But with the tension building to this point, fearing a whipping for lying, the herding native dared not tell the truth until he saw Chen Zhou and then hesitantly revealed it.
...
As the herding native spoke, Sunday stood beside and filled in the gaps.
After all, the native's storytelling was exasperatingly slow, and Sunday's inherently impatient nature feared he might be driven mad by the native's slow pace.
This led to the initial narrative Chen Zhou heard being about a "python as big as a cow."
Thinking everyone had seen such a massive python, Chen Zhou almost turned and ran at that moment—
A python as thick as a cow could easily swallow a person whole in one bite. Even if he had a gun in hand, which he didn't, he wouldn't want to mess with it, chalking up a few sheep as a gift to it.
Then he quickly realized—how could there be a snake that big in this world?
