499: Chapter 498: Battle with the Forest Serpent [13th Update] 499: Chapter 498: Battle with the Forest Serpent [13th Update] After the team, Ning Fan didn’t stop.
He began searching incessantly.
The second team, the third team, the fourth team…
More and more people died by the hand of Ning Fan.
In the jungle, it was as if a ghost was relentlessly hunting them.
In the depths of a swamp, inside several makeshift military-style tents, a man wearing a white mask with three marks on his forehead was frowning deeply.
He put down the walkie-talkie, looked at the people around him, and said gravely, “Things are looking bad, it seems they’re not going according to our plan.”
“Another team disappeared?” someone asked.
“Disappeared?
Haha…
they must all be dead,” the man responded coldly, frowning.
“Dead?
All those teams were scattered, all of them dead?”
He was the biggest leader here, and this was a situation they had never encountered before.
Initially, he just wanted to inquire about the location and progress of certain teams, but then he discovered that one team had stopped responding completely.
At first, he thought it was just a signal problem with the walkie-talkies, but gradually, more and more teams lost contact.
The Skull Guild, well-trained, would definitely not lose contact for any reason.
If they really lost contact, there was only one possibility: they were all dead!
“Gather all the remaining teams back,” the leader thought and finally spoke.
“What about our plan…”
“The plan has already failed.
If we don’t want a total annihilation, this is the only way.
If the people hunting our squads still want to mess with us, then let them come here, hm…”
Ning Fan continued to hunt in the jungle, and gradually, he also realized there were fewer and fewer squads.
And their routes seemed to be changing, not like the routes Ning Fan had planned before.
“It must be they’ve discovered what I’ve been doing,” Ning Fan muttered, not minding at all.
He looked around; the direction these teams were now retreating to was still easy to pinpoint.
What surprised Ning Fan, though, was that their direction of retreat was not the previous village.
It made sense, that previous village had many members of the Skull Guild, but not excessively so.
The rest must be in another location.
“Alright, since you want to play, let’s play thoroughly,” Ning Fan chuckled, not planning to leave.
He decided to stay here and continue the game.
Soon, Ning Fan followed the direction of their retreat and found a swamp.
In the midst of the swamp, dangers lurked everywhere.
That these folks dared establish a temporary encampment in such a place spoke volumes of their familiarity with the Amazon Primeval Forest.
Ning Fan hid in a bush outside the swamp, completely concealed within it, quietly observing.
But now that many team members had come back, there were too many people, and it would be very dangerous for Ning Fan to strike rashly.
If they grouped up, it would be difficult.
What should he do?
Ning Fan frowned slightly, considering.
He saw some patrolling guys inside the swamp coming toward this direction, and Ning Fan withdrew a great distance once again.
He planned to come over after thinking it through.
Crouching in a relatively hidden spot, Ning Fan was just about to organize his plan thoroughly when suddenly, he heard a rustling sound coming from behind him.
Ning Fan jumped, had these people discovered him?
He turned his head to look behind, and what he saw nearly scared his soul away.
A massive snake head was staring intently at Ning Fan, its crimson tongue flickering in and out.
An Amazon Eunectes!
And such a large one!
He couldn’t see its full length, but the barrel-thick body and the huge head were already making Ning Fan’s scalp tingle.
Of course, Ning Fan’s combat strength was not to be underestimated, and he might have been able to fight if it were a regular Eunectes.
But the Eunectes before him had clearly mutated due to surviving for too long.
Not only was it over twenty meters long, but its eyes had also turned red and were emitting a faint red glow.
An Eunectes with glowing eyes!
Have you ever seen one?
Without time to think more, as the Eunectes was about to attack, Ning Fan, without a second word, ran for his life.
The Eunectes’s head missed its target, swayed its head back and forth, but did not give up.
Its tongue flickered in the air, quickly finding Ning Fan’s direction as its enormous body twisted through the forest, rapidly chasing after him.
Damn, such incredible speed!
Ning Fan glanced back inadvertently and discovered the Eunectes was incredibly swift, persistently pursuing him without relenting.
“There’s so much food in the swamp ahead; why come after me?
What grudge do you have?” Ning Fan muttered in frustration, but his legs didn’t slow down.
In an attempt to avoid this creature, Ning Fan pulled out all the stops, but to his disappointment, none of it worked.
Even if Ning Fan climbed a tree, the creature could still quickly scale the tree and continue the pursuit.
This wasn’t working; Ning Fan still had to deal with the people from the Skull Guild.
How could he afford to waste time on this creature?
As he was thinking this, Ning Fan got a bit distracted while moving between the trees when suddenly, the tree trunk beneath his feet cracked at the crucial moment.
Ning Fan felt a void under his feet, and his body hung powerless in midair when the Eunectes’s huge tail swept fiercely at him.
With a smack, Ning Fan’s body was viciously flung away.
The immense force of the blow made Ning Fan feel as if all his bones might dislocate, moving even slightly caused him an intense aching throughout his body.
“Damn, this is too freakish!” Ning Fan sucked in a breath of cold air, calmed his agitated breath slightly, and just about to run again when he realized it was already too late.
The Eunectes’s body twisted agilely, coiling directly around Ning Fan’s body, leaving him no chance to escape.
And so, Ning Fan’s body was completely entwined by the Eunectes.
The enormous tongue hovered over Ning Fan’s head, staring intently at him.
“Beast, do you think you can get the best of me like this?” Ning Fan sneered, his hand forming a blade, and he fiercely slashed at the Eunectes’s body entwined around him.
With a muffled thud, Ning Fan’s face instantly turned dark.
The palm strike left only a shallow mark on the dark green snake skin.
Beyond that, it had no effect whatsoever.
Ning Fan’s expression changed slightly, such tough defense!