I wasn’t sure how the at and berries happened to appear under my tree, but when Night gave the all-clear, I didn’t particularly care either. At this point in ti, I was willing to eat almost anything.
I quickly started a fire and got down to eating so of the best-tasting... I don’t know what... I ever had. I followed it up with the berries because I figured if the at was good, the berries should be too.
I was a bit worried that I might have taken a kill from so predator that knew how to hold a grudge, but I shook off that thought. The law of the jungle was first co, first served. Literally, in this case.
"Are you still alive?" ca a voice through my earpiece causing to roll my eyes.
"No, Jun Li, I am not alive," I said sarcastically as I threw a few more berries in my mouth. "And I thought you were giving three days. It’s only been a night.
"Ha, ha. I realized that I left out a couple of things from the mission," ca the disgruntled voice. Clearly, Jun Li didn’t like to overlook anything.
"I would say so," I said with a sigh as I stood up and dusted my palms on my pants. I was on the fence about putting my armor on, but I figured that for right now, it was better to be safe than sorry. Once I was fully encased in lifesaving Nanos, I opened my arms for Night.
He proceeded to jump into my arms once again, but instead of clinging onto my front as he did before, he moved carefully around my body until he was clinging onto my back like an eight-legged backpack. I waited a mont to make sure that he was on securely before starting to walk forward.
"There seems to be a secondary life form on you right now," said Jun Li cautiously. "And according to my sensors, it is a voragyvis?"
"Yeah," I said, barely stopping myself from shrugging. "It seed to have adopted ."
"Adopted you?" he asked, stunned.
"Yeah. He slept with last night, ate breakfast with this morning. In fact, I think he brought breakfast. All in all, it’s fine if he is on my back. You never know when an extra eye or six will co in useful. Now, about this missing information? Other than the obvious, of course."
"The client wants three of the Agkistrodon rhodostoma and five of the Bothrops lanceolatus. He is willing to pay more if they are alive by delivery but understands if you cannot do that."
"Why would I have a problem keeping eight snakes alive? Isn’t the delivery date in three days?"
There was a mont of silence before Jun Li ca back on. "I think there has been another miscommunication," started Jun Li, but I was forced to cut him off. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw what looked like the tip of a snake tail slipping down the path in front of .
"I’ll have to get back to you, I think I’ve spotted one, but I can’t be sure," I said as I took off in a sprint down the path, Night clinging to as hard as he could.
"i Xing—"
"Not now, Jun Li," I said as I sped up. I had almost caught up to it.
"i Xing—" he said again, this ti yelling at the top of his lungs. "I need to tell you sothing!"
I slid to a stop, almost falling on my ass and squishing Night. I looked up and then continued to look up until I saw the triangular head of a snake turning around and looking at .
"Like the thing I thought might be two feet long is actually 150 feet long?" I said as I froze. First things first, heat signature. I quickly pulled up my wrist unit and double-checked that I was not sending out any heat signatures. Safe in that regard.
I changed to the camouflage mode. I assud that because Night was indigenous to the jungle, then even if the dragon-like thing saw him, it would simply ignore him. But , yeah, I couldn’t guarantee that it would ignore .
"I take it you found one, then?" asked Jun Li with a bit of a cringe in his voice.
"Sure, let’s go with that," I answered, not willing to move too much. "Want to tell the grand plan for capturing one of these things alive?" I continued, staring the giant snake up and down. I knew Jun Li was big, but I didn’t think that he was big enough to hold eight of these things. The buyer better be paying good money for it; that was all I was saying.
All of a sudden, the tail of the serpent flicked across the path, as if it was trying to figure out where I went. It was a smart strategy, that was for sure. I quickly activated my anti-gravity settings, causing to shoot up into the air and out of the strike zone.
The snake, seemingly satisfied that there was nothing behind it, turned around and continued forward.
I hovered in the air, not knowing what my next step should be. The only obvious thing to do was to follow the snake. I had spent a whole day searching for this thing, I couldn’t take the chance of not finding it a second ti.
On the other hand, only an idiot would follow sothing that is the size of two tennis courts.
I sighed, already knowing my answer. I continued to slowly fly through the air after the giant snake as I waited for Jun Li to let in on the plans.
"Well, I have a good suggestion and a bad suggestion. Which one do you want?" ca Jun Li’s voice after a few monts.
"What do you think?!?" I asked incredulously. "Of course, I want the good suggestion."
"Well, the good suggestion is an easy way in the beginning, but could potentially blow up in our faces later," hedged Jun Li.
"Just shut up and tell !" I growled, not at all willing to play 20 questions. I needed to know how to deal with this thing, and I needed to know now.
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