“You won’t die, you definitely won’t die!”
Su Su’s voice was trembling, and her heart was far less firm than the words she spoke.
Xiao Hei’s snake venom was truly lethal!
Wu Zhi and Zhang Er had both been bitten, and within minutes, they became cold corpses.
Holding onto a final shred of hope, Su Su looked at Xiao Hei. “You bit her, but you didn’t release venom, right?”
“Hiss~”
The black snake slowly flicked out its tongue, its vertical pupils coldly fixed on Pang Cancan, who was in the servant’s arms. Its expression clearly showed resentment.
Su Su’s heart instantly sank to the bottom.
“Sister Su Su, is it dark already?” Pang Cancan grasped Su Su’s hand in panic. “Why can’t I see anything?”
The sky was overcast and gloomy, but it wasn’t dark yet.
This was a sign of the venom taking effect. Su Su stared at the bite mark on Pang Cancan’s ankle, then suddenly lowered her head.
Just as she was about to suck the venom out, a snake tail ruthlessly smacked her away.
“Hiss~”
The black snake blocked Su Su’s path, aggressively preventing her from proceeding.
Su Su gritted her teeth and shoved it aside. “Move!”
For the first time, she used such a harsh tone and such force against Xiao Hei. Caught off guard, the black snake was easily pushed to the side.
Sucking venom out with one’s mouth was an extremely incorrect approach. But at this moment, Su Su was too panicked to think rationally. The only thing echoing in her mind was Wu Zhi’s desperate shout before his death—
“Help me suck the venom out! Help me suck it out!”
As for whether she would be poisoned as well, she could no longer care!
“Hiss!”
Just as her lips were about to touch the skin near the wound, the snake tail once again forcefully smacked her away. This time, the black snake even coiled around her waist, dragging her backward.
From the way it didn’t even look back, it seemed like it truly wanted to leave the enraged Pang Cancan to die here!
This time, Su Su was genuinely furious!
She yanked the snake’s tail off forcefully, her eyes filled with deep disappointment and panic. “If you want to leave, then go by yourself!”
Throwing down these words, she ignored the black snake’s stiffness and rage and turned back, determined to lower her head again—
“Sister Su Su, it’s fine…” Pang Cancan weakly stopped her. “I… I have my babies…”
Faced with impending death, the initial panic faded. As her strength slowly drained away, her mind regained clarity.
A dozen venomous insects swiftly flew over, gathering around the wound. Their sharp mandibles pierced the surface of her skin, starting to suction out the venom that was about to spread through her body.
With the continuous flickering of her ability’s glow, Pang Cancan’s complexion gradually improved.
Until the light returned to her vision, Pang Cancan burst into tears of joy. “Sister Su Su! I can finally see again!”
Su Su’s legs went weak, and she nearly collapsed to the ground. She clung tightly to Pang Cancan’s body.
“It’s okay now, it’s okay…”
Just moments ago, she had truly been terrified—afraid that Pang Cancan would die because of Xiao Hei, and afraid of Xiao Hei itself… Her eyes reddened as she turned her head, only to see the black snake coiled half a meter away, its vertical pupils coldly staring at her.
That gaze—just like when they first met—was filled with icy distance and wariness.
Su Su bit her lip, forcing herself to look away and focus back on Pang Cancan.
“Hiss!”
Xiao Hei was furious. It had clearly been waiting for its servant to coax it, prepared to stay angry for a long time.
But unexpectedly, she ignored it completely!
The black snake had never suffered such treatment before—being yelled at, pushed away, disregarded, and even told to leave!
It bared its fangs and let out another furious hiss: “Hiss!!”
Su Su heard Xiao Hei’s voice but never turned back. “Why did you bite Cancan? What did she do to provoke you? Does that mean one day, if you’re in a bad mood, you’ll bite me to death too?”
She didn’t truly believe that, but everything had happened too suddenly. There had been no warning in Xiao Hei’s actions, making Pang Cancan’s injury seem especially unjust and inexplicable.
More than that—if Pang Cancan didn’t have her venomous insects, she would have really died from the snake venom!
The thought made Su Su shudder. Her hands were still trembling, and she had no intention of soothing Xiao Hei… No! This time, she wouldn’t comfort it!
Even though it was her most important companion, she couldn’t accept it attacking people around her without reason. This time, it was Cancan—what about next time? Wei Yan was one thing, but what if it attacked Le Rui?
The black snake stared at the human before it in disbelief.
It didn’t think it had done anything wrong. Pang Cancan had been bitten because she had angered it! A possessive snake like itself couldn’t tolerate anyone encroaching on its human’s side. To Xiao Hei, Pang Cancan’s meddling was an unforgivable crime!
“Hiss!!!”
Its hissing remained defiant, even carrying resentment and fury.
Just from hearing it, Su Su knew Xiao Hei didn’t take this seriously at all.
At least at this moment, she didn’t want to deal with this feral and cold-blooded creature. Struggling to support Pang Cancan, she asked, “How are you feeling? Anywhere else uncomfortable?”
Pang Cancan stood up, and several rigid venomous insects dropped from her body with soft plops.
They had absorbed the snake venom for her and were now completely lifeless.
Looking at the two puncture marks on her skin, Pang Cancan still felt a lingering fear. She murmured, “Good thing I’m a venom-based ability user… Lucky to be alive.”
Su Su fell silent.
She turned her head again and saw Xiao Hei still frozen in place. It seemed to be waiting for her response, its dark green vertical pupils filled with both indignation and… anticipation.
But its wait was destined to end in disappointment.
Su Su met its gaze for only a moment before withdrawing her eyes. Supporting the still-weak Pang Cancan, she walked away without looking back.
Trying to reason with a snake was futile. The only way to tame this cold-blooded creature was through her actions and responses, ensuring it learned its lesson.
“Hiss!!!!”
The black snake was so furious that its body heaved with its breaths. It glared angrily at the figure moving farther away, then suddenly turned and slithered toward the deep mountains without looking back.
In the blink of an eye, it disappeared without a trace.
“Sister Su Su, Xiao Hei ran away!”
Su Su whipped her head around, only to find that the black snake, which had just been standing there, was nowhere to be seen.
Her nails instinctively dug into her palms, and a surge of panic and worry rose in her heart. But soon, she forced her rationality to take over.
“Let it go.”
These words actually came from her own mouth.
Su Su’s voice was unusually calm. “If it can’t figure it out and refuses to come back…”
The second half of her sentence was so soft it was barely audible.
“If it doesn’t come back, I won’t force it.”
Pang Cancan glanced at her with concern.
After walking for a while, she finally spoke in a low voice, “Sister Su Su, I don’t actually blame Xiao Hei.”
Having traveled together for so long, Pang Cancan had come to understand Xiao Hei’s temperament—it was petty, fierce, and extremely territorial. If it could mark its territory by urinating, it probably would have long since circled around Sister Su Su.
Even little Le Rui had noticed its possessiveness.
Despite clearly wanting to be close to Sister Su Su, it forcibly suppressed its desire.
“It’s all my fault for talking nonsense earlier. Xiao Hei is so intelligent—it must have understood.”
Su Su pressed her lips together.
Whether Xiao Hei understood or not, she certainly didn’t.
Cancan’s words had obviously just been a joke.
Did Xiao Hei really not sense how she treated it daily? Why would it suddenly lash out just because of a joke?
What she absolutely could not accept was it attacking her companions.
If not for Cancan, back at the sports stadium in X City, she and Xiao Hei would have already fallen into Lin Weiran and the others’ grasp.
“Forget about it.” Su Su’s voice was cold. “It needs to learn a lesson.”
She was not as strong as Xiao Hei. If she didn’t set boundaries now, who knew what would happen in the future?
Forcing herself to harden her heart, Su Su said, “Let’s go back.”