The further down you go, the dimmer the light becomes. The air began to get humid and the temperature slowly rose, as humid and muggy as being in a giant steamer.

The surrounding intricate intertwined branches are covered with vines, shade-loving ferns and mosses, making the places where you can land slippery, and every step requires caution. In particular, the yellowish spore plants believe that if accidentally touched this fragile yellow spores will burst, and then the traces of Oran will be exposed.

Orlan must find an entrance to the interior of the giant tree, while also evading the pursuit of these apex predators, the Dragonhorn Serpent. There is no room for any mistake in this process, and the difficulty of moving down is far greater than that of climbing the rock wall.

The more these snakes begin to grow in number and become more active. It makes people wonder if they have arrived at a snake's den, and the answer seems to have been guessed by Orlan.

As a dragonhorned snake twisted and twisted around the trunk of the tree, Orlan bent down and moved quickly against the snake's body, without even disturbing the other head next to him rushing in this direction. Oran's body was completely hidden behind the snake's body, allowing the snake itself to become a natural cover for movement.

I have to say that this feeling of dancing with snakes and shuttling back and forth under the nose of snakes is not too exciting. While concentrating on controlling one's body, on the other hand, one has to observe the position of each snake, and it is necessary to use both hands and feet, relying on perfect coordination to avoid their "detection" range.

The whole process went unexpectedly well, but then Orlan ran into trouble, or a big mess.

The mating period of snakes varies from species to species, from the beginning of the green stage to the duration of a few days to several months after successful copulation. The span is almost in the season except for the winter season.

Apparently Orlan was unlucky, and he ran into a dragonhorn snake that was in the middle of a relationship. The black, stout snakes were now wrapped in a dense ball of wriggling snakes, and even the snorting scales could be heard rubbing against each other.

If it's an ordinary snake, that kind of appearance will only make people get goosebumps all over the body with disgust. And this huge snake ball in front of you will also make people feel the extreme fear of "huge" and "dense".

But Orlan had something more exciting to do, and that was to break up all the entangled basilisks, which were in the way. If the estimation is correct, the entrance to the giant tree is in the middle of this snake's nest.

Orlan pulled out a stun bomb, an alchemy that could be used as soon as it was smashed like a fog bomb. It relies on a small amount of black powder filled in it to burn and explode in a small and confined space to form a certain impact. Its shell is generally made of clay, so its lethality is limited after an explosion.

There have been attempts to use metal as a shell, but the current metallurgical process is not enough to support their novel and bold ideas. Either if it can't explode, it will be treated as fireworks, or it can be defended by ordinary armor with average power. Compared to the main theme of war, which is characterized by weapons, miracles, and magic, the use of black powder is not so brilliant.

Orlan pulled out a small section of the flame of the stun bomb and threw it at it. The serpent, who was unusually sensitive, had spotted the two-legged creature and the small sulfur-smelling fruit he had thrown, and its instinctive reaction caused it to open its mouth and bite down.

Boom! There was a muffled sound, and thick smoke sparsely emerged from the serpent's nostrils. In fact, these big snakes do not hate the smell of burning sulfur, on the contrary, they get excited when they smell it.

More and more snakes in the ball of snakes that had been rolling into a lump were awakened by the smell, and then finally found the human under their noses. The serpents, who had been exhausted from sex, suddenly became energetic, and at this time it was time to fill their empty stomachs.

One after another, Orlan threw stun bombs, fog bombs, dust generators, incendiary mixtures, petrochemical potions, and a plummeting temperature...... For a while, all kinds of explosions, burns, and smoke made the whole scene lively. More and more snakes are starting to run wildly, chasing the ones who have ruined their good deeds.

And the things that were bought at the grocery store at a large price from Raelel finally showed their due value, and for a while, these big snakes who lived in the fallen land and had never seen the world knew what the "flower world" was. These little things derived from alchemy technology overwhelm them and seriously intrude their senses. It's like a headless fly.

This was what Orlan wanted to achieve, and as the snake ball spread, the hole into the giant tree opened up in front of him. Orlan casually cut down several large snakes that bite with their mouths open, and successfully shook off these slippery and dangerous long worms.

Inside the giant tree, it was almost completely dark, as if Orlan had been in an underground labyrinth in an ice cave in the cavern. The vertical pupils in Oran's eyes have opened at this moment, becoming more like a normal person, but unfortunately no one should see such a scene. Through these special nocturnal eyes, Oran could easily sense the light in the darkness that could not be captured by the eyes of ordinary people.

The surrounding environment is just presented in a different form, in Orlan's eyes, the inside of the giant tree should be a cavern formed by some kind of creature after excavation, according to the surrounding wall marks, it should not be left by human tools, but similar to the mouthparts of arthropods or chewing and destroying.

Therefore, the space inside the giant tree was very irregular, and among those small holes, Orlan saw huge oval white balls that had fallen up one after another, each of which could accommodate the size of a person. There is no doubt that it is the eggs of some kind of organism, and the population of this organism must be large enough to have such a dense incubation room.

These hatcheries are connected to the larger main road where Orlan is located, so there is no doubt that the next exit will be found by following this main road all the way down, and Oran's experience suggests that the creature with such a nesting structure is likely to be an ant creature.

Orlan wouldn't believe that there were only these untold eggs along the way.

The largest number of ant nests are generally worker ants, which are responsible for nesting, guarding and feeding. But he didn't want to bump into these ants, which were about the size of cows, and they were still in swarms.

You must know that some species of ants in the jungle can often rely on their numbers to hunt prey thousands of times their size, and they are still meat and vegetarian. Everywhere we go, there is often no vegetation. Therefore, in some special areas suitable for their survival, they are the kings at the top of the food chain.