Snake Egg Danger, Mother Snake Searches for Her Babies

The moment he heard that, Bai Ziyu flew into a rage.

"Fine, don't trade. But at least respect other people's hard work."

Bai Ziyu felt that Jiang Fang was clearly up to no good. He spun around and stormed off.

The livestream viewers were a little dumbfounded too.

[Jiang Fang said before that freeloading wasn't okay, but trading food was. Why's he slapping himself in the face now? Bai Ziyu was being pretty polite this time.]

[Still, three little bird eggs in exchange for rabbit meat for three people? Would you make that trade?]

[True, but they're all guests on the same show. What's wrong with helping them out? Jiang Fang's group can't finish all that food anyway.]

[LMAO, you're defending Bai Ziyu so hard. If he's so rich, why doesn't he give you some money to help you out?]

[...Aren't you guys getting off topic? I don't think Jiang Fang refused for the reasons you're talking about. He was originally going to trade. I just think there's something strange about those eggs.]

[As an animal science major, I can say those aren't bird eggs. But I'm also wondering why Jiang Fang told Bai Ziyu to throw them away immediately.]

"What happened?"

Long Aozhi and the others had just tossed the eggs into the water to boil and had not even started on the fish when they hurried over to ask.

This concerned whether they would be able to fill their stomachs.

Bai Ziyu said, "He said he wouldn't trade even if we threw them away." The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He was about to throw the eggs away when Lin Sen swiftly stopped him.

Lin Sen hurriedly halted Bai Ziyu's hand and took the eggs back.

These were among the few foods they had today. Bai Ziyu was already useless enough, yet he wanted to waste food while eating more than anyone else!

If they had not been livestreaming, Lin Sen would have started swearing.

"Ziyu, you had an unpleasant encounter with Jiang Fang before. Maybe there's some misunderstanding. I'll go ask him."

Since coming to this world, Lin Sen had never endured much hardship. He had whatever he wanted. If it were not for Long Aozhi, who would come to this godforsaken place to suffer?

He wanted delicious food that looked, smelled, and tasted wonderful! Not bland fish and eggs!

He had joined the show to befriend this future world-famous God of Song and God of Composition. He had thought that, since the show had ended early in his previous life because of Jiang Fang's death, he could both get to know Long Aozhi and avoid staying in this godforsaken place.

Who would have thought that after one flap of his butterfly wings, Jiang Fang would actually survive?

He felt both panicked and relieved.

He panicked because he feared he had disrupted the future plot. He was relieved because as long as Jiang Fang survived, the money the original owner had invested would not go down the drain.

Blessings and misfortunes were never far apart!

He was definitely going to eat roasted rabbit today!

Lin Sen carried the eggs over to Jiang Fang. He believed he had never had any major conflict with Jiang Fang, so Jiang Fang would definitely trade with him. Then Bai Ziyu would be humiliated! Hehe.

That was what he thought, anyway.

He, Lin Sen, was the one who got along with everyone—the man with truly excellent relationships!

Unfortunately, it was only wishful thinking.

When Jiang Fang saw Lin Sen approaching, he knew that this group still refused to give up.

He decided to make it clear.

"It's not that I won't trade. It's that I really can't. Those aren't bird eggs. They're snake eggs."

Snake eggs?

Lin Sen's mind went blank. Once he processed what Jiang Fang had said, his scalp went numb. He could almost hear hissing by his ears, and goosebumps rose all over his skin.

Even the egg in his hand seemed to have something squirming inside it.

Lin Sen's hand trembled.

Smash—

The three eggs fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.

They had nearly finished incubating. With their shells broken, tiny snakes could already be seen within the thick egg fluid, and they even moved unwillingly.

At the sight, Lin Sen's scalp went numb.

Snakes... snake eggs!

He had held them for so long just now!

It felt as if his hands still retained the soft, sticky sensation of snake eggs.

Long Aozhi and Bai Ziyu had heard it as well.

They had initially wanted to argue. The eggs had clearly been taken from a bird's nest, so how could they be snake eggs? But when they saw the underdeveloped little snake corpses, they fell silent.

He could not understand it. The eggs had clearly come from a bird's nest—how had they become snake eggs?

He had originally thought the soft shells were because they had just been laid...

Bai Ziyu looked equally incredulous.

Especially when he remembered how long he had held them, his entire body began to itch, as though something were crawling over his skin.

[Holy shit! They were actually snake eggs! But Long Aozhi and the others clearly took them from a bird's nest.]

[I knew something was off. When they first took them out of the nest, I was wondering what kind of bird laid eggs that looked like snake eggs. Just because there's a bird's nest doesn't mean it has to contain bird eggs.]

[As someone afraid of snakes, my scalp is numb. Wuwuwu, my whole body is itchy now.]

[Wait? But why did Jiang Fang say they had to throw the snake eggs away immediately? Eating them would be horrifying, sure, but snake eggs won't attract a big snake, right? Isn't that a bit much?]

[Hahahahaha, he was probably brainwashed by one of those giant snake movies. What a waste. Generally, mother snakes don't care about their eggs after laying them. Even if you take the eggs, it won't attract any snakes.]

It was not just the viewers in the comments who thought of that. Qin Yan and Fang Yi also looked at Jiang Fang in confusion. Snake eggs should not attract an adult snake, so why had Jiang Fang told them to throw them away quickly?

[System, are there any hidden dangers with these snake eggs? Will they attract snakes?]

Long Aozhi secretly opened the system and asked.

[Searching information costs one point. Deduct point?]

Looking at his debt of eighty-eight points, Long Aozhi painfully tapped confirm. If the snake eggs posed no danger, he wanted to see how Jiang Fang would explain himself. Maybe he could even establish himself as a walking encyclopedia.

[Searching... The encyclopedia states that snake eggs will not attract adult snakes. There is a 99.9% chance of no risk.]

Long Aozhi was delighted. Since the system said so, there definitely would not be a problem.

He looked at Jiang Fang provocatively.

Let's see what you have to say now!

"Jiang Fang, even if they're snake eggs, they won't attract an adult snake. Have you watched too many snake movies?" His tone was mocking, full of confidence.

Did Jiang Fang really not know?

Would someone who had once hiked through a rainforest alone in his previous life not know something like that?

Indeed, most snakes would not come back to look for eggs that had been stolen from them, but anything was possible.

During one of his hikes, he had encountered an adventurer who was chased down by a snake after stealing and roasting its eggs.

Of course, that alone was not enough for Jiang Fang to draw a conclusion.

The real reason he had reached that conclusion was that this was a novel.

And in the novel, there happened to be a briefly mentioned incident.

Actually, after something happened to the original owner in the original novel, the Second Young Master Lin, who had invested in the show, and the ambitious director had not wanted to give up. They continued trying for a while, but then something happened, and the variety show went completely bankrupt.

Bai Ziyu was attacked by a snake.

The protagonist of the original novel was Long Aozhi, while Bai Ziyu was only a supporting character. It was described in just one rough sentence: Bai Ziyu was chased by a snake after picking up bird eggs, and Long Aozhi stepped forward to save him.

The incident even trended online for a time, and Long Aozhi gained another wave of fans because of it.

As for the cause of the accident, who would investigate it? Wasn't it perfectly normal for a snake to attack a person?

The variety show suffered incident after incident. One person died, another was injured, and in the end, they had no choice but to abandon it.

When Jiang Fang discovered that what Bai Ziyu had brought back were not bird eggs but snake eggs, he immediately connected it to that tiny incident from the book.

He did not want to be chased down and bitten by a snake.

Still, looking at the snake eggs shattered at his feet, Jiang Fang sighed.

At that moment, he truly hoped he had guessed wrong.

After all, he really hated cold-blooded animals!

But things went against his wishes.

"Hisss..."

"Hisss, hisss..."