Baby with Daoist Monarch System-Chapter 580 - 230: Serving the Snake God (Part 2)

After a long while, the panting sounds at the village gate finally subsided.

"I... I... I found that madman."

"Except, he’s dead!!"

Dead!!

This news left everyone stunned, including Zhang Hao.

"Dead? How did he die?" Zhang Hao said in disbelief.

If he’s dead, then it means the one who released the snakes last night wasn’t him. Could it be that I really angered the Snake God?

"How did he die?" Zhang Hao suddenly asked.

This immediately triggered the apprentice’s memory.

"Just now, I saw him on a hill outside the village, lying on the ground."

"I saw him foaming at the mouth, his whole body turning black, his blood vessels and eyeballs bulging, and every blood vessel was left with traces of black blood." 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

"Right!" the apprentice suddenly said, "Those black blood vessels are just like the black blood vessels on the hand of the village chief’s wife last night."

As soon as he said this, everyone became extremely terrified.

Last night, the village chief’s wife was poisoned. Village Chief Zhang Hao took her to the physician’s house. As an apprentice, he took care of the village chief’s wife all the time, so he was very clear about all the symptoms of the poisoning.

If he said so, then it must be true.

"Village Chief, you still say you didn’t anger the Snake God!!"

The crowd started to clamor.

"Village Chief, what exactly did you do to provoke the Snake God to come to our village?"

"The village chief’s wife was the first, the village chief will be the second, and then the third, the fourth... finally, the entire village."

"It’s over, Great Wilderness Border Village is finished!"

Zhang Hao watched the wailing crowd with a cold expression.

"You, bring the body back. Let me see if what you said is true." Zhang Hao pointed to the apprentice and several brave young men.

"Alright!!" Upon receiving the order, the apprentice immediately took the lead to the hill where the body was found.

A quarter of an hour later, in the distance, several people carried a corpse back and placed it in front of Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao examined it with a cold expression.

"This is the madman from yesterday; I remember what he looked like."

"It’s definitely him, no mistake!"

"He’s really dead!"

"I see, there are snake bite marks on his ankle."

"Village Chief, with the madman dead, will the village chief’s wife be alright?" someone in the crowd suddenly asked.

Zhang Hao felt a jolt in his heart, followed by a strong sense of unease.

But before he could speak, the physician spoke first, "Impossible, the village chief’s wife’s condition has been stabilized by me, using the Seven-leafed One-flowered Plant from Great Wilderness Border Village’s Pharmacist Xie, specifically effective against venomous snakes and snake venom."

"So it was Pharmacist Xie’s Seven-leafed One-flowered Plant, then there’s nothing to worry about!"

Upon hearing the origin of the herb used, everyone’s concerns were immediately dispelled.

However, at this moment, Zhang Hao’s heart became tense.

He had checked his wife’s condition in the morning, and apart from being unconscious, everything else was fine. The black lines on the back of her hand had also faded.

According to the physician, as long as he reached Great Wilderness Border Village and had Pharmacist Xie personally treat her within seven days, she would recover.

But now that he thought about it, something was not right, very wrong, something seemed off.

In an instant.

Zhang Hao disregarded the crowd’s emotions and ran towards the physician’s house, and the crowd followed suit.

When he reached the door of the physician’s house, pushed open the creaking door, and walked in, he saw a scene he would never forget for the rest of his life.

On the bed where his wife had been lying, there was now only a black skeleton.

Yes, a black skeleton.

The physician, seeing this from afar, immediately ran inside.

Once inside, there was an overwhelming stench.

This stench came from the black skeleton.

"This... this... is the village chief’s... wife!!!"

The physician said, trembling.

"Impossible!" Zhang Hao immediately denied it.

"My wife, just half an hour ago, was lying in bed just fine. How did it become a black skeleton in such a short time? You’re a physician, not a charlatan!!" Zhang Hao scolded.

The physician shook his head and pointed to the bracelet on the black skeleton’s wrist, "I saw this bracelet during treatment yesterday, and it was on the village chief’s wife’s hand."

He then pointed to a puddle of black liquid below the black skeleton, "This black liquid should be the bodily fluids after the village chief’s wife’s body was corroded!!"

With these words, villagers who were less able to endure started to vomit.

Right now, Zhang Hao was completely in shock, approached the physician, and grabbed his collar forcefully, "Didn’t you say she’d be fine? How did she turn into this? You quack!"

"Cough, cough," the physician said intermittently, "Village... chief, in life... nothing is... absolute... it must be that the toxin is too strong."

Outside, villagers also tried to calm him, "Yes, Village Chief, you know, even though the Great Wilderness Border Village is quite far from the Great Mountain, it’s still within its scope. Everyone knows how many strange things are there in the Great Mountain."

"Village Chief, you really can’t blame the physician for this, blame that madman from Stone Village."

"No!!!" Suddenly, Zhang Hao angrily waved his sleeve.

"Blame me. If it weren’t for me angering the Snake God, my wife wouldn’t have died. It’s all my fault!!!"

With that, Zhang Hao rushed out of the physician’s house, pushed through the crowd, and walked toward the village gate.

...

There were always villagers guarding the village gate, but no one saw Zhang Hao return, even by nightfall.

Every villager in Great Wilderness Border Village was in a state of fear, worried that the venomous snake that killed the village chief’s wife last night would target them next.

"Do you think, with the village chief’s wife dead and the village chief no longer in the village, the Snake God that killed them won’t come back?" someone said.