The village was thrown into chaos upon hearing the noise, but the situation was even worse in the ravine where the snake had appeared.
As Huo Chengche led Niannian to the entrance of the mountain pass, he first saw Liang Sheng, who was terrified and trembling, crawling and scrambling to get out.
Yes, that timid and unlucky Prefect of the Capital has once again been caught off guard by this kind of thing.
God knows, he just came here to tell these idiots: stop messing around here and get back home.
Suddenly, something brushed against him. He frowned and looked down, only to be met with a wet, mottled, and menacing patch of scales. Then he realized that it was a python thicker than his leg!
And so, Huo Chengche and the little boy heard their first scream in the village.
Fortunately, these pythons were attracted by the minced meat and went straight for it without attacking anyone.
The crowd screamed and scattered in panic. Unlike the other strong villagers, Liang Sheng, the Prefect of Jingzhao who hadn't run more than a few steps in years, was already panting and unable to run any further after only a few hundred meters.
Huo Chengche looked at Liang Sheng, whose face was pale and whose eyes were rolled back. Although the occasion was indeed inappropriate, he couldn't help but curl his lips into a sneer.
That unlucky guy, how come he always gets caught up in these kinds of things?
Liang Sheng, panting heavily, looked up when he heard the laughter and almost fainted from anger. "Your Highness, how can you still laugh?"
Huo Chengche suppressed the smirk on his lips, patted him on the shoulder, glanced at the few constables looking over and Tongyoulin not far away, and finally fixed his gaze on the large pythons coiled together not far away.
Although this was the first time Huo Chengche had ever seen such a large python, he felt no unease or fear; on the contrary, it was a natural instinct.
An inexplicable instinct, a desire to go...?
Huo Chengche himself didn't know what the sudden surge of excitement in his heart was about, but the feeling was a kind of suppression, suppressing these beasts that shouldn't be here.
The giant pythons over there seemed to sense something as well. Their ferocious movements as they fought over the minced meat gradually slowed down, and finally they stopped. They slowly turned their huge snake heads toward the mouth of the ravine, their pairs of snake eyes sinister and cold, emitting an eerie green light.
Liang Sheng suddenly felt a chill down his spine. He turned around and was caught off guard by what he saw. He immediately screamed, "Ah—Your Highness and the Princess, help me!"
At this time, Huo Chengche was still very reliable to Liang Sheng, who scrambled to his side and crawled behind Huo Chengche.
Huo Chengche glanced at Liang Sheng with disdain and threatened coldly, "If you keep yelling like that, this snake-driving job will be handed over to your Jingzhao government."
"save--"
The ghostly screams stopped abruptly.
Huo Chengche snorted coldly and withdrew his gaze.
The venomous snakes all straightened up, their cold, sinister eyes fixed on the same direction. The surrounding constables were so frightened that their blood seemed to freeze, and they dared not utter a sound.
The little boy wasn't afraid at all when he met those sinister snake eyes.
As the adorable little bundle in the boy's arms raised its head, it let out a haughty, childish "humph."
The upright venomous snakes suddenly jolted, as if frightened. They all shrank back and lowered their heads, their upright bodies bending into a hunched arc, and began to move frequently.
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