Chapter Fifty: The Chain Reaction of Snake Venom
Qi An swung his leg subconsciously, but nothing came out.
She immediately shone her flashlight into the top of her right boot and saw a brightly colored snake, thinner than her little finger, with red and yellow hues!
The snake reacted violently to the light, twisting and turning into a ball in the piled-up trouser legs, but then immediately unraveling and darting away.
The moment it emerged from its boots, Qi An stabbed it with his tactical dagger, piercing it in two!
But it seemed too late; she already felt a stinging pain in her ankle as she swung her leg!
In just a few seconds, a numbing sensation traveled from the stinging spot to my calf.
"The pit is too deep, enough to bury a car. And there's another pit at the bottom, which must be a spring. The other end of the tunnel has already formed a waterfall." Qin Tianshuo's expression was extremely distressed.
Yang Yuning noticed that Qi An was taking off his shoes and rolling up his trousers, and immediately sensed something was wrong. She quickly asked, "What's wrong?"
"I think I was bitten by a snake," Qi An said. "Snakes are poisonous."
The pant legs were rolled up, revealing two small red dots on the ankles, as well as the skin around the dots that quickly became red and swollen.
Yang Yuning's face turned deathly pale, and Yu Shuang also turned around abruptly.
Qin Tianshuo exclaimed "Holy crap!" and hurriedly used his walkie-talkie to call the military doctor.
Su Qingran arrived quickly, and Qi An's snake venom also took effect very quickly.
This wasn't the first time she'd been bitten by a snake; she'd encountered snakes many times when she was alone in the forest cabin!
However, this snake venom was particularly potent, causing her ankle and calf to swell up like buns within minutes, and her head to feel somewhat dizzy.
Su Qingran hadn't even entered the rockfall barrier yet; she only glanced at Qi An's legs and her dazed state by the light of her flashlight, and her tone was already grave:
"Cellular and neuronal complex toxins, our serum is not the right treatment."
Yang Yuning's face turned even more pale. Su Qingran said, "Tie a tourniquet around the wound near the heart, but don't tie it too tightly. Then carry her out gently!"
Qi An felt himself being picked up, and after a few bumps and swaying, his body became steady again.
She didn't land completely; she must have been in someone's arms.
"The serum isn't suitable; we can only provide emergency treatment. We can't delay!" Su Qingran's hands were steady, but her heart was racing. She looked at Yu Shuang with a hint of helplessness: "Captain..."
"How long has she been doing this?" Yu Shuang asked.
"Normally, it takes 3 hours."
Yu Shuang clenched her fist suddenly.
Three hours was only enough for them to retreat to the fork in the road; they were still more than 100 kilometers away from the Central Plains No. 1 base!
Moreover, there are fallen insects guarding the fork in the road!
It was completely dark, and the thick darkness pressed down on the earth, making everyone in the convoy feel heavy-hearted.
“I’ll take her through the tunnel,” Yang Yuning broke the silence.
He carefully picked up Qi An and said, "Give me the lightest off-road vehicle, and I can get over the ditch."
“…Okay, let Xiao Su go with her, and Zhuang Xiao will follow too.” Yu Shuang swallowed her doubts and readily agreed.
But someone shouted, "No way!"
It was Liu Weiyun. She had been standing far away, but now she was a little anxious and couldn't help but speak up to stop them.
All eyes turned to her, and she quickly adjusted her tone: "Even if we go, it won't take three hours to get to the Central Plains base. Besides, the pit is so big, and there are poisonous snakes in it. It's too risky."
"So you're not going to save my Sister Qi?" Zhuang Xiao retorted angrily, "If Brother Yang says it can be done, then it can be done. What are you talking about?"
"Is it because four of them left at once, including Lao Yang, that you feel unsafe?" Zhao Bohan asked, squinting.
Liu Weiyun bit her lip. That was indeed what she thought, and she was definitely not the only one who thought so.
The fallen insects are right behind us, and there's even an apprentice priest among them! How can we let Yang Yuning leave?
“Going through the tunnel is really too risky, it’s unnecessary…” a truck driver muttered.
The young driver who asked Qi An for an autograph also had a flicker in his eyes; he was genuinely afraid!
Yu Shuang's anger burned fiercely, and his hand even touched the pistol at his waist!
Yang Yuning did have some hesitation, because a fierce battle was likely to take place tonight, yet he had to leave.
But if he doesn't leave, Qi An will die!
Yang Yuning looked down and felt the weight of her arms, which felt as light as nothing. He looked down at her horribly pale face and tightened his grip on her.
He couldn't accept Qi An's death even more.
Yang Yuning strode towards the lead car where Yu Shuang had been riding, while Yu Shuang pulled out a pistol and coldly stared at Liu Weiyun:
"Xiao Qi saved all of us! Anyone who gets in her way will be shot!"
Liu Weiyun gritted her teeth! She looked at Li Yi.
Li Yi's face was grim, and he seemed hesitant, but when he saw Qi An, who appeared to be lifeless in Yang Yuning's arms, he remained silent.
Yang Yuning and Su Qingran got into the car, and Zhao Bohan and Zhuang Xiao went over to quickly organize their equipment.
Three minutes later the car started moving. Liu Weiyun thought to herself: They probably won't even be able to get through the tunnel.
Tang Long had already picked up a roll of detonators, lit the fuse, blasted away the rubble at the cave entrance, and moved the stones while braving the swarm of bats that took flight again.
The off-road vehicle drove into the water, but the water level did not submerge the chassis.
The snakes in the water had been disturbed when the hole was blown up, and now they were swimming around wildly and attacking frantically. However, the vehicle was sealed off from the top and bottom, so they could only attack their own teeth.
As the vehicle drove to a large pit in the middle of the tunnel, Zhao Bohan, who was following the drone, gripped the remote control tightly.
Yang Yuning got out of the car, and snakes swarmed around him, but none of them could break through the invisible protective barrier around him.
He dived into the pit and swam backwards, carrying the front vehicle with him.
Zhuang Xiao, who took over the driver's seat from Yang Yuning, had a heart pounding, but neither he nor the car sank until the entire car entered the pit!
Yang Yuning lifted the car and carried them across the ditch!
The experience was like floating in the air! Zhuang Xiao exclaimed "Holy crap!" a thousand times in his mind.
However, Yang Yuning was already exhausted and almost couldn't maintain the force field barrier against snakes.
He gritted his teeth, climbed out of the pit, and got back into the car.
The car drove out of the tunnel.
"We've exited the tunnel; the outside environment is safe," Zhuang Xiao's voice rang out on the public channel.
A small cheer erupted from the convoy, and Qin Tianshuo exclaimed with great emotion, "Awesome!"
He was really frustrated. He also had superpowers, but those powers were too useless against enemies, and he had never been able to use them!
Liu Weiyun bit her lip and lowered her head, feeling a little regretful. She should have gotten on the bus under the pretext of taking care of Qi An's pollution level.
"What do we do next?" After the cheers subsided, everyone remained tense, all looking at Yu Shuang and Qin Tianshuo.
If you retreat to the fork in the road and take another path, you'll most likely run into a trap set by the Fallen Insects. If you wait here, once the Fallen Insects find you, in a place with poisonous snakes behind you and cliffs and precipices on both sides, they won't even have anywhere to run!
The hero's lead vehicle is gone. If that abandoned military base is full of insects, they're doomed no matter how they look at it.
Liu Weiyun wanted to let out a cold laugh, but Zhao Bohan said, "We'll go to the middle of the mountain road. I remember there's a gentle slope. We'll climb up the slope and park the car below to set up a trap."
If the fallen insects chase after us because they can't wait for us, we can ambush them.
This statement stunned everyone. Qin Tianshuo thought to himself: Damn, I'm done for! They're all big shots!
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