Unfortunately, Nie Jingxing also seemed determined to obtain the Serpent Spirit and attacked and fought for it as well.
[What does Nie Jingxing want the snake spirit for?] Kong Sang asked in his heart.
[Hmm, that's a good question. Actually, I don't understand why there are always ants with the delusional belief to shake the heavens. Perhaps it's an attempt to constantly evolve, surpass higher-dimensional beings, and forcibly take you in their life.]
Then we must not let Nie Jingxing succeed. He is already very strong and cannot continue to feed his opponent.
Kong Sang struggled to stand up: "Si Yu and Lan Ye, go help."
Upon hearing this, Bai Luo and Xu Lin quickly helped Kong Sang up, signaling the two to hurry up, while also remaining vigilant towards Qi Cheng.
They hadn't figured out what this person was here for yet, but they would find out soon enough.
"Go, everyone, and snatch that thing away."
Everyone frowned. Qi Cheng wanted the snake spirit too?
Being fully equipped is no joke; when firepower is unleashed, a mortal body will naturally have to avoid its sharp edge.
As soon as Nie Jingxing and Lin Changli retreated, the Serpent Spirit unleashed its power. Seeing the mere ants frantically firing at it, its scarlet pupils turned vertical, and the Serpent's Lair swamp expanded rapidly at a visible speed.
Bai Luo, who sensed the snakes' movements first, grabbed Kong Sang and Xu Lin and ran frantically into the distance.
Xu Lin gritted his teeth, hoisted the weakened Kong Sang onto his back, and followed. The others were so capable that he didn't need to worry about them.
This move was most effective at that moment; many of Qi Cheng's men were caught off guard and swallowed up by the swamp.
The key point is that this is not an ordinary swamp. It is full of snakes and their offspring, which seem to be extremely aggressive due to the king's anger. When a person is trapped, they bite wildly.
Accompanied by a roar, it slid into the body through the throat and ear canal.
"grass!"
Si Yu's face turned deathly green as he kept setting fire to the ground beneath his feet, which temporarily burned away snake corpses and solidified silt, providing him with a temporary foothold.
Upon seeing this, Lan Ye and Lin Changli bound themselves with bone threads and water lines respectively, swinging themselves like on a swing to Si Yu's side, and the three of them settled down in one place.
Si Yu coldly replied, "You still have to rely on me."
Nie Jingxing's feet remained firmly planted, likely because he used spatial confinement to restrict his position.
Right now, apart from the three from Kongsang who ran out first and both sides who found a place to stay, only Qi Cheng's side, who was constantly screaming in agony, remained.
As expected of the president's son, he remained calm despite the alarming scene. Realizing that he could no longer escape being surrounded by the snake nest swamp, he decisively used his abilities to kill his subordinate who was suffering from severe pain.
The metal equipment brought by his dead subordinates was laid out on the swamp under Qi Cheng's control, forming a metal raft.
If this were a real swamp, it would naturally sink, but there's more than just silt below. The snake's body is strong enough to support the weight of the metal. The remaining subordinates all have a foothold, and the firing has never stopped.
Qi Cheng's ability made Kong Sang's eyes widen, because it was not a genetic mutation ability, but another human experiment by Nie Qu. How could the president's son become an experimental subject?
When she was around teens, in addition to researching gene therapy, Nie Qu also conducted a study on the interaction between metals and a certain magnetic field in the human body.
Nie Qu believes that there is a certain resonance between humans and metals, and if this resonance is stable, metals can be controlled by human will.
She had also seen the file at the time and thought it was a fantasy. She thought that the abnormal experiments involving mixing animal genes were somewhat plausible, since they were all living organisms.
She couldn't understand Nie Qu's thoughts or thought process at all—whether it was resonating with an inanimate object or metal.
She didn't pay attention to that experiment, but she figured there must have been quite a few people who were killed as test subjects.
Today, witnessing with her own eyes what she considered a fantasy come true for Nie Qu, even though she hates everything about the Nie family, she has to admit that no one can surpass Nie Qu in terms of research and imagination.
This person is like a trendsetter of the times; in his eyes, there are probably only failed experiments, not the word "impossible."
Seeing that Qi Cheng was able to remain calm, Lin Changli's azure eyes darkened. He was Cui Ying's son, and just for that reason alone, he harbored boundless murderous intent.
The water flowed towards the snake spirit, and Qi Cheng didn't think much of it. Little did he expect that as it approached him, the water would knock him out of the metal raft.
Everyone was stunned; Lin Changli was going to kill Qi Cheng!
Kong Sang thought of Lin Changli's mother's situation, closed her eyes, not wanting to see Qi Cheng's fate. After returning home... things would probably only get worse.
However, the imagined scene did not happen. The sudden spatial barrier brought Qi Cheng directly to Nie Jingxing's side.
Qi Cheng breathed a sigh of relief upon landing: "Thank you, Jingxing!" he said familiarly, his gaze settling on Lin Changli.
Kong Sang frowned: "You are acquainted with Nie Jingxing, and you are the experimental subject of Nie Qu's file. So you met at the base, why didn't I know?"
Zhou Jin sneered: "Miss, what do you know about President Nie? Do you know why I dislike you?"
"It's true that President Nie is assertive towards you, but you are really just a victim. Didn't you take advantage of President Nie paving the way for you and accept his protection without any qualms?"
"If sheltering you is the cause, then hurting you is the effect. What do you have to feel wronged about? Back at the base, when General Nie was still young, he went against Nie Qu time and time again for your sake, and he suffered a lot of torment every time."
"And you? When you're weak, you look like you don't want to live. You completely ignore all the things that President Nie did behind the scenes to get to where he is today so that he could protect you in front of Nie Qu!"
"Now you're even more of a traitor, openly standing against President Nie, you..."
"Shut up." Nie Jingxing's calm two words rendered Zhou Jin speechless. He lowered his head and stood aside without saying another word.
Perhaps sensing the infighting between the two sides, the snake spirit watched with great interest, its intelligence no less than that of a human.
Now I finally understand why Zhou Jin listened to Xiao Yue so much in my past life and harmed her; the root of the problem lies here.
Despite being criticized so bluntly, Kong Sang felt no shame.
He confronted Zhou Jin and said, "I don't deny what you said. Your protection was the cause, and your harm to me was the effect. It doesn't mean I should suffer for it."
"Just because you're good to someone doesn't give you the right to torment them with impunity. If I gave you this much kindness, would you accept it?"
"I accepted it when I lacked ability, but now that I have ability, why don't I distance myself from it? Am I a masochist?"
“You’ve followed Nie Jingxing through thick and thin, so of course I’ll help him, there’s nothing to say about that, but stop trying to manipulate me.”
"If our roles were reversed, and I pampered and protected him, and even abused him when I went crazy, would you still ask me what I was complaining about?"
Zhou Jin's expression faltered, and Kong Sang said disdainfully, "No wonder you were manipulated by Xiao Yue. Your brain is so stubborn and inflexible!"
Ignoring Zhou Jin's dark expression, Kong Sang turned to look at the Serpent Spirit and said, "A one-on-one duel? The stake is half of your energy. If you lose, you can do whatever you want with me."
Snake Spirit glanced around: "Do you think I'm stupid? You think these people will stop after you lose?"
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