The glowing red eyes belonged to the great serpents.
Swarms of great serpents emerged from the garbage heaps, lunging at the sea turtle herds and biting ferociously!
Their bodies were black, reflecting faintly in the moonlight, their scales like iron plates. Faintly, one could hear the crisp sound of their scales grinding against each other.
The small snakes were only as thick as an arm, while the great serpents were as thick as a human waist!
Jiang Ye was stunned. He looked at the snake swarm, then at the blood whales. The two carnivorous species were cooperating to hunt the sea turtles. The entire beach was splattered with blood, and the number of sea turtle corpses grew, piling up layer upon layer. The whistling screams gradually diminished.
The slaughter lasted for over an hour.
As dawn broke, not a single living sea turtle could be seen. Only a very few had escaped back into the sea amidst the chaos. The vast majority of the sea turtles lay dead on the beach.
With the sunlight, the numbers of the snake swarm and the blood whales were fully revealed.
There were at least five hundred blood whales!
The snake swarm was astonishingly large, with hundreds of great serpents and tens of thousands of small ones!
Both sides were devouring the sea turtle corpses with large mouthfuls.
The snakes ate with extreme greed. Jiang Ye witnessed several snakes eating so much that their abdomens suddenly burst open, killing themselves.
The blood whales also desperately swallowed the sea turtles, one after another. They ate ten turtles in one go without even burping, as if their esophagi didn't connect to their stomachs but to another universe.
"Boom!"
Several stories high water columns suddenly erupted from the distant sea!
Beneath the water columns, Jiang Ye saw enormous fins, at least two stories high, charging forward like sails.
His scalp tingled. If the fins were this large, how massive must the creature itself be? Could it be as big as a cruise ship!
The blood whales, which had been feeding, were startled and clumsily retreated from the shore back into the water, scattering like small fish and shrimp.
A blood-red maw opened from the sea, each tooth like a door panel. Three blood whales that had just finished eating were bitten in half, their blood spraying into the sky, dyeing the white waves red.
Jiang Ye and Cen Yemeng stared, dumbfounded.
Fortunately, when they were drifting at sea before, they hadn't encountered such a giant fish, otherwise, their entire spaceship could have been swallowed!
The massive blood whales let out terrified calls, attempting to break free.
But the giant fish continuously opened and closed its blood-red maw, crushing the blood whales like small biscuits!
Every time the giant fish surfaced, it churned up blizzard-like white waves, making it impossible to see its appearance clearly. Only its skin color, similar to cement, was visible.
Amidst the raging waves, hundreds of blood whales were bitten off, their corpses slowly sinking like shipwrecks.
The sea returned to silence. Nothing was visible except for large swathes of blood.
The snake swarm had also retreated, and the beach was quiet.
Jiang Ye changed into his spacesuit, cautiously opened the hatch, and jumped out with his gun.
Cen Yemeng also wanted to come down.
"You stay in the spaceship and don't move. If anything happens, I can run fast, but you can't," Jiang Ye said.
Cen Yemeng hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
Jiang Ye stepped over the turtle corpses littering the ground and headed towards the edge of the battlefield.
The robotic dog bravely ran ahead to clear the path.
Near the garbage mountain, there were many dead great serpents.
Most of them had died from overeating the sea turtles, as the turtle shells were too hard.
The scales of the dead snakes had burst open, revealing the purplish-black flesh beneath.
"What species of snake is this?" Jiang Ye asked.
"I'm not sure. This is the first time I've seen them," the robotic dog scanned a snake. "They should be edible. Land snakes are almost all edible, but you need to remove the venomous gall and venom glands."
Several small snakes were still wriggling, half-dead. Jiang Ye didn't hesitate, walking over and stepping on them, killing them all.
Some small snakes tried to bite Jiang Ye, but their delicate fangs couldn't penetrate the thick spacesuit.
Jiang Ye walked for dozens of meters, picked out a snake as thick as his thigh, slung it over his shoulder, and returned to the spaceship.
Cen Yemeng cowered in the corner, startled. "Is it still alive?" Da Feng Novel Network
"Of course, it's dead. I'll try to make snake soup for you," Jiang Ye said.
He tossed the snake into the analyzer and scanned it.
[Item: Serpent Creature]
[Item Information: Flesh, skin, gall, liver, intestines, blood, etc., are all edible. However, be aware that this snake has two gallbladders. The black gall is the venomous one, and the pink gall is non-venomous. Please remove the venomous gall before consumption. Eating raw carries some risk; it must be cooked thoroughly before eating.]
Jiang Ye took a fish knife and immediately began processing the dead snake.
The scales were too hard, so he scraped them all off.
The two gallbladders were clearly visible. He removed the black gall and also pulled off some of the blood vessels connected to it.
Although the analyzer hadn't mentioned the snake's fangs, Jiang Ye still cut them off.
He thought about it and felt uneasy, so he chopped off the snake's head with another stroke.
He dug a pit outside the spaceship, started a fire, and began stewing the snake soup.
He also added some fish meat for flavor.
After the water boiled, he stewed it for another twenty minutes. It should be ready.
Jiang Ye held a bowl, using chopsticks to sift through a large cloud of steam, picking out a glistening piece of snake meat and placing it in the bowl to cool.
Cen Yemeng was already salivating; the aroma was incredibly rich.
"Bear with it for a moment. I'll try it to see if it's poisonous," Jiang Ye blew on the scorching hot snake meat and took a bite.
The taste was unexpectedly good!
Although there were no seasonings, the meat was firm and chewy, bursting with flavor, and remarkably, it wasn't greasy.
Jiang Ye ate two large bowls, and Cen Yemeng couldn't wait any longer, snatching the chopsticks and bowl to eat.
"You eat first. I'll go check on those whales," Jiang Ye said.
He returned to the spaceship to get a shovel and a handsaw and headed to the seaside.
Several dead blood whales had been stranded on the beach and hadn't been carried away by the giant fish. It was likely that such giant fish couldn't come ashore; their immense size would cause them to collapse and die without water support. Therefore, they couldn't deal with the blood whale carcasses that washed ashore, which was a lucky break for Jiang Ye.
When he approached the blood whales, he realized they were even larger than he had anticipated.
The height of a whale's back was a head taller than Jiang Ye.
A family of three could easily fit inside a whale's belly.
Jiang Ye raised the handsaw and began cutting into a whale's belly.
The whale's belly, distended from overeating, had become very thin. After two cuts, it made a "snap" sound, and the enormous whale stomach rolled out!
Jiang Ye leaped to the side abruptly, gasping for breath, nearly crushed by the whale stomach!
With a swing of the shovel, he broke open the hawthorn-colored whale stomach.
Crackle!
A pile of sea turtle corpses, coated in mucus, flowed out.
Jiang Ye ignored the turtle corpses; he wouldn't eat leftovers.
He raised the handsaw, cut off two catties of whale meat, and brought it back to the spaceship for analysis.
[Item: Whale Meat]
[Item Description: Large amounts of mercury, phenol, cyanide, organochlorines, organophosphates, sulfides, nitrides, fluorides, arsenides, and p-nitrobenzene detected. The meat, originally white, has turned blood-red due to excessive toxicity.]
Jiang Ye's face turned green.
This whale… was like a toxic waste barrel!
All sorts of toxins were present!
It made sense. The small fish they had caught before had their internal organs already covered in pollutants. Blood whales were at the top of the food chain, eating dozens of pounds of small fish daily and continuously absorbing toxic substances, so it wasn't surprising they had become toxic barrels.
A garbage planet, even the whale meat was inedible.
However, they weren't short of meat now. The priority was to grow some crops.