Chapter 32: Strange Behavior, Bottom Line

For a moment, Baichuan's curiosity surged up, but his reason told him there might be danger, and he shouldn't rush over to join the excitement.

He hesitated for a moment, considered briefly, and decided he still wanted to go take a look.

Although he valued his life greatly, that didn't mean he was timid and afraid of trouble.

If a person's first reaction when a problem appeared within his own territory was to flee, not even daring to try to understand it, then no matter how strong he was, what use was that?

If today you retreat out of fear of danger, then tomorrow you'll retreat out of fear others might plot against you, and after that…

Retreat after retreat, there will eventually come a day when you have nowhere left to retreat.

After all, in this desolate, uninhabited place where he had stayed for half a year, how could any humans possibly appear?

Maybe it was some secret treasure hidden in the forest.

Now his strength wasn't weak either; just his Electric Generation alone, if anyone were suddenly struck by it, they'd suffer a serious loss.

Thinking this, Baichuan lowered his body and crawled forward quietly.

"Crack—"

Just then, the sound of a snapping twig came from afar.

Baichuan's snake body stiffened. "Uh-oh, it can't be this unlucky, right?"

He had just said humans couldn't possibly appear, and now they really did show up?

The next instant, he suddenly Burst forward, silently climbing up a tree in a flash, while his body's color rapidly changed to match the surroundings exactly. At the same time, every movement of his body dropped to the absolute minimum.

The entire motion was executed in one fluid stroke, without the slightest excess, not a single sound made throughout.

At that moment, a woman's voice came from afar, growing closer, carrying a tone of puzzlement: "%*#……?"

"#%&……"

A gentle man's voice responded to the woman's.

Shortly after, a man and a woman, dressed in tight-fitting outfits, were seen moving through the forest with incredible agility, looking just like apes in the woods.

A dozen or so seconds later, the man and woman, speaking strange and bizarre words, quickly departed from the area.

Throughout the entire process, Baichuan remained perfectly still, silently watching the two leave.

What were they saying?

That was Baichuan's first reaction.

Damn, he hadn't expected that the first problem he'd face after being reborn in another world would be that he couldn't understand what others were saying.

Baichuan was speechless.

But although he didn't know what they were saying, who was Baichuan?

From the strange frozen lake phenomenon that had appeared earlier, combined with humans now inexplicably showing up in this desolate wilderness—

He guessed blindly that they must have some connection to it; otherwise, who would come to these deep mountains and old forests for no reason?

It seemed something big really was happening.

Baichuan thought for a moment, then climbed back down the tree and began slowly advancing in that direction.

At this moment, his whole body came alive, like an old machine slowly starting up again, about to run at full power; at this moment, his perception was pushed to the maximum.

Not long after, he stopped once more.

Because more humans had appeared behind him—some carrying blades, some gripping clubs, others with swords strapped to their backs…

"Looks like quite a few people came this time." Baichuan muttered to himself as he looked in the direction of the newcomers.

The language barrier was truly a troublesome thing, so much so that he couldn't even understand their purpose.

He just didn't know what these humans' ability models were like.

Could they let him understand their words?

At this moment, such a thought suddenly popped into Baichuan's mind.

But now there were too many humans; he needed to be cautious and observe their movements and purpose.

……

Over the next few days, Baichuan witnessed what these uninvited guests were doing.

Some had light bodies, moving like the wind, as agile as forest monkeys; others had heavy bodies, powerful and forceful, charging like the great wild boars of the mountains…

And they all shared a common purpose: they were searching for something, but along the way they also wantonly captured all kinds of animals.

At this moment, every creature in the forest suffered disaster.

Some captured deer, forcibly cutting off their tender antlers and drinking their blood fresh; others slaughtered packs of wolves, pulling out their teeth and breaking off their claws, mixing them with special liquids to smear all over their bodies; still others caught various highly venomous creatures, extracting their toxins to coat their own hands…

Of course, there were also those acting all mystical, searching for various plants and shoving them straight into their mouths to chew up.

Each and every one of them behaved in the strangest manner, yet possessed a power that even the fiercest beasts had to yield to.

Watching all this, Baichuan felt a chill in his heart and couldn't help asking himself: were these really people? Or were they practicing some kind of evil art?

In an instant, these uninvited guests utterly destroyed the forest that had once been filled with a primitive atmosphere.

At this moment, Baichuan couldn't help feeling grateful that he could turn invisible and hide; otherwise, with so many people surrounding him, he probably wouldn't be able to escape either.

If that happened, as a venomous snake, he'd inevitably be forced to have his venom extracted, and seeing his strange body, they might even flay him and drink his blood.

"Roar—!"

At this moment, a tiger's roar filled with震慑力 came from afar, shaking the branches and leaves in the forest into a "rustling" sound.

"Here we go again."

Baichuan looked in that direction and whispered to himself. This wasn't the first time he'd heard this tiger's roar, but compared to the furious roars at the beginning, this tiger's roar now carried a deep, undisguised weariness.

His intuition told him this tiger was going to be worn to death.

Right—although these newcomers had strange abilities, individually, apart from a rare few, most of them still couldn't go up against the king of the jungle.

But, they had numbers.

Relying on their sheer numbers, over these past few days they had stubbornly tried to use encirclement and rotating battle tactics to wear this fierce tiger to death.

If he couldn't get a few days of rest to recover, even a fierce tiger would be worn to death.

The only question is, what is their objective?

Baichuan's instinct told him their target was not the tiger, because the strongest among them were still searching around as if no one else existed.

Baichuan propped himself up again, left his den buried more than twenty meters underground, and slithered outward.

Along the way, he carefully avoided the humans who occasionally passed by, and finally arrived before a corpse.

This was one of those humans who had died in the past few days while fighting each other over a plant.

Baichuan shook his head, his gaze sharpened, and instantly a notification popped up.

Scanning… 87%…

Right — over the past few days, besides going out from time to time to observe this group of humans, he had come here to scan this human corpse.

Normally, under these circumstances, eating the corpse would have been the fastest way to build the scanning model, and a corpse abandoned in the forest like this — even if he ate it, it wouldn't arouse suspicion.

But he, who had been a human in his previous life, couldn't bring himself to do it.

Perhaps, now that he was no longer human, he could kill someone for his own sake without a shred of hesitation.

But when it came to actually eating one, he couldn't do it.

This wasn't being precious — it was the三观 he had been shaped by over so many years in his previous life's world that was influencing him.

A person, after all, has to have a bottom line.

And this, perhaps, was his last one.

(End of chapter)