"I accidentally burnt it." Yu Longting smiled faintly.
Aside from Yu Longting, who could still smile, the rest of us standing next to this snake corpse all had indescribable expressions on our faces.
I was completely bewildered and regretted not listening to Yu Longting.
If I had known, I would have just closed my eyes. Witnessing a snake that could talk being roasted alive made me nauseous. I really wanted to vomit.
"The cat isn't around, is it? This snake is mine, I'll study..." Yu Rongling was about to say he would take the snake for research when he suddenly stiffened.
He spun around violently, and there was a black cat standing behind him. In an instant, he jumped three feet high, "Ah... cat... brother, help..." Chapters first released on novel fire.net
Yu Rongling, seeing my Xiao Mi, once again got so frightened that his hair stood on end.
He clung to his brother, who was nearby and had a cold expression, seeking protection.
Xiao Mi, with her elegant cat walk, approached; she didn't even glance at Yu Rongling, who was freaking out, and leisurely picked up the snake corpse from the ground.
Just like eating a spicy snack, she swallowed the long charred snake.
After eating, her belly swelled up a bit.
She burped contentedly and gracefully strolled away.
Yu Rongling's mouth hung wide open like an egg, almost dumbfounded, then shouted, "Brother, brother!! Look how terrifying she is, treating our snake like a spicy snack."
"If you don't let go now, I'll treat you like a spicy snack and feed you to it, 1, 2..."
Before Yu Longting could utter "3," Snake Immortal hastily retreated three feet back, bitterly waiting for Yu Longting, "Are you still my brother... sob, sob, sob... to treat your own little brother ..."
His crying was so noisy that it confused both my mom and that middle-aged woman, leaving them clueless about what had just occurred.
A childlike, tender voice broke the awkward silence.
My heart melted; I looked down.
The little girl seemed to have woken up, her previously lifeless eyes now sparkled vividly.
They shimmered like a clear spring; her cherry lips curved upward, her smile as soft and sweet as cotton candy.
She reached out her little hand, placing it warmly on my face, "Mommy, mommy."
Ah, how wonderful, she had regained her body temperature.
It was all thanks to Yu Longting, willing to take action himself...
I didn't think too much; I assumed the little girl was going to find her own mother, so I carried her over to the middle-aged woman, "Your daughter has awakened..."
The middle-aged woman hadn't yet taken the little girl back into her arms when the girl, deeply shocked, turned her head, clung tightly to my neck, and buried large tears into my collar, trickling along the lines of my neck into my shirt.
The wet, scorching tears that soaked into my clothes threw my heart into disarray, "Why are you crying, you little girl, huh? No one is bullying you."
"Mommy, you're bullying me, you want to send me away, mommy bad!" The little girl felt utterly wronged, her body trembling uncontrollably, crying breathlessly, her milky voice hoarse and heart-wrenching.
I gently patted her frail back, a bit at a loss, and looked towards Yu Longting, then again at Yu Longting, "Well... what... what's the situation here?"
"Can't you see what's happening? Or are you blind?" Yu Longting retorted.
I glared at him and observed the little girl crying pitifully on me, "Is her soul only halfway recovered?"
"The snake earlier was a Blood Sacrifice Snake, actually not a malevolent creature. After the girl lost her soul, her body would rapidly wither, likely within two or three days at most. It was a Symbiotic Snake, which could delay the withering of her body," Yu Longting explained, "However, the Symbiotic Snake, while maintaining symbiosis, also drew nutrients from this child, eventually draining the person dry, so I roasted it. This girl still has half of her soul, probably in the hands of the person behind the scenes, and we must find it within two days."