Chapter 124

Rising sea levels?

"Why is the sea level rising? Did you see it clearly?" A Ling's pupils suddenly shrank.

The response she received was not from her own people, but an even more deafening roar, like an explosion, shaking the entire cave to the point of collapse.

As a half-human, half-snake creature, Aling knew too well what rising sea levels would mean to them.

They are land snakes, different from sea snakes that are good at surviving in seawater, and they do not have gills like fish. Once the sea level rises and the seawater surges in, it is obvious what will happen to them.

Fear suddenly struck her chest. A Ling didn't care about the person tied to the wooden stake. She turned around and rushed out.

The python that was originally wrapped around Mao Xingxiu loosened its grip upon seeing this, and chased after the cave entrance in the blink of an eye.

Mao Xingxiu escaped from his predicament and began to seek self-help.

His bound hands kept rubbing against the wooden stake. Even though the chances were slim, he still wanted to try.

You may not succeed if you try, but you will definitely fail if you don’t try.

With this thought in mind, his wrists gradually became rubbed raw, with blood streaks appearing on them. Blood seeped out from inside and quickly soaked the rope.

It is said that the fingers are connected to the heart. The wrist is close to the fingers, so the pain can also make people scream.

Beads of sweat dripped down his forehead. Mao Xingxiu gritted his teeth and persevered despite the pain.

The vibrations in the cave became more and more obvious, and the rumbling sound was getting closer.

Something might have really happened outside, Mao Xingxiu thought to himself, he must untie the rope quickly!

Song Yue did not find Mao Xingxiu and the others on the north bank. He only saw various dragging marks on the ground, one of which led to the seaside.

Her heart tightened slightly, and she roughly guessed who was thrown into the sea.

Snake Island is not very big, so it is not difficult to find people.

The difficulty is that the situation at sea and in the sky has begun to change.

Since morning, layers of clouds have been piling up in the distance, reaching an unprecedented thickness. The sun is blocked, and the sea and sky are pitch black, just like the day when a volcano erupted, with the sky filled with large mushroom clouds and volcanic ash, heavy and depressing.

The tsunami is coming and they don't have much time to escape.

Xiao Hei suddenly jumped out from the corner, making anxious whimpers.

Song Yue squatted down and touched its head: "Don't worry, Xiao Hei, take me to find your owner."

After going around a small hill and walking deeper into the bushes, she soon found a cave.

Perhaps she was lucky, as soon as she found the place, she saw A Ling, who had a human body and a snake tail, rushing to the beach with a group of her fellow tribesmen.

It's a good opportunity.

She left Xiao Hei at the entrance to guard the cave and went straight into the cave.

"Xingxiu!"

The familiar shouting voice instantly brought hope to the anxious Mao Xingxiu. He opened his eyelids at the sound, and when he saw the person coming, he couldn't help but feel a lump in his throat: "Yuanzhou... So you are okay..."

Great, he thought something had happened to his best friend.

"Wait, there are nails under the wooden stake, be careful!" He hurriedly reminded when he saw the other party coming forward.

Song Yue hummed: "I know, don't worry."

She had encountered simpler rescue situations before, and this little problem couldn't stop her.

After saying that, he stepped on the wall of the cave, jumped down, and cut the rope accurately with his dagger.

Mao Xingxiu escaped from the trap, fell off the wooden stake and rolled to the side. A long wound was left on his arm because he touched the nail.

Compared to saving people, this injury is nothing.

Because of the loud noise from rolling down, the other three people who were sleeping were woken up.

Song Yue used the same method to rescue them, and Mao Xingxiu explained to them what had happened in a few words.

When they heard that "the villagers are snake people", the three people's expressions paused and they were half-believing and half-doubting Mao Xingxiu's words.

It was true that the villagers wanted to harm them, but how could they believe that a snake man suddenly appeared when they had lived on Lime Island for most of their lives?

In the end, it was Song Yue who confirmed it, and they finally believed that the villagers on this island were really man-eating monsters!

"Oh my God, how can such a monster exist?" Chi Yunying covered her mouth, shocked.

No one else could answer her because they all had the same doubt.

"Aunt Mao, let's stop exploring and go to the shore. A tsunami might be coming." Song Yue was not interested in the origin of the snake people. The only thing she cared about was to get everyone away from here.

Hearing about the tsunami, several people were shocked again.

Shihui Village had also experienced a tsunami before, but that happened a generation ago. The tsunami was not large in scale and only overturned the houses at the foot of the volcano. The villagers hid near the highest altitude crater and survived, which led to the birth of the villagers.

But after all, it is something I have never experienced before, and now I am about to face it in person. It would be a lie to say that I am not afraid.

They had barely escaped the volcanic eruption and drifting at sea, but now they were facing a tsunami. Could they survive? Or would they be buried at the bottom of the sea, like the villagers who had fallen into the sea?

Mao Qingquan and the others followed behind Song Yue, their hearts beating fast.

After rushing out of the cave, they found that Song Yue had indeed spoken truth. At the junction of the sea and the sky, there seemed to be a huge curtain of water rushing towards them.

The roaring sea water came with great force. The beach on the north shore was completely submerged under water due to the rising sea level. Some snake people on the shore were swept into the sea by the waves because of their carelessness.

Everyone's backs tightened, as if they saw their future destiny through the snake man.

"Yuanzhou, didn't you say that you found the power ship from Continent A? Where is the ship? Let's go there quickly!" Mao Qingquan remembered this incident and hurriedly reminded.

Uncle Chen slapped his thigh and said, "Oh, the boat must be parked on the shore, but the north bank is flooded with seawater. We can't get on it at all!"

What should I do? Should I just watch helplessly as the water sweeps me away?

A group of people stared at each other, their faces full of anxiety.

"The boat is still there, follow me."

Song Yue hadn't revealed the existence of the space to them. He quickly walked down the hillside. When the water level was about to rise, he quietly lowered the power boat onto the water and said, "Look, the boat is here."

No one doubted the truth of her words. Instead, everyone was so excited that tears filled their eyes when they saw the boat.

"Great! The ship is still there!"

"Qingquan, our family is saved!"

Before I could feel happy for a while, I suddenly heard a rustling sound behind me.

Song Yue reacted quickly and turned around with the bow and crossbow already on his arm.

When Ah Ling saw her, she paused for a moment, tears welling up in her eyes: "Brother Song Yuanzhou, can you take me away?"

At this time, A Ling no longer had a snake tail under her body, but had legs that had returned to normal.

Mao Xingxiu had seen her snake-tailed appearance with his own eyes, and now he felt it was even more bizarre. He pulled Song Yue and whispered a warning: "Yuanzhou, don't be fooled by her, she is a monster!"

There was no way they were staying with a monster!

"Yeah, I know." Song Yue gently pushed Mao Xingxiu with his hand, signaling him to quickly bring people on board.

The latter understood what he meant and pushed his parents and Uncle Chen to run towards the boat.

A Ling's eyes narrowed and she wanted to follow, but Song Yue warned her with an arrow.

The sharp arrow hit A Ling right in front of her, blocking her way.

"Let you get on the boat and then eat us?" Song Yue's lips curled slightly, with a cold look in his eyes.

Ah Ling pulled up the corners of her mouth awkwardly: "Brother Song Yuanzhou, what are you talking about? I don't understand at all. What do you mean by eating you? You really know how to joke."

She thought that as long as she didn't reveal herself in front of Song Yue, she could deny her identity.

Anyway, she is petite, well-behaved and cute. The villagers have always said that she is the most beautiful girl in Snake Island Village. Can't she impress the young man in front of her with this face?

A Ling is determined to win.

Little did she know that the boy she thought was actually another person inside.

Not to mention the beauty trap, even the good-looking husband trap doesn't work on Song Yue.

Song Yue glanced sideways and found that Mao Xingxiu and the others had all boarded the boat, so he took two steps at a time and ran aboard as well.

A Ling chased after him as if she was in a 100-meter race.

As she was running, the people on the boat noticed that her body suddenly changed. Her legs were suddenly covered with a thick layer of muscles. Then, like magic, her legs turned into snake tails and slid with a hissing sound.

Even though he had seen A Ling's half-human, half-snake appearance, Mao Xingxiu still couldn't help swallowing his saliva.

It was the first time for Mao Qingquan and Chi Yunying to see such a scene, and they were so frightened that their legs went weak.

But he quickly came to his senses and shouted at Song Yue: "Yuanzhou! Hurry! Don't let the monster catch up!"

monster?

When A Ling heard this, her pretty face instantly twisted into a horrible look.

"I'm not a monster! We're human!"

Even her voice became hoarse and hoarse, which made her look more like the evil witch in fairy tales.

After turning into a snake, Aling became much faster.

As soon as Song Yue climbed onto the boat, she was grabbed by the other party, who tried to pull her off the boat.

"Monster, let go!"

Not knowing where he got the courage from, Mao Xingxiu grabbed A Ling and pretended to pull her away.

A Ling smiled sinisterly, opened her bloody mouth and bit down!

"ah!"

Mao Xingxiu screamed.

A large piece of flesh was bitten off from his right arm, and blood was flowing down like a faucet.

A Ling chewed the meat she had bitten off, swallowed it in one gulp, and made a satisfied sound.

"Xingxiu!"

Chi Yunying and Mao Qingquan rushed over immediately and caught their son who almost fell on the deck.

Song Yue immediately threw out a bottle of [Comfrey Potion] (Excellent Quality) and said, "Give it to him."

The snake man is also half snake, and there might be poison in his teeth. Mao Xingxiu is her important mission target, and nothing can happen to him.

He threw the potion over, and the bow and crossbow on his arm shot out arrows.

At a long distance, the sharp arrow could penetrate the planks of the ship, not to mention at a close distance, the arrow was just like a sharp blade, piercing into A Ling's face and upper body.

The human part is riddled with holes.

A Ling stared at her in astonishment, with fear and terror in her eyes, but also an indescribable desire.

She half-opened her mouth and moved her jaw with difficulty: "...I'm not...a monster...We really are...human beings..."

A line of tears rolled down from the corner of her eyes. Because of the serious injury, her arms lost strength, and her whole body leaned back and fell into the sea with a splash.

This scene happened to be seen by the village chief who came rushing over.

Huo Shan screamed in despair and wanted to rush into the sea to find his daughter, but was stopped by other villagers.

"Village Chief! A Ling is gone! Don't be stupid!"

Some people try to stop it rationally, while naturally some people lose control of their emotions.

The villagers who arrived later looked at their boat and the rising sea level, with despair written in their eyes.

"This is our retribution! God is punishing us by turning us into something neither human nor snake. Now the sea is coming up. Sooner or later, Snake Island will be destroyed, and we'll all be destroyed!"

As soon as the pessimistic words started, the villagers who had originally felt that there was still a glimmer of hope suddenly became dejected. They lowered their heads and watched their legs slowly turn into snake tails.

Suddenly, someone shouted.

"Even if I die, I will die as a human being!"

The snake's tail kept appearing and disappearing beneath its body, as if it was fighting against the owner of this body.

Soon, Song Yue saw that the villagers tried hard to retract the snake's tail and replaced it with its original legs, and then ran up the hillside one by one. For a moment, their backs revealed some loneliness and determination.

Song Yue was not moved.

Perhaps the villagers of Snake Island Village had no choice but to become half-human, half-snake, which is a pity, but cannibalism is an established fact, and no matter what reasons they use to wash it off, it cannot be justified.

Because those who, like Mao Xingxiu and his companions, accidentally entered this island are not innocent?

They did nothing but come to this island where people eat human flesh, and they are going to lose their lives for no reason. For them, this is another tragic and unexpected disaster.

Song Yue looked at the village chief kneeling and crying under the boat, and then looked at the villagers gathered on the hillside, without a trace of sympathy in her eyes.

The operation of a power boat is somewhat similar to that of a yacht. First, turn on the power switch, start the engine, and then start sailing.

She had already secretly filled the oil barrel. Now, when the engine started, the underwater turbine began to spin, and the boat shot out like an arrow.

However, getting on the boat is only the first step to a successful escape. What they will face next will be the huge curtain of water that is rapidly advancing behind them!

The power boat is very fast, like a galloping wild horse on the sea.

Snake Island was soon left behind by them.

At this time, Mao Xingxiu had already drunk the potion, and his wounds healed at an unprecedented speed. Everyone was amazed, but no one explored the reason behind it.

For some things, just knowing is enough, and asking too many questions may not be a good thing for them.

After his wounds healed successfully, Mao Xingxiu lay on the side of the ship, gazing at the Snake Island that almost cost them their lives.

It's really sad. At first they were still happy to be on the island and felt lucky to be warmly received by the village chief. Who knew that the truth would be so horrifying.

They almost became the meal of those snake people.

The only reason he was able to escape alive was all thanks to Song Yuanzhou.

It was his alertness and carefulness that saved them, just like on Lime Island. He used his unique way to sense the danger lurking around them and led them to escape successfully.

"Everyone hold on tight, I'm going to speed up."

Song Yue's voice came from the front, interrupting their thoughts.

When they came to their senses, they found that the water curtain hundreds of meters high had already covered the entire Snake Island. The huge Snake Island was swallowed up in an instant, leaving no trace at all!

"Oh my god, even the island disappeared...!"

Mao Xingxiu stared at the huge waves with a look of horror and astonishment.

If they couldn't even escape from such a big island, how could their small boat possibly do so?

A sense of terror and oppression arose spontaneously, and everyone on the boat felt an irresistible suffocation.