Book 4: Chapter 71: Turnover 2

Book 4: Chapter 71: Turnover 2

Everyone came to stand in a circle and watch as she pulled out three or four small white snakes from my throat and packed them all into a glass bottle. They looked like worms.

She handed the bottle to me like she was showing off an internal organ shed cut out. "Come and see your good friends."

I felt a burning pain in my throat. The snakes really did look primitive. I had seen a lot of strange things along the way, but these things really did look like they had come from the Stone Age. To be honest, I could still bluff my way through the Yin Shang Dynasty, but the Stone Age was basically beyond the scope of my knowledge.(1)

That field was where anthropology and archaeology coexisted. It was basically closer to science and had weak cultural attributes.

"Dont worry. Even if you still have more in your body, itll take quite a while for this thing to fool your immune system and get into your spine."

Why? I asked.

"This thing lacks the muscle mass to produce enough strength to move quickly in your body, she said. It has to move little by little. Plus, people arent stupid. If something grows quickly in your body, youll immediately feel pain. Thats why the adult snakes parasitizing method is different from this small snakes method. The adult snake uses more of a hunting method to parasitize its prey, so the host is basically half dead. But the small snake can coexist with the host for a long time. Even after the host dies, the little snake can mature in the corpse."

When I looked at her, she added, "Even if it's not taken care of right away, it's wont be a big problem. You can even get it checked out in the next year or two as long as you arent grossed out by the thought of it."

I am grossed out, I said to her.

He sighed heavily, "No, but this cliff looks disgusting."

"Should we stay up here for a few days?" I asked a little guiltily. In fact, my mind was telling me to go down immediately, but if I really had the courage to enter that cave again, I needed to mentally prepare myself to the fullest extent.

We came out, but Xiao Hua and Poker-Face were still down there. Their extreme night was still ongoing.

Fatty looked at the bonfire, "When we wake up tomorrow morning, well come up with a plan and then go check out the temple. In the afternoon, well send Tang Tang off. In the evening, well go back down."

"Thats basically what I was thinking," I said to him. "Wait, what temple? Why would we go to a temple? To burn incense?"

"Theres an ancient temple near here. They said that the statues and murals inside are related to this cave, so they want us to take a look," Fatty said.

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TN Notes:

(1) The Yin Shang Dynasty is the final name of the Shang dynasty after their move to Yinxu (so probably around 1200 BC). FYI, the Shang Dynasty was the second dynasty of China and was founded in 1600 BC. More info here.