Chapter 76: Snake on Desert Island (End)

In the luxurious room of the cruise ship, Tao's father slowly opened his eyes. The faces of the people in the room went from blurry to clear. He first saw his son guarding the bed. He looked around and didn't see the snake. He breathed a sigh of relief.

It must be an illusion, there is no snake at all.

He stood up and took his son's hand: "Where's the snake...?"

Tao Xing also pulled his father and said in a concerned tone: "Go back to your room and rest. Dad, do you want to see it?"

Father Tao startled and almost fainted again.

It's not an illusion.

There really is a snake.

My son is really with the snake!

Tao Xing could see his father's thoughts and said solemnly, "Yes, we are really together. I like it and it likes me too."

Father Tao laughed twice stiffly.

It was because he was too strict before that his son ran away from home and nearly lost his life. Now that he has finally found him, why... should he still be so strict?

He asked, "Do you think you will be happy with it?"

"yes."

"Okay, then I... won't interfere." Father Tao sighed a few times, stroked his son's face, and thought of something, "By the way, is it a male or female snake? Snakes lay eggs, right? You have to be careful, don't lay a few eggs. Hey, if a few eggs really come out, will the eggs give birth to little snakes, or little people? It won't be half human and half snake, with a human head and a snake body, or a snake head and a human body?"

Tao Xing: “…”

"Well, what's wrong?"

Tao Xing: "Dad, you worry too much, it's a male snake."

"Oh." Father Tao just breathed a sigh of relief, then was shocked again, "Son, you like the same sex?"

Tao Xing: "You can accept me being with a snake, but you can't accept me liking the same sex?"

"I'm just asking." Father Tao wiped his face and said, "It's all right, it's all right."

As long as you don't run away from home, anything is fine. Or in other words, as long as you are happy, anything is fine.

After chatting with his father for a while, Tao Xing returned to his room. He and the snake both needed to take a bath and clean up the blood. Someone had already arranged a room for them, a quiet and luxurious first floor. The cruise ship was heading back, and through the window, one could see the layers of fine waves on the vast ocean.

Everything was packed up, feeling relaxed and comfortable, and once the door was closed, only one person and one snake were left.

The snake's eyes moved slightly, a hint of red flashed across them, and it circled around Tao Xing a few times, then raised its head to look at him.

Tao Xing thought for a moment and gestured with his hands, "How about we go see the sea?"

Although the resonance disappeared after the snake evolved, the effect of the jellyfish fungus did not diminish. The desire it stimulated became more obvious after everything was relaxed. However, they had just got on the boat and were not very familiar with the father yet. It was a bit too informal to start "mating" now. Tao Xing would not do that.

The will can be controlled, but the physiological reaction will not disappear so quickly. He felt that he needed to go get some fresh air.

The snake can naturally sense that humans are still stuck in the "mating season". It's fine with it, as the effect of the mushrooms doesn't affect animals that much, but it feels sorry for humans and is afraid that they will feel uncomfortable if they hold it in for too long. However, it seems to understand humans now, and when humans say it's not suitable, it will listen and crawl out with them.

There is a side door in the room. When you push it open and walk to the deck, you can see the sea. The sea is deep and quiet in the night.

Tao Xing stretched out his hand to grab a glimpse of the wind, and the snake beside him moved closer, leaning on his shoulder as he stretched out his hand.

Tao Xing lowered her eyebrows and smiled, rubbing the snake's head with her cheek.

The snake arched towards his neck, and the wings on its back and the scales on its body gradually disappeared, revealing a human body as smooth as jade, which seemed soft and glowing under the moonlight.

Tao Xing was startled and looked around quickly. Fortunately, there was no one outside the side door of his room, but it was still outside. He said, "You can't be naked. Change back quickly."

The snake-turned-human's chin was still resting on Tao Xing's shoulder. Hearing the tone, he slowly raised his eyes, with a hint of grievance flashing across his face.

It has the ability to change shape because of courtship. When it senses the mating period of humans, it changes into human form, and it cannot change back just like that.

Seeing that it couldn't change, Tao Xing wanted to turn around and said, "Then let's go into the house."

The snake thought again, you came here to get some fresh air, wouldn’t you feel uncomfortable if you go into the house?

It didn't move. The moment Tao Xing pulled its hand, there was a creaking sound behind it, as if its bones were dislocated. Then, with a crash, its huge wings suddenly spread out.

The body still looked like a human, smooth and white, but behind it were wings spread out, moving slowly with the wind, looking strange and holy.

Then the pair of wings slowly closed, wrapping itself and Tao Xing.

The wings pressed against Tao Xing's back were cold, and the skin pressed against her chest was also cold.

It was as if they fell into a soft darkness, with only a little moonlight shining through. The bodies of both people melted into the wings, and their naked bodies were obscured. No one could see them except Tao Xing.

When the clear eyes in front of him raised up, Tao Xing's heart trembled slightly.

He lifted the human-shaped chin and kissed it slowly.

In the gentle night breeze, entangled in desire, he just gave her a long and lingering kiss.

No emotions/desires, only heartbeats.

There was a splash, as if a fish jumped up, and the flowing water waves sounded like a pleasant melody.

Tao Xing loosened her hands and looked at the cheeks of the person in front of her, which had become flushed without her noticing.

The snake was a little surprised. It felt that the human's mating season disappeared, not suddenly, but when it was kissing it, like spring rain seeping into the grass full of tender buds, and spreading out little by little.

It did not leave, but turned into the tenderness between the lips and teeth, like a gentle breeze, wrapping it.

For humans, the way to relieve sexual desire is not necessarily just through mating, right?

The snake returned to its original shape, its wings spread out, and its scarlet eyes blinked.

Tao Xing smiled faintly and put the snake's head on her shoulder.

The next day at noon, someone knocked on the door and said that Mr. Tao was hosting a banquet and invited the young master... and the snake to come over.

After much thought, Father Tao decided to build a relationship with the snakes. After all, they would be a family in the future. So he made arrangements from last night and held a banquet to welcome them.

After the man and the snake were ready, they came to the dining room. In the huge inner hall, there were several servants standing. They greeted them one by one when the door was opened. Father Tao sat at one end of the long table. Having been in the business world for many years, he was a little speechless today: "Um...you sit down."

The chairs beside the table were pulled away, and the snake looked left and right, then coiled around a chair.

Tao Xing also sat down.

The dishes came up one after another, and the long table was filled up. Father Tao greeted everyone, and after all the dishes were served, he winked at the people around him.

The people around him clapped their hands, and the door opened again. A group of people came in one after another, carrying in various things.

Tao Xing saw a tall rack with artificial leaves on it and branches wrapped with layers of wool. There were round wool pedals of different heights on both sides.

"I prepared this for your snake." Father Tao was a little embarrassed. "Snakes always coil around trees. I can't move a real tree into the house, so I made this. I don't know if it likes it."

Tao Xing: “Uh…”

Looking at the boxes next to it, the servants were taking out bags of things, including small dried fish, big dried fish, and even... dried mice.

"Son, I really don't know what it eats, let's buy some snacks first."

Tao Xing: “This…”

"Oh, they have prepared several sets of clothes for it. I don't know if they are suitable." As they spoke, the servants opened one of the packages.

The old man prepared many sets, but they were opened randomly. This is a set of winter clothes.

A knitted red hat with two horns on it, like Santa Claus's elk, a big red scarf, and a long, straight sweater, also red, dotted with small pink hearts.

"I don't know whether it wears clothes or not, but I'm still prepared," said Tao's father.

Tao Xing pursed her lips. Snakes don't need to wear clothes, but... she still wanted to see them wearing clothes.

"Then, there's one more thing." Father Tao stood up, prepared himself for a moment, walked to the snake, and took out a thick red envelope. "This is what I should give you since we're meeting for the first time."

The snake raised its head, blinked, thought for a moment, then opened its mouth and bit the red envelope.

It didn't know what it was, but it liked this color very much, the interweaving of gold and red, bright and vivid, the same as its scales and wings.

"Oh, that's great. Do you like the other things I gave you?" said Father Tao.

The snake looked at Tao Xing.

Tao Xing smiled and raised her hand: "Would you like to go and take a look?"

The snake crawled over and rubbed the clothes, which were very soft. It smelled the snacks, which were very fragrant. That shelf, well... was very cute.

The old man began to convince himself since last night that it was his son's companion, a companion... Maybe it was a psychological suggestion, or maybe the snake was really very spiritual, he was now used to being in the same room with the snake, and strangely felt some family happiness from it.

An idea suddenly occurred to him: "How about we take a family photo?"

One man and one snake turned around.

They took family photos.

The indoor temperature is low, so it is not inappropriate for snakes to wear thick clothes.

In front of the camera, there was a snake wearing a knitted hat with small red horns, a red scarf around its neck, and a long sweater. The holes for its arms were just enough to pass through its wings, but not long enough. Its tail was still outside. It lightly tapped on the climbing frame behind it, holding the red envelope in its mouth, and its bright eyes twinkled.

With a "click", the shutter button was pressed, and a joyful snake, leaning against the person next to it, was frozen in the picture.

The sea breeze was blowing, and after a few days, the cruise ship finally docked.

The original owner was raised by his grandparents. After their death, he ran away from home to go to research institute. It seemed that he did not have a good relationship with his father and they did not communicate much in daily life. Therefore, even though he did not understand the original owner's personality and did not deliberately imitate him, Tao Xing did not reveal the truth.

The "Lintian Laboratory" incident caused a temporary sensation. After a thorough investigation, the relevant departments gave a complete explanation to all parties, explaining the causes and consequences in detail, and also emphasized that after a full investigation, both synthetic humans and synthetic animals had all died on the island. The incident has been resolved, so everyone should not panic.

And that island, after being burned out by the fire, sank to the bottom of the sea.

As for the hero of this incident, it was naturally Tao Xing, but Tao Xing did not take credit for it. He told everyone that the key potion was given to him by Wang Yuzhou, and also explained to everyone that Wang Yuzhou endured humiliation and worked hard for several months in order to hide this potion.

No matter what, Wang Yuzhou is a hero in this matter.

The outside world awarded Wang Yuzhou relevant awards and held a memorial service for him.

But Tao Xing’s contribution cannot be ignored. He received a constant stream of interview invitations from all walks of life, and with his dazzling appearance, he once became very popular.

The most direct effect of these honors, awards and popularity was that the Tao family reached cooperation on several major projects in succession, and the Tao family's assets and wealth increased several times.

Father Tao sighed more than once that this son who was lost and then found again was truly a blessing.

However, having more businesses also brings troubles. At a family dinner, Tao's father took a phone call and sighed: "I forgot that there is this island. I don't know what to do with it."

Tao Xing asked, "You have an island?"

"I have a lot of islands." Tao's father said, "Oh, when you exploded some time ago, I got several more."

"Oh." Tao Xing raised an eyebrow, "I don't know what to do?"

"Yeah, I really don't know what to do. The island is quite deserted."

Isn't this a coincidence? Tao Xing said, "I'll go."

"Ah?" Tao's father was startled. "Son, if you want an island, isn't it easy? I'll give you a few well-developed ones where you can live comfortably."

"No need, just this one." Tao Xing looked around.

The snake came from a deserted island and is actually not very adaptable to living in groups with humans.

Let's take it back to the island.

This island is different from that one. It is also surrounded by the sea. Although it is desolate, it is peaceful and quiet.

Of course, Tao's father would not let him live there like that, so he quickly built a villa on the island and provided various entertainment facilities for the snake. Tao's father wanted to continue repairing other things, but Tao Xing stopped him. It was fine as it was.

There are no large forests or hills here, only large tracts of soft wasteland. After everything is cleaned up, the island is peaceful and quiet. Apart from the servants who come to deliver supplies regularly, there are only Tao Xing and the snake.

It was a pity to leave the land idle, so when Tao Xing had nothing to do, he would plant flowers and grass, and of course, some jellyfish mushrooms.

080 asked doubtfully, "Host, you two are together day and night now, do you still need this aphrodisiac?"

Tao Xing frowned: "I'm doing this to make it easier to communicate with it!"

After eating mushrooms, it’s easier to communicate with each other!

080: "Oh, host, whatever you say is what it is."

The sun rises and the moon sets, the sea breeze rises and falls, and the waves beat against the rocks. Sometimes, when you lie on the beach with your eyes closed, the snake rolls in the water. When it floats to the surface, it shakes hard, and the water droplets on its scales fall onto the face of the person with closed eyes.

The island was soon covered with flowers and plants. The snake liked to watch people tilling the land and planting plants. As they planted the seedlings one by one, people would move forward and continue planting, and the snake would move back to make room.

The snake retreated until all the land was planted and it had no place to lie down, so it stood up and supported itself with the tip of its tail.

Tao Xing raised her eyes and smiled: "I have occupied all your territory, right?"

The snake shook its body and jumped across the land.

Tao Xing was slightly startled, then smiled calmly: "You can lie down anywhere you want."

The snake couldn't bear to damage the beautiful flowers, so it turned around and around, and accidentally fell into the mushroom group.

"Be careful." Tao Xing reached out to hug it, but was pulled by the force and fell in.

The strong scent permeated their bodies, and when they stood up, the reaction from the mushrooms had already hit them like an overwhelming force.

They looked at each other for a moment, and then the door of the villa closed.

The body turned into a human form, and there was always moisture in the misty eyes. The snake was very proactive now, and because of that resonance, it knew very well under what circumstances people were most happy and excited.

She was just too excited and couldn't control herself. While rolling over and over, Tao Xing knew clearly that what she was holding in her arms was a human figure, but her consciousness occasionally became blurred and she saw herself turning into a snake.

But he soon woke up, not because he woke up on his own, but because the snake stopped entering the dream in time.

Tao Xing opened her eyes, gently stroked the person under her, and slightly curved her lips: "It doesn't matter, you can seduce me, in the future, you can do it."

The figure blinked, then his eyes lit up.

Next, Tao Xing felt as if it was a dream or reality. The entanglement in reality and the mating in the dream overlapped and intertwined. The feeling was doubled, and her body and mind were all awakened, screaming with joy.

Later, 080 whispered, "Host, do you want to buy some kidney-tonifying medicine? I'll see if I can apply for credit first."

"Get lost!" came a dull response.

"Oh." The system quickly dived into the depths of consciousness.

Later, perhaps because the climate and soil on the island were different from those on land or something else, the flowers and plants planted by Tao Xing were found to have very high medicinal value. At one time, there were countless buyers. According to preliminary estimates, the value of the medicinal materials on the island could buy several more islands.

So Tao Xing made a lot of money without knowing it, although he was not short of money, or in other words, he didn't need money on the island.

He was spending his honeymoon on the island with the snakes and didn't want to be disturbed too much, so he only allowed people to come and harvest the snakes once a year, for those few days. No one was allowed to come at other times.

Of course, this honeymoon lasts a lifetime.

After a group of people who came to collect medicinal herbs left, the island fell into tranquility again, with flowers blooming on the branches and the evening breeze blowing gently. Tao Xing turned around and saw a figure from the huge French window.

The figure gave him a smile, then moved and turned into a golden snake.

Tao Xing also smiled slightly.

The naturally spiritual golden dragon python can now control its own human form and can transform at any time.

It still can't speak without language function, but it no longer needs to speak, nor does it need the assistance of mushrooms, because they now have enough tacit understanding, which is the natural effect of mutual understanding.

When their eyes met, they understood each other's meaning.

For example, now, the snake blinked in front of the window, and Tao Xing understood it. It said, it’s getting dark, why don’t you come back?

Tao Xing turned off the light outside and walked into the room.

However, the mushrooms have already been planted, so there is no need to destroy them. Just let them grow. After all, there will be other effects, right?

The lifespan of a golden dragon python is about one hundred years, which is longer than the average human lifespan.

Tao Xing's lifespan in each world depends on the body of the original owner. Here, he lived to be over ninety years old, which was the limit of the original owner.

He broke away from his original body and headed for the chaotic place between worlds.

"Host, the reward for this world is 80 million. Because you have completed the mission well, there is still an additional reward of 20 million. In addition, you have prevented the extinction of mankind in this world, and there is a welfare reward. I will give you a skill that can be used in the next world. Let me see. Memory tracking has been used and cannot be used again. There are also invisibility and mind reading. Oh, invisibility is still under maintenance. What do you want to choose, host?"

Tao Xing: "...Do I have a choice?"

080: "Well, even though the only thing left is mind reading, I still have to ask according to the rules."

Tao Xing: “…”

080: "Then I'll give you the benefit of mind reading, host, let's go."

Tao Xing looked back in the void.

It was dusk, clouds were reflected on the sea, and the island was covered with flowers.

The golden snake had been coiled in the flowers and had not moved for a long time.

The system said softly: "Host, it's dead."

Tao Xing closed her eyes.

The snake said that a partner recognized will live and die together and will never live alone. Even though they have been together for many years and even though Tao Xing died of old age, it will not change its words.

The petals floated and fell on the bodies of the man and the snake.

"Host, shall we start the next world?" 080 asked.

"Open it." Tao Xing turned around, paused for a long time, raised his head and said, "In the future, no matter what he is, I will not be afraid anymore. This time I am telling the truth."