Since the men were bound to see her, there was no need for Ye Jian to hide anymore. It was not helpful for her to stay still and not take action.
Ye Jian walked out from the back of the tree and glanced at the three men calmly. "You have disturbed the snake." She stuck the branch under the snake and tilted it upward. The slithering black snake was thrown to the sky. As it dropped down, she raised her hand to grab the snake.
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"Oh, sh*t! Oh, sh*t! Fu*k you!" The tall guy was scared by the snake. And then he saw this muddy-faced girl coming out from behind the tree and throwing the snake into the air deftly. When the girl grabbed the black snake gently, the snake that was at least 50 centimeters long started to wriggle in her hand.
As the snake's heart was squeezed, its whole body started to wrap around Ye Jian's arm lightly as if surrounding a branch.
"Black Zaocys snake. Extremely venomous. Lucky for you that you didn't get bitten." Ye Jian grabbed the snake's head and extorted her strength skillfully to make it open its mouth, thus exposing its fangs hidden in its jaws. "Good fangs. Good venoms. It's valuable because it can be used as traditional Chinese medicine."
The three men were dumbstruck to witness such a scene. Damn it! Don't the children in the mountain have toy snakes to play with? They are fu*cking playing with real snakes!
The tall guy was so shocked that he forgot to buckle his belt. Fu*k you! You scared the hell out of me!
Secretly, the leader of the gang moved his hand behind his waist and quietly put it back. After observing this girl, whose facial creatures had been obscured by dirt, with his gloomy eyes for a while, he squeezed his voice and asked, "Little girl, where are your parents?"
The movements of the man's hand caused Ye Jian to subtly tighten her eyes. From her experience of working at a top-class security company, she could tell that this man had equipped a pistol behind him!
"Bitten by snakes. They couldn't make it." Ye Jian replied coldly while holding the snake in her hand. She remained calm and steered away from the leader, but the shortest guy blocked the way in front of her.
If she used this man as a human shield, she could be safer. In this case, she would be able to escape even if these men had guns.
Not only was she brave, but she had extraordinary composure.
The shortest guy, who was closest to Ye Jian, looked at his leader and understood what to do. He raised his hands and stopped Ye Jian from leaving. "Little girl…"
"You want it?" Ye Jian didn't let the man finish his sentence. She stared at him steadily, and then swiftly, she put the venomous snake, whose mouth was open, under the man's eyes. "You can have it. But since I am the one who caught it, you need to buy it from me."
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She was so quick that the short man shuddered in fear. He gasped, retreated several steps and yelled, "Damn it! You scared the hell out of me! Who the fu*k wants to buy it?!"
The path in the mountain was narrow. The short man knocked down his leader who was caught off guard.
As the leaves rustled, they both fell into the bush beside the path.
Accidentally, the pistol tied to the leader's waist was revealed. As soon as she saw the gun, Ye Jian tightened her eyes, turned around swiftly and walked down the mountain.
Now that his fellows had fallen, the tallest guy, who was supposed to brace himself and block Ye Jian's way, shouted, "Brother Kun!"
"Damn it!" Brother Kun seemed rather furious as the short guy fell on him and made him his cushion. While the short guy was getting up in panic, Brother Kun saw Ye Jian walking downwards. He shouted violently, "Stop her!"
A chill flashed across Ye Jian's eyes. She turned around and threw the Black Zaocys snake in her hand to Brother Kun, who was about to get on his feet.
Every snake was agile. They could be extremely aggressive if their hearts were not squeezed, especially the venomous snakes.
The freed Black Zaocys snake wriggled its body. It opened its mouth and bit Brother Kun's arm.
"Ah!"
Gasping, Brother Kun grabbed the snake and threw it into the woods. He gritted his teeth and said, "Go fu*king get her! That bit*h knows what we are talking about!"
But it was not easy to chase after Ye Jian.
In her previous life, after she encountered her first accident, to make herself stronger, she formed the habit of running in the morning because she was used to getting up early. Rain or shine, she never stopped running afterward.
That was why the security company's boss, who also ran every day, hired her, even when she didn't have any identification document with her.
Her 28-year-old soul had integrated well into her 14-year-old body.
The wind from the mountain was scraping her face, and the trees were retreating. She had run far away from those guys.
It only took her ten minutes or so to run from halfway up the mountain to the bottom of it. Rather than run on the path, Ye Jian chose to run in the woods. The rustling leaves alarmed a soldier. He raised his hand, motioning to his comrades, who were investigating the mountain, to find cover.
"Someone is here," he said in a low voice. The rustling of leaves became increasingly louder.
Like a sprinting deer in the forest, Ye Jian rushed forward and bumped into the muzzle of a soldier's gun.
Yesterday, around five o'clock in the morning, the soldiers found traces of people squatting in the mountain on their patrol. As of today, the searching continued. Just in case, the guns of these soldiers had been loaded and could fire away at any time!
And Ye Jian's forehead had bumped into the loaded gun! Although Ye Jian wasn't afraid, she had shocked the soldier carrying the gun.
"Girl!" Drenched in cold sweat out of shock, the soldier put away his gun quickly, perhaps because he had recognized that this girl, whose face was stained with dirt, was Ye Jian. "Go back quickly. Don't come to play in the mountain these few days."
The soldiers needed to remember the children from the villages contained in their patrolling areas. That was why they could recognize Ye Jian right away even with dirt on her face.
As he saw a muzzle-shaped, round print on Ye Jian's forehead, the soldier wanted to laugh. But he thought it was inappropriate to laugh, so he lowered his head and took out a bottle of spray from his sanitary bag. "Spray it on your forehead. It's reddened."
Ye Jian was a bit dizzy due to the crash. Rather than taking the spray, she said to the soldier wearing battle uniforms. "There are three guys equipped with imported camera lenses. 500 meters upward from here. Their leader is called Brother Kun, and he's been bitten by the Black Zaocys snake!"
Rubbing her injured forehead, Ye Jian rapped those words non-stop!
"You stay here and protect her. Everyone else, follow me."
While rubbing her forehead, Ye Jian heard a calm, mellow, low-pitch voice of a man from below.
Ye Jian lowered her eyes subtly and looked downward.
"Yes, sir!"
The soldiers answered in unison. Ye Jian saw an especially young man who was standing sideways from her. Young as he may be, there were three award medals—two bars and one star—on his collar.
He was very tall. Under the warm spring sun, his straight back made him seem like a towering, chilling and steady pine soaring into the sky.
Not a single creature in the forest could withstand such an intimidating vibe. As he slightly raised his hand, his formidable presence took Ye Jian's breath away.