TFWYH – Chapter 21 Scared

It wasn’t until an hour later…

When the snake’s head finally stopped twitching and its body went completely still, Tang Wan cautiously peeked out from behind a large tree to check the situation.

Snakes, as a species, have part of their nervous system in the brain and the rest distributed throughout their bodies.

So, even if part of the body is severed, the detached section can still function for a while.

Let alone an anaconda.

Even after a whole hour, this thing still wasn’t completely dead!

This damn long snake’s trying to fool me!

What the anaconda definitely hadn’t expected was that this human could actually understand it.

Its sibilant hissing had long since been translated into human speech inside Tang Wan’s mind.

She glanced down, picked up a fist-sized rock, and hurled it at the anaconda.

Half-dead anaconda: …

I’ll endure!

Tang Wan raised an eyebrow.

Oh? You’re pretty tough, aren’t you?

She kept throwing rocks at it!

The last one even cracked open its skull!

This time, the anaconda finally died—for real.

Even in death, it never understood how things had gone so wrong. It had wanted to drag this fat woman down with it—how had she figured it out?

In the end, it was humiliated to death by a barrage of stones.

Damn it!

If I’d known this would happen, I wouldn’t have faked it!

If I couldn’t kill Tang Wan, I could’ve at least taken out that group of four who were watching like it was a show!

Damn it all!

And just like that, the anaconda died unwilling and full of regret.

Tang Wan tilted her head, listened carefully, and only after confirming it was truly dead did she slowly walk over.

The three people who had watched the whole scene from afar were already petrified!

Only little Ling Chen clapped his hands happily, eyes shining with excitement.

When Tang Wan glanced over at them, the three finally snapped back to reality, faces pale with horror. They all shivered in unison.

This… is this woman even human?!

She’s gotta be a monster, right?

Especially now, with Tang Wan’s entire body soaked in snake blood—she looked terrifying and eerie.

“Come help!” she called out from a distance.

The three of them shook their heads in unison.

No way, nope!

Too damn scary!

But then they thought again—if they didn’t go help, what if she got mad and did to them what she did to the snake?

They weren’t giant snakes—they couldn’t survive even one hit!

So, trembling with fear, the three of them reluctantly made their way over.

From afar, it had looked big enough—but up close, they realized just how massive the snake really was.

Still, they were men—and their courage wasn’t quite as fragile as women’s.

Now, when they looked at Tang Wan—the woman who had slain this monstrous creature—there was only admiration and awe in their eyes.

Together, the three of them carried the anaconda’s body down the mountain, beaming with joy.

Of course, they carried the smaller portion near the head. Tang Wan alone dragged the long, heavy tail.

Ling Chen skipped happily around Tang Wan like a little sprite.

Although… this little sprite couldn’t stop glancing at the thick snake meat and swallowing hard.

So much meat… it looks delicious!

When they got down the mountain, the villagers who saw the anaconda’s corpse were so terrified their faces turned ghost-white. Some even stumbled and fell with a shriek of “My goodness!”

Several timid women fainted on the spot!

“Pfft, cowards!” Ling Sheng snorted disdainfully, striking a cool, aloof pose.

Completely forgetting that just earlier, he had almost wet himself from fear.

He also didn’t notice that his own grandmother—Old Madam Liu—who had been on her way to cause trouble for Jiang-shi and the others, saw the massive snake corpse and immediately fainted dead away with her eyes rolled back.

And it wasn’t just her!

When they arrived home, Jiang-shi and Ling Yue saw the snake—and all color drained from their faces.

Jiang-shi fainted cleanly.

Only Ling Yue remained standing—barely—trembling in the corner of the courtyard, holding up the unconscious Jiang-shi, weak, helpless, and pitiful, with tears in her voice:

“B-b-b-big sis… w-where the h-heck did you go?!”