"..."

"Compared with the outside, it's quite warm there. There's water nearby and there's plenty of food."

"If you are not careful, you can easily lose your life..."

"But we have nowhere else to go..."

The clean man was silent.

After a while, he suddenly said:

"Since you knew there was such a place, why didn't you bring Linlin with you before?"

"She is a woman."

"What?"

"Snakes are very sensitive to the smell of blood."

"No, what do you mean, Linlin is not injured, you..."

"Do you still need to explain it as clearly as I did?"

Archie glanced at the clean man who was speechless: "The smell of blood on her body may wake up these hibernating snakes. I don't want to lose my life for such a ridiculous reason."

The clean man sat there slumped.

After a while.

Seeing the snake being roasted in the fire, Archie tore off half of it and handed it over.

"Eat, you won't feel so uncomfortable when you're full."

"Why do you want to take me there? Wouldn't it be better to have that place all to yourself..."

"Don't think too much, we are friends, right?"

Aji took a bite of the snake meat in his hand and chewed it hard: "Now that we have two people, we can keep watch for each other without having to worry about being swallowed by a snake when we fall asleep."

"You mean, those snakes might wake up?" the clean man asked in surprise.

"Of course I'll wake up."

Archie nodded and took another bite of snake meat:

"These snakes gathered here, maybe they knew in advance that the weather would get colder, so they hid underground to hibernate.

When the weather outside warms up and their hibernation ends, they will naturally crawl out."

"In other words, the snakes on the edge of the underground river knew in advance that the weather was getting colder, so they came in specifically?"

"right."

"What about before that? Where did they stay?"

"..."

"..."

Archie said nothing.

The clean man swallowed his saliva and asked dryly:

"No, I live in Tucheng..."

"Don't scare yourself, eat quickly."

Throwing away the gnawed snake bones in his hand, Archie patted the clean man on the shoulder:

"Hurry back after eating...it's freezing cold here, don't get sick."

He walked towards the underground river channel.

Wait until Archie leaves.

The clean man lowered his head and took a bite of the snake meat.

He looked at the direction Archie was leaving.

He looked back at the location of Tucheng.

In his eyes.
Chapter completed!