Fox Has No Malicious Intent

"Ouch—"

The Eye King, who hadn't been seen for a while, uttered a painful human-like cry as the first thing upon meeting Master Fuli.

When Ansheng laid eyes on the Eye King, he couldn't help but show a surprised expression.

A King Cobra about six or seven meters long, with the last four meters of its body looking normal, appeared grayish due to the shedding skin color. Up at the front three meters, a segment seemed to bulge and have something elongated hidden inside.

This unusual body characteristic only ceased at the head.

The snake's head remained sleek and glossy without any signs of shedding.

"Hang in there....."

Ansheng stood up and moved forward. He took out a Spiritual Particle Potion from Ah Qing's bag and injected it straight into the King Cobra's tail, causing the Eye King to hiss in pain.

"Hiss.....my rear hurts too."

The King Cobra, in a husky voice, turned to look at Master Fuli and spoke.

"As if you actually have a rear..." Having completed the injection for the Eye King, Ansheng glanced towards its head, noticing the grayish shedding color gradually spreading, albeit very slowly.

However, the King Cobra stopped complaining about head pain, and continued burying its head in a frenzy of eating.

Piles of fresh meat, seafood, and vegetables vanished by the crate-full in the hotel lobby.

"Puh—"

The King Cobra suddenly froze, raised its head, and regurgitated two crates of newly swallowed vegetables.

"Woof!"

Ah Bai came into the room holding a medication box, and glanced at the Eye King who seemed troubled and lacked appetite. With concern, he looked at Master Fuli and worriedly said: "Woof woof..."

Brother Fuli, is Big Eyes really alright? Why does it suddenly have no appetite?

Ah Bai didn't really understand other King Cobra diets.

But the Eye King's diet was notoriously broad, including everything from plates, electric bikes, foam boxes, to various spirit beasts performing in front of it.

Seeing the Eye King spit out its meal gave Ah Bai an immediate feeling in his gut: Could Big Eyes be nearing its last days?

"I reckon it's fine, it just didn't gather enough energy for shedding....."

Ansheng studied the Eye King briefly and injected two more doses into its tail to help it accumulate energy for shedding.

"Ah Bai, inform the Spirit Beast Gang that any brothers needing to molt during their development stages should register in advance, so that we can provide them with safehouses....."

"To prevent any accidents happening outside and missing out on their pensions."

Saying that, Ansheng glanced again at the King Cobra.

Snake shedding requires high humidity; though the Xia Dong Region retains humidity after winter, it's far from the ideal condition for snake shedding.

Moreover, spiritized snakes need not only sufficient humidity but also ample energy for shedding and growth.

If not for Ah Qing bringing the Spiritual Particle Potion, the Eye King, in pain enough to lose its mind, likely would have eaten a big lion raw, or needed some servings of [Fox-Style Wake-Up Soup].

"Woof....."

Hearing this, Ah Bai nodded, still somewhat uneasy, looking at the appetite-deprived Eye King.

The fierce guy who once wanted to swallow alloy doors is now troubled by shedding that keeps him from eating.

The Spirit Beast Gang should probably provide some subsidy.

The Eye King's shedding continued, while Chen Zhiyu was trying to persuade Qiu Lingling at the hotel's entrance.

He told her that the greenhouse inside the hotel cracked, and the snakes escaped; now, the little fox and Ah Bai are inside helping press spicy sticks.

After much convincing, he barely held Qiu Lingling back, allowing Ah Qing to enter the room alone to drag out two doggies.

"Crunching....."

Having taken a dozen injections and gnawed through half a ton of fresh meat, the King Cobra entered a sleeping state. The snake's shed skin gradually dehydrated and hardened, producing cracking noises.

"Pop—"

A sound like a membrane being torn apart shattered the silence in the hotel lobby, surprising Ansheng who was preparing to eat chicken legs by ripping open a package.

A pair of snow-white arms suddenly pierced through either side of hardened shed skin, stretching out five fingers to support the body off the ground, firmly standing upright.

"??? "

Ansheng's jaw dropped in astonishment as Ah Bai's mouthful of potato chips scattered across the floor, staring at the scene.

"Hiss hiss....."

The Eye King stood up, awkwardly raised its hand to tear off the snake skin from its face, revealing its almond-shaped face and shook its head disdainfully, glancing at its humid hair before continuing to strip down its body.

It laid on the ground, pulling down the shed skin from the snake's tail like pulling down trousers, neatly folded it up, then opened its mouth wide to stuff the skin down its throat.

"Hic....."

Upon completing its shedding transformation, the Eye King, somewhat puzzled, glanced at its own changes, patted its snow-white belly, and turned to Master Fuli with a silly smile:

"Shed skin a meal's worth, hands grew out, now I can access the fingerprint-locked can and eat the contents inside."

While telling Master Fuli about its condition, the Eye King seemingly recalled something, instinctively licking its lips.

"Whoa....."

Ansheng gasped in shock, circling around the human-bodied snake-tailed Eye King, and said:

"Someone like you in Xia Dong should be seated at the grand table during offerings, traveling in a convertible Ferrari..."

"But what's the fingerprint-locked can about, where did you see such cans?"

Ansheng cursed the Eye King in confusion; are there truly cans in its mouth?

If they're serious, why use a fingerprint lock?

"Nuwa...Nuwa Empress!?"

Avoiding the crocodile passage of [Eleme], Ah Qing just reached the door when he saw the Eye King. Ah Qing's expression froze, instinctively stepping aside to hide at the door while rubbing his eyes.

A human torso, snake tail, a female, long black hair.....

This looks indisputably like Nuwa reincarnated, doesn't it?

"Xiaolan..."

Ah Qing gulped, peeking out from the doorway, and asked the little fox inside with inquiry:

"There's no willow branch with that big sister inside, right?"

Ah Qing certainly knew that the human-headed snake-bodied big sister wasn't Nuwa.

Yet, her figure and appearance were there, making Ah Qing instinctively sense danger.

Or rather...the aura emitted by the Eye King leads Ah Qing to perceive the potential risk upon rash entry.

Both shedding snakes and protective nest snakes are fiercely aggressive; stepping on a King Cobra's nest could lead to a marathon confrontation.

"Don't worry, it's just the Big Black you've been mentioning." Ansheng smiled in explanation upon seeing Ah Qing come in.

"Big Black....."

Ah Qing looked dazed, raising a question mark, and gestured two big circles in front of him.

Snakes...aren't they oviparous and ovoviviparous?

Is it reasonable for them to evolve mammalian traits like that?

"What's unreasonable about it."

Ansheng rolled his eyes: "Our ancestors originally hitchhiked on meteors to Blue Star; only later survival and reproduction strategies differed, leading to different evolutions..."

"Oh....."

Ah Qing's somewhat dazed mind immediately recalled things about [Primordial Life].

"Hiss.....Big sister, hello!"

Upon seeing Ah Qing, the Eye King bent its brow in delight, twisting its snake-like waist to wrap Ah Qing in a hug.

Ah Qing had been kind; she was the one who taught the Eye King how to open fridge doors when it was younger.

"Uh..."

Ah Qing glanced dumbfoundedly at Xiaolan, and then looked at the snake lady enveloping her, obscuring her vision with those two impressive snow-white features: "Uhh....."

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