Chapter 54 Night Fishing
The dark and dim ancestral hall was filled with the smell of incense ash.
At first, Xu Zhiyan just wanted to exchange the roasted stems for a fish.
But after a fierce ideological struggle, he felt it was difficult for him to take only one fish under such circumstances.
However, when he was wondering whether to leave the bucket behind, he heard an almost imperceptible rustling sound behind him. If it were not for the silence of the night, he felt that he probably could not hear it.
On the beam, the half-snake god couldn't wait to come down and catch the bag.
But looking down from above, the young man in front of the shrine frowned, looked down at the bucket, and then put the fish bucket back aggrievedly, as if he knew he was wrong.
This realization left the Snake God hanging on the beam, at a loss for what to do.
Its intuition told it that this beautiful human was insidious and full of lies, but every time it saw the other person, it couldn't help but want to believe it.
Xu Zhiyan swallowed his saliva.
Fortunately, he was greedy enough and just picked up the bucket.
He glanced at the fish barrel before leaving. He vaguely saw a pair of eyes from the reflection on the water surface. Coupled with the slightly elevated body temperature and the burning bones in his hands, how could he not understand?
This damn snake is waiting for him behind!
How could this happen? Can intelligence still increase without water?
But no matter how conflicted Xu Zhiyan was, it was not a good idea to continue like this.
Either you put the fish down now and go back to eat your baked potatoes, but you may still be harassed by the snake god who can come ashore for various reasons later.
This feeling of being remembered is not a good one.
There is only a thief who can steal for a thousand days, but there is no such thing as a thief who can guard against thieves for a thousand days.
In that case, it would be better to just end it all!
Having made up his mind, Xu Zhiyan faced the shrine and stretched out his hand again.
Just when the snake god thought the young man would pick up the fish again, he saw his hand pass over the fish bucket and touch the half-body snake statue behind it.
"Can you really eat the offering while the fish is still alive?"
His tone was relaxed, as if he was chatting with an old friend, and it seemed that he really just came to check whether the fish was still alive.
The snake god on the beam was stunned, and the barrage in the live broadcast room was also dumbfounded.
【Good countermeasure!!!】
[Hahahahahahaha! ! That snake god is wagging its tail! ]
[Wow, the snake is so cute! 】
[Tsk tsk tsk, Xiao Baiwan is really not a human being. Brother Meng1 loves him so much, shouldn’t he sacrifice himself for love once! ]
[What do you think? People with that body type will kill people! ]
[What is Xiao Baiwan going to do? Just leave it alone? ]
[Wait a minute, didn’t you notice a problem? Meng1 is really heavy…]
Before the last comment was finished, the screen in the live broadcast room went black.
The small ancestral hall had been in disrepair for many years and was of poor quality. The beams could not bear the weight of the half-snake god and collapsed.
“Boom—”
After a loud noise, smoke and dust rose up.
In the ruins, Xu Zhiyan still kept his hands raised to block the falling objects, with his eyes closed.
The ancestral hall collapsed too suddenly.
Although his brain kept sending out signals to escape, his body simply couldn't keep up, so he could only hope for the ghost's right hand bone.
In the darkness, he heard another heavy gasp.
Slowly opening his eyes, Xu Zhiyan discovered that in front of him was another muscular arm. The half-snake god's thick snake tail supported its body and loosely wrapped around him, blocking the falling roof.
The falling sharp objects scratched the snake scales, and some were even cut in half by the sharp scales.
Xu Zhiyan was stunned for a moment, then reacted belatedly.
Damn, the snake on the beam was too heavy and it crushed the house!
When he turned his head, he met the cold vertical pupils that revealed his guilty conscience, and his mood suddenly became high and he stood up.
"The fish are gone!" Xu Zhiyan pointed at the messy ruins in front of him, his tone somewhat heartbroken.
The half-snake god didn't expect that the other party would think of fish first, so he quickly put down his arm and said, "I don't eat fish, it's okay."
Who knew that when these words came out, the person in front of him widened his eyes and exclaimed: "You are actually a liar! In order to save the fish for you, we can only eat baked potatoes!"
“…”
The half-snake god was speechless after being confronted by this question.
It didn't ask the villagers to offer it offerings. For some reason, those villagers always emitted a foul smell that made it sick, so it wouldn't eat the offerings from the villagers!
Before the two of them said much, the sound of the ancestral hall collapsing woke up Lao Yang and other villagers.
The half-snake god felt the vague warning of the rules and shook its tail uneasily. The rules did not allow it to appear in front of the villagers.
The rules protect the villagers.
Xu Zhiyan was also a little panicked.
The villagers here are xenophobic by nature. If they knew that I wanted to steal fish, I would probably be driven out.
Although their reasons were different, the two hit it off immediately.
"Get out of here first!"
"I can't be seen by the villagers!"
At the same time, after speaking, the half-snake felt that the human in front of it was holding its hand!
Hold hands!
Its human initiative!
Human hands are small and soft, with a heat that it has never felt before.
Still immersed in the happiness of the other party's initiative, he was brought into the room again the next moment. The half-snake god felt that happiness came too suddenly.
If I had known this earlier, I would have demolished that dilapidated house!
The roof was so small that it was extremely uncomfortable to coil on it.
Rushing back to the bedroom, Xu Zhiyan was afraid that Lao Yang would come looking for him, so he quickly jumped onto the bed, hugged the quilt, and said to the snake god, "Find a place to hide and don't get discovered!"
Fearing that the other party might do something wrong, he pointed at the quilt and indicated that the place was not big enough and the Snake God would need to find a way himself.
There was only a table, a chair and a bed in the room.
A dim oil lamp stood on the table, the light was dim.
The half-snake god huddled in this drafty room, and was stunned after looking around.
There is no place for it to hide here!
Seeing that the time was almost right, Xu Zhiyan propped up his chin and said hypocritically: "Since you are a snake god, can you become smaller? About... this long?"
He stretched out his right hand and measured the distance between his thumb and middle finger.
There were footsteps at the door. Looking at the stunned half-snake, Xu Zhiyan urged: "If you want to stay here, you must become smaller, otherwise you will be discovered!"
The half-snake god looked at the young man holding the quilt. Even though the other's eyes were full of calculations, it still felt extremely satisfied.
…
After Lao Yang and the villagers inspected the ancestral hall with oil lamps, they immediately cast their suspicious eyes on the three outsiders who were staying there.
But when he knocked on the door angrily, he found that the three people seemed to be in the room, as if they had not gone anywhere.
After being scolded by Jiang Huaique, Lao Yang checked Jinsheng's room and finally knocked on Xu Zhiyan's door.
This place is closest to the ancestral hall.
This guy is so mean, there's no doubt that he was the one who did it!
"Xiao Xu? Are you asleep?"
“Squeak—”
The door opened from the inside. Xu Zhiyan rubbed his eyes and looked at the angry villagers at the door. He looked confused. After hearing about the collapse of the ancestral hall, he was even more surprised.
"How could this happen? Could it be that the snake god doesn't like eating fish and came to demolish the house to express his dissatisfaction?"
He meant something, but the villagers didn't understand.
Seeing that the stranger's expression did not seem fake, the others planned to leave, but Old Yang had a stern face and asked to check the room. He seemed to have just seen a dark shadow rushing towards here.
Xu Zhiyan loosened his hand, let the villagers outside the door in, and smiled calmly.
Old Yang stretched his head and took a closer look.
I really didn't find any problems, so I gave up.
When everyone left and Xu Zhiyan was the only one left in the room, the faint smile on his face could no longer be maintained. The corners of his mouth drooped, and he shook his shirt and said coldly: "Come out!"
He thought that if the snake god he had tricked could become thinner, everyone would be happy, but he didn't expect that after the small snake with long arms transformed, it would swoosh into his sleeve.
The cold and dry snake-like appearance moved across his body, giving him goosebumps!
"You are so warm."
As he said this, a black snake as thick as a finger crawled out from Xu Zhiyan's collar, coiled around his neck, sticking to his collarbone, looking satisfied and comfortable.
Xu Zhiyan resisted the urge to throw the snake away, and felt his temples throbbing.
But now is not the time to turn against each other.
He took a deep breath, pulled the little black snake off his neck, held it in his palm and asked, "You said before that the villagers are not living people. Do you know anything else?"
The little black snake raised its head and licked Xu Zhiyan's fingertips with its red tongue.
"These villagers stink, and that's not the smell of food."
It tilted its head as if it had thought of something, and continued, "The food in your pocket smells like food."
Xu Zhiyan was stunned, not understanding what was going on.
“Do snakes eat potatoes?”
He took out some roasted tubers of food, which didn't look like anything snakes would eat.
Could it be that the soft texture inside is not starch?
The little black snake shook its head. It really knew nothing.
"I don't remember the rest, but the rules don't allow me to harm the villagers."
If it was allowed, would it have run away just now? It would have crushed all those guys that were in the way!
After hearing this, Xu Zhiyan put the snake down and stroked his chin to think.
Because of his last experience at the blind school, he had always thought that Bai Jin's body slices would exist as a copy of the BOSS.
But last time, Bai Jin did not take revenge on the people in the campus ten years later, which means that he was probably suppressed by the rules and could not do anything to the NPC in the 'correct time'.
Including the snake god in front of him.
Although he is a god, his soul was forcibly extracted by the system. As one of the player's levels, his body was thrown under the water, causing the strange function of the Amber Mountain Reservoir.
In other words, compared to BOSS.
They are more like a background, a framework, a fulcrum.
Everything spreads outward with their ability or power.
One copy after another is formed, and then the main system continues to extend copies based on this foundation. After the new player finishes the game, the copy will be recycled and upgraded...
Isn’t it the same with the subject of ghosts and gods?
Can only be trapped in a corner, forming a new space...
All the speculations formed a perfect closed loop. Xu Zhiyan looked at the little black snake wagging its tail happily again, and his eyes were a little different.
It's quite miserable. It's really miserable.
Considering the other party's strength and appearance, he thought, isn't this the standard combination of beauty, strength and tragedy?
Losing his memory might be a good thing for the snake god.
Xu Zhiyan didn't know how to explain to the other party that you were in a miserable state, being skinned and boned by the main system and then used as materials.
He touched the snake's head and wondered how he could uncover this copy.
However, the first step is to understand the situation in the village.
"Do you know how to restore memory?" he asked.
The little black snake nodded and looked towards the direction of the reservoir outside the village.
"At the bottom of the lake, my powers and memories are there."
"We can't get out of the village. Can you find another way back to the reservoir?"
"Yes, the cave here is connected to the reservoir, we can come back secretly." The little black snake was very happy, wrapping around the wrist of the human opposite, absorbing the warmth.
Xu Zhiyan was not vague either. He picked up the snake, extinguished the oil lamp on the table, and quietly climbed out of the window.
It was raining, and fine raindrops were falling from the sky.
Following the direction indicated by the little black snake, Xu Zhiyan came to a cave behind the village.
A faint smell of smoke wafted in the air, and a hunched villager was leaning on a stone bench at the entrance of the cave.
I didn’t expect there were still people keeping watch here!
Xu Zhiyan glanced at the villagers and quietly stepped aside.
He took out the black snake from his clothes, kissed the snake's head, and spoke in a low voice.
"We'll meet up in the cave later."
The snake god, who was already fascinated by human body temperature, was dizzy and nodded frantically when he heard this. Not to mention meeting up in the cave, he would even let it tear down the cave!
But in the next second, the perspective keeps changing.
"call out--"
It! It was thrown out by Xu Zhiyan!
"Ahhhh there's a snake!"
The villager who was smoking just now felt something falling on his body. The moment he saw clearly, he jumped up and jumped far away. He grabbed the steel fork from the side and stabbed it towards the snake's head.
"Bang——"
The steel fork broke with a sound and broke into eight pieces.
The snake god had never suffered such an injustice, but thinking of what Xu Zhiyan had just said, it obediently crawled into the bushes.
After the gatekeeper left howling, Xu Zhiyan sneaked into the cave.
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