Chapter 57: Beep, Knight Experience Card Credited

Seeing the little red flower held up by the snake’s tail, Old Li was completely stunned—what did this mean?

What about the promised pursuit and revenge?

Sykes found this scene very interesting—in all his long life, he had never seen a red-topped snake, a species known for its irritability and irrationality, be so intelligent.

The snake in front of him actually understood transaction and solicitation.
Its eyes also looked very clear, unlike the turbid eyes of those tormented by pain that he had seen in his travels.

Because of this novel and interesting feeling, he rarely said a few more words: “I guess it wants to ask you to do something, so it’s giving you the reward in advance.”

“Do what?” Old Li asked blankly.

“That you’ll have to ask yourself. Did you do anything special when you were with it before?”
Sykes crossed his arms, pretending not to see Hua Yibing’s little action of hiding behind him.

‘Did I do anything special with this snake before? And it’s related to a reward?’

Old Li thought hard for a long time and finally came up with a not-so-possible possibility—this snake, could it be a song request fee?

He looked at the big snake in front of him, then at the flower, his expression somewhat complicated.

He was all too clear about his own singing level.
He was the kind of plain, off-key madman whose friends would snatch the mic and forbid him from leading others astray at KTV.
But he didn’t expect to get recognition in the game Sea Realm?

If it was really as he thought, then this snake felt a little… a little foolish?

Seeing that Old Li had no reaction, the red-topped snake became a little anxious.
Its tail suddenly stretched forward another bit, almost poking the flower into Old Li’s face.

Old Li could feel the wind brought up by the movement.
He subconsciously took a step back.

‘Sure enough, even a special existence in the species can’t escape the norm?’

Sykes’s interest faded a little.
He nocked an arrow on his bow, preparing to give a timely attack when the other party lashed out to hurt someone.

No matter what, this trip could not have such a big accident.

But the snake’s next reaction was beyond everyone’s expectations.

The red-topped snake dropped the flower in front of Old Li.
Its tail was raised high, and with a swift sound of breaking through the air, it whipped fiercely at its own head.

After a loud ‘smack’, its head obviously shook a few times.
Its eyes were also dazed for a moment before returning to clarity.

“Hiss~”

It flicked its forked tongue at Old Li.
The tip of its tail tapped on the ground a few times according to the rhythm it had heard before, signaling to him—

That’s the one, I want to hear that one!

Huahua poked his head out from behind Sykes and said weakly, “Why do I feel like it has no malicious intent?”

Then he just happened to meet the big snake’s eyes.

Hua Yibing: “!!”

He ‘swooshed’ back behind Sykes, using the other’s thin shoulders to cover himself as much as possible, without any of the previous bravado of wanting to be “Scott’s big brother.”

Sykes obviously also agreed with what Hua Yibing had just said.
From the bow he had lowered, one could see his judgment.

A red-topped snake that could control itself was really rare.

The merman sighed inwardly and looked at Old Li, who was still—sure enough, his previous judgment was correct.
Old Li’s luck was indeed quite good.
He could even encounter such a special species, and they seemed to have had some kind of deep interaction.

“Old Li, what does it want you to do?”
Even Yan Shuangwen, who had always not been a busybody, couldn’t help but come over.

He was really curious why this magical marine creature would take the initiative to interact with an intelligent species.
This kind of situation was not common even in the modern ocean.

Under the joint gaze of three people and one snake, Old Li’s face turned from wheat-colored to red.
He looked extremely embarrassed and hesitant.

In the end, he still closed his eyes, mustered up his courage, and opened his mouth—it was the song that was extremely familiar to the players, “XXX.”

Yan Shuangwen and Hua Yibing: “…”

The two of them fell into a deep silence and looked at each other, tacitly having an exchange—

Hua – Is he singing that song?

Yan – Yes, it should be that one.

Hua – Is that song in this key??

Yan – (Hesitantly) Probably… not, right?

It was clearly a popular song known to every household, but at this moment, it was strangely unfamiliar yet familiar.

It was familiar because they had heard the lyrics hundreds, if not dozens, of times in their daily lives.
Their subconscious had already memorized these sentences.

But it was unfamiliar because the melody from Old Li’s mouth was worlds apart from the original song: when the original went up, he went down; when the original had a rap, he chanted sutras; when the original had a vibrato, he also trembled along, but the effect was as twisted as the little yellow flower vine that had just been soured to the point of vomiting.

“Original?”

Hua Yibing finally couldn’t help but admire Sykes, and gave him a thumbs-up in his heart—

To be able to maintain a state, in such a magical off-key, Scott is really amazing!

With Hua Yibing’s admiring gaze, a question mark slowly appeared above his head, “?”

The big snake naturally couldn’t hear what was off-key or not.
Although Old Li’s key was not on the original song, it had a rather strong sense of rhythm, and every beat was very accurate.

This dynamic rhythm made the red-topped snake very happy, and its tail couldn’t help but wag along.

Its originally raised head lowered and lowered, and finally, it rested its chin on a rock very close to Old Li.
Its eyelids slowly drooped, looking extremely sleepy.

zZ… zZ…

This red-topped snake actually fell asleep on the spot?

Sykes was so surprised that he directly swam over.
Only after circling the red-topped snake’s surroundings did he truly confirm that it had already fallen into a deep sleep.

What he saw today completely overturned his long-held cognition—what about the irritable and irrational species after adulthood?
What about the characteristic of being tormented by the pain on its head to the point of only being able to sleep lightly for a few minutes?

This was not logical.

But the merman finally understood why this snake would take the initiative to trade with Old Li using a red-topped flower.
If the key to making it fall asleep was the song he sang, then everything made sense.

For a fellow like this who hadn’t had a good sleep since adulthood, if you could let it have a good sleep, asking it to die after waking up might even be successful.

Sykes had personally seen an adult red-topped snake that was driven to self-mutilation by pain and insomnia, but even as powerful as he was, he was helpless against such a tragedy.

Players are really a magical existence.

Sykes looked from a distance.
Old Li was still singing some unknown song, trying hard to hide his embarrassment.
The special and lucky red-topped snake was sleeping soundly and comfortably beside him.
This scene looked strangely magical and warm.

Of course, the premise was to ignore Hua Yibing and Yan Shuangwen, who had turned pale for some reason.

Old Li was thinking about a very serious question—for this seemingly amazing flower, how long should he sing?

The health on his personal panel was being worn away bit by bit by the curse of the outer lands, so much so that he had to take out a serving of fried fish fillets from his backpack to supplement his stats.

According to Old Li’s previous personality, he would never do such a time-wasting thing.
But looking at the snake’s greedy and sound sleep, for some reason, he was a little reluctant to stop.
He always felt that suddenly interrupting the other party was a heinous act.

Fortunately, before Old Li could come to a conclusion or make up his mind, the red-topped snake had already woken up.
The long-term short sleep had developed a habit of not being able to sleep for long.
But even so, it felt very happy and satisfied.

Everyone present understood this point—after all, as soon as the red-topped snake woke up, it began to happily shake its head.
Even a layman could see that its mental state had improved a lot.

“Phew…” Old Li let out a long sigh.
He had been singing off-key while enduring the complicated gazes of his two companions.
He was also under a lot of pressure!

“Is it finally over?”

Huahua swam over with a dazed look in his eyes and quietly took out two clumps of seaweed from his ears.

Old Li pretended not to see his action and nodded.
“Yes. Since the transaction is complete, let’s continue on our way.”

The three of them followed his movements and prepared to continue towards the edge of the sea realm.

It was worth noting that Old Li hadn’t touched the flower on the ground until he set off—sigh, this snake was a bit silly.
He couldn’t bear to trick it again.
It was better not to take the second flower.

However, they hadn’t swum more than a few steps before they were once again blocked by a familiar tail.

“Is it, is it, is it, is it, is it going back on its word?” Hua Yibing almost bumped into the snake tail, which was covered in fine scales.
It was clearly something similar to a fishtail, but he was so scared that his own scales almost stood on end.

Old Li’s face darkened.
Was this snake planning to be relentless?

The large, pitch-black snake blinked its deep blue eyes, and its lowered head actually seemed a bit docile.

It extended its tail and wrapped it around Sykes, who had the lowest level of alertness towards it, and slowly placed him on the smooth scales on top of its head.
It only loosened the tip of its tail after making sure he could sit firmly, and then extended it again towards Yan Shuangwen.

A hint of surprise and anticipation appeared on Yan Shuangwen’s usually serious face—could he actually ride on the head of an otherworldly marine creature once!

This guess made his heart surge.

And later it also proved that his guess was not wrong.
Yan Shuangwen only felt his waist being gently wrapped by something cold, so gentle that he could hardly distinguish its force.
Then his body suddenly rose into the air and was soon placed on a smooth, warm place.

It was very interesting.
A snake-like animal actually had a heat source on its body.
He looked at the red scale under his tail.
He remembered that this was the only red scale on the snake’s body.

So it wanted to carry them?
Old Li came to such a judgment, so when the other party hesitantly extended its tail over, he opened his arms and didn’t resist.

The red-topped snake’s eyes lit up, and the tip of its tail ‘swooshed’ and wrapped around Old Li’s waist, placing him on its head as well.

Now there was only one little fish left… eh? Where was that little fish?

The red-topped snake was confused.
Inadvertently, it saw something light golden flash in the seaweed not far away.
It was a trembling fishtail.

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