Chapter 12: Escape Now Became Pressing
When Shu Hanyu returned, he only brought some fruit for the female and simply threw them down from above, then sunbathed outside on his own.
Shu Jintian’s teeth grinded so hard that there was a creaking sound.
“Hey! Are you planning to cold shoulder me like this forever? I want to go out ahhhhhh!”
“You be obedient, then I’ll let you out.”
In order to reply to Shu Jintian, Shu Hanyu specially turned into his human form.
“Fuck your goddamn be obedient! Let me out!”
He never expected that his single resistance caused the big snake to be this wary of him again.
“Out of the question. These two days, you’re not allowed out.”
“What? It’s not like I’m your slave! Why lock me up like this?!”
Shu Jintian blew his top. Right now, he didn’t absolutely insist on going out, but being imprisoned like some house pet by the snake made him feel extremely humiliated.
Shu Hanyu no longer responded to him. After saying what he wanted to say to the female, he turned back into a snake and lazily stretched out into a line on the ground, comfortably sunbathing.
Shu Jintian cried out loud without tears below, but never got a response and his noise faded. Resigned, he picked up the fruit on the floor and ate it.
Sure enough, Shu Hanyu did not let Shu Jintian out for these two days. He himself also rarely went down to accompany the female. When awake, he would sunbathe or moonbathe by the cave entrance, and only came down to sleep when he was tired.
Because Shu Jintian had to roast meat to eat and it wasn’t suitable to create a fire in the cave, Shu Hanyu would only bring the female some wild fruit for every meal since he had only intended to punish the female.
On the third day, Shu Jintian having eaten wild fruit for every meal truly had an impossibly bitter living. His entire person had thinned out and the shape of his face had sharpened somewhat.
The time here was truly much longer than in his original world, and Shu Jintian had to eat five meals every day. Now that his meals had become water-filled wild fruit, he had to eat at least seven or eight, or even ten meals a day.
Moreover, eating too much raw or cold food would easily lead to diarrhea. In a day, he relieved himself no less than the times he ate.
Shu Hanyu, that hateful python, unexpectedly also did as he said, truly not allowing him to go up. He didn’t even allow him to go out to poop. He merely threw down a few large leaves and told him to do it on the leaves so it would be easier for him to come down and sort out later.
Shu Jintian hated this so much that his teeth were aching, but there was no helping it. Every time he saw Shu Hanyu work hard in sorting out those things without complaint after he was done, he couldn’t understand him at all in particular.
The fuck, can’t you just take a step back and give me some breathing room? Won’t that be better for all of us? Must you be like this? In fact, the big snake is a shaking M, right?!
Shu Jintian staying in a confined space alone and having nothing to do for the whole day was about to drive him mad. Sometimes, he even wished that Shu Hanyu could come down and sleep so that he could see a living being.
This sort of awareness made Shu Jintian extremely frightened and he felt like he was about to become a tamed captive. Whereas Shu Hanyu was his owner who domesticated him.
Shu Hanyu was sunbathing outside and when he heard the female’s dispirited calls again, felt that he had punished him enough.
Shu Hanyu turned into a human and leaned over the cave entrance, then said to the female, “Hungry, there’s still fruits down there.”
Seeing that the big snake had answered him in a rare, serious fashion, Shu Jintian was pleasantly surprised and came over to the bottom of the cave entrance with pattering steps to press him, “But I want to eat meat. The more fruits I eat, the hungrier I get; I’m about to starve to death already.”
Hearing the female’s docile voice, Shu Hanyu felt that the result was pretty good, and thought that if the female was disobedient in the future, he could use this method again.
“Then will you be obedient?”
Shu Jintian stiffened, his hand hanging down by his side tightly clenching his shirt. After a long time, he gloomily said, “I’ll be obedient.”
When he finished speaking, he didn’t hear Shu Hanyu’s response so Shu Jintian raised his head and loudly repeated, “I’ll be obedient. So let me out, okay?”
In any case, he should first stabilise the big snake then figure out what to do next. He didn’t know when he could escape from this hateful cold-blooded creature.
Shu Hanyu smiled in satisfaction and extended a hand towards the female.
Shu Jintian hurriedly grabbed the fair and exquisite large hand, climbing up while treading on the cave walls. However, the few days of malnutrition caused him to feel strengthless and weak. He couldn’t even get up while holding Shu Hanyu’s hand.
Shu Hanyu smiled at the female and did not help.
Shu Jintian flopped around while being suspended for a while before realising that Shu Hanyu was looking at him as if watching a good show, and hated that he couldn’t directly drag him down while feeling indignant.
Not wanting to entertain this awful big nake, Shu Jintian no longer moved, but was also unwilling to let go of Shu Hanyu’s hand. And so he stood on his tiptoes while holding his hand like that.
Shu Hanyu stopped before going too far and with a tug of his hand, he easily hauled up the female suspended over the cave entrance and held him in his embrace.
“What you want to eat? I’ll catch.”
The present female was not as stubborn as before and was very soft and weak when held up, very obedient. Shu Jintian was rather satisfied with this time’s training.
“Anything is fine. …As long as it’s not fruit.”
Shu Hanyu stroked the female’s head and was pleased to see that he did not avoid it. Very good! As a result, he said with compliance, “Okay, we’ll go right away.”
“We?”
Shu Jintian was astonished. Shu Hanyu had always left him in the cave when he hunted, and would pull him out to eat after capturing and bringing back his prey.
Shu Hanyu turned into a Spiritual Snake and his swaying tail wrapped around the female, travelling through the thick forest.
Even if he was taking along a female, Shu Hanyu’s movements were very limber. He briskly weaved through seams of various corners, and opened a path in the overly dense shrubbery.
Shu Jintian leaned on the big snake’s body, anticipating how the big snake hunted food.
Shu Hanyu’s speed lowered and he unhurriedly approached a Cornerstone Rabbit’s nest, silently hiding in a hidden bush.
Shu Jintian got off Shu Hanyu’s body and whispered in his ear, “Is it here? There’s nothing here at all; how long do we have to wait ah?”
Shu Hanyu extended his forked tongue and let out a hiss. He had discovered this Cornerstone Rabbit two days ago, and had long wanted to catch it for the female to eat. However, since he was still punishing the female, he left the opportunity until now.
Seeing the forked tongue spat out, Shu Jintian was a little scared. Fearing that Shu Hanyu would stick his snake tongue in his mouth again, he subconsciously shut his mouth.
Shu Hanyu did not pay attention to these details of the female and merely laid on the floor casually, as if he wasn’t here to hunt.
Until a Cornerstone Rabbit clumsily hopped into what Shu Hanyu partitioned as the hunting grounds. The lazy, big snake then became spirited and lowered his body, but did not directly rush out.
This patch of meadow was the place this group of Cornerstone Rabbits loved coming to the most. The grass here was tender and juicy, and was very delicious to them.
The leader Cornerstone Rabbit saw that there was no danger and with a ‘jiejie
’, called over even more young Cornerstone Rabbits. The Cornerstone Rabbits then appeared in Shu Hanyu’s line of sight in groups of two and three.The opportunity had arrived, and Shu Hanyu’s entire snake body was suddenly stretched taut, able to give a fatal blow to his opponent any time.
Before Shu Hanyu moved, he used his snake tail to tug the female.
Shu Jintian nodded to indicate that he understood, and Shu Hanyu finally patted the female’s head, then shot out like an arrow.
The herd of Cornerstone Rabbits instantly burst into motion, all of them scurrying away everywhere in a great rush. Shu Hanyu had long locked on to a young and large Cornerstone rabbit, and abandoning the nearer prey, he rushed straight for that one.
Five meters away from his prey, Shu Hanyu suddenly leapt and bit into the Cornerstone Rabbit’s neck. His snake body also swiftly wound around it, tightly wringing the sturdy and large prey.
The Cornerstone Rabbit kicked out its short furry feet, doing its best to struggle free from the snake’s grasp.
When Shu Jintian watched this, he suddenly recalled the time when the big snake had wrapped around him, and that he had struggled this weakly. He suddenly trembled with fear.
Watching the big snake wrap around his prey so firmly was very dreadful. If he hadn’t met this big snake before, he would absolutely break into a run unhesitatingly and flee the moment he saw this.
Shu Jintian recalled how he was always twisted around every day and suddenly felt that his experience was even more terrible.
As a spectator watching this, Shu Jintian could no longer endure it. The matter of escape had now become pressing.
Shu Hanyu returned while wrapped around the prey. Seeing the female unexpectedly staring blankly at him, he did not disturb him and swept him up and headed back.
Shu Jintian finally came to himself when the big snake rolled him up together with his prey. The beast stuck beside him was fluffy and still hadn’t completely died, its body still nice and warm. It would occasionally spasm, knocking onto him.
Shu Jintian kept away from the touch of the foreign beast as best as he could, his hand pressed against the snake body to maintain his balance.
Upon returning to the cave entrance, Shu Jintian examined the earth stove he had made. This was something he had made using the riverside mud so it would be convenient to retain the fire.
When the flame was about to go out, he would toss a large piece of coal into the stove then cover it up with some not-too-dry fuel. With that, the fire could be retained for a few hours without dying.
With no one caring for it for a few days, the inside was naturally so put out that it could not be any more so. Shu Jintian could only ask Shu Hanyu to help him bring out his jacket and look for the lighter to ignite a fire.
Separated from meat for a few days, Shu Jintian could finally eat steaming hot roasted meat again. Even though there was no flavour, this meat’s quality was fresh and tender. He smeared some sour fruit juice on it and it tasted quite delicious.
Shu Jintian gobbled up all the roasted meat, and he could barely stand up straight.
“Hu~ Really is a delight. This meat is really delicious; what’s it called?”
Shu Jintian casually opened his mouth to ask, using two long sticks to pick up a large piece of burning coal, then threw it in the stove storing the fire.
Shu Hanyu contemplated for a moment, and finally did not reply to the female’s question.
If the female learnt the beastman language, then he would have a chance to communicate with other beastmen. Therefore, he did not reply. His female only had to speak to him.
Seeing Shu Hanyu ignore him, Shu Jintian had an inexplicable disappointment in his heart.
Shu Hanyu also had not eaten in a few days. Seeing that the female had left a lot of food, he turned into a Spiritual Snake and swallowed the Cornerstone Rabbit’s mangled corpse in one gulp.
After eating, Shu Hanyu swayed his body and wrapped himself around the female he hadn’t really touched for a few days.
The big snake lazily coiled around him and slowly tightened up. Shu Jintian could even feel that the snake who had just eaten had a slight protrusion on his belly.
Shu Jintian’s breathing stuttered and a bad memory instantly reappeared in his mind. He couldn’t help his face from paling as he tightly pursed his lips, yet dare not resist either.
For a time, the cavern became tranquil as Shu Jintian kept breathing nervously. By his ear, he could only hear his own rapid breathing and the rustling sound produced as the big snake wrapped around him.
Seeing that Shu Hanyu didn’t perform any of the usual excessively intimate gestures, he finally heaved a trembling sigh.
Baobao Notes
Did I forget to post a chapter yesterday? yes. forgive me OTL….