Chapter 13 Python in the Rain

Long boots stepped on the wet fallen leaves on the ground.

Yu Ke, wearing a raincoat and carrying equipment, walked in the misty woods.

He raised his hand to check the positioning watch. Not far ahead was the vine forest. He adjusted the angle of the chest camera.

The vine forest belongs to a special area in the forest area patrolled by Yu Ke. The reason for its formation is still an unsolved mystery.

There is also a mushroom community that was just checked yesterday, but the two are in completely different states.

Not long after, Yu Ke noticed a large number of dark green vines appearing in the mist and winding up.

They are like giant kelp growing in the deep sea. They should have grown on trees, but now they are like weeds, rising in the rain and fog. Only the tops are connected to the branches of trees, forming dark green fences in the woods.

It would be fine if there were only a few individual mutations. According to the information left by the previous forest ranger, the entire vine forest covers an area of ​​nearly 3 square kilometers. Such a violation of the laws of nature has unsurprisingly attracted the attention of the Forest Protection Bureau.

What Yu Ke had to do was to collect samples, observe the current vine forest, and take photos of some places where there might be abnormalities.

Select a vine that was about the thickness of a wrist.

Yu Ke took out a knife from the bag on his waist and prepared to dig out a part of the tissue with slender branches and leaves as a sample.

The tip of the knife pierced the vine to cut it open. Yu Ke was surprised to find that a large number of light gray water droplets appeared at the gap. This looked like fine dust floating in the rain when cleaning.

Is this something that should appear inside the vine?

Use a test tube to hold the liquid, and then cut off some tissue and put it into a plastic bag. Yu Ke noticed the abnormality of the cross-section of the vine gap. There were actually slender veins inside. The liquid he saw just now should have flowed out from inside.

Put away the sample, Yu Ke aimed the camera at the gap and took photos one after another, recorded these abnormalities, and reported them to the Forest Protection Bureau after returning.

He was just a forest ranger, and he didn't need to undertake research tasks, and he was not interested in spending time on such things.

Considering the current environment, it was obviously unrealistic to enter the vine jungle to shoot. Yu Ke evacuated after completing the sample collection.

However, just a few meters after he walked out, the strong perception brought by the heart of the wilderness made him turn around suddenly, with a look of surprise on his face.

I saw that several bulges had appeared between the fallen leaves on the ground.

The dark green color was faintly visible between the gaps.

Without any hesitation, Yu Ke drew out the axe at his waist and stepped forward to chop horizontally.

As the grass leaves flew, a vine that looked like a snake head came into view, and he raised his hand to grab it in mid-air.

"Fuck, it really has become a spirit."

Looking closer, Yu Ke found that the top of this vine was a bit like a pitcher plant, split into multiple petals, and the edges were full of slender thorns.

A defense mechanism evolved to prevent external attacks.

Or is it a weapon for hunting other creatures like the pitcher plant?

Yu Ke glanced at the ground that had returned to its original state, and put the new discovery into a plastic bag, without any intention of further investigation.

In a catastrophe environment, it is difficult to find a pattern in the direction of the changes in animals and plants. He asked himself if he was not a professional in this field.

Let the professionals of the Forestry Bureau worry about it.

After leaving the area where the vine jungle was located, Yu Ke returned to the car and temporarily took off his raincoat and put it in the trunk to prevent the surface rain from dripping into the cab, and then got on the road again.

Today he still had to observe the herd of frightened deer and look for the traces of giant pythons.

Because snake sloughs and frightened deer kings had been found in Sancha Forest before, Yu Ke still set the destination there this time.

The car turned a corner, and Yu Ke turned on the car computer and tuned to the channel of the Forestry Bureau to try to obtain information about the human-faced owl.

As soon as I opened it, a voice prompt suddenly sounded,

"You have a new message."

"The mandrill materials you consigned at the transfer station have been sold out, with a total price of 87,200. Please check it."

So fast?

It was just put on the consignment yesterday, and it was sold out today, which surprised Yu Ke a little.

On second thought, it should be because of the last mention of it in the video released last night, which can be regarded as an alternative promotion.

Close the message prompt and switch back to the forest defense channel.

"Recently, the staff of farms outside Danhang City should pay attention to safety. When entering and leaving, keep a team of at least three people. The Forest Defense Bureau will catch the monster that launched the attack as quickly as possible."

It is obvious that the patrol team still failed to catch the human-faced owl yesterday.

After all, it is in the Mirror Lake Forest. The human-faced owl is obviously more adapted to the terrain. Even if the patrol team has an off-road motorcycle, it is difficult to complete the tracking.

"Abnormal snowfall occurred in the northern forest area of ​​​​Jinghu Forest. The snowflakes and ice crystals were black. Many wild animal corpses were found in the area. It is suspected that there are supernatural phenomena. The investigation team has set out. Non-specific personnel are not allowed to approach in the short term."

It is another new emergency, and it also involves supernatural phenomena.

It's just that it is in the north. Yu Ke's side belongs to the northeast corner, and the incident is not in his forest area.

While thinking about what the black snowfall would look like, Yu Ke suddenly found a large number of birds rushing out of the misty jungle on the road ahead, struggling to flap their wings and leaping into the other side of the road.

This is abnormal!

Today's rain is heavy, and under normal circumstances they should hide to avoid the rain.

What happened in the forest that forced them to flee in the rain!

Yu Ke, who realized the problem, immediately checked his current location and confirmed that he was not far from the target location, Sancha Forest.

After parking the car, putting on a raincoat and putting on equipment, Yu Ke trotted into the dense forest.

His strong body burst out with unprecedented vitality at this moment. In the wilderness, his physical strength was constantly replenished. Yu Ke, who plunged into the fog, rushed forward completely by feeling, looking up from time to time to see the movements of the birds, and looking for the source of the chaos in the opposite direction.

Until he stepped into a clearing in the forest, Yu Ke suddenly stopped.

The surroundings were suddenly quiet.

The helmet blocked the sound of wind and rain, and he could not hear the birds' cries.

Only the rain and fog were still lingering and surging, and everything in front of him was gray and dark.

At a certain moment, Yu Ke suddenly felt something, his breathing suddenly became rapid, he looked up, and his eyes behind the mask suddenly shrank.

The figure of the giant python shuttled between the branches of the trees more than ten meters high.

Its movements were not fast, but its body with a diameter of nearly one meter and an unknown length gave people a huge sense of oppression. What Yu Ke saw now was just a small part of its body.

Adjusting the camera angle, Yu Ke recorded this scene, which was undoubtedly very good material.

The movements at hand were not slow either. He quickly took out the sharp-toothed bow and arrow and held it in his hand. Considering the size of the opponent, Yu Ke did not choose to test it this time, but directly chose the explosive arrow, bent the bow and put the arrow, and even released the string without aiming.

The arrow shot out and exploded the moment it hit the giant python's body. The shock wave wrapped in flames swept away the rain and fog, reflecting those oval scales, and the broken flesh and blood fell.

Hiss~hiss~

The severe pain made the giant python scream sharply, but Yu Ke had no intention of stopping.

His goal was to hunt the giant python, so he would not miss this opportunity.

Explosive arrows kept flying out, leaving wounds on the surface of the giant python, and its counterattack soon came, and its thick and long tail broke through the rain and fog, like a giant hammer hitting the area where Yu Ke was.

Yu Ke hurriedly retreated, watching the snake's tail smash a pit on a tree trunk that could be hugged by more than a dozen people, and his heart was awed.

Even after being strengthened by the Heart of the Wilderness, his body would probably be seriously injured by this blow, and this was just an appetizer.

Yu Ke, who had just stood firm and was about to continue his offensive, was swept by another gust of wind!