Chapter 998
The number of snak is surrounding them increased. Kelvin threw Krystal off his back.
Before she could react to that, he pressed her head onto the ground abruptly.
She was livid. “What are you-”
“Shut up!”
He hushed her before pleading, “Please stop blowing the flute. She knows that she’s wrong. She will not
do it again. Stop those snakes from coming at us!”
He lowered his voice, threatening Krystal, “If you don’t wanna die, beg for mercy right now! Otherwise, we
won’t be able to get out of this village.”
The sound of snakes hissing echoed in the woods.
Krystal had never witnessed such a sight before. She wasn’t even wearing protective gear.
The snakes didn’t stop in their tracks.
Kelvin grabbed her ponytail to press her head onto the ground again. “I am so sorry, miss. Please show us
mercy. If your mother finds out about this, she won’t be happy, will she?”
As he had expected, the sound of the flute stopped as soon as he said that. The snakes ceased, too
Still, it gave them goosebumps to have so many snakes staring at them.
Willow was still a kid, after all. The person she cared the most was Olivia.
The first time Willow used her ability was when she was two. Olivia had gone to the mountains to harvest
herbs at that time.
The smell of animal-repellent powder on her subsided because she stayed in the mountains for too long.
A leopard sneakily attacked her from behind. Even though she reacted quickly, her arms were scratched.
Her blood splattered onto the little girl in the pack basket.
Willow’s eyes widened. No one told her what to do, but she managed to call upon the insects, rats,
snakes, and birds nearby in a fit of pique.
That leopard was bitten to death, leaving only its bones.
Olivia wasn’t surprised by the leopard but by her daughter instead.
Willow could still remember Olivia’s look back then. It was the look in which one was watching a monster.
That look merely lasted for a few seconds before Olivia hugged Willow and comforted her.
Nevertheless, it wrenched Willow’s heart every time she recalled Olivia’s gaze back then.
Kelvin was right. Olivia wouldn’t want Willow to misuse her ability.
Willow blew the flute again. The melody slowly turned into a soft tune..
The snakes retreated like a withdrawing wave that pounded against the beach.
The red snake picked Willow up from the tree. When they were about to reach the ground, the barefooted
Willow jumped off it and landed before Krystal.
Krystal raised her head, meeting Willow’s green eyes. Willow stared at her deeply as the latter trembled in
fear.
The sound of the bell rang, and Krystal’s heart pounded along with the beat.
She broke into a cold sweat. When the bell could no longer be heard, she flopped onto the ground as
though her soul had left her b*dy.
Her initial plan was to leave the village the next day, but she fell sick that night.
She wasn’t in the right state of mind as she kept mumbling nonsense.
Kelvin was excited when he told Brent about the incident.
“Brent, you don’t know how magnificent the sight was. It was a sea of snakes swarming us to the sound
of the flute! It was like a movie!
“They came right at us from all sides! It was terrifying!”
Brent frowned, recalling what Wendy had said before leaving. He had a hunch that Krystal’s illness wasn’t
a coincidence.
“Brent, what are you thinking about?”
“Did Vanessa say that she won’t let Krystal leave the village?”
It seems Ethan only ever married Olivia to take revenge for what happened to his little sister. While Olivia is plagued by her sickness, he holds her chin and says coldly, “This is what your family owes me.” Now, she has no family and no future.
Her father becomes comatose after a car accident, leaving her with nothing to live for. Thus, she hurls herself from a building. “The life my family owes will now be repaid.” At this, Ethan, who’s usually calm, panics while begging for Olivia to come back as if he’s in a state of frenzy …
