Chapter 14: Silver Scaled Giant Python

  Everyone immediately tensed up, and I saw Zhou Huan surprisingly pull out a handgun, vigilantly looking around. At this time, accompanied by the eerie howling sounds, it felt like dark shadows were flashing everywhere, and I had no idea how many there were. I suddenly had an urge to run away - even with powerful weapons, if we were faced with 180 of those monstrous monkeys, it would be a desperate situation.

  The black-faced captain may have also felt the severity of the situation, and immediately abandoned the attack, shouting to the crowd: "Don't shoot first, this environment is not favorable to us, run towards the passage."

  Zhou Huan turned around and led the way, running forward. I pulled two older men to follow closely behind him, while others held guns and ran while looking back. Not long after entering the front passage, a chaotic noise erupted from behind, and it was clear that those strange monkeys had caught up.

  I and the two older men were panting heavily, when suddenly we heard intense gunfire coming from behind. It seemed that Captain Hei and his team had already engaged in battle with the strange monkey. Zhou Huan only paused for a moment before continuing to run, her physical condition was extremely good. I pulled along the two of them, almost unable to keep up. Just as I thought about turning back to see how things were going, Zhou Huan suddenly stopped running ahead. I didn't notice and crashed into her, embracing her as we both slammed into the stone gate in front of us.

  I didn't expect this passage to be a dead end, the direction of advancement was completely blocked by a stone gate. Captain Hei and his team retreated while firing their guns, and when they saw the stone gate, they too were at a loss. A few people went up and kicked the stone gate several times, but it didn't budge. The sounds from behind grew louder and closer, I turned my head and could already see the shadow of the strange monkey.

  At this time, the black-faced captain shouted at Zhou Huan: "We'll take the lead first, you think of a way to open the door, if all else fails, just blow it up." After finishing, they took a few steps back and forth before starting to shoot.

  These people's marksmanship is quite good, and with precise shooting, almost every shot hits the head. In a short while, the corpses of those strange monkeys are all over the ground, but the crying sound still shows no signs of weakening. More and more of them keep coming from behind, taking bullets and continuing to attack us, it's unknown how many there are.

  I originally wanted to go and help, but I didn't have any weapons in my hands, so I just stood behind Captain Hei's back, watching blankly at a loss. At this time, one of the team members was caught by the strange monkey on top of his head without noticing, and instantly had a piece of flesh torn off from his shoulder, causing him to scream loudly as he fell to the ground.

  I hastily took over the first-aid kit from an old teammate to stop his bleeding. He was badly injured, with his entire left arm hanging limply down and blood flowing non-stop. I almost used up all the gauze, including strips torn from clothes, just to simply bandage him up. I thought that if he couldn't get timely treatment, this arm of his would be unsalvageable.

  "What's with the gate? If it won't budge, just blow it up!" Black Face Captain shouted to Zhou Huan as he retreated backwards.

  "It's no good, there's simply no way to open this door. If we get too close and use explosives, we'll both be blown up together." Zhou Huan anxiously paced back and forth in front of the door.

  We were all crowded together by the door, and Captain Blackface raised his hand to shoot a strange monkey that had jumped up. "Bullets are running out," he said. "If we go on like this, we'll definitely die. Let's use explosives instead. Whoever survives is lucky."

  Zhou Huan bit her lip and was about to go find explosives, when I suddenly seemed to remember something. "Door, door, stone door?" I quickly shouted to her: "Wait a minute..." Then I ran to the center of the stone door and started doing something non-stop, with everyone else looking at me in confusion, wondering what I wanted to do.

  After touching it for a while, I let out a deep breath. Indeed, there was also a thumb-sized indentation on this stone gate, but it had almost been filled with mud. Except for me, others wouldn't have noticed even if they found it.

  I quickly used my fingers to dig out the mud in the recess, which I don't know how long it hasn't been moved. The sediment inside was particularly heavy and stuck firmly to the inner wall. After digging for a while, I felt that it was almost done, so I pressed my right thumb into it. Everyone was watching me quietly, but after half a day, the door still didn't react at all.

  The black-faced captain shouted loudly while firing: "Don't look at him going crazy, hurry up and ignite the explosives, we can't hold on!"

  Zhou Huan glared at me fiercely and went to start digging, I was anxious and thought that this time it wouldn't work. Looking carefully inside the hole, it seemed like there was also something like wax in there. I turned around and pulled out a dagger from a teammate's waist and continued to dig. When I felt like everything was clean, I pressed my thumb into the hole again, muttering "Heaven bless me, Xu Xin bless me, Liangzi bless me!"

  As a wave of dizziness washed over my brain, the stone gate finally creaked and slowly rose upwards. Everyone stared at me in stunned silence, as if I were some kind of monster. Before I could explain, I shouted: "Run quickly......" Immediately, everyone came to their senses and rushed towards the inside of the gate.

  Everyone didn't dare to stop, and after entering the door, they continued to run forward. At first, I thought this should be a relatively large space, but after running for a distance, we felt that something was wrong. This space was too big, and we had run so far without encountering any walls.

  The black-faced captain shouted for everyone to stop first, then listened with his ears and found that those strange monkeys didn't seem to be catching up. Although he didn't know the reason, it was temporarily safe anyway.

  I feel that this space has an inexplicable difference, it doesn't seem as dark as the places I've been before. I looked up and found a fist-sized white circle above my head. I thought to myself, could it be? Is this a super massive cave, and that white circle is actually moonlight shining through? I looked up again, if that's really moonlight, then this cave must be at least 200-300 meters high. What the... where have I gotten myself into now?

  One of the team members' backpacks seemed to be full of 'ghost wood', and he made some simple lanterns and placed them around. An older member went to re-dress the wounds of the injured, while another held a map-like object, looked at it for a moment, then nodded towards Captain Hei and Zhou Huan.

  I found it even stranger, looking at the group's expression, they absolutely didn't seem to have mistakenly entered here. The map clearly marked what this place was. I walked over and asked Zhou Huan what we should do next? She gave me a charming smile and only said one word "Wait......".

  After finishing, everyone else surprisingly sat down on the spot and started resting. I thought to myself, "If you don't want to say it, just drag it out, what's with the pretentiousness?" As long as we can get out of here alive, that's all that matters. So, I went over to a teammate and asked for a cigarette, smoking and chatting with two older guys.

  One of the old men said that they were professors of an archaeological team and then kindly asked me why I knew how to open the door.

  I thought I couldn't tell them about the 'Chicken Village' thing, so I just said that I also accidentally discovered that depression and felt it was some kind of mechanism, so I blindly touched the cat and hit the dead mouse to open the door.

  After I finished speaking, I clearly felt that they didn't believe me at all, but the old professor didn't continue to ask questions, he just nodded towards me.

  I was bored and thought of going over to chat with Zhou Huan, so I moved over to sit next to her and asked: "Zhou beauty, what are you guys waiting for?"

  Zhou Huan looked at me with that signature charming smile and said, "Don't bother worrying about these things, your task is to keep yourself alive, save some energy and escape."

  After she finished speaking, she no longer paid attention to me. She would occasionally glance at her watch and then look up again. I thought to myself that this woman was quite good-looking, but her personality was a bit too pretentious. So, I didn't want to bother with her anymore. I stood up and walked around the lanterns, trying to see if I could discover anything.

  In front of me, except for the blurry darkness, I couldn't see anything else. After turning around in a circle, I suddenly felt that there was something shining in the distance, and when I looked closely again, it disappeared. I thought it might be my own eyes playing tricks on me, so I didn't pay attention to it, thinking it wasn't interesting, and returned to the middle of the crowd to continue resting. Just as I was about to sit down, I glanced in the direction of the flash again, and vaguely saw a silver line moving towards us.

  "There's something......" I immediately pointed at the silver light and shouted, these people reacted extremely quickly, immediately standing up. The black-faced captain held his gun and looked towards the silver light, then seemed to ask Zhou Huan in a puzzled tone: "What is this? Is there any record?"

  "I don't know, it should be within the unknown range." Zhou Huan replied without hesitation.

  Everyone was tense, staring in the direction of the silver light. It was too far away to see clearly, but slowly the silver light began to grow from the thickness of a rope, and by the time it had grown to about the size of a bucket, I could see its appearance clearly. "Oh my god, the Dragon King is coming..." I shouted at the top of my lungs before turning around and running away.

  Others also saw clearly that it was a huge silver python, and immediately followed me in a run. A older professor behind us reacted slightly slower, I turned back to see the snake's head suddenly appeared behind him, opened its bloody mouth and swallowed his upper body directly into its mouth. The professor's legs were exposed outside and kicked randomly for a few times before being eaten into the snake's belly.

  This sudden situation scared everyone, the old professor who was just chatting with me was swallowed by the snake without a sound, I was so scared that I almost shook into a piece, then Black Face Captain led the way and opened fire, Zhou Huan also used his handgun to attack the giant snake.

  The giant snake was shot by a group of people's bullets, its head swaying wildly, but such a powerful weapon only made it stretch its neck back, I even felt that the bullets just entered its scales and didn't cause much harm to it.

  What the heck is going on here? Has it entered an invincible state or something? Everyone was shooting while retreating, but later they probably ran out of bullets and gave up shooting, starting to run instead. The giant snake let out a low roar and chased after us. In an instant, I felt like we were about to be caught up to. At this moment, I heard Zhou Huan shout: "Don't run in a straight line, run around!"

  I thought that was right, the snake's body was so big, it must not be convenient to turn corners quickly, and a group of people's pace became a zigzag route, surrounding the lanterns like a child going crazy and starting to circle around.

  This trick really worked, the snake's speed slowed down a lot, but it still didn't stop chasing us for this delicious meal. I shouted to Captain Hei while running: "Fire and shoot, shoot the damn snake's eyes!"

  The black-faced captain didn't respond to me, and at this time, I heard Zhou Huan reply: "It's useless. This snake has lived in the dark for a long time, its eyes are almost gone, it is completely relying on its sensitive sense of smell to chase us."