Chapter 13: The Downpour Finally Ceases, Departure

The next day, the rain was still falling, and the water level had risen considerably.

Baichuan even saw several bloated, incomplete human corpses drifting past with the current; he examined them closely and found that the material of their clothing appeared to be linen.

This proved his guess from yesterday was correct—the place he was in really wasn't far from humans.

But looking at the scene now, this was no simple rainy season, if he wasn't mistaken.

This should count as a flood.

He didn't know what year it was now, or whether it was still the world he was familiar with; he didn't know how many more people this flood would kill.

After sighing a few times, Baichuan decided that once this was over, he would move immediately.

He was indeed quite strong in nature now, but if it came to facing humans, he was still far too weak.

You say tigers are strong enough, right? Brown bears are strong enough too, right? Any of them could kill him.

But such powerful beasts, if they truly faced humans, once targeted, were basically doomed—even if they could kill a dozen or twenty people, it wouldn't matter.

Such powerful beasts could hardly escape death; how could he, a venomous snake with particularly obvious weaknesses, fight?

Just a few generations of snake-catchers who made a living catching snakes would be enough to give him a hard time.

Having been human in his previous life, he knew deeply, "Those who are not of my kind must surely have different hearts."

Even among humans they fight each other to the death; how could they tolerate a creature like him?

When he wasn't strong enough, he'd stay as far away as possible.

"Squeak~"

At that moment, a faint sound came from behind him.

Obviously, that little mouse had also woken up.

Baichuan glanced back and paid it no more attention, a trace of regret flashing in his eyes.

Yesterday, to verify his hypothesis, he had forcibly pinned that mouse to the ground, preventing it from resisting, to see if the panel would judge it as having lost resistance and thus scan its information.

He hadn't expected it to actually work; unfortunately, its panel abilities were mediocre, no different from an ordinary mouse, at most with slightly stronger abilities.

This fact shattered his delusion.

Oh, that delusion was that this mouse might be, like in the novels from his previous life, a special mouse bearing an unawakened rare bloodline.

Unfortunately, the cruel truth told him: dear, stop dreaming, it's just a slightly stronger mouse.

The only thing that gave him a sense of gain was: he hadn't expected the abilities recorded by the panel to be not the racial value of the species, but unique to the individual prey he had hunted.

Or more precisely, on the basis of that species, if an individual had the opportunity, a certain ability might appear with a particularly high enhancement.

In other words, perhaps one day he might be able to record some special abilities unique to a certain creature.

……

Five days later.

This downpour, which had lasted seven days and seven nights in total, finally ceased, and by now the water level had already submerged the tree hollow where Baichuan had been staying.

In fact, on the third day he had already left that tree hollow and climbed toward higher branches; notably, he didn't know what was wrong with that mouse, but after Baichuan kindly let it go, it didn't choose to run.

Instead, it chose to follow him, climbing step by step to the higher branches.

Seeing this, Baichuan let it be; he had given it a chance, and if it didn't run on its own, he couldn't be blamed for eating it when he got hungry.

But now that the rain had stopped, it was time for him to find a moment to leave.

Honestly, he had seen too many scenes of chaos these past few days, and had also gone through several grueling battles; in the face of such a vast natural disaster, countless creatures struggled desperately to survive, and those scenes truly shocked him.

There were deer herds risking their lives to wade through the water trying to get away, with countless piranhas, crocodiles, and other aquatic predators closely following and tearing at them, dyeing a large patch of water red.

There was also a former Banzhu, starving and unable to bear it, choosing the wrong prey and unfortunately biting an Electric Eel; at that moment he witnessed the true power of electric current—the entire water surface was covered with countless small fish floating, and that Banzhu creature thrashed and convulsed wildly in the water, stirring up huge waves.

Just watching that scene made Baichuan's heart turn cold; if it had been him, he couldn't guarantee he could survive in that water filled with electric current, and even if he could withstand the current, he'd probably be electrocuted into unconsciousness, sink, and drown.

It was also this scene that made him give up his current plan to hunt the Electric Eel; even though he coveted its Electric Generation ability, he decided that until he was confident he could easily take down an Electric Eel, he absolutely wouldn't touch one.

One touch and it's death—who could handle that!

He had also seen one of his own kind, a Yanjingwangshe, drifting from afar in the water, unfortunately attacked and constricted by a boa underwater, strangled to death beneath the surface; a bolt of lightning struck down from the sky, a great tree collapsed with a roar, affecting a large swath of creatures…

Having seen too many such brutal scenes, Baichuan suddenly felt grateful at this moment that he had eaten his fill long before the disaster fully arrived, and that snakes have an astonishing feeding cycle.

Fortunately, now it was all over; he took one last look at that mouse and began climbing upward toward the treetop.

Having seen so many examples of underwater ambushes, and having experienced one himself not long ago—fighting a strong enemy in a tree and accidentally falling into the water to be ambushed by a crocodile—Baichuan suddenly found that he now had some resistance to that murky water.

If he hadn't had that Danger Perception ability last time, he probably wouldn't have sensed the crocodile's attack at all; and even if he had sensed it, without that inexplicably appearing Minjie LV1 ability, he might not have dodged that bite either.

If either had been missing, a serious injury that time would have been unavoidable for him, and he might very well have died on the spot.

After this, he decided that until he had the ability to breathe underwater, he would try his best to avoid entering the water.

Fortunately, the place he was in was a dense forest, with countless branches crossing between the great trees, so with his abilities he could still leave.

Three days later, Baichuan finally left that previous area and once again touched solid, steady ground; at this moment he couldn't help but sigh—too hard!

After that, he headed deeper into the mountain range.

As mentioned before, the area Baichuan was in was a continuous mountain range, and the previous forest was near the foot of the outer edge of the mountains.

As far as Baichuan knew, that place should be very close to human settlements, which was why human corpses had washed over from there before; and judging from the clothing of those previous corpses, it was probably a world similar to the ancient times of his previous life.

Of course, he couldn't guarantee it was completely accurate; he could only barely tell that the clothing material was something like linen, and the style was very simple; as for the patterns and colors on them, he'd have to be forgiven—his current snake eyes couldn't make them out.

The information he had obtained was still too little to analyze any decent specifics, and he didn't dare to go inquire.

His foundation was still too thin!

He decided that this time, he'd burrow deeper into the mountains, and until he was invincible, he absolutely wouldn't contact humans.

Along the way, the scenery was lush and green, with birdsong and the chirping of various insects in the air.

For the first time, Baichuan decided that everything was so beautiful.

By contrast, that previous place was like a hell on earth.

(End of this chapter)