The Lost Tomb Vol. 7

Chapter 53: Snake Bite

I didn't even feel scared. It just felt as if my face was cold. But when I pulled it off, my face was burning in pain and I could clearly feel the marks where the fangs had sunk in.

I covered my cheek, unable to believe it. At that moment, I felt a numbness start to spread from the wound.

I remembered when A Ning had died. It had felt so sudden and unrealistic at the time, and I didn't expect that I would die at the hands of the same thing.

The numbness soon spread throughout my body. When I saw the thing coiled there and looking straight at me, I suddenly realized that something was wrong.

This thing wasn't a mere animal, damn it. Was it intelligent?

I slowly retreated, thinking that I had to tell Xiao Hua about the situation here before I died.

I took a few steps back, trying to find the crevice in the wall. I went to shout, only to find that my tongue and throat were all numb. I fell on our equipment bag and touched a piece of pottery.

It was from when Xiao Hua and I had tested its load-bearing capacity earlier.

I picked up one of the pieces and wrote a few words, but I didn't know what I had written. I felt the snake come at me again, but I had no strength to concentrate. Everything was fading away.

My last thought was, A Ning will surely make fun of me if I've also been bitten to death by a snake. I wanted to laugh.

But just as everything was about to disappear, I suddenly heard a strange sound.

I felt violently dizzy, and right when I was about to lose consciousness, everything seemed to stop.

I don't remember what state I was in at that time, but I clearly remember the severe dizziness, which made me unable to think. I was only awake for a moment, and I remember thinking, how the fuck am I not dead yet? This pain is killing me.

After a long time, I felt someone come up to my side, and the dizziness slowly disappeared. When I woke up, I found Xiao Hua and his Sichuan buddy beside me.

I couldn't feel anything besides my head. I couldn't even do anything like talk or move my eyes. I could only see them through the seam of my partially opened eyes, and it was a long time before I gradually recovered.

I didn't know why I didn't die.

As they helped me up, Xiao Hua looked at my face and said, "You're lucky. If we didn't save you in time—"

"I'm lucky?" I wondered.

"Something bit your face, probably a snake. Looks like the venom was stuck in your mouth and barely entered your bloodstream through the bite. In the future, your speech will certainly be even worse."

I touched my cheek and was surprised to find that it was taped. I quickly checked my neck and was relieved to find that everything was fine.

"The snake?" I asked.

He looked around, "It should still be here, but I scattered all the herbs I usually carry with me around. It should be safe here. You've been passed out for two hours. Don't talk, or the wound on your face will scar." He handed me the water again and made a gesture. "Drink some water and turn your face to one side, otherwise it will leak out from the bite wound."

I did as he suggested, feeling very surprised. In those two hours, I felt like I had fainted for at least several days. How was it such a short amount of time?

After looking around, I noticed that I was still lying in the place where I had passed out. Since I hadn't been moved, it really had only been two hours.