smuggler

Chapter 58 The Snake Altar
After a long time, Zhang Xianren squinted at the dark cloud and said slowly, "The thunder is gone!"

Although I am afraid of the white snake of the Liu family and death, I am also worried about Chu Yuan.

Although he sometimes speaks frivolously, it is true that he protects me well.

Thinking of this, I stopped worrying and ran back desperately.

In the courtyard, snake corpses were all over the ground, and there was a chill.

There was still drizzle in the sky, and in the mist, there was a familiar figure, his originally black black shirt was dyed bright red.

"Chu Yuan!" I hurried over.

He raised his head, slightly surprised, his eyes flickered with astonishment.

But for a moment, he smiled again, and said in a gentle voice: "My lady, after all, I have me in my heart."

His glib tongue and frivolous words were still the same as before, but his voice revealed indescribable weakness.

Apart from the snake corpse, there was only the corpse of Grandma Liu lying on the ground, but the white snake was missing.

"Let him run away, but there is only one breath left!" Chu Yuan sneered, this time, he still won in the end.

After finishing speaking, his figure suddenly dispersed, turned into mist and got into the snake bracelet.

"The white snake only has a wisp of primordial spirit left. Even if it runs away, it won't live long. My snake body should still be in Liu's house. I need to get it back!"

"I will go with you."

"No!" Chu Yuan said, "I'll just get it myself. The old Taoist has been poisoned by snakes. You can prescribe some medicine for him as I said."

I looked at Zhang Xianren, and found that his complexion was indeed paler, and there was a hint of black and purple.

I nodded: "Okay, you come back early."

Zhang Xianren and I left this barren place. This is the outskirts of the city. We walked to the main street and found a remote clinic.

According to what Chu Yuan said, I prescribed some medicine, punctured the swollen place on Zhang Xianren's foot, cleaned up the congestion and bandaged it up.

I knelt down and bandaged it, and Zhang Xianren said with emotion: "You almost became a widow, sir, I almost lost my life, and I didn't get any benefits after going around for a long time. What do you call this, hey!"

I rolled my eyes, I was still in the mood to say this now.

"Okay!" I stood up, clapped my hands, and looked at the dark night.

"What should we do now?" We are in the outskirts of the city, and we don't have the ability to confuse people like Chu Yuan, so we can't go back.

I was thinking about whether to find a place to live, and if Chu Yuan didn't come back after dawn, I would go to Liu's house to have a look.

Zhang Xianren stood up with a limping leg and said, "I have a fortune-telling shop not far from here. Why don't you go to my place and stay for a night first?"

My eyes lit up, and I jokingly said: "I didn't see it, sir, you have become bigger and stronger, and your business has come to the city."

Hearing what I said, Zhang Xianren blushed, stared and said: "Big fart, I didn't know the fortune-telling for others a while ago, and I was reported by them with the slogan of promoting superstition, and the shop is still closed!"

I'm happy with a flutter.

The feelings were cleaned up by the relevant departments in the city, and they returned to the village because there were no tourists?
Anyway, there is nowhere to go now, so I nodded: "Let's go!"

Not long after we walked, when we passed the green belt, I always felt something rustling in the green belt, as if there were snakes swimming, following us all the time.

At first I didn't pay attention to it, thinking it was the wind, but gradually, the instigating rustic sound became clearer and clearer.

Zhang Xianren seemed to feel something and urged me to walk faster.

On the road in the middle of the night, there were few people and vehicles, and the rustling sound in the green belt became louder, and there was also the faint sound of children crying.

I tried my best to pretend that I didn't hear it, and I didn't dare to turn my head back. Cold sweat started to break out in my palms.

But just after we passed an intersection, we saw a child curled up under the green belt beside the dim old street lamp.

It seemed to hold its knees tightly with its hands, curled up in a ball, its head slightly tilted forward, and there was something dimly shining, staring at me and Zhang Xianren.

The street lights were a bit dim, and I couldn't see it very clearly, but the creepy feeling reminded me of the picture of countless snakes entwining children in my dream.

Immediately Zhang Xianren pulled me back and said in a low voice, "Don't move."

I fumbled for a few snake talismans, and Zhang Xianren took out a piece of yellow cloth covered with talismans, and walked directly towards the child.

But just as he lifted his foot, the child slowly slid towards this side as if there was a pulley under his feet.

A little bit exposed under the street lamp, I saw that there seemed to be a lot of flesh-colored but somewhat transparent little hands and feet growing under the bottom of the altar, moving on the ground, supporting the altar and moving forward.

And the snakes that were originally carved on the jar, beside the entangled snakes, faces slowly emerged.

Those faces were very small, some were only the size of a thumbnail, and their facial features seemed to have just begun to develop. Their eyes were empty, and they kept opening their mouths to make inaudible sounds.

The snake next to it was swimming on each of those faces, and there seemed to be more little hands and feet sticking out of the altar.

There was a faint crying voice from inside the jar: "Sister, sister...so hungry, sister, hungry..."

I held the two snake talismans tightly, looking at the strange jar with more and more hands and feet, I just felt out of breath.

Stretching out his hand to grab Zhang Xianren, he slowly backed away.

This thing is too scary, I instinctively want to pull it back and leave.

But when I stretched out my hand, the faces on the jar seemed to be giggling again.

Immortal Zhang made a quick decision, and covered the strange jar with the yellow cloth in his hand.

But the little hands and feet under the jar swung left and right, avoided it, and rushed towards me quickly.

The Naburi jar fell to the ground, and two snakes whose heads had been cut off but were still scurrying about jumped out from the gap where the cloth was tied.

Zhang Xianren saw the jar rushing towards us with its arms and legs, and shouted, "Hurry up."

Pulling me to run, but when I turned around, I don't know when, my aunt stood behind the streetlight with disheveled hair.

"Bai Yao!"

My aunt actually called my name directly.

Under the orange light, my aunt's face was pale, like the belly of a catfish turned out, dead white with mucus.

Auntie has a strong snake smell coming from her body. Although her hair is disheveled, her eyes are turned up, and her big tongue is sticking out like a snake.

Zhang Xianren glanced at my aunt, then at the child in the jar behind him, as if thinking of something.

"I didn't expect such a thing to exist!"

His face became ugly, and he led me back slowly to the edge of the green belt.

"Mom, mother..." But the jar behind him chased after him, his voice was sharp and pleasant, and he couldn't tell whether it was a man or a woman, and he was crying: "Hungry...hungry..."

When I was called out by that voice, I felt horrified, and asked Zhang Xianren nervously in a low voice, "What the hell is this?"

(End of this chapter)