Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible

"This is... Yi Ling?"

Among the last group of snake demons entering the valley, a girl who was tied up like a caterpillar caught Xu Yue's attention. The black and white SLR camera hanging on her chest looked very familiar.

After reviewing the memories in his mind, he recognized this girl as the employee who sold him the enchantment science after the trial.

The other party is currently being held by a male snake demon, and a vine is tied tightly from her chest to her legs.

Looking at it, it looked like a green caterpillar pupating under the hands of the snake demon, with a look of despair on its smooth face.

As a large tribe, the snake monsters naturally have the awareness to store food. For creatures with weak combat capabilities, they often bundle up and bring them back to the Snake Valley for storage. One is to store food, and the other is to pay tribute to the snake monster king.

As an employee of the paradise, Yi Ling is undoubtedly a type with little combat ability and little threat to the race.

So after meeting the snake demon, she was unfortunately brought back as a reserve food by the snake demon, but fortunately, at least she did not die on the spot.

Xu Yue was quite impressed with this employee. The last time he dealt with him, he had felt an inexplicable sense of voyeurism. It probably came from her. The other party should not be as simple as it seems.

After taking a closer look, compared with the last time we met, she now had an extra pair of black-rimmed glasses, and although this girl looked gloomy, she seemed to be in despair.

But under the transparent lenses, a pair of big round eyes were spinning around, scanning everything around them.

It seemed that she had not completely given up her struggle. Suddenly, when her bright eyes were looking around, they happened to meet Xu Yue's interested gaze. Yi Ling's body froze slightly, but she quickly looked away as if nothing had happened. .

On the boulder, Xu Yue's pupils shrank, and the snake's tail wound around the stone wall to create dents.

‘Sure enough, there are some secrets, and they can actually recognize me in my current state. ’

Although the other party's movements just now were subtle, Xu Yue, who was always watching her, still noticed the clues. When the two looked at each other, the flash of emotion in Yi Ling's eyes was definitely surprise.

There is a high probability that the other party recognized him.

He kept watching Yi Ling being lifted up and slipped into the cave, and then he lowered his eyes. He would wait until he finished dealing with the snake monster before going to see her. Of course, that was assuming she could still survive by then.

At the entrance of the valley, as the last snake demon returned from outside the valley, the two snake demons responsible for guarding began to move the boulders on one side of the valley entrance.

The time has come, and the red sun in the sky has gradually risen to its highest point. A brilliant golden light shines from the clouds, under the influence of the unique topography of Snake Valley.

The glow began to gather in the valley, and gradually the entire Snake Valley began to be coated with a layer of bright golden gauze, and the faint flowing golden light could even be seen in the air.

The boulders at the entrance of the valley have been closed, and the entire Snake Valley is completely closed. Snake monsters are pouring out of the caves on the rock wall one after another, lying lazily throughout the Snake Valley.

Looking from above, I saw that the originally green Snake Valley was now covered by cold scales.

Lawns, boulders, tree crowns, and everything in the valley are clinging to snake demons of different sizes and colors. The whole scene is terrifying but also has a different kind of beauty.

This is a group activity that the snake demon clan will carry out almost every day as long as conditions permit, to bask in the sun.

As a monster born out of snakes, the snake demon still retains a considerable part of snake instincts, such as sensitive perception, good at camouflaging ambush, liking darkness, resistance to hunger, and the need to absorb heat energy from the outside world.

As cold-blooded animals, snakes are creatures that do not have a self-temperature system in their bodies. Because they cannot regulate their own body temperature, they need to rely on absorbing heat from the outside world, and the sun is undoubtedly the largest heat source in the world.

By basking in the sun, their bodies can absorb enough heat energy to meet the needs of survival, movement, hunting, digestion and other activities.

Only when the internal temperature reaches a certain level can snakes ensure that their bodies are active rather than stiff.

The snake demon clan has also inherited this characteristic. Although they do not completely rely on taking in calories from the outside world, sunbathing at noon every day is also an activity that is very beneficial to physical and mental comfort. It is a rare leisure time for the snake demon group. Time, no snake demon will refuse this temptation.

Every time, near noon, all the snake demons who have gone out will return collectively. The specially modified Snake Valley will gather the warm energy of the sun to an optimal level for the entire snake demon group to absorb.

The time of basking in the sun usually lasts for 2 to 3 hours. The snake group will not disperse until the sun changes from warm to hot. This is why Xu Yue chose this time to enter the Snake Valley. He needed a place to gather all the snake demon groups. timing.

At this time, as the warm heat energy in the valley increased, the snake demons gradually fell into a lazy and leisurely state.

Even the usually most active group of baby snake monsters have lost the desire to play and are lying lazily in one place, unwilling to move.

Xu Yue, who was wrapped around a large stone, also felt drowsy at this moment, and the warm sunlight was seeping into his flesh and blood through the scales on his body.

After transforming into a snake demon, the lingering cold feeling in the body is slowly being dissipated, and what emerges instead is the comfort and pleasure as if the whole body is immersed in warm water.

Together with the snake demon in the Snake Valley, he is currently lying in a lazy state, but his concealed eyes are staring at the largest cave on the rock wall, where there are muffled sounds. It sounded like something heavy hitting the ground.

After a while, the muffled sound became clearer and clearer. The snake demons in the valley also heard the noise like the movement of heavy tanks. They all raised their lying bodies and spat out snake messages in their mouths. The neighing sound echoed through the valley. They were rising high. Call the Snake King who is about to appear!

Among the snakes hissing, a giant male snake demon poked its head out from the cave. Its huge body, which was more than three meters tall in an upright position, cast a large shadow. Behind it was a thick snake tail nearly twenty meters long, the size of a basin. The dark scales reflected the cold light, which was intimidating.

"Groan!!"

Different from the sharp neighing of ordinary snake demons, the voice of the snake demon king is a low and long roar like a dragon's roar, solemn and coercive.

The snake demons are intelligent creatures and understand human language, but they generally disdain to use it unless they are hunting. The neighing and smell of snakes are enough to support their communication with each other.

After a long chant came out, the snake demons who raised their bodies lay down again and continued to enjoy the warm sunbath, while the snake demon king swam to a hill in the center of the valley and clung to it. This was Its exclusive location.

The movement stopped, and the valley suddenly became quiet. Except for the heavy breathing of the Snake Demon King, no other noise could be heard.

All the snakes fell into a state of rest similar to slumber, which was why the Snake Valley was sealed off. At this time, they hated external interference the most.

But in the peaceful and quiet environment, no snake demon noticed. Today, the sunlight temperature in the canyon seemed to be much higher than usual, and in the bright glow over the canyon, there was also a lot of gold quietly. Tiny red dots of light.