"Ahem, what do you want to say?" Renn asked, finally showing a slight desire to continue the conversation with this woman.
Chu Nian: "For example, in the squad I was in before, there was a guy named Wang Chao..."
Raine coughed again, his gaze towards Chu Nian becoming somewhat serious: Even Jing Yue didn't know about this, so how did this woman find out?
Chu Nian smiled and stopped the conversation, saying instead, "Now, let's get down to business!"
Ryan asked, "The deal you're talking about?"
Chu Nian nodded and said, "That's right."
Ryan: "Can you tell me how you plan to remain an outsider? And what are you going to offer me in exchange?"
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Although the exploration team set off together, they entered Huai Mountain from different directions and arrived at several locations of the vast abyss, the Shenyuan, at roughly the same time. In order to more accurately explore the Shenyuan, they needed to descend into it from different "points".
For many years, various monitoring instruments have been unable to detect the bottom of the abyss. However, in the past few days, monitoring instruments have shown that the temperature in the depths of the abyss has increased, and areas that were previously undetectable are now being detected. It has been learned that at the bottom of the abyss, several rivers of lava are rushing about.
The explorers not only need to investigate what is along the way, but also collect a large number of samples to bring back to the laboratory for research to see if they can find substances that resist radiation.
Because Shenyuan was already deep in Huai Mountain, very far from the outer sky, the group arrived at noon on the second day. After eating something and resting for a while, they began to communicate using communicators before simultaneously climbing down.
Each team along the way was attacked by swarms of snakes. Moreover, they discovered that the further down they went, the stronger and more powerful the snakes became. Before they even reached the lava river area detected by the monitoring instruments, each team had already suffered casualties of varying degrees.
They fought their way forward, and another day passed before they saw the lava river, which was still some distance away.
On the fourth day, they finally descended to the bottom of the abyss, their feet touching the scorching earth. They all wore special shoes to help them withstand the heat of the ground.
Several teams converged at the bottom of the abyss and discovered that there was really nothing there except snakes. However, looking along the rushing lava rivers, they found that several lava rivers were flowing in the same direction. Out of curiosity, they ventured deeper into the abyss along the course of the lava rivers.
The group traveled together.
After going deeper for more than an hour, they all stopped, stunned by what they saw a few hundred meters away.
Ahead, in a vast sea of fiery red lava, nine serpents, their bodies towering over ten feet tall, roared and thrashed about. Their bright red tongues, whether from cremation or not, occasionally emitted flames.
Most terrifyingly, these nine snake bodies were connected to a single snake tail. The massive snake tail flicked gently, stirring up a huge wave of lava.
The intrusion of the group clearly enraged the hydra. Despite its enormous size, it moved with remarkable agility, darting towards the group like an arrow released from a bow—or rather, it moved stealthily.
In an instant, it appeared before everyone, and at the same time, its body, which had previously appeared to be a snake, had completely transformed into a fire dragon.
Everyone felt unbearably hot, as if they were being roasted alive. And for some reason, they couldn't move at all. It was as if all their superpowers had frozen inside their bodies in that instant, or as if they had been completely melted away by the intense heat.
Just when they thought they were all going to die here, suddenly a high-pitched bird cry was heard. The nine-headed serpent, whose whole body was spewing fire, suddenly stopped its forward momentum and quickly flew back, leaving a beautiful red mark on the fiery lava surface.
Then everyone saw a large golden bird land by the lava lake and transform into a handsome young man, almost blinding them.
Even worse, the creature that was just a few moments ago, the nine-headed serpent, has now transformed into a bewitching woman. She glares coldly at the boy and says, "As a defeated opponent of my lord, how dare you return here?"
The young man sneered, "The 'master' you speak of is my young master, my master's disciple." Finally, something about that woman could bring him some comfort.
The alluring woman said, "Do you think that by saying that, I will let these villains who dared to trespass on the Lord's territory go?"
The boy said, "What the master means is that there's absolutely no need for either of you to fight." Then he turned to the exploration team and said, "You can leave now."
The alluring woman: "How dare you!"
The boy urged everyone, "Aren't you going to hurry up and leave?!"
The team members finally came to their senses and quickly turned around to run back the way they came.
They heard the roar of the giant beast behind them, and then their feet trembled, and even the cave walls around them shook, as if they might collapse at any moment.
Someone mustered their courage and glanced back, only to see that the alluring woman had already erected a massive wall of lava several meters high. However, this heatwave was firmly blocked by an invisible wall raised by the young man, preventing it from descending.
Everyone who witnessed this scene gasped in shock and quickened their pace, fearing that the boy might not be able to withstand the wave of lava and that the wave would crash down and kill him.
They escaped the lava river region and rapidly climbed up the cave walls of the abyss, pushing themselves to their limits.
Most of them were unaware that while they were fleeing for their lives, General Ryan witnessed everything they went through through comprehensive surveillance equipment installed on his trusted men in various squads.
Chu Nian sat across from him at his desk, her expression relaxed and somewhat languid, and said, "See? I wasn't wrong!"
On the day the team set off, she gave Renn a general overview of the abyss. She also recounted the team's progress over the past few days to Renn in detail, as if giving him a live broadcast.
As Ryan listened to her, he looked at his computer screen, which displayed live footage transmitted from the surveillance devices on Wang Chao and his cronies.
Yes, the bottom of the abyss is indeed a river of lava, and where the lava converges there is a nine-headed serpent... Her description was exactly as if she had seen it with her own eyes.
Although Ryan's heart was already in turmoil, he had been a general for decades and had some experience, so he was naturally quite composed and appeared calm on the surface.
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