Chapter 123
After opening the door, A Ling sat down on the bench: "Dad, people are still eating~"
Village chief Huo Shan frowned unhappily, "Why are you still eating? The sun has already set for half an hour, and you haven't finished yet?"
"Oh, don't worry, Dad. I made more for this meal on purpose. It's normal for them to eat a little longer!" A Ling grinned and didn't take it to heart.
She was accidentally scared away by their dog that morning. It was a mistake on her part. She would not do that again next time. She would definitely deal with the annoying little black dog first, and then look for Brother Song Yuanzhou and the others.
After hearing his daughter's explanation, Huo Shan calmed down a bit. "Alright, then go to the cave in the back mountain first and see how everything is prepared there. Once everything is ready, go to the south room."
"I know, Dad~"
A bell-like laughter rang out, and A Ling jumped down from the bench, hopped out of the door, then turned into a cave and disappeared.
Soon, Qianli's figure reappeared at the entrance of the cave.
A Ling smiled and walked towards the south room.
If nothing unexpected happens, Brother Song Yuanzhou and the others should have fallen asleep. She has to find a way to get the little black dog away this time, otherwise all her efforts will be wasted like this morning.
She held her breath and quietly walked around to the window sill of the south room. Then she slowly raised her head and looked into the room with her pair of black eyes.
The expected scene of being knocked unconscious did not appear, instead there was an empty room!
The person is missing...!
How could this be?! She opened her eyes wide, unable to believe what she saw.
There was someone in the room more than ten minutes ago, why is it suddenly...
Her heart suddenly sank, and a bad premonition rose in her mind. She immediately jumped away from where she was, revealing the road she was originally walking on.
footprint!
There are footprints under the window!
A Ling lowered her head and counted in surprise, one, two, three, four, five, a total of five pairs of footprints, plus the puppy's plum blossom print!
That's them!
They ran away!
Her chest suddenly boiled with anger, and she looked at the jungle, narrowing her eyes in hatred.
Suddenly, as if sensing something, a sneer appeared on the corner of her mouth, and then she ran towards the north shore beach at an extraordinary speed.
Before catching up with the main force, Song Yue found a small dark green snake dead in the jungle. The snake's body was broken apart, showing a painfully twisted shape.
But that's not the point. The point is that she found that the fangs in the snake's mouth were gone.
Considering that this road was the only way for Mao Xingxiu and his men to escape, Song Yue thought to himself that something was wrong and quickened his pace.
Along the way, the snakes hanging on the treetops kept spitting their tongues at her. Some fell from the sky and landed on her neck, trying to attack her, while some poked their heads out from behind and attacked her by surprise.
But without exception, she dodged them all, and some were even beheaded on the spot and thrown aside.
These snakes were indeed in the same group as the villagers. Song Yue's eyes flashed slightly, confirming his guess.
North Shore.
Mao Xingxiu waited anxiously, constantly stretching his neck to look around.
But no matter how many times he looked back, he didn't see any trace of Song Yuanzhou.
We agreed to meet here, why hasn't anyone shown up yet? Is something wrong?
Just as I was thinking anxiously, suddenly, several dark shadows pounced out from behind the stone!
"Ah! Let me go!"
"What are you doing! Don't touch me!"
Villagers had ambushed nearby at some point, and when they saw Mao Xingxiu and his men, they immediately rushed out and tied them up.
"Still want to escape? Haha, you're quite brave!" The leading man tied Mao Xingxiu tightly and pressed him to the ground, preventing him from moving.
The others also tied up one person each, and they worked very quickly.
Noticing that one of the old men had his eyes closed and was motionless, the villagers went up to test him and found that he had already stopped breathing. They turned around and asked the leader, "Brother, this old man is dead. What should we do?"
The man narrowed his eyes, took a look, and a look of displeasure appeared on his face: "Why the hell did one of them die? Forget it, he's just an old guy, useless anyway, just throw him into the sea to feed the fish."
What? Throw it into the sea?
No! Absolutely not!
Mao Qingquan's eyes widened as he struggled angrily on the beach. "That's my dad! You're not allowed to lay hands on him! Let go, let go!"
The villagers naturally wouldn't listen to him and continued to pull the old man's hands on the left and right, treating him like garbage and dragging him along the gravel shore.
A striking trail was left on the ground.
Mao Qingquan's eyes were red with hatred, and veins bulged on his forehead. Mao Xingxiu was also shouting at them to let go and not touch his grandfather.
No one paid any attention to them.
The dead old man was thrown into the sea and sank to the bottom of the sea like a piece of rusty iron.
"dad!!!"
The desperate cries shook the entire shore. Mao Qingquan tilted his head, which was pressed down, and cried heartbrokenly.
Mao Xingxiu and Chi Yunying watched this scene in agony, the pain in their hearts was indescribable.
Brother Chen also fell silent, watching in silence.
The death of the old man of the Mao family once again brought back memories of his escape.
Volcanoes erupted, volcanic rocks fell, and magma poured into the sea... He had witnessed familiar faces disappear one after another on the ship. He thought he would never see them again after escaping, but he didn't expect to experience it again.
When he thought of the painful past, Brother Chen felt extremely depressed in his chest, and his whole body was suppressed and helpless.
A silver bell-like laughter suddenly rang out.
Everyone was shocked and looked up, only to see A Ling looking at them on the ground and giggling.
The strange thing is that although she was smiling, there was no light in her eyes. Instead, they were cold and icy, just like the evil witch in a fairy tale.
In the dark cave, the only light came from the torches burning on the wall. There were only a few of them, and they could not illuminate the environment inside the cave clearly, but Mao Xingxiu still tried hard to identify the situation inside the cave.
He, his parents, and Uncle Chen were all tied to a wooden stake with long nails underneath. If they fell, they would be pierced into pieces of meat.
His face turned pale and countless speculations flashed through his mind.
Were they to punish them for running away? Were they to be chopped to pieces? Or were they simply tied up and given a warning, with the villagers actually having no intention of doing anything to them?
No, it's definitely not that simple.
The ferocity with which they attacked just now told Mao Xingxiu that the people of Snake Island Village would never let them go easily!
As my mind raced, several people appeared at the entrance of the cave.
Because they were far away, Mao Xingxiu couldn't see clearly who those people were.
He squinted his eyes and tried to observe, and felt that the person walking in front seemed to be A Ling.
The way they walked was very strange. They were clearly approaching them, but their upper bodies seemed to be floating in the air, swaying as they came.
Mao Xingxiu shuddered and turned around to wake up his parents and Uncle Chen.
However, except for him, everyone else was sleeping very soundly and could not be woken up at all. Mao Xingxiu had no choice but to grit his teeth and muster up the courage to question the other party.
"What are you doing? Why are you doing this?!"
He shouted loudly, but unfortunately he lacked confidence. On the contrary, in the cold and damp cave, his trembling voice echoed over and over again, completely betraying the fear in his heart at the moment.
However, this was not the moment that Mao Xingxiu was most afraid of, because when he saw the figure of the person opposite him clearly, his pupils widened instantly and his face suddenly turned pale, which further explained how terrifying the scene was at the moment.
It has a human face, a human upper body, and a snake body that is as thick as a snake. The snake body extends downwards and then extends backwards until it ends in a pointed, thin tail.
Mao Xingxiu almost fainted from fright.
He had not seen much of the world, and the scariest things he had encountered in his life were just a few ghost stories told by the old people in the dam. Apart from that, his life was just carving, carving, and carving.
He didn't even dare to think about such a thing as a human body with a snake tail, but now, he actually saw the existence beyond dreams.
Monsters...! The villagers of Snake Island are monsters!
He murmured in astonishment, his mind going blank.
It was not until a silver bell-like laugh sounded that his interrupted thoughts were suddenly brought back.
"Why did I tie you up? Of course I wanted to eat you~" A Ling tilted her head and smiled, as if she was looking at an incomparable feast.
Mao Xingxiu felt cold all over when he heard this. Although he was extremely scared, his reason told him that he had to cheer up, otherwise his parents and Uncle Chen would be doomed.
So he suppressed the trembling in his voice and looked directly at the other party: "Are you snakes or humans? Why do you want to eat us?"
Ah Ling didn't seem to mind answering his question: "Well, we are both human and snake. If you don't know what to call us, you can call us snake people. That's what people outside the island call us."
"As for why we want to eat you? It's simple. Fresh human flesh is our favorite food!"
She spoke so happily that she even spun around on the ground a few times.
Of course, it's not the feet that are used, but the snake's tail.
Mao Xingxiu finally understood.
It turns out that the so-called hospitality was just a pretense. These snake people simply wanted to eat them, so they tried every possible way to keep them and then used a love potion to catch them all in one fell swoop!
What should he do? Mao Xingxiu thought hard, what should he do?
However, things progressed so quickly that he had no time to think of a solution.
Above the cave, snakes gathered one after another. Compared with the small snakes in the jungle, those in the cave were obviously thicker and had bigger heads. They hissed and spit out their tongues above their heads, and their pairs of snake eyes stared at them with piercing eyes.
Mao Xingxiu's lips trembled and his hair stood on end.
A Ling was very dissatisfied with Mao Xingxiu's reaction of treating him as if he was facing a great enemy. She straightened her snake body and moved her upper body forward.
"Brother Mao Xingxiu, although you are not my favorite type, you can't frown. Food should be happy before it dies, so that the meat will be delicious~"
After saying that, he gave the other snakes a look.
There was a rustling sound beside my ears, and snakes were hanging down from above.
A python as thick as an arm fell to Mao Xingxiu's shoulder, and then its long body began to wrap around him.
Realizing that the snake was going to strangle him, Mao Xingxiu began to struggle desperately.
"Haha, don't waste your energy. You can't escape. Just accept your fate. This way you can die more easily."
A Ling tilted her head and looked at Mao Xingxiu as if she was appreciating a painting.
Suddenly, there was a loud rumbling sound outside the cave, shaking the ground slightly.
She frowned in displeasure and asked the servants following behind her: "Who is making trouble outside? Drag him away."
Before they could answer, other snake people crawled in from the cave entrance, their faces filled with panic, as if they had encountered something terrible.
A Ling became even more impatient and was about to reprimand him.
But then I heard my fellow tribesmen at the cave entrance shouting with wide eyes: "Oh no, Aling! The sea level is getting higher!"
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