The thunder of March rumbled from afar. A light drizzle irrigated the surrounding farmland.

On a gloomy, rainy day, the air was shrouded in mist and rain, forming a flowing white veil. Cars sped by on the road from time to time, splashing water everywhere.

Along the national highway at the foot of Fuding Mountain, a car sped past, crushing a red-banded snake that had just woken from hibernation and was preparing to cross the road into a flat rubber band.

The rain continued to fall, and the snake-killing "murderer" fled in a flash, leaving the crime scene unattended.

This scene startled Silver Ring, who was following behind the Red-banded Snake and preparing to cross the road, so much so that she quickly withdrew her snake head.

Silver Ring was stunned. She straightened her snake body, her round eyes filled with shock. It took her a long time to realize what had happened.

After figuring out what had just happened, she turned her head and stared blankly at the car that was about to disappear at the end of the road. After a while, as if in slow motion, she turned her head woodenly to look at the other car on the asphalt road, its original shape no longer recognizable...

Dead?

My new friend just died like that?

Silver Ring felt a slight pain in her forked tongue. Her snake face contorted, and she instinctively stuck out her tongue. Then, cautiously, as if she were doing something wrong, she darted forward a short distance.

With eyes wide open and ears attentive, she crawled to the corpse of the red-banded snake as if facing a formidable enemy. Then, she lowered the snake's head and tentatively nudged its body to see if it was still alive.

However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.

He's out of breath. Is my friend really dead?

These meat patties have been pressed into long, thin pieces; how could they possibly be steamy anymore!

What was that huge thing just now? How could it be so powerful? It killed the ferocious Crimson Flame in the blink of an eye.

Silver Ring was very sad; this was the first kind-hearted fellow human she had met since coming down the mountain.

He was just helping her cross the street, how could he be so unlucky as to lose his life?

Silver Ring was very frustrated.

Of course, her gloomy, expressionless face, covered in stiff black snake scales, didn't reveal any emotion, but her green-glowing eyes perfectly expressed her current mood.

Just as Silver Ring was grieving the loss of her snake friend in such a confused state, a large truck, like a moving mountain, came rushing from the end of the road in the distance.

The large truck moved very fast, splashing water everywhere on the road.

Hearing the vibration from afar, Silver Ring suddenly turned its oval head, staring with its round eyes that never closed, and looked toward the source of the sound.

When she finally saw the massive, moving mountain hurtling towards her, Silver Ring's heart skipped a beat. Her body reacted faster than her mind, and she darted back into the roadside bushes in a flash.

Just as she reached a safe place, a stream of sewage unexpectedly sprayed onto her long snake body.

Silver Ring trembled with fear and instinctively twisted its snake body.

Brother, help! It's so dangerous down the mountain!

Only after the sound of the truck completely disappeared did Silver Ring recover from the lingering fear.

In just a short while, several more four-wheeled iron boxes, which looked like small mountains to her, drove past her.

Silver Ring shook its head, confirming that the large boxes running fast on the white road were the snake's killers. Then, the snake's body shrunk and it collapsed into the grass.

what to do?

How could she possibly cross this dangerous road and then follow the stream on the other side to the city to find her sworn brother?

The message my elder brother sent back said that as long as you follow the river next to the white road at the foot of Fuding Mountain, you can reach his city.

And then...right, how do I get there?

Thinking of this, the silver-ringed snake's body suddenly jerked and stood upright.

She turned her head, looking around in the grass, her eyes filled with anxiety.

After a long while, a thin mist appeared in those extremely human-like round eyes—she, she had actually lost the rat that her sworn brother had sent to guide her.

Damn it, you cunning rat, did you think you could get away with this snake?

Yin Huan was furious. She immediately abandoned her intention to cross the road and turned around to catch the escaped rat.

We can't let this thing get away; without it, she won't be able to find her way to the city.

She extended the snake's tongue, sniffed the air, and after finding the right direction, plunged headfirst into the grass.

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Silver Ring is a highly venomous snake, less than a meter long. Her small body makes her relatively delicate among her kind.

She was born in Fuding Mountain, and after emerging from a snake egg, she never left the mountain.

Her brothers and sisters who hatched from the snake egg with her have all died, but she has survived all this time without any major mishaps. She has neither been snatched away by the eagles on the mountain nor become a meal for her own kind.

Don't ask her why she still remembers her brother who was born with her...

Who knows!

Anyway, she defies common sense; many impossible things become possible through her.

Back to the point, Yin Huan herself didn't know how many years she had lived. According to her sworn brother's calculations, she should have lived for at least three hundred years.

Her unscientific lifespan as a snake is currently only comparable to that of her sworn brother.

Silver Ring knew perfectly well that she was an outcast among snakes.

I remember when I first hatched from the egg, the first thing I saw was the mother snake with her mouth wide open, eating her brothers and sisters. At that time, I was still a bit naive, but my instinct was to avoid danger and seek good fortune.

As soon as it hatched from the egg, it darted away to the furthest place from the snake mother. Only then did it escape her venomous bite and barely survive.

That's fine, but even her nature as a snake is different from other snakes.

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