The enormous black Scaled Snake, as large as a small hill, opened its yellow eyes and looked over, its slit pupils contracting slightly.
It sniffed the fruit in front of it, then swallowed the whole lot in one gulp.
Lan Yue was delighted. "Brother Snake, since you've accepted my gift, you must be willing to let me leave, right?"
"Hiss~"
[Lan Yue: I knew I was clever! I even thought to bring Brother Snake a gift. An ordinary person could never have come up with this. Goodbye, Brother Snake. I'll just be leav...]
[Wait, Brother Snake, you've got juicy gossip too! Let me sneak a peek. Just one peek!]
Even as Lan Yue tried to sneak away, she couldn't resist stealing a glance at the system.
But that single glance nearly sent her sprawling.
[Lan Yue: Holy shit, Brother Snake, you poor sucker! Those eggs you're incubating aren't yours at all. They've just been coated with your scent.]
[What Demon Beast has the gall to pull a cuckoo-in-the-nest stunt on you? Let me look a little further. Just one peek! So it's the Flower Snake next door. It's been unhappy about your enormous territory for ages and spends every day dreaming of defeating you!]
*[But the Flower Snake isn't strong enough. It gets beaten until it's scattered like fallen petals and flowing water every day. So after racking its brains, it came up with a brilliant move: disguise its own eggs as yours!
*That's hilarious! The old one can't win, so it's sending in the little ones. They're still a bunch of unborn baby snakes, and this Flower Snake already has their whole future planned out...]*
The little figure in Lan Yue's mind laughed until her stomach hurt, but she still hadn't abandoned her escape. Both her feet were already