"What's wrong?"
Gu Luotang was also made nervous by his actions.
"I think I heard something moving!" Wan Yunting said.
"Ah..."
Now Gu Luotang was nervous. She couldn't help but hug his arm and quickly looked around in the pitch darkness. "What is it, Brother Yunting? Don't scare me..."
"Don't be afraid, you stay here, I'll go over and take a look."
Wan Yunting took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight mode, shining it in the direction of the sound. He was quite sure there was something over there. As for what it was, he would have to go and see.
"I'll go with you..."
"No need, you just wait here for me, don't be afraid..."
Wan Yunting naturally wouldn't let her go with him. He took his phone and jumped down, shining it on the path beneath his feet, carefully heading over there to see what was moving.
Gu Luotang also held her phone and turned on the flashlight mode, shining it at Wan Yunting, her face filled with worry and nervousness...
"Huh, how can there be nothing? Could I have misheard?"
Wan Yunting shone his phone around, but the brightness of the flashlight function was too dim, only illuminating about two to three meters. He had to walk closer to see further, but after circling around, Wan Yunting found nothing around, not even an ant.
"Brother Yunting, how is it?" Gu Luotang called out worriedly.
Wan Yunting was still confused. He was sure he hadn't misheard, but now he couldn't see anything. He replied, "I didn't see anything..."
"Then come back, I'm scared," Gu Luotang called out.
"Okay, I'm coming over now..."
Seeing that he couldn't find anything, Wan Yunting prepared to go back, to avoid making the woman worry.
"Mm!"
But suddenly, Wan Yunting sensed a dangerous aura right behind him, causing him to stiffen and his expression to change drastically. He clearly heard a hissing sound near his ear, and the rustling sound of a body slithering on the ground, the very sound Wan Yunting had heard earlier.
For a moment, the foul breath exhaled by the thing behind him made the back of Wan Yunting's neck turn cold, and his heart sank. He felt that the thing behind him was extremely dangerous!
"Brother Yunting, what's wrong?"
Gu Luotang saw Wan Yunting suddenly stop moving and called out in confusion, feeling inexplicably nervous and scared.
Hiss...
The hissing sound in his ears made Wan Yunting's scalp tingle, and his heart was filled with dread. At this moment, his mind was highly focused and tense.
The next moment, Wan Yunting suddenly rolled to the ground to his right. As he flipped over, under the dim light of his phone, he saw a large snake with black scales all over its body. Its massive head had just opened its gaping maw, intending to bite Wan Yunting's head.
However, fortunately, he had predicted the danger and dodged it in time, causing the large snake to miss. It immediately raised its huge head again, its pair of dark green eyes gleaming with cold light, locking onto Wan Yunting before him, its forked tongue flicking out.
Bang...
Several nearby stones were pushed aside and collided as the large snake's body writhed...
"Brother Yunting, what is it?"
Gu Luotang, who couldn't see anything from her side, vaguely saw a huge shadow and heard the commotion, immediately panicked and shouted.
"Luotang, don't come over, quickly find a place to hide, hurry..."
At this moment, Wan Yunting held his phone to illuminate the large black snake in front of him, which was rearing its head and poised to attack. He didn't know what kind of snake it was to grow so large. It was thirty to forty centimeters thick. With such a size, it could easily swallow both Wan Yunting and Gu Luotang.
As soon as he finished speaking, the large snake lunged at him with its gaping maw. Wan Yunting's eyes widened. With his quick reflexes, he stepped on a nearby stone and flipped himself into the air...
The snake's lunge missed again. It immediately turned its eight to nine meter long body and looked back. Its dark green eyes, gleaming with cold light, fixed on Wan Yunting, who had landed on a large stone, and it flicked its tongue, preparing to attack again.
Gulp...
His stomach growled loudly. Wan Yunting patted his flat stomach, held his phone to illuminate the large snake before him, and excitedly cursed, "Damn it, it's so big. If I had fire, I'd kill you and roast you to eat."
"Hah..."
The snake seemed to understand Wan Yunting's words. It opened its huge mouth and exhaled towards Wan Yunting. Instantly, its muscles tensed, and it lunged again...
Bang!
With a loud noise, Wan Yunting, despite being hungry, was very agile. With a flip, he got off the large stone. The snake's head hit the large stone, seemingly dazing it. It shook its head and immediately turned back to look at Wan Yunting. Then, it raised its tail and smacked a rock flying towards him...
"What the..."
Seeing the flying rock, Wan Yunting couldn't help but curse. He immediately rolled forward, but the large snake had its maw wide open, waiting for its prey. It pounced directly at him...
It was so fast that it gave Wan Yunting no chance to react or dodge. Looking at the giant tongue lunging towards his head, he could clearly see two long fangs, each over a dozen centimeters long. The foul odor from its mouth made Wan Yunting feel suffocated in that instant.
He immediately dropped his phone, which fell to the ground. In an instant, he grabbed the upper and lower jaws of the snake's mouth with both hands. But in the next second, the snake's powerful bite force closed its mouth before Wan Yunting could even exert any strength.
Wan Yunting quickly let go and then turned, hugging the snake's head and neck with both hands. He spread his legs wide, his veins bulging, and channeled the qi from his dantian throughout his body, using all his strength to tightly hold the snake's head, allowing its body to writhe and try to break free from Wan Yunting's chokehold.
But his stance, with legs spread apart, was as steady as an old pine rooted to the ground, causing the large snake to let out a low hissing sound. Wan Yunting held its head tightly, but the snake's body began to thrash, pushing aside the surrounding stones and clearing a space. At the same time, the snake tried to coil around Wan Yunting...
Wan Yunting hesitated no longer. He let go of the snake's head and quickly jumped away, not allowing it to succeed. If it managed to coil around him, with its strength, it would directly crush all his bones, just like a python constricting its prey.
"Peh, this thing is possessed."
Wan Yunting spat out some water and quickly jumped onto another large stone. Using the light from his phone on the ground, he looked at the writhing snake before him. It raised its head again, its cold, piercing eyes staring directly at Wan Yunting, its forked tongue flicking.
"Oh my god, Brother Yunting, what is it?"
Hiding further away, Gu Luotang, by the light of Wan Yunting's phone, vaguely saw the snake's body writhing. She was so scared her pretty face turned pale, and she cried out in alarm.
"It's a snake, Luotang, hide well and don't come out. I can handle it."
Wan Yunting's eyes were also fixed on the large snake, which was once again in an attacking stance. He shouted to Gu Luotang.
As soon as she heard it was a snake, and such a big one at that, Gu Luotang's face turned deathly pale, and she shivered. She couldn't help but call out, "Brother Yunting, be careful..."
Wan Yunting immediately took out the military knife from his waist. It was the military knife from Wang Weicai that he had always carried with him. Looking at the large snake before him, he said, "I don't care if you're possessed or not, but I warn you, if you don't want to die, get out of here now!"
Hah...!
The snake, completely black with dark green, cold eyes, seemed to understand Wan Yunting's words. It opened its mouth and let out a low hissing sound. Its writhing body suddenly lunged again.
"You're asking for death."
Wan Yunting was enraged. Holding the military knife, he leaped, forcefully stomped on another large stone with his left foot, rolled on the ground, and seizing the opportunity when the snake lunged and missed, Wan Yunting unhesitatingly raised the military knife in his hand and plunged it fiercely into the snake's black-scaled body...
Hah...
Instantly feeling pain, the snake let out a low, angry hiss. It twisted its head to look at Wan Yunting, who was pulling out the blood-stained military knife and plunging it in again. Although the blade of the military knife was short, Wan Yunting's full force plunge drove the entire blade in. As he pulled it out, it dripped with hot, fresh snake blood.
It splattered all over Wan Yunting's face, momentarily stunning him. He quickly wiped the snake blood from his face with his left hand...