When I crawled downstairs, the staircase was already packed with people. The police had arrived at the scene. I quietly crawled past them and heard those policemen say: "Hmm, this should be a snakebite death. Captain, this is not easy to handle. Should we call upstairs to report this to the Xing family and let them deal with it themselves?"

  The captain said, "Hmmm! This matter is indeed a bit difficult to handle. I heard you guys say that this snake was very fierce before, but I didn't pay attention to it. Today, after seeing the wounds of these dead people, it's really not an ordinary snake. If I'm not mistaken, this snake has become a ferocious beast and has gained spiritual awareness. To catch it... You'd better call and let the higher-ups notify the people from the Xing family!"

  "Good captain!" One of the police officers was about to take out his phone to inform his superiors, but Xiao Huang stopped him.

  "Captain, I think it's better for us to handle this matter. The top has expressed before that if we can catch the snake, there will be a large reward from above, and I estimate it should be the intention of the Xing family. So, I'd like to ask you to reconsider, after all, your skills are the best in our bureau."

  The captain frowned, seemingly somewhat dissatisfied, and said to Xiaohuang: "Xiaohuang, as an old employee, how can you still be so obtuse? This snake has already become intelligent, I believe it won't kill people randomly. Since it killed these few people, don't you think this matter is a bit suspicious?"

  It wasn't until then that I realized the team leader still didn't know that these police had already reached a cooperative relationship with the Xing family, no wonder he hadn't come out before, just didn't know why, and today he appeared here.

  Xiao Huang didn't plan to tell him about it, but just said: "It's just a snake, Captain. If you catch it, you might even be promoted to deputy director. The top is very concerned about this matter, do you want to reconsider?"

  "What nonsense!" But unexpectedly, the captain heard it and became somewhat enraged.

  Xiao Huang's mouth twitched, and he stood aside with an unpleasant expression. After all, the other man was his superior, and he didn't dare to talk back anymore. At this time, the captain said to the police officer from earlier, "Call and notify the higher-ups."

  That policeman had just finished making a phone call when someone suddenly shouted: "Ah! There's a snake!"

  In an instant, everyone turned their heads and looked at me. I was startled in my heart and secretly thought: "Not good, been discovered!"

  I immediately turned around and ran away, the police behind me also chased after me. The captain saw me and furrowed his brow, muttering to himself: "This snake is really strange, what's wrong with it?"

  "Captain, Captain? Are you going to chase after him?" The policeman beside him asked, seemingly asking a question.

  The captain suddenly reacted: "I'll catch up and take a look, you guys stay behind and collect the scene!"

  After finishing, he also chased me up. In a while, my heart suddenly tightened, because the police just saw me running and didn't have time to get in the car. They each held an electric baton and chased me, but they couldn't run faster than me and were left far behind.

  But what was surprising was that the police captain also chased after me, and his running speed was really frightening. I don't know if it was because I was injured and couldn't run fast, but he quickly caught up with me, within about twenty meters.

  At this time, I had no choice but to grit my teeth and escape into the sewer again, because the captain gave me a feeling that he was very formidable, and if I confronted him in my current state, I would definitely be caught.

  I accelerated again, already reaching the limit, and I even felt that the two wounds on my body cracked open again, with a bloody smell coming from my nostrils.

  "Grass, at this rate, even if he doesn't catch us, I reckon we'll still die from bleeding!" I exclaimed in my heart.

  Fortunately, the sewer was very close to me, and as long as I persisted for a little while, I would be saved. I gritted my teeth and ran forward fiercely. Slowly, I felt that my vision was a bit blurry. I was startled, this is a symptom of excessive blood loss.

  The team leader, who was only a few meters away from me, suddenly shouted at me: "That silver ring snake, I don't know if you can understand my words. If you can understand, then don't run anymore. I won't harm you. You've lost too much blood already, and running will kill you!"

  I was shocked again, did this policeman know that I could understand human language? What's his background anyway? But how could I believe what he said and stop me?

  I'm not a fool, if I stop now, it means I really can understand what he's saying, will he really let me go? Not to mention that I have a grudge against them, just because I can understand human language, they should take me away and dissect me for research.

  It's finally here, I've seen the entrance to that sewer, my heart is thrilled, and I'm about to dive in headfirst. However, the captain has also approached me, and I feel a strong chill spreading throughout my body.

  I didn't dare to look back, I just used all my strength to make the last jump and plunged in headfirst. The captain's grappling hand also reached out towards me, but since my movement wasn't slow either, he only managed to grab onto my tail as I rushed into the hole. However, the wound on my tail was grabbed by him and it stung sharply.

  "Wooh! I'm finally safe, that was a close call just now. If I had been half a second slower, I'm sure I would have fallen into his hands by now. This captain's threat is too great, this person is absolutely a master!" I thought to myself while catching my breath at the bottom of the cave.

  "Beep, beep!" At this time, the sound of a police car came from above. I knew that the police at the bureau must have received the call just now and were also rushing over.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  "Sure enough, before long, I heard a policeman with an official tone ask the squad leader: "Little Ho, where's that snake?"

  The captain turned his head and saw that it was their deputy director, immediately respectfully saying: "Director Lin, why have you come in person? That snake has escaped into this sewer, I took a look, this sewer can't accommodate an adult at all, so I'm also helpless!"

  The deputy director furrowed his brow, pondered for a moment, and then said: "In any case, we must catch this snake. The Xing family has already put pressure on the higher-ups. If we don't catch this snake, our days will be difficult!"

  Upon hearing Deputy Director Lin's words, the captain suddenly stared at him intensely and asked: "Deputy Director Lin, I feel that this matter doesn't seem to be so simple. Are you hiding something from me?"

  When the captain's sharp eyes looked at him, the deputy director involuntarily took a step back, his eyes twitching slightly, and said: "Little Ho, you are an elite in our bureau, what can we hide from you? Don't think too much, just do your job well, the bureau won't lose out on you."

  Seeing the deputy's expression, the captain sneered: "Heh heh, is that so? I, Huo Jianhua, may not be a gentleman, but I still know what a man should and shouldn't do. If you ask me to do something against my conscience, I don't think I can do it!"

  "Little Huo, what do you mean? Are we doing something against our conscience? It's just catching a snake, and this snake is the one that killed two young masters of the Xing family and bit to death so many bodyguards of the Xing family. You say whether we should catch it or not?" The deputy director rebutted somewhat excitedly after being asked by Captain Huo Jianhua.

  Huo Jianhua retorted, "Heh heh, vicious snake! Deputy Director, you also know it's a vicious snake, right? Since it has become a vicious snake, then it is a ferocious beast. So, Deputy Director should also know that once an animal becomes a ferocious beast, it will awaken its spiritual intelligence and have its own thoughts. Then tell me, why doesn't it go kill others, but instead repeatedly kills the Xing family?"

  "This... this, no matter how you say it, is a snake. Even if it has spiritual intelligence, what's the big deal? It's still an animal, can we control who it bites? In short, I'm giving you a direct order: you must catch this snake for me, or else you're done as team leader!" The deputy director seemed to be getting angry after being questioned by Huo Jianhua.

  I just figured it out, the captain's name is Huo Jianhua, and indeed he's a straight shooter. However, I also know that all these police officers are aware of his integrity, so they've been keeping this from him. But now that the higher-ups suspect me of being a monster, they have no choice but to call in Huo Jianhua to deal with me.

  From this, it can be seen that Huo Jianhua is an upright policeman with extremely formidable skills, but I don't know if he really wants to take action against me. If so, I'm afraid I won't be able to escape from his hands.

  After resting below, the bleeding stopped, but I was already on the verge of fainting. This is the most severe injury I've had since becoming a snake. Previously, I hadn't encountered this level of opponent before and didn't know there were such formidable people. Unexpectedly, now that I've become a snake, I've repeatedly clashed with them.

  This also made me yearn for strength, I want to become even stronger. Thinking of this, I slowly straightened my body and crawled into the cave slowly.

  Because of the magical mushroom inside, my wound can heal quickly. Normally, it would take less than two minutes to climb this distance, but today I used more than ten minutes and barely made it to the stone platform.

  That mushroom is finally full of light again, even more so than the last time I came. Probably because I haven't been here to absorb it for a few days. I slowly leaned against its edge, enjoying the pleasure it brought me.

  I slowly fell asleep, and I don't know how long I slept. I had many strange dreams, even dreaming that I turned into a dragon, and finally dreaming that I was covered with a thick quilt.

  When I opened my eyes again, I was startled to find that the quilt had disappeared, but instead, another layer of skin had been shed, and a thick layer of snake skin wrapped around me. Since I didn't rub it off myself, all this skin stuck to my body.

  I slowly crawled out of the dead skin, feeling a bit incredulous. Didn't I just shed my skin a few days ago? How did I shed again? I've only been a snake for so long, and I've already shed this many times, which is equivalent to a normal snake's shedding frequency in a year.