Chapter 203: Drive the Car

"Ying ying ying——"

The bright, fox-like whimpering echoed through the forests around Sheshan in the evening; some mammals, hearing the command of Master Fuli, would voluntarily spread the message outward.

"Is the King Cobra here? Come eat! Master Fuli is currently at the observation post at the foot of Sheshan."

"Is the Snake King here? Come eat!"

After the voice echoed through the woods for a moment, a King Cobra slowly slithered out from a crack in the rocks, arrived at the forest's edge, looked toward Master Fuli's direction, and raised its head to hiss.

"It says to wait a moment," said the normally sized King Cobra, speaking on behalf of the Snake King.

"Ying!"

An Sheng, squatting on the car's sunroof, gave a slight nod in reply and sat atop the vehicle, waiting.

"What a convenient ability! If we had this too, how could we possibly fail to find spirit beasts?"

Su Qiyuan wore a look of deep awe; though he couldn't understand what Master Fuli was saying, his eyes weren't blind, and he hadn't forgotten his zoology lessons.

Master Fuli's whimpering was clearly calling to its own kind.

Yet a King Cobra emerged from within Sheshan—and now Su Qiyuan understood why Master Fuli had ordered him to bring it to the ecological reserve.

"Sss—"

After nearly ten minutes of waiting, a completely black King Cobra with golden-eyed pupils and a body exceeding six meters in length slithered out from the forest.

The King Cobra greeted An Sheng, then nodded toward Su Qiyuan in greeting.

"Sss—"

The King Cobra slowly coiled its body and asked Master Fuli, through its hisses, what urgent matter required its attention.

"Nothing serious—some associates on the road asked me if I'd heard about a white spirit serpent appearing recently in Jiule City. I wanted to ask you for a small favor." An Sheng spoke.

"Sss?"

Upon hearing Master Fuli's words, the King Cobra's square-faced expression twisted into clear shock, and even its lips twitched slightly.

"Sss"

Is that white serpent this stinking eel? The King Cobra opened its mouth; its belly, visibly swollen with food, rippled as if a large hand were moving something inside.

"Puh—"

The King Cobra whipped its head and spat a large white serpent onto the cement ground of the observation post.

The white serpent measured about two and a half meters, its body covered in fine scales, with red stripes along its sides and a tail ending in multicolored black.

The white spirit serpent spat from the King Cobra's belly was one of Xia Dong's common venomous snakes: the Bamboo Pit Viper.

But this white-lipped Bamboo Pit Viper's entire skeleton was visibly misaligned—clearly crushed to death by the King Cobra's powerful "hug-and-squeeze" technique.

An Sheng and the King Cobra locked eyes, silent.

"????"

Meanwhile, Su Qiyuan and Bai Tao both wore expressions of shock: "White snake! Holy shit!"

The white serpent the Anquan Bureau had been searching for

Was dead!

The white spirit serpent was dead!

"Sss— two days ago, it was alive," the King Cobra hissed haltingly, with clear logical intent, looking at Master Fuli: "It wanted to mate. I had no desire to mate. My appetite came on."

"Damn! White-skinned loli, throwing herself at the black-skinned jock—brutally murdered."

Looking at the white serpent's corpse, An Sheng felt black lines form on his forehead: "Well, fine. At least we've located the white serpent's whereabouts."

"Sss—I'm a female." The King Cobra, sensing Master Fuli's sarcastic tone about gender, kindly explained the full story.

It wasn't a black-skinned jock brutally killing a white-skinned loli.

It was a white-skinned boy attempting to "drive the car," crushed mercilessly by a cold-hearted black-skinned girl.

". Was I making a joke about that?" An Sheng shook his head, black lines thickening: "Never mind. I was just asking for friends on the road."

"Life and death are fate; wealth and honor are heaven's will. The white serpent paid for its arrogance."

Bamboo Pit Viper, King Cobra.

Had the Bamboo Pit Viper ever eaten peanuts while drinking fake liquor, it wouldn't have done this.

To court a King Cobra, a creature that eats snakes.

What an absurdly ridiculous thing.

"Sss—"

Seeing Master Fuli say there was nothing more, and noticing Su Qiyuan and Bai Tao preparing to approach the white serpent, the King Cobra grew wary, opened its mouth, and—with the two staring in stunned silence—"slurp!" swallowed the white serpent back into its belly.

Having swallowed the white serpent again, the King Cobra lazily regarded the two, its eyes holding a faint air of indifference and smug satisfaction.

Su Qiyuan & Bai Tao: "..."

Protective of its food—the King Cobra was guarding its food!

An Sheng glanced at them; the black lines on his forehead thickened by a third. He pulled out his phone and dialed the Golden-Edged Hedgehog:

"The white serpent's been found. But it died trying to do something beyond its capabilities."

"Died?" The Golden-Edged Hedgehog, upon hearing An Sheng's call, froze completely: "How did it die?"

An Sheng paused a moment, then said: "Crushed by a vehicle."

"A vehicle?"

"More accurately, it died during the act of 'driving the car,'" An Sheng muttered, struggling to keep a straight face.

Only now did the Hedgehog Grandma finally understand what Master Fuli meant by "car," and silently spat.

The Golden-Edged Hedgehog had assumed the white serpent, unable to adapt to human society, had been crushed by an overloaded hundred-ton engineering truck while crossing the road at midnight.

Instead, the white serpent had died in such a pathetic way.

"I understand the situation," the Golden-Edged Hedgehog sighed helplessly: "Let it die. As long as it passed away naturally within our borders, it's none of our business as lovable protected animals."

"That's it. The matter's settled. You handle the rest as you see fit!" An Sheng hung up, scratched his head, and felt utterly speechless about the current situation.

He'd already considered the possibility that the white serpent might encounter an extremely gluttonous King Cobra.

But the white serpent had paid for its ignorance.

Had it read just two more books, it would've known the King Cobra's menu included its own species.

Fine. Even the "cargo truck" nickname was pointless—the Golden-Edged Hedgehog clearly had no interest in the dead serpent.

"Vrrr-vrrr"

As An Sheng marveled at fate's cruelty, a satellite phone inside the car suddenly blared a buzzing alarm.

Bai Tao, who had been studying the King Cobra, heard the phone and without hesitation sprinted toward the old Honda sedan, snatching up the call.

"Mm. Yes, I understand."

After verifying the password with the caller, the voice on the other end delivered urgent news; Bai Tao's cheeks flushed with shock, she responded quickly, then spun sharply toward Su Qiyuan:

"Senior! The parasitic beast situation has escalated!"

"It's hiding RDX explosives—it blew up the highway ramp toll station."

"The parasitic beast hijacked a weapons transport and is taking hostages, heading straight for us!"

"What!?" Su Qiyuan's neck stiffened, eyes bulging as he sprinted toward the old car:

"What the hell is RDX? Where did it get RDX?!"

"Can you even hide that inside your body?!"

"Weren't you supposed to explode on contact?!"

(End of Chapter)