57: Chapter 41 Snake (Two in One)_3 57: Chapter 41 Snake (Two in One)_3 The threat of death made Xia Nan inspect with utmost precision at this moment, from top to bottom, from left to right, tracing every texture with his fingertips.

Finally!

As he crouched halfway, groping at the lower right corner of the black wall.

A trace of extremely faint phosphorescence caught his attention.

It was the peculiar blue glow unique to cave-dwelling fungi, but its source was a crevice in the rock at the corner of the black wall!

“Could it be…”

A flash of delight crossed Xia Nan’s eyes.

He suddenly bent down, using his palm to move the loose rocks aside.

When encountering smaller gaps, he even pulled out the dagger from his waist, using all his strength to pry the stones up.

After about twenty minutes.

A small hole, about half a person’s height, appeared in the corner of the black wall before Xia Nan’s eyes.

The faint blue light became even more bright.

Alone, without regard for his posture.

He used both hands and feet, following the light and crawled in.

Unexpectedly, the small hole was not deep.

After only a few steps, the originally narrow passage suddenly opened up.

A vast space large enough to generate echoes appeared before his eyes.

Fungal colonies densely covered the surrounding stone walls, illuminating the entire space brightly.

As Xia Nan crawled out from the small hole, he instinctively turned around, looking at the black wall that horizontally blocked the tunnel.

Buzz—

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

Sweat dripped from his forehead, leaving a small water stain on the cold ground.

Xia Nan still maintained the action of turning back, but he was suddenly frozen in place.

Motionless.

His gaze was glued to the direction he had come from.

The black wall?

No, that was not a man-made wall.

The cool touch like metal, fine flaky texture…

It was a massive snake body, as thick as a train, enough to fill the entire tunnel!

Words fail to describe Xia Nan’s experience at this moment.

Like waking up in the middle of the night, suddenly seeing a section of a snake’s body on your bed through the moonlight.

Your first reaction might be to jump up in panic, but at the same time, your eyes would subconsciously follow the snake’s body, looking for its head, to determine if it had slipped into your bed duvet or merely circled around the bedside.

In shock, Xia Nan’s gaze instinctively followed the enormous snake body upwards.

Ground, wall…

above!

“Holy crap!”

He felt a chill surge from his tailbone to his crown, goosebumps rising all over his body.

A terrifying snake head capable of swallowing an entire elephant was directly above him, staring unblinkingly with its cold, vicious vertical pupils.

The immense oppressive feeling from the enormous difference in size caused him to give up resisting almost immediately, subconsciously closing his eyes.

One second, two seconds, three seconds…

Xia Nan stood rigidly in place, the stabbing pain in his chest and abdomen with each breath reminding him that he was still alive.

He slowly opened his eyes.

Still the massive, awe-inspiring giant snake.

But…

also motionless.

“Gulp.”

His Adam’s apple moved as he swallowed hard.

Xia Nan vaguely sensed something amiss, his gaze continuing to trace the long snake body upward.

Sure enough!

At the very top of the cavern dome, a brown rock cone from who knows where pinned the giant snake like a thumbtack to the stone ceiling above it.

Right at its critical seven-inch spot.

The deceptively cold and fierce eyes of the giant snake had long since lost their luster.

The train-sized body, like the countless white bones outside the cave, had become nothing more than a lifeless corpse with no hope of revival.

He let out a slight sigh of relief.

Only under such circumstances could Xia Nan have the chance, and be in a state of being alive, to carefully observe the giant snake’s appearance.

Its entire body was pitch black, covered in hard, metallic, ink-colored scales, its massive, elongated body winding and climbing within the cave, making it impossible to judge its exact length;

The face scales were snow white, devoid of any impurities, making its emerald green eyes more pronounced, akin to green jade and jadeite, with deep, unlit pupils;

And in the middle of its head, suspended high in midair, were several pure golden scales flashing as if adorned like a crown ornament on the back of the head.

For some reason, staring at the terrifying giant snake before him.

All of a sudden, Xia Nan’s mind flashed with the image of cutting off goblin ears or extracting Rusted Monster Poison Glands.

A daring yet extremely reasonable idea gradually brewed in his mind.

As an adventurer, bringing back some trophies…

Should be quite normal, right?