ATFBETIBM Chapter 690.2

The girl swiped her snake tail and slithered over. She looked at Bai Lixin with desperation, as if he were her last hope.

“Please, save me! I’ll do anything if you just get me out of here!”

She even prostrated herself on the ground, and kowtowed to him. “Save me, this place is hell. I’d rather die than stay here!”

This wasn’t Su Yixue either.

Bai Lixin promised to rescue her and continued to the fourth floor.

The fourth floor housed another half-human, half-snake girl.

Compared to the previous two, this snake girl seemed mentally disturbed. Her eyes were clouded, her gaze vacant. She sat in a corner, her clothes hanging loosely, alternating between laughing and crying. She mumbled fragmented songs under her breath.

She wasn’t Su Yixue either.

“I’ll come back to get you out,” Bai Lixin said before turning and heading to the fifth floor.

The fifth-floor occupant was a young girl, about the same age as Chen Min Min and Man Man.

She wore black-framed glasses, and even though she had a long snake tail trailing under her body, there was still a scholarly air about her.

The girl sat on the bed, her belly swollen, staring blankly at the wall. Even when Bai Lixin approached the barrier, she didn’t react much.

After studying her face, Bai Lixin confirmed that she wasn’t Su Yixue.

Like before, Bai Lixin said, “I’ll come back to get you out.”

“Are you going to kill the snake?” Just as Bai Lixin was about to leave, the girl finally spoke, her voice flat and emotionless.

Bai Lixin: “Probably, yes.”

The girl said faintly, “What would happen to me if you killed it?”

Bai Lixin: “?”

The girl’s voice was eerily calm. “I was 22 when I was captured. I had just graduated from college and passed the civil service exam. My parents were strict my whole life, always beating or scolding me. Only through hard work could I avoid punishment. I had to strive for 100%, to be better than everyone else, more perfect than anyone else. I was always the other people’s child. I came to Snake God Mountain because of the envy that always surrounded me.”

“I’ve been here for so long, and laid more snake eggs than I can remember. I’ve lost touch with society, and I’ve become this…monster. What would be the point of going back to human society? My parents would see me as a disgrace. Those who once envied me would only pity me, and my career would be over.”

“You don’t need to save me. I’d rather stay here and disappear than return to a world that has no place for me.”

Bai Lixin thought for a moment. “But you’re not alone. There are others below in the same situation.”

“Think it over carefully. If you still don’t want to leave by then, the decision is yours.”

The girl opened her mouth to say something, but then closed it without a word.

Just as Bai Lixin was about to continue upwards, the girl spoke again. “I know the girl you’re looking for.”

Bai Lixin quickly turned around.

The girl held her belly and said, “The Snake King liked her very much. I could tell that he treated her differently from the rest of us. Su Yixue lived on the sixth floor; we were neighbors, so I’ve seen her.”

“The Snake King said Su Yixue was special, that she was the perfect female, and her offspring would be perfect too. So, the Snake King kept her close, tormenting her day after day.”

“Su Yixue was in so much pain. She had a lover, but the Snake King didn’t care. It doesn’t care about human love, only about having a perfect vessel.”

“It was in a good mood back then, dreaming of having children every day. But one day, Su Yixue disappeared.”

Bai Lixin frowned.

The girl: “The Snake King searched everywhere but never found her.”

“After Su Yixue disappeared, the Snake King went quiet for a while. But then it started venting its frustration on us, taking out its anger for what it couldn’t have.”

“Then, just a few days ago, the Snake King became happy again, like when it first met Su Yixue. It said it had finally found its Snake Queen.”

“I didn’t understand at first, but now I do.” The girl looked Bai Lixin up and down. “You and Su Yixue look alike. You must be siblings, right? The Snake King isn’t as foolish as you think. Don’t bother trying to save us; your own life is more important. Run while you can, your sister isn’t here.”

“Thank you, I understand.” Bai Lixin continued his ascent to the sixth floor.

Although the girl had said she accepted her fate, her actions showed otherwise. Maybe there was too much disappointment after too much hope, which led her to lower her expectations to avoid further despair.

The sixth floor was a huge lair.

Dark, cold, and damp.

Bai Lixin searched around and found the keychain the girl from the second floor had mentioned.

At the same time, he discovered a skeleton and a man’s backpack.

The skeleton was that of a man, with a ring on its finger. Its flesh had long rotted away, leaving only white bones piled in the corner.

Bai Lixin opened the backpack and found a wallet inside.

Inside the wallet was a photo and an ID card.

The group photo was of Su Yixue and her boyfriend, and the ID card belonged to her boyfriend.

Bai Lixin glanced at the white skeletal remains.

Were these the bones of Su Yixue’s boyfriend?

Back then, did the Snake King eat her boyfriend in front of Su Yixue to force her into submission?

Bai Lixin took another look at the bones, then picked up the backpack, took the ring, and left the sixth floor with the keys.

Under the doubtful and incredulous gazes of the girl, Bai Lixin first unlocked the door on the fifth floor.

The girl hesitated for a moment but said nothing more, immediately following behind Bai Lixin.

Next was the fourth floor, the third floor, and the second floor.

One by one, the girls were rescued. Their eyes reddened, tears welling up inside.

But they held back their tears because they knew that escaping the cage where they had been imprisoned for so long was not the end. Only by leaving this place could they truly be free.

“Where is that snake demon now?”

The girl from the first floor walked toward the first floor anxiously, “Will it suddenly come out and drag us back?”

Bai Lixin was silent for two seconds. “Ahem, it probably doesn’t have the time.”

The girl: “Why?”

Bai Lixin: “Its busy with a wedding.”

The girl from the first floor was stunned, “Has that snake demon captured another girl? Damn it.”

She gritted her teeth, “I really hate myself for being powerless. If only I could kill that snake demon!”

Bai Lixin’s expression changed subtly, “Perhaps, it’s not impossible.”

The girl: “?”

At that moment, a loud wail echoed from the first-floor hall.

The girls were all too familiar with this sound, and their shoulders trembled in unison.

Then the girl from the first floor was the first to react, “Did I just hear something? That snake seemed to scream.”

As if afraid the girl hadn’t heard clearly, the sound came again, this time sounding even more miserable than before, like a pig being slaughtered.

The snake demon was squealing like a pig, but the girls were exhilarated.

The girl from the first floor looked at Bai Lixin excitedly, her snake tail flicking back and forth uncontrollably. “What’s going on?”

Bai Lixin: “The snake demon is in trouble. This time, it’s kicked a steel plate and married a fierce ‘girl’.”

A huge black shadow suddenly flew over their heads.

With a heavy thud, the shadow slammed into the wall.

When they looked closely, they realized it was the big black snake.

At this moment, the big black snake had lost all of its previous arrogance. Two of its tail were severed, and its sharp teeth were broken. Its face was swollen like a steamed bun.

A red figure slowly walked from the corner—it was a man wearing a bright red wedding dress. He had a cold expression, a sinister smile on his lips, and murderous intent in his eyes.

The big black snake whimpered and curled up in the corner, begging for mercy with a swollen face, “Hero, please spare me.”

Bai Lixin was amused by the scene and muttered to himself, “Tsk tsk tsk, what a fierce bride.”

The man in the red wedding dress gave Bai Lixin a sideways glance and then walked straight toward the big black snake.

Bai Lixin leisurely leaned against the wall, watching the one-sided display of violence.

The girls stood with their mouths agape, silently watching the demon that had caused them countless nightmares now being handled like soft tofu.

It wasn’t until all the big black snake’s teeth were completely knocked out that Bai Lixin slowly approached.

The big black snake lowered its head pitifully, mumbling incoherently, “Snake Queen, what is going on…”

Dijia ruthlessly delivered another punch.

Bai Lixin stepped on the black snake’s head, looking down at it from above, “How do we restore these girls back to normal?”

Dijia threatened coldly, “Speak quickly, or I’ll skin you alive.”

The big black snake’s body trembled like a sieve, “I’ll speak, I’ll speak. This is the mirror world. Leave here, and everything will return to normal.”

Seeing the dangerous glint in Dijia’s eyes, the big black snake hurriedly added, “Don’t kill me. Only I can freely enter and exit the mirror world.”

Dijia sneered, “Then how do you think I got in?”

The big black snake froze, despair written all over its face.

Bai Lixin pulled out the vajra pestle that had been hidden in his clothing and waved it in front of the girls, “Do you want to do it yourselves, or should I?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the girl from the second floor rushed over, snatching the vajra pestle and stabbing it into the black snake’s body.

Thick, foul-smelling black blood oozed from the snake’s wound.

The black snake looked at the girl in disbelief, “I am your husband, why are you… killing me?”

“Husband?” The girl sneered, “Bah! You’re nothing but a kidnapper, a murderer, a rapistt! I’d probably have Stockholm syndrome to even think of you as my husband! You monster, die already!!!”

She pulled the vajra pestle out and viciously stabbed it in again.

Just as she was about to deliver a third blow, another hand took the pestle.

It was the girl from the fifth floor.

The girl from the fifth-floor raised the vajra pestle high and slammed it deep into the black snake’s body.

The big black snake let out a blood-curdling scream.

The girl was unfazed, efficiently pulling the vajra pestle out and driving it in again, over and over.

Her face was expressionless, but her actions were merciless.

She embodied the saying, “The quiet ones are the most dangerous”.

The person who initially claimed they didn’t care turned out to be the one with the deepest hatred.

When her body was covered in black blood, the girl finally threw the vajra pestle away. She was exhausted and gasping as she stared at the black snake, “You ruined my glory and my life. You don’t deserve to live.”

The girl from the third floor took the vajra pestle, raised her arm, and brought it down.

The black snake let out a final, desperate cry.

It was a brutal execution.

A revenge long overdue.

And also a salvation, a rebirth.

With the snake demon’s death, all the pain vanished along with it. No matter how hard life might be from here on, they would face a new future.

Once out of the mirror, Bai Lixin found himself back in the familiar Room 101 on the first floor.

Just as the black snake had said, the snake tails on the four girls’s bodies quickly disappeared.

Their swollen stomachs quickly deflated, returning to their normal, flat state.