Chapter Thirty-Five: Strange Encounter in the Cave

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  The entrance was only large enough for one person to enter, but once inside, it was surprisingly spacious. The walls were inlaid with some unknown stones that emitted a faint green glow in the darkness, making it not entirely pitch black inside.

  That refreshing fragrance that made Qin Lang feel extremely comfortable was still coming, and the golden aura in his body was also recovering continuously. At this speed, it wouldn't take long for Qin Lang to fully recover.

  The green moss on the wall of the cave, Qin Lang felt his way forward, and there were no forks in the road along the way, and he moved forward very smoothly.

  The further forward, the more green mossy stones on the wall, occasionally mixed with some stones emitting a few red mosses, and that fragrance is also increasingly thick.

  After winding through a long and curved tunnel, Qin Lang finally saw that not far ahead, there was a glimmer of light shining through the cave.

  "Has the cave finally come to an end?" Qin Lang thought to himself.

  Although he didn't know what was in the cave, he had a strange feeling deep down, as if a voice was constantly talking to him.

  "Come in, come in."

  It was precisely this feeling, coupled with the fact that the beasts had always surrounded him, making it impossible for him to escape, that Qin Lang followed his feelings and crawled into the cave entrance, walking all the way here.

  However, when the mysterious thing was finally about to be unveiled, Qin Cang's heart began to thump. Looking at the bright light not far away, Qin Cang swallowed a mouthful of saliva and carefully stepped forward.

  At the deepest part of the cave's narrow path, the cave wall suddenly expands to form a circular cavern. On top of the cavern, colorful stone pillars extend from the cave wall like sharp thorns. The walls are adorned with countless colorful stones that shine like precious gems, emitting dazzling rays of light in various colors.

  In the center of the cave, a cluster of weeds was pieced together into a simple shape like a nest. The weeds still had a faint trace of blood on them. In the weeds, an unknown object was slightly wriggling.

  Watching this strange scene, Qin Lang had a faint idea in his heart that he seemed to have entered the nest of some kind of creature.

  The nest of any creature was a forbidden place, Qin Lang thought about whether to leave now. But the curiosity in his heart was strongly stimulating him to continue forward. The strange fragrance was undoubtedly emitted from here, and the objects wriggling in the weeds seemed to be making waves of groaning sounds.

  Qin Heng plucked up his courage and continued on his way forward.

  Upon arriving in front of the weeds, Qin Huan only then discovered that this was indeed a nest. However, it wasn't the weeds that had built the nest, but rather a bunch of grey feathers. These feathers were extremely soft and formed a cozy little nest.

  In the small nest, there was an egg-shaped object about the size of a fist, with fine bloodstains on its shell. The strange fragrance came from this egg-shaped object. Next to the egg-shaped object, a snake as thick as an arm was curled up in the small nest. A series of golden stripes formed a strange pattern on the snake's body, and there were also bloodstains on the snake's body. The snake's head hung over the edge of the small nest, its mouth tightly closed, with a faint trace of blood remaining between its lips. Fresh red saliva occasionally dripped from its mouth. On top of the snake's head, there were two tiny protrusions that looked like small horns.

  Qin Lang had been afraid of reptiles since he was a child, but for some reason, at this moment, in front of this snake that seemed to be on its last breath, Qin Lang did not feel any fear.

  It's clear that this snake was already injured beforehand and then laid this egg in the cave before dying.

  "Although snakes are cold-blooded animals, the greatness of motherhood is indeed moving." Qin Lang looked at the blood-stained snake eggs and the dying snake, and his heart was also filled with emotion.

  But the golden ring snake seemed to have heard Qin Lang's inner words, and its drooping head actually raised a few points. Seeing that the snake still had movement, Qin Lang subconsciously took a step back. This was Qin Lang's instinctive reaction to his innate fear of cold-blooded animals.

  The golden ring snake's head slightly raised, the snake tongue constantly in and out. The snake head stretched to the front of the blood egg, using its forehead to nudge the blood egg towards Qin Cang's direction, but the golden ring snake was really too weak, the snake head only nudged the blood egg slightly before drooping down again, the two snake eyes were already gradually becoming dim.

  Watching the golden ring snake's movements, he was stunned and thought to himself: "Is this telling me to take away this egg?"

  The golden ring snake had no strength to make any movement, and could only stare at Qin with its dim snake eyes, as if begging for something.

  Qin Lang looked at the golden ring snake that was about to suffocate, and his heart also hesitated. He had come to participate in the competition, with the goal of obtaining beast crystals. But crawling into this hole, he would actually have to leave with an egg, wouldn't he become a snake mother in the future? He had been afraid of snakes since childhood.

  But looking at the dying golden ring snake, Qin Lang couldn't help but feel a twinge of sympathy. If he abandoned it and didn't care about it, this real snake mother would probably die with her eyes open.

  "Alas!" Qin Huan let out a long sigh, and his heart had also made up its mind. He said to the golden ring snake: "Alright, I can take this egg away, but I don't know how to incubate it either. Even if I did incubate it, I wouldn't know how to raise it. So, are you still willing to hand it over to me?"

  After finishing speaking, Qin Lang himself was also stunned for a moment, chuckled and shook his head, he actually talked to a snake.

  However, this snake seemed to have understood Qin Guang's words and with its last bit of strength, it lifted its head and gently nodded at Qin Guang.

  "My god, you can actually understand what I'm saying?" Qin Lang's eyes widened in incredulity as he shouted.

  However, the golden ring snake did not respond again. The snake's head drooped completely and leaned against the side of the snake egg. Its eyes became dull and slowly closed, looking very peaceful.

  "Don't worry, I'll take good care of your child." Qin Lang said to the corpse of the golden ring snake. After finishing speaking, he leaned forward and hesitated for a moment before mustering up the courage to reach out and brush away the bloodstains on the snake egg with the down feathers used to build the snake nest, then carefully picked it up in his hands.

  Looking at the milky white snake egg in his hand, a thread of golden light flickered from inside the egg, and a strange fragrance wafted out from the egg.

  "Isn't it said that snakes all have a foul odor? Why does this snake egg actually emit a fragrance, and what's more, this fragrance has such an extraordinary effect." Qin Lin clearly felt that as he breathed in, the strange fragrance entered his body, and the golden energy within him grew thicker.

  "Hehe, I wonder what kind of little guy will be inside?" Qin Lang smiled and carefully put the snake egg into his storage bag.

  Then, Qin looked around and started sizing up the glowing stones on the wall of the cave. Having entered this cave, how could he just take a snake egg and leave? He couldn't possibly return empty-handed.

  Qin Lang walked up to the cave wall and reached out to touch a stone that was emitting a green glow. The stone felt cool to the touch, and it emitted a cold, eerie aura.

  "These stones......" Qin Heng thought of the three giant pythons that had fought each other to the death before, and he vaguely remembered that the beast crystal taken from the python's skull had a similar aura.

  "Really?"

  Qin Lang was not sure what he thought in his heart, and instead walked towards another stone that emitted a red glow, stretched out his hand to touch it, and a hot breath spread over Qin Lang's palm.

  "It's indeed, it's indeed! Haha!" Looking at the glowing stones that filled the entire wall of the cave, Qin Lang couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  He pulled out a dagger from the storage bag, and Qin Lang began to pick off the stones embedded in the wall of the cave one by one. As he picked them off, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

  "What a surprise, what a surprise! I didn't expect these glowing stones to all be Beast Crystals! So many Beast Crystals, how many points will they exchange for?! Haha haha! Got them got them!"

  Qin Lang's sudden outburst was so intense that his mouth didn't know whether to open or close.

  Without much effort, Qin Huan took down all the beast crystals inlaid on the wall of the cave. Finally, Qin Huan walked to the body of the golden ring snake that was quietly coiled in the snake nest. He knew that the beast crystals here might have been brought by this snake, so the most precious thing here was actually the beast crystal of this golden ring snake.

  However, Qin Lang did not have the slightest greedy thought. He picked up some feathers and covered the golden ring snake's body with them. He took two steps back and said, "Today, I coincidentally entered this cave. I helped you take away the snake eggs, and at the same time, I also took down the beast crystal on the wall of the cave. This can be considered a cause-and-effect relationship."

  "I'll go back and find my companions, I'm leaving now, rest in peace." Qin Lang seemed to be speaking to a dead person, after finishing his words, he walked out along the same path as before.

  At the same time, he knocked down all the beast crystals on the cave wall along the way.

  Under the huge tree trunk that appeared at the cave entrance earlier, Mo Gu Yun and others had been searching for a long time but to no avail, and they had already left. At this moment, the disappeared cave entrance reappeared again, and after a few breaths, a grayish figure crawled out from the cave entrance. He looked around cautiously with his head lowered, and when he found that the beast group was no longer surrounding the big tree, he finally crawled out with relief.

  This is Qin Lang.

  After crawling out of the cave, the darkness had already disappeared. Between the branches and leaves, a thread of sunlight leaked out and fell to the ground.

  Qin Lang stretched his waist, but was startled by everything he saw in front of him. It turned out that the beast group did not leave, but was beheaded here. One by one, the demon beasts were dismembered and scattered all over the ground. However, their skulls remained intact.

  This also means that the beast crystals of these demon beasts have not been taken away.

  "Heh heh heh, looks like this time's harvest is quite substantial!" Qin Lang couldn't help but laugh out loud, unable to conceal the joy in his heart.