Strange Tales from the Deep Mountains (16)

Baby?

Does he really have children?

Li Su's pupils dilated, his small face filled with shock. But before he could react, the red-clad female ghost had already pushed him inside without giving him a chance to refuse.

The wooden door behind her slowly closed. Li Su reflexively reached out to stop the red-clad female ghost's actions, but her hand, stuck in the crack of the door, was ruthlessly pushed back inside by the red-clad female ghost.

"Honey, I'm going out to pick some fruit for you. The baby said he wanted some. You stay home and play with our baby for a while." The woman in red said, then closed the wooden door completely.

The old wooden door made a grating sound, and the voice of the woman in red outside the door became unclear: "I'll be back soon."

"What's going on???"

"Did I guess wrong? I thought the boss of this hidden quest was the woman in red..."

"Really a baby???"

"So even now I still don't know what the hidden quest is?"

"Is it really completely hidden? Not even a hint?"

A kerosene lamp burned in the wooden house, its light flickering and changing from bright to dim as the flames danced.

There was no sound in the cabin. Li Su's heart was pounding. He turned around stiffly, but his back accidentally bumped into a hard object.

Startled by the sudden touch, Li Su instinctively closed her eyes and held her breath, not daring to make any movement.

After waiting for a while, the room remained completely silent, as if everything that had just happened was his illusion. Li Su slowly opened his eyes, his slightly red eyes filled with mist.

Li Su clenched her fists, mustered her courage and turned around, but froze the moment she saw that thing. Then, her pale face slowly flushed pink.

"Just started streaming? Is this a newbie? Is she really that bad? It's just a kerosene lamp, how come she's so scared? She's already crying?"

"It's easy for you to talk when you're not the one suffering, isn't it? You make it sound so easy. I hope you'll be just as stubborn once you're in the game~"

"Huh? There really are all kinds of people out there. What if you were in a game? In that environment, where you could die at any moment and everything is unknown, could you still be laughing?"

"That's not necessarily true. There's no danger now; it was just a kerosene lamp. It can't be that serious, can it?"

"..."

"Why do we have to expect everyone to be bold? Can't I be a coward?"

"Don't pay attention to this kind of person, they're probably just an ETC user, deliberately trying to cause trouble ^_^"

"I've reported it. Bye-bye, please watch the live stream quietly and stop talking. The smell is bothering me."

"I'm so glad I can't see the comments. I'm already seriously trying to beat the game, and I still get said things like that..."

Li Su rubbed her ear tips shyly, feeling a little embarrassed.

He didn't expect it to be a kerosene lamp; he thought it was another ghost that had popped out of nowhere.

Looking down at the kerosene lamp in front of her, Li Su suddenly frowned and leaned closer to it.

The kerosene lamp in the red-clothed ghost's room looked exactly the same as the one in their room, but Li Su clearly remembered that the liquid inside their kerosene lamp wouldn't move. Even if he accidentally dropped the lamp, the liquid inside would remain frozen like ice. But the liquid inside the kerosene lamp in the red-clothed ghost's room had tiny ripples caused by the impact.

Why are they different?

Just as Li Su reached out her hand and her fingertips were about to touch the kerosene lamp, a soft, sweet voice suddenly sounded behind her.

"dad?"

Li Su paused, her fingers about to touch the kerosene lamp, and turned around stiffly.

A very small child climbed up from the wooden bed, leaning against the headboard with his lower body covered by the blanket. He seemed to have been woken up, and the child was still rubbing his sleepy eyes.

"Is that you, Dad?"

Their eyes met, and Li Su's eyes widened even more.

Was he calling me?

The system suddenly appeared: "[It was calling you.]"

Li Su was even more confused. He really had a child in this instance?

System: [...You don't have children, but he's calling for you.]

"Daddy, Daddy, give me a hug!"

The baby on the bed was flailing its arms, wanting to be held. Li Su hesitated for a moment but still went over.

Unlike the red-clad female ghost, the child didn't have a ring of blue-green will-o'-the-wisps around him; he looked perfectly normal.

Li Su had never held a baby before, and she was so nervous that she didn't even know what to do with her hands. But the baby on the bed naturally stretched out its two short arms.

As the two drew closer, Li Su realized that the child's face was also very smooth, unlike the strange face of the woman in red.

Li Su frowned, wondering if the child was also a player. But then he thought it was unlikely.

He couldn't help but think that this was a normal child.

Li Su placed his hands under the child's armpits, and the child skillfully wrapped his arms around his neck.

"!!! Huh? This kid's legs..."

"A snake?! What's going on?!"

"What's the connection between this child and that beautiful snake woman from earlier?"

"Oh my god, baby, look at his tail! Stop hugging him!!!"

"This is terrifying! Help!!!"

The screen was almost completely filled with exclamation marks, but Li Su was oblivious. He only felt that the child in his arms was too cold, as if he were holding a block of ice.

"Dad, why did it take you so long to come see me and Mom?" The little boy wrapped his short, chubby arms around Li Su's neck, leaning back to look at his face.

Fearing he might fall if he went any further, Li Su lowered her hand to support his legs.

But the sensation under my hand suddenly felt a little strange.

It's slippery, cool, and feels like it's covered in tiny, dense scales...

With a sudden pounding of his heart, Li Su stiffly looked down at the child's lower body and discovered a bright green snake tail with the tip of the tail hooked around his waist.

Li Su: "!!!"

Almost the instant he saw the look of terror and fear on the child's face, the innocence on the child's face vanished, and the black pupils became narrow slits.

"Hahahahaha..." The child in my arms let out a high-pitched laugh.

Li Su instinctively tried to push the child in her arms away, but was instead tightly entangled by the slender snake tail.

"What's wrong, Daddy?" The little snake looked a little aggrieved, its round eyes drooping. Its slender white hand slowly stroked Li Su's pale cheek, and it whispered in his ear, "Daddy loves you the most, doesn't he?"

"The baby has already been born, so why is Daddy still so scared?" The little snake's rosy lips parted, revealing two thin, long, sharp fangs, which gently pressed against Li Su's cheek.

Her whole body was trembling uncontrollably. Li Su dared not move again, fearing that the sharp teeth would pierce her flesh in the next second.

"I...I'm not your father..." Li Su's voice trembled as she tried to communicate with the small snake on her body.

"Huh?" The little snake poked its head out slightly, its fluffy curly hair trembled, and its two eyes widened as it looked at Li Su with curiosity.

The biting chill finally receded a bit, and the two sharp teeth were removed from the flesh.

Li Su had no time to relax.

The snake's next words made him tremble all over.

"I know, you're not that kind of man!" the little snake said, moving closer to his neck, its cool nose gently rubbing against the soft flesh of his neck, as if searching for a good place to bite.

"Don't, don't bite me..." Li Su trembled in fright at the sudden sharp pain.

The little snake seemed extremely satisfied with his appearance, calmly retracting its sharp fangs and grinning as it said, "I won't eat you. You're not tasty, I don't like you."

Li Su's eyes stung, her long eyelashes trembled, and she asked him, "Then, why do you still call me Dad?"

"Hehe~" The little snake paused for a moment, then its round eyes curved into an arc as if it had heard something extremely funny. "Isn't this what you wanted to hear?"

you?

Li Su was stunned. Had anyone else been here besides him?

Seeing Li Su's blank expression, the little snake narrowed its eyes slightly and said, "You're a bit different from them, aren't you?"

Li Su couldn't help but swallow the saliva that was being produced so rapidly.

His intuition told him that the little snake was dangerous, and he couldn't afford to give the wrong answer.

"Them?" Li Su tried to regulate her breathing, trying not to look too scared.

The little snake's vertical black pupils observed him intently, without being tricked into revealing anything by Li Su.

Without getting any information, Li Su pretended to be relaxed and said, "I'm different from them."

"Hehe~" The little snake suddenly laughed again when it heard his answer, its thick eyelashes trembling. It slowly said, "Is that so?"

"I must have misread it." The little snake slowly wiped the smile from its face, looking at Li Su expressionlessly again. "Now you're saying the same things as them?"

"I can't take it anymore, this kid is really scary QwQ"

"With the cutest face, saying the scariest things, waaaaah..."

"Who are they???"

"Daddy, do you like me?" The little snake slowly curved its eyes again, its dark vertical pupils staring at Li Su.

Li Su found the question strange, and he couldn't discern the child's thoughts, so he could only choose a conventional answer: "Hmm, I like it..."

"Hahahahaha..." Before Li Su could finish speaking, the little snake grinned and laughed loudly again.

Before Li Su could speak, the little snake spoke up again: "Then Daddy, shall we play a game?"

game?

Li Su frowned subconsciously. This child gave him a very strange feeling. He didn't want to play the so-called game with him, but he had no other choice.

The snake's tail had already started from his lower back and was now tightly wrapped around his thighs, causing his clothes to be rolled up in messy folds. The two thin, sharp teeth were pressed against his neck, as if the moment Li Su said no, those long, sharp teeth would mercilessly pierce his blood vessels.

The little snake let out a sigh that was hard to tell whether it was satisfied or disappointed. The two arms around its neck finally loosened their grip a little, and then it nimbly crawled off Li Su's body.

Li Su quickly took two steps back, secretly observing the surrounding environment. The room was not large, and it was made of wood everywhere. There was only one exit, which was the wooden door he had just entered through.

"Hehe~" The little snake on the bed raised an innocent smile again, tilting its head up to look at Li Su obediently, "Daddy, you shouldn't think about how to escape anymore, there are many older sisters waiting for you outside~"

As if to confirm his words, Li Su heard the mournful and angry cries of the female ghosts outside, but for some reason, they did not come into the wooden house.

Was it because of the necklace that Doctor Qi gave him?

Li Su subconsciously reached for her chest, but found nothing.

Her whole body suddenly felt cold, and Li Su's ears were ringing.

Where is his necklace?