Chapter 115: The Mutated White Python in West Lake That Likes Armored Warriors

"Open fire!"

At the command, over a dozen assault rifles spat fire simultaneously, bullets tearing through the air and carving dense trajectories across the lake surface, all pouring onto the white python's scales.

"Clink clink clink—"

Despair-inducing metallic clashing sounds rang out in succession; the bullet tips were repelled the instant they touched the scales, leaving only a few shallow scratches on the snow-white snake scales.

The detectors on their bodies emitted piercing alarm sounds, and the numbers jumping on the screens made everyone's faces change drastically:

【Spirit Energy Level: Tier 2.5 (Continuously Rising)】

The mutated white python looked down from above at the humans below, its forked tongue flicking lightly, and a damp, fishy stench instantly filled the air.

It slowly raised its tail.

"Splash!"

The calm lake surface instantly surged up a ten-meter-high wall of water, carrying a force of a thousand pounds to slap toward the shore; Tianshu Bureau members were flipped out like kites with broken strings, crashing heavily against distant tree trunks and fences.

"Hiss—"

The mutated white python flicked its tongue, its cold vertical pupils slowly scanning the buildings along the bank; people hiding in the coffee shop could even see their own reflections in those cold snake eyes through the glass windows.

"Damn, how can there be a white python in West Lake? Who the hell released it before?"

"Are you acting out The Legend of White Snake with me? Where's Xu Xian? Hurry and let Xu Xian come take this ancestor away!"

"Xu Xian is useless; Fa Hai should come instead! Where's Fa Hai? Hurry and get a Fa Hai to seal it away!"

"Fa Hai isn't from Hangcheng either."

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Complaining voices rose and fell inside the building; they weren't un-nervous, they were just using this method to relieve their tension; besides this, they had no other way.

Flee?

Hiding in the building now at least offers a chance to survive; if you run out now and attract that mutated white python's attention, then death is most likely the only outcome.

The Tianshu Bureau has already been contacted; all they can do now is pray that this monster absolutely does not launch an attack on the building.

The mutated white python's pupils suddenly contracted; amidst the rapid trembling of its forked tongue, it locked onto a position; there, behind an overturned table, a young mother was clutching two children of about six years old tightly.

From the moment the mutated white python appeared until now, it was only two or three minutes; how could such a short time allow everyone to hide inside the buildings?

Not to mention some closed the shop doors the instant they saw the mutated creature, forbidding others from entering; those who did not get into the buildings could naturally only find a relatively concealed place to hide.

Actually, people hiding under tables like them were not few; it's just that only they attracted the mutated white python's attention.

"Splash."

The mutated white python's thirty-plus-meter-long snake body wriggled through the water, the waves it raised slapping against the lake shore; a water flow as thick as a water bucket suddenly rose from the lake surface, sweeping across like a giant's arm, flipping the coffee table serving as cover more than ten meters away, with wood chips scattering everywhere.

"Ah!"

The young mother's terrified scream cut through the air; she instinctively shielded the two children beneath her, but it was meaningless.

"Don't... I beg you, don't..."

The mother trembled and pleaded in a small voice; her soft arms still stubbornly embraced the children until the boy in her arms suddenly struggled hard to break free.

"Azhao!"

Amidst the mother's cry of alarm, the little boy ran in front of the two of them; his thin figure stood between his mother and sister, spreading his arms and looking firmly at the mutated white python.

"Don't... don't hurt Mom and sister!"

The boy's voice carried obvious trembling, yet was unusually clear.

He had made an agreement with his dad; when he wasn't around, he must take good care of Mom and sister.

This was their agreement, between men.

So he must achieve it.

Afterwards, as if remembering something, he took something out of his pocket; it was a gift his father gave him last year on his birthday.

He gripped it tightly, feeling as if Dad was right beside him, and the fear in his heart gradually vanished.

The mutated white python flicked its tongue and slowly approached; a trace of human-like indifference flashed in its snake pupils; it had no interest in this human, or rather, it had little interest in almost all humans here.

It only wanted that little girl.

Although it didn't know why that little girl attracted it so much, it had a premonition that if it could swallow her, it could transform to a higher realm.

A trace of greed flashed in the mutated white python's vertical pupils; swallowing one is swallowing, swallowing two is swallowing, so it might as well swallow these three humans together!

Moreover, this boy attracted it somewhat, just not as deeply as that girl.

"Hiss—!"

Accompanied by a piercing hiss, the mutated white python's body suddenly shot out; its blood-filled maw opened wide, sharp fangs gleaming with cold light; this pounce was as fast as lightning, and ordinary people simply couldn't react in time.

"No!!!"

People hiding in the building let out desperate cries; some instinctively closed their eyes, some tightly covered the eyes of the children beside them; the mother used all her strength to try to pull the boy back and shield him beneath her, but could only watch helplessly as the shadow loomed over.

Just at the moment the fishy wind rushed to the face and death was within inches.

"Boom!"

A strange trembling sound suddenly rang out in the air.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

The mutated white python's ferocious head froze in mid-air, less than a meter away from the three people; its scarlet forked tongue remained extended, yet it couldn't move a single bit.

"Tap, tap, tap—"

The crisp sound of footsteps was especially piercing in the dead silence of the lakeside.

Ye Xuan had somehow already stood before the mother and children; the hem of his black windcoat swayed slightly; his right hand was casually tucked into his pocket; the Fire Light Shadow Stone in his hand had already been placed into his space ring.

The boy stared blankly at the back that suddenly appeared before him; his small body was still trembling slightly; Ye Xuan looked down at him, a trace of appreciation flashing in his eyes.

If the person in Bibo City back then who obtained the Unlicensed Knight template and was recognized by Steel Battle Insect Instrument was the first person Ye Xuan felt admiration for, then this little boy was the second.

A six-year-old child, yet able to step forward in such a crisis, standing firmly in front of his mother and sister.

Even for adults, few could manage it.

The next second, Ye Xuan's gaze was drawn to the boy's tightly clenched hand; the child's palm was still small, and although most of it was covered, Ye Xuan could still see the exposed part.

It was a figurine of a silver-white armored warrior.

"Snow Mastiff, is it?"

Ye Xuan chuckled softly, placed his right hand on the boy's head and ruffled his hair; the boy finally came to his senses, looked up with his small face, and gazed at this suddenly appeared big brother.

"Do you like Armor Hero?"

The boy paused, then his eyes lit up as he nodded heavily: "I do!"

"Which one do you like best?"

"I, I like Flame Dragon Hero the most!"

The boy said excitedly, but immediately added.

"But my dad likes Snow Mastiff Hero the most; he said he hopes I can be as brave as Brother Xi Zhao in the future and protect my little sister."

The smile on Ye Xuan's lips deepened:

"Is that so."

He straightened up, turned his gaze toward the mutated white python frozen before him, and lightly swiped his left hand across his spatial ring; the boy's eyes instantly widened—that was a red summoner he knew all too well!

(End of this chapter)