Chapter 6
It seemed that ever since he met the black snake, Wan Zhong had been either fainting or on the way to fainting.
But no matter how broken, desperate, and scared he felt in his heart, he didn’t want to die if he could live.
After being fed by the black snake for a period of time, Wan Zhong felt it would not eat him for the time being.
Because the black snake would weigh him with its tail every day, then narrow its eyes slightly, shake its head at him with a very disappointed expression, and then fed him more snake fruits. It was obvious that he was too thin and wanted to make him fatter before eating.
Moreover, the black snake was very understanding of human nature and seemed to be able to understand human speech?
The basis was the black snake would take care of him like ordinary animals took care of their cubs. Not only feeding him, the black snake would use its tail to rinse his clothes and dry them on a tree. Wan Zhong sincerely thanked the snake and expressed that he could eat on his own in the future, no need for any feeding by the snake tongue.
After that, the black snake no longer chewed up the fruit and fed it to his mouth, nor did it roll him into the pool to rinse him. Of course, it did not violently dry him and hang him on the tree with his underwear to dry in the sun anymore.
But… the black snake would still wrap its tail around him when he slept during the day.
Wan Zhong pretended to be good for a while, trying to leave the circle surrounded by the black snake’s tail.
At first, he just touched it with his feet intentionally or unintentionally. When the black snake made no move, he came out of the circle made by its tail. He did not dare to go far, just walked around it, and soon went back on his initiative.
Later, he became more courageous, and from time to time he would go into the deepest part of the cave along the edge of the pool, pretending to come back with a few gold objects to play with, and then slowly expand the scope of his activities to the entrance of the cave.
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During this period, the black snake did not interfere or hinder any of his actions. Wan Zhong plucked up the courage and tried to step out of the cave, the black snake just glanced at him with half-lidded vertical pupils and started snoring again.
Wan Zhong finally saw the light of day again, smelling the fresh air outside the cave, and almost shed tears with excitement. God knew the feeling of losing freedom was really worse than death.
He was in a panic when he ran away before, and he was in a coma when he was kidnapped by the black snake twice and returned to his lair twice.
But tonight, when he carefully looked at his surroundings, he discovered that the black snake’s lair was originally on a mountain peak with dangerous cliff edge.
It was surrounded by green trees and connected to the forest. When he stepped on the cliff, he could also see the endless sea level.
This discovery surprised Wan Zhong.
This meant that he could come here from time to time to see if any ships were passing by, so he could call for help. However, he soon realized that the distance seen by the eyes were different from the actual situation. Even if a ship did pass by, he would probably appear as small as a wheat awn and might not be visible.
Wan Zhong sighed softly and left the cliff, walking into the forest.
Of course, this time he was not running away but testing the black snake’s limits against him.
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There wasn’t even a bird near the snake’s nest. The animals seemed to know that this was the black snake’s territory, and they all avoided it.
After walking for more than an hour, some animal droppings and traces of activity appeared on the ground.
He looked back and saw that the black snake had not followed…
Wan Zhong found a stone to rest on and took out the mobile phone in his pocket to try. As expected, he couldn’t open it.
He had almost accepted the fact that he was living on a desert island, but currently, he knew nothing about this island except for the vast ocean and the dangerous forest.
Wan Zhong stared intently at the fragmented mobile phone screen. From the blurry projection, he saw the black tail hanging high from the top of his head, swaying on his shoulder.
The elusive black snake came to him at some point and coiled itself on the tree behind him.
Wan Zhong understood that as long as the black snake wanted to, he couldn’t escape at all, so he pretended not to notice it. He stood up and was about to walk back when the black snake suddenly wrapped its tail around his waist and lifted him off the ground.
“AH!!”
The sudden feeling of weightlessness brought a strong dizziness and heart palpitations.
Wan Zhong’s feet were more than ten meters above the ground. He immediately wrapped his legs around the tail of the black snake in fear, hugged a section of its body tightly, and tried to resist the urge to faint.
He stammered and said hurriedly:
“The cave. It was too stuffy in there, so I wanted to go out for a walk, but I didn’t expect to get lost. Fortunately, you are here…otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to go back…”
The black snake narrowed its eyes slightly, spat out snake tongue and took him back to its lair.
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It took more than an hour to walk here, but it only took less than a few minutes to get back. The speed was so fast, it made Wan Zhong stunned.
He was like a child who had made a mistake, standing by the pool with his eyes downcast and his shoulders hunched, not daring to move.
But the black snake didn’t seem to be angry.
It plunged into the pool and swam around. When it came ashore, it rolled up the basket of snake fruits with its tail and lifted it to the Wan Zhong’s feet. Then it rolled into the mud and looked happily in the mirror.
Through this period of getting along, Wan Zhong could guess the black snake was in a good mood at the moment, he relaxed and sat down by the pool.
He held the living water in the pool with his hands and drank a few sips. He looked at the black snake, which was looking at itself seriously in the mirror. He hesitated for a while and took off his clothes, he also wanted to cool off.
But he didn’t know how deep the pool was. Whenever the night was quiet, he could always hear the rapids in the pool, and there were shadows of the sunken sea before, so he didn’t dare to go down.
Instead, he turned his back and used his clothes to dip in water and scrub carefully.
In the middle of the cave, he kept feeling a pair of naked eyes stuck to his body, but when he turned around, there was no one else in the cave except a big black snake with glowing green eyes.
“Strange, why do I always feel like someone is looking at me?”
Wan Zhong thought he was thinking too much, so he hunched over and went outside to dry the clothes.
Even though he knew no one would see it, Wan Zhong still felt ashamed. He squatted down to dry his underwear in the hot sun and put them on before straightening up and hanging his shirt and pants on the branches.
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Upon entering the cave, the black snake suddenly straightened its body and coiled its tail tightly for some unknown reason, looking at him with a straight look. Not only did it look extremely hungry, but there were also two drops of bright red nosebleeds flowing out of the two nostrils at the snout of the snake’s head.
Wan Zhong: “!!!”
He didn’t know what he had done, but it suddenly aroused the black snake’s appetite.
He clasped his fingers and tried to nervously persuade it with tears in his eyes: “Please calm down and don’t eat me yet. I’m too thin now. Even my skin and bones are not enough for you to stuff between your teeth. Just wait for me to get fatter, then I will let you eat enough and feed you until you are full, okay?”
The black snake spat out snake tongue, and its big vertical pupils were green.
It rolled up Wan Zhong with its tail and weighed it. After feeling that he was indeed very thin, it collapsed like a noodle in the mud. It was so depressed that it didn’t even have the mood to look in the mirror.
Wan Zhong wiped the sweat dripping from his eyes. He guessed his nakedness had irritated the black snake. After the clothes were half dry, he hurriedly put them on and decided not to run naked in front of the black snake in the future to avoid arousing its animal desire to eat him.
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The black snake’s low-pressure mood lasted for a long time.
It wasn’t until the sun went down in the evening that it climbed into the pool and washed its muddy snake body. After giving Wan Zhong a very sad look, it lifted the basket with its tail and left.
This meant it wouldn’t be back until the next morning, and he could have a good night’s sleep.
According to Wan Zhong’s observation, the black snake was a snake that liked to stay up at night.
Wan Zhong looked at the big stone blocking the entrance of the cave and felt a little relieved.
He used a dagger to carve the Arabic number ‘18’ on a large gold brick. After recording the number of days since he arrived on this desert island, he started running around the pool, hoping to be a little thinner than yesterday.
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On the other side of the sea…
Lying on top of the mountain, the black snake basked in the moonlight, absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, while wrapping its tail around the mirror.
[Mirror, mirror.]
[Why doesn’t he gain weight even though I feed him so many fruits?]