In the jeep, Jiang Baimian looked at the rearview mirror and chuckled:
“Did you guys notice anything just now?”
“That group of wasteland bandits was quite calm and had a decent level of quality.” Long Yuehong recalled the various words he had learned from books, hoping to find the most appropriate description.
Shang Jianyao retracted the "Berserker" assault rifle that was resting on the car window:
“Apart from the leader and one other, the rest had a strong desire to attack. They were the type who would shoot at any moment.”
“Not bad!” Jiang Baimian was quite surprised. “Without having experienced multiple battles and various dangers, you can keenly perceive relatively abstract things like hostility and the desire to attack.”
“Talent.” Shang Jianyao said with a serious face.
Jiang Baimian nodded slightly and said:
“It’s normal for certain mutations to occur during gene modification.”
She then smiled:
“So, what do you think the phenomenon you observed can explain?”
Shang Jianyao turned his head to look at Long Yuehong and urged with a smile:
“She’s testing you!”
“It explains, it explains that they, they…” Long Yuehong vaguely had some inspiration, but because this was a question raised by someone else, and he needed to answer it, it put him under a little pressure and made him relatively nervous. Therefore, he couldn't grasp that fleeting thought.
“It explains that they have a strong suicidal tendency!” Shang Jianyao helped him answer.
“Are you kidding me?” Long Yuehong couldn’t help but say.
Then, based on this, he had an association and grasped the key to the matter:
“I understand!
“After we displayed strong firepower and showed a friendly attitude, the fact that they still had such a strong desire to attack means they have a considerable confidence in being able to solve us, and this cannot be seen from their numbers, weapons, or other equipment.
“Do they have secret weapons in their car? Does one of them possess terrifying strength that can’t be seen from the outside, such as surviving a gene modification experiment? Or, are there still many accomplices lurking around them?”
Jiang Baimian “Hmm”ed:
“Next time you encounter them, don’t give them time to prepare.”
“Yes, team leader!” Shang Jianyao and Long Yuehong answered at the same time.
The jeep continued to move forward, bypassing patches of dark and muddy ground, and struggling to head towards the distance amidst the sparsely grown, distorted trees and large patches of weeds.
Shang Jianyao, who was sitting on the right side of the back row, suddenly sat up straight and took down the "Icemoss" pistol hanging on his equipment belt.
This pistol was silver-white all over, and the grip had non-slip patterns.
It shimmered with a distinct metallic luster under the sunlight, as exquisite as a work of art.
Shang Jianyao held the gun with both hands and began to disassemble it skillfully, inspecting every detail.
Amidst the orderly and pleasant metallic clinking sounds, Shang Jianyao pressed the last golden bullet into the magazine, completing the reassembly of the "Icemoss."
After loading the magazine, he hung the Icemoss back on his equipment belt and drew the "Joint 202" pistol.
The body of this gun was also silver-white, but the grip was inlaid with black non-slip material. Compared with the "Icemoss," its barrel was thicker, and the details in various places were rougher.
After repeating the previous operation, Shang Jianyao began to tinker with the dark "Berserker" assault rifle.
As a weapon produced by "Pangu Biology" itself, this gun was also very well-designed and full of future and industrial styles.
After finishing the inspection, Shang Jianyao put this pure black weapon, which shimmered with metallic luster, on the car window, lowered his body, and aimed at different targets outside.
Long Yuehong, who was watching from the side, felt uneasy. When Shang Jianyao finally "quieted down," he hurriedly asked:
“What are you doing?”
Shang Jianyao said without turning his head:
“Zeroing the gun, preparing, and practicing.”
Long Yuehong breathed a sigh of relief:
“I thought you had discovered something…
“Don’t make everyone so nervous.”
“If I really discovered something, I would remind you.” Shang Jianyao took back his assault rifle and sat up straight.
“Team Leader, look…” Long Yuehong sought a righteous judgment.
Jiang Baimian raised her hand and touched the metal device inside her left ear, responding with undisguised smile:
“What did you say? I didn’t hear you clearly!”
Without waiting for Long Yuehong to repeat, she "hmm"ed:
“I forgot to remind you earlier.
“In the wasteland, you must always maintain appropriate vigilance, but well, there’s no need to be overly vigilant. Being too nervous will quickly lead to fatigue.
“Okay, let’s have lunch. Compressed biscuits, energy bars, and water. No need to deliberately stop.”
Long Yuehong and Shang Jianyao stopped talking, each took out food, and with water bags, solved a meal.
Then, Long Yuehong replaced Bai Chen, allowing the latter to eat.
After driving for an hour like this, Bai Chen, who was sitting on the left side of the back row, looked out the window for a long time and suddenly said:
“This area is a bit strange.”
…Long Yuehong was startled and almost stepped on the brakes.
He glanced to the left and right and found that there was no essential difference between this place and the places he had passed before.
The only difference was that the swampiness on the left was higher, and those distorted trees seemed to be sticking out of the black mud.
“There’s nothing…” he responded with doubt.
Jiang Baimian then “hmm”ed:
“It’s too quiet.”
Hearing this, Shang Jianyao thoughtfully swept his eyes around the window:
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen animals.”
Long Yuehong was then alarmed:
“Right!
“There really is a problem.”
In the Blackmarsh Wastelands, it is normal not to encounter humans for several hours, or even a day or two, but this is a paradise for wildlife, and from time to time you can see normal or abnormal animals, such as squirrels busy collecting food for the winter, such as birds traveling through sparse woodlands, such as lone wolves hiding in more secluded places, observing jeeps.
Bai Chen withdrew his gaze and said to Jiang Baimian:
“Team Leader, let me drive. I’m afraid something happened in this area.”
“Okay, you know this place better than any of us, and you can make the right choices the first time you encounter an accident.” Jiang Baimian immediately signaled Long Yuehong to stop the car.
After exchanging positions, Bai Chen accelerated the speed of the car, seemingly wanting to pass through this somewhat strange place as soon as possible.
In this area, the trees on both sides still remained sparse, the dark mud reflected weak water light in the sunlight, and clumps of weeds grew wantonly in the more open areas.
Everything looked so normal, but it had lost all its movements, like a large oil painting.
Long Yuehong, who felt that even the wind outside had solidified, was drumming in his heart, and said with a bit of trepidation:
“Why is it getting more and more serious?
“Why don’t we drive back and change the route?”
Bai Chen did not laugh at Long Yuehong, and nodded seriously:
“Drive for another two minutes, and if there is no change, go back.”
When she spoke, she glanced at Jiang Baimian, seeking the team leader’s opinion.
“Hmm.” Jiang Baimian indicated that it was okay.
While speaking, the jeep passed through a place with shadows.
This was because the trees on both sides were suddenly tall, their branches stretched out, entangled together, and covered most of the sky above the "main road."
At this moment, Shang Jianyao, Jiang Baimian, Long Yuehong, and Bai Chen saw a thick black shadow hanging down from mid-air, swinging over, and slamming heavily against the jeep’s windshield.
The black shadow had a hideous head covered in jet-black scales, two eyes that were dark yellow and cold, a wide-open mouth that revealed a few jagged teeth with white flesh, and a bright red forked tongue sticking out.
This was a giant python that surpassed the imagination of normal people!
Bai Chen’s expression moved slightly, but she was not frightened. Calmly, she pressed the accelerator to the bottom.
The gray-green jeep suddenly darted out like an arrow, just scraping past the head of the python.
The distance between the two sides instantly increased. Shang Jianyao came back to his senses, picked up the "Berserker" assault rifle, twisted his body, and placed it on the car window.
Then, he saw clearly the appearance of the giant python.
This sudden attacker was at least as thick as two normal buckets, and its body length clearly exceeded ten meters, with its tail wrapped around a tree again and again.
Its body surface was covered with thick jet-black scales, shimmering with a metallic luster in the sunlight that passed through the gaps in the branches and leaves.
At this time, Bai Chen turned the steering wheel to the right, slightly shifting the jeep to the side.
This way, Shang Jianyao, who was sitting on the right side of the back row, could aim at the giant python.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
Shang Jianyao pulled the trigger and fired a burst.
The bullets hit the python’s body surface, splashing exaggerated sparks.
But this failed to penetrate the thick jet-black scales, only causing the outer layer to have cracked textures.
The "Berserker" assault rifle couldn’t even harm this terrifying python!
The python seemed to feel the pain, made a hissing sound, opened its mouth, and spat out a cloud of yellow-green gas.
This gas spread rapidly, causing the surrounding area to seem to be shrouded in a light yellow-green mist.
Clumps of weeds rapidly withered and yellowed in the mist, collapsing to the ground.
“Close the windows!” Jiang Baimian calmly issued the order.
She then added:
“It’s a Blackmarsh Iron Serpent!”
Long Yuehong, who had just recovered from his shock, heard this sentence, and his forehead instantly oozed a layer of cold sweat.
During the previous training class, he and Shang Jianyao had heard Bai Chen mention what the more dangerous monsters in the Blackmarsh Wastelands were.
This included the "Blackmarsh Iron Serpent."
This is a type of python that suffered pollution during the destruction of the Old World, resulting in mutations that could be stably inherited.
Their biggest characteristic is that their bodies are covered with layers upon layers of black iron-like slippery scales, causing most hot weapons to lose their effectiveness.
In addition, they have venom sacs that allow them to splash highly corrosive venom or create terrible poisonous mists that are harmful to both plants and animals.
The combination of these two makes the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent a nightmare-like creature. Even if they reached a certain number of troops, it would be difficult to fight it without using heavy weapons or special weapons.
Moreover, the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent seems to have an instant perception of danger. That is to say, when someone hides in the distance, aims at its fragile eyes with a sniper rifle, and tries to blow its head, it can react an instant earlier and try to avoid it.
Because of this, the Blackmarsh Iron Serpent is called a monster, not a beast.
The Blackmarsh Iron Serpent that appeared in front of Shang Jianyao, Long Yuehong, and others was much larger than Bai Chen described.
…………
In the distance, the group of people who were quietly following behind the jeep heard the sound of gunfire coming from ahead.
They looked at each other and simultaneously revealed joyous expressions.
“It’s started.” Their leader said with a smile.
ps: Asking for recommendation tickets~