Strange Tales from the Deep Mountains (Part 8)
The female ghost, who had calmed down, suddenly seemed to be greatly agitated again, retreating abruptly and shaking her head frantically, "No, no..."
The female ghosts who had been lurking nearby scattered and fled, muttering unintelligible words, "Angry, 'He' will be angry, you can't..."
In the blink of an eye, all the female ghosts disappeared.
Li Su: "..."
In the blink of an eye, he was all alone again; the female ghosts around him had all disappeared.
The eardrums that had just been pierced by the female ghost's shrill screams were now unusually quiet, which made Li Su feel uneasy. She raised her hand and rubbed her ears.
He muttered to himself, "It's a bit scary now that these ghosts are gone. It's safer when they're here..." After all, those female ghosts couldn't get close to him.
system:【......】
To dispel the fear in her heart, Li Su continued to talk to the system: "The man in the room just now also kept his distance from me because of this necklace, right?"
Li Su picked up the necklace from her chest and brought it close to her nose, but she couldn't smell anything.
【yes. 】
"Why did Doctor Qi give it to me?"
Li Su waited for a while, but still did not receive a reply from the system.
"Wife, he has ulterior motives!"
"I knew something was off about that witch doctor; his naked gaze was impossible to hide."
"Ugh, Su Su is so alluring! Even NPCs are falling for her! How many rivals do I have left?!"
"No NPCs have ever given me items for no reason before... What's going on?"
Well, he was used to it. The game system would always glitch at crucial moments, so Li Su stopped asking and continued following the footprints on the damp soil.
Li Su didn't know how long she had walked, but the footprints in front of her disappeared under an extremely thick ancient tree.
Li Su gripped the kerosene lamp tightly and walked very quietly around the ancient tree, but found nothing.
Jiang Yue was nowhere to be seen, nor were the two men.
The trail goes completely cold here.
Li Su looked up and saw an ancient tree looming over the tree. Its trunk was extremely thick, and above it were branches and leaves that were shrouded in darkness. The light from the kerosene lamp could not reach there, and Li Su could not see even a glimpse of the branches and leaves. So she had to hold the kerosene lamp closer to the trunk.
The bark of the tree trunk was brownish-black with a winding pattern. The pattern on it was very strange, and Li Su subconsciously reached out and touched it.
Contrary to my expectations of a rough and polished feel, the trunk of the ancient tree was actually cool and smooth, with a texture that felt like it had scales on it.
Suddenly, a faint rustling sound came, and Li Su's palm slipped, her fingertips sinking into a crevice in the bark.
The sticky sensation made his scalp tingle.
The tree trunk can move.
How is that possible?
As if to confirm his conjecture, Li Su felt the tree trunk in his palm was indeed sliding, and the muscles under the scales seemed to be surging.
Li Su's thoughts almost uncontrollably drifted to the black snake that had coiled around his calf that afternoon.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock..."
Water droplets fell onto his hand, and Li Su's heart pounded faster. The fishy smell at the tip of his nose suddenly became stronger.
The feeling of being stared at by a ferocious beast sent chills down Li Su's spine. He stiffly tilted his head back and met a pair of faintly glowing, deep green vertical pupils.
"Holy crap...!"
"Aa ...
"What is that?! A snake?! A huge snake is coiled up in the tree, help!"
"Is it reasonable for this snake to be so big?"
"It's a horror game, so what's the point of talking about what's reasonable or unreasonable?"
"Run! Wife, run!!!"
The snake's head in front of him was probably as big as two of his heads, no, it was even bigger than two of his heads.
Li Su's legs went weak instantly, and she fell uncontrollably downwards.
Suddenly, he felt a cool, slippery sensation as the tightly bound scales slid over his skin inch by inch. His embroidered long dress was also wrapped and rolled up by the snake's tail, exposing the boy's fair thighs to the damp air.
The snake's tail wrapped around the boy's thigh, the flesh bulging in a suggestive curve from the pressure. The surrounding fair skin turned a beautiful pale pink from the friction and coiling of the scales, the red deepening the deeper the python coiled. But the python was not satisfied; its tail slowly continued to coil downwards.
The snake's tail gradually wrapped around Li Su's calf, and after feeling the resistance of the fabric, it gently patted it with some displeasure.
In the quiet night, the sound of flesh being slapped was particularly loud. Li Su felt his heart was about to jump out of his chest. The huge snake tail was inserted between his legs, just enough to lift him up. Otherwise, he would have fallen to the ground due to weakness.
Of course, Li Su would much rather be lying on the ground by now, rather than being lifted up by this giant python...
Her legs were forced open, and her long skirt barely covered the top of her thighs.
Li Su was both ashamed and afraid, feeling that it would be better to let him fall to the ground, but he had no other choice.
The kerosene lamp in his hand had long since fallen to the ground, but the flame remained unaffected, continuing to illuminate the terrifying and bizarre scene before him.
Li Su didn't dare to breathe loudly, silently praying in his heart that the giant python would lose interest in him soon.
But things didn't go as planned.
The rustling sound of flesh rubbing against the tree trunk filled the air as the giant python slowly moved its body.
"Hiss—hiss—"
The snake's head coiled on the tree trunk, slowly reaching towards Lisu.
Li Su's pupils dilated as she saw a bright red forked tongue emerge from the giant python's mouth, bringing with it a chilling and fishy smell.
"No, don't come any closer..."
Li Su's voice choked with sobs as she held the pendant on her chest up to the giant python.
This necklace was able to drive away those female ghosts, so it should be able to drive away the snake in front of us, right?
The system saw the faint hope in Li Su's eyes but remained silent.
The necklace that Qi the witch doctor gave him was completely useless against the giant python in front of him. Only ghosts are afraid of sharp dog teeth and cinnabar on them, but the giant python was not afraid at all.
"Hiss—hiss—"
The python paused, tilting its triangular head slightly, seemingly not understanding the meaning of the movement.
"Hiss—hiss—"
Li Su never expected that the necklace, which could ward off evil spirits, would have no effect whatsoever on the giant python in front of her.
The cool snake tongue gently licked Li Su's palm, sending shivers down her spine.
"Waaah... Go away, waaah..."
Li Su abruptly closed his eyes and turned his face to the side, his hands trembling as he clutched the small pendant on his chest, hoping it could drive away the giant python in front of him.
The snake's tongue slipped through his fingers and then retracted into the python's mouth.
"Hiss—hiss—"
It smells so good, so good...
But it has already eaten tonight, and 'He' won't let it eat more.
The python became even more agitated. If it had known there would be such delicious food, it wouldn't have eaten the prey that was delivered tonight.
Li Su continued to struggle, kicking somewhere she couldn't tell.
Anxiety and impatience overflowed from the extremely narrow vertical pupils, and the python's tail inadvertently increased its strength.
"Ouch...it hurts so much..."
Li Su trembled all over when she was slapped.
The previous slaps were like a warning, but the current slaps are what truly angered the giant python in front of him.
Upon hearing the suppressed whimper of the boy in its arms, the python's tail immediately froze. After a long while, it slowly slid up and down, rubbing the spot that it had accidentally slapped. Its large, triangular head drooped listlessly, like a big dog that had done something wrong.
"Hiss—hiss—"
Don't cry, don't cry...
It didn't exert any force; the little food in its arms is too fragile. What should it do?
The python had never encountered this situation before, and it would not appease its prey.
The forked, bright red snake tongue trembled in the air before stealthily striking the cheek of the boy in her arms, whose eyes were tightly closed. The snake's tongue stiffened for a moment upon touching the boy's skin before quickly curving and sweeping away the tears rolling down the boy's face.
Feeling the cool, sticky touch on his face, Li Su forgot to cry and just stared blankly as the python, bigger than two of his heads, rubbed against his face again and again.
"I'm sorry, I'm guilty. I suddenly feel like human-snake hybrids might not be so bad after all..."
"This...this..."
"I'm completely stunned. So, my wife tamed a giant python???"
"Is that a python or a big dog? Huh? Isn't this a disgrace to snakes?"
"Ferocious python NO, pitiful little dog snake YES."
"Um, I have a question..." (face turning yellow)
"Upstairs, I understand your question..."
"Hiss—hiss—"
Don't cry, don't cry...
Li Su's wet eyes flickered.
He felt that the giant python didn't seem to want to harm him.
With a try-it-and-see attitude, Li Su gripped the necklace tightly in her hand, tentatively stopping the giant python in front of her: "Don't rub against my stomach..."
The snake tail that had been rubbing against his thigh intermittently had somehow slipped inside his shirt and was now rubbing against his stomach.
Li Su felt numb all over from being rubbed.
It was very cool and slippery, and not comfortable at all.
The boy's voice was clearly feigned composure, and his tone was trembling, but the giant python obediently complied.
"hiss--"
The snake flicked its tongue once and then quickly retracted its mouth; the next second, the snake's tail on its belly stopped moving.
Li Su's eyes widened, still moist at the corners. His weak gaze quickly swept over the snake head that was close to him, and he continued, "Take the tail off the belly."
Li Su appeared calm on the surface, but inside he was panicking. He wasn't sure if the giant python in front of him could understand him, and the tail he had just experienced might have been a coincidence.
He held his breath and waited for a while. Sure enough, the python's tail not only did not move away, but it also began to rub against his stomach. Li Su quickly reached out and pressed down on the restless tail under his clothes.
The large tail under his palm really stopped moving this time.
Li Su tentatively looked at the giant python, "No, you can't rub against me..."
"Hmm..."
Before he could even speak, the words were stuck in his throat because of the python's movements.
Li Su's face drained of color, turning deathly pale, her expression still blank.
He hadn't even seen what had just happened when his wrists were now wrapped up by the giant python's tail and held above his head.
"Wild beasts are indeed not meant to be pets; their wild nature is untamable."
"Are snakes' tails that flexible?"
"My wife! Let go of him and let me have him!"
"Why does this snake seem excited? Is it just my imagination...?"
"Hiss—hiss—hiss—"
Its little food was no longer afraid of it and even touched its tail!
But that area was too sensitive, so she couldn't help but wrap her arms around the little person in her arms.
The already narrow and elongated pupils shrank to a thin slit, the dark green on both sides faintly tinged with red, revealing an abnormal light.
Meeting those dangerous snake eyes, Li Su couldn't even whimper; only tears of fear kept welling up from her eyes.
"Hiss—hiss—"
Why is this little one crying again?
The giant python impatiently stretched its body forward, but tightened its grip on Li Su even more, and a suffocating feeling came over her. Li Su opened her mouth wide to breathe.
The cold, snake-like tongue darted out of her mouth, sweeping away the tears that kept rolling down her face.
"Hiss—hiss—"
How come there's still so much? I can't clean it all up.
The giant python stared at Li Su with its vertical pupils, but couldn't find a solution, so it could only anxiously tighten its grip on her.
Li Su felt like she couldn't breathe, and her pale face turned red from lack of oxygen.
"Let him go."
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