Goblin Heavy Dependence

Chapter 41 Snake (Two in One)

Step out.

Xia Nan only felt that the temperature of the air around his body suddenly dropped sharply.

Suddenly everything went dark.

The next second, the dense forest and bushes in front of him, which were originally filled with moist mist, were replaced by a bare stone wall.

"what……"

Pain, dizziness.

It was as if I stepped on empty air while walking up the stairs. The momentary panic made my exhausted body unable to hold on any longer.

He subconsciously murmured in pain and suddenly fell to the ground.

He used his last bit of strength to keep his eyelids open and looked around.

Seeing that there was no obvious danger, he closed his eyes again as fatigue and pain surged over him.

I don’t know how long it took.

hiss--

A cool and smooth touch came from the cheek, and I could vaguely feel the muscles wriggling beneath the hardness.

Xia Nan slowly opened his eyes.

"Fuck!"

He jumped up suddenly and threw the long reddish-brown snake that had crawled onto his body at some point to the ground.

An iron-gray cold light flashed in the dim air.

The snake's head was cut off and its slender body twisted and twitched.

He lifted the snake's head with the tip of his sword and threw it into the corner, then he breathed a sigh of relief.

Xia Nan leaned against the stone wall behind him, holding the beheading sword tightly in both hands.

Only now, after a brief dizziness following his embarrassing escape, did he have the opportunity to take a closer look at his surroundings.

This is a closed cave.

There was nothing worthy of attention, and the bare gray stone walls filled almost every corner of the sight.

Occasionally, there are strange fluorescent fungi and grass growing on the surface of the rocks. The cave, which should have been dark and dark, has become "dim" because of the faint blue light it produces.

For some reason, even though there were no obvious features of any object, I just looked at the dead gray stone wall in front of me.

However, Xia Nan felt from the bottom of his heart a sense of illusion that was incompatible with the real world.

It was as if a small piece of the mountain from another world was taken away and forcibly embedded into this world.

It is exactly the same as the carriages, wooden buildings, courtyards... seen along the way.

In addition, he had just been chasing a petrified lizard fiercely in the misty forest, but in just a moment, he was teleported here as if he had fallen into a trap.

A thoughtful expression appeared on his face.

No rash actions.

After Xia Nan gradually regained consciousness, he confirmed that the place he was in was temporarily safe.

The first thing to do is to check your physical condition.

The injuries on his legs were the lightest, with only a few scratches on the sides of his calves from being scratched by thorns in the jungle while he was running away. They were ordinary abrasions, and the bleeding has stopped now.

There was a sharp pain in the left middle of my chest and abdomen, which was more obvious when I breathed, but it was still bearable - maybe a rib was broken?

The most serious injury is on the right forearm.

He endured the pain and lifted the padding under the leather armor, and found that a large purple swelling had formed on the ulna of his right arm near the wrist.

I was so focused when I was running away just now that I didn't feel much.

But now he felt waves of numbness and swelling coming from it, and even opening and closing his fingers and gripping the hilt of the sword seemed extremely difficult.

You know, before this, in order to restore his ability to move, he drank half a bottle of healing potion.

One bite, 25 gold!
I feel a little sad, but I don’t regret it.

If it weren't for that life-saving potion, he wouldn't even have survived until now. He would have been turned into a stone statue by the lizard, bitten into pieces and swallowed.

In exchange for a life, he would be willing to pay not only 25 gold, but even 2500 gold!
While sighing in his heart, Xia Nan's hands did not stop. With some difficulty, he took out the "medical tool set" he bought before leaving from the backpack behind him.

Ordinary quality healing potions can save lives in critical moments, and can also heal most minor injuries and relieve pain.

However, it does not have an immediate effect on injuries such as broken bones.

Adventurers need to deal with it themselves.

"Hey!"

He clumsily used the splint that came with the tool kit to fix his forearm, then took the bandage in his left hand and wrapped it tightly around it several times, and finally bit off the excess bandage with his teeth.

According to the treatment method recorded in the [Adventurer's Manual], if the forearm is injured, it seems that the arm should be hung up with a sling to prevent the injury from getting worse.

Given the limited conditions at the moment, this is all he can do.

His five fingers clenched slightly due to the soreness and swelling. Although there were still some grayish-white petrified marks on his fingertips, the effect of the healing potion had eased a lot and he had regained some consciousness.

Xia Nan thought in his heart:

He seemed to have seen a petrifying antidote in the alchemy shop. Although he could not remember the price, it at least gave him a hope of recovery.

There seems to be a church in the Valley Town, which provides adventurers with healing services after their missions. You can go and see it after you return this time.

Speaking of which, originally in the battle with the rust monster, Shanan saved the half-elf's life, causing the half-elf to owe him a favor and agree to help him contact a combat skills instructor as repayment.

During the chase just now, the half-elf also saved his life by holding back the petrified lizard for Shanan, giving him precious time to escape.

After all this back and forth, he actually owed the other party one favor.

Therefore, if Hai'an needs help in the future and he can be of help, he doesn't mind helping the other party.

Of course, the prerequisite is that he can get out of this damn place.

Xia Nan shook his head, getting rid of the thoughts that were irrelevant to the current situation.

After treating the injuries, it is time to check the status of the equipment on your body.

Vorpal Sword - It was barely unsheathed during the escape, so it was intact;
[Deadline] Ring - "Deflection Field" has entered its 24-hour CD, and the bottom card is temporarily missing;
Healing potion - half a bottle left;
Leather armor - rotten.

Xia Nan touched the special leather armor on his body with a painful look. He had spent a "huge sum" of 10 gold to buy it in Barn's store.

Although it looked fine from the front, it was just stained with some blood and grass.

But its back had been completely smashed by the impact of the petrified lizard, and was full of dents and cracks, and it was obviously no longer usable.

After returning to the city, this will be another huge expense.

"Ugh."

With a sigh, Xia Nan put the tattered leather armor back on.

He stood up and looked deep into the cave.

Now that he was teleported here, although he escaped the pursuit of the petrified lizard, it did not mean that he was safe.

Without the support of teammates, the only one I can rely on is myself.

His chest rose and fell, and his breathing gradually became smooth and firm.

He leaned sideways, slightly against the wall, holding an iron-gray sword in his hand, and groped his way step by step towards the only path in the cave.

……

"Galla."

The thick leather shoes fell down suddenly, and two thumb-sized black scorpions were crushed.

The pale skull without a trace of flesh and blood was picked up from the ground by a hand stained with mud and blood.

Xia Nan is now in a long and deep corridor.

No one knows how it was excavated. The stone walls on both sides of the corridor are rough and uneven, without any traces of human intervention.

But compared to the empty cave just now, there were many more pale bones on both sides of the tunnel.

He moved closer to the wall, relying on the faint blue light emitted by the fungus grass on it, and carefully identified the identity of the skull in his hand.

Before the time travel, Xia Nan, who was not a medical student, would never be able to hold the head of a fellow creature in his hands and examine it so easily. But now that he had experienced so many life-and-death crises, a simple bone was no longer enough to cause his emotions to fluctuate.

"Humans...humans again."

He thought so in his heart.

Along the way, Xia Nan has already looked at all the skeletons that could be identified based on his current knowledge.

All of them are from humans.

In other worlds, this discovery might not be that surprising.

But the place he was in right now was a fantasy world that actually had special races like dwarves and elves.

There are also a large number of mixed-race people.

If there really is a place filled with the corpses of intelligent creatures, it is impossible that only humans would appear there, unless it was a massacre targeting a certain race.

Combined with the unreal and strange feeling that the cave itself gave him, as well as the countless strange buildings on the road before.

Xia Nan also vaguely guessed something in his heart——

Perhaps, he was teleported to an area that was also from another world?

Putting the skull back in its place, he continued to explore forward cautiously, step by step, under the dim light.

Then, there is a dead end.

A cold, dark wall stood directly in front of him, blocking all his paths.

Xia Nan looked calm and composed, but there was a hint of fluctuation in his dark eyes.

This is the only path in the entire cave!
If the tunnel cannot lead to the outside world, it means that he will die here after finally escaping from the monster's pursuit.

"call……"

Xia Nan took a deep breath and tried his best not to let go of the countless negative thoughts in his mind.

He took the initiative to move forward, feeling around the wall with his hands, trying to find a possible portal switch.

The walls are jet black all over and are not made of stone. They feel colder than stone walls, as if they are made of some kind of metal. There are countless fine textures on the smooth surface, distributed in flakes. They even feel a little bit sharp if you touch them against the surface.

The threat of death made Xia Nan examine extremely carefully at this moment, from top to bottom, from left to right, and he ran his fingertips along every texture.

at last!

When he half-crouched and groped to the lower right corner of the black wall.

An extremely faint fluorescent light attracted his attention.

It was also the unique blue light of the fungi in the cave, but its source was the rock cracks in the corners of the black wall!

"Could it be that……"

A look of surprise flashed in Xia Nan's eyes.

He leaned down suddenly and used his palms to move the loose rocks away.

When encountering a small gap, he would draw the dagger at his waist and use all his strength to pry up the stone.

About twenty minutes passed.

In the corner of the black wall, a small hole half a person's height appeared in front of Xia Nan.

The blue light became brighter.

Alone, not caring about posture.

He used his hands and feet and followed the light to get in.

Surprisingly, the hole was not deep.

After just climbing a few steps, the originally narrow passage suddenly became clear.

A vast space large enough to produce multiple echoes then appeared before our eyes.

The fungi are densely distributed on the surrounding stone walls, illuminating the entire space.

Xia Nan, who had crawled out of the small cave, subconsciously turned around and looked at the black wall that blocked the tunnel horizontally.

hum-

Time seemed to stop at this moment.

Sweat dripped from his forehead, leaving a small stain on the cold ground.

Xia Nan still kept turning around, but he froze in place for a moment.

like a statue.

His eyes were fixed on the direction he came from.

Black wall?

No, that is not a so-called man-made wall.

The cool touch of metal and the delicate flaky texture...

It was a huge snake body as thick as a train and enough to fill the entire tunnel!

It is difficult to describe Xia Nan’s experience at this moment.

It’s like you wake up in the middle of the night and suddenly see a snake’s body on your bed through the moonlight.

Your first reaction might be to jump in panic, but at the same time, your eyes will subconsciously follow the snake's body, looking for its head to determine whether it has crawled into your bed or is just circling the bed.

Shocked, Xia Nan's gaze instinctively followed the indescribably huge snake body all the way up.

The ground, the walls...the top of your head!
"Fuck!"

He only felt a chill from the tailbone to the top of his head, and goose bumps appeared all over his body.

A terrifying snake head that was big enough to swallow an entire elephant was right above his head, staring at him without blinking with its cold and violent vertical pupils.

The huge sense of oppression coming from the disparity in size made him give up resisting at just one glance and subconsciously close his eyes.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

Xia Nan stood there stiffly, the stinging pain in his chest and abdomen with every breath reminding him that he was still alive.

Slowly open your eyes.

It was still that huge and shocking snake.

But...still motionless.

"Gulu."

His Adam's apple rolled and he swallowed.

Xia Nan vaguely sensed something was wrong and his eyes continued to move upward along the long snake body.

as predicted!

At the very top of the cave dome, a brown stone cone that came from nowhere nailed the giant snake to the top of the stone like a thumbtack.

It hit the vital point right there.

The giant snake's eyes, seemingly cold and ferocious, had actually lost their luster long ago.

The huge body like a train has become a corpse with no possibility of rebirth, just like the countless bones outside the cave.

Slightly relieved.

Only in this way would Xia Nan have the opportunity to carefully observe the appearance of this giant snake while still alive.

The whole body is dark black, and is covered with inky scales that are as cold and hard as metal. The thick and slender snake body is coiled and climbing in the cave, and its exact length cannot be determined;
The scales on the face are snow-white, without any impurities, which makes the snake's eyes appear green, like jade, and the pupils are deep and dull;

In the middle of its skull hanging high in the air, there are several pure golden scales shining with golden light, like a headdress adorning the back of its head.

I don't know why, looking at this terrifying giant snake in front of me.

Suddenly, the scene of him cutting off the goblin's ears and taking out the venom glands of the rust monster flashed through Xia Nan's mind.

A bold but extremely reasonable idea gradually took shape in his mind.

As an adventurer, bring back some loot...

Should be normal, right?

　Happy New Year, I wish you all happiness every day!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)