Chapter 19: A sharp decline

Faced with such words from Liu Shengwang, Master made an appropriate expression of anxiety and desire to hide, and I naturally knew what expression to use to match it when I saw Master’s expression.

“Hurry up!” Liu Shengwang called out anxiously. My master and I pretended to look at each other helplessly, and finally we walked out of the tent slowly. During this time, we saw countless snakes attacking Liu Shengwang, but they were knocked away by an inexplicable force field around him.

This method seems very easy, but in fact, if it were really that easy, Liu Shengwang would not have urged us so much.

Perhaps it was because he was under attack that Liu Shengwang couldn’t care about us. He just pointed at us, warned us, and ran towards the forest… In his heart, he probably felt that in such a dangerous situation, my master and I had to run with him.

In addition, in this kind of chaos, it is human instinct to save one’s own life.

In fact, we were not even in the depths of the forest, but on the edge of it. This was a remote section of road that they had chosen, right next to the forest. Our campsite was actually not far from the car, probably less than 50 meters down the slope.

They probably wanted to get into the car and leave quickly.

My master and I deliberately delayed things a bit. Although there were a lot of snakes, these people were determined to escape, and they would definitely be able to do so.

As for why I and Master were so slow, it was because Master had just whispered to me the effect of the liquid, that is, the snakes would not attack us. As long as we went out, they would find this great flaw if they were observant, and obviously it was not the time to break with them yet.

But no matter how long we delayed, my master and I still had to go out. Only when we came out could we appreciate the horror of seeing snakes all over the place. Even though the snakes wouldn’t attack us, and I wasn’t actually afraid of snakes, I still got goosebumps when I saw the dense mass of snakes.

A distance of 50 meters is supposed to be very close, but under the siege of the snake pack, no one can run fast.

Even my master and I were the same! Although the snakes would not attack us, we had to walk very carefully. If we stepped on one, these irritated and angry snakes might bite us.

This is true for both me and my master, so you can imagine the situation for Liu Shengwang and the others… After five minutes, we had only advanced less than 10 meters.

The snake population was still pouring in, and the place had almost become a real snake den, no, it should be more accurate to describe it as a snake mountain… I don’t know why, but Liu Shengwang was attacked especially often, so much so that he couldn’t even take care of us.

I don’t know what Master is thinking. In such a chaotic situation, we could have taken the opportunity to escape, but he is still following this group of people.

As if he could read my mind, Master looked at me and whispered, “They don’t want to fight because they’re afraid of us. If they did, they wouldn’t be trapped by these snakes. We’ll have to wait.”

I held onto my master and slowly made our way down the mountain, keeping a lookout for these people while whispering to my master, “So when are we going to wait?”

My master whispered to me, “This is a matter of luck, understand? These snakes are not enough to get us out of trouble. I’m gambling on luck.”

“Luck?” The mountain path was already difficult to traverse, and there were snakes everywhere. Hearing my master say this, I almost fell to the ground. I suddenly felt that my master’s unreliable nature had once again come to light. In our situation, he was actually gambling with luck.

In such a critical situation, Master didn’t forget to take the opportunity to educate me: “People can only do what they should do. I have calculated everything, but in the end, it is up to people to plan and up to heaven to decide! Therefore, life cannot be forced. If you are not ‘rewarded’ by heaven, and you fall into a state of melancholy, distress, or even radicalism, you will think that you have lost even more. Because you haven’t got it, you haven’t lost anything, but if you get caught up in that kind of situation, you’ve lost a lot.”

“I understand. If you can stay calm, you will not lose anything in life.” I whispered to my master, and the sound of the forest seemed to have become quieter, which made me a little worried.

“Don’t give me that high-brow stuff. I hate it when people try to be mysterious. Who do they think they’re talking to? The real truth is always simple and profound.” The master patted me on the head gently.

Hearing my master say this, I wanted to say something to my master… but at this time, Liu Shengwang suddenly turned around and looked at me and my master coldly, saying, “What are you whispering about?”

I was talking to my master in a very low voice, but I didn’t expect this guy to hear us. Another thing is that it seems that the snake group has not been as dense as before, so he has the ‘leisure’ to ‘care’ about me and my master.

This was an unexpected situation. My master and I were having a good time ‘mumbling’ to each other, but when we saw him turn around and look at us, we couldn’t help but freeze for a moment. For a moment, we didn’t know how to answer.

Liu Shengwang was not a very stupid person, but when he turned his head to look at our situation, his face suddenly changed, and he shouted, “Why aren’t those snakes attacking you?”

“Maybe, they look more favorably on us?” I didn’t know how to answer, but Master didn’t care and just said something stupid.

In fact, the situation was very obvious. When Liu Shengwang turned his head, three or five snakes attacked him, but my master and I stood there for a moment, and no snakes came to us to cause trouble. Even the snakes that crawled past us automatically took a detour and split into two sides, crawling towards them.

There was no way to argue about this, but I also couldn’t imagine that my master would say such nonsense.

“You’re the one who did this, aren’t you?” At this point, even if Liu Shengwang was stupid, he probably knew that the sudden flood of snakes had something to do with us. His face became unusually calm for the first time, but the calmness was terrifying.

At this moment, Liu Shengwang’s momentum exploded completely. Originally, he was a little flustered by the snakes surrounding him, but after the explosion, the snakes could not get close to him. One or two of them that got closer to him were so pressed down on the ground that they could not move, their heads were squashed flat, and blood was flowing out…

What is going on?

“I’m afraid that this Liu Shengwang was born with different abilities, which can also be considered as supernormal capabilities.” The master put away his pipe and his face became serious.

Liu Shengwang was showing his power, and the other people who followed him also turned around and ran towards me and the master… At this time, they seemed to be too lazy to hide anything, and only when I turned around did I see that one of them had lost his mask, revealing his face.

Was that still a human face? The first thing that came to my mind was Yang Sheng… The difference was that this face did not have the traces of old and new flesh growing in alternation, it was just dry… It had lost the luster unique to human skin. If someone who often went underground saw it, they would probably lose their voice and cry out, “This is a zombie face.”

Yes, this is a completely zombie face! These people… have already become something like zombies, not human beings anymore.

But in this situation, who would still be surprised? Our situation suddenly became very bad, because they obviously wanted to attack me and my master, and my master and I were locked in our powers, with no room to fight back, and we couldn’t forcibly remove the nails on our bodies, which would have even more terrible consequences.

It’s like a time bomb about to explode. If you try to defuse it, it will explode.

“Run!” Master said to me in a simple word, and almost at the same time, we ran backwards together, hoping that with the help of the snakes, we could delay them for a while and distance ourselves from them.

In short, at the moment, neither my master nor I could think of any good ideas other than running.

The mountain path was difficult to traverse, and at the moment, we didn’t care about stepping on the snakes under our feet. We only had one thought in mind, and that was to run as quickly as possible into the real forest, and see if we could escape by taking advantage of the terrain!

“Want to run?” Liu Shengwang’s cold voice echoed behind us, but I couldn’t turn around to see what he was going to do.

However, if I was unlucky, it would definitely be one after another, because I didn’t run a few steps before I felt a strong pulling sensation from my soul, as if my soul was about to be pulled out of my body the next moment.

How could this be? Cold sweat dripped from my forehead, and in this situation, how could I run?