Chapter 1614 — A Coincidental Plan
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"Why are you such a nagging old fool? Here's your money — now hand over the snake!" Gao Xiaofu was furious too. The old man charging an outrageous price was one thing, but taking the money and still acting like he didn't want to sell? Did he think it wasn't enough?
"You're buying even at that price?" Zhu Lingtou was nearly speechless. Why was it that at the crucial moment, a lunatic always had to show up?
"Are you out of your mind, old man? Forget it — I'll grab one myself!" Gao Xiaofu ignored Zhu Lingtou and reached straight into his snake basket, pulled out a grass snake, and turned to leave!
If Zhu Lingtou had wanted to stop him, he easily could have — with his Earth-rank skills, stopping Gao Xiaofu would have been child's play. But the critical problem was that Wei Zhao was nearby. If he revealed his abilities and Wei Zhao noticed, every one of his future plans would be ruined beyond repair! So all he could do was watch helplessly as Gao Xiaofu walked off with a grass snake, silently cursing his bad luck. It looked like today's operation was most likely not going to happen.
Gao Xiaofu had studied grass snakes before and had looked up their behavior. He knew how to hold one so that it wouldn't bite, and he also knew how to provoke one into biting.
Yet as he ran back, triumphant, grass snake in hand, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his arm. He looked down — and discovered the grass snake had bitten him!
"Ahhhh!" Gao Xiaofu let out a bloodcurdling scream. The pain was unbearable. He couldn't fathom how the grass snake had suddenly bitten him. He had even specifically learned from the snake sellers how to handle grass snakes — but today all that knowledge had been useless!
How could he have known that these grass snakes had all been fed drugs by Zhu Lingtou and had turned into vicious, maddened things?
Gao Xiaofu, reeling from the pain, reflexively hurled the snake away. It slithered into the mountain grass in an instant and vanished without a trace.
Meanwhile, the bite wound on Gao Xiaofu's arm had swelled up alarmingly high, as though he had been poisoned. Staring at his own arm, he was badly frightened. Weren't grass snakes supposed to be non-venomous? Even if bitten, there shouldn't be such a dramatic reaction. Could it be... that the snake that bit him had been a venomous one?
"Wow — Little Liang! Gao Xiaofu got bitten by a snake! Hurry and go suck the poison out for him!" Shen Yushu saw Gao Xiaofu hopping around in agony and cried out to Zhong Yongliang with undisguised excitement. "Go on — give us a demonstration of how to treat it!"
"What?" Zhong Yongliang was stunned. He had never imagined that Gao Xiaofu would go off to buy a grass snake and end up bitten by one himself — and it might not even be a grass snake, but a venomous one!
"Zhong Yongliang, hurry and go see — what do we do? Aren't you the expert at treating snake venom?" The other classmates, recalling what Gao Xiaofu had said before they set out, urged Zhong Yongliang quickly.
"That's right, Zhong Yongliang — look, Gao Xiaofu seems to be in a lot of pain. Hurry and help him suck the venom out! Out of all of us classmates, you're the only one who knows how!" another classmate added anxiously.