Where did this python come from?!
The town mayor was still in shock and doubt when he saw the black python slithering segment by segment out from under the white blanket. Coil after coil, it wrapped around the beauty’s calves, thighs, and waist… until its hideous head emerged from behind the woman’s neck, dangerously locking eyes on him. (TL: Ohh, I would love to see an art for this)
This scene was exceptionally horrifying, like something straight out of a horror film.
A chill surged up from the depths of the town mayor’s heart. He instinctively took two steps back, staring in disbelief at the woman he had just assumed to be completely powerless and harmless.
She was wrapped by a two-meter-long black python, yet she showed no trace of fear!
“You…”
Su Su blinked, looking momentarily innocent. “Doesn’t your hand hurt?”
Hand! The bite mark on his hand!
At this mention, the town mayor immediately reacted.
“Poisoned?!”
His first instinct was to rush outside, shouting, “Some—”
Before he could finish the word, an icy-blue flame shot toward him from behind.
The town mayor reacted swiftly, dodging on instinct and preparing to counterattack.
But before his deadly Earth Spike attack could reach its target, it was violently smashed into pieces by the python’s tail.
The shattered fragments even grazed the town mayor’s cheek.
Roar!
Another burst of flame! This time, the town mayor saw it clearly—it had been spat out from the python’s mouth!
A python with supernatural abilities!
He hesitated for only two seconds before deciding to keep running for reinforcements.
Rather than fighting a beast of unknown power while injured, it was better to let someone else handle it. He needed to deal with the bite wound on his wrist first—who knew if it was venomous or not?
Just as the thought crossed his mind, his steps suddenly faltered.
A chilling sensation shot straight to his brain, and his mind grew hazy.
In utter shock, the town mayor realized—the ground beneath his feet was swaying in his vision.
He was poisoned! And it was a deadly toxin!
“Sun… Wan…”
His voice was too weak, and there was no one standing guard outside anymore. No one heard his cry for help.
“Xiao Hei.”
He heard the woman’s soft, sweet call and then saw the fearsome python obediently slither back at her command. Its terrifyingly red tongue even greedily licked her cheek.
“No licking.”
Su Su had no experience raising reptiles, but she felt that Xiao Hei was just like a cat or a dog. After licking her tears once, it had developed a bad habit of licking its owner.
The town mayor glared fiercely. “It’s yours?”
Seeing the most terrifying enemy from her past life, the most loathsome scum in this life, now utterly paralyzed on the ground—just like the many men Xiao Hei had bitten before—staring at her in horror and unease…
Su Su admitted that her mood was soaring with delight.
No grand reasoning could ever compare to sheer power.
She had never realized this so clearly before.
“Yes, I raised it.” Su Su slowly stroked Xiao Hei’s sleek body, her voice soft. “And it’s all thanks to that Grade 3 crystal you gave me. That’s why Xiao Hei advanced so quickly.”
Grade 3 crystal?
The town mayor’s thoughts spun like a roller coaster, his face turning ashen.
“Zhang Da and Zhang Er… you killed them? And that Tier 3 zombie? You killed that too?”
Su Su didn’t actually have that kind of strength.
At her current level, her ability could only control a few zombies, and she had been fortunate to raise a fierce and powerful serpent.
She remained silent, but that didn’t stop the town mayor from filling in the blanks himself.
Just a little thought was enough to piece everything together.
No wonder she had insisted on following them to the outskirts of C City. No wonder his seemingly flawless plan had failed… So, his entire scheme had long been part of this woman’s ploy to pick up the spoils!
He and those other ability users had fought to the death, only for a seemingly insignificant wretch to reap the benefits in the end!
The town mayor’s body trembled violently—partly from rage, partly from the creeping cold.
The venom had likely already spread through his bloodstream. In just a little while, he would certainly die here.
Swallowing down the poisonous blood rising in his throat, he mustered his remaining strength to summon his ability, erecting an earth wall within the room.
Then, he dragged his body forward, eyes wide with desperation, crawling toward the exit.
“Sun Wan… Sun Wan!”
A shrill cry escaped his lips, eerily resembling the wail of a vengeful ghost.
Bang!
The earth wall was smashed apart by a powerful swing of the python’s tail, sending a cascade of sand and dirt crumbling to the ground.
At this stage, a Tier 3 ability user couldn’t yet leap across rooftops, nor unleash deadly one-hit-kill techniques.
What’s more, the town mayor had just swallowed a Grade 3 crystal—its energy still undigested, clogging his blood and making his ability sluggish.
This was the consequence of recklessly consuming a high-tier crystal.
Su Su stepped forward through the falling sand, the black python slithering at her right side.
One human, one snake, both gazed coldly at the man sprawled on the ground.
The tide of battle had completely turned in just fifteen minutes.
The town mayor couldn’t accept it. Coughing blood, he made an offer.
“Spare me. Anything you want, I can give you—even this entire town.”
Su Su shook her head. “I don’t believe you.”
“From the very beginning, I never trusted your character. And the facts have proven that my suspicions were right.”
“If I let you stall for time, who knows? The next Hongmen Banquet might be set up just for me.”
Against humans, her ability currently had no offensive capabilities.
The only reason she managed to seriously wound a Tier 3 town mayor was because he had been caught off guard, and she had set a trap with Xiao Hei lying in ambush. A combination of multiple factors had led to the current situation.
Therefore… the town mayor had to die.
Once he was dead, the town would fall into chaos. A new town mayor would eventually rise, but no matter who it was, they wouldn’t harbor the same extreme malice toward the ordinary people still stranded in the town.
Their lives wouldn’t be as difficult.
This was the only thing Su Su could do.
“I will kill you tonight.”
Her voice was low, as if she were merely stating a fact. By nature, she couldn’t bring herself to adopt a more intimidating tone.
Yet, it was precisely this calmness that chilled the town mayor to the core.
“You really don’t want anything?” He fixed his gaze on Su Su. “Crystals? Supplies? This town? I can give you everything! As long as you let me live!”
Only by staying alive could he continue plotting.
He refused to accept such an undignified death at the hands of a woman’s scheme.
What was this? A disgrace! A humiliation!
There was also the rage of having misjudged her and the frustration of watching his plans crumble one after another.
If he ever got a chance to turn the tables, he would definitely…
“Xiao Hei,” Su Su didn’t want to see the calculations in this scumbag’s eyes anymore. “Burn him.”
“Wait—!”
There was no waiting.
The sometimes obedient, sometimes rebellious black python opened its mouth and spat out a blue flame.
It had long detested this human.
The foul stench of his presence always clung to its human and the food he provided for her, making it want to retch every time it caught a whiff.
“Sun Wan!!!”
The town mayor’s miserable scream vanished into the scorching flames.
In a matter of seconds, the man who had been crawling forward was burned into a charred corpse.
Another blast of fire, and he turned to ashes, mixing into the dirt and disappearing without a trace.
“Xiao Hei, well done!”
“Now we need to run!”
Su Su moved to the window. Her room was on the third floor of the villa, about nine meters from the ground.
Without hesitation, she grabbed the bedsheet, quickly twisting it into a makeshift rope and securing one end to the window sill.
Below was pitch-black darkness, with faint traces of greenery barely visible.
Su Su gritted her teeth, tightened her grip on the “rope”, and pushed off the wall as she descended.
“Xiao Hei?”
She wanted the black snake to come down with her, but when she looked up, it had already slithered down the wall at lightning speed.
This was a cold-blooded creature that could climb trees and scale walls—it didn’t need her to worry about it.
When she landed, her footing was unstable, and she fell onto the grass.
The coiled black snake beside her didn’t show a hint of concern. It even thought this human was a little too weak.
Struggling to her feet, Su Su exhaustedly picked up the ten-plus-jin snake.
“Let’s go.”
The villa was unguarded, and the elderly housekeeper who cleaned had long since fallen into deep sleep.
No one would have suspected that a Tier 3 town mayor would be killed in his own home. Everyone in the town had tactfully left the intimate and ambiguous night to the mayor alone.
Which happened to work in Su Su’s favor, allowing her to sneak away.
Just as she was about to slip out through the main entrance, she suddenly remembered the food still left in the hall and immediately stopped in her tracks.
“Xiao Hei, can you still store more things?”
“Hiss~”
The black snake let out a few hisses, its tail swaying lazily.
That meant it could still hold more!
Gritting her teeth, Su Su snuck back into the hall.
The chaos from before had already been cleaned up, leaving only the supplies that had yet to be taken away.
Feeling her way through the darkness, Su Su found the sacks of rice—a total of eighty jin.
There was also a box of instant noodles, fifteen bags of smoked chicken, rabbit, and duck, a dozen neatly stacked cans of meat, homemade dried vegetables from the town, and a plastic barrel full of eggs.
These were once her “selling herself” supplies, meant as the town mayor’s goodwill gift to Lin Weiran and the others.
Now, they all belonged to Su Su.
“Xiao Hei, this one.”
“And this one.”
“We’re taking this too.”
Su Su was like a mouse that had fallen into a grain warehouse, her smile never leaving her lips.
Only when everything had been moved did she finally straighten up, still reluctant to leave.
“We really need to go now.”
She still remembered where the vehicles were parked when she entered the town. After carefully navigating a few turns, she finally found the off-road vehicle parked at the town entrance.
The moment she laid eyes on it, her heart grew inexplicably complicated.
She never expected… that Lin Weiran and the others would actually leave this car for her.
If she had truly been just an ordinary person without any means, there was no way she would have been able to leave town tonight. The off-road vehicle would have ended up in the town mayor’s hands instead… Yet, they still left it for her.
A feeling of absurd irony welled up inside her.
Su Su was still holding onto Xiao Hei. The snake seemed completely unaware of how much of a burden it was for her. More than half of its tail was dangling onto the ground, yet it refused to get off her and walk by itself.
“You’re so heavy.”
“Hiss!”
Xiao Hei flicked its tongue threateningly near her ear.
Su Su pouted and personally placed the ten-plus-jin snake onto the front passenger seat.
“See? I kept my word.”
Her bright, smiling eyes shimmered even in the darkness of the night.
“I really let you sit in the front seat!”
The coiled black snake lazily watched as the human started up the steel beast of a vehicle.
Before setting off, Su Su instinctively glanced at the rearview mirror.
The reflection showed her face—smooth, pale, and unblemished. The bone-deep scars that had accompanied her for nearly three years were nowhere to be seen.
The course of her life had already changed—and in a huge way.
Su Su took one last look at the small town disappearing behind her.
Hidden beneath the night’s shroud, it seemed quiet and peaceful. But by tomorrow, it would likely erupt into chaos.
None of that had anything to do with her anymore.
The town mayor who had ruined two of her lifetimes was dead, and she was about to embark on a new journey.
“Xiao Hei.”
“Hiss~”
“From now on, it’s just the two of us.”