40 The little red worm (1/2)

Returning to the pit where the fought, Xue'er looked down, only to see that the five colored snake was laying dormant on the sandy ground.

[It won?]

Xue'er could not believe that the five colored snake won.

Whatever happened to size doesn't matter?

Sure it was the largest when it came to everything else in the pit, but when it came to toxicity, it was only so-so.

How could it possibly have survived?

Xue'er took a deep breath, to calm her nerves from the failure in her logical thinking.

Maybe she had truly hypothesized wrongly.

She really didn't want to keep something so large, she would much rather prefer any one of the other creatures, but it had won that drop of blood, so she has to keep it.

Bending down, her hand reached to caress the five colored snake that was there. If she was going to be its owner, she should get closer to it.

Her pale hand came closer to the snake's scales, she felt that it was soft and without any structure. It felt as if a slight wind can cause the entire skeleton of it to collapse.

[Something's not right.]

She retracted her hand, focusing on the small shape that was crawling under the snake's scaly skin. The figure was small, but its movements were aggressive, with a lot of strength behind it.

Finally, the skin burst at seven inches below the snake's head, which was the heart. Against one's imaginings, it was not a bloody mess with organs spraying everywhere, instead, the snake no longer had a drop of blood in its body, it was nothing more than a hollow shell.

What popped out was a small little red worm, about the size of a thumb. It was different from before, its body was a lot stronger, even being able to penetrate the thickest of armor and skins. Its eyes had changed to a golden color, with its body a deep crimson color.

Xue'er blinked and looked at the cute little thing, then at the snake that had its organs eaten from the inside out. She knew that the snake must have been in deep agony, the feeling of one's organs getting eaten one by one with the heart still alive and pumping was a horrible feeling.

[My hypothesis was correct!]

Was the only thing Xue'er was thinking at the moment. All she felt was the relief that she hadn't been wrong.

She looked at the adorable little worm and reached her right hand down into the pit. The little worm, as if recognizing its owner, crawls out of the hollowed out snake, and into the jade-like hand. Once it reaches her palm, it curls up into a tiny little ball like a little cat.

Xue'er was amazed at how small the worm was able to make itself when it curled up. It now resembled nothing more than a large drop of blood on her palm.

She gently stroked the little droplet that was in her balm. It was very soft and smooth, just like a flower petal, no one would ever believe that this little creature had eaten the entire inside of a snake, leaving nothing but a hollow shell.

This little thing was all her's now.