Chapter 452 – An Eerie Entrance

A few minutes later, Ye Lian and the others had collected all the virus gel from the mutation snake.

Seeing their bulging pockets, it was clear that they had a good harvest this time.

Only then did Ling Mo clear his throat, spread his arms helplessly, and said, “Lulu, um… shouldn’t you let go of me now?”

“Snakes… snakes…”

Usually always maintaining a cold and aloof demeanor, Lucy was now clinging to Ling Mo, trembling.

However, her trembling not only added more burden to Ling Mo but also pressed certain parts of her body closer to him.

“Don’t worry, the snakes are gone, all killed,” Ling Mo said.

Lucy lay on Ling Mo’s shoulder, cautiously listening for any sounds, then nervously opened her eyes just a sliver.

Upon seeing the ground covered with snake carcasses, she tightened her grip around Ling Mo’s neck and screamed.

A few seconds later, she slowly recovered from her fright and once again opened one eye to sneak a peek.

“They’re really… really all dead…”

After jumping down from Ling Mo, Lucy looked around, finally feeling relieved.

As soon as she relaxed, her body went limp, and she fell back into Ling Mo’s arms.

“Uh…”

The two looked at each other awkwardly, then Lucy suddenly pushed Ling Mo away.

“Haha… I didn’t expect you to be so afraid of snakes. Did a snake crawl into your bed when you were a kid and leave a shadow?” Ling Mo laughed.

Lucy glared at him, “Who had a snake crawl into their bed! I just… don’t know why I’m so afraid of these creatures… Speaking of which…” She brushed her hair and complained with some resentment, “It’s all your fault! Rushing in here recklessly, ending up in a snake nest, I don’t even know why you did something like this…”

“Well…”

Ling Mo pondered for a moment.

Specially coming to fight with this nest of snakes and scaring Lucy like this, it was really hard for her to believe he was just here to visit.

And the real reason was absolutely something he couldn’t tell anyone.

The people around him were zombies, and they devoured the brain gel of these terrifying creatures…

Even the most thick-skinned humans probably couldn’t accept that!

Even if they could, wouldn’t they have concerns?

Ling Mo understood Lucy’s sincere and expectant look, but he really couldn’t tell her the truth.

“Haha, we can consider this as eliminating a threat. Otherwise, if we let them reproduce, this area would soon be completely overrun by them,” Ling Mo said with a slight, eerie smile. “Just think, this place isn’t too far from your Century City. If you move in, the whole building might be crawling with mutation snakes overnight…”

“Ah! Stop it!”

Lucy seemed to have quite an imagination. Ling Mo’s crude description vividly played out in her mind.

She screamed, and her previously composed demeanor shattered completely.

Her doubts were also thoroughly dispelled by fear.

“You… you did that on purpose to scare me!”

Seeing Ling Mo laughing at her, Lucy realized what had happened and cried out indignantly.

“This smell is really overpowering…” Ling Mo said nonchalantly, turning around to look at the ground covered in snake carcasses and covering his nose.

“Yeah,” Xia Na said, “We should get out of here quickly.”

Her suggestion was immediately met with unanimous agreement. The smell here was so strong that staying any longer might make someone pass out.

“But this is just the front part of the zoo…”

In the whole of X City, the zoo was the only place where you could find a large number of mutation beasts.

Even though it seemed unlikely that there were any more creatures here, Ling Mo felt a bit regretful about not searching thoroughly…

“Hey, what’s with that tone implying you’re not planning to leave?” Lucy exclaimed.

At the same time, on the shimmering surface of the lake, a large plume of water suddenly exploded.

Several jets of water shot into the sky simultaneously, as if bombs had been detonated underwater.

The calm surface was abruptly disturbed, and amidst the falling droplets, a pair of blood-red, sinister eyes were staring intently in the direction of the zoo…

“Hey? I thought I just heard a sound like… farting,” Ling Mo said, turning his gaze cautiously to the back.

He looked to Lucy for confirmation.

There was only one way to stop Ling Mo…

Lucy bit her lip, glanced towards the lake, then back at Ling Mo.

After hesitating for a good five or six seconds, she finally gritted her teeth and said, “It’s not me. The noise came from over there!”

Seeing Ling Mo’s smug smile, Lucy clenched her fists and thought, “You win! Even if there are more snakes over there, I’ll accept it. There’s no way I’m taking the blame for that ‘farting sound’!”

“That sound was quite loud; it’s probably not an ordinary mutation beast. Could it be something like a Snake King?” Ling Mo pondered aloud.

“Ah… so it wasn’t a farting sound?” Ye Lian belatedly showed a look of realization, then glanced apologetically at Lucy.

“Why are you looking at me like that? Did you all think it was me?” Lucy asked in shock. A quick glance confirmed that Xia Na and Li Yalin were both pretending to be oblivious, while Yu Shiran met her gaze for two seconds before suddenly turning away.

“I’ll take you all on if I have to…”

Ling Mo assessed the current strength of his psychic power, then eagerly said, “If it really is a Snake King, that would be fantastic!”

“What’s so fantastic about that?” Lucy glared at him.

“However, this large mutation python was already troublesome enough. If the Snake King is even bigger, it might not be easy to deal with. We should wait here and use the complex environment to our advantage to trap it. With so many snake carcasses around, it’s sure to come.”

Ling Mo scoffed coldly.

Ling Mo and the others found a place nearby to hide, keeping a close watch in the direction of the loud noise.

The thick stench and the smell of blood were enough to mask their own scents.

A few minutes felt like hours to them.

Suddenly, a section of the forest began to shake. The rustling of leaves was incredibly clear in the silence.

The shaking wasn’t caused by the wind, as the sound moved from far to near.

It was as if something was moving through the forest, gradually approaching Ling Mo and his group.

Ling Mo’s heart immediately jumped to his throat, while Lucy couldn’t help but clench her fists, cold sweat forming on her smooth forehead.

“It’s coming…”

The Snake King’s entrance was indeed different. At first, they only heard the noise without seeing it, and now there was movement, but its true form remained hidden.

This situation created even more psychological pressure.

Staring at the forest for a few seconds, Ling Mo could feel his palms getting sweaty.

He didn’t dare to extend his tentacle to probe, fearing it might alert the Snake King.

“Could it be a dominant level? I’ve never seen a dominant-level mutation snake. If it really is one, how big would its viral hive be…?”

Ling Mo touched the mutation python’s viral hive in his pocket, which was already the size of an egg and felt quite heavy.

With so much virus gel and the hive from the mutation pythons, it was enough to completely shift the virus in Li Yalin’s body towards mutation snakes.

But if they could get an even stronger viral hive, it might push Li Yalin to advance further!

“Even if Senior Sister doesn’t use it, it could still go to Black Silk… But with Black Silk’s current state, it’s hard to determine what level it has reached no matter how it evolves…”

As Ling Mo thought this, his eyes stayed fixed on the forest through the concealed foliage.

Rustle, rustle.

After a burst of noise, the trees and underbrush ahead suddenly parted to both sides, revealing a pair of terrifying blood-red eyes in the darkness…

They looked like two red bulbs appearing suddenly in the night, and everyone who saw them couldn’t help but swallow hard.