Stranded on a Deserted Island and Entangled by a Green Snake 38

Chapter 38: Little Snake

Yu Chujin didn’t kick the fish off the boat again. Her gaze lowered, and she stared at the salmon for a few seconds, thinking of a possibility.

She shouted towards the sea, “Snake?”

The sea was calm, with no echo at all.

Yu Chujin shook her head. What am I thinking? With the large snake’s clingy personality, it would have run over to stick to her the moment it saw her. How could it not show itself and even follow her silently?

This kind of behavior did not fit the large snake’s clingy personality.

Yu Chujin looked into the distance. The deserted island had already shrunk to a black dot. After sailing a little further, the island would be completely out of sight.

She picked up the fish and put it in a bucket to keep.

During the three-day return journey, Yu Chujin always felt that something was following her, but when she looked back, she couldn’t see anything.

The strange feeling of being followed made Yu Chujin suspicious, and she would frequently turn her head back.

After successfully arriving at the port, she got off the boat, and the bad feeling finally dissipated.

The round trip had taken a total of seven days, a whole week. The mental tension on the way had made her exceptionally tired. She didn’t want to stay on the boat anymore and directly found a hotel nearby, checked in, and slept for one night.

As soon as she got to the hotel room, she fell asleep almost as soon as her head hit the pillow.

When she woke up, the sky outside was pitch black. She was in a daze, a little confused about the time.

She raised her wrist and looked at the time on her watch. It was past 4 a.m.

She had woken up too early. The plane ticket home she had booked was for nine in the morning. She didn’t know what to do in the five hours in between, and she couldn’t go back to sleep.

With nothing to do, she took out her phone to play and started a game.

She lost the game and clicked her tongue in displeasure.

“Tsk.”

Yu Chujin was startled and stood up from the bed, “Who is it?!”

Just now in the room, after Yu Chujin had clicked her tongue, another “tsk” had followed.

She casually took a clothes hanger as a weapon and cautiously circled the room.

She abruptly opened the closet. There were only a few white bathrobes hanging inside, swaying slightly. She then abruptly kicked open the bathroom door. The faucet was not turned off tightly, and water droplets were “dripping” into the sink.

Yu Chujin walked over and turned the faucet off tightly.

She frowned in confusion. She had clearly heard a “tsk” just now. Had she misheard?

The hotel room was only so big. She had already searched it all. It was impossible for anyone to be hiding.

It seemed to be a side effect of sailing at sea for many days. She was constantly suspicious.

Back on the bed, she was no longer in the mood to play games. She subconsciously reached for the bedside table.

She touched nothing.

Yu Chujin’s expression froze for a moment. She looked at the bedside table. Where was her wishing bottle?

She remembered that when she had gotten off the boat, she had taken the wishing bottle with her and had placed it on the bedside table after returning to the hotel. Why was it gone?

Yu Chujin circled the room again but couldn’t find it. She became anxious.

Had she remembered wrongly? Had she not brought the wishing bottle up and had left it on the boat?

She didn’t care that it was 4 a.m. She put on a jacket, went straight out of the hotel room, and took the elevator down.

Just as she reached the hotel front desk, someone called out to her. It was the front desk staff.

“Miss, please wait a moment. You left this at the front desk when you checked in yesterday.”

Yu Chujin saw the wishing bottle being offered to her, and her anxious heart instantly calmed down.

She took the wishing bottle, “Thank you.”

The front desk: “You’re welcome. It’s my job.”

Yu Chujin held the wishing bottle tightly, and her suspended heart slowly settled.

She had to change her habit of being forgetful. It was a good thing she hadn’t lost it. If she had lost it…

What if she had lost it? It was just a wishing bottle, not something very important.

Not important at all. She could throw it away at any time. That’s what she thought, but the action of putting the wishing bottle in her pocket was very honest.

Perhaps it was because she had almost lost the wishing bottle. In the following time, she would touch her pocket from time to time to make sure the wishing bottle was inside.

On the fifth time she checked the wishing bottle, Yu Chujin clicked her tongue. Am I sick? I keep checking.

“Tsk.”

Yu Chujin’s eyes widened. She looked around. She had just boarded the plane and had just sat down.

A young girl was sitting next to her. She asked tentatively, “Excuse me, did you just ‘tsk’?”

The young girl’s gaze moved away from her phone and she turned to look at her, “No.”

“Then did you hear someone ‘tsk’ just now?”

“I heard it.”

Yu Chujin instantly perked up and sat up straight. She wasn’t being suspicious. Someone was really “tsking” after her. It wasn’t an auditory hallucination.

The young girl’s gaze returned to her phone screen and she said, “You were the one who kept ‘tsking.’ Who else would be ‘tsking’?”

Yu Chujin: “…”

Strange. Had her problem with hallucinations and auditory hallucinations come back? Why was it that whenever she “tsked,” she would immediately hear the same “tsk”?

When she had time, she had to go to the hospital to check on her mental health. She didn’t want to have any side effects. Although she loved to go crazy, she didn’t want to really become a madwoman.

After a bumpy journey back home, the first thing she did was to hug Da Huang and start to mumble.

“I went out for a week, and in the end, I didn’t even find it. I’m so impressed.”

“You say, where can a snake go? So worrying. It’s fine if it just moved, but I hope it didn’t encounter any danger.”

“It’s a worrying snake, and you’re a worrying dog!”

Da Huang: “…”

Da Huang had been inexplicably hit by the crossfire.

She lay down on the sofa, in a gloomy mood. She took out her phone, originally wanting to check the time, but her gaze was attracted by the news that automatically popped up on her phone.

[There may really be dragons in this world!]

Yu Chujin shot up from the sofa with a whoosh and clicked on the news link.

Under the headline, there was a long paragraph of text, roughly about how he had filmed this video and his speculation about the animal filmed in the video.

Yu Chujin was in no mood to read the text carefully and directly clicked on the video below to play.

The footage was very blurry, and the camera was unstable, but one could vaguely see a “dragon” about five meters long and one meter wide swimming on the sea.

Yu Chujin couldn’t be sure. She repeatedly dragged the video’s progress bar and watched it again and again until she was completely sure.

She abruptly stood up, “No? No! How did it get filmed by someone? And it was near the port.”

Da Huang, who was gnawing on a bone, was startled by her sudden movement. The owner was going crazy again. Da Huang was not surprised. It picked up the bone and went under the table to hide.

Yu Chujin bit her finger and anxiously paced back and forth in the living room.

After pacing for a while, she stopped and began to look at the comment section.

Netizen one: [It’s fake at a glance. It’s obviously AI-generated.]

Yu Chujin nodded, “Yes, yes, yes. It’s fake at a glance. You must not believe it.”

Netizen two: [Damn, could it really be a dragon?]

Yu Chujin’s heart was in her throat. She typed a reply, [It’s definitely fake! Fake! Don’t believe it!]

Netizen three: [It doesn’t look like a dragon. It looks a bit like a snake, but not quite. It’s strangely shaped, and the point is, it’s very ugly. So ugly.]

The anxious and worried Yu Chujin was instantly annoyed when she saw the description “so ugly.”

She typed a reply, [Where is it ugly? It’s so cute. You’re the ugly one. You’re ugly, you’re the ugliest.]

After replying, she realized that whether it was ugly or not was not the point. The point was, how did it get near the port?

There were so many people at the port. This creature might have already been captured.

Especially when she saw one of the comments, Yu Chujin’s worry reached its peak.

[I don’t think it’s fake. Such a novel animal. We should find a way to catch it and do some research. It looks quite plump. Does its meat taste good?]

Yu Chujin held her phone tightly, biting her lip until it turned white.

Yu Chujin repeatedly watched the video again, trying to determine which sea area this video was filmed in.

She watched the video three or four times. On the fourth time, her sharp eyes saw a yacht that flashed by at the edge of the video.

She pressed pause and enlarged the picture.

“Isn’t that my yacht?”

She thought of something, and her sluggish brain instantly cleared.

Yu Chujin’s phone fell to the ground with a thump.

No wonder the salmon had jumped onto the boat. So it was the large snake throwing fish onto her boat.

No wonder she always felt that something was following her. So it wasn’t that she was being suspicious, but that something was really following her.

The large snake had followed her here!!

“This stupid snake! I specifically went to look for it, and it wouldn’t show itself. But it secretly followed me. Is it crazy? Does it not want to live, daring to follow me here?!”

It’s over, it’s over. It has followed me here. It’s so unique and strange. It will definitely be caught by people, and its snake life will be in danger.

No, no, no. I can’t just watch it die. I have to find this snake and hide it quickly.

The large snake had followed her all the way to the port, and the video was also filmed at the port. Maybe the large snake was still in the nearby waters.

This snake didn’t even have a phone. If it had a phone and could be contacted, would it be so difficult for her to find it?

She hurriedly walked towards the door. Halfway there, she turned back, mumbling, “Phone, phone. I have to take my phone.”

The phone had just fallen to the ground. Yu Chujin walked over and bent down to pick it up.

As she bent down, she inadvertently glanced under the sofa. A dark mass was coiled there.

Yu Chujin’s action of picking up the phone paused for a moment. She bent down and poked her head under the sofa to look.

Her eyes met a pair of eyes.

“Ah!”

With a scream, she didn’t even bother to pick up the phone. She was so scared that she stumbled back several steps and fell.

Da Huang, who was gnawing on a bone under the table, was so scared by her scream that it dropped the bone.

“Ahhh, what is that? Why is there a snake in the house!”

Yu Chujin quickly ran out of the house. After running into the yard, she turned back, pulled the dog out from under the table, and ran out with it.

The neighbor sister next door happened to be watering the flowers in the yard. Seeing her run out in a panic, she asked with a puzzled expression:

“What’s wrong? You’re so scared.”

Yu Chujin put the dog down and pointed in the direction of the house, her voice trembling, “My house has…”

The word “snake” was stuck in her throat and was forcefully stopped.

Because she suddenly remembered the “tsk” sound she would hear from time to time, and the quick glance she had just had under the sofa. The small snake coiled in a ball was somewhat similar to the large snake.

The neighbor put down the watering can and looked in the direction she was pointing, “What’s in your house? A thief?”

Yu Chujin swallowed her original words and calmed down, “No, I just saw a small bug.”

The neighbor was speechless, “You’re afraid of bugs? Should I go in and help you catch it?”

Yu Chujin shook her head like a rattle drum, “No, no. The bug has already flown away. Yes, it has flown away.”

The neighbor did not notice anything unusual and continued to water the flowers. Yu Chujin, on the other hand, turned her head to look at the house, her expression changing several times.

She took a deep breath, mustered her courage, and walked into the house.

She needed to verify whether her guess just now was correct.