Poker-Face pinched the snake’s neck and pulled its fangs out. Snake Ancestor immediately pulled the snake back, but Poker-Face’s wrist had already turned black.
Indeed, as Snake Ancestor had said, his strength was on par with that of Pampered Guy. If they were fighting people, Snake Ancestor would probably have a very powerful role, but unfortunately, this was a fight against bugs. It was his one weakness.
“Where’s the snake medicine?!” Pampered Guy’s face became livid, and he started scolding loudly. “What kind of stupid snake is this?”
“You can’t reason with snakes.” Snake Ancestor said coldly. He grabbed Poker-Face’s hand and started to suck out the poisonous blood. He then pulled out a dagger and exposed his wrist, where I saw a row of subcutaneous protrusions on his forearm. He cut one, squeezed out something similar to a plant seed, crushed it, and then pressed it against Poker-Face’s wound
“You’re not sick, are you? Don’t infect my boss.” Pampered Guy cried out as he kicked the arched floor in front of him to keep the things below from coming up.
Snake Ancestor completely ignored him. When he was done, he said to Poker-Face, “Your hand will hurt for three days and you won’t be able to move it. It’ll feel as heavy as a rock, but you won’t die.”
Poker-Face raised his bitten hand and took a deep breath. I saw that the blood vessels near the wound were bulging, and his rigid fingers immediately started moving.
“You can still move? Impossible!” Snake Ancestor was surprised. “Doesn’t it hurt?”
“A lot.” Poker-Face shook his hand and changed the knife to his other hand. There was a loud noise, and Pampered Guy fell over and rolled behind the two of them. The whole floor arched up, and then a huge, claw-shaped bug emerged from below as fragments of the floor collapsed everywhere.
“This one’s a female.” Pampered Guy got up and gestured to where we could see two black spots on the colorful body that were as large as saucepans.
“How is it possible to ‘pinch’ these two black spots? They’re bigger than our heads.” Snake Ancestor staggered back and Poker-Face also looked at Pampered Guy.
“Damn it, that’s exactly what was written. Did I read those English documents too fast?”
Snake Ancestor retorted, “That’s why those foreigners are dead!”
The huge bug climbed up the beam, causing the beam to sink under its weight, and sending the roof tiles toppling into the water below. It seemed that although the female bug was very big, it wasn’t actually as big as a calf. It merely looked like that because there were a large number of bugs surrounding it. In addition to its long legs, the males that were several times larger in size were wrapped around it in a huge ball, giving people the illusion that it was voluminous. But the female bug was black, so those two spots were actually a part of her body that had been exposed despite the male bugs wrapped around her.
The bug approached quickly. If not for the beams, falling tiles, and bug legs getting stuck in the roof gaps from time to time, the three of us would have jumped to the ground. Pampered Guy spit out an iron piece, hit one of the males that was crawling on the female, and then watched it collapse.
The three of us kept retreating.
The female bug finally couldn’t hang on anymore. There were too many bugs on her body, and she wasn’t able to hook herself to the next beam. She fell into the hall, and the bugs wrapped around her scattered all over the floor.
I wondered if they were mating just now. Damn, we always pick the wrong time and end up interrupting others when they’re having fun. We’re so inhumane. But Pampered Guy pointed to the pile of bugs and said, “This female bug is dying.”
As the female bug rolled on the ground, I noticed that her two antennae had fallen off. They weren’t actually mating like I thought. It was just as Pampered Guy had said—the males were really swarming around the female bug because she had been injured.
Based on what we knew, these bugs would normally frantically attack anything around the female bug, but now they were all rushing towards her.
“There’s something on the female bug.” Poker-Face said. At this time, all three of us noticed that among the swarm, there was a small, unfamiliar jasper-like bug above the female.
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MereBear's Translation 
For the first time I heard Xiao Ge say that he was in pain. And Xiao Ge also has a talent for attracting weird people around him.
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He said that he was in pain like stating the fact, like he was used to endure the pain (´;︵;`)
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