His signal of fear calmed the creature with a human body and a snake tail; she released her folded body and did not linger her gaze on him for long.
Looking around and noticing the maze monsters with mouths, her body temperature suddenly dropped.
The loud thuds of heavy objects crashing against the ruins pulled Shi Jinzhe back to his senses.
He saw this…this…this person swish its tail as it moved out of the palace, flattening a patch of monsters around it, and then began violently demolishing the maze.
Even from a distance, you could feel the danger emanating from the snake; it was clear that the snake was in a state of frenzy.
The snake's tail rose and fell fiercely, capable of crushing a wall in one strike.
A snake, moving in a straight line, never turning a corner, tearing apart anything in its path without a second thought.
Then the tail slammed down again, sank, pierced through, and entered the sixth level of the maze.
Rainwater poured into the sixth level of the labyrinth, which had broken through the barrier, and everything inside was being destroyed madly, with monsters screaming in terror.
Then comes the fifth floor, the fourth floor, the third floor... until the last floor.
While still standing in the palace, Shi Jinzhe felt the ground beneath his feet tremble violently every few minutes, sinking layer by layer. After several loud rumbles, the seven-layered maze became a single layer.
Shi Jinzhe strongly suspected that he might have unearthed a hidden boss.
Just when he thought it was all over, a purple phantom surrounded the entire maze, then gradually solidified, shrinking and shrinking continuously.
Magnified countless times, the scales scraped against the white marble as they coiled around it, collapsing and shattering in circles like dominoes from the outside in, and everything here was rapidly turning into ruins.
Until only a dilapidated palace and a weakened him remained, everything else was gone.
Time runs out and silence prevails.
The snake, with its hands folded over its belly, slowly returned to the palace, behaving elegantly, but in reality, the whole snake carried a hysterical, low-pressure atmosphere.
Are they going to make a move against him?
Suddenly, a piercing mechanical sound rang out.
[Warning: The instance is about to crash due to the anchor point being destroyed. Teleportation is now initiated.]
[Warning: Due to the anchor point being damaged, the instance is about to crash... ...activate... ...]
[Warning: Due to anchor point destruction, ...substitute...book...]
The important thing was said three times, but before he could even hear it for the third time, everything went black before Shi Jinzhe's eyes, and he was forcibly teleported back to the mission space.
In the unstructured white room, besides him, there was another person.
His gaze swept over the tip of the snake's tail resting on his shoe, and he was stunned. Why was this snake here too?!
He cautiously moved his legs little by little, trying to pull his feet back and away from the tip of the tail.
At that moment, the game system's voice rang out in the room.
"Due to the destruction of the instance anchor point, this instance mission has failed, and the player will lose 10 points."
"Points deducted. Your current points are 10."
"Players are encouraged to actively earn points. If points are not deducted, the player will die in real life."
Shi Jinzhe had no interest in listening to the news; all he could think about was how to get away from the snake.
“However,” the system changed its tune.
He looked up. "But?"
"In recognition of your assistance in completing the additional task, this instance will reward you with special items. Once the rewards have been distributed, we will begin the process of teleporting you back to your original world."
The system seemed to have been accelerated after that sentence; it didn't explain what the extra task was, nor did it show any rewards.
Anyway, after saying everything, they couldn't wait to send him away, as if some dirty thing was chasing him away.
Shi Jinzhe opened his eyes and sat up in bed. If completing extra tasks would earn him items, he would try his best to do something else.
He opened his personal inventory in the survival game on his phone.
It's still empty, where are the props?
He stared at his phone, catching a glimpse of purple out of the corner of his eye.
He slowly raised his head, and when he saw that the floor of the small rented room was covered by a twisted snake tail, his usually calm face showed a look of utter despair, as if he had seen his enemy, who had been dead for ten years, crawling out of the ground in the middle of the night.
The deep purple tail twitched, and he forced himself to look in that direction. He saw the snake sitting on its coiled tail, its upper body propped up, quietly facing him.
"Where is this?"
She spoke slowly, perhaps because of the snake's tongue, and her way of speaking was a little strange, but it unexpectedly suited her temperament.
"...Why are you here?"
Shi Jinzhe fixed his gaze on her upper body, not looking down.
"I don't know, but a voice said I was a reward."
Upon hearing the word "reward," he had a bad feeling: "Don't tell me you're the special item the system gave me."
"I have no idea."
Anyway, I somehow ended up here with him.
Knowing nothing, Shi Jinzhe turned to look at the white wall for a while. The tail's presence was too strong; he needed to calm down.
After a while, he accepted reality. Although he was afraid of snakes, the ability to destroy a dungeon meant the snakes must be very powerful. Danger was a form of insurance, at least better than death.
Do you have a name?
"Shekh".
“shě…hè?”
Shekh said earnestly, "That's what people used to call me when they saw me."
Shi Jinzhe glanced at her tail, then quickly looked away; she truly lived up to her name.
Shekh's tail tip couldn't fit on the ground, so it draped over Shi Jinzhe's bed.
The double S earring on her left ear was still a little hot; the energy it contained had been absorbed when she was awakened.
This place was unfamiliar; she had never seen it before.
"Can you go back into your backpack?"
“Where to go back to, I don’t know.” Shekh stood up and moved closer to him.
A snake tail was draped over Shi Jinzhe's leg. He didn't dare to move. If it was a prop, he should be able to put it back in his backpack.
But her tail slid down, and she ended up completely over there.
He leaned back to avoid Shekh. "Please go back into your backpack... or put your tail back in, okay?"
Shekh stopped moving, as if he had heard something terrible, and suddenly accelerated and rushed towards him.
"Retract your tail? Why do you want to retract your tail? Isn't my tail pretty? Why don't you look at my tail!"
Just moments ago everything was calm, but suddenly he became irritable, his change of expression so swift that it left Shi Jinzhe dumbfounded.
Don't you think it looks good?
Her snake tail is the most beautiful in the world, the greatest work of the Creator. She loves her own tail the most, how could he not look at it!
Shekh's snake tail lashed against the wall, causing plaster to fall in a flurry, and as the tail fell, it swept everything off the table.
The noise was so loud and chaotic that only because the space was too small could she swing it around a small part; otherwise, she could have demolished the house.
"Look, look, it's so beautiful!"
Facing a face so close to his, Shi Jinzhe's survival instinct kicked in. "Your tail is so pleasing to the eye, so could you please stop this beautiful, noble, and understatedly gorgeous tail?"
He could really not afford to pay for the loss if he shook it a couple more times. He only had three thousand yuan left. If he had to pay the landlord more money, he would have to become homeless.
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