After saying that, the man stuck out his tongue and hissed. Luo Jiu heard it very clearly; it felt like she was being watched by something cold and sinister, making her want to run away.
"Little thing, the forest is so dangerous. Didn't the old fox tell you not to sneak out?"
The man chuckled softly: "A rabbit demon with plump flesh like you is very easy to eat."
Luo Jiu couldn't help but push the person in front of her away; the touch on her hand gave her a bad feeling.
Why is this person so cold and lifeless, like a dead thing?
She opened her eyes, her blood-red eyes filled with shock. Standing before her was not a human, but a green-bodied serpent.
Startled, Luo Jiu took two steps back and cautiously looked around to see which direction would be easiest to escape.
The great demon licked the back of its conjured hand, its yellow eyes fixed on Luo Jiu with a malicious glint in them.
Luo Jiu's heart skipped a beat in fright. Without saying a word, she turned to run away.
"Little thing, don't struggle in vain."
The giant snake flicked its long tail, which instantly grew to several meters long, and chased after Luo Jiu in the direction she had fled.
When Luo Jiu was tightly bound by that cold object, she was already utterly despondent.
Now look what happened! Why chase after butterflies? Instead of being eaten by the fox, it became the snake's meal.
The snake demon's tail was extremely flexible, covered with hard snake scales, and emitted a cold temperature, causing Luo Jiu to shiver involuntarily.
"I told you, you can't escape."
The serpent's words were quite profound, and undoubtedly a cruel mockery of Luo Jiu, who was caught red-handed.
However, when you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.
Luo Jiu smiled awkwardly, trying to ignore the slippery, cold sensation on her body.
"Yes, you're right."
She struggled to free her hands from the snake's coils, swallowed hard, stared directly into the snake demon's orange-yellow eyes, and gestured for it to move away.
"Then...can I leave?"
Unexpectedly, Luo Jiu's expression pleased the snake demon. He tilted his head back and laughed a few times, his orange-yellow eyes becoming even more alluring.
"You little vixen are quite something. Did you manage to get the old fox to keep you here with just that mouth of yours?"
Luo Jiu chuckled awkwardly twice and said in a low voice, "How could that be? That old monster thought I didn't have enough meat to fill his stomach, so he kept me here to do hard labor."
The snake demon clearly didn't believe Luo Jiu's words and pointed with its tail at the red crystal on her foot.
"Then what's going on here?"
"Well... that fox was afraid I'd run away, so there would be no one to do its work..."
"You're right, aren't you?"
Luo Jiu's ingratiating tone clearly did not make the snake demon lower his guard. He stared at Luo Jiu, carefully examining every micro-expression on her face.
This action terrified Luo Jiu, and she broke out in a cold sweat.
This snake demon was far more troublesome than the great fox; it was a sinister, cold-blooded creature, utterly devoid of humanity. Even if it were to devour Luo Jiu the next second, Luo Jiu wouldn't be surprised at all.
Cold sweat dripped down Luo Jiu's forehead; the snake demon had finally moved.
He swayed his snake tail, looking at Luo Jiu with a crazed expression, his eyes filled with coldness.
"No, you're lying."
Luo Jiu: "..." Your reaction time is a bit long?
"This anklet has a secret fox technique that allows it to sense your location at all times and automatically activate a protection mode when you encounter danger."
"It gave you such a wonderful treasure... It seems you're quite popular."
The snake demon's expression grew increasingly frenzied as she spoke, and her dark green hair, which had lost its disguise, transformed into countless small green snakes.
The little snake coiled on the snake demon's head, flicking its scarlet tongue, and its yellow eyes stared at Luo Jiu, making her scalp tingle involuntarily.
"I don't really like this either... Well... why don't you take it off and leave it to me?"
Luo Jiu spoke cautiously, interrupting the snake demon's madness. Those eyes slowly shifted from Luo Jiu's face to her fair ankles.
Her slender and long ankles were adorned with a vibrant ruby, making them appear even more fair and alluring.
It makes you want to destroy it...
"No, no, no..."
The snake demon muttered to himself, stroking her ankle with his fingers, his gaze focused as if he were examining some perfect work of art.
"How can this possibly quell the hatred in my heart..."
Luo Jiu: "?"
Her face was filled with terror, and her heart was filled with hatred? What kind of deep-seated grudge could this fox have killed that would make you not even spare a little rabbit demon?
While Luo Jiu was lost in thought, the snake demon swiftly grabbed her chin, forcing her to look into his eyes.
A deep, yet malevolent voice rang out in front of Luo.
"Since it values you so much, I must devour you and leave this red crystal before it..."
"This must be incredibly interesting..."
Luo Jiu stared at those yellow eyes, completely forgetting to think.
The chill emanating from his very bones had already penetrated Luo Jiu's entire body.
She once again loathed her own weakness. Even if she were stronger, in this dog-eat-dog world, she wouldn't always be treated as prey.
"I'll give you a chance. Call the fox over, and I'll let you go."
Facing the snake demon's mocking gaze, Luo Jiu shamelessly shouted at the loudest volume she had ever heard.
"Fox! Help! That snake demon is going to eat me!!"
"If you don't come to save me, I won't have any rabbits to bathe and groom me anymore!"
At first, there was no sound at all, and Luo Jiu thought that the great demon was deceiving her, and that the crystal had no function of transmitting sound at all.
But in the end, Luo Jiu shouted until her voice was hoarse, but she still didn't see any trace of the fox.
Luo Jiu's heart sank to the bottom. It hadn't come even after all this commotion.
So... in its eyes, I'm just a free bath attendant, a dispensable worker?
The great demon's sneer echoed from ahead, something he had anticipated all along. A bewitching light gleamed in his yellow snake eyes.
“I told you, that fox is even more cold-blooded than us snakes. You’re not the special one.”
In his eyes, Luo Jiu's distraught state was both laughable and pathetic.
Once upon a time, his ridiculous sister also admired the fox, thinking she was the special one, but in the end, she still died under the claws of the wild beast.
"so……"
The snake demon grew increasingly excited, its dark green snake swaying incessantly on its head, ready to devour Luo Jiu at any moment.
"Eat it, eat it, so that you may be reborn well and forget about this heartless fox."
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