"Whats the matter? Xiao Jiao asked as she peered at Mo Qiang's forehead while the latter was gazing at the pool of acid in front of them. She clutched the front bangs of Mo Qiang and looked down waiting for Mo Qiang to answer her question.
Mo Qiang peered at the pool of acid and gasped, "There are no human bones in there! Neither molten nor residue!" Mo Qiang said to Xiao Jiao whose eyes widened. There were no human bones' residue? Then where did the humans who were kidnapped and thrown to the pit of the snake go?
Xiao Jiao was confused but the one who was even more confused was Mo Qiang. Don't tell her, that this snake's digestion was so, so good that it ate everything clean and even the assessing system could not detect it!
"That's not possible!" Xiao Jiao exclaimed as she flew down and then pushed Mo Qiang's head to the side with her paw. She peered through the green rectangular screen that was floating in front of Mo Qiang's eye and looked at the acidic pool.
Sure enough, a bunch of information like Furless rats, horn-tailed Bull and many other mutated animals popped on the screen but there was no such thing as a human displayed on the screen!
Xiao Jiao peeked out of the screen, rubbed her eyes and then peeked back through the skin. However, the information stayed the same. What was going on? Where were the humans if not in the stomach of the Ruby Head Snake?
"Is the assessing system alright, Xiao An?" Xiao Jiao asked the question that Mo Qiang wanted and a second later the blue screen popped up in front of them.
[The assessing system is perfectly fine.]
"Then why doesn't it show the human bones?" Xiao Jiao asked dumbly even though she knew what was going on, she did not want to accept it. Because the second they accepted the reality, wouldn't it mean that they jumped in this pit for no reason at all, ah!?
[Don't ask such a foolish question, when you already know the answer.]
Xiao An chastised Xiao Jiao.
[There are no human bones because this thing never ate the humans.]
Never ate humans? Then why did they delve so deep into the forest looking for the lost humans and the den of this Ruby Head Snake?
Mo Qiang felt a twitch in her forehead as her lips moved to the side. She seemed to have realized something but did not say anything or more like she couldn't say anything. At that very moment, the opening at the throat of the snake suddenly moved and they saw a giant praying mantis being swallowed.
The digestive acids started to rise and Mo Qiang along with the rest of the spirits immediately moved down the stomach of the snake. Though Huhu was protecting them with his new skills, Mo Qiang had no desire to test his skills on the digestive acid.
She might be a warrior but her guts were limited alright.
On the top, of her head sat three spirits while Yaya and Huhu clung to her shoulders.
As she ran down the fleshy path, Xiao Jiao could not help but ask her, "What do you think happened to those humans?"
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