louisehourcade Chapter 239 Iron-Bone Python
Chapter 239 Iron-Bone Python
The next morning.
Song Chen boarded the spaceship early.
As the spacecraft lifted off, he dialed his home phone.
"mom."
"Xiao Chen, are you going out again? Lin Qingxue just called me and said you wouldn't let her come with you." Li Xiuying's voice came from the phone, filled with her usual worry.
"Huh? When did you two meet?"
Not long ago.
Song Chen didn't want to dwell on the issue, so she said instead, "This time it's too dangerous; it's not good for her to go with us."
"And what about you? Aren't you in danger?"
He looked down at the shrinking Nanjiang Base City and said, "Mom, don't worry, even the Beast Emperor can't do anything to me now, it's just a few Beast Kings."
"You child..." Li Xiuying sighed.
"You always say that. Fine, fine, I can't control you anymore. Just be careful and don't think you can be fearless just because you're so capable."
"Know."
"Your dad's right there, do you want to say a few words?"
"No need, just let him drink less."
A booming voice came from the other end of the line: "You brat, you're trying to boss your old man around!"
Song Chen smiled and hung up the call.
Sitting opposite him was a man in his early forties with dark skin, named Wang Zhan.
The former captain of the Nanjiang Hunting Brigade, at the peak of the fourth tier.
When Lu Zhengbei made arrangements for him, he only said one sentence: "Follow Councilor Song and just don't die."
Wang Zhan glanced at the holographic map and pointed to the flashing red dot on the screen: "Councilor Song, the nearest level-two nest is in Cangwu Mountain, occupied by a mid-stage fifth-tier Ironbone Python, which commands about two thousand beasts, the highest of which is fourth-tier."
"The Iron-Bone Python's weakness is the area three inches between its eyes, where its scales are thinnest."
"This beast is very slippery. It hides in a cave all year round. The entrance to the cave is only a dozen meters wide. Once you go in, it's its territory."
Song Chen didn't reply, and closed her eyes to begin regulating her breathing.
Twenty minutes later, the spaceship began to decelerate.
"Associate Song, there's a situation down below," Han Duo's voice came from the cockpit.
"On the mountain path on the south side of Cangwu Mountain, a small team of martial artists is being chased by a horde of strange beasts, numbering about three hundred, led by a three-headed fourth-tier beast."
Song Chen opened his eyes and scanned the surroundings with his spiritual energy.
On the hillside, a six-person martial arts team was desperately running uphill.
Leading the pack was a female warrior, in her early twenties, with her ponytail half undone, her face covered in blood and mud, and carrying a long, broken sword.
She was followed by five teammates, all of whom were injured. The last male warrior had his left arm bitten off, but he managed to stay with the team thanks to his willpower.
More than three hundred strange beasts were hot on their heels, about thirty meters behind them. The fastest of them were three iron-scaled leopards covered in iron-gray scales, each about fifteen meters long.
The female warrior missed a step and fell forward.
She sat up abruptly, watching the approaching horde of beasts, and gritted her teeth as she shouted to her teammates, "You guys go first!"
"team leader!"
"Walk!"
The three iron-scaled leopards leaped up simultaneously, their blood-red mouths wide open, sending a stench through the air.
The female warrior gripped her broken blade tightly, staring intently at the throat of the iron-scaled leopard in the center.
Then a bolt of golden-purple lightning struck down from the sky.
To be precise, it's a piece.
The entire hillside, within a radius of 150 meters, was instantly enveloped by a spherical lightning field.
More than three hundred strange beasts didn't even have time to scream before those below the third rank were instantly carbonized, their black, charred corpses remaining in running postures, scattered all over the ground.
A figure descended from the sky and landed on the head of the iron-scaled leopard in the center.
"Bang!"
The iron-scaled leopard's head was crushed into the ground, sending rubble flying.
The newcomer was dressed in dark silver armor and carried a battle sword crackling with electricity in his left hand, with lightning dancing on the blade.
The mountain wind blew across the hillside again, carrying the smells of burnt food and blood.
The six warriors stood frozen in place, and in that instant, all the strange beasts were dead.
The broken blade in the female warrior's hand fell to the ground. She opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.
Behind him, his five teammates were either slumped to the ground, had red eyes, or were trembling as they stared at Song Chen's back.
Wang Zhan jumped off the spaceship and strode up to the female warrior: "The Cangwu Squad? What are you doing here?"
The female warrior snapped out of her daze and hurriedly said, "Our mission was to explore the new cave on the west side of Cangwu Mountain, but we didn't expect the Iron-Bone Python to have opened up there, and more than three hundred strange beasts flanked us from behind... Our team originally had twelve people..."
Wang Zhan nodded with a stern face and turned to look at Song Chen.
Song Chen had already walked to the side, used the tip of his knife to pry open the Ironscale Leopard's head, took out three crystal cores, and tossed them to Wang Zhan: "Give them to them."
The female warrior stared at Song Chen's armor for a few seconds, then her pupils suddenly contracted: "You are... Song Chen? Honorary Councilor of Great Xia."
A young male martial artist behind her pointed at Song Chen's sword: "That's the Heavenly Blade. I watched the live broadcast of the college league. It's the one that crippled Lu Beichen in one move."
All six people stood up.
Song Chen glanced back at them and said, "Take care of the injuries; there are medicines on the spaceship."
The female warrior wiped the blood from her face, straightened up, and said in a trembling voice, "Thank you, Councilor Song, for saving my life. I...we are the seventh squad of the third brigade of the Nanjiang Hunting Corps. My name is Liu Yue."
"Okay." Song Chen nodded and looked at Wang Zhan. "Let them rest on the spaceship. You take me to the Ironbone Python's cave."
Wang Zhan responded.
Liu Yue took two steps to catch up: "Councilor Song, we've explored part of the Iron-Bone Python's cave. The terrain is very complex, with seven or eight branching passages. The deepest part of the main passage is its lair, at least fifty meters high..."
Where is it?
"Below the cliff on the west side, there is a cave entrance covered by vines, about fifteen meters in diameter."
Song Chen looked at Wang Zhan: "You take them back to the spaceship, I'll go myself."
"Congressman Song, this is dangerous..."
Before he could finish speaking, Song Chen was already a hundred meters away.
Fuyao propelled him forward, leaving a trail of blue wind behind him.
The cave entrance is hidden by vines on the western cliff of Cangwu Mountain.
Song Chen walked straight in.
The passageway was indeed narrow, no more than twenty meters wide at its widest point, which would be too cramped for an ordinary martial artist, but this was not a problem for Song Chen.
He compressed the lightning field to a radius of fifty meters around himself, and as he walked into the cave, all the strange beasts that rushed towards him were carbonized within fifty meters.
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 787 kill points.]
[A Tier 2 alien beast has been killed, gaining 98 kill points.]
[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 787 kill points.]
……
Song Chen walked slowly and didn't even swing his knife.
He walked step by step deeper into the cave, the surrounding lightning field like a giant meat grinder, crushing everything in his way into ashes.
The cave walls were covered with vines and moss, which were tinged with gold and purple by the lightning, making them look like some kind of mural of hell.
After walking for about ten minutes and passing through seven forks in the road, the view ahead suddenly opened up.
A huge underground cave, more than 60 meters high, with a black pool of water at the bottom.
In the center of the pool, coiled up a giant python, its body nearly three hundred meters long, its scales gleaming with a metallic sheen, and a palm-sized white scale between its eyes.
The Iron-Bone Python had already sensed the intruder. It raised its front half, locked its vertical pupils on the cave entrance, and let out a low-frequency hiss.
A surge of mental energy swept over, carrying both threat and rage.