"How many more do you want? There are only two left." Huang's temper was already on the verge of exploding.

After scolding his son, he turned to Zhao Qingyan and said...

"Sweetie, go get your flashlight. Let's check this room again to see if there are any more snakes. We don't know where these things came from."

Zhao Qingyan responded and quickly returned to her room, taking out two high-powered flashlights.

At this critical moment, when lives are at stake, it's not the time to hide our shortcomings. Even if our family asks later, we can blame it on the foreign merchant.

The room was already quite bright thanks to the emergency lights, and with the addition of a powerful flashlight, every corner of the room, including the beams, was clearly visible.

After searching for a while, they found that in addition to the two that Grandma had already killed, there was one more on the roof beam.

If the flashlight beam hadn't been bright enough to spot a snake's tail, I probably wouldn't have noticed it.

It is now certain that these snakes crawled in through the roof and then settled on the roof beams.

For some reason, the one that fell from above today was killed by Huang with a pillow.

The one that crawled into the shoe, I don't know if it fell off or climbed down.

Luckily, the old couple liked to sleep on porcelain pillows, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to grab any weapons at the last minute.

The roof beams are so high, it would be quite difficult to climb up and deal with the snake. Even if there were a ladder, the snake would still move while someone was climbing up.

Even though the Zhao family members are all skilled in archery and dart throwing, it's difficult to find a target if they don't show themselves.

Tonight, no matter how you look at it, was a close call.

We've been living in this house for several days now, and of all days this has happened. I really don't know if it's just Zhao Qianci's bad luck or if there really is a snake's den hidden in this house.

It's getting late. What we need to do now is quickly search the other rooms and sprinkle snake repellent powder. Let the examinees go to sleep first.

Then kill the snakes in this room.

Zhao Qingyan gave the emergency light and flashlight to Zhao Minggeng and the others, telling them to hurry up and check the other rooms.

Zhao Qingyan then took out an emergency light and gave it to Huang Shi, asking her to sit in the living room with Zhao Qianci for a while.

He then took out a folding ladder from his spatial storage.

This ladder is an extra-long one I bought back in my past life when I was first hoarding things and didn't know I could manipulate space with my mind.

The ladder was opened, and I climbed up. A powerful flashlight began to sweep across the entire roof beams and every rafter on the ceiling.

They finally discovered the small black snake that had been hiding there, about a foot long and as thick as a thumb.

"Hehe, why don't you guys have a good life and instead come to my house to stir up trouble?"

If it weren't for the flashlight, I really wouldn't have noticed you.

As Zhao Qingyan spoke, she took out some pebbles.

It shot towards the snake. This little guy may be small, but it's surprisingly fast. When it saw the pebble coming at it, it actually knew to jump up and dodge.

How could Zhao Qingyan give it a chance to escape? Missing her first attack, she immediately launched a second and a third pebble.

One bullet hit the snake's head, and the other hit its vital spot.

Finally, I saw that guy slump down.

Zhao Qingyan dared not let her guard down. Who knew if this little thing was faking fainting?

So the fourth pebble was thrown, this time with a little more force. The little snake fell from the roof beam to the ground with a thud.

Judging from how he fell, it's uncertain whether he'll die, but he'll definitely be knocked unconscious.

Zhao Qingyan was now overly suspicious, so she decided to go all out this time. She threw out a dagger and plunged it into the snake's vital spot, pinning the small snake to the floor tile.

If Zhao Qingyan hadn't had such sharp eyesight, she wouldn't have noticed that the little snake twitched its body the instant the knife pierced the hole.

This really scared Zhao Qingyan so much that she broke out in a sweat.

What are these things? They're practically sentient! If I hadn't been so suspicious and hadn't delivered that final blow, I might have been outsmarted by this little bug.

I scanned the beams twice with a flashlight and found no living creatures before I felt relieved.

So she sprinkled medicinal powder on various parts of the roof beams, and in a relatively corner, Zhao Qingyan simply tossed the medicine packet over.

After this is done, it's almost certain that these suspicious creatures will never appear on the roof beams again.

As for the roof, we can only check it when it gets light.

He took a burlap sack and a pair of trash pickers, first picking up the dead snake from the bed and putting it into the sack, then putting the snake that Huang had killed with a teacup, along with its shoe, into the sack.

From now on, it will be that little guy who was nailed to the floor tile by himself with a knife.

Zhao Qingyan felt that this guy wasn't quite dead yet, even though she had pierced his vital spot.

So he used the head of the trash can to tap the snake's head repeatedly. After confirming that he had deformed the snake's head, he endured the nausea, used the trash can to hold down the snake's body with one hand, and pulled the dagger from the ground with the other.

The last bad guy was put into the sack, and the sack opening was quickly tied tightly with a rope.

He first threw the sack into the yard, then went back into the house and brought out the bedding that Mr. and Mrs. Huang had just slept in.

They gathered firewood, built a woodpile, threw the sacks and blankets on top, and lit it. They then called Zhao Qingyang and little Qingbi to watch the fire.

Then they fetched water themselves and washed the ground. As for the dirty water, it was all collected in a bucket and sprinkled with sulfur.

After making sure every corner of the room was clean, I sprinkled the powder in the room.

It's truly fortunate that the Zhao family frequently ventures into the mountains, allowing them to acquire a large quantity of medicinal powder. Zhao Qingyan, being a hoarder, also kept quite a bit of it in her storage space.

Otherwise, it really wouldn't be enough for this whole ordeal.

Half an hour later, the Zhao family confirmed that there were no unknown creatures in the room or on the roof beams. After sprinkling the powder, they quickly told the examinees to go to sleep.

The elderly couple, surnamed Huang, were arranged to stay in Zhao Qingyan's room.

Zhao Qingyan stayed in the courtyard until the fire burned out. She poured a bucket of water on the last embers to make sure it wouldn't reignite before she felt at ease.

As for the bucket of dirty water with added sulfur, we'll deal with it when it gets light.

Still not reassured, I walked around the front and back yards again, scattering medicinal powder everywhere around the corners of the walls before I felt at ease.

After entering the room where Huang Shi and Zhao Qianci had been, he slipped into his spatial dimension and went to sleep.

Anyway, it's impossible to enter the space in the living room; it would be troublesome if some uncle or brother saw it.

Huang didn't sleep well in the latter half of the night; this time, instead of candles, an emergency light was placed in the room.

She was also worried about the old man's unlucky constitution; if something happened in the middle of the night, it would be truly a disaster.

In order not to disturb Zhao Qianci's sleep, Huang automatically unlocked the eye mask function and took a handkerchief to cover Zhao Qianci's eyes.