Chapter 32: The entanglement between life and death

It was a giant snake, no, a giant ribbon fish? No, since it had revealed most of its body, I clearly saw through Xiao Chengqian’s flashlight that some parts of its body were rotten, revealing a little white bone mixed with fresh red meat. In just a moment, I remembered an existence—the old village chief!

Such purple plants, whether fruits or leaves, are indeed not something that creatures in this world can withstand.

Can I say it is a zombie animal? I think this adjective is really too weird. After a second, my thoughts in my head were chaotic, and the next moment, I realized that I should run. The inexplicable current just now had brought me not far from the shore.

But I didn’t dare to run. I didn’t dare to turn my back on such a monster. If I did, I would have no chance of survival!

The monster had already climbed to the top of the stone pillar. It must have been deeply stimulated by the sight of the empty platform, and an ugly sound that I can’t describe spread throughout the cave!

The next moment, I didn’t know what to use to describe the monster’s movements. Was it fast as lightning? Or what? It was only a blink of an eye before it had already plunged into the water. Such movements were so similar to the movements of the old village chief at that time. If Sun Qiang were here, would he be able to control it?

My mind only had time to flip out this thought, and I saw the monster standing in front of me, in the same position as before, upright, looking at me coldly. The next moment, I saw it open its mouth wide and bite me fiercely!

Fuck, at least we should have negotiated before we started. There was no foreplay at all. In that moment, I instinctively dodged to the side, and luckily, I was pushed away by the splashing water.

But I was unable to catch my breath, and I was just happy that I was able to survive the quick action. Then I felt my body tighten, and when I reacted, I was already being strangled by the monster and dragged into the water.

I can’t describe the strength of the monster’s grip. I could hear the bones in my ears crackling, and the pain in my body could be temporarily put aside. The main thing was the suffocating feeling that suddenly enveloped me.

My tongue was pressed against the roof of my mouth, not daring to move at all. The breath I had cultivated for decades was now swelling in my lower abdomen, supporting my body and resisting the strangulation of the monster with all my strength, so that I would not be crushed to pieces in an instant.

The monster did not hesitate to drag me down to the depths of the water, and the body that strangled my body also tightened more and more. I felt that I was strangled by a few circles of steel rings that were getting tighter and tighter, and I had no chance of breaking free.

After decades of practicing qi, I was far from the level of hibernation, but I could hold out longer underwater than a normal person. In the silence and darkness, my mind was racing. What should I do?

I was glad that I could still stay awake at this moment, because when a person is in extreme danger, the brain can produce a strange protective function that makes people faint. All humans who are swallowed by a huge python, even if they voluntarily enter the python’s mouth in order to protect themselves, have no chance of survival.

In the water, unable to breathe, in the midst of the danger of being strangled, I was still able to stay awake. I had to thank my master for his strict training of my firm character since childhood. The pain also came from this state of consciousness. I could feel the muscles and bones of my body aching. When I was even more desperate, I opened my eyes and saw two pairs of bulb-like eyes in the deep water in a daze!

Shit! Is this pool a monster’s lair? I clenched my teeth. What should I do at a time like this? One was already trying to kill me, not to mention the two more below. It looked like they were rising up quickly.

At this time, Xiao Chengqian’s help finally arrived. In a daze, I felt a cold breath from the ghost in the water. I opened my eyes and saw a ghost head rushing towards the monster, and the next moment it was in the monster’s head!

This is undoubtedly the smartest move. This monster with a strong body has no way to attack its flesh, so the only way to attack its soul is through this method. We are not capable of killing it in this environment, but as long as we can delay it for a while, we have a chance to survive!

Sure enough, the ghost’s head plunged into the monster’s head, and the monster’s body immediately froze. It was no longer tightening its grip on me, and I saw that the monster’s originally cold eyes had become crazy and confused, clearly engaged in some kind of struggle.

It was impossible for it to evolve into a monster like the old village chief, whose soul was also against the heavens, because it was not the spirit of all things. What made me depressed was that it had no intention of letting me go, and there were two more men in the depths, who were rushing up like they had no lives to lose.

In that case, I clenched my teeth, gathering a breath in my lower abdomen, and then following a special method of breathing, a force rushed up my throat. At the moment when it was about to burst to the limit, I suddenly opened my mouth and shouted, “Let go!”

I had never exerted myself so much to display the Taoist “sound” power, containing the supreme will of pressure. The sound waves contained my own internal energy and spiritual power. Just by shouting this out, my brain fell into a blank of 0.1 seconds. That was the moment when I could not bear to perform.

I bit my tongue sharply, and the sharp pain on my tongue immediately woke me up. The monster’s eyes suddenly lost their focus, and it even rolled its eyes humanely. Its body began to weaken and let go of me, and it slowly stretched out, sinking inexplicably downward.

Yes, I was just taking advantage of the situation. While it was entangled with the ghost, I attacked its soul with my “sound” power. But with such a strong body to protect it, even if its soul was damaged, it wouldn’t be seriously injured. It was just temporarily unconscious.

But at this moment, I would be a fool if I didn’t escape. I didn’t care about my body, which was still in severe pain, and I desperately floated up, then suddenly rushed out of the water!

“Chengyi, I knew it was the right thing to do. If you don’t come out, I’m going to jump in.” Xiao Chengqian was lying on the shore and shouting. Obviously, when I was tangled with the giant snake, he released the ghost head and then just lay on the shore waiting.

I felt a warm feeling in my heart. How many people would be willing to jump into such danger for a friend? It turns out that this kid has a side that I don’t know about, that is, he is cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and once he gives his emotions, it is extremely heavy.

How similar are we? In some ways, we are indeed people of the same origin.

However, this was not the time to be sentimental. I just looked at Xiao Chengqian gratefully and then swam desperately towards the shore. Fortunately, the monster was moving around in the pool, and the waves had pushed me close to the shore. After Xiao Chengqian finally pulled me up, I made it to the shore.

At that moment, I was so excited that I almost burst into tears. I lay on the ground by the shore for more than ten seconds, gasping for breath. I have experienced countless dangers in my life, but this time I was really closest to death. At the moment when the monster was about to get me, I almost thought I was going to die.

With my wheezing breath, Xiao Chengqian knelt down and patted my shoulder, saying, “It’s okay, Chengyi.

I suddenly realized, is it okay? I remembered the scene of the monster climbing the stone pillar, and I couldn’t care about the pain and fatigue in my body. I stood up and said to Xiao Chengqian, “No, something’s wrong. Run.”

After that, I ran towards the hole where I had left my flashlight without saying a word, and picked up the purple plant. Xiao Chengqian ran after me without saying a word, but in the process of running, he asked me, “Chengyi, is there anything else?”

“Didn’t you notice? That monster can climb up the pillar, so can’t it get to shore?” I ran at a very fast speed, and said to Xiao Chengqian as I ran.

Xiao Chengqian was stunned for a moment, then he cursed, “Fuck!” Then he paused for a moment and said, “Chengyi, why do you smell so bad?”

“Nonsense, if you were hugged by a zombie, wouldn’t you stink?” I shouted as I ran, the wind whistling in my ears.

“Zombie? What…” Xiao Chengqian was about to ask something, but a sound of breaking water like a death knell sounded from behind us. Xiao Chengqian and I were about to go crazy!

Xiao Chengqian looked back and yelled, “Are you a male or female? If you’re a male, don’t bother us two men. If you’re a female, go find your own man.”

I said, “This guy doesn’t play by the rules at all. Not only does he have fins, but he also tries to kill us like a poisonous snake, and then he tries to wrap us like a python. He’s a real monster.”

“Boa constrictor? Fuck! Chengyi, lie down, don’t run, lie down like me.” Xiao Chengqian suddenly shouted!

Lie down? Is Xiao Chengqian going to sacrifice himself to this female snake?