Chapter 25
Night after night, those nightmares felt hauntingly real.
The dreams were persistently vivid.
Upon waking up, Wan Zhong would discover horrifying marks on his body—pinches, bites, kisses, or suctions. Blue and purple hues intertwined from the chin, traversing the chest and lower abdomen down to the soles of his feet.
And…
Lips and teeth brutally bitten, a tongue sore and numb from prolonged sucking—these couldn’t be feigned.
The nightmares intensified recently.
Regardless of where he hid or how close he was to the black snake, whenever he slept, the monster would materialize. He would awaken in tears, embarrassed and humiliated, facing an empty, bewildering surroundings.
As everyone knew, dream events didn’t manifest in reality.
So, what was happening to him?
Wan Zhong couldn’t recall any deep animosity with the half-human, half-snake monster, pleading tearfully for mercy in his dreams.
“I’m sorry, I was wrong. I shouldn’t have said those provocative words to you. I thought you ate my black snake, which is why I had a bad attitude. There are many things outside, just stop arguing with me, okay? Ugh~”
A cold breath lingered in his ears, and a long, cold-white finger touched his chest.
Wan Zhong couldn’t see it, wrapped around the cold, slippery snake tail, unable to move.
But he could feel it.
The monster was close, the cold breath on his face suggested that their lips could almost touch.
Wan Zhong’s eyelashes trembled, turning his head to hear the monster say, “Tear out your heart and show it to me.”
The voice was low, sweet, cold, and ruthless.
Wan Zhong had no doubt it would actually do this. Struggling to escape the nightmare, the monster forcibly opened his mouth with a wet snake tongue, kissing him brutally.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh Ah!”
Wan Zhong screamed in fright, opening his eyes to find himself naked and disheveled, lying in a circle formed by the black snake’s tail. It didn’t feel like a dream, more like being dazed and taken advantage of.
He collapsed relying on the black snake by his side, he immediately cursed into the void where the monster might be hiding.
“You can kill people with just a nod of your head! You pervert! You stinking gangster! You’re a scumbag who deserved to be stabbed a thousand times! You’re sick! Didn’t you see that I’m a male?! You half-man, half-snake with a sperm on the brain, you hooligan! You will bully people with such despicable methods! If you have the ability, come out and fight me face to face! See if I don’t chop you into pieces and stew you into snake soup!”
After scolding him, he hurriedly used the snake skin to protect himself. The makeshift moisture-proof cushion was placed in front of the black snake’s big head, attached to the black snake’s thick and extraordinarily secure body like an octopus, and he added in a fierce tone, “I’m warning you, it’s best not to come out! Otherwise, I will let my big black snake bite you to death and swallow you up!”
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The bright moon was shining outside the cave, and the black snake stopped snoring.
It thought, ‘Yes!’
‘You really know people’s faces, but not their hearts.’
‘I usually see you as a well-behaved and kind-hearted person with a pitiful and weak look, but I didn’t expect that you are quite good at scolding snakes. The mouth and tongue are really great!’
‘Why didn’t I see that you were so capable before? It was obviously soft and well-behaved, so why did it become like this after the dream?’
‘You, duplicitous little sandwich, you really deceived me miserably.’
‘If it weren’t for the impending disaster a hundred years ago, when my demonic power was jointly sealed by the immortals in the thirty-sixth layer of the sky, and I could only maintain my true form and not be able to transform and speak, I would have to use my tail to try yours now—ah, no. ~I have to educate you on what snakes are like to guide humans!’
The black snake was so angry that its scales burned.
Although the old scales with seals on its body had long since fallen off during shedding, its demonic power had not yet returned. Before, it forcibly used the Circle Light Technique for him, exhausting the last bit of demonic power in its Dantian. It could only kiss and hug him in his dreams to quench the thirst of his skin.
It didn’t expect it to pay so much to be with him, but he insulted it, bullied it, and was unwilling to be touched by it, right?
The black snake became more and more angry as he thought about it. He was so angry that he really wanted to put his extremely hot body into him to cool down.
It immediately decided not to wait for its scales to grow but to set off to the top of the mountain on the other side of the sea to swallow the sun, moon, and stars to help its demonic power return quickly.
At that time…
Haha~
Hahaha~
Hahahaha~
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Wan Zhong looked at the black snake that suddenly left the cave and called out, “Handsome snake! Where are you going?”
When it was there, the monster was so arrogant. After it left, he would be be torn apart by the monster and not even leave a whole body behind?
Wan Zhong was really panicking, feeling scared and sleepy, but he didn’t dare to sleep.
In the end, he couldn’t stand it anymore, so he ran to the edge of the pool and washed his face with water. He broke off two small wooden sticks as thick as a match, held his upper and lower eyelids until he was so sleepy, and pinched his thighs before he felt more awake.
The moon was passing by in the sky, and the stars were rapidly decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye. After a while, even the bright moon as big as a tire gradually seemed to be gnawed by a dog – Wan Zhong rubbed his eyes, wondering if he was hallucinating. Why did he see a snake in the sky picking up stars with its tail to eat? Are you still chewing on the moon?
The moment the starlight fell, the world fell into darkness that made it impossible to see even one’s fingers.
Wan Zhong hurriedly held a luminous pearl and hid.
In a drowsy state, the vigorous sunrise finally illuminated the earth.
“Sun!”
Wan Zhong firmly believed that all the darkness would eventually be shattered under the sun, and that gangster who only lurked behind his back to bully him would never see the light of day.
He ran out happily, hoping that the energetic morning light would wash away the bad luck on his body. He stood on the cliff and looked at the distant sea line. He saw a snake on the horizon with its mouth open, and in one bite he took the sun with it.
The red sun of hope was swallowed.
“Ah!”
“My eyes!”
Wan Zhong hurriedly covered his eyes that suddenly couldn’t see anything. At first, he thought he was blind, but then he realized that he must have been driven insane by that rogue monster. Otherwise, he would not open or close his eyes, and his mind would be full of snakes.
Just as he was about to collapse, a wisp of cool wind stopped behind him.
Wan Zhong stopped breathing and shivered violently.
He froze in the sunless darkness, daring not to look back.
There was a trace of cold breath in his ears, and he heard the monster who gave him endless nightmares asking him in a very low and cold voice, “Why don’t you scold me?”
This time, it was no longer a dream…