Splitty seemed to be frightened as it was suddenly covered by the iron cage. It shook its scythes in anger. After several rounds of clanking sounds the iron cage ruptured.
Dudian's mouth twitched as he wryly smiled.
He slowly retreated so that splitty wouldn't vent its anger on him. However it seems splitty wasn't angry at him. It just cut off the cage and went out.
Dudian was relieved as he went through the promenade into the room. It was a storage room with several boxes on top of each other. He looked around as he saw the table in the room covered by the spider webs. There was an oil lamp on the desk.
Dudian opened the drawer below the desk. A striped snake jumped out of it.
Dudian's hands were lightning fast as he grabbed its tail and pulled it into two. He threw the dead body of the snake to the other side of the wall.
Splitty sensed the smell of the blood and picked it up to eat.
