Chapter 107 Stone Palace
"I have been wondering, what does the hook snake want this pair of boys and girls for? If they just want to eat, I am afraid that a pair of boys and girls cannot satisfy the hook snake's appetite." Shen Cihang said slowly
"Why don't you go and take a look and find out? I'll go first and wait for you on the island." Zheng Wenjie twisted his neck and jumped off the deck.

"It's still far from the island..." Shen Cihang's train of thought was interrupted. He looked speechlessly at a white wave appearing on the sea. Wasn't there any preparation at all?
But Shen Cihang still believed that the hook snake that Zheng Wenjie mentioned was not on the island, so he had nothing to be afraid of. He turned around and walked quickly into the cabin, took out a string of Buddhist beads from the cloth bag and hung it around his neck, then he also jumped into the sea like Zheng Wenjie.

After stepping onto the island, Zheng Wenjie looked around. The first thing that caught his eye was the winding gullies, which looked like snakes weaving across the island.

Zheng Wenjie turned his head to look at Shen Cihang who was still swimming hard in the sea. He shook his head and didn't wait for him, and walked straight to the center of the island.

The traces on the island were obviously caused by the hook snake, but they were not caused recently, and the time was at least ten years or more. Thinking about what the green-faced demon said that he hadn't seen the hook snake for twenty years, Zheng Wenjie also became curious about what the hook snake had been doing.

In the middle of the island is a stone temple built on a hill, with only a small part of the temple and a wide stone door showing. Zheng Wenjie is very familiar with the style of this stone temple. He patted the stone pillars guarding the temple, which are very similar to the style of the stone temple in the underworld. Zheng Wenjie stroked the stone pillars and thought, could it be that Hook Snake is from the same era as Pluto A-Cha?
There were two living beings in the stone hall, so Zheng Wenjie didn't think any more about it. He just needed to ask about the situation between the hook snake and the stone hall and he would know everything.

Zheng Wenjie tried his best to push open even a crack in the stone palace in the underworld, but as for the stone palace of Hook Snake, the stone door gradually opened with a slight push, and sunlight gradually expanded through the stone door and shone into the stone palace, which was as big as a stadium.

The scene in the stone hall also made Zheng Wenjie frown, feeling a little uncomfortable. Bright red snake skins filled up half of the stone hall. A pair of naked boys and girls were entangled with each other as if they had no bones. An inexplicable fragrance came from between the two of them, making Zheng Wenjie have the urge to devour them.

"A strange breath, who are you?" a female voice came.

As the sound came, the boys and girls separated their bodies that were entangled with each other like snakes.

"No matter who he is, he will be punished if he enters my territory without my permission." The boy straightened his upper body and sat on the pile of snake skins, staring straight at Zheng Wenjie with a pair of vertical slit-shaped pupils.

"Quiet!" The girl shouted at the boy. She looked at Zheng Wenjie with interest and asked, "Who are you? How did you find this place?"

Zheng Wenjie stood outside the stone gate and looked at the boy and girl for a while. Red scales were faintly visible on half of their bodies. Zheng Wenjie noticed with his sharp eyes that they should have a tail covered with bright red snake scales on their coccyx.

Zheng Wenjie could still feel that the stone hall was very warm and full of alluring fragrance, like an embrace full of love that made people want to go in and hug it.

Zheng Wenjie looked at the half-human, half-snake couple. He came here for two reasons. One was to find an explanation for the death of the two ferrymen. Whether he would avenge them was another matter. The other was to meet the big monster hook snake recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

"I'm here for the two ferrymen who died twenty years ago. Also, where is Hooksnake?"

"Heh..." With a weird laugh, the boy's lower body naturally transformed into a thick, bright red snake body. His upper body was supported in the air. After a few twists, he rushed to the stone gate, looking down at Zheng Wenjie from above and roaring hoarsely: "So you are here to seek revenge from the great snake god!"

Zheng Wenjie frowned and looked at the pool of saliva dripping from the stone door with disgust, but the fragrance that came over made Zheng Wenjie let out a nauseous sound, and he even had the urge to eat the breath on the ground. This made Zheng Wenjie so sick that he quickly stepped back a few steps and went down the steps of the stone hall.

The girl stepped on the snake skin on the ground and walked to the door of the stone hall. She slapped the boy's snake body and scolded him, "Why don't you go to the back? Why are you scaring him?"

The boy shrank back into the stone hall with a sense of grievance and said, "He is here to cause trouble. Shouldn't we kill him for Lord Snake God?"

The girl bowed apologetically to Zheng Wenjie, smiled, then looked up at the boy helplessly: "The Snake God hasn't come back for twenty years, and we have been abandoned by Him." "You are lying to me again, you just want to trick me into leaving the stone temple and occupy the treasures left by the Snake God alone! I won't believe you, I promised the Snake God that I must wait here for Him to come back." The boy retreated smaller and smaller, and his snake body turned into human legs again, except for a meter-long, fist-thick tail with a red and black diamond-shaped tail swaying behind him.

The girl apologized to Zheng Wenjie, "We don't know where the Lord Snake God went. He just asked us to protect the stone box before he left."

Zheng Wenjie waved his hand and noticed that the boy was walking backwards quickly and sticking to the stone wall. He looked in one direction from time to time. Zheng Wenjie looked and saw that there was indeed a small stone platform at the top of the stone hall, and a dark stone box was placed on the platform.

The girl looked at the boy lovingly and said, "I have forgotten my name, but I know we were once human beings."

"I want to return to the human world and find my relatives. I still remember that I have a mother. It's so warm when she hugs me."

"But my brother has forgotten all of this. He only wants to help Him protect this stone box and is unwilling to leave with me. I am worried that he will stay here forever."

"But the days and nights keep passing, and He hasn't come back yet. I can't wait any longer. Can you help me take this box away? Without this stone box, my brother will listen to me. I want to take my brother home with me."

As the girl spoke, tears dripped from her eyes and she looked at Zheng Wenjie pleadingly.

Zheng Wenjie looked at them with some pity. They were all abducted to this island when they were only in their teens. They had been dependent on each other for more than 20 years, and yet they had become like neither human nor demon. It was really pitiful.

Zheng Wenjie casually took out a robe from the Hong Kong Coliseum and wanted to enter the Stone Temple. He gave the robe to the girl, wanting her to have something to cover herself.

"Don't go in!" Gong Ruomei's voice came from not far away. Zheng Wenjie turned around and saw Gong Ruomei, who was wearing a tight outfit and had her long ponytail swinging behind her, walking towards here quickly.

Following behind her were Tang Xue and Shen Cihang, who was being dragged along by her by the collar.

"Why are you here? What happened to him?" Zheng Wenjie turned around and walked towards them, looking at Shen Cihang, whose face was dark as he was put on the ground by Tang Xue.

"Master, he must have been bitten by a snake and poisoned in the sea." Tang Xue clapped her hands and said.

Shen Cihang was poisoned but still conscious, only his limbs were stiff: "I'm fine, give me some time to neutralize the poison."

"There is something wrong with this stone hall. They want to lure you into it." Gong Ruomei said while pulling Zheng Wenjie.

Zheng Wenjie turned around and looked towards the stone hall with some confusion. The boy and girl were standing inside the stone gate with indifferent expressions. Their weird snake eyes looked at them coldly. The boy was no longer timid and nervous, and the girl's emotionless eyes showed no trace of tears just now.

(End of this chapter)