The piercing whimper of the fox echoed through the forest around Snake Mountain at dusk. Some mammals, upon hearing Master Fox's command, would also actively help spread his message far and wide.
'King Cobra, are you there? It's time to eat! Master Fox is currently at the observation station at the foot of Snake Mountain.'
'Snake King, are you there? It's mealtime!'
The voice echoed for a moment in the forest, and a King Cobra slowly slithered out from a crack in the rocks, came to the edge of the woods, and looked toward the direction of Master Fox, hissing.
'It says to wait a moment,' the normal-bodied King Cobra opened its mouth, speaking on behalf of the Snake King.
Ansheng, sitting crouched on the sunroof of the car, gently nodded in response and settled on the car roof to wait.
"What a convenient ability! If we had such an ability, we wouldn't have trouble finding a Spirit Beast..."
Su Qiyuan was full of emotion. Although he couldn't understand what Master Fox was saying, he wasn't blind and hadn't forgotten his zoology knowledge.
Master Fox's whimper was clearly calling for his kind.
But instead of coming out from Snake Mountain, a King Cobra appeared. By now, Su Qiyuan knew why Master Fox instructed him to bring him to the ecological reserve.
After waiting for nearly ten minutes, a pure black, golden-eyed King Cobra, whose length exceeded six meters, glided out of the forest.
The King Cobra greeted Ansheng and then turned its gaze towards Su Qiyuan, nodding in acknowledgment.
The King Cobra coiled up and began to speak to Master Fox, asking why such urgency.
"It's nothing major, it's just that some friends from the underworld asked me about a White Snake Spirit Beast appearing in Jiule City recently, wanting to know if I knew about it. I thought I'd ask for a little favor from you," Ansheng explained.
Upon hearing Master Fox's words, the black King Cobra's square face clearly showed shock, even a faint twitch at the corners of its mouth.
A white snake... is it that stinky eel? The King Cobra opened its mouth, and its noticeably food-filled stomach began to wriggle, as if a large hand was moving something inside.
The King Cobra swung its head and spat out a large white snake onto the concrete ground of the observation station.
The White Snake's size was about 2.2 to 2.3 meters, covered with fine scales and red stripes on its sides, with a multicolored black tip on its tail.
The White Snake Spirit Beast spat out from the King Cobra's stomach was one of the common venomous snakes in Xia Dong: the Bamboo Leaf Green Snake.
However, the bones of this White-Lipped Bamboo Leaf Green appeared dislocated, obviously strangled to death by the King Cobra's strong embrace.
Ansheng and the King Cobra exchanged glances, speechless.
Meanwhile, the faces of Su Qiyuan and Bai Tao, who were watching from the side, showed expressions of shock: "White... White Snake! Damn!"
The White Snake that the Security Bureau had been searching for...
That White Snake Spirit Beast is dead!
"Hiss..... Two days ago, it was alive." The King Cobra awkwardly hissed with some logic in its speech, looking at Master Fox: "It wanted to mate, I had no desire to mate... My appetite kicked in."
"Goodness! A white-skinned lolita, forcibly clinging to a dark-skinned sportsman and brutally killed..."
Seeing the White Snake corpse on the ground made lines appear on Ansheng's forehead: "Alright then! We found the White Snake's whereabouts..."
"Hiss.... I.... female snake." The King Cobra seemed to sense that Master Fox was teasing about gender issues and kindly explained the whole situation to him.
It was not a dark-skinned athlete violently killing a white-skinned lolita.
Instead, it was a white-skinned youth attempting to play a big game, only to be mercilessly crushed by a cold and ruthless dark-skinned vixen.
"... Was I teasing about that?" Ansheng shook his head, lines covering his face: "Well, it's nothing, I'm just helping some friends gather information."
"We can only say that life and death are destined, wealth is with the gods. The White Snake paid the price for its arrogance and audacity..."
Bamboo Leaf Green Slang, King Cobra...
Had the Bamboo Leaf Green drank some nuts with its booze, it wouldn't have done such a thing.
Proposing to a snake-eating King Cobra?
That's just laughable.
Seeing Master Fox say it's alright, Su Qiyuan and Bai Tao seemed ready to examine the White Snake. The King Cobra's face showed vigilance, opening its mouth to "slurp" the White Snake back into its stomach, leaving the two dumbstruck.
After swallowing the White Snake back, the King Cobra lazily gazed at the two, a slight casualness and smugness in its eyes.
Su Qiyuan & Bai Tao: "......." The rıghtful source is 𝚗𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚕·𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚎·𝚗𝚎𝚝
Protecting its food... that King Cobra was protecting its food!
Ansheng glanced at them, more black lines appearing on his forehead, as he took out his phone and made a call to the Golden-Edged Hedgehog:
"The White Snake is found, but it died trying to do something beyond its capability."
"Dead?" the Golden-Edged Hedgehog paused on the call: "How... how did it die?"
Ansheng remained silent for a moment before responding: "Run over by a vehicle."
"To be precise, it died in the process of trying to make a big move," Ansheng commented, trying to maintain his composure.
Only now did Granny Hedgehog truly grasp what Master Fox meant by "a vehicle," swearing quietly to herself.
The Golden-Edged Hedgehog initially thought the White Snake died because it couldn't adapt to human society and got run over by an overloaded engineering vehicle while crossing the street at night.
It turned out, the White Snake died in such a pitiful manner.
"I already got the gist of it," the Golden-Edged Hedgehog sighed helplessly: "Dead is dead, as long as it died in its own country, that's all that matters. Other matters aren't for us lovely protected animals to concern ourselves with."
"So be it. That's the gist of things, the rest is up to you!" Ansheng hung up the phone, scratching his little head, feeling somewhat speechless about the situation.
He had previously thought that the White Snake might encounter an extremely gluttonous King Cobra.
In the end... the White Snake suffered from its ignorance.
If only the White Snake had read a couple more books, it would know that it's on the King Cobra's menu.
Alright then! The transport trucks were called for nothing, as the Golden-Edged Hedgehog clearly has no interest in a dead snake.
While Ansheng lamented life's twists and turns, a satellite phone placed in the car suddenly rang.
Originally studying the King Cobra, Bai Tao quickly ran towards the old Honda sedan, driven by instinct upon hearing the satellite phone's ring, and quickly answered the call.
"Yes. Okay, I understand."
Bai Tao, who answered the satellite phone, matched the code with the person on the other end, who then informed him of a very urgent matter. Bai Tao's face showed clear shock as he quickly responded and then abruptly turned to Su Qiyuan:
"Senior! The parasite situation is escalating!"
"It hid Black Gold explosive inside itself and blew up the toll booth at the expressway ramp..."
"The parasite hijacked a military weapons vehicle, took hostages and is heading toward us!"
"What!?" Su Qiyuan stretched his neck, eyes widening as he looked at Bai Tao, then quickly ran toward the old car:
"What the hell is Black Gold, where did it get Black Gold!"
"Is that stuff something you can hide inside a body?"
"What happened to it exploding upon friction!"