After Being Abducted and Raised by A Snake

Wan Zhong carved another number on the gold brick that records time – 148.

He still didn’t give up hope of returning home.

But he was also prepared to never go back for the rest of his life.

Wan Zhong carefully sorted out his current situation, took inventory of his supplies, and briefly planned for the future.

He did a lot of useful things with a hammer and a stick that changed the quality of life, but they were not related to life and death. This took him quite some time.

But that was okay.

He lacked everything on a desert island, but the most indispensable thing was time.

Wan Zhong leaned on the tail of the black snake, swaying his legs and sitting on the cliff, holding a birch twig in his mouth and chewing it, preparing to use the remaining fibers to make a toothbrush.

The black snake thought he was playing, so he broke off a branch that was thicker than the bucket and handed it to his mouth.

Wan Zhong chuckled, pointed to his mouth, and then pointed to the thick branch, smiling at it with a pair of beautiful eyes: “Handsome snake, look at how thick it is, and look at how big my mouth is, how can I possibly hold it in my mouth?”

The black snake lowered its vertical pupils slightly to look at its thick and strong tail, and then looked at Wan Zhong’s rose-colored lips with beautiful outlines. While confirming the fact that there was indeed a mismatch between the two, it felt hopeless. It fell to the ground.

He felt like missing a lot of happiness for nothing.

Wan Zhong didn’t know the indescribable and charming thoughts in the black snake’s heart.

He put the toothbrush aside, picked up a pair of gold scissors that he accidentally found in the black snake’s treasure pile a few days ago, and prepared to cut the hair that was almost reaching his shoulders.

But before he could make a move, the black snake wrapped its tail around his wrist and stopped him.

After a while, he said, “What’s the matter, Handsome snake, do you like my long hair? But it’s so hot, and my forehead hair covers my eyes and blocks my sight. There’s no shampoo here. It’s troublesome and unhygienic, so I’d better cut it.”

Wan Zhong explained in a soft voice, ready to cut off his head bald and end it all.

The black snake didn’t snatch the scissors directly, it rolled up the long sword inserted in the sword stand and waved it in front of him in a threatening manner.

In this way, Wan Zhong did not dare to disobey it anymore. While tilting his head slightly to avoid the sharp sword light, he hurriedly said: “Okay, handsome snake is the boss. Handsome snake is the most handsome. Since you like it, then I will keep it.”

The black snake tilted its head, spat out the snake tongue, and stared at him with its vertical pupils slightly narrowed.

Wan Zhong’s heart skipped a beat. Before he could continue with soft words, the black snake swung the hilt of its sword, swiftly shortening the hair on his forehead. The speed was so fast that he didn’t have time to be scared.

Wan Zhong blankly raised his eyes and saw that the black snake wasn’t just giving him a haircut but also wrapping a slender green vine around its tail to tie his hair, making his scalp hurt.

Wan Zhong hissed in pain and hurriedly said, “Handsome snake, I’ll do it myself.” He pushed the hair scattered around his ears back, tied it with a vine, and asked, “How about it, handsome snake? Are you okay?”

The black snake, seemingly under a spell, stared at him blankly for a while. Then, it took out a mirror, larger than a door panel, and held it in front of him. While wrapping its tail around him, it spat out a snake tongue and licked his lips, then became still again.

Wan Zhong: “???”

The black snake licked Wan Zhong’s lips and spoke to the mirror.

[Mirror, mirror.]

[Hurry up and capture this beautiful moment. When I return to the demon world, I’ll hang it in the Snake Castle alongside my portrait.]

[There’s more.]

[When you draw, remember to adjust the light, shadow, and details.]

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Wan Zhong was confused, having no idea what the black snake was doing.

But he remained still, not daring to move.

After about a minute, the black snake took back the snake tongue and let him go.

Wan Zhong instinctively raised his hand to wipe his mouth. Pinned to the ground by the black snake’s tail and rubbed for a long time, Wan Zhong was licked hard again.

Wan Zhong was itched to death by it, and he begged for mercy: “Haha~ I was wrong, I was wrong. Handsome snake, please forgive me, it’s so itchy. Haha~”

One person and one snake played around for a long time. Wan Zhong laughed so hard that tears came out.

Unable to beat the black snake, when he saw it wrapping its tail around him and entangling him endlessly, he rolled his eyes, hugged his belly, and shouted, “Oh! It hurts!”

The black snake, thinking it had hurt him, loosened its tail.

Wan Zhong seized the opportunity, hugged the tip of the black snake’s tail, turned over, held it under him, and said happily: “Handsome snake, you’ve been deceived!” He patted the tip of its tail and ran away as fast as a flash.

Wan Zhong tied up his loose hair again. After playing with the black snake, he felt his mood had improved, and he was much more relaxed.

He lit a fire and heated some dried meat for dinner. While waiting for the fire to cool down, he ate another snake fruit.

During this period, he had three meat meals a day, didn’t secretly lose weight, and his health improved significantly. Though still appearing malnourished and thin, his face looked better, he no longer sweated excessively or felt fatigued, and his mental state improved.

The black snake probably thought he wouldn’t die, so it resumed its routine of sleeping day and night.

Every sunset, it would block him in the hole with huge rocks, returning at dawn with a basket of freshly picked snake fruits. After weighing him with its tail, it went to the pool, played in the water, went ashore to play in the mud, and looked in the mirror. Then, it wrapped its tail around and slept soundly.

But Wan Zhong was particularly curious.

Where did the black snake go every night? What did it do? Was it hunting, or was there some other secret?

Wan Zhong felt itchy, wanting to know the black snake’s little secret.

He saw the black snake coiled with its tail around and it looked in the mirror again, just like the usual.

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After borrowing several golden bowls, he tried to make a simple piece of soap.

Wan Zhong first collected some charcoal ash from the cooling fire, ground it into fine powder with stones, mixed the carbon ash and water with a tree branch, and filtered it with leaves. Then, he made another fire, heated the collected resin, poured in the filtered water, and boiled it again. During heating, he crushed some herbal leaves and added them.

The resulting soap not only had antibacterial effects but also retained the medicinal power and fragrance of the herbs.

After the water in the bowl evaporated, he poured the remaining liquid into a wooden mold.

While waiting for the soap to take shape, the sun set.

At night, seeing the black snake about to return to the hole, he grabbed its tail and asked, “Where are you going, handsome snake? Can you take me with you? I… I’m bored alone in the cave, and, besides, I can’t sleep without you.”

The black snake: “…” ‘Ha~ He wants to lie to me again. Obviously, when I come back to lick you in the morning, you don’t know anything and only sleep through it all.’

“Handsome snake, I know you’re the most handsome snake in the world, the best.” Wan Zhong held the black snake’s tail, shook it, touched it, and rubbed it affectionately with his face, smiling in a coquettish manner.

The black snake: “~~~” This was true.

With its noble snake head and drooped vertical pupils, it glanced at Wan Zhong very reservedly, then bent the tip of its tail into a hook shape and dangled it in front of Wan Zhong, signaling him to come up quickly.