Serpent Sarcophagus

Chapter 2 They Are in Hot Pursuit

Listening to the crackling upstairs, I went up uneasily with something occupying my mind, and I knocked on the door.

It was David, the renter’s son who opened the door. The moment the door was open, a smell of alcohol spread out.

Instantaneously, I sensed something ominous. David looked at me with his drunk eyes, “Oh, Aurora, what do you want?”

There was something wrong with his eyes. I tried to look away in order to gain some sight of the inside. “Are you drinking the snake liquor?”

“Sure, why don’t you come to join us for a cup or two? Your father was selling it cheap today. Drink some, won’t you?” David smirked and looked down my neck.

I was uncomfortable with the way he looked at me. I took a shower just now, so I grasped the bath towel on me and said, “my father just told me that the snake died in the bottle. Maybe I can offer you the double price to buy it back, all right?”

The sound of the snake's tail against the glass was even louder when I stood at his door. I didn’t know whether it was an illusion.

“But it isn't dead! See, it's quite alive!” David grinned, pulled the door open, and stretched out his hand to pull me. “Come on in and have a drink.”

The door opened, I saw a big glass bottle on the tea table in the living room, which was exactly the kind of my father's snake liquor. Inside, a thick snake was swimming slowly with its eyes open.

David's father, Fletcher Russell, seemed to be very happy, holding his chopsticks and poking at the glass to keep the snake swimming.

But no matter how the snake swam, its head was always facing me. Lights in the living room were reflected on the glass, making the snake’s eyes flickering with the light of what seems to be hatred that was cast on me.

I was scared. So, I took a step back and swallowed air, “I will double the offer, please let me buy it back!”

“I won’t sell! Look, they're alive, they're all alive!” As David spoke, it seemed as if his tongue had grown too big and kept sticking it out, and his wide tongue seemed to have split at the front.

With his tongue stuck out, his head was slowly stretching forward. Though his shoulder did not move, his neck was able to lean forward in a weird way. In the misted eyes of his, the pupil seemed to be shrinking.

The smirk on his face became eerier and eerier, with malicious attempts hidden inside.

I turned my head to observe that snake soaked in the liquor. It snapped the bottle more fiercely with its tails when it kept swimming inside the liquor flicking its tongue, as if it had been annoyed by Fletcher’s constant poking.

Across the distance from where I was standing, there shouldn’t be any sound noticeable to the ear. But strangely, I heard a hissing voice calling, “Aurora, Aurora.”

I flinched away for I was apparently frightened. Regardless of this bottle of snake liquor, I hurried downstairs.

hey, hey...” David was laughing oddly

my schoolbag, and called my father, saying that

pick you up tomorrow morning, sending you and Pearl to school

is! I never need to worry about her grade. My only daughter as she is, she is greater than most of

went directly downstairs and took

bus, I felt vague that something was watching me

I spotted David standing on the balcony of the third floor, stripped

balcony. His upper body was leaning down, a pose

immediately

recoiled instantly with a quick

at me, the dim light of the road

who was on good terms with me. She was waiting for me

at home. He built a small Taoist temple in the town. He usually made money by conducting religious rites for people. And he would also host some dharma activities on the first and

temple. Upon my entrance into the temple, I heard a rustle in the grass nearby, and the ornamental green plants bent to

just some wild cats.” Pearl took a look and pulled me

stepped into the temple, Master Chang, while having an evening study, shouted at me

He, however, immediately grabbed that one

grain of

cried out

had been relieved. Earlier, the ride was uncomfortable as if I had worn several heavy coats on the way over here, and

something wrong with your house? Why are

his eyes to my back, I saw the rice spilling all over the ground, but in the middle of it, a few thin snake-shaped lines were swimming from my heels to the outside, as if something on my body were

burning some paper in the

I stepped over the fire, the paper that was burning inside suddenly rolled up with a

of the paper even curled around me while still

brazier that the paper

right, the problem is fixed. You

slightly relieved to hear that

She looked at Master Chang and asked,

You girls go to sleep.” Master Chang frowned seriously and looked at me, as if he was

hanging on the wall, or some other evil-proof articles placed in her house, which made me felt quite relieved.

one who knew about the black snake in my dream. As a

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