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Chapter 481 Let go
Eight-year-old Xiao Sheming watched as his mother breathed her last in front of him.
In Xiao Sheming's heart, although She Yue always beat and scolded him, she was still his mother no matter what, and in this empty cave, she was his only family.
Therefore, Little Snake Ming always goes out very hard to find food to support himself and his mother.
He didn't love Snake Moon, but he didn't want to be alone.
But now the person who depended on him for survival has died right in front of him and will never speak to him again, not even a single insult.
Snake Moon died in the summer. Her body rotted day by day, and the cave was filled with a strong stench of decay. Snake Dark was too weak to move Snake Moon's body. He watched as white worms crawled all over Snake Moon's body.
He had no choice but to take a stone shard and cut Snake Moon's body into small pieces, then transported them to the forest outside the cave. Not wanting his mother to be eaten by wild animals after her death, he painstakingly dug a hole, pieced his mother's body back together, and buried it under a huge pine tree.
At that moment, Little Serpent Ming stared expressionlessly at the sub-beastman lying in the pit, cut to pieces, and sprinkled handfuls of soil on her body.
The only person who could stay by my side is gone.
Eight-year-old Xiao Sheming was left all alone from then on.
He left the cave and began his life of wandering.
As long as he stayed there, he could recall Snake Moon's voice and appearance, and the resentful and hateful look in her eyes when she looked at him. After Snake Demon left, he deliberately made himself forget these things. Under his strong psychological suggestion, he even forgot which pine tree he had buried his mother under.
But no matter what, he could never forget the orc that Snake Moon mentioned to him again and again, the one who caused Snake Moon's family to be destroyed and left homeless, his biological father—Snake Thunder.
He didn't actually hold any grudge against She Lei, because She Yue hadn't been very kind to him either. It was all between the two of them, so what did it have to do with him?
He was merely a product of coercion and being coerced into being born; who ever asked him whether he wanted to be born or not?
The little snake Ming hid and searched day after day, raising itself little by little by stealing and picking up scraps from here and there.
He never thought of returning to the Serpent Tribe to find his father; he just wanted to live and die alone on this orc continent. He had no intention of committing suicide, but he also found this kind of life extremely boring.
It was Snake Thunder who didn't let him go first. Snake Thunder never gave up searching for Snake Moon who had escaped. After discovering Snake Dark's stunning face, which was exactly like his mother's, he confirmed his identity almost without hesitation.
Snake Moon's child, the rightful heir of the Mad Snake Tribe, how could Snake Thunder allow this wandering cub to pose any threat to him?
So he did something incredibly stupid: he sent people to hunt down Serpent Darkness. This action immediately enraged him. At that moment, Serpent Darkness raised his blackened fingertips and stared expressionlessly at the scattered, lifeless bodies of the Mad Serpent tribe orcs on the ground.
As if he had finally found something interesting, he began his game of wits with Snake Thunder with great interest, and then, when he grew tired of it, he killed him in one fell swoop.
And so, he became the new chieftain of the Mad Serpent tribe.
After becoming the clan leader, he deliberately forgot those disgusting memories.
But on that ordinary night, when he saw the cheetah cub struggling to eat, he inappropriately thought of himself when he went out to gnaw on bones in the middle of the night to save Snake Moon some food.
He watched the cub for a long time until the cheetah cub noticed him and looked at him warily, its paws tightly gripping the bones beneath it.
Snake Demon had little sympathy at the time. He simply threw the dried meat that had been sitting in his animal skin bag for who knows how long, glanced at the cub indifferently, and then turned and left.
He didn't bother to find out the whereabouts of the cheetah cub after that, but judging from its appearance, it was just a wandering orc.
He knew all too well what would become of wandering orcs: unless they were powerful, they would either become prey for wild beasts or be captured by large tribes and oppressed to death.
"Ming, Ming? What are you thinking about?" Lin Baiyan reached out and gently patted Snake Ming's shoulder.
Snake Demon was suddenly pulled out of that ancient memory and saw Lin Baiyan's face magnified in front of him. He subconsciously took a few steps back.
"Why are you getting so close to me?" She Ming rolled her eyes at Lin Baiyan, annoyed.
Lin Baiyan looked at him strangely, "You were the one who spaced out first."
"So what were you thinking just now?" Lin Baiyan tilted her head at him.
Snake Darkness just watched him silently. He was thinking that if Lin Baiyan could really do it, would those wandering beastmen finally have a home?
If only the young Snake Ming had met Lin Baiyan now, how wonderful that would have been! Given Lin Baiyan's current overly kind nature, he might have tricked and swindled the young Snake Ming into taking him home and raising him.
In that case, wouldn't he be completely different from who he is now?
His regretful yet unwilling gaze made Lang Cang quite wary, and he stepped forward to block Lin Baiyan's path.
After Lin Baiyan could no longer be seen, She Ming finally spoke, "It's nothing. I just wanted to see what the Beastman Continent, which you saved, looks like."
At that moment, he seemed to have found another reason to continue living. He wanted to see what this sub-orc could do without the Shadow God.