Both of their expressions changed abruptly.
"What do you mean?!"
Thinking back to the wild cat they found in the room earlier, they sensed trouble.
Could it have been eaten?
The driver forced himself to calm down; he knew that if the snake were gone, things would not end well for him.
"Wait! Since the wild cat was squatting here just now, it means the snake wasn't eaten!"
As he spoke, the driver knelt down and began rummaging through the piled up household trash, roughly pushing aside the debris.
Indeed, he soon spotted a section of the snake's body hidden inside.
"Here it is!"
The two men immediately pushed the driver aside.
Seeing the little snake wriggle further inside, the three of them exhaled in relief simultaneously.
It was moving; it was alive.
Compared to the driver's rough actions earlier, the person now searching took extra care, as if afraid of hurting the young python. After all, this was related to how much reward they would receive.