CHAPTER 415: CHAPTER 280: SNAKE DEMON!

Chapter 280

She paused, then continued, "Besides, it’s still uncertain whether we can leave this place today."

Sui Yi’s tone was unprecedentedly solemn.

Gong Jiu and his companion felt a sudden jolt of apprehension in their hearts.

Strong enemies? Are there still strong enemies?

Aren’t people like Old Goat Monster already trapped inside?

That’s right... Anayi! That snake-charming woman hasn’t shown up yet!

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The gate was slowly pushed open... The group held their guns, carefully peering inside.

The light swept through, revealing the vast and desolate emptiness of the Divine Temple.

Reliefs, frescoes...

So empty it sent chills down their spines, yet there was an inexplicable sense of solemnity and mystery shrouding everything.

The Divine Temple has always been a symbol of mystery.

Professor Ye let out a light exclamation as if he had discovered something, and took the lead in entering.

Sui Yi and the others followed suit.

Shen Di was more cautious; he even made sure to close the gate afterward.

Inside the temple, there clearly wasn’t much on the first floor.

Although for archaeologists like Professor Ye, the frescoes and reliefs were of significant research value...

"What a madman, if you can’t pry off these reliefs, what’s the use of just looking and touching!" Gong Jiu, a person of ultra-realistic views, clearly found it hard to understand such actions from Professor Ye and his group.

Although both parties were essentially performing "tomb raiding."

"They are official robbers; since ancient times, there’s been the official title of Treasure Hunter, we’re private robbers, how could it be the same..." Flower Demon Yaofei pouted, quite dissatisfied with the starkly different treatment of two seemingly identical behaviors.

"Let’s go upstairs... The Divine Temple Tower seems to have several floors."

Sui Yi had already stepped onto the stairs leading to the second floor, but suddenly her body swayed slightly, causing Gong Jiu, who was following behind her, to look surprised, "Sui Yi, what’s wrong with you?"

Sui Yi steadied herself with one hand on her forehead and shook her head, "It’s nothing."

She stepped aside, "You guys go up first, be careful."

Her body... seemed to be indeed having some trouble.

Gong Jiu and the others felt uneasy but then saw someone approaching.

"Your hand has the wound from the explosion earlier, could you be poisoned?" Ye Changan’s voice was clear and gentle, tinged with worry.

The hidden weapons of the Tang Sect were indeed notorious for their ferocity and malice, and it’s possible that the Black Meteor truly contained a potent poison.

Gong Jiu was also worried and came over to take a look.

Sui Yi glanced at Ye Changan, then at the blurred, congealed blood scab on her own arm, her brow slightly furrowed, "It’s not a deadly poison... probably just lost too much blood earlier, no big deal."

Ye Changan said, "Let me bandage it for you, an infection... could be troublesome."

Upon hearing this, Gong Jiu and Flower Demon Yaofei immediately exchanged winks and grimaces at each other.

"I see... then we’ll trouble Miss Ye to take care of our Sui Yi."

"We’re going on ahead..."

The two promptly ascended to the second floor, as if Professor Ye was very pleased and reassured about Ye Changan staying with Sui Yi, he did not linger and was escorted up by Xiao Yu...

Sui Yi: Reliable character, overwhelming combat power.

You, deserve to have it!

Left alone on the first floor, Sui Yi’s hand gently held the Crescent Moon Stones hanging around her neck through her clothes.

Right at her chest.

Just now, it felt like it emitted some kind of eerie power that made her momentarily dizzy.

Just like the odd feeling she experienced at the Public Trading Platform before.

Could this stone be related to the Divine Temple?

If so, that would be too much of a coincidence...

Sui Yi was thoughtful, but it did not prevent Ye Changan from tending to the wound on her right arm.

"Your injury is not light, yet you never mentioned it before... Does it not hurt?" Ye Changan asked as she helped Sui Yi clean the blood from her arm and took out a clean bandage to wrap it...

She had a great deal of admiration and an inexplicable sense of closeness to this woman who appeared just as young as she usually did.

Perhaps it was because she had been saved a few times.

But when she asked, she didn’t hear Sui Yi respond, prompting her to look up, only to catch Sui Yi’s pensive side profile...

One couldn’t deny that Miss Sui’s appearance was quite pleasing to the eye, so much so that Ye Changan was momentarily mesmerized, mesmerized to the point that her body suddenly weakened, and her head leaned towards Sui Yi.

Sui Yi’s hand supported her, their eyes meeting, both aware of some strange peculiarity...

This dizziness...

"How long have they been up there?" Sui Yi suddenly asked.

Huh?

Ye Changan came back to her senses, her face paling slightly. It wasn’t long, but no sound had come down...

Check upstairs!

Sui Yi, having been bandaged, turned around, ready to go up, when suddenly her breath caught.

A head emerged at the top of the staircase...

Lying on the ground, hair disheveled, two crimson claws clutching the floorboards, appeared at the stairwell... Her face pale, her eye sockets greenish, her eyes bloody, she just stared straight at them...

Ye Changan’s expression solidified...

This scene was too reminiscent of The Grudge or Sadako...

She was scared.

Seeing the mouth on that head struggling to open, as if trying desperately to spit out a word...

It seemed like...

...

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"You stay down there, don’t come up!"

Whoosh!

Sui Yi instantly shadow-stepped up the staircase, and as soon as he ascended, he grabbed the Flower Demon by the collar lying on the ground and viciously flung her down!

Then he swiftly let himself charge up!

The ever-beautiful Miss Hua, who lived by the highest principle that her face was her life, was just like that, slap slap sliding down the stairs powerlessly, and the most tragic part was that she hit the ground face-first. The momentum carried her all the way down to where Ye Changan couldn’t catch her, and the two crashed to the ground.

However, the pain from the crash allowed the Flower Demon to recover her previously paralyzed senses. Ignoring the pain all over her body, she turned her head and urgently shouted, "Fuck, there’s a snake demon above!"

A snake demon? Bai Suzhen from within Leifeng Pagoda?

Sui Yi had already seen it, and the snake demon was just opening its mouth to swallow a person whole—whom it was not clear, because the upper body was already in the mouth, with only the lower half legs slightly wriggling as if the person was still conscious.

This scene was truly horrifying.

The Snake Mouth dribbled saliva, drip drip, with a thick stench of rot and acidity, but there was also an inexplicably sweet fragrance...

The snake’s body was thick, one and a half times the girth of a grown adult. How long it was not clear, as most of the body was slithering toward the staircase to the third floor... it seemed to have crawled down from above.

However, each snake scale was the size of half a chicken egg, looking incredibly frightening.

Squelch, squelch, the snake’s lower jaw was wriggling as it swallowed a person.

Many people lay on the ground.

It turned out to be Flower Demon and her group, each of them appearing as if in a coma, with virtually no consciousness~~

The one being swallowed wore camouflage trousers, clearly a soldier!

Because it was swallowing, the giant snake saw Sui Yi but did not charge at him immediately. Instead, it hastened its swallowing motions, with its snake eyes fixed deadly on Sui Yi~~~.

Swoosh!

Sui Yi rushed straight over to where Gong Jiu and the others were, the Demon Que unsheathed!

To attack the giant snake?

NO!

Swoosh swoosh!

The Demon Que shot out Sword Qi, thwack thwack several times onto the thighs of Gong Jiu, Xiao Yu, Yueh Xiangnan, some of the most powerful among them.

Suddenly attacked, the sharp pain hit them, and the three who had been passed out were jolted awake by the pain. As soon as they regained their senses, they saw Sui Yi... and the huge snake head charging at Sui Yi!

The Demon Que was held horizontally!

Sui Yi was smashed directly against the wall by the snake head!

Boom!

His body felt as if it was broken in half from the impact, suffering from agonizing pain, especially the bandaged wound on his arm which immediately burst open with crimson fresh blood, running down his arm.

Sui Yi’s hands held the Demon Que horizontally, blocking the two Poison Fangs of the snake head...the pungent smell of blood rushed to his nose.

"Ay ya my ma!"

Gong Jiu swiftly fired a shot on the spot!

Bang!

The bullet struck the snake’s body...

Clang!

It could not penetrate!

It just broke off a snake scale!

"Holy fuck! A millennium-old snake demon!" Gong Jiu rolled over and got up on the spot, and just like Xiao Yu and the others, opened fire fiercely, all to no avail!

"Back off!" Sui Yi hissed the word through clenched teeth.

Seeing that the giant snake was as tough as a monster and bulletproof, and knowing that Sui Yi surely couldn’t hold out much longer, the group made an immediate decision: retreat!

Just as Sui Yi had done to them... they quickly made cuts on the unconscious bodies of Professor Ye and the others to stimulate their awakening, dragging them down while dealing with pain, shock, dizziness...

They moved quickly, just like when they escaped from the horrific Acacia Ant... perhaps even quicker.

"Fast!"

"The snake demon’s body is coming down from above!"

Once the snake’s body fully appeared on this floor, with just a flick of its tail, it could easily slaughter many of them...

Even if Sui Yi was currently holding back the snake head, it was useless!

Bang!

Sui Yi was swept away by the snake’s head, flung towards the railing opposite the stairs!

Crack!

His arm grabbed the railing, his body twisted, and Sui Yi landed on the railing. Then, leaping up, his body propelled in the air, thwack, he landed above the snake head, lifting the Demon Que...

The giant snake’s head reared back, and its slimy body gave no footing, so Sui Yi slid down along the snake’s body...

But the Snake Mouth opened wide.

Gong Jiu, Xiao Yu, and the others behind immediately readied their guns to shoot into the snake’s open mouth...

A tail lashed out!

"Watch out!"

Boom!

The group was swept away against the wall in one swipe...

Thump thump thump!

One by one, they were severely injured, coughing up blood.

"Retreat! Quickly!"

Gong Jiu and the others, spurred by Sui Yi’s shout, began stumbling down the stairs...

But upon turning their heads.

The staircase entrance was forcibly blocked.

Blocked completely by the snake’s body.

That is to say...

Sui Yi was trapped.

"Sui Yi!!!" Gong Jiu turned to rush back, but was forcefully dragged down by Xiao Yu!

With blood pouring from his thigh, spitting blood from his mouth, and his whole body in excruciating pain, it seemed all irrelevant at the moment. Gong Jiu, being pulled down, didn’t explode at Xiao Yu but instead roared at Feng Sha, "Hand grenades!"

"Stop shouting! I’m looking already... Goddamnit! The backpack with the grenades fell off! Shit! Look for survivors, quickly!" Gong Jiu’s forehead broke out in cold sweat.

Flower Demon, all disheveled, was also frantically looking with Han Gao for more destructive bomb-like weapons, while Feng Sha and Brother Ma were trying to use gunfire to stop the snake’s body from blocking the exit...

"Don’t panic, don’t panic, the Lady Goddess Sui is so powerful, she’ll hold on, she definitely will!" Han Gao was muttering while desperately rummaging through his backpack for items...(To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommend tickets, monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)