The thing fell right in front of Yang Qing and Mo Beixing.
The moment it hit the ground, it gave off a foul stench.
Yang Qing had been shielding Mo Beixing as he prepared to retreat, but something in that large, bloody, sticky mass caught his eye and stopped him in his tracks.
Seeing that Yang Qing actually intended to go forward for a closer look, Mo Beixing grew anxious.
"Young Master, we cannot go poking around now. Otherwise, even Bu Er and the others may not be able to protect us."
Yang Qing could be rather stubborn about certain things. Thinking he had spotted some curiosity, Mo Beixing urged him, "We can look once the snake retreats."
But Yang Qing pointed at the mass, which the rain had washed clean of much of its bloody smell, and motioned for Mo Beixing to look closely.
"That is a person."
Mo Beixing had naturally noticed that too. What had fallen from the snake was a person.
But since he had fallen from the snake, he must already have become its food. Even if they went over to look now, they would find nothing more than a corpse.
Yet Yang Qing stubbornly motioned for Mo Beixing to look again.
"This man was swallowed by the snake. His flesh and bones should have been destroyed long ago, yet apart from no longer breathing, he is completely unharmed."
"Perhaps the snake was just keeping him as stored food?" Mo Beixing still felt that Yang Qing might be making too much of this corpse.
"No, look again."
The clothes the man wore bore many similarities to those worn by the commoners they had seen earlier in the City of Eternal Night and Mountain City.
Although the fluids inside the snake had eaten holes all over