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Chapter 11 Melon and Snake
"Yes, sir, you heard me right," the receptionist said. "Watermelons have a special attraction for them. If she escapes, the others will be in danger too..."
"You sound so calm, it's not like you're in danger at all!" Li Jiu thought to himself, then turned to look at the fruit platter.
Sure enough, there was a coffee table by the window in the room, and on the coffee table was a fruit plate, and in the fruit plate were... uh... three slices of watermelon.
"Three slices?" Li Jiu was taken aback. "Didn't the rules say 'a whole watermelon'?"
"It means 'perfectly sliced watermelon,' not a whole watermelon," the receptionist explained. "It was originally a whole watermelon, but guests kept eating it, so the hotel considered the cost and changed it to—"
"Hey, why are you explaining this to him? It's just that he encountered a 'Dragon Servant,' right?" A sharp remark interrupted the girl's voice. "Just tell him to do it, switch the camera to him! It's such a small thing, why are you being so fussy..."
"Oh, I'm sorry, sir. Just do as I say, don't be afraid. Please trust the professionalism of Mushroom House." The receptionist seemed to have covered part of the phone, her voice carrying a hint of apology, and the sharp, disdainful voice could no longer be heard.
Tang Mubai, who was listening nearby, changed his expression drastically: "Are you kidding me...? You want us to open the door for her? Brother Li, I think this is a bit unreasonable. That thing isn't going to bite our heads off like watermelons, is it?"
Li Jiu pursed his lips and pondered for a moment: "They are experienced, let's do as they say."
"No, do as instructed?! Even a dog wouldn't..." Tang Mubai was even more frightened, and his voice seemed to rise a little.
"Thump thump thump!! Thump thump thump!!"
The knocking grew louder, and the chanting became deeper, echoing endlessly like a super subwoofer.
"बुद्धवचनप्रज्ञरपर्वतप िशरचमरयरंविभरतिर ंकर्मदोषंनभवति, मयरदमन "
"बुद्धवचनप्रज्ञरपर्वतप िशरचमरयरंविभरतिर ंकर्मदोषंनभवति, मयरदमन "
"...Do it!! Do it as instructed!! If the dog won't do it, I will!!"
Tang Mubai was startled by the commotion. He immediately forgot all his doubts and rushed to the coffee table in the room. He grabbed three slices of watermelon and returned.
"Let's go block the door!"
Li Jiu was slightly shocked by Tang Mubai's rebound, but before he could recover from the shock, Tang Mubai stuffed three slices of watermelon into his hands.
Li Jiu: "???"
Tang Mubai said the most cowardly thing in the toughest tone: "I don't dare to go, Li Jiu, you go!"
"you……"
Tang Mubai: "Woof woof woof woof!!!"
Li Jiu was stunned. Tang Mubai was actually so compliant!
Seeing that Li Jiu remained unmoved, Tang Mubai quickly urged, "Don't be like that. Everyone knows I'm not afraid of anyone. Li bro, after summer camp—oops, after we leave tomorrow—I'll treat you to the most luxurious bathhouse in S City to wash away all your worldly cares!"
"No way!"
"I'll give you my account to run the knife, okay?"
"I don't care!"
"I've been duo-queuing with 'He Burun Jiangdong' lately!"
"Now that you mention it, I think I've forgotten the password for that account..." Li Jiu grabbed the watermelon and rushed towards the door through gritted teeth.
It wasn't that he really wanted to duo queue with Xiang Yu, but no matter what Li Jiu said, Tang Mubai was determined not to go in, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and go in.
On her phone, the receptionist was still adding tips: "Put the three slices of watermelon out one by one, try to delay it as long as possible!"
Li Jiu tried his best to calm himself down, then placed the first slice of watermelon in front of the door crack, and then opened the door a crack without removing the stopper.
The moment the door opened a crack, the knocking abruptly stopped, and the long, eerie chanting vanished without a trace, as if it had disappeared into thin air.
Li Jiu stepped back a little, his eyes warily fixed on the crack in the door, his heart slowly rising into his throat.
The door was pushed open, and the stop chain snapped taut with a "click".
Li Jiu realized something was wrong; he had miscalculated. Hotels usually designed their barriers to allow only one narrow opening, taking into account the safety of guests.
Now, the gap is too small. Although the watermelon can go out, the gap is not big enough for the girl to put her hand in.
Tang Mubai reacted incredibly quickly, dashing into the bathroom, grabbing the mop leaning against the wall, and then slipping back smoothly. He shoved it into Li Jiu's hand like a precious sword, frantically gesturing with his eyes for him to use the mop handle to push the watermelon away.
But just then, a series of hissing sounds suddenly came from behind the door, and then a white snake, about the thickness of a thumb, suddenly poked its head out from the crack in the door, nimbly twisting its body and coiling around the slice of watermelon.
After the white snake coiled around the watermelon, the part outside the door seemed to be pulled so that its body was stretched straight, as if it wanted to drag the watermelon out. However, the combined size of the snake and the watermelon was still too large, and the watermelon was still stuck in the door gap.
The sudden appearance of a white snake outside the door filled Li Jiu and Tang Mubai with immense panic. What would they do if a white snake, capable of squeezing through a crack in the door, were to enter now and wreak havoc in the room?
Shoot a snake?
Putting aside whether it's possible to kill it, the first thing to consider is whether this white snake is a normal snake or not.
"Or... why don't you just take a mop and stuff it out?" Tang Mubai's voice trembled, and he was trembling as well.
Li Jiu was also somewhat tempted, and tightened his grip on the mop handle, but looking at the white snake coiled around the watermelon, he dared not make any rash moves.
At this moment, the white snake seemed to give up dragging, loosened its grip on the watermelon, and nimbly shrunk back outside the door.
Tang Mubai secretly took a deep breath, but Li Jiu's nerves tightened even more, and a stronger sense of foreboding struck his temples like a hammer.
The next moment, a terrifying scene unfolded: the white snake returned and, with incredible speed, bit into the watermelon flesh.
Then came the second white snake, the third white snake, the fourth white snake...
Countless white snakes darted in through the crack in the door, eagerly tearing at the watermelon flesh. The crack at that spot seemed to have become a fountain of snake heads, with countless snake heads surging in and filling the entire watermelon flesh.
The watermelon slices weren't very big; they were barely big enough for one snake head to burst open before they were completely devoured.
The next moment, the countless white snakes, now devoid of watermelon flesh, slowly began to writhe and writh, their numerous heads slowly aimed at Li Jiu.
"Hiss hiss hiss..."
Countless white snake heads flicked out their scarlet tongues.