Xiao Cheng felt like her DNA was starting to get tangled.
So why was she forced to watch this kind of storyline?
The snake demon came knocking on the door, demanding the seven dwarfs return their grandfather?
The dwarves were determined to refuse to open the door, even shouting through the door: "You snake, you're full of nonsense! You don't have a grandfather! We didn't capture your grandfather!"
The snake demon couldn't out-shout them. After a brief silence outside, she switched to a loud, gruff voice: "Open the door! Open the door! If you don't open it, I'll smash it!"
Upon hearing this, Number One was instantly terrified and looked to Fang He for help: "It's a scorpion! We're doomed! The plague-causing scorpion has come too!"
There was no sound from inside. The scorpion outside let out two sinister laughs, followed by a few clanging sounds and then a series of shrill screams.
The three dwarfs instantly became utterly dejected: "Ah, it's the four of them!"
Number Two immediately burst into tears, sobbing, "Waaaaah, they're doomed... Waaaaah, let me go with them..."
Then Fang He stepped forward and yanked the door open.
A gust of wind blew through the room, and the two groups of people stared at each other unexpectedly. The burly man with a human body and a scorpion tail coughed awkwardly and turned off the tape recorder he was carrying on his shoulder.
"Well..." He touched his nose, discreetly retreated behind the snake spirit, and waved his hand, "You guys chat, you guys chat slowly, haha."
Xiao Cheng: "..." I thought you were the big villain, bro! You need to step up, bro!
The snake spirit was very beautiful, with a captivating charm in her eyes and brows. Her tail, coiled beneath her body, shone brightly, shimmering with iridescent black.
They are actually only the size of normal animals, but from the perspective of the dwarves, they are enormous and intimidating creatures.
Number One's legs were trembling slightly, and he asked Xiao Cheng in a trembling voice, "Why...why did he open the door?"
Xiao Cheng: "..." I also want to know why, damn it!
The only one present who seemed completely at ease was Fang He. He turned his head to look around, casually grabbed a stool, and sat down in the doorway with remarkable relaxation.
"I think there's been a misunderstanding between you two, and you need to sit down and have a proper talk."
"Misunderstanding?! There's no misunderstanding at all!" The snake spirit flicked her tongue excitedly. "The first dwarf came to me, saying he could find my grandfather, and I believed him and let him go, but he never came back! The next three were the same! How much longer are you dwarves going to keep lying to me?!"
"Nonsense! You're the one who kidnapped my people!" Number One's eyes were bloodshot. "And you cursed us! You've trapped our dwarf race here! Thirty years! We've been trapped for a full thirty years!"
The snake spirit asked in bewilderment, "What curse? Don't make false accusations!"
Number One was so angry he was about to jump up: "You don't know? You're just pretending to be stupid!"
Xiao Cheng listened with great interest, and seeing that neither side seemed inclined to fight, he simply dragged a stool over and sat down next to Fang He to watch the show with him.
They even wanted to bring melon seeds.
Fang He now acted like a mediator, calmly reassuring both sides: "Since there are conflicting accounts, let's both calm down and discuss it slowly."
In the end, a surprising conclusion was reached.
The snake demon and the scorpion demon were also trapped here.
"No... how is this possible?" The three dwarfs' pupils dilated in shock. If everything had nothing to do with the snake demon, it meant that their hope of getting out was completely shattered.
“That day, we followed Grandpa as usual, when suddenly the world spun around us, and we ended up here. But Grandpa disappeared, and the last thing I saw was you all!” The snake spirit recalled the scene and couldn’t help but shed two streams of tears.
"Thirty years! I haven't seen my grandfather for a full thirty years!"
Xiao Cheng: "..." To put it bluntly, if your grandfather were a normal grandfather, the grass on his grave would be taller than a person by now.
“We…we are too…” Number One looked pained. “I thought, I thought…”
"Then things are clear: you are all victims of the Cursed Forest," Fang He concluded, then stood up thoughtfully. "That makes things even easier."
"What are you going to do? We'll cooperate fully!" Hope rekindled in Number One's eyes.
"As I said before, we need to solve the problem at its source."
Having regained his normal human form, Xiao Cheng dragged the scorpion demon with his left hand and held the snake demon in his right, following behind Fang He in a rather indescribable manner.
"So we still have to try to go back and find that family?" Xiao Cheng himself felt that the possibility was slim, after all, the giant destroyed both the people and the house, not to mention whether they could even return the way they came.
“No, the key isn’t that family, but the giant. To be precise, it’s where he came from.” Fang He reached out and steadied the three dwarves sitting in a row on his shoulders. “Besides, don’t you still have three gold coins?”
After leaving the banyan tree, the surroundings once again fell into an unsettling gloom. There was no distinction between day and night here; they had been walking for a long time, Xiao Cheng estimated it must have been at least a whole day.
But they eventually found the cookie crumbs on the ground and followed the winding trail back to the marked stone.
This is already the edge of the forest, and you can clearly see the distinct grasslands not far away.
The three dwarfs were almost in tears.
"You did it... You didn't lie to me! You really did it!" Number One was so excited that he almost fell off Fang He's shoulder, but Number Three caught him quickly.
“Not yet, far from enough.” Fang He’s expression did not relax. “On the contrary, this could mean something even worse.”
Xiao Cheng understood what he meant and added in the same serious tone, "This is troublesome. It's not just this forest that's cursed."
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