Serpent Sarcophagus novel Chapter 14

“Stowy.” Seeing Stowy come out, I grabbed him. With a sudden force, I picked up the snake body with the bamboo stick.

Looking at Orion, I said, “You are also dead. Believe it or not, I will slice this ghost snake into several pieces.”

I pulled Stowy back slowly and spoke solemnly to him, “If you don’t feel well, you should go back to the Black Mamba Bracelet.”

Stowy seemed to be restricted by something. He was too exhausted and didn’t have much energy left.

Just now he stopped Orion twice. He was probably struggling to stand up right now.

“Haha!” Orion laughed as he listened and looked at me. “The Serpent Sarcophagus is coming out soon, and you are letting Stowy go? Aurora, you don’t know what the Serpent Sarcophagus is, right?”

“The Dragon family’s daughter has already been sacrificed, and the Serpent Sarcophagus is about to come out. Would you like to take a look?” Orion pointed to the grave.

He snickered at me and said, “Do you know why eighteen years ago the Dragon family had to wait for you to be born and sacrifice you to the Serpent Sarcophagus when your cousin was obviously more than a month older than you?”

“Because your uncle was deluded and refused to bring your cousin back. He even bribed everyone in the village just to wait for you to be born and buried inside.” Orion’s voice was cold.

As if telling a joke, he continued. “But when the sarcophagus was opened, they saw the treasures passed down from generation to generation in the sarcophagus. Tempted by greed, they incited your dad to beat me to death. As long as I died, you wouldn’t need to be buried alive.”

“You are so powerful. How can you be killed?” I looked at Orion, not convinced.

“It’s definitely not possible at other times or by anyone else. But at that time, I was molting and returning to my original state, and the person who beat me was your dad, so I was killed.” Orion was resentful.

He gazed at me gloomily. “Too bad your dad was bitten by me and you almost died. But your uncle led the villagers to divide the treasures. In your village, except for your family, everyone has a nice time and is rich even if they don’t do anything. It’s ridiculous that you saved them just now.”

“Your uncle is poorly ill and about to die. He still wanted to bury himself in the Serpent Sarcophagus so that he can stay “living” and protect your cousin when he died.”

“These villagers are still thinking about the treasures, which is why they came along to look for the Serpent Sarcophagus. I made your cousin come back so Peter can have his wish granted.” Orion slowly raised his head.

The rain hit him in the face, but he seemed to enjoy it. “Stowy, you can’t protect Aurora. You can stop me, but can you stop the Serpent Sarcophagus?”

As soon as Orion finished speaking, the snakes in the grave began to crawl out in shock. The grave started calling out to me again, “Aurora... Aurora...”

My legs began to be pulled toward the grave involuntarily. Stowy hurriedly held me back.

I turned my head and looked at Orion puzzledly, “Not you?”

Orion laughed softly. “I only want to sleep with you in the Serpent Sarcophagus. I don’t want the Serpent Sarcophagus to eat you.”

“What on earth is the Serpent Sarcophagus?” I held the bamboo stick and shook the snake body. “If you don’t tell, I’ll throw your snake body in.”

But Orion didn’t care at all. He waved his hand slightly, and the snake body that had several nails in it slithered towards me quickly along with the stick.

Stowy hugged me with one hand, and grabbed the ghost snake with the other, and then threw it into the pit. “Orion, you can look for it in the Serpent Sarcophagus.”

Just as Stowy was leading me to escape, I scanned across the grave. The entire grave was like a square-shaped bloody mouth, or a coffin with bright red velvet liner.

Uncle Peter and Melissa’s bodies sunk slowly. Orion’s snake body was also falling.

At that moment, it looked like Melissa opened her eyes. A creepy smile appeared on her pale face as she looked at me and said, “Aurora, come here!”

It was clear that Melissa had sunk quite far down, but it felt as if she was speaking inside my head, just like the voice that called out to me.

“Don’t look!” With a wave of Stowy’s black sleeve, he covered my eyes and took me to run away quickly.

In the distance, Orion didn’t look anxious at all. He walked slowly toward the grave and jumped straight down.

Stowy didn’t run far before he had trouble breathing. He turned to look at me and said, “At this point, the Serpent Sarcophagus won’t call out to you again. You run by yourself. Don’t go back to the village.”

I looked at his pale face and nodded. “Have a rest.”

Stowy didn’t even have time to nod before his body became transparent and disappeared.

I followed the stream. I didn’t get very far when I heard someone snicker. “The Lady of House Dragon was entangled with a snake. So she becomes the snake’s wife and delivered a babe. Her name is Dragon, but her child is a serpent. How strange! How strange!”

I looked up and saw Mr. Han holding a broken umbrella and looking at me with a smile. “Aurora, hey, Aurora!”

I looked at Mr. Han and suddenly felt relieved.

I hurried to him. “Why are you here? Are you not guarding the village?”

Mr. Han placed the shattered umbrella over my head and looked at me with a scruffy face. “Aurora, Aurora...”

As he said my name, he looked in the direction of the grave.