Chapter 198 The Treasure in the Snake's Belly
Snakes are cold-blooded animals and are often solitary. Even if they sometimes live in the same nest, they do not have the couple system of many other animals. They are not monogamous like geese or polygamous like lions. They all mate randomly.
But if a female snake cultivates into a demon, she will become a queen like the queen ant or queen bee. Many male snakes will gather around her, and they can mate and give birth to offspring continuously. Therefore, the snake demon is also given the nickname Snake Queen.
"But the Snake Queen usually lives deep in the mountains. She won't come to lay eggs in human territory, especially in the dead of winter." Xu Chuchu whispered, "Let's look for her. Something must have happened."
She appeared calm and reliable in front of her junior brother, but she had a vague feeling that things were not that simple.
Because when evil spirits descend upon the world, demons will also be affected. She has never experienced this, and she doesn't know if it will happen sooner. If this is the reason, then there must be more than just this one snake demon endangering the world.
The two searched around the village and finally found traces of a giant snake crawling in a patch of withered grass.
Following the trail all the way into the mountains, we soon heard the agitated cries of animals and the sounds of something hitting something.
Xu Chuchu and Jiji made a gesture to keep quiet, and they both tiptoed over.
Sure enough, there was a huge king snake shuttling back and forth in the cave on the mountain wall.
Her body was several feet long, and when standing up, her front was as tall as a person. There was something bulging inside her body, and she kept hitting the rock wall anxiously with her tail.
"She was... choked?" Gigi was stunned.
Xu Chuchu shook her head. Snakes can swallow prey that are several times larger than themselves without choking, but there may be something wrong with the food she swallowed, making her stomach uncomfortable, so she wandered around anxiously and broke into a human village.
"Be careful, let's help her get the contents of her stomach out." Xu Chuchu instructed Jiji, "You go and lure her down, I'll hide nearby and attack her. Don't worry, she's only at the second level, I won't let her hurt you."
"Ah... okay." Gigi plucked up his courage, rushed to the entrance of the cave, and threw a few big stones at the back of the snake.
"Big ugly snake, come and catch me!" he shouted, then turned around and ran away.
Women hate being called ugly the most, and the snake queen is no exception. She rushed forward with a roar, regardless of her physical discomfort.
Xu Chuchu was hiding high on the rock wall. When he saw the opportunity came, he jumped down and hit the tail of the snake with his umbrella.
The queen snake howled and turned to attack Xu Chuchu. Xu Chuchu did not avoid it and chased the bulge of the snake's body and attacked it relentlessly, hitting the same spot every time.
After a few times, the queen snake suddenly howled, opened her mouth wide, and twitched her body, vomiting out the contents of her stomach.
"Alright." Xu Chuchu clapped her hands. "Take your tribe and go. You didn't hurt anyone, and I don't want to hurt you either."
The snake queen understood her words, changed her previous irritability, coiled up her body, nodded gracefully at her, and then swam away into the depths of the forest.
"That's amazing, senior sister! How did you know where to hit her to make her vomit?" Jiji hurriedly caught up and asked.
"If I punch you in the stomach a few times, you'll vomit too." Xu Chuchu said, "Come, see what she vomited out."
The object that the snake queen spit out was not big. It was actually a wooden box that was not much wider than the snake's body. It was covered with a thick layer of white mucus and was wet.
Snakes have very strong gastric juices that can melt even bones, let alone wood. However, there are several iron spikes protruding from the outer layer of this wooden box. Upon closer inspection, the iron spikes are emitting a deep blue light, which is obviously spiritual power and is specially used to deal with these monsters.
Needless to say, these spines are the source of the snake queen's anxiety and discomfort.
"It's a treasure chest in the snake's belly!" Jiji said happily, "I've often heard storytellers say there are martial arts secrets in the snake's belly. Let's take a look at what's inside."
As he said this, he was about to reach out and touch it.
"Be careful, the gastric juice of a snake demon is more lethal than that of an ordinary snake." Xu Chuchu pushed his hand away, pulled out the sword from the Floating Life Umbrella, and opened the box with a few moves.
When unpacking the box, she subconsciously pulled Gigi aside for a moment, fearing there might be some danger, but there was nothing.
A golden glow appeared from the box. It was actually... gold?! A neatly stacked pile of gold ingots?!
"I'm really rich!" Gigi was overjoyed. He used his sword box to overturn it and picked up the gold ingots that fell out and put them in his arms.
Xu Chuchu felt a little puzzled.
Although this snake queen only has the second-level cultivation, she has already understood human nature and can understand Xu Chuchu's words. Not to mention that the treasure chest contains insoluble gold, why would she swallow the glaring thorns outside into her stomach?
The gold ingots were taken out, but there seemed to be a layer of something at the bottom of the box. Xu Chuchu bent down to take it out and found that there was actually an old book!
There were four big characters clearly written on it: "The Key to Changing Your Destiny."
Change your destiny...
"How could this happen!" Xu Chuchu was still thinking about whether there was any way to change Xiao Yu's fate last night, and today she found a copy of "The Key to Changing Fate"? How could such a coincidence happen?
"What's wrong, senior sister?" Jiji didn't hear the conversation between Xu Chuchu and her master last night, and didn't know why she was so surprised.
"It's okay." Xu Chuchu quickly put the book into his arms, checked the wooden box to see if there was anything else, destroyed it, and then walked back with Gigi.
Back in the village, the snakes in the several snake dens just now all left at the call of the snake queen.
But after asking several families, they all said that there was no person named "Sister Cuihua" in the village.
"How could this happen?" Jiji was a little panicked. "Sister Cuihua was still living in the village before the New Year and asked me to help. Sister, please believe me!"
"Of course, Senior Sister believes you." Xu Chuchu said, "It's okay, let's go back."
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