The General Who Only Knows How to Spoil His Beloved and Write Stories 40

Chapter 40: Fighting Side by Side

Knowing they couldn’t escape, Rong Feijun and Wulanbaer had no choice but to face the giant snake head-on. The snake’s body was impervious to their swords. Even if a blade managed to pierce it, it wouldn’t cause much trouble for the creature. Therefore, the two agile men leaped onto the snake’s head and aimed for its eyes!

The swords sank into the eyeballs, but to their surprise, the giant snake seemed to feel nothing, not even letting out a cry. A dark green liquid gurgled out from the eyeballs, and some small worms also fell out. However, after landing on the snake’s body, the worms burrowed back into it and vanished without a trace.

“What is going on?!” Wulanbaer felt this was too bizarre. Could it be that this giant snake had no sense of feeling?

Unable to reach the two of them, the snake thrashed its body wildly, its tail sweeping back and forth, stirring up a thick cloud of smoke. The two of them, standing on its head, were almost shaken off. Rong Feijun plunged his sword deep into the snake’s head to steady himself.

He shouldn’t have done that. The moment he did, he felt like he was about to vomit the roasted meat he had just eaten.

After the sword was inserted, the violent shaking caused the blade to constantly rub against the surrounding flesh, creating a large gash on the snake’s head. Rong Feijun looked into the gash and saw that the giant snake had no blood, and even its bones were hard to see, because its body was filled with a dense mass of wriggling, plump worms. The pure white worms writhed, their segmented bodies wrapping around the sword.

He imagined the size of the snake’s body, then estimated the number of worms, and couldn’t help but tremble, his skin crawling with goosebumps.

Wulanbaer also saw it and pulled him to his side. “Forget the sword.”

Fortunately, the worms seemed to prefer clinging to the bones and didn’t crawl out of the gash.

“The snake can’t reach us,” Wulanbaer said. “It’s not a bad idea to just wait for reinforcements like this.”

However, before his voice had even faded, the snake suddenly flipped over and fell backward. The two of them had been holding onto the snake’s head, dangling in mid-air. But with this flip, the worms from the gash above them began to fall out with a plop plop plop. They would rather fall to their deaths than be touched by a single worm, so they both let go, using the snake’s body to land safely on the ground.

“Back to the oasis! Get the Ten-Ox Vine!” Wulanbaer shouted, pulling Rong Feijun back.

“Ten-Ox Vine?”

“It’s a vine that is said to be so strong that not even ten oxen can break it,” Wulanbaer explained. “It’s the most suitable for dealing with this beast. We’ll strangle it by the neck!”

“Have you used it before?” Rong Feijun thought, Ten oxen, that sounds very exaggerated.

“Of course not,” Wulanbaer said with confidence.

What kind of life have I been living that I would ever need to use something that not even ten oxen can break?

Rong Feijun: “…”

The giant snake’s size was its advantage, but also its disadvantage. For example, at this moment, although it was constantly chasing them, they were able to use its slow movements to dodge its bloody maw and sweeping tail multiple times.

After rushing into the oasis, Wulanbaer pulled a thick, thorny vine from the bushes.

Rong Feijun: “…” So this Ten-Ox Vine is so easy to obtain? It feels even less reliable now…

The two had never fought side by side before, but they cooperated well. Wulanbaer pulled the vine back and forth between the snake’s head, trying to wrap it around its neck, while Rong Feijun kept a distance from the giant snake, waving Wulanbaer’s sword to distract it.

The struggle led them up the mountain. Rong Feijun looked at the cliff behind him. We can’t retreat any further, he thought, but he was forced back by the giant snake.

He stood on the edge of the cliff. The giant snake opened its mouth, hissed, and dived towards him. At this critical moment, Wulanbaer, because the snake had opened its mouth wide, finally succeeded in looping the vine around its upper jaw. To an outsider, it looked as if the snake was biting a vine. Although his original intention was to wrap it around the neck, it was clearly difficult to execute. He used all his strength to pull the vine back, pulling the snake’s head away from Rong Feijun.

Rong Feijun took this opportunity to leave the dangerous cliffside and leaped onto a tree to observe carefully. The flesh in the snake’s mouth was softer, and the vine was slowly cutting into it. If he kept pulling, he might really be able to sever the entire upper jaw from the inside!

He was just about to leap onto the snake’s head to help Wulanbaer pull the vine when he saw that the snake seemed to have been angered by them. It opened its mouth, which it couldn’t close, and let out a heart-wrenching roar. The sound was so sharp it didn’t sound like it came from a snake at all!

The sound was too shrill. In an instant, the sky and earth shook, and the trees collapsed. Rong Feijun’s eardrums and head were rattled, and he fell from the treetop.

He suppressed the churning in his stomach and stood up, only to see Wulanbaer being sucked into the snake’s mouth. Without him pulling on the vine, the giant snake tried to close its mouth and swallow him.

Wulanbaer held up his hands, propping up the snake’s upper jaw. But the difference in strength was too great. His hands trembled, and it seemed he couldn’t hold on much longer.

“Wulanbaer! Catch!” Rong Feijun threw his sword into the giant snake’s mouth. Wulanbaer immediately freed a hand to catch it and wedged it between the snake’s upper and lower jaws.

The prey was in its mouth, but it couldn’t swallow. The giant snake hissed and writhed. Seeing that Wulanbaer was about to escape, it wrapped its red tongue around him.

A snake’s tongue was highly venomous. It was Wulanbaer’s luck that this giant snake was already “dead,” so the poison on its tongue had dissipated. Otherwise, being wrapped up like this, he would have been dead long ago.

The giant snake seemed to want to use its tongue to fling him into its throat and swallow him. He had no choice but to grab the hilt of the sword that was propping open its mouth. But the sword was not a hard object and had already bent under the snake’s pressure. Just as it was about to break, Rong Feijun immediately pulled on the vine that was still wrapped around the snake’s upper jaw, preventing it from putting more pressure on the sword.

However, how could his strength compare to the giant snake’s? He had no other choice but to close his eyes and, holding the vine, leap off the cliff.

Hanging in mid-air, holding the vine, he used his entire body weight and the recoil from the cliff to pull on it. The giant snake’s mouth was pulled open even wider, and it could no longer exert any force.

“Rong Feijun!!!” The moment he leaped off the cliff, Wulanbaer felt his heart sink. He didn’t even care about titles anymore.

“I’m… fine…” a weak voice came from below the cliff.

Rong Feijun had lost a lot of strength. Worried that he wouldn’t be able to hold onto the vine and would fall, he had no choice but to pant heavily and wrap the vine around his arm. But the vine had barbs, and as he wrapped it, he sucked in a breath of cold air. Wulanbaer and I are so miserable, he thought. To come out for a walk and run into this kind of monster.

“Hold on! I’m coming!” Although Wulanbaer was entangled by the tongue, he still used his arms to try and pull a short knife from his pocket to free himself.

The giant snake thrashed and writhed, causing the vine to sway. The barbs constantly scraped against Rong Feijun’s arm, and blood gradually began to flow…

One was in the giant snake’s mouth, the other hanging from a cliff. Rong Feijun closed his eyes. I never thought I would end up dying with this borderland king…

…

“Your Majesty!!!”

“King! Where are you!”

Rong Feijun’s eyes snapped open. Qi Xiao’s voice! And many footsteps and shouts.

Thank goodness… He finally couldn’t hold on any longer and fainted.

In the Li City imperial palace, Fu Yunzhi finally, groggily, woke up.

He opened his eyes and saw Mu Linglong sitting by his bed.

“Where’s Qi Xiao…”

“General Qi is fine,” Mu Linglong said. “A distress signal came from the Sacred Forest. We suspect it was sent by the Emperor and the King of Shahan, so he took some men to check it out.”

Fu Yunzhi frowned.

A distress signal? Did they run into danger?

Seeing him about to get up, Mu Linglong immediately pushed him back down onto the bed. “General Qi will handle whatever it is. You are very weak right now, Master Fu. Going out will only cause more trouble for him.”

Fu Yunzhi was surprised. He hadn’t expected Mu Linglong to be so firm in this aspect, and his words were so sharp.

It’s a common ailment of physicians… He smiled silently. He had never met a gentle physician.

He didn’t insist anymore and leaned against the headboard to chat with him. Mu Linglong explained about the living dead and the Rebirth Gu, and tactfully skipped over the part where Qi Xiao had said he would take the master Gu. They talked for a while, then heard a knock on the door.

The visitor was one of Mu Linglong’s subordinates, also a member of the Linglong Cult.

“Cult Leader Mu, the patient in your room is awake.”

“Is it the person Qi Xiao and I brought back that day?” Fu Yunzhi asked. “The one with the severed arm.”

“Yes,” Mu Linglong nodded. “He was very seriously injured. Heaven knows how much effort I spent to save him. Now that he’s awake, it means he’s finally out of danger. And a few hours ago, I discovered something else.”

“What is it?”

“That person has the same poison on him as you do, Master Fu.”

Fu Yunzhi’s eyes widened. The Flower Moon Gu?

Seeing his strong reaction, Mu Linglong quickly waved his hands to clarify. “Not the Flower Moon Gu, the corpse poison. Because he was injured for several days, and the amount of corpse poison was very small, I almost didn’t notice it. If you hadn’t also been poisoned, Master Fu, which reminded me, I wouldn’t have expected that he was also injured by a living dead.”

After a moment of thought, Fu Yunzhi said, “I want to go see him.”

This person has too many suspicious points. He’s suspected to be from Junce, and now it’s confirmed he was injured by a living dead. No matter how you look at it, there’s something fishy going on. He thought he should investigate thoroughly.

Mu Linglong frowned and looked at him, seeming to weigh whether his physical strength could handle it. After all, the blood on the wound on his arm hadn’t even dried yet.

“Cult Leader Mu’s room is not far. I’m just going to walk a few steps to see him and ask a few questions. If you don’t let me ask, I won’t be able to rest well either.”

Mu Linglong rubbed his forehead. “…Alright.”