Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 339 - 13: Metallic Giant Serpent (Part 2)

"Ha, you still believe in this?" Wang Xiyi asked with a hint of amusement.

"This kind of thing is very mystical, don’t ridicule my superstition. Anyway, it doesn’t cost anything, so why not believe a little, right?" Ye Jiu replied.

"I just think you’ve watched too many anime and read too many novels... huh?" Before Wang Xiyi could finish speaking, her right foot had already stepped on the brake.

"All vehicles, stop!" Wang Xiyi opened the intercom and shouted loudly.

About a hundred meters ahead of the vehicles, the road was blocked.

Vines emerged from the ground, intertwining like twisted giant snakes, sprawling across the road.

The convoy stopped, and everyone gradually got out of the cars.

"We should already be in the Surrendered Area, right?" Candle Dragon approached, "We’ve passed the orange-red boundary marker by over a kilometer."

"Yes." Wang Xiyi nodded, "Stay on alert."

"Captain!" A field agent ran over, "The vines blocking the road have a meme reaction! It should be a plant-type uncanny creature!"

"Plant-type... Class D uncanny creature, huh." Candle Dragon murmured, "My abilities are not very effective against this type of creature, besides, I can sense the kind of chilling aura radiating from the vines, which is very similar to my attributes... My attack may hardly harm it."

"This is a perfect match for my expertise!" Ye Jiu suddenly jumped to the front, swung the Wolf-tooth Spear horizontally, and instantly a crimson flame ignited on the surface, enveloping the entire spear. "A plant-type uncanny creature with a cold attribute, it’s simply tailor-made for me as an opponent! Don’t steal the spotlight from me!"

"No one is competing with you." Wang Xiyi crossed her arms, "If you’re going to make a move, do it quickly and don’t delay the journey."

"We’ll back you up, make it quick." Candle Dragon added.

"Alright! Leave it to me!" Ye Jiu shouted lowly, brandishing the Wolf-tooth Spear as he charged toward the blocking vines.

At this moment, Zhong Ling walked silently to Wang Xiyi’s side, gently touching her arm with a finger.

"What’s up?" Wang Xiyi turned to ask.

"Could we be on the wrong path?" Zhong Ling whispered, "Sun Hang was also driving. If this road is blocked, he might not have come this way."

"But there’s only this road near post 198... Sun Hang couldn’t have flown over the mountain in his car, could he?" Wang Xiyi pondered, "But you’re right, we haven’t seen tire tracks along the way; could it be that he really didn’t take this road?"

"He might have abandoned the car and walked." Candle Dragon said, "There are many places to abandon a car along the way, and checking them all would take months."

"Does Sun Hang’s car have satellite navigation?" Jiang Yu suddenly spoke.

"It does, but within the realm of eternal night, satellite navigation is useless, and even GPS systems rely on multiple ground stations for accurate positioning," Wang Xiyi shook her head, "Currently, only the military’s high-power long-distance radio communication is reliable; our wristbands rely on this network... However, on the day of the incident, Sun Hang’s wristband signal had already disappeared."

While Wang Xiyi and others were discussing whether they were on the wrong path, Ye Jiu had already charged close to the vines, and with the fiery Wolf-tooth Spear, he struck heavily, landing precisely in the densest area of the vines.

"Boom!!!"

The flames exploded instantly, and large swathes of vines turned to ash in the blink of an eye.

"Awesome!"

Ye Jiu yelled quietly, swinging the Wolf-tooth Spear with vigorous momentum, clearing a path wide enough for vehicles to pass after several sweeps.

"This creature... does it have no counterattack ability?" Ye Jiu wondered, "Aside from being dozens of times thicker than regular vines, do these vines have no special characteristics?"

Despite his doubts, Ye Jiu’s movements did not slow down, and in no time, most of the vines on the road were cleared.

"Done!" The flames on the Wolf-tooth Spear gradually dimmed, Ye Jiu exhaled deeply, turned, and waved to the convoy, "Drive over!"

However, as soon as his voice fell, the ground suddenly began to shake slightly!

"An earthquake?" Ye Jiu was stunned, "No, it’s not an earthquake... the vibration is coming from underneath, could it be the roots of the vines? Is it only now realizing it was attacked? That reflex arc is too long!"

As Ye Jiu looked around, Wang Xiyi in the distance instantly entered a high dragonification state, with huge dragon wings fluttering as she soared into the sky.

Not only Wang Xiyi, but Candle Dragon also summoned icy streams to create an arched barrier in front of everyone.

Zhong Ling’s controlled uncanny remnants crawled out of the "coffin" fixed atop the car, forming a defensive formation.

"Is it necessary? It’s just a vine uncanny creature, why such a big setup?" This thought had just crossed Ye Jiu’s mind when he felt a tremendous force hitting him, and his viewpoint suddenly shifted to the sky.

He was lifted—despite the hundreds of kilograms of armor he wore, he was still flung high up, reaching nearly a hundred meters in altitude.

It was then that Ye Jiu saw what had attacked him.

It was a vine... no, it should be a giant snake, completely made up of "industrial waste," a metallic giant serpent!

It wasn’t a biological being but a construct pieced together from various metal objects, with mismatched scrap iron sheets, compacted blocks from the garbage plant, contorted car shells, bicycle frames, and a heap of rusty building rebar, like rails freshly pulled from the railway—all forming the serpent’s body. They pressed and rubbed against each other, emitting a teeth-grating sound; each movement of the serpent caused countless metal pieces to fall, but before they could reach the ground, they would get reattached to its body, becoming part of other sections. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

The serpent was over five meters in diameter, and its length—just what appeared above ground—exceeded one hundred meters, with no one knowing how much remained underground.

The metallic giant serpent had no head, only a massive mouth nearly matching the cross section of its body. Metal objects near the mouth constantly fell into it while the rest surged upward—its entire body was dynamic, establishing a peculiar harmony amid the chaos.

"Bang!!"

Ye Jiu finally crashed onto the ground; thanks to the armor’s defensive ability, he was mostly unharmed, just slightly dizzy.

"Damn, what kind of monster is this?" He shook his head vigorously, sitting up from the ground.

"You got lucky; that thing only flung you instead of swallowing you." Candle Dragon helped Ye Jiu up, "Otherwise, your armor might have become part of its body."

"...No way?" Ye Jiu planted the Wolf-tooth Spear on the ground and looked at the metallic giant serpent not far away, "What type of uncanny creature is this? Animal type? Or artifact type?"

"I’d lean towards Spirit Body (energy type), seems like some magnetic-like force gathers these metal objects together," Candle Dragon said, "If I remember correctly, Sun Hang had the ability to control metal."

"But he couldn’t possibly control so many metal objects at once, right?"