At the foot of the Western Hunan Mountains.
Venomous Snakes were everywhere in Nuo Village. They coiled together, but not to hurt anyone.
They were breeding.
Unlike humans, snakes had a fixed breeding season, usually around Xia. But breeding on such a massive scale...
Was exceedingly rare.
Doctor Xie stumbled out of his room in a daze.
He rubbed the back of his head.
His head hurt.
He had no idea why.
Standing in the courtyard of the township Clinic, he looked at the mountains looming closer and felt an oppressive weight.
It was as though the mountains opposite him were about to crash straight into his retinas.
It made him deeply uncomfortable.
"What's going on?"
Doctor Xie immediately sensed something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what. Even seeing venomous Snakes covering the ground only felt a little odd. Thousands upon thousands of them twisted together into a constantly writhing pillar, yet he felt no disgust.
He even unconsciously blocked out their pungent, rank smell.
In dreams, much of the logic was bizarre.
Just like now.
Mountain mist sometimes appeared at the foot of the Western Hunan Mountains, but mist this intense was beyond anything he could have imagined.
Doctor Xie promptly put those strange thoughts out of his mind.
He walked down the street in a daze. Beside him were equally dazed villagers, following him with vacant eyes as they headed forward, toward the depths of the mountains.
Side by side.
Fortunately, the roads in this Nuo Village were much wider than those in the Nuo Village that had vanished into history.
Even walking abreast, everyone could fit.
Doctor Xie spotted the nurse on duty. The nurse walked forward, dripping like melting wax with every step.
It looked disgusting.
Doctor Xie showed no reaction.
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