Chapter 103 Is there two snakes...?
Gongyang Huo's speculation drew everyone's attention to someone they had never thought of before.
"If it really is mountain dye, then we're in trouble."
The group exchanged glances and suddenly felt a chill run down their spines, as if they were being watched by some terrifying hunter.
Having been hunters for so long, they have never had the experience of being the prey.
Just as they were analyzing the whole situation, the car arrived at the dock and stopped.
"Why did you stop? Keep going!" Hugh yelled angrily.
The driver's voice trembled with terror: "Master, the bridge is broken, we can't cross!"
"What?"
Hugh quickly peered out and saw that the bridge had indeed broken in one section.
He was terrified.
Such a large commotion could not have gone unnoticed under normal circumstances; it must have occurred after the riots broke out.
Therefore, the culprit must be nearby!
Besides them, some guests and manor staff also escaped to the dock, where they also discovered that the bridge was broken and were anxiously trying to find a way to cross the lake.
"Damn it, get in the water! Come here, take me there!" Hugh beckoned to one of the water-type ability users among the assassins. He needed to get out of the island as quickly as possible!
Gongyang Huo's ears twitched. He suddenly looked up and shouted, "Retreat quickly..."
No sooner had he finished speaking than the dock exploded.
A series of explosions rang out, and the crowd gathered at the dock had no time to escape, resulting in most of them being killed or injured.
Some people used their special abilities to protect their vital organs at critical moments, while others noticed in time and quickly dodged, thus escaping disaster.
Without waiting for a break, the ram spread its wings and flew into the sky, but was still hit by the aftershocks of the explosion and crashed to the ground some distance away.
Back in the Colosseum, the bombs were buried deep inside, and he couldn't see them clearly, but now that he was closer, he was certain that those bombs were from their Ram family's armory.
The moment he took off, the vulture's eyesight caught sight of a marking on a bomb.
Who is it? How could they possibly obtain weapons from the Ram family!
This matter is very serious and must be reported to the head of the household as soon as possible.
Just as Gongyang Huo was about to get up, he felt a sharp pain in his ankle, as if he had been stung by something, and he reflexively pulled his leg back.
At the same time, his mouth instinctively transformed into the sharp beak of a vulture, swooping down with lightning speed towards his ankle.
There was nothing there.
He was about to explore the surroundings again when suddenly everything went black, and he felt a momentary dizziness.
Gongyang was terrified and tried to call for the assassins in the distance, but he couldn't make a sound.
Something slippery wrapped around his neck, constricting him tightly and preventing him from speaking.
He reached out and touched something unseen on his neck.
The cold, scaly surface gave him, like a vulture, an instinctive plan.
It's a snake.
And it was a venomous snake.
The poison is not fatal, but once it entangles you and tightens around your neck, you will soon suffocate.
He tried to spread his wings and escape, but as soon as he did, they were snapped in two!
A sharp pain struck, and Ram was in so much pain that he could not make a sound. His sharp vulture beak was wide open, his eyes bulging, and on the verge of death, he asked in despair.
"Who are you....."
The black snake did not respond, but instead increased its strength, tightening its grip.
In the final moments, Gongyang Huo trembled as he pulled out his phone, wanting to make one last call.
No signal.
despair.
This is the deepest despair.
He didn't even know who the enemy was; the invisible enemy never showed himself, and he died in his favorite game.
Before losing consciousness, Ram vaguely saw a red-haired girl appear at the dock not far away, holding a long knife, and stabbing Hugh Solomon into his body.
A long sword?
Upon seeing such a distinctive weapon, Gongyang Huo guessed who it was. He hadn't expected her to be far more powerful than his family had estimated, but before he could even utter her name, his neck was snapped.
Black Snake remained invisible until Ram died, a testament to his status as a deadly assassin.
We cannot expose ourselves just because the target is dead.
It seemed that only Shan Ran was fighting in the entire arena.
No, besides her, there's also Yu Yuan.
However, Yu Yuan was not good at direct combat and stayed far away, afraid of being caught in the crossfire.
Fortunately, Gavin was silently following him, so there was no danger.
Hello, are you... are you still there?
Yu Yuan looked around cautiously and asked, but before he could finish speaking, someone suddenly appeared beside him.
Yu Yuan patted his chest lightly, letting out a sigh of relief: "So you've been here all along. That was close..."
Jiawen maintained his smile: "No, I went out a few times in between and just got back."
"Huh?" Yu Yuan was shocked. "You...I...Didn't Sister Ran ask you to protect me?"
Jia Wen glanced sideways and saw the other person's aggrieved, tearful expression. His smile deepened slightly. "You're alright now, isn't that enough? Besides... I really want to see how my sister kills people."
It's really, so beautiful.
"ah?"
Yu Yuan shuddered, but the next sentence sent chills down his spine even further.
"As for you? If you can't even protect yourself, wouldn't staying by your sister's side just be adding to her burden?"
“I…” Yu Yuan wanted to argue, but suddenly realized that even if he was a burden, it didn’t matter. His role wasn’t on the front lines anyway; as long as he could help when needed, that was enough.
So he quickly came to terms with it and didn't take Jiawen's words to heart. Instead, he said with a grin, "It's okay, as long as Sister Ran doesn't mind. I've always been a lazy bum in my family since I was a kid, hehe."
Jiawen: ......
Everything on Crocodile Island was nearing its end; the group only needed to finish up the remaining tasks.
There are no innocent people on the entire island.
Not a single one will be left.
"Hiss..." Yu Yuan grinned, feeling somewhat uncomfortable. This pampered young master, who had always indulged in pleasure and could even rest easy in the face of the apocalypse, had never seen such a scene before. "Isn't this a bit cruel?"
He was just saying it casually, but the boy next to him overheard it.
Jia Wen lifted his eyes, glanced at Yu Yuan, and grinned, revealing a strange smile.
“If you join in, it won’t be cruel.”
"Add...join?"
Yu Yuan's eyes widened in disbelief. He didn't know which side to join—Ran Jie's or the arena's.
For some reason, he always felt that the new underling next to Sister Ran had ill intentions.
Although he always had a smile on his face, it was that smile that made him feel a little uneasy.
He subconsciously took a step back and waved his hands repeatedly: "No need, no need, I'm useless, I'm a good-for-nothing. Sister Ran is charging ahead, I'm just responsible for cheering. Go! Go, Sister Ran! Go, handsome little brother!"
Yu Yuan didn't understand what backbone was; he always believed that "nothing in the world is difficult if you are willing to give up."
Handsome younger brother Jiawen: ......
His usually unchanging smile almost crumbled.
The number of polluters on the island is far higher than the number of humans.
Shan Ran didn't even need to lift a finger later on. The polluters had a much more acute sense of smell for strangers than she did, and they could even find employees hiding in secret rooms.
There's absolutely no need to worry about anyone escaping.
As long as the docks and the sky are managed properly, it will be fine.
Shan Ran then went to the monitoring room alone, copied down all the useful content, and took it with her. Before leaving, she destroyed all the original documents.
Then, following the employee entrance, we arrived at the secret place that Crocodile Island had been hiding.
The basement was extremely large, and the normally heavily guarded door was now wide open to her.
There are no living creatures inside now, only the corpses of humans and polluters.
When Shanran first arrived, he only had time to take control of the central control room and didn't have time to look for clues.
The door to the place where the polluters were being held was opened by Shan Ran, revealing that the room was divided into several cubicles, each of which was quite large.
Shan Ran eventually found his way to the laboratory.
After reviewing the records and videos, Shanran discovered that no research was being conducted here; it was mainly for injections and observation.
There are three kinds of medicine here.
Red potion: □□, which makes people feel like they are floating on air, amplifies their senses, and excites them. After being improved, it has almost no side effects, so it is very popular among high-ranking people.
Green potion: Enhances superpowers. Its main components are crystal cores and a substance extracted from humans. It has been improved many times, but the latest version still has significant side effects and a risk of contamination. The degree of contamination is related to the dosage, the individual's willpower, and luck. If injected into ordinary people, half will die immediately, and the other half will become contaminated individuals with superpowers.
Blue potion: It can quickly turn ordinary people into polluters with a very low risk of death. These polluters do not have superpowers, but they are very strong and do not feel pain. They are more lethal than ordinary people.
The researchers are very cautious; the laboratory where the drugs are developed is not located here.
After the medicine was delivered, it was used on a large number of ordinary people and people with superpowers. The experimental data was then sent back to the laboratory for further improvements.
The audience tonight is using red potions.
The green medicine that Xie Huaimin asked Xie Qingheng to continue using over the phone should be the one Xie Huaimin instructed Xie Qingheng to use.
So many of the polluters without superpowers used the blue potion.
Ordinary people already have very little space to live in, and they struggle to survive. Why should we further exploit them, turning them into mindless monsters, and then have them slaughter their own kind?
Shanran didn't understand this kind of perverse sense of humor.
She doesn't need to understand.
After carefully storing the evidence and the green potion, Shan Ran set fire to the red and blue potions, burning them to ashes.
Afterwards, she went to the monitoring room, roughly reviewed the video recordings, copied the useful ones to her storage space, and burned the rest.
The raging fire engulfed the bodies of the workers and polluters, ending the evil here, but the mountain stains would carry the traces away.
She stepped out of the basement and exhaled a breath of stale air; the smell down there was truly unpleasant.
On the way, Shan Ran saw Xie Huaimin's body.
The corpse was already incomplete. If it weren't for the familiar fabric of the clothes and the traces of dark supernatural abilities, Shan Ran wouldn't have recognized who he was.
After thinking for a moment, Shanran burned the corpse to ashes, put some of it in a plastic bag, and stored it in her spatial storage.
Gavin Garo checked several times and confirmed that there were no living people on the island.
Currently, only polluters and mutant crocodiles are fighting on the island.
Shan Ran originally intended to clean them all up, but the unusual signal loss on Crocodile Island had already attracted outside attention.
People are heading in this direction, she must leave as soon as possible.
Before leaving, Shan Ran set the entire manor ablaze.
It was already late at night, and black smoke billowed high on the island, blending into the surrounding darkness.
Shan Ran flew several times, taking Ga Wengano and Yu Yuan away from Crocodile Island.
The group walked away, with Gavin Gano skillfully manipulating their path behind them to ensure they weren't being followed.
Once they reached a safe area, Shan Ran took out a vehicle from her spatial storage, and the four of them got in together.
Yu Yuan's eyes widened in surprise: "Sister Ran, you also have a space to store your superpowers! Tsk tsk, as expected of my Sister Ran."
He had just finished praising them when two people brushed past him from the left and right.
The two men were the same height and build, and they were wearing the same combat uniforms, all in black, except for their hair color.
Also, their expressions are different.
One always has a smile on his face, while the other maintains a poker face.
The two walked in unison, silently, like two ghosts created from the same source, which inexplicably sent a chill down Yu Yuan's spine.
Even after they deactivated their invisibility and walked in broad daylight, Yu Yuan still felt a little terrified.
So he volunteered to drive, hoping to get as far away from the two of them as possible.
The twin brothers will definitely sit together in the back seat, so that Ran Jie can sit in the front seat, which will make him safer.
"Hmm, I'm really clever," Yu Yuan thought.
Things did indeed unfold as he had planned. Shan Ran opened the passenger door and prepared to get in the car.
"Sister, you've worked the hardest these past few days. You can sit in the back and get some sleep. I've already found a seat, and I'll tell the driver how to get there."
Driver Yu Yuan: ......
Shanran was indeed a bit sleepy; it was the middle of the night, and her biological clock had kicked in. "I'll sleep in the back. How will you and your brother sit?"
Jia Wen tilted his head. "I'll sit in the passenger seat. Xiao Nuo can rest cross-legged on the ground; she doesn't need a seat."
Sitting cross-legged to rest? Large beads of sweat dripped down Yu Yuan's forehead. Could it be what he was thinking?
Gano's icy expression softened slightly, and he looked a little hesitant.
He looked up and gazed in Shan Ran's direction. He didn't see any resistance or disgust on her face, and he seemed relieved.
He withdrew his gaze, slowly walked to the passenger seat, and as he walked, he transformed his body into a black snake.
The black snake slid into the car and curled up in a ball on the back footrest.
Yamaran: .......
Yu Yuan didn't tell anyone about his fear of snakes. After all, he was a member of the Yu family and worried people would think he was being pretentious, but...
He's really afraid of snakes!
Especially when he saw that the tall boy Gano gradually turned into a giant snake.
The shocking visual impact made his eyes almost pop out of their sockets!
Yu Yuan's skin was covered in goosebumps and goosebumps. He stood there, trembling slightly.
He didn't realize what was happening until a cool arm touched his shoulder, and he even shivered.
“Let’s go,” Jia Wen’s smile was very close, and Yu Yuan noticed that the other’s eyes were like snake eyes, forming a straight line. “Driver.”
Yu Yuan turned around stiffly, got into the car with both hands and feet moving in unison, and started the engine. He accidentally touched the wiper button, and the wipers started working on the dry windshield.
Shan Ran gave Yu Yuan a strange look, then looked away, climbed into the back seat, and lay down.
After fastening her seatbelt, Shanran turned and lay on her side, where she saw the black snake's pair of round, black eyes.
Gano had been observing Shanran's movements, and when they suddenly met eyes, he instinctively shrank back.
Many people are afraid of snakes, especially large ones like this one, which are all black and look even more oppressive and frightening.
He resisted a little when his brother asked him to turn into a snake, but he always listened to his brother and eventually turned into a snake and got on the bus.
It's strange, the thought of possibly being disliked by her makes me feel a little uneasy.
That's weird.
A pair of fair hands slowly grew larger in his field of vision.
Not long ago, these hands were stained with a lot of blood and the slime of the contaminated. Even after being thoroughly cleaned, there was still a faint smell of blood.
He took a light sniff.
It doesn't smell fragrant, but it smells nice.
The hands came up to his head and patted him.
"Thank you, Xiao Hei."
Isn't it said that snakes have a low body temperature? Why does the area she touches feel warm?
Shan Ran withdrew her hand, her fingertips still seemingly able to feel the texture of the scales she had just touched.
The snake's body surface is so unique that Shan Ran rarely comes into such close contact with it.
It's just something I find rare, not something I'm afraid of or disgusted by. I've seen the ugliest and most disgusting beasts, so a snake is nothing compared to that; in fact, it's quite pretty.
In particular, the snake's original form was a handsome young man with a face as beautiful as a doll.
The black snake flicked its tongue at her.
It forks into two at the tip.
two?
When people have free time, they tend to have random, unfounded thoughts.
Shan Ran suddenly realized that snakes seem to have two.
Her eyes involuntarily glanced downwards.
It's a pity it's been put away and can't be seen.
She averted her gaze before the black snake could look at her.
She shouldn't have read so many novels on the forum; her mind was full of lewd content.
She closed her eyes, and soon her breathing became even.
While the girl was asleep, one of her hands was unconsciously resting on the outside of the car seat, hanging down very close to the black snake's body.
The black snake cautiously peeked over, extended its tongue, and licked the slender white finger.
It has her scent.
The black snake narrowed its eyes slightly, feeling a little dizzy, as if it had been drinking alcohol.
He quickly shrank his head, not daring to look at Shan Ran anymore.
Solomon's labs are not far apart, both in Zone 2, but the location is very tricky, and even if you find them, it is very difficult to get in.
Because it's on an island.
Shan Ran suspected that the Solomon family had some kind of obsession with islands, setting up the arena on an island in the lake and the laboratory on an island.
However, compared to the crocodiles in the lake, the monsters in the sea are obviously more dangerous, and they will attack indiscriminately, friend or foe.
Each time a drug is produced in the laboratory, it is taken off the island by a flying ability user.
Human beings with flying abilities are few in number, and the number of flying monsters is also small, so the danger in the air is much lower than in the sea.
Before the apocalypse, this was one of the Solomon family's laboratories, where many unknown experiments were conducted.
It used to be surrounded by heavily armed security guards and outposts, with very strict defenses.
All security has now been moved to the island, where the surrounding ocean provides natural protection.
The Yu family controls all the technology for maritime transport. If anyone were to arrive by sea, they would inevitably engage in a fierce battle with the monsters of the sea, causing quite a commotion. Therefore, as long as the air defenses are properly maintained, everything will be fine.
Early in the morning, Yu Yuan parked the car in a safe spot on the shore and prepared to turn back and wake Shan Ran.
However, Gavin stopped him from doing so.
"Shh," Jiawen lightly touched his lips with his index finger, "Don't disturb your sister."
Yu Yuan: ...Anyway, the poison is inside your bodies, and you're not worried, so why should I be?
Shan Ran didn't sleep for long. Outside, unlike in the base or the safe zone, she wouldn't sleep very soundly.
She rubbed her sleepy eyes and asked, "Have we arrived yet?"
Yu Yuan kept his mouth tightly shut and nodded his head rapidly.
Jiawen still had that same smiling face, but it was slightly different from before; his smile now looked a little more genuine.
With the hope of finding a cure within reach, he couldn't help but feel a surge of joy.
The large black snake flicked its tongue. It didn't have to lie there for so long, but it seemed to have forgotten that the vehicle had arrived, and remained quietly coiled inside.
Once everyone had disembarked, Gano transformed back to normal.
Shan Ran took out her phone, which showed a message from Rhine from an hour ago.
[We've located the Xie family's residence and are preparing to enter and rescue Xie Qingheng.]
Shan Ran replied with a message.
[Be careful, I need to go to the Solomon family's laboratory.]
At the same time, the location was sent over.
Rhein did not reply, probably because he was still in the middle of an operation and didn't have time to check his phone.
After folding up the vehicle, the group carefully made their way to the shore.
The island is neither too far nor too near; it's visible to the naked eye, but if we flew over directly, we would definitely be spotted.
If you were to cross in the water, it would take more than ten minutes to swim in a straight line. Along the way, you never know how many monsters might surround you, which would take an indefinite amount of time and there is also the risk of being discovered.
Shan Ran frowned, thought for a moment, and then walked in the opposite direction until she could no longer see the island, at which point she stopped.
Yu Yuan and the others, not understanding what was going on, followed behind her and walked like that for more than an hour.
Shanran gestured for the others to stop, and she walked to the beach alone, taking out a conch shell.
This is Rou Rou's mouthpiece for her.
Rou Rou said that as long as she spoke into the conch shell, it would come to her.
"Meatball, are you there? I've run into a problem and need your help. Are you free to come over now?"
Shan Ran said a few words, but they seemed to sink without a trace, and she received no reply.
This was the first time she had used a conch shell to deliver a message, and she didn't know if this was the proper procedure.
About half an hour later, the already churning waves became even more turbulent, and with a splash, a huge dolphin's head leaped out of the water.
"Dye it~"
"Meatball~"
Shan Ran instantly appeared in the sea, hugged the fleshy fin, and snuggled close to it.
Rou Rou's eyes narrowed with joy, its lips curled up in a bright smile, and it couldn't resist taking Shan Ran for a stroll in the sea.
By this time, it was already broad daylight, and the three people on the shore watched quietly.
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