Chapter 12: Jungle Escape
The dark and deadly night was over, and the morning sun was shining down, but it was obscured by the obscured jungle.
But at the end of the day, even the specks of light cast through the cracks in the dense jungle were enough to separate the environment from the darkness of the night, where there was no finger to be seen, and there was no light.
However, this did not make the people who fled for their lives feel relieved, especially when they recalled the terrifying shadow that made them frightened before, dozens of meters long, they wanted to have a few more legs and escape from here completely.
- How can this damn place be so dangerous?!
Shouldn't the world's largest snake be the Amazonian anacond? However, the body length of a fully grown person is said to be only six meters, usually about five and a half meters, or there are indeed some outliers among them, but the body length of eight or nine meters is really the sky.
So, what is that huge monster of tens of meters before? Even if they glanced at it in the dark night, they felt that the length of the behemoth was probably not at least thirty or forty meters......
What kind of magic unfolds in this TM? The resurrection of the Titan Monty Python is not so scary, right?
It's unbelievable that they were able to keep their lives and stage a python escape, that thing can't really be a dragon king, right?!
"Sir, you may need to rest now......" Cedric's breathing was much shorter, but he was in much better shape than the old man he was supporting.
Tracy Williams was now breathing so fast that he looked like he was having asthma, he was drenched in sweat, and he looked as if he had just been fished out of the river, which made people worry that he would fall to the ground and die at any moment.
But fortunately, he finally survived, but sat down against a big tree with a limp body, except for desperately panting, since he couldn't speak, he couldn't do anything else.
"That's right, let's take a break...... It's not an option to keep running like this......"
The Commander was gasping violently, and as he examined the weapon in his hand, he glanced around and saw that there were only three of them left.
As for the others, if they hadn't been separated in a hasty escape, they probably had been at the time......
To be honest, the commander didn't find it difficult to accept such an outcome, after all, he was facing that terrible monster - if everyone could survive, that would be the most unscientific, right?
Originally, he didn't even think that he could escape alive, but now when he counted the number of people afterwards, he found that there were only three of them left, and he felt relieved and not surprised that he was able to escape.
"Cedric...... We are now ...... Is it safe? ”
Finally relieved, Tracy's first concern was the question, and he asked intermittently, with great trepidation in his voice.
He came to prolong his lifespan, not to die! How could such a huge giant snake live in this primitive and ancient jungle, this is not scientific at all!
Blood of the Dragon King...... Dragon King......
That's right! This kind of thing can really only be called the Dragon King! Basically, everyone feels this way subconsciously.
"Sir, I think the digestion process of pythons is quite slow, and it is impossible for such a large python to gather and live together...... Because the hunting area is too small, it is impossible to support too many of these apex predators......"
Faced with the old man's question, Cedric hesitated for a moment, and then carefully said what he thought.
"Or should we be safe now, since it hasn't caught up, it probably means that it may be looking for a place to digest it now?"
However, the commander next to him disagreed, he shook his head and said:
"I don't think so, if it's an ordinary giant python, eating a person is indeed enough for it to digest for a long time, but you can also see the size of that thing, how exaggerated is that......"
With such a huge size, it is absolutely impossible to say that it is possible to have a full stomach because of eating five or six people, and the snake is definitely not satisfied enough to find a place to digest this hunt well.
And he also has a doubt, that is, the snake is really unscientific, and it is simply the existence of biological theory rubbing on the ground. Not to mention the current global environment, even prehistoric times should not have evolved such a terrible ecology.
- On the surface, it looks like a super giant python, but who knows what it is?!
Therefore, it is better not to apply some biological common sense directly to that monster, to be honest, after discovering that the monster's body length of tens of meters, and the scales of the submachine gun's bullets that could not break the defense, he no longer believes that thing is a snake.
Even if it had grown wings and flew into the sky, opening its bloody mouth and spewing out huge pillars of fire, he wouldn't have felt that this was an unacceptable bizarre unfolding.
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Tracy's slightly relieved expression just now because of Cedric's words suddenly froze.
But he also reacted quickly, and after the discomfort caused by the strenuous exercise gradually subsided, his brain was able to slowly re-function, so he knew that what the commander said was probably correct.
"Shall we ...... Now what? ”
The old man stood up with difficulty on crutches, and asked through gritted teeth as if with a sense of fierceness.
He did not complain about this development, and still chose to continue to listen to the opinions of professionals, after all, everyone did not know in advance that this would become like this. It's like a professional who wasn't angry at the loss he had suffered because he had taken his order.
Everyone is responsible for their own choices, mercenaries are originally in the position of taking money and selling their lives, and they should be mentally prepared before acting. At most, there is a difference in the way of death, and there is nothing else to blame each other.
Although the situation seems to be a little hopeless, the remaining few people don't just know the character of sitting on the ground and waiting for death when they find a problem-
Otherwise, the commander would not have become a mercenary who licked the blood, and Tracy would not have spent a lot of money to maintain his private laboratory every year, even if the other party had never produced any results.
- There are some things that you don't necessarily have hope of success, but if you don't do them, you definitely don't have any hope of success, and they know this very well.
"Mr. Williams, please wait a moment......" The commander exhaled a strong breath of air, and then picked up his walkie-talkie, "Now we have to determine the status of the first and second groups, as well as the ...... of the yacht's remaining group"
"Ah, yes, that's right, we're not the only ones......"
Being reminded like this, the old man also seemed to see hope, and nodded and muttered to himself, as if he was strengthening his self-confidence through such words.
He is also glad that he is not stingy with money, but hires as many people as possible for the sake of security. Otherwise, I'm afraid it's really going to be exhausted now.
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Immediately afterward, Tracy and Cedric, who worked as a butler's bodyguard, fell silent, watching with hope as the commander tried to contact the other mercenary members.
As a result, the second group did not respond at all, and it may have happened to encounter something that caused all the groups to be wiped out, of course, it could also be because of electromagnetic interference or something, after all, this is the deepest part of the uncivilized rainforest.
It's just that after seeing the previous horror, no one will still have such an optimistic idea, and the biggest possibility is that the second group also encountered something terrible......
- Just like the three groups that quietly evaporated from the world, group annihilation is the most likely.
The people left behind on the yacht also did not reply, and it seemed that they were unlucky. One group seems to have had no problems at all, they haven't made any progress, they haven't gotten good news, and they've not had bad news.
The situation was pretty bad, but it wasn't completely hopeless, but the three of them were left with only one option, and there was no other way out.
Then there was another worrying journey, after all, they had no means of transportation, and their numbers were reduced to only three people.
- Except for the old guy, who is simply impossible to fight, there are only two combat power left.
Basically, it's all about luck.,As long as you encounter a super python again.,Then you can directly declare the gameover.,It's impossible for any of them to run away.。 It's just that although they all know this truth, the three of them have no optimism and open-mindedness at all.
If you're lucky, you'll hopefully escape, but if you're unlucky, you'll die. So no matter what, whether they are afraid or not, they will not change the outcome that is purely dominated by luck.
However, even if they all know, it is impossible to say that they have generously left their fate to the outside world to choose, and they have become fearless and no longer afraid.
In fact, when the three of them were walking through the jungle and wading through the waters, no matter how careful they were, they almost wished that their hearts no longer needed to beat or breathe, and that the noise they made was as low as possible......
But in their ears, the sound of their own tossing and churning water was like thunder, as if it could be heard for hundreds of miles, attracting the attention of the top hunters anytime and anywhere.
That's right, they were scared, scared to death, so scared that they prayed desperately in their hearts, hoping that it was just a terrible nightmare.
This was about the hardest time of the trio's lives, but thankfully, either because most anacondas like to be nocturnal, or because they try to choose shallow water as their route, and they don't encounter any more apex predators along the way.
It's just that just when the three of them thought that they were about to meet with a group of mercenaries and were safe for the time being.
They didn't know that they and the others had stepped into an even more terrifying whirlpool.
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"One, we've arrived at our intended destination now, but we haven't seen you...... Please report your current location immediately. ”
The ubiquitous insects, the humid and sultry weather, tortured several people enough along the way, and when they finally came to the agreed meeting destination, they found that the opposite group was not waiting for them, but was nowhere to be found.
This situation made the hearts of all three of them jump at the same time, and almost subconsciously thought of a bad possibility.
The commander named Marcus didn't care too much, picked up the walkie-talkie and tried to contact the group of mercenaries on the other side again, now is not the time to joke, and there is a dense jungle all around except the swamp, where can they run?
I only contacted it once fifteen minutes ago, but in such a short period of time, there was a problem?
"Damn it!"
There was no response from the other side of the walkie-talkie, and Marcus cursed in an angry whisper, then looked around with his eyes, and then he realized that something was happening, and his gaze froze.
"Wait, wait, look at the cliff over there......"
Tracy, who was frowning and thinking, and Sidrik, who was standing beside him vigilantly, both turned their heads at the same time, and saw blood-colored orchids growing on the cliff not far away.
It's just that the buds seem to have withered, and they look like they are just drifting in the wind on the cliffs, and from time to time one of them falls down and falls into the deep stream below.