Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 124 The World Through Snake Eyes

After a moment, the priests came to their senses.

Their memories seemed to have a gap. They clearly remembered that they came to attack and kill the giant snake. As long as they killed the giant snake and intimidated these ignorant locals, this area would belong to them, which would greatly enhance their power.

So that's where the problem lies.

When were they tied up?

All they remembered was seeing the giant snake and smelling a strange fragrance, clearly a bait set by the snake to lure them in. So they immediately destroyed the grill to stop the snake's lure and prepared to fight it.

then……

There's no after that.

They vaguely remembered that something seemed to have hit them.

"Pure physical strength..."

Thinking this, the priests raised their heads and looked in the direction of the giant serpent.

What they saw was something that surprised them greatly.

The giant serpent, which they had previously perceived as dull and foolish, was now intently observing their amulets and scepters. Its posture, sometimes puzzled and sometimes thoughtful, revealed that it was seriously studying these objects.

As the priests looked at the giant serpent, the serpent's gaze also turned to them.

"Where did you get the guts?"

Du Yi still can't figure out where these monkeys got the guts to overturn his barbecue grill, given the huge size difference between them.

However, after a short period of torture, Du Yi learned the reason.

"……weak?"

After roughly understanding what the monkeys were saying, Du Yi was dumbfounded.

He never imagined that, despite his enormous size and the significant size difference between them, he would be judged as "weak" by these monkeys.

However, after thinking about the strange weapons the monkeys were carrying, Du Yi was surprisingly able to understand their thinking—after all, using a hammer that was like a needle to him, and even from a distance, they could smash his barbecue grill with a single blow. This kind of unbelievable fighting style did indeed look very strong.

On the contrary, his own large size meant he was bulky, clumsy, not agile enough, and full of blind spots...

No wonder, in the eyes of these monkeys, he was the weaker one.

Even now, after he has whipped and tied up these monkeys, they still think he looks weak and that he is using weakness to lure them in.

"However... this doesn't seem like a bad thing."

Just like now, although he was judged as weak by these monkeys, it also gave them enough courage to charge at him—if it were the savages in Du Yi's memory, those Ignivas people, even if they had ten times the courage, they wouldn't dare to break into his place.

Now that these monkeys have been delivered to him voluntarily, he naturally has more opportunities to understand the present era.

Yes, the times.

This was also the most unexpected thing for Du Yi. When he first turned into a snake, Du Yi thought he had come to a wild and untamed world. Adhering to the idea of ​​"since I'm here, I might as well make the best of it," he continued to live his life normally. It was only after discovering those savages that Du Yi realized he had come to the prehistoric era, and that those saber-toothed tigers and mammoths were not some otherworldly behemoths, but real prehistoric creatures.

Until he saw these savages use magic.

At first, Du Yi thought that the savages had mastered some strange little technology. After all, they could light a fire by clapping their hands, which could be called magic. But from a scientific point of view, magicians could also do this.

But as these savages gradually stopped using stone powder and could start a fire simply by clapping their hands, Du Yi realized that this strange thing was actually magic.

This was a world with magic, and that was Du Yi's understanding of the world at that time.

There was magic, giant beasts, savages, saber-toothed tigers, and mammoths. Although everything seemed rather chaotic, it was quite novel to Du Yi. After all, he had always been the kind of person who would accept whatever came his way, and no matter what the world was like, it didn't stop him from living his life.

Until he captured these hairless monkeys dressed as priests.

"Isn't this Egypt?"

Du Yi is still somewhat dazed.

Although he didn't understand Egyptian and couldn't confirm whether the other party's language was ancient Egyptian, judging from the attire of these savage priests, the scarab beetles they wore, and the ankh amulets and other ornaments, this was definitely the Egypt he remembered.

Although Du Yi had never been to Egypt, he had at least seen these symbols before. After all, these things had been popular for a time, and he had even played cards related to them.

So I just went back to a long time ago?

Thinking about this, Du Yi couldn't help but recall some strange paradoxes, such as whether he himself would still be born if he lived all the way to the time of his birth... After all, when it comes to going back to the past, these strange, circling questions are always unavoidable, and right now he does seem to have the ability to live a long time into the future.

However, this familiar feeling also gave Du Yi an unexpected sense of security.

If the unknown symbolizes fear, then the known represents safety. A familiar world means a familiar history. Although he is not particularly knowledgeable about history, he can still be considered a prophet by some degree.

If he already knows what will happen in the future, what is there for him to be afraid of?

"However... it's hard to say."

Thinking of this, Du Yi looked at the weapons brought by the monkeys who appeared to be Egyptian priests.

Although he had been a snake for a long time, Du Yi still remembered that the world he lived in was quite materialistic, without magic or supernatural powers, only science explaining everything with various principles—however, it was obvious that these weapons and amulets that could use strange spells, just like the so-called magic of the Ignivas, could not be explained by science at all.

Du Yi himself couldn't explain it. He still hadn't learned the magic of the Ignivas, but the Ignivas instinctively felt that clapping their hands would definitely create a fireball.

And now...

"You mean, to use these amulets, we need to believe in a certain god first?"

After another round of torture, Du Yi obtained the method for using these talismans from the priests.

"We need to master some unknown power... We can't just use our tails to whip people every time."

With that in mind, Du Yi decided to give it a try first.

(End of this chapter)