The entrance to this cave is vertical. After entering the cave and going about two meters deep, you will reach the bottom. There is a small horizontal opening on the side. Go through this opening and walk about ten meters to reach He Tiantian's secret base.

It wasn't a closed cave; the ground was about two or three hundred square meters in size, and there was about ten square meters above that you could see the sky—it was a very spacious cave.

Light passes through from the top, so it's not dark inside as long as the sun is out. Inside the cave, there's a strange-looking tree that He Tiantian doesn't recognize. At its base is a spring that gushes out clear, emerald-green water, forming a small puddle. Around the puddle grow many plants, mostly wild vegetables that He Tiantian recognizes.

In her past life, He Tiantian survived because she ate the wild vegetables here. This is He Tiantian's secret hideout, and also her lucky place.

Feeling a bit hot from walking, He Tiantian bent down to wash her face when she suddenly felt a few twitches at her left ankle. A small silver snake slid out from her trouser leg. He Tiantian was terrified of soft-bodied creatures, and seeing the little silver snake emerge from her trouser leg sent chills down her spine and made her break out in a cold sweat!

Little silver snake, what exactly are you? What do you want to do?

Don't you find it disgusting to pester her all the time?

That's...that's terrifying...

Just as He Tiantian was filled with worry, fear, and despair, the little silver snake swam freely in the puddle, occasionally leaping and splashing water. Two fish were among them, which it also ate. How could a body as thin as a chopstick eat a crucian carp the size of a palm?

Watching the little silver snake eat the fish, He Tiantian slumped to the ground, touched her ankle, and lifted her trouser leg; the silver pattern was gone. This showed that the pattern was indeed from the little silver snake.

Now that the little silver snake is playing in the water, if she escapes now, can she get rid of this disgusting and frightening mollusk?

He Tiantian was instinctively afraid of this soft, limp little animal and now she was determined to get rid of it. She quietly stood up, took a few steps back, and turned to run away when she heard a sinister, shrill voice behind her.

"If you dare to run, I'll drink your blood dry right now!" The little silver snake poked its head out of the water, shaking its flat little head. This stupid woman, how could she be so dumb? The dignified Snake King is right here, and she doesn't know how to curry favor, and she's only thinking about escaping!

stupid!

That's incredibly stupid!

The sound behind her sent chills down He Tiantian's spine. She hesitated, her foot trembling, and turned around fearfully, asking cautiously, "Snake King, spare me! Snake King, spare me! I saw you were having a lot of fun and thought you liked it here, so..."

The little silver snake in the water had the same expression as in my dream that day: disdain, contempt, and arrogance. It was truly strange; with its flat head and tiny eyes, how could it possibly discern so many expressions from the Snake King?

Is the Snake King powerful, or is she mentally unstable?

By the way, today's scene is the same as the scene I dreamed about that day. Could it be that what happened that night wasn't a dream, but reality?

Thinking of what the little silver snake had said that day, He Tiantian shuddered. She... she didn't want to die! She hoped that this talking snake king wouldn't bite her to death! She hadn't saved her parents, she hadn't saved her own life, and most importantly, she hadn't taken revenge. She couldn't just die like this, so pathetic.

"Hmph!" The little silver snake arrogantly raised its head high and said, "We are of the same blood, how could I not know what you are thinking!"

Feeling a little embarrassed that her thoughts had been read, He Tiantian was also less afraid. Since the other party knew all her inner thoughts and could even speak, it proved that this little silver snake possessed supernatural powers. She couldn't escape it, so she would face it and carefully find out what was going on.

If she could learn a trick or two from the Snake King, wouldn't it make revenge much easier?

After thinking it over, He Tiantian, having nothing to lose, mustered her courage and asked, "You and I are connected by blood. Although you threatened me several times, you didn't actually kill me, which proves that I am useful to you. Since that's the case, tell me what exactly happened so I can understand. I'm just an ordinary person. Suddenly, I've returned to the 1970s from decades ago, and I have a talking, blood-drinking snake king on my ankle. Of course I'm scared. That's only human nature. You can't say that about me."

Being at the mercy of others, He Tiantian couldn't change the situation. So, with nothing to lose, she decided to confront the little silver snake directly, even if it meant death.

If He Tiantian had encountered such a situation in her past life, she would have been scared to death, or even driven mad, and would have kept running away instead of desperately seeking a solution. Now that she has been given a second chance, He Tiantian is determined to do something different.

If I'm not afraid of death, why would I be afraid of these things?

Let all the demons and monsters come!

He Tiantian has nothing to fear if she is upright and has nothing to hide; she has nothing to fear if she does nothing wrong!

I kept trying to comfort myself! Trying to hypnotize myself...

The little silver snake was a little surprised. "Oh dear," it thought, "this woman, with her turtle-like temperament, actually dares to speak to me like that." But then again, it was better this way; she was much more pleasing to the eye than the previous cowardly, weak woman.

"Considering you provided me with holy blood, I'll tell you the truth. Anyway, even if you know, you can't escape my grasp," the little silver snake said smugly, an expression of absolute power on its face. "I am a snake king from another plane's demon realm. During a battle with a black bear king, I was ambushed. After a grueling battle, I killed the black bear king, but only a wisp of my primordial spirit remained. It was sucked into a spatial rift and came to the human realm. My primordial spirit landed inside a bird's egg on your persimmon tree. I used my last bit of strength to break through the shell. You happened to be beside me then, so I drank your blood to replenish my strength. However…"

The little silver snake paused, then looked He Tiantian up and down with disdain, as if she were a piece of trash.

He Tiantian felt a chill run down her spine under his gaze, and swallowed hard before asking, "But what? Didn't you drink my blood?"

"Hmph!" The little silver snake arrogantly turned its head away from He Tiantian. "However, your blood is filthy, disgusting, and stinks!"

Damn it, this is bullying! You drank her blood and now you complain that it's dirty? That it smells bad?

This is outrageous!

"Then don't drink it!" He Tiantian retorted angrily. "I didn't beg you to drink it! You're drinking my blood, not my urine. If you lose too much blood, I'll die. I'll kick the bucket."

Hearing that He Tiantian dared to retort, the Snake King was furious and said, "Do you think I wanted to drink it? It was because you were there that I was dead. But your blood is so bad, so I could only drain your blood and send you to this era to slowly drink your blood until I have the ability to tear open a spatial rift and leave this place."

Actually, there was another reason, which the little silver snake didn't mention, lest He Tiantian become arrogant and self-important. In fact, even if He Tiantian's blood was impure, it still had a fatal attraction for the little silver snake; otherwise, its primordial spirit wouldn't have landed on the persimmon tree next to He Tiantian.

He Tiantian was still a little confused, thinking that people's blood was impure back then, so she said, "People in this era don't take hormones, and their food is natural and unpolluted. You can drink other people's blood, but you don't need to drink mine, right?"

Grandpa Snake shook his head, almost driven crazy by He Tiantian's stupidity, and said, "If I drank your blood, I can't drink anyone else's blood. Otherwise, do you think I'd be happy to follow a stupid matchstick girl like you!"

If he had any other choice, he would never have chosen that idiot!

Hmph!