Chapter 479 Encountering a Snake
Walking at the front of the team was the vanguard team of explorers. Yun Ran and Ye Jingzhen were walking in front of the main group.
However, not long after, a scout came to report.
"Report! His Royal Highness Prince Jing'an!"
Ye Jingzhen's face darkened: "Speak!"
"I, we...ahead, we encountered a giant snake blocking the road!"
The scout looked panicked, perhaps because he ran too fast, he couldn't even breathe properly and spoke haltingly.
"Yes... Three of us have been killed! Two are seriously injured!"
The vanguard team only sent ten people in total!
It seems to be a really giant snake, otherwise it would be impossible for ten elite vanguard soldiers to be defeated by a snake!
Ye Jingzhen gripped the hilt of the sword at his waist and glanced at Yun Chenglu: "Bring a team of elite soldiers and follow me!"
Yun Chenglu nodded and quickly began to count the troops.
Seeing this, Yun Ran took the initiative and said, "I'll go with you!"
She thought Ye Jingzhen would refuse, but Ye Jingzhen just stared at her seriously for a while, then quickly said, "Okay."
Yun Ran bit the corner of his lip, not knowing what he was thinking. After a moment, he suddenly said, "No need to bring elite soldiers. Just take King Gu and King Hei, and the rest of us will be fine."
Ye Jingzhen thought she felt that with their combined fighting power, plus the help of the Lone King and the Black King, they should be able to kill the giant snake, so he said nothing and tacitly agreed to her arrangement.
Soon, Yun Ran, Ye Jingzhen, Yun Chenglu, and Miao Yi, along with a wolf and a bear, followed the scouts and quickly rushed to the scene of the incident.
Yun Ran was silent the whole way, as if he was thinking about something.
Ye Jingzhen noticed it keenly, but the situation was urgent, so he didn't ask any more questions.
As they got closer, the four of them suddenly saw the giant snake that the scout had mentioned.
The snake was now raising its upper body high and spitting out its tongue fiercely. Its entire upper body was as tall as two adults stacked together.
The snake's body was as thick as a human being, and it kept twisting itself as if in protest.
Seeing it poking its head out and making an attacking gesture, Yun Ran shouted anxiously, "Stop!"
The giant snake seemed to have heard it, stopped its movements, and looked up at her.
And the moment he saw her, his pair of dark green snake eyes actually emitted a look of surprise and murderous intent.
At least, in Yun Ran's eyes, she seemed to see the snake's surprise when it saw her.
She bit her lip and rushed towards the giant snake.
"Ran Ran!" Yun Chenglu was so scared that he started chasing after him.
Ye Jingzhen was much calmer than him. After a slight surprise, he quickly calmed down. The corners of his mouth curled up and he looked at Yun Ran's back with a meaningful smile.
After seeing Yun Ran, the giant snake suddenly ignored the soldiers surrounding it and rushed directly towards Yun Ran.
Yun Ran did not dodge or evade, standing still, and the giant snake appeared in front of him in an instant.
The members of the vanguard team were terrified and surrounded the giant snake to attack it. However, no matter how they used their knives to chop the snake's body, the snake remained unmoved and focused on running towards Yun Ran.
The giant snake's head was huge, as big as three or five human heads combined. It opened its bloody mouth, revealing sharp fangs that flashed with cold light.
The fangs were covered in blood and had bits of flesh bitten from a person hanging on them.
Several soldiers with poor psychological endurance could not help but vomit.
The giant snake's fangs were already in front of Yun Ran, and Yun Chenglu was so scared that his heart skipped a beat.
But Yun Ran suddenly took out a small bottle from his sleeve, flicked the cork with his thumb, and poured the bottle full of medicine of unknown origin directly into the giant snake's huge mouth emitting a strong bloody stench.
After she poured the medicine in, she saw that the giant snake was still opening its mouth. She frowned, clenched her fist, and punched the giant snake's head hard.
She was so strong that she knocked the giant snake unconscious. The snake shook its head a few times and then fell to the ground with a bang, splashing a lot of mud mixed with blood.
Yun Ran was the closest to the place. Seeing the mud splashing, she frowned in disgust and stepped back. Suddenly, she felt someone holding her waist from behind. She pushed off the ground with her toes and instantly rose up and jumped onto a big tree next to her.
She looked back and saw Ye Jingzhen.
The two men were sitting on the branches of a big tree, looking down at the giant snake lying motionless on the ground.
Ye Jingzhen raised his eyebrows: "What did you feed it?"
"An antidote." Yun Ran said, "This snake must have been controlled by the snake witch's witchcraft, so it ran over to stop me. Moreover, its target was clear just now: it was coming for me."
Ye Jingzhen had just guessed this. Apart from the snake witch, there should be no one else who can control the giant snake.
Although there are many poisonous snakes and ferocious beasts in this dark forest, if they do not take the initiative to provoke them, these poisonous beasts will not attack them actively because they see their huge momentum.
"So, you want to fight back?" Ye Jingzhen said.
Yun Ran nodded, and seeing the giant snake below begin to wriggle slightly, he said, "Let's go down, it will recover soon."
Sure enough, as soon as the two came down from the tree, the giant snake was shaking its head again and straightening up the upper half of its body.
Its deep eyes were full of vigilance as it looked at the large group of people surrounding it, hissing and seeming a little confused.
Yun Ran didn't hesitate and went up to kick it hard.
The giant snake twitched in pain and lowered its head. It wanted to attack, but the moment it saw Yun Ran clearly, fear suddenly appeared in its eyes.
It hissed miserably and turned to escape into the woods nearby.
Yun Ran quickly shouted to the wolf and bear squatting nearby, "Quick! Lonely King, Black King! Stop it!"
A wolf and a bear received the order. The Black King pounced on the snake's head, and the Lone King bit the snake's tail. They cooperated tacitly and dragged the giant snake back.
The giant snake kept twisting and struggling. Seeing Yun Ran approaching step by step, the vertical pupils in the snake's eyes widened and the hissing sound from its mouth became more and more shrill.
Yun Ran glanced at the corpses of the three soldiers on the ground, and his eyes were filled with fierceness.
She took off the dragon whisker noodles from her wrist and whipped the giant snake three times, using all her strength in each whip, leaving three hideous whip marks on the snake, each of which was so deep that the snake bones were visible.
The giant snake's skin was torn and blood was flowing. It struggled even more violently. Seeing this, the soldiers surrounded it and pinned it down.
Yun Ran put away the dragon beard noodles, clenched her fists, and hit the giant snake twice. The giant snake hissed in pain and rolled its eyes. As a result, Yun Ran stepped on the snake's head.
The giant snake didn't even dare to struggle, and was trembling and twitching all over.
Yun Ran sighed, clapped his hands, and said, "These three whips are for you killing three of them, and these two punches are for you injuring two of us. I'm sparing your life now, but there's a price to pay. Go back to whoever ordered you here and get double the payback for me!"
As soon as she said this, the giant snake seemed to understand and hissed again.
Yun Ran didn't move his feet and continued, "I know this forest is your territory, and you're very familiar with it. But if I let you go and you don't do anything for me, the next time I see you, I'll pull out your tendons, skin you, cut you into pieces, make pickled cabbage and snake soup, and share it with the soldiers!"
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