Chapter 202: Train the Monster into a Son

The entire underground palace was tall and majestic. When the huge stone door of the palace slowly opened, everyone's eyes were fixed on the scene inside. If it weren't for the tall crystal minerals in the palace that glowed and provided illumination, Gao Fei's flashlight that had been dropped on the ground in shock would have been useless.

Jian Yue also slowly widened his eyes.

He had thought a lot about what was inside the underground palace, but he had never imagined that there were so many things behind this huge stone door...

Soaring Snake.

The huge snake bones on the ground were winding and crisscrossing, up to a hundred meters high and deep, and on these snake bones, there were other Teng snakes crawling. Some of them were coiled on the snake bones, while others were hovering high in the air, looking down at Jian Yue and the others. Their cold snake eyes shrank in the contrast of the light, and they looked at them with their tongues spitting out.

Little Leo was so scared that he couldn't say anything. He just trembled and finally uttered a sentence: "It's over, we are finished..."

Jian Yue also stood there.

Countless flying snakes were winding around behind the stone gate. The secret that had been hidden by the Xue family for countless years was finally revealed, showing a strange picture. The temple, the prayer platform, the place to pray to God, and under the old underground palace, there were so many terrifying inverted triangle-shaped giant snakes growing! !

Just as everyone was distracted, the closest snake noticed the sound behind the huge door and rushed towards it at lightning speed!

The smell of blood spread almost instantly.

Gao Fei shouted, "They are coming, run!"

Jian Yue did not move, he knew there was nowhere to run. The space here was narrow, and they had just fallen for such a long time. There were so many Teng Snakes here, there was nowhere to run. They came here and the only way was to wait for death.

When the Teng Snake rushed towards him, it brought the sound of wind blowing in his face and its open fangs had sharp teeth. He suddenly thought of the murals carved on the walls of the Xue family's ancestral home when he was in Wushan. They were murals of people and giant beasts standing together.

Inexplicable.

Jian Yue also tried, and slowly stretched out his hand like the one in the mural. There was still a smell of blood on his hand, from the cuts. The little Teng snake that rushed over stopped right in front of his arm. Its huge scales were cold and slippery. It slowly lowered its head and opened its big mouth.

Gao Fei and others covered their lips. From their perspective, it seemed that Jian Yue was about to have his head bitten off by the snake.

But the snake just slowly spit out its tongue, licked Jian Yue's palm, and licked his wound. In the sight of everyone, they saw Jian Yue just trembled his arm slightly, and then he slowly and tentatively placed his palm on the snake's head. The snake narrowed its eyes, its pupils stood up, and then it rubbed Jian Yue's hand like a kitten.

Everyone: “…”

???

No, you are not a monster, you are a snake! Why are you rubbing against people?

When Jian Yue saw the Teng Snake in front of him and stroked it, he was trying to make sure of one thing, whether the snake was really alive. His palm gradually moved downwards, but he did not feel the breath of a living snake. The snake was still dead, but it was still moving and playing with Jian Yue.

Gao Fei and the others moved over step by step. After confirming that everything was fine, he slowly raised his hand and tried to touch Teng Snake. As soon as they raised their hands, Teng Snake looked at them warily! Gao Fei and the others were startled and just wanted to turn around and run!

However, the flying snakes that swam around blocked their retreat. Little Li was so scared that he screamed, "Murder! Snakes are eating people!"

He almost fell to the ground when he shouted.

The snake's tail suddenly curled him up, and then, amid Xiao Lizi's terrified screams, a flying snake stretched out its tongue and licked Xiao Lizi's injured arm when he rolled down the passage.

Little Leo was almost about to use the card to summon lightning, but his arm went numb due to the sudden movement. He was stunned, then tentatively reached out his hand slowly and touched the Teng Snake in front of him.

"It's so cold..." Little Leo was a little surprised, but a smile appeared on his face and he said, "You can really touch it!"

Gao Fei originally wanted to run away, but after hearing what was said, he was brave by nature, and seeing that both of them could do it, he simply tried it himself, and then he found that it really could be touched!

Jian Yue touched the snake's horn and said, "This is not an ordinary snake. They have horns on their heads."

Gao Fei said thoughtfully, "I have never seen this kind of creature in any book. It does not belong to any snake species recorded in modern times. Moreover, it seems that they can understand human language."

Jian Yue said: "They seem to want to take us somewhere."

Everyone saw that these snakes had been surrounding them, but at this moment, they seemed to be intentionally pointing in one direction.

Little Li was more cautious and timid: "Are you planning to take us to your nest and kill us and eat us?"

Jian Yue thought for a moment and said, "I think with our ability to resist, it doesn't really need to be that troublesome."

Little Li actually thought what he said made sense. He was speechless and sighed, "I have been so wise all my life, but I haven't even found a wife yet, and now I am going to lose my life here!"

Gao Fei hugged Xiao Lizi's arm and said, "Stop crying, brother. When the dungeon is released later, I will introduce you to a wife. Don't just say one. I will introduce you to eight or ten!"

Leo yelled, "I am a pure love warrior! Although I am a womanizer, I am not the kind of person who has multiple relationships at the same time!"

This surprised the audience in the live broadcast room:

"I remember this Brother Li from the top 100 list. Isn't he a famous playboy?"

"Damn, he used to be so pure in love!"

"What happened to Brother Li later?"

"Aren't he and Vice President Gao sworn enemies? The two of them are very confrontational!"

"We are good brothers now."

"Hahahaha, Gao Fei, there's no way you can introduce him to a wife. You should just give yourself to him as compensation."

The live broadcast room was so lively that it had long gone off topic.

Only Jian Yue didn't know what the two people behind him were in dire straits. He was still wondering where he could go with Snake, so he turned around and said, "Do you want to go in together? Otherwise, just stay outside and guard the door. I'll go in by myself."

Gao Fei said: "Let's go together, so that we can take care of each other."

Little Leo said, "Don't leave me here alone, I'll go too."

Gao Fei pointed at him and said, "Didn't you just sprain your ankle? Why are you still going?"

Little Li was yelling about being left alone in a snake den. Gao Fei was a rough man to begin with, and when he got tired of hearing that, he simply carried him on his back like Zhu Bajie carrying his wife, and walked over and said, "Let's go."

Jian Yue followed and walked forward.

The group of snakes really moved forward consciously, and Jian Yue and others followed them, and they found that there were indeed quite a few Teng snakes in the caves along the way. They were either perched on top of the caves, or hovering somewhere in the huge cave. They were very alert when they saw someone coming in, but became very friendly after smelling the scent.

The group didn't know how long they had been walking. The underground of Bailu Mountain seemed to have been dug up by snakes a long time ago. They felt like they were walking in the mountains. It would be terrifying if a stranger fell into this place, although they were almost scared crazy when they first came in.

finally.

At the end not far away, a huge empty rocky area appeared in front of everyone. This place was covered with moss, but there were snakes in other places except this place. The snake that brought them here only wandered around here, looking a little anxious, but did not set foot in this place.

Gao Fei wondered, "Why aren't they moving forward?"

Jian Yue also hesitated. The little Teng snake beside him seemed a little anxious and nudged him with its head. Jian Yue thought about it, touched its head to comfort it, and walked forward.

Gao Fei had also walked to where the rock was. After everyone looked around, they didn't find anything wrong. Gao Fei said, "I don't see anything wrong here. Isn't it just an empty space?"

Jian Yue slowly squatted down, and he wiped away the moss on the stone, revealing the stone underneath. He said, "This stone is broken."

Everyone gathered around.

"This stone was obviously broken." Gao Fei pondered for a moment and said, "Such a huge stone must be more than 10 meters thick. How could it be broken in an instant?"

Jian Yue said: "It seems to have been broken by some great force. Can you help clear the rest of the moss and see if there is any more in other places."

Everyone immediately got busy.

Gao Fei and Xiao Lizi moved very quickly. Slowly, everyone discovered that the huge rock was covered with traces of various fights. Gao Fei guessed, "Is it a fight between snakes?"

Jian Yue pointed to a small mark on the stone and said, "This is where the iron chain would have left it."

After everyone gathered around, they found that it was indeed the case.

Gao Fei came to a horrified guess: "There was a giant snake imprisoned here before? And the giant snake broke the stone?!"

Little Li asked, "What about the snake?"

Jian Yue slowly turned his head. Everyone was so focused just now that he realized that all the snakes in the cave had gathered together since some time ago. They were either coiled or standing tall, staring at the tiny humans. Their pupils were cold, and they looked like ferocious beasts, but no one attacked them.

"I think," Jian Yue said, "more importantly, why did they bring us here?"

Snakes cannot speak, so they cannot answer this question.

As soon as Jian Yue stretched out his hand, the little Teng snake that had brought him here just now came out from the group of snakes. It slid obediently to Jian Yue's side, although it still didn't dare to approach the stone. Jian Yue asked, "Were your companions on this stone before?"

The little snake hesitated for a moment, then spit out its tongue.

Jian Yue asked: "Who is it, your friend?"

The little snake didn't respond.

Jian Yue asked a different question: "Is it the snake mother?"

The little snake's pupils suddenly stood up, and the snakes not far away seemed to suddenly become restless, with rustling sounds coming continuously. Jian Yue had good hearing to begin with, and he was very close to the snakes, so he felt his eardrums were about to be broken. He covered his ears, and met the little snake's guilty and worried eyes. The little snake was a little annoyed, and he blew a loud noise with its big mouth behind it. The sharp sound instantly resounded throughout the cave, and the entire snake group quieted down.

It was hard for the audience in the live broadcast room not to laugh out loud at this elementary school student's lecture at such a serious time:

“Hahaha, the little snake is so filial and cute.

"Butler Wang, you have trained the monster into a son."

"In this live broadcast room, the only thing I haven't seen is normal people. I've seen everything, hahahaha!"

"No...it's okay." Jian Yue helped him up and said, "What do you want us to do here?"

The little snake can't talk and can't speak.

Jian Yue hesitated: "Your mother snake is missing, do you want me to help you find it?"

The little snake immediately stuck out its tongue and nudged Jian Yue with its head.

Gao Fei and others said in the back: "Where can we find it? We have to go back to the palace soon and we don't have time!"

As a result, the words had just fallen.

The little snake seemed to understand human words. It looked at Gao Fei with cold eyes, and then bared its dangerous fangs. Gao Fei screamed "Oh shit" and was so scared that he almost fell off the stone. The stone was more than ten meters high and there were strange rocks below. If he fell off, he would definitely die or be crippled. Just as he was about to fall, a snake not far away suddenly rushed over and caught him steadily, letting Gao Fei sit on its head.

Gao Fei was still in shock and nearly fainted from fright.

Jian Yue saw this scene and said to the little snake, "Have you never looked for it yourself?"

The little snake looked up at the entire cave and pointed at the top stone wall. Jian Yue then discovered that there was also a mural on the top of the stone wall. It depicted a huge snake, surrounded by countless soldiers and humans. Jian Yue felt that this scene seemed very familiar. It was... Wushan and the 100,000 heavenly soldiers!

Could it be that the so-called heavenly soldiers are actually a group of snakes?

Jian Yue just felt that he seemed to have discovered some secret. There were so many temples built in various places. Could it be that... there was a snake nest under every temple?

Xue Family...

What on earth is the Xue family going to do? !

Why do snakes help people?

Jian Yue felt that countless speculations and possibilities suddenly flooded into his head, making his brain seem like a paste. When he looked up, his eyes met with the snakes again. The little snakes were looking at him with sadness in their eyes. Such sadness made Jian Yue's heart tremble.

Suddenly.

Jian Yue recalled that in the illusion, the eldest sister-in-law of the Xue family and the general said before the imperial guards came that they must not be allowed to discover the things under the temple, and the secret must not be discovered...

What the Xue family wanted to protect was not the underground palace at all, but the Teng Snake under the underground palace!!

"Where did the mother snake go?" Jian Yue suddenly had a terrible guess: "Was it captured by someone?"

The little snake showed an angry expression, then stuck out its tongue, raised its head, and made a sad cry. Jian Yue's heart was shaken.

Who captured the mother snake? What was the purpose? To control the snakes?

How many people in this world can do such a thing?

In just a few moments, Jian Yue thought of the many people who were looking for the underground palace. It turned out that their so-called search for the underground palace was not for the old temple at all, but for the things under the temple. If they could control these Teng Snakes, wouldn't they have a huge killing weapon?

Jian Yue looked at the snakes not far away and felt a little weak all over. However, the system seemed to have sensed it and suddenly said: "

Trigger the main quest: [Traces of the Snake Mother]

Mission details: Looking for the mother, please help the snakes find the mother's trace

Mission Reward: Gratitude of the Snake Group"

Jian Yue was silent for a moment, thinking how could it be just like a tadpole looking for its mother, but it seemed that there was no difference from a certain perspective. Now that the mission had come, it meant that at least the snake group did not lie and the one missing was really the mother snake.

"I promise you." Jian Yue said, "I will find the trace of the Snake Mother, but you also have to help us return to land. We have to go back."

The little snake seemed to understand what Jian Yue said. After Jian Yue finished speaking, it touched Jian Yue with its head. Jian Yue seemed to understand what it meant and climbed onto the little snake's head. Then, the next second, he could only hear the endless sound of wind. Then, the entire cave seemed to be slowly shrinking in front of his eyes. The Teng Snake could actually fly! !

Gao Fei and Xiao Lizi, who were not far away, were also picked up. It was their first time flying in the air, and both of them were so scared that they kept screaming.

There was indeed an exit here. The three people were sent to the entrance of a cave at the top. After they climbed up, they looked back. They originally wanted to say thank you to the Teng snakes, but they saw that the three snakes just touched their hands affectionately. From Jian Yue's perspective, he could see that their bodies were slowly reduced to only white bones. Even after doing this, the bones slowly scattered and fell back to the ground below.

Gao Fei exclaimed: "What the hell! What's going on?"

Jian Yue also lay on the stone wall and looked down, and found that the group of snakes just now had now turned into long snake bones, crisscrossing all over the cave below.

Little Li's voice was a little trembling as he said, "They...they actually died a long time ago?"

Gao Fei asked: "So what we just saw was actually an illusion?"

Jian Yue thought for a moment and said, "Maybe we entered an illusion when we first entered the stone gate. The Teng Snakes should have the ability to make people enter the illusion they want to be seen in. But that may not necessarily be fake, but they have something to ask of us."

Gao Fei couldn't bear to look at it any longer. If he hadn't made contact with it, he could still treat it as just a bunch of bones. But after he actually saw it and had contact with it, and then saw the desolation on the ground, he couldn't bear it anymore.

"Why...why are they all dead?" Gao Fei said, "Could the snake mother have died a long time ago as well?"

Jian Yue said: "Whether it is dead or alive, the snake group asked us to find it. There must be a reason. Besides, fallen leaves return to their roots. Maybe the mother snake wants to die with its race even if it dies."

Little Leo was already frightened to the point of weakness, but he still said, "It's clear from the stone, who can catch such a big snake?"

Jian Yue always felt that he must have missed something. He sat at the entrance of the cave and looked down, trying to calm himself down, connecting these things bit by bit and sorting out his thoughts.

Gao Fei said: "That's right, one tail can break a rock!"

Jian Yue looked down silently, the affairs of the Xue family constantly circling in his mind, the frame-up by court officials, the betrayal of the enemy, the execution of the entire Xue family, the snake nest under the temple...

These things seem to have no connection, but Jian Yue feels that there must be a key connection, and it is definitely the key to unlocking the truth about the Xue family and finding the Snake Mother!

"We need to find another underground palace." Jian Yue said slowly: "A snake that big can't hide on the surface."

Gao Fei was surprised and asked, "You mean, they hid the Snake Mother in another underground palace?"

Jian Yue said: "This is just a guess, but it is not the main reason. I want to know what happened to the snake groups in other underground palaces. Also, other underground palaces may have other clues about the Snake Mother."

"That's true." Little Li said, "I have just received the task of finding the mother snake, and to be honest, those two little snakes were very nice to us..."

Jian Yue said directly: "When they turned into skeletons just now, I saw bones. There were important knife marks on their seven-inch parts."

Gao Fei's eyes widened: "They were killed?!"

This conclusion made the men break out in a cold sweat and even get goose bumps. Little Leo was silent. So many Teng Snakes were killed in the underground palace of the temple, and there were knife marks, which meant that it was done by humans.

"Is it... the Xue family?" Little Li guessed, "Didn't they say that the Xue family destroyed the underground palace? Did they send people to kill the snakes under the underground palace?"

This speculation can be said to be well-founded.

Jian Yue recalled the illusion in which his elder sister-in-law, who was clearly surrounded by the imperial guards and had a child in her arms, still cried to keep the secret of the underground palace. His blood could open the door to the underground palace, and the snakes would show an intimate look when they smelled his blood. The underground palace was built by the Xue family, so what the snakes were really close to was the Xue family's bloodline.

"I don't think so." Under the gaze of the two people, Jian Yue slowly took out a knife from his back: "Look at this."

When the two saw it, they were both shocked and said, "WTF! Where did you get it from? You must have picked up some junk!"

Jian Yue held a knife in his hand that was old, rusty, and even had a broken part. He said, "It's a professional habit, so when I saw it on the road, I just picked it up. Don't you know that the price for this kind of thing at the garbage station is quite high?"

Gao Fei and others: "..."

So this is the point?

Leo said, "So this is the knife they use to kill snakes?"

Jian Yue said, "Even if it's not, this must be a knife that people at that time carried with them. They probably didn't expect that someone in the future could enter here, or they forgot to take it away, so they left it behind. Although it's just a broken knife and can't be used anymore, the style and texture of the knife are still clear. Based on these, we can find out who used this knife, who killed the snakes, and who caught the mother snake."

Gao Fei came over, took a look at the knife, frowned and said, "Why do the texture of this knife and the seal on it look familiar to me?"

Little Leo also looked at it, touched his head and said, "Yes, a little bit, but I can't remember it..."

Jian Yue also looked down. He had a good memory and would not forget anything he had seen. He slowly looked at the knife in the dim vision. Everyone suddenly remembered it, and the three of them raised their heads almost instantly: "It's him!!!"