The next morning, the sky was somewhat overcast.
The entrance to the Huaxi Valley base is still bustling with activity.
Inside the monitoring room, two female security guards stared in disbelief at one of the images.
One of the women asked, trembling, "What...what is that?"
"It looks...like a snake?"
"How could there be such a big snake??"
"Have you forgotten about that crocodile from last time?"
"Inform Miss Bai immediately!"
Within minutes, Bai Feiming arrived at the monitoring room.
She stared intently at the monitor screen and asked in a cold voice, "How long until this snake reaches the valley entrance?"
"Miss Bai, this giant snake isn't moving very fast. The camera is currently four kilometers from the valley entrance. At its current speed, it won't reach the entrance for at least half an hour, and... it might not even come this way..."
"Bookworm, can you calculate its length from the surveillance footage?"
Bai Feiming asked Chen Shu, who looked serious, beside her.
Chen Shu took a deep breath and said, "When I saw it pass by that zombie corpse just now, I roughly calculated in my mind that this giant snake is at least 35 meters long and more than two meters wide at its widest point. It is even more terrifying than the giant crocodile that the leader killed last time, because snakes are more agile."
"Moreover, the muscle strength of pythons far exceeds that of crocodiles. I remember reading a report that the ancient Titanoboa could generate 28 tons of pressure per square meter of muscle."
"The Titanoboa, which is long extinct, was only about 15 meters long at its largest, but this giant snake is nearly 40 meters long! Its strength is probably enough to crush a large truck into scrap metal."
With a furrowed brow, Chen Shu continued, "If its snake skin is as tough as crocodile skin, or even if it's slightly less tough, it seems we're helpless against it."
Bai Feiming took out a walkie-talkie and said seriously, "Wang Xi, have Team Leader Wu and Team Leader Chen evacuate everyone to the main building and keep them under strict guard. Also, arrest those 18 people who are about to leave the base!"
"Remember, don't leave a single person at the valley entrance!"
"receive!"
After giving the order, Bai Feiming asked, "What are the python's weaknesses?"
The others in the monitoring room looked at each other, and no one spoke.
Everyone knows to strike a snake at its vital spot, but this snake is almost 40 meters long and so thick, how can you kill it?
After careful consideration, Chen Shu replied, "The forked tongue is very important to it, and the head is also its weak point. In addition, the cloaca is its vital point, which is located below its tail, under a rather protruding scale."
Bai Feiming nodded and then asked, "Does the equipment department have anything that can harm creatures of this level?"
Chen Shu fell silent again.
Bai Feiming and Chen Shu were studying the giant snake.
More than two hundred people marched from the construction site at the valley entrance toward the main building of the base.
Accompanying them were dozens of fully armed security team members carrying pistols and shields.
A small group of people in the crowd were visibly flustered.
"Big brother, why are we all suddenly going back to the main building? Do they know we're going to escape?"
"Damn it, keep your voice down! If they know who we are, they can just arrest us. Why are we all going back to the main building?"
"It's all that idiot Qiang's fault. He's such a moron. He caused such a commotion last night. He's completely brainless."
"Let him be. As long as we haven't been exposed, it's fine. It's good that he's attracting attention."
A dozen meters behind the men, Chen Si held a Type 95 assault rifle and coldly watched them whispering amongst themselves.
Chen Si deeply despised these people.
A team member next to her whispered, "Team leader, are we going to arrest them?"
"Let's wait until we get into the main building. We need to be on guard against them resorting to desperate measures."
No sooner had he finished speaking than a man suddenly ran up to Chen Si, knelt down, and shouted, "Team Leader Chen, I want to report this! Sha Qiang and the other men wanted to drag me out of the base at noon, but after thinking it over all night, I decided to stay at the base. I want to make amends by reporting them!"
This left several men who were preparing to leave the base nearby completely dumbfounded.
They suddenly all ran in the opposite direction of the group.
Extremely fast.
Chen Si was slightly taken aback, then shouted sharply into the walkie-talkie, "Attack!"
In an instant, dozens of officers dressed in armed police uniforms walked toward their respective targets.
Now, apart from the team members and the men, no one else knew what had happened, and the group of more than two hundred people was thrown into chaos.
The men all realized something was wrong and scattered in all directions.
Because most of the team members were women, while those who fled were men.
The innate physical differences between men and women actually caused these men to run away all at once.
"You are allowed to fire!" Chen Si said coldly into the walkie-talkie.
After saying that, Chen Si raised her rifle and aimed at the man who had run the furthest away.
Three shots rang out, and the man fell to the ground.
The next moment, gunshots rang out continuously.
The other survivors were all so frightened that they crouched down on the ground.
Gan Wei quickly shouted, "Don't worry, these people are violating the base rules and trying to escape from the base."
"Damn, I thought it was something serious? Is that all?"
"Haha, beat these ungrateful bastards to death!"
"......"
The farce ended quickly.
Of the eighteen men, excluding the one who had just reported to Chen Si, ten were killed, five were captured, and three others knelt down and surrendered after the shooting.
Bai Feiming, who received the report, had already seen all of this on the surveillance footage.
However, she remained completely unmoved.
For her, this was just a necessary process of natural selection.
It is also a good opportunity to test the morale of the people in the base.
From the moment the broadcast started coming from that gathering place, Bai Feiming knew that many people would want to leave the Huaxi Valley base and seek refuge in that large base with tens of thousands of people.
After all, Huaxi Valley only has a few hundred people, while there are tens of thousands over there.
But she didn't know how many people would dare to break the base's rules and leave the base.
Excluding the more than 100 field team members that Jiang Wu took out, there are currently more than 300 people in the base, and only these eighteen men have this idea, which already makes her very satisfied.
“Miss Bai, this giant python is clearly targeting our base.”
Chen Shu frowned deeply.
Bai Feiming said calmly, "They must have sensed the scent of so many people here. We've wiped out all the zombies within a few kilometers, and there are no other creatures around. This place has become the best hunting ground."
"I'll go outside the base and find a way to stop it from entering. You go and make me the bombs, and also prepare the suicide truck you mentioned, and plenty of Molotov cocktails."
"Also, have Wang Xi take Yan Yan and hide in the basement."
After saying that, Bai Feiming walked straight out of the monitoring room.
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