Chapter 17
Dragon Blood Burns Corpses!
crazy!
That's absolutely insane!
The entire online audience watched as Jiang Han walked step by step toward the shore that exuded an aura of death.
There, black blood was still flowing, and the rocks were corroded and pitted.
The air was filled with a nauseating, sweet-smelling odor—a mixture of corpse poison and the putrid smell of the deep sea.
[Official Top Alert: High concentration of cadaveric toxin detected! Anchor Jiang Han, please put on your gas mask immediately! Repeat! Put it on immediately!]
Above the live stream, a line of bold, blood-red text flashed wildly.
This means that a national-level security agency has directly intervened with the backend permissions!
However, Jiang Han acted as if he hadn't seen it.
He walked to the shore, his military boots making a "smack" sound as he stepped on the thick, black blood.
He crouched down, stretched out his long, slender fingers, and picked up a small white fragment from a broken rock.
That's not ordinary fish.
The thing emitted a faint glow under the light, and it was even... slightly wriggling!
"hiss--"
A sharp, needle-like pain shot through my fingertips.
Jiang Han frowned slightly, and the Qilin blood in his body surged instantly. A flash of red light appeared at his fingertips, and the white bits of flesh instantly turned into a wisp of black smoke and disappeared.
"really."
Jiang Han squinted and showed the camera his slightly blackened fingertips.
"This is not shark meat."
"This is 'rotten flesh and soul'."
"Only in extremely yin and evil places, creatures that have devoured ten thousand years of corpse energy and mutated can grow this kind of flesh."
At this moment, Professor Gu's anxious voice came again, with a noticeable tremor:
"Jiang Han! Don't touch it! That's the 'Flesh Spirit' that accompanies the 'Corpse Fragrance Devil's Tongue'! According to the top-secret files of Bureau 749, this thing only exists in the legendary 'Tomb of Gods and Demons'!"
"That strange snake wasn't preying on ordinary creatures; it was a 'grave guardian beast'!"
"There's something buried down there...something extremely ominous!"
Professor Gu's words caused an instant uproar in the live stream.
[A tomb of gods and demons?! This is getting more and more fantastical!]
[If it's a tomb-guarding beast, then isn't this Nine Netherworld Python... a tomb raider?]
[A chilling thought! Who is buried beneath the Kunlun Mountains?]
Jiang Han stood up and looked at the unfathomable lake.
His eyes became unusually deep.
"The Tomb of Gods and Demons..."
He suddenly remembered the "slippery" thing he had stepped on in the water when he first entered the underground cave.
At the time, he thought it was a rock covered in moss.
Looking back now, that touch, that cold and hard hardness...
Those are scales!
He swam over by stepping on the head of that Netherworld Python!
"Oh."
Jiang Han's lips curled into a self-deprecating sneer. "So, I've already been on the verge of death."
[Holy crap! Streamer, don't scare me!]
[Did you just step on its head to get here?! That's incredible luck!]
Why didn't it eat you then?
[Perhaps they were annoyed that the streamer's food got stuck in their teeth?]
Professor Gu seemed to be flipping through some ancient book; after a moment, his voice turned extremely terrified:
"Jiang Han! Get off the shore quickly! Hurry!"
Ancient texts say that the Nine Netherworld Python is extremely cunning! It has a habit called "returning its prey" after feeding!
"It will pretend to leave, then observe its prey from the shadows, waiting for the prey to lower its guard and approach the water source..."
"It's fishing!!!"
Professor Gu practically shouted the last four words.
fishing!
These two words exploded in everyone's ears like a thunderclap.
That monster is intelligent!
Its departure just now was fake!
It deliberately left behind residue and bloodstains to lure Jiang Han closer to the shore!
Jiang Han's body stiffened abruptly.
An unprecedented sense of crisis instantly enveloped my entire body; it was the suffocating feeling of having Death's scythe pressed against my throat.
It was too quiet around us.
Just moments ago there was the sound of flowing water, but now there is only deathly silence.
Even the sound of the wind disappeared.
only……
"Tick-tock".
A very faint sound of water dripping.
It didn't come from the lake in front.
But...
From behind his head!
It was less than half a meter behind him!
The sound was crisp and cold, like water droplets sliding down some kind of smooth scale and hitting the ground.
Jiang Han's entire body hair stood on end in an instant!
In the live stream, two eerie green lanterns slowly emerged from the darkness behind Jiang Han.
No.
That's not a lantern.
Those were two enormous eyes, filled with mockery and cruelty!
That pale face hovered above Jiang Han's head, its mouth stretched to the limit, silently laughing.
It didn't even go into the water!
It clung to the rock wall at the top of the cave and silently climbed up behind Jiang Han!
[Behind! Behind! Ahhhhhh!!!]
[Don't look back, streamer! Run!]
[It's over! We're doomed at this distance!]
[This is the Returning Spirit?! This thing is practically a spirit!]
A strong, foul stench, mixed with the suffocating smell of corpses, suddenly sprayed onto the back of Jiang Han's neck.
That was the breath of death.
It's right behind your head!