reach my fingers, like a white snake entangled me.

My dad thought it was a bad omen to be haunted by snakes, so he left me in the hospital and left me to fend for myself, and eventually moved my family away, never to be seen again.

It was my adoptive father who picked me up and brought me back to Yunjia Village to raise me.

Because I have a white snake birthmark on my body, the people in the village don't like me, everyone treats me as a freak, and never gives me a good face, if it weren't for my adoptive father who has been protecting me, maybe I would have drowned in saliva if I hadn't been killed.

For more than ten years, every time on Halloween, I would dream of the white snake coming to haunt me, but recently it has suddenly become more frequent, dreaming of that scene every now and then, and today it is not limited to torturing me, but also coming to eat me.

Coupled with the strange events of my birth and this dream, I was convinced that this birthmark on my body was my disaster.

I was arguing for my adoptive father to find a way to get rid of the birthmark, but my adoptive father said that it was on my body and could not be removed.

I went through a lot of information and found a lot of freckle removal methods to experiment, but they were unsuccessful, and in the end I had to give up temporarily.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead, glanced at the alarm clock, it was already seven o'clock, and hurriedly got up to change my clothes, today the college entrance examination results are out, I have to go back to school to see if the score has reached the line of Jiangcheng Medical College.

When I was changing clothes, I glanced at my back, and now the white snake was much bigger than before, and its coiled body occupied almost my entire back, and the snake's tail was lazily placed on my waist, while the snake's head hung above my collarbone.

Although its eyes were closed, I could imagine what a terrible scene it would have been if it were really open.

It didn't look so realistic before, at least not as well-defined as it is now.

But now it's like a tattoo, lifelike, and you can feel the subtle scales. It's also cold to the touch, completely different from my own body temperature.

I didn't tell anyone about the change, I put on my turtleneck dress and went out the door.

Grabbing the buns on the dining table casually, he took a few bites, said hello to his adoptive father in the backyard and ran away from home.

Our village is in the middle of nowhere, and it takes me two hours to walk the mountain road to the town's high school, but after years of walking, I can find the direction with my eyes closed.

There is a grave mountain at the entrance of the village, on which are buried the ancestors of the village, and everyone who goes out of the village and enters the village will bend down to the grave mountain to show respect.

When I passed by the entrance of the village, I also subconsciously bent down, however, when I straightened my waist, I heard a heavy sigh behind me, and then a chill came from the back of my neck.

I shuddered and looked behind me, but there was nothing.

couldn't help but shake his head, and whispered with a wry smile: "I'm afraid that I've been dreaming too much recently, and my heart is empty!" ”

I didn't think much about moving on.

As I passed the fork in the road with the neighboring village, I looked at the towering ancient maples, and my thoughts drifted.

I heard from the people in the village that these ancient maple trees have a history of thousands of years in our place, and even our ancient maple town is named after these maple trees.

However, people in the village will spread the word of mouth, and try not to go near those ancient maple trees if they have nothing to do, so as not to suffer.

When I was a child, I was curious, and I once quietly went to see it alone, and there was an ancient maple tree with a large tree hole, and it was visually inspected that there was space for four people to gather at a table of mahjong.

I don't know how such an empty tree has lived for thousands of years.

I even fantasized about whether there would be monsters living in this tree hole, such as snakes and foxes that have cultivated to become elites, or whatever!

Looking at these ancient maples now, there is still a lingering sense of mystery in my heart, and I always feel that there is a story in it.

I walked for a while, but I found that the more I walked, the colder it became, and my hands and feet felt numb.

His hands kept rubbing together, and his steps began to quicken.

But I was very uneasy in my heart, it was obviously a hot day, even if I didn't sweat, how could it be cold?

Immediately, there was a chill on my back, like the feeling of being stuck in my clothes with a pair of cold hands in the cold winter, and I couldn't help but shiver.

The road in front of me is getting narrower and narrower, but my steps are getting faster and faster.

There was a pair of eyes staring at me behind me, and goosebumps rose all over my body.

However, when I passed a field of crops, I saw countless small black snakes coiled on both sides of the path that was not wide, and those little black snakes were about the thickness of a thumb, each of them was the same size, and they were neatly coiled on both sides of the road, like two rows of soldiers standing guard.

I'm not afraid of snakes, after all, I don't know how many times I've been in snake caves in my dreams, but I was still a little surprised by such a scene.

The battle felt like they were lining up to welcome someone.

It's so ceremonial that I'm embarrassed to walk through the middle.

I'm afraid that something weird will happen all of a sudden.

I looked to the sides, trying to find a way to take a detour.

But on both sides are canals used to irrigate crops, and there is no way to go.

It seems that the only way to pass through these snakes is to pass through them.

I was anxious to rush to school, but I was afraid that the snakes would move when I walked by. It's not going to walk forward with your feet up, it's not going to go back.

At this time, an unfamiliar voice came from his ear: "Go forward, the peach pit will guard you!" ”

Who's talking?

I was puzzled, and glanced at the peach pit hanging on my wrist, this is not just a handicraft given by Aya, what protection can it have? Am I hallucinating again?

Whatever, isn't it just a few little snakes, just go, it's not a big deal.

Without thinking much about it, they slowed down and walked forward slowly, and those little black snakes raised their heads and spit out thin red letters, so neatly and uniformly.

You don't need to listen to instructions.

I glanced left and right with both eyes, for fear that these little snakes would suddenly rush over and bite me, I was wearing a skirt, and my legs were bitten.

Although my steps were so slow that I was almost about to walk with my legs between my legs for fear of any wind, I still felt that the little snakes seemed to be about to move.

I kept praying in my heart, they just came out to bask in the sun, and they didn't mean to hurt anyone.

And the people in the village don't often say that snakes don't bite people for no reason, and they will only attack when they are threatened, so I should not make them feel threatened if I walk so carefully.

I don't know if it was really cold or because I was afraid, my body kept shivering, and when I tiptoed about half of it, I suddenly found that these snakes instantly became many times larger, each of them thicker than a bucket, and it looked like a small hill there.

It was as if I had walked into a cave surrounded by black snakes.

All the light was blocked by these pitch-black snakes, and the two sides were like a pitch-black wall composed of snake bodies, and the darkness that covered the sky blocked my vision, and I could only vaguely see the red letters hanging above my head.

The road under my feet was gone, and there was a fog ahead, and I walked among the giant snakes, and I only felt as small as an ant.

The pressure surrounded me from all sides, and my ears were full of the hissing of snakes, like the snake cave in a dream.

Cold sweat began to break out on my forehead, so many black snakes, any one of them opened their mouths, they could swallow me whole.

But they were only the thickness of a finger just now, why did they suddenly change?

Could it be that my current hallucinations have reached such a realistic state?

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