Chapter 8: First Escape
“Wow! A waterfall oh~”
The area of this waterfall was expansive, but its height was merely 20 to 30 meters. The water flowed down from above and evoked lustrous and bright splashes on the pool surface.
The big snake stopped before the waterfall and let down the female.
Shu Jintian pattered towards the side of the deep water and poured water to wash over the skin the big snake had touched. He promptly felt his moistened pores happily open, and felt very pleasant.
In the sizzling hot season, the scorching sun was like a roasting hot stove. The roasted ground was like a steamer basket.
The snake cave was considered pleasantly cool, but once he exited, Shu Jintian felt like he was about to be cooked from steaming.
Lightly washing his arms made Shu Jintian feel not satisfied enough, and he really wanted to directly leap in to have a swim.
He turned back to look at Shu Hanyu, saying with a raised eyebrow. “Hey! If I go down for a shower, you won’t object, right?!”
Shu Hanyu did not mind what the female wanted to do. He swayed his snake body for a moment, and slinked to the riverside for a drink.
Shu Jintian saw that he did not react and swiftly took off his upper clothes, throwing himself into the deep water while baring his (nonexistent) claws and fangs. He created a large splash, wetting Shu Hanyu’s body.
Shu Jintian stood in the water, looking at Shu Hanyu provocatively and smiling proudly. Hmph hmph!Laozi had done it precisely on purpose, what can you do?
Shu Hanyu looked at the female smiling at him by the water and was a little pleasantly surprised. The female also liked water right? That was too great. In the future, they could play in the water outside the cavern when they pleased. The thought itself made him excited.
Shu Hanyu’s head dunked into the water, and his body also followed along and disappeared under the water surface.
Eh? Where’s the snake? Shu Jintian looked at where the snake entered the water and felt a little restless. He looked around everywhere, deeply scared that he would suddenly appear from somewhere.
The water surface had no great movement, and only circular ripples emerging from his swaying. He couldn’t find the snake anywhere. His original slight unease had now magnified by a lot.
Suddenly, a cool and smooth object wound around Shu Jintian’s waist, and he was startled at first. Then, he felt that familiar strength and feel, and soon realised that this was the big snake.
The snake body coiled around his waist and finally, out emerged a dark-green head from the water. It’s gleaming and crystalline eyes, clear and clean, were earnestly looking at him, reflecting his naked upper torso.
Shu Hanyu intimately extended his forked tongue to lick the female. Discovering that the female had a common hobby with him made him extremely pleased.
His face was licked by the python; the ice-cold feeling only made him want to avoid it.
Having learnt from his mistakes, Shu Jintian did not dare to struggle this time and could only tilt his head backwards. However, the nimble forked tongue was fixed on him and followed after. The licked place had a rush of goosebumps and Shu Jintian’s neck stiffened, even swallowing saliva was strenuous.
Honestly, licking wasn’t a mammal’s innate tendency, so why did this snake have this damned habit?
Though Shu Jintian did not dare to openly oppose Shu Hanyu, it wasn’t like he had no way to deal with him.
Shu Jintian wrapped a hand around the snake body coiled around him and pointed at the bottom of the waterfall, smiling at Shu Hanyu as he said, “Big snake ah, I want to get a rinse under the waterfall, and have a massage.”
A snake’s speed underwater was extremely quick. The pool of water cut apart by his body gently caressed his skin, bringing a pleasant feeling, like a massage.
The large snake directly rushed into the waterfall, and the crashing sound vibrated his eardrums, causing the surrounding animal cries to suddenly disappear, leaving behind this rumbling sound of water.
“Awoo~”
Shu Jintian was abruptly brought into the waterfall and hadn’t made proper preparations. His body was powerfully scoured by the waterfall; the downpour was a little strong, and he couldn’t help crying out.
“Ah~! Why didn’t you slow down a little ah
? Even though this waterfall isn’t high, being suddenly washed by strong water is still very frightening, okay?!”Shu Jintian exploded, his anger swelling. He didn’t care what thing Shu Hanyu was, he turned back and roared at him. He only became scared after he was done.
He’s dead, could he have become angry again? He wasn’t moving at all and it was frightening just by looking at him. Ai~ Why didn’t he just endure ne, impulsivity was a devil ah! Impulsivity was a devil ah!
But Shu Hanyu wasn’t angry, watching the female with a smile in his eyes. How could he be this cute? It was just a shower, why did he have to react like this? How interesting!
The snake head rubbed against the female’s head and his body spontaneously wound around the female.
Shu Jintian titled his head away, avoiding the big snake’s tongue that wanted to lick him, but was still rubbed by the hair and face, causing him to become unhappy.
He couldn’t even have it easy even when showering. How could he even shower if he was wrapped like this ah?
Shu Jintian wanted to tell Shu Hanyu that he didn’t want to shower anymore when he suddenly saw a few fruit trees at the top of the waterfall. The fruits were a brilliant red and were eye-catching. When he thought of the big snake’s behaviour of feeding him food, Shu Jintian suddenly produced an idea to escape.
When he thought of how he might be able to break away from the big snake, Shu Jintian’s heart couldn’t restrain itself from speeding up. Gritting his teeth, he hugged the large snake’s head and allowed the large snake to rub against his head.
Shu Hanyu felt encouraged and his body twisted around the female even more enthusiastically, binding his entire body, and he also continued winding upwards.
Shu Jintian couldn’t help feeling discomforted all over. He held his breath and allowed the big snake to coil around his body as a hand pressed against a nearby rock to maintain his balance, allowing Shu Hanyu to wrap till he was happy.
The snake’s nature was inherently greedy, and seeing that the female seemed to already accept him now, Shu Hanyu was discontent with the current situation. Extending his forked tongue, he licked the female’s blood-red lips once more.
The beautiful flavour was still the same, causing him to be unable to restrain himself and press inwards. Upon entering, the burning temperature inside had, as expected, become even warmer, seemingly about to melt him.
Shu Jintian widened his eyes in alarm and forgot his goal of feigning civility, suddenly pushing the big snake away.
“Pervert!”
He had even thought that the big snake only liked wrapping around things, but didn’t imagine that he unexpectedly stuck his tongue in his mouth. When he wasn’t paying attention, he had even wanted to frighteningly wander around in his mouth.
“Pei! Bleh!” The nauseating flavour permeated his mouth. It caused Shu Jintian’s stomach to flip-flop and he wanted to climb onto the stone to vomit. He suddenly thought of the big snake and secretly glanced at him from the corner of his eyes and saw him coldly looking at him, unmoving.
Shu Jintian’s heart thumped and he thought to himself, Damn it! I fell through at the last minute! No, this is a good opportunity, he definitely couldn’t let it go. As long as he could make the big snake rest assured that he wouldn’t flee, he would feel reassured enough to leave him here and help him pick the fruit at the top of the waterfall.
The cliff face was steep and there wasn’t much of a slope on either side. To go up, the quickest path was to directly climb up. As long as the big snake was willing to help him pick the fruit, he could escape while he was up there. This steep mountain wall wasn’t easy to climb down either, and it could earn him a lot of time.
As long as he reached the dense thicket, he’d be off the hook. From then on, with the great skies and vast earth, no one would be able to find him.
This was currently his only chance, and he definitely could not miss it.
Restraining the intense desire to vomit, he turned back to smile at Shu Hanyu.
“Sorry, I feel a little uncomfortable and didn’t mean to push you away.”
Shu Hanyu maintained the distance he washed pushed away and coldly watched Shu Jintian, as if judging whether what he was saying was true.
“You help me up okay, I feel awful!”
Shu Jintian took the initiative to approach Shu Hanyu and purposely crash into the big snake’s body unsteadily.
His snake tail immediately wound around Shu Jintian’s weighing body and swam them towards the shore.
Shu Jintian hung his head and leaned against the big snake, his rosy lips curled to a faint arc.
“Hanyu, thank you!” Shu Jintian was placed on the floor and raised his head to speak to Shu Hanyu. His eyes stared firmly at the big snake, his voice having an ineffable sincerity.
Shu Hanyu’s tail swept across and wrapped around the female’s clothing and pulled it towards him. His sleek snake head rubbed against Shu Jintian’s head, pacifying.
Shu Jintian hastily put on his clothes and took the opportunity to avoid the big snake’s touch.
“Let’s go back, okay? I really want to sleep!”
Shu Jintian obediently stood beside Shu Hanyu and his half-mast eyes seemed as if he would fall asleep any time.
Shu Hanyu nodded and was about to wrap around the female and leave when the female dodged away.
“But I’m hungry.”
That’s right ah, nearly forgot to feed the female.
When Shu Jintian saw the big snake pause, he internally thought, starting off well. Then, he neatly struck while the iron was hot.
“I haven’t eaten in a long time and I’m really hungry. There are things to eat there; you go pick it for me, okay?”
Shu Hanyu’s eyes followed along where the female’s finger pointed at, which was the fruit tree at the top of the waterfall, the red fruits heavily weighing down and bending the slender branches. It appeared that the female liked eating fruits very much ne.
The snake glided towards the side of the waterfall and looked at the female. Seeing him obediently sit on the floor and wait for him, he tilted his snake head upwards and climbed up. On the slope, the areas that weren’t rocks were tiny, malnutritioned plants growing in the cracks. Moreover, the cliff face’s slope was also very precipitous and wasn’t much different from the slope of the waterfall.
The big snake relied on his long and flexible body to wrap around the minuscule plants and smoothly climb up.
Shu Hanyu’s weight wasn’t light and the cliff was long, yet had a few tiny, dried plants. Shu Hanyu seemed to easily climb up, but the many of branches he pressed down had snapped off, the broken branches—accompanied by small loosened pebbles—tumbled and fell down.
Shu Jintian felt anxious while watching. Though the big snake didn’t treat him well, it wasn’t a sin worthy of death, and he didn’t hope that something would happen to him.
It was only when the big snake managed to climb to the top of the cliff that Shu Jintian sighed, as if relieved from a burden.
Shu Hanyu stood by the high place and looked at the female, and the female also smiled and waved at him. In a very good mood, he twisted around the fruit tree and firmly broke off the large tree trunk. With a fling of his head, the fruit tree was tossed down the cliff.
Shu Jintian internally thought, The chance has come, and turned to run into the forest.
Shu Hanyu heard the subtle sound of footsteps, and his body preparing to go down the cliff paused, abruptly turning to look in the direction of the female. A black figure ran as swift as the wind, rushing for the dense forest.
Why… did he want to escape?
Shu Hanyu had a split second of despondency. He watched as the female fled, all the way until his figure was obscured by the green trees.
His emerald green eyes narrowed, and he vaulted himself off the cliff. In mere seconds, his enormous body slammed into the water surface and produced an intense slamming sound; even the rushing current of the waterfall could not mask it.
Even separated by a few dozen meters, Shu Jintian also heard this abnormal sound. His sprinting footsteps couldn’t help slowing until he halted, standing on the spot foolishly.
A familiar rustling sound was heard from behind him and Shu Jintian finally returned to his senses. Internally startled, he broke into a run.
But it was already too late. An enormous snake tail swept across and Shu Jintian was knocked to the floor. Shu Hanyu’s strength was great and it caused Shu Jintian to slide across the floor about five meters before he crashed into a tree and stopped.
“Pff!”
Shu Jintian spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, laying on the floor unable to get up. But he didn’t want to concede and obstinately raised his head to look at Shu Hanyu.
Shu Hanyu slowly snaked towards the female’s side, looking down at him from above.
His tremendous, dark green snake body unexpectedly trembled faintly as a track of blood flowed from his snake mouth.
Shu Jintian quietly looked at Shu Hanyu for a moment and closed his eyes. Let’s call it even. I hurt him, and he still came back. All of this only had himself to blame, and he reaped what he had sown.
Shu Jintian lowered his head and relaxed his body, lying limp on the floor.
Shu Hanyu wound around the female and swiftly slithered back.
The journey was bumpy; before Shu Jintian had even returned to the cavern, his body couldn’t endure the heavy burden and fainted.