What he was facing was a terrifying cyan giant python. Droplets of slime dripped onto him from time to time. Its sharp teeth exuded a cold and bone-chilling aura, and its blood-blue eyes glinted with a ruthless and icy light, as if it could pierce several holes through him.
"Ah!!!" A shrill scream tore from his throat, almost breaking. His pupils dilated wider than copper bells, and his eyes were filled with fear. His teeth chattered uncontrollably.
Realizing how cowardly he was, the next second he immediately grabbed the sword beside his pillow, jumped out of bed, and tried to intimidate this terrifying monster with the weapon.
"Don't, don't come any closer, or I'll cut you down!" He was still trying to bolster his courage, but he was constantly filled with anxiety. His hand holding the sword trembled violently. He shrank his neck and swallowed nervously.
He couldn't figure out why he had been encountering strange monsters these days.
Last time it was the giant python, and this time it was a giant python. Why did all these strange things seem to be his enemies?
However, to his horror, he saw the giant python curl its lips into a bloodthirsty smile. It opened its huge mouth wide, and its massive body arched into an S-shape. The next second, a cyan shadow lunged at him. In an instant, his body was tightly wrapped by the python, the sword fell to the ground, and he was completely immobilized by the powerful coils of the python.
His blood began to congeal as the python tightened its grip. Every muscle of the python seemed to be brimming with tremendous strength. With each tightening, Li Nao felt a sharp spasm of pain.
He knew that if the python exerted a little more force, he would be crushed into a pulp and devoured without a trace.
"Please, please let me go..." His face flushed scarlet as he pleaded in a hoarse voice, like a dying fish gasping for survival on the shore.
Long Mo, who had transformed into a python, saw the despair and pleading in this mortal's eyes but felt no mercy. This man had once hurt Shu Yue and almost caused her death!
He almost forgot Shu Yue's warning and was about to kill this ordinary mortal without permission.
He respected life, but he held nothing but contempt for this dirty soul and showed no pity at all.
However, he managed to suppress his killing intent with the last shred of rationality, and the force with which he coiled around Li Nao loosened a bit.
From the brink of suffocation to suddenly getting a breath of air, Li Nao felt as if he had just come back from the gates of hell. He gasped for air, greedily inhaling the precious fresh air.
"Leave him alive." A deep, bass voice sent a shiver down his spine. He looked up and saw a domineering man walking in through the door.
Although the man was dressed in a spotless white robe, his cold and aloof demeanor was in stark contrast to his immaculate appearance. His chiseled features were sharp and angular, and his deep-set eyes were as cold as ice and as hot as a raging fire.
He was incredibly handsome, but his beauty was tinged with a hint of danger. His tall and well-built frame exuded an air of arrogance and superiority, like a majestic black hawk.
"Shu Yue, w-why are you here?" Although he could breathe again, Li Nao was still firmly in Long Mo's grasp. He watched as Shu Yue approached him step by step and took out a sharp dagger from his bosom. The cold blade glinted menacingly, as if it could pierce through his bones.
The room was completely sealed, but he felt a cold draft creeping in. The chill grew stronger as the man got closer, as if he were trapped in an ice cellar, with his limbs and blood freezing.
"What, what are you going to do?" Wrapped tightly by the python, he could only watch helplessly as Shu Yue walked towards him with the knife. He had never felt more desperate and afraid in his life.
"Elder Li Nao, I'd like to ask you something. I hope you'll answer me honestly, or..." Shu Yue flashed a cruel smile as he ran his finger along the edge of the cold blade. Then he glanced at Long Mo, who was coiling around Li Nao, and said calmly, "You'll either become a victim of my knife or his food."
"I, I'll definitely answer you honestly. Please, please don't kill me." All his former arrogance had vanished. Li Nao, who was terrified of death, nodded repeatedly, his eyes filled with a desperate desire to survive.
Shu Yue seemed quite satisfied with his answer. He secretly mocked his cowardice and casually asked, "I want to know who made my father cry so sadly when he came back from class today. Do you know?"
He was testing the waters while twirling the dagger deftly in his hand. Each rotation made Li Nao's heart skip a beat.
This Shu Yue must have come to avenge his father. Denying or confessing - neither option seemed to bode well for him.
But it was still better than confessing directly. With this thought in mind, he swallowed hard and mumbled, "I, I don't know."
He stole glances at Shu Yue's face, only to see that his smile had become even more sinister and his black eyes had turned colder and more bottomless.
"Are you sure you don't know?" The twirling motion of the dagger had now turned into a rhythmic tapping on his palm, as if he were about to execute a certain plan but had hidden it well behind his calm exterior.
The calmest surface often concealed the most violent storm. Li Nao began to regret his decision.
But he still stubbornly denied it, "I, n-no, I don't know."
"Humph, very well," Shu Yue sneered. He narrowed his eyes slightly and casually glanced at Long Mo, who immediately understood his meaning.
Without any warning, Long Mo suddenly tightened his grip. As his muscles contracted, Li Nao's breathing, which had just been restored, was once again cut off.
"Ugh..." The excruciating pain of being crushed made him involuntarily curl up his limbs. The veins on his neck bulged, and his face turned beet red, indicating that he was on the verge of death. He tried to cry for help, but his throat felt as if it were being strangled, and he couldn't utter a single word.
"I'll ask you one last time. Did you bully my father?" The cold and emotionless voice seemed to echo in Li Nao's buzzing ears like a demonic incantation.
Taking advantage of the brief moment when Long Mo allowed him to breathe, Li Nao gasped for air to avoid the suffocating torture. Then he voluntarily admitted, "I, I didn't mean to. I was just overcome by lust for a moment and did those things."
Seeing Shu Yue's livid face, he pleaded repeatedly, "Shu Yue, please, please spare me. I'll never dare to do it again. Please don't kill me, don't kill me..."
"Li Nao, I seem to have warned you not to make any inappropriate moves towards my father. But it seems that you've ignored my words and harassed my father again and again. Tell me, how can I trust you now?"
Although his tone was calm, the coldness in his eyes, the deep color of his pupils, and the sharpness of his eyebrows clearly betrayed the raging anger that was about to burst out.
The expressionless coldness on his face and the thin, emotionless lips exuded an invisible chill that made Li Nao tremble with fear. He didn't dare to look him in the eye.