Chapter 305 - A Lesson (2/2)

The sun had just set, and there was still residual light all around. The three moons had already made their appearances in the skies.

The air was hot and dry. As snakes were poikilotherms[1], they were easily affected by the heat. However, this level of heat wasn’t cause for fear for four-striped beastmen like Curtis. It was just that they had a more acute instinctive ability to pursue good fortune and avoid disaster than ordinary snake beastmen, so Curtis felt very uncomfortable in such an environment.

After sending Parker flying with his tail once more, Curtis looked up at the skies.

Although it was dusk, the skies were still strikingly bright. Curtis’s pupils speedily narrowed into blood-vessel like vertical slits. His narrow and bloody eyes clearly reflected the image in the skies; they were clean, yet gave off a hint of inauspiciousness.

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Parker came back by himself, hobbling all the way up the stairs. With blood-stained fur by the corners of his lips, he walked into the bedroom and fell onto his nest with scarcely any breath left.

Bai Qingqing, no longer in the mood to continue giving him the cold shoulder, wiped the traces of blood from the corners of his lips using a faded and lined towel. She whispered, “I told you not to do it, but you wouldn’t listen. Look what happened.”

Parker transformed into a human, and as his fur shrunk into his skin, the traces of blood were now clearly evident by the sides of his mouth. Bai Qingqing easily wiped off the blood.

“I want to have a litter of leopard cubs with you.” Parker gazed at Bai Qingqing with golden eyes that appeared to be misted, perhaps due to his injury. An aggrievedness could be detected in his tone. “Your snake babies with Curtis are already so big.”

So what if he was walloped? Even in other families, fights would frequently occur when males vied to copulate with the female. The relationship between him and Curtis was already considered harmonious.

Bai Qingqing could no longer bear to reprimand him. Now armed with experience, she started to rub at Parker’s bruises.

[1] A poikilotherm is an animal whose internal temperature varies considerably