Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 159 One-eyed Snake

Pei Nai shook his head.

She just felt that her movements were still smooth, her attention was on the monster, and she didn't pay attention to the details.

Da Xi'an pinched her forearm muscles through her sleeve and asked, "Does it hurt?"

"A little bit." Pei Nai said truthfully.

Da Xi'an took out a bottle of medicine from his waist pouch and said, "It can invigorate blood circulation, dissipate blood stasis, and relieve muscle injuries. Can I help you apply it?"

Pei Nai quickly took it over, "I can do it myself, I can do it myself."

Daxian snorted, leaned back, and waited for her to apply the medicine herself.

Pei Nai lowered his head and tried to remove the lid for a long time without success. He looked up and asked him, "How do you open this medicine bottle?"

Daxian took the bottle back, opened it for her, and handed it back to her.

"Awesome, even the medicine bottles are anti-theft." Pei Na exclaimed.

Grandma Xun and the others were sitting on the other side of the circular passage, checking the condition of another square well, while waiting for Pei Nai to apply the medicine.

Pei Nai lifted up his sleeves and exposed his arms.

The fair skin was covered in purple and yellowish bruises and was noticeably swollen. The injuries were so severe that they showed on the outside.

Pei Nai applied the ointment without blinking.

Da Xi'an watched quietly, and after a while he suddenly spoke in a low voice, as if talking to himself, but also as if blaming: "How stupid! Other women hide behind men, but you always stand in front of us."

Pei Nai looked up at him, extremely confused, with his eyebrows twisted together, "Do you want to listen to what you are saying?"

Da Xi'an stared at her steadily, his jaw clenched, and said nothing.

Pei Nai lowered his head and continued to apply the medicine, and reminded: "If I had hidden behind you just now, we would have become meat patties now."

She quickly applied the medicine evenly, closed the bottle, and returned it to Daxian.

"Mother-in-law, let's go. Are you familiar with the road ahead?" Pei Nai stood up, bowed, and walked forward past Da Xian.

Seeing her coming, Grandma Xun did not rush down and said, "In the nineteenth region, you will encounter a one-eyed snake. I told you about it before entering the region. Do you remember?"

"Remember, you said this kind of snake is extremely poisonous. When a one-eyed snake is nearby, you should hold your breath." Pei Nai squatted on the ground and recalled.

Grandma Axun nodded, turned around, stepped on the intertwined vines, and continued to lead the way, "Let's go."

Pei Nai and the others followed her in order.

Grandma Axun led the way, followed closely by Da Xian's guards, then two gangsters, with Pei Nai and Da Xian at the end of the team.

The further we go down, the deeper the well becomes.

When they passed the third square well, several crystal clear butterfly-like creatures suddenly flew over and danced around them.

One of them landed on Pei Nai's shoulder.

Its colorless and clear wings suddenly began to blur into color, dispersing like mist, becoming gorgeous and magnificent.

Pei Nai was surprised and attracted by this strange beauty. Just as he turned his head to look, Da Xian tapped his arm a few times.

Daxian pointed to the distance.

Pei Nai looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that the leaves on the vine on the opposite side were trembling.

Looking closely, there were four long snakes that were also transparent and colorless.

It is as thick as an adult's wrist, with a single large eye in the middle of its head. Its pupil is pointed and deep blood red, with mottled textures that reveal gem-like layers.

It was exactly the one-eyed snake that Grandma Xun had warned about.

Four one-eyed snakes were now coiled between the stone walls and vines, slowly approaching them.

Everyone stopped in time, and Pei Nai quickly held his breath.

The rustling sound came from far away and soon reached them.

A one-eyed snake leaped into the air, opened its mouth at the lower jaw below its head, and swallowed the transparent butterfly.

Pei Nai saw with his own eyes the struggle and fluttering of the butterfly inside the colorless snake's body.

Its wings drooped and curled up, waiting to die. Fortunately, the four one-eyed snakes lost their direction of foraging and soon left together.

After Grandma Axun confirmed that the environment was safe, she led them to continue moving forward. However, the deeper they went, the more frequently the one-eyed snakes appeared.

The square well also became bottomless.

They clung to the vines and hung in the air, with endless darkness beneath their feet and a constant chill on their backs.

When they were approaching a horizontal circular passage, the piece of pure tree under Pei Nai's tongue suddenly trembled twice. The veins on her forehead jumped and she hurriedly called everyone to stop.

She whispered, "Wait."

Grandma Axun had already leaned over and entered the round hole. Daxian's guards and the two heroes looked back at her in confusion.

Pei Nai pushed back the uneasy feeling in his heart and stared down into the abyss below.

At this moment, an extremely huge red eye emerged from the abyss, staring at them weirdly and gradually approaching.

It turned out to be a giant one-eyed python. It had survived inside the meteorite for who knows how many years. Its body was so thick that three people couldn't hug it.

Pei Nai's heart was beating fast.

They paused to breathe, but they didn't know if it would work.

The Cyclops python slid zigzagly along the stone wall, its upper body suspended in the air, its giant scarlet eye right behind them, observing them.

The width of its eyeballs is even greater than a person's height, and its pupils are as straight as swords, filled with a sense of oppression between species.

Looking at its eyes as deep as the universe, one feels deeply trapped, as if seeing the end of death at the end of life.

They remained hanging on the vines, not daring to move.

Pei Nai's arms had begun to feel heavy, and the pain from the strained muscles continued, causing her body to tremble slightly.

Daxian held her wrist without fear, and his big palm covered her wrist and the thin vine next to it at the same time to help her stabilize her body.

Stand with her on the opposite side of death.

Just when everyone was about to suffocate and exhale, the Cyclops Python finally turned around and drilled into the round hole opposite.

Its snake body was so big that it almost filled the entire circular passage.

When its upper body entered, Daxian's guards quickly stepped into the exit passage where Grandma Axun was.

Pei Nai and others were also preparing to leave.

But when everyone thought the danger was over, several one-eyed snakes gathered together and suddenly fell from a great height, landing on the knight in front of Pei Nai.

The knight had already resumed normal breathing.

The unexpected incident caught him off guard and he couldn't react in time. One of the thin snakes with red eyes actually bit him on the neck.

He shook his body and shook off several one-eyed snakes.

But the venom instantly invaded his brain, and his eyes turned black and gray.

The pain made him tremble all over and groan unconsciously.

He almost fell into the abyss, but his last instinct for survival made him hold on to the vines tightly with both hands, and his whole body was teetering in the air.

His cries of pain echoed in the square well.

The giant python, which was halfway out of the way, heard the sound and suddenly retreated from the circular passage, standing high in the air. After a pause, it opened its wide and thick mouth and swallowed the bitten knight into its body.

The knight was still screaming and struggling, but because the snake's body was transparent, everyone could see the torture he was suffering inside the giant python.

His companion drew his sword in anger, grabbed the vine and swung it, ready to stab the python's eyes.

The one-eyed python felt his attack, and in an instant, several brown thorns emerged from its deep red eyeballs, and uniform water jets spurted out from the tips of the thorns.

The uniformly-lit water was sprayed onto the man at high speed.

A burning sound was heard, accompanied by the knight's shrill and inarticulate wails. His body was corroded and completely transformed, no longer resembling a human.

Everything happened so suddenly that Pei Nai's eyes trembled.

In the next moment, the hero who was melted by the uniform light water began to change. Gray-black substance grew on his body, bulges appeared, and his face was distorted.

(End of this chapter)