Transmigrated Genius: Fragile Heiress Reigns Supreme-Chapter 701 - 702: Terror (Part 2)

A few people burst into laughter. Among the people here, Tong Quanzi was the youngest. A few were scheduled to report to the military camp after March. But when it came to family background and connections, Tong Quanzi was still the most reliable. After all, he had a cousin-in-law who was the Great Governor, which was truly useful.

For instance, in the Governor Mansion, if not for Tong Quanzi, they might never have had access... Who knows how many battles they would need to fight or how many military merits to earn just to speak face-to-face with the Great Governor...

Although Tong Quanzi was a bit reckless, he understood that when brothers spoke of camaraderie, they also considered one’s background. The reason he could study martial arts under the master and have influence among his brothers was inseparable from his connections.

After chatting and laughing for a while, Tong Quanzi stood up energetically and said, "Let’s go for another walk, consider it a warm-up."

"Alright!" After drinking, everyone felt more spirited. The men stamped their cold, red hands, tucked them into their sleeves, and were about to leave when suddenly they heard a scream from the inverted house. They all paused and asked Tong Quanzi, "What’s going on?"

Tong Quanzi had no idea, waving his hand he said, "Let’s go take a look!" With that, they rushed towards the inverted house. As soon as they reached the door, a woman in a small jacket ran out of the room in a panic, shouting, "Snake, snake!"

Thinking it was some dangerous matter, Tong Quanzi asked, "Isn’t it just a snake, why are you so scared?"

"Sir, you should go in and see for yourself; it’s not just one snake, there are two or three," the woman put on her clothes, still frightened, and said, "I just returned from my night watch and lay down, feeling the quilt was icy cold, making my skin itch. I reached out and grabbed a snake, and it bit me." Saying this, she extended her hand for everyone to see, but in the night, Tong Quanzi and the others could not see clearly, only glancing at it.

"Alright, alright, find some people to get rid of them! No need to be so jumpy." Tong Quanzi said amiably, waving his hand to stop the woman from continuing to talk, then turned to her and said, "Are the servants all staying in the outer courtyard? You should find someone on duty to take a look."

The woman nodded at Tong Quanzi, just about to speak when her throat emitted a sound: "Glug... glug..."

Tong Quanzi and his companions were stunned, looking over at the woman.

They saw her eyes widen, and her body suddenly stiffened. The flesh on her face seemed to be kneaded like a bun, converging towards the center, slowly shrinking inwards from the tip of her nose, then collapsing. Her once-full face became flat, then turned into a pit...

The same thing happened to her body; her fingers seemed to retract into her bones.

Bang!

The woman fell stiffly to the ground. This all happened within moments, leaving them speechless. The woman lying on the ground was now nothing but a skin...

"What happened?" Tong Quanzi and his companions jumped back, staring in horror at the woman’s corpse. No one had ever seen such a grotesque and disgusting scene, a living person vanishing before their eyes, turning from plump to just a human skin...

No one could bear this sight. Tong Quanzi’s expression drastically changed, becoming more puzzled about what could have caused such a phenomenon.

"Old Three!" A senior brother behind him tugged at his clothes, "It’s winter now..."

Everyone was taken aback; it was indeed winter...

How could there be snakes in winter? If it was just one, it might have crept into the quilt to stay warm, but the woman mentioned two or three.

How could there be so many snakes? The Governor Mansion was cleaned daily; how could these things still remain?

"Let’s go inside and take a look!" Tong Quanzi deeply furrowed his brows. As they turned to head back inside, a terrifying scene unfolded...

They saw that underneath the skin wrapped in her clothes, two tiny black dots slowly emerged from the eye sockets. Tong Quanzi shouted, "Bring a lantern!" Someone swiftly leapt up, jumped onto the railing, snatched a lantern hanging below, and quickly returned, shining it onto the skin.

Immediately, someone couldn’t stop themselves from vomiting.

It was snakes. These snakes were only the length of chopsticks, with strange rainbow patterns and no eyes, their flat heads with only a large mouth extending from the "face" up to the top of the head. Three of them crawled out from the holes, each with a swollen belly, hissing loudly. Even Tong Quanzi could feel their satisfaction, looking full and content!

"What the hell is this, so disgusting," someone shouted in anger. Tong Quanzi had already drawn his dagger, "No matter what it is, kill it first!" he said, drawing his blade and cutting off two of them!

The senior brother beside him saw this and, like Tong Quanzi, sliced the remaining one. Perhaps because they were too full, the three small snakes were easily killed.

"This is too strange," Tong Quanzi furrowed his brows and said, "Let’s search again. Be very careful not to get bitten."

Everyone agreed and grabbed lanterns from the railing to knock on the doors of the other rooms in the inverted house.

For a while, all the doors were opened. Tong Quanzi led people inside to inspect but found nothing else. He grew increasingly perplexed...

How could there be such a bizarre thing just like that? Looking at it, he felt like they weren’t snakes; a snake wouldn’t burrow inside a human, wouldn’t eat a person in this manner—it was too disgusting.

"Go inform the guards in all areas, tell everyone to be alert," Tong Quanzi instructed the women, "Regardless of whether there are more, be vigilant. None of you should sleep tonight. Getting bitten is no joke." Someone went to check where the woman’s body had been, her clothing was intact, they recognized it, but they couldn’t see the body inside...

Everyone broke out in a cold sweat.

"Stop looking and stay focused!" After saying this, he paused, heading to the other side, wondering if there were any snakes in Sixth Sister’s room.

As he passed by where the woman’s body had been, he was startled; the three snake corpses were gone... split into six pieces, and now they were gone...

Tong Quanzi broke out in a cold sweat, feeling chilled all over.

"Old Three!" His senior brother spat, wiped his sweat, and said, "This thing is too weird, could it be like an earthworm, cut in two and it becomes two?" They had played with earthworms as children; slice an earthworm in half and it becomes two, cut it into four and it becomes four...

If that’s the case, they not only failed to kill the three snakes but instead increased their number by three?

"I’m going to tell Sixth Sister." After speaking, Tong Quanzi turned and said, "Let’s split up. You go find the snakes, and if you see one, don’t use weapons, better to capture it in a ceramic jar." This idea might work, Tong Quanzi added, "Go wake everyone up, no more sleeping!"