The apocalypse struck, and I became a druid.

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He saw Old Xie in the distance and roared.

"Go! It's a... a trap!"

Changes occur suddenly.

"His!"

Suddenly, a piercing screech exploded.

A black serpent monster, nearly 6 meters long, suddenly rushed out from the ruins of buildings on one side of the alley.

At the same time, from the shadows of the ruins on both sides, from the murky water, countless black snakes emerged.

Three of the black snakes threw three disfigured and mangled corpses onto the water.

Each of them stared at Lao Xie and the others with cold, vertical pupils.

"Damn! These black serpent monsters can even set traps!"

Old Xie instantly realized what was happening.

But it was too late. He and his companions were completely drawn to their critically injured and dying comrade, and the narrow terrain left them completely exposed to the monsters' encirclement.

The space was too small to dodge in time.

Old Xie was struck in the waist by the giant snake's tail.

An irresistible, overwhelming force surged through him, and he clearly heard the sound of his ribs breaking.

He was sent flying backward, crashing heavily into the ruins behind him.

"Ugh..." The intense pain made his vision go black, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, feeling as if his entire skeleton was about to fall apart.

Through his blurred vision, he saw a young team member just pierce the head of a black snake monster with a steel bar when another black snake monster pounced from the side and bit his arm hard. He was then dragged to the ground and overwhelmed by the bites of the snake swarm.

"No!" The remaining team member's eyes widened in horror as he tried to rush forward, but he was surrounded by more black serpent monsters and could only watch in despair as his companion was torn apart amidst screams.

"Go! Hurry...go, go and deliver the message..." Old Xie shouted to Xiao Yu and the others with his last bit of strength.

The giant serpent monster had already swum right in front of them.

The enormous mouth of the snake was wide open, almost within reach!

Old Xie's pupils contracted, the muscles on his body surface bulged and taut as if inflated, veins stood out, and his skin turned an abnormal scarlet red.

He raised his fist and punched the black snake in the head.

A dull, muffled impact rang out.

The enormous serpent monster was struck so violently that its head was violently tilted to one side, and it staggered backward in the water.

"Xiaoyu, hurry up and go back to report!" Old Xie shouted as he used his arm, which had swelled several times its normal size and was bulging with muscles, to grab a black snake monster that was lunging at his side, and exerted force with his five fingers.

puff.

Flesh and bone were crushed.

At this moment, Lao Xie was like a demon god, rampaging through the narrow space, frantically intercepting the swarm of snakes that were rushing towards Xiao Yu and another team member.

His flesh and blood were disappearing at a visible rate.

A black serpent's claws ripped open his back, tearing off large chunks of flesh, but he seemed oblivious, and with a backhand punch, smashed the serpent's head into a pulp.

"Brother Xie!" Xiao Yu burst into tears as she looked at Lao Xie's almost twisted and burning body and his back, which was instantly covered in blood and flesh.

"Go!"

Old Xie felt his strength rapidly draining away, and his eyes turned bloodshot from the burning muscles.

The last remaining team member was also fighting desperately, but he was already seriously injured. He roared, "Xiaoyu, listen to Lao Xie."

Xiao Yu's heart was breaking; he knew they were trading their lives for time.

Staying behind would only lead to the needless sacrifice of our comrades.

With tears in his eyes, he could only tread on the floating debris on the water, leaving a twisted afterimage in the gaps between the chaotic snakes, and desperately flee back to the alleyway he had come from.

"You beast, stay here!" Old Xie roared, his body burning to its limit like a furnace about to explode, and punched the black snake that was right in front of him.

……

Business district, office buildings.

Chairman Wu paced back and forth in the conference room, his unease growing stronger.

“It’s almost dark, why haven’t Lao Xie and the others come back yet? Didn’t I tell them to return to the camp an hour earlier every day?”

Just then, the door was suddenly kicked open.

Covered in blood, Xiao Yu staggered to the entrance of the office area, her face deathly pale.

"President Wu!" Xiaoyu's voice trembled with uncontrollable sobs, "We've been ambushed by the Black Snakes..."

"Brother Xie, Brother Chen, and Brother Xu are still fighting the snakes to cover me. Everyone, go help them!"

"Those snake monsters are very powerful, try to send as many people as possible."

"What did you say?!" Upon hearing this, Chairman Wu's expression immediately turned extremely serious, and he said in a deep voice, "Old Zhao, Ah Long, gather the brothers and rescue Old Xie."

"Understood!" The others nodded in unison, and without even packing their equipment, they rushed out.

"Fine, I'll go too." Chairman Wu gritted his teeth and followed.

"President Wu, calm down."

Han Ning's voice suddenly came from next door.

He walked up to the crowd, carrying two large flowerpots in his arms.

"I'll go with you."

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Chapters 123 have been reviewed; I don't know what sensitive words were triggered. Ugh.

Chapter 126 Public Outrage, Melon-Spraying Matrix

Xiaoyu led the group to the destination where the team had been attacked.

Before we even arrived at our destination, a strong, pungent smell of blood wafted from afar, assaulting our senses.

"It's just ahead!" Xiaoyu pointed to a narrow waterway sandwiched between two half-collapsed buildings.

Go around a corner.

A huge black serpent monster, nearly six meters long, was coiled on top of a pile of building ruins.

Its massive jaws opened and closed slightly, flicking its disgusting forked tongue, and its emotionless vertical pupils scanned the intruders, as if it were waiting for them to arrive.

In the ruins before him lay a human skeleton, almost completely devoured.

A few strands of dark red muscle clung to the pale white skeleton.

Beside the skeleton, three other mangled corpses lay scattered about, their limbs twisted and their faces unrecognizable.

From the shadows of the surrounding buildings... came a dense, crawling sound.

Layers upon layers of slippery snake bodies churned the water, echoing with disgusting hissing sounds, turning this narrow waterway into a giant snake nest.

They didn't pounce immediately, but moved slowly, trying to surround Han Ning and his group in the center.

"Old Xie... Old Xie!"

Chairman Wu stared intently at the skeleton beneath the giant snake, along with the scattered pieces of a vest nearby, his expression filled with sorrow.

"Kill! Kill all these beasts!!" Vice President Zhao roared, ready to charge forward regardless of the consequences.

The other awakened members of the Biyun Resort Association, upon witnessing this scene, all wore expressions of rage, looking as if they wished they could rush forward and tear the swarm of snakes to shreds.

"and many more!"

At this moment, Chairman Wu suddenly stepped forward and stopped the others who were about to be blinded by anger.

“This is clearly a trap. Look at the black snakes around you. Don’t let anger cloud your judgment.”

Although his inner emotions were as suppressed as a powder keg about to explode, Chairman Wu knew that now was not the time to act impulsively.

Upon hearing this, the others calmed down slightly.

The group glanced at the black snakes that were slowly gathering around them, and with perfect understanding, they stood back to back, forming a simple defensive formation.

“You deal with this big snake; as for the other black snakes, I’ll handle them.”

At this moment, Han Ning, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke.

Perfect, he can test the destructive power of the squirting melon.

It's just a big black snake; people need to vent their emotions, so let's leave it to them.

"let's start!"

He reached into his pocket with his right hand and pulled it out, revealing a dozen or so strange seeds, each the size of a soybean and shimmering with a faint blue light, between his fingers.

These are seeds he carefully collected from the fruits of the previously mutated water spouting cucumber.

"Go!" he shouted, raising his arm and unleashing a surge of azure flames that covered the seed in his palm.

"hiss!!"

The elite black serpent at the front sensed something was wrong and hurriedly let out a sharp roar.

"Hiss... hiss... hiss!"

The surrounding swarm of black serpent monsters, which had been stirring restlessly, surged forward like a tidal wave.

The dozen or so seeds seemed to have been given life, leaving behind a dozen bright green streaks in the rain.

It landed precisely on the floating debris around the group.

It was as if a celestial being had scattered beans to create soldiers.

The moment a dozen seeds fall onto the water or the surface of trash, their outer shells burst open, and the tender shoots grow wildly at a speed that is impossible to detect with the naked eye.

In the blink of an eye, a dozen or so peculiar squirting melons, each about a meter tall and topped with an oval blue fruit, appeared around the crowd.

"It's not over yet!" With a thought, more than ten water-like vines spread out from Han Ning's body.