Snake meat

Lin Yi rode the Wolf King at a wild gallop through the Otherworld, completely unaware that two faintly glowing red pupils had appeared at the head of his shadow at some point.

"It can actually pinpoint my location."

Lin Yi's expression was grave.

This was not the first time he had encountered something like this.

The last time had been with that terrifying Blood Ghost.

Seeing the giant snake pursuing him relentlessly, Lin Yi acted.

He immediately canceled Otherworldly Walking.

"Hahaha, you crafty rat! Run! Keep running!" the woman laughed wildly.

"Heh, I have a present for you."

The corners of Lin Yi's mouth curved upward. With a sharp flick of his right hand, the Blade of Greed shot toward the giant snake, wreathed in dense, baleful energy.

"Hahaha, you think a tiny dagger is enough!" The woman's voice dripped with disdain.

"Settlement!"

Lin Yi wasted no words. The instant the Blade of Greed entered the giant snake's mouth, he played his trump card.

This time, the Blade of Greed had absorbed even more eerie entities, and its damage was on an entirely different level.

"Otherworldly Walking."

The instant Settlement activated, Lin Yi used his ability again.

Boom!

A streak of red light spilled from the giant snake's mouth.

Even the giant snake's body seemed to shudder under Settlement.

"Roar!"

What followed was a pained cry from the giant snake.

Mixed into that cry were the woman's piercing screams.

The giant snake's body stiffened in the midst of its frenzied pursuit, and it crashed heavily to the ground.

Dust billowed everywhere!

Lin Yi turned to look and saw the giant snake holding its mouth tightly shut, blood streaming continuously from the corners.

Divine Thief activated, returning the Blade of Greed to Lin Yi's hand.

He was not foolish enough to check on the giant snake.

He did not think it would be dealt with so easily.

Sure enough.

The giant snake was already writhing as it slowly rose.

Its slit pupils were filled with unrelenting venom.

"Roar!"

The giant snake let out a roar.

Its mouth was filled with blood, and chunks of flesh kept falling out as it opened its jaws.

What surprised Lin Yi was that the woman growing on the giant snake's tongue had actually survived!

Her face was now full of venom as she stared at Lin Yi retreating into the distance.

However, the giant snake did not continue chasing him this time.

It merely watched his receding back from afar.

Before long, the giant snake twisted its body and headed back toward Small Town.

"Turn around."

Lin Yi patted the Wolf King's head and quickly approached the chunks of flesh the giant snake had dropped.

Even those scraps of flesh amounted to well over a hundred jin, though they were mere scraps compared with the giant snake.

The Wolf King's eyes turned red at the sight of the flesh.

"You can eat it when we get back."

Lin Yi put the hundred jin of snake meat into the Blood Ring and raced back the way he had come.

Before long, a small black dot rapidly grew larger in his field of vision.

"Lu Hanxue?" Lin Yi was taken aback at the sight of the figure riding the giant wolf. "Didn't I tell you to leave first?"

"I came to support you." Lu Hanxue's expression remained as unchanging as ever.

Only after seeing that Lin Yi was unharmed did she turn her giant wolf around and race back the way she had come.

Lin Yi nodded and urged the Wolf King to follow quickly.

What neither of them noticed was this.

A black shadow separated from their shadows, spread over the blood the giant snake had sprayed across the ice, and began drinking it up...

The giant wolves were fast.

It did not take long for them to catch up with the slowly moving convoy.

"Lin Yi, what was that thing? It was way too terrifying." Li Jie still felt a lingering fear when he thought of the giant snake.

"Did you deal with him?" Li Jie pressed.

"No." Lin Yi hurriedly rode the Wolf King away. He knew just how much nonsense this chatterbox could spout.

Apart from encountering that giant snake, they had faced almost no danger during this trip into Small Town.

The survivors had also collected plenty of supplies, and quite a few had even found meat.

Everyone wore an irrepressible smile.

They had forgotten how long it had been since they last ate meat.

Lin Yi had collected even more. Wherever he went, nothing was left behind.

The sky soon darkened.

Lu Hanxue built an igloo, Lin Yi contributed some furniture, and the survivors began lighting fires and cooking.

Lin Yi was outside the igloo.

He sat on the roof of the assembled vehicle with a jin of giant snake meat in his hand, while the Wolf King stood beside him, practically drooling.

It had been a long time since Lin Yi had eaten meat, too.

He looked at the piece in his hand. "I wonder if this stuff is poisonous."

Drip, drip.

Lin Yi dodged the Wolf King's dripping saliva, and his eyes lit up. He tossed the snake meat straight to the Wolf King. "A reward for you."

"Awoo~"

The Wolf King excitedly caught the snake meat and gulped it down, then looked eagerly at Lin Yi again.

Lin Yi thought it over. Given the Wolf King's size, one jin of meat probably would not be enough to tell whether it was poisonous.

He took out ten jin of meat and tossed it to the Wolf King again.

"Awoo~"

The Wolf King let out another series of excited howls.

This time, however, he did not gulp it down as before, but set it on the ground and chewed it slowly...

Lin Yi stared at the Wolf King, waiting for him to die of poisoning.

After all, no matter how he looked at that thing, it did not seem like a nonvenomous snake.

"Whoa, Lin Yi, this meat of yours seems a little different!" Li Jie strode over, his eyes full of shock and drool spilling uncontrollably from the corner of his mouth.

For some inexplicable reason, the giant snake's meat gave off a fragrance.

"Mm." Lin Yi glanced at Li Jie.

Li Jie hurriedly said, "Hehe, I know the rules. A trade, a trade! What do you want in exchange?"

"No need." Lin Yi knew Li Jie was broke as hell. The supplies in his vehicle did not even amount to a fraction of his own, so he casually tossed him a jin of meat.

Li Jie happily cradled the meat. "Lin Yi, you're such a good guy!"

Just as Li Jie was about to leave, Lin Yi suddenly spoke. "Oh, right. Just eat it yourself."

"Hehe, of course I'd keep the good stuff for myself." Clutching the meat, Li Jie crept furtively toward a corner.

Only once Li Jie was far away did Lin Yi stroke his chin. "If Li Jie eats it and is fine, then I can eat it too."

With another casual wave of Lin Yi's hand, over a hundred jin of ordinary meat appeared on the empty ground beside him.

He had found all this meat in Small Town's butcher shops.

After eating the giant snake's meat, the Wolf King seemed to have little interest in this meat. He merely glanced at it before continuing to enjoy his snake meat.

Lin Yi had not intended it for him anyway. "Call your underlings over to share the meat."

"Awoo!!"

The surrounding wolves had long been watching the Wolf King eat with hungry eyes.

Only after hearing the Wolf King's order did they swarm forward, excitedly sharing the chunks of meat, their eyes gleaming green.

"Awoo!!!"

A wolf's howl rang out in the darkness.

Lin Yi looked up.

He saw a wolf that had gone out to scout racing back.

He understood that it had probably found another eerie entity up ahead...

"Let's go."

Lin Yi slapped the Wolf King's forehead.

The Wolf King swallowed the snake meat in one gulp and raced into the darkness.

Lin Yi clearly saw that after the Wolf King swallowed the snake meat,

his loyalty had returned to 20 again...