Stranded on a Deserted Island and Entangled by a Green Snake 28p1

Chapter 28 p1: Apology

“Can you transform into a human? Can you? Transform for me to see. It doesn’t have to be a human,”

Yu Chujin gestured excitedly.

“How about you turn into a giant panda? Pandas are so cute and fluffy. They must be comfortable to touch, although I’ve never touched one.”

“Turning into a tiger would be fine too. So fierce and cute. I wouldn’t dare to touch a real tiger, but I could touch a tiger you transform into. Just thinking about it makes me so happy.”

“Or how about a panther? A black panther, a big cat. It must be comfortable to rub too.”

“Transform! Why aren’t you transforming? You can’t? If you can’t, you’re not a qualified monster!”

She even used reverse psychology.

The large snake tilted its head left and right, trying to analyze what Yu Chujin was saying. The result was naturally a failure. It grinned, showing its large white teeth.

Yu Chujin was disappointed and dejected.

“That’s true. How could it be? Being able to breathe fire is already strange enough. If it could also transform, with seventy-two transformations and all that, then I would suspect that I’m not trapped on a deserted island but have transmigrated into some kind of immortal world.”

She didn’t dwell on it for too long and soon looked at the snake with great interest again.

“Breathe fire again. Let me take a closer look at how you do it. It happened too fast just now; I didn’t see it clearly.”

Yu Chujin rubbed her fists, her face full of expectation, waiting for the large snake to breathe fire.

The large snake tilted its head left and right, that silly and dazed look coming over it again.

Yu Chujin pouted, “I seriously suspect you’re pretending not to understand. Breathe fire.”

The large snake: “Fire.”

Yu Chujin: “I’m asking you to breathe fire, not to say the word ‘fire’.”

“Fire.”

“Stop saying it!”

“Fire.”

“…”

Although the large snake was unwilling to breathe fire again, the fact that the firewood had been reignited was a practical benefit. Not having to go through the trouble of starting a fire again made Yu Chujin very happy.

As she was happy, she clicked her tongue again.

“You can breathe fire, but you didn’t say so earlier. I starved for three or four days because I couldn’t start a fire, and you…”

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. She went up and gave it two taps on the head.

Being hit for no reason, the large snake whimpered in grievance.

Yu Chujin was hard-hearted and unmoved. She even wanted to hit it a couple more times, but when her gaze fell on the food all over the ground, her heart softened.

She rubbed its head, “It’s not your fault, it’s not your fault. You didn’t know I needed fire at first. If you had known, you definitely wouldn’t have watched me starve for so long. Alright, there, there, no more grievances.”

The large snake was instantly coaxed, and its head burrowed into her arms, nuzzling.

After two days of recuperation, her illness was almost gone.

Two days ago, she was sickly. Two days later, she was full of life again.

During her illness, the large snake had dismantled the shelter, leaving it in pieces. Now that she was well, she naturally had to rebuild it. She couldn’t sleep in the open every day.

The wood and ropes needed to build the shelter were still there, just scattered and broken. Rebuilding it wasn’t too much trouble. It would probably be done in half a day.

The large snake was particularly self-aware today. She hadn’t even asked it for help, and it had already collected the scattered pieces of wood and placed them at Yu Chujin’s feet.

Looking at the large snake with a piece of wood still in its mouth, Yu Chujin raised an eyebrow. She seemed to have found the reason for its proactive work. What else could it be but to ask for praise?

Yu Chujin gave a thumbs-up, “You’re great, you’re amazing.”

The large snake spat the wood in its mouth onto the ground. It wasn’t happy because of the praise, but instead, it started to mumble in human language.

It was saying, “Bad snake.”

Yu Chujin was stunned for a moment, “What did I do? Why are you calling me a bad snake? Didn’t I just praise you? Why are you scolding me after I praised you?”

It continued to repeat, “Bad snake.”

Yu Chujin was amused. She didn’t know what had provoked it, but it kept saying “bad snake” over and over.

Yu Chujin ignored it, took a deep breath, stretched her body, did some warm-up exercises, and then started to work.

She had repeated the task of building the shelter countless times. The process had gone from being unfamiliar at the beginning to becoming more and more proficient.

As for the large snake, it just stayed by her side, getting in the way and constantly mumbling.

“Bad snake… bad snake… bad snake… bad snake…”

Yu Chujin was getting a headache from its nagging. She raised her hand, “If you keep nagging ‘bad snake,’ believe it or not, I’ll hit you on the head.”

The large snake immediately protected its head with its tail.

Seeing its silly way of protecting its head, Yu Chujin was speechless and wanted to laugh.

“Alright, I’m building a house. You can’t help with this kind of detailed work, so don’t cause trouble. Go play by yourself,” Yu Chujin shooed it away like a child.

The large snake not only didn’t leave, but it also picked up a piece of wood from the ground and offered it to Yu Chujin, as if it wanted to help.

As it was helping, it continued to speak in human language, “Bad snake.”

Yu Chujin looked at the wood it was offering, her face showing confusion, “You clearly know that ‘bad snake’ is a scolding word. I haven’t provoked you, and you’re willing to help me. So why do you keep scolding me?”

Its current behavior was very contradictory.

Yu Chujin took the firewood it offered and grumbled inwardly, This snake is always doing strange things.

She tied the rope around the wood to fix it. Halfway through, as if she had thought of something, she suddenly stopped.

She looked at the large snake beside her, lost in thought.

The large snake: “Bad snake.”

Yu Chujin had a guess, “When you say ‘bad snake,’ you’re not scolding me, but yourself?”

The large snake had dismantled the shelter. It knew that this was wrong. Seeing Yu Chujin having to work so hard to rebuild it, it felt that it had made a mistake and had been scolding itself on the side.

Every time it said “bad snake,” it was like saying, “I’m a bad snake. I shouldn’t have dismantled the shelter.”

Yu Chujin raised an eyebrow, “Are you apologizing to me?”

The large snake: “Bad snake.”

Yu Chujin chuckled, put down the rope in her hand, and patted the large snake’s head, “You’re not a bad snake. It’s not your fault.”

It really wasn’t its fault. At that time, Yu Chujin was lying in the shelter, delirious with a high fever. The shelter was too small for the large snake to get in.

If it hadn’t dismantled the shelter, how could it have come in to take care of her? How could it have come over to help her cool down with its serpentine body?

Dismantling the shelter was a last resort and something that couldn’t be helped. It was different in nature from the previous times it had dismantled the shelter. Before, it was pure mischief. This time, it was to care for her.

“You’re not a bad snake. You’re a good snake, a super good snake,” Yu Chujin held its face and rubbed it, “How can my large snake be so cute?”

The large snake blinked its eyes.

“I declare that you are even cuter than my Da Huang.”

“Hiss hiss.”

“Da Huang can’t hear this.”

“Hiss hiss.”

“Hahahaha,” Yu Chujin laughed.

“Hahahaha,” the large snake copied her laughter.

Yu Chujin was silent for a moment, “You’re a snake. Don’t copy my laughter. It’s very strange, okay?”

The large snake: “Hahahaha.”

Yu Chujin shook her head and smiled, no longer “bickering” with the large snake. She picked up the rope and continued to work.

The weather was too hot. Yu Chujin wiped her sweat as she worked, panting with exhaustion.

The large snake copied her on the side, “hoo hoo hoo.”

Yu Chujin put down her hand that was wiping her sweat, “You were indeed not a bad snake just now, but now you are. You’re a bad snake.”

The large snake stopped “hoo hoo hoo”-ing.

“Not, bad snake,” the large snake managed to say three words after a long time.

Yu Chujin was slightly surprised, “You’re quite good at drawing inferences. You even know how to add the word ‘not’.”

The large snake said word by word, “Not, bad snake.”

Yu Chujin deliberately teased it, “You are a bad snake.”

The large snake was so anxious that its claws stomped on the ground, “Not, bad snake. Not, not, not…”

Yu Chujin suppressed a laugh, “Alright, alright, I won’t tease you anymore. You’re not a bad snake.”

The large snake’s claws stopped stomping. It seriously learned the complete sentence, “Not, a, bad snake.”

The two words “not a” were not pronounced correctly, but the two words “bad snake” were exceptionally fluent.

When the large snake learned a word, it would keep repeating it hundreds and thousands of times. And so the next scene became:

Yu Chujin building the shelter, busy here and there. The large snake followed by her side, shaking its head, and constantly saying.

“Not a bad snake, not a bad snake, not a bad snake…”

After repeating it for an unknown number of hundreds of times, she received a beating from Yu Chujin.

After being beaten, the large snake hid behind a tree and scratched it with its claws.

The plan was to complete the shelter in half a day, but in reality, it didn’t even take half a day.

After it was built, the first thing she did was to lie down and rest for a while.

The large snake, which was scratching the tree behind her, slithered over and poked its large head inside to look, and then… it stole Yu Chujin’s shoes.

Yu Chujin was furious. She ran out to chase it, snatched the shoes back, and hit it a few times with the shoes before she was done.

The shelter was built just in time. Almost as soon as it was built, the originally clear sky suddenly became overcast.

Accompanied by a clap of thunder, large raindrops began to fall.

Yu Chujin hurriedly moved some of the dry firewood into the shelter to prevent it from getting all wet. As for the bonfire, Yu Chujin didn’t care. Anyway, the large snake could help start a fire, so she didn’t need to watch it all the time to prevent it from going out.

A snake-shaped fire starter.

Yu Chujin was sheltering from the rain in the shelter, while the large snake was not on the ground. She saw it coiled on a coconut tree over ten meters high.

When it started to rain, it had shot up the tree to check on the jacket.

Afterward, it even took the jacket down.

Of course, it was impossible for it to give it back to Yu Chujin. It coiled into a ball and pressed the jacket under its body, as if it were afraid the rain would get on the jacket?

Every time it rained, the large snake would go through this process, immediately taking down the jacket to protect it.

Yu Chujin’s mouth twitched, “So speechless. You hide my jacket on the tree every day, and when it rains, you have to take it down and protect it under your body. You really treat this jacket as a treasure.”

Yu Chujin had already given up hope of getting the jacket back. There was nothing she could do. That snake was protecting the jacket too tightly.

Sure enough, as soon as the rain stopped, the large snake picked up the jacket and shot up the tree with a whoosh, not giving Yu Chujin a chance to get it back.

It hid the jacket on the branch again, pressed the clothes with its claws, nudged the clothes with its head, and then sniffed it a couple of times before it was satisfied and willing to come down from the tree.

Yu Chujin cursed.

The large snake cheerfully came over to be scolded.