Mei Nan subconsciously took half a step back. After using up the piece of chocolate, there was nothing she could do to stop the snakes. Although she still had two game items with her, they weren't useful at a time like this. On the other hand, Milliped was an ordinary person, and he couldn't be counted on either. In fact, it was already amazing that he hadn't pissed his pants in fear.
Fortunately, Zhang Heng's voice came from behind them.
"Alright, leave the rest to me."
Milliped turned around and saw that the pile of Lego blocks in front of Zhang Heng had disappeared. In its place were two metal cylinders that were as tall as a man, connected to each other. There was a pressure indicator and safety valve on the top, and a hose connected to something that looked like an oil gun.
The oil gun was now in Zhang Heng's hand.
When Milliped and Meinan retreated behind him, he pulled the trigger of the flamethrower in his hand. The next moment, a terrifying pillar of fire shot out of the muzzle. It was more than 60 meters long, engulfing almost everything in front of it. Wherever the flame passed, many snakes were instantly roasted. Some were even burnt to a crisp, and the air was filled with a burning smell.
When Zhang Heng finished the first flamethrower, there were no other living creatures within a radius of 25 meters around them.
The T-148 flamethrower, produced by the Italian company Tirena, first appeared in the 1980s. It was a weapon used to deal with a large number of enemies and fortifications. In other words, it was used to deal with the toughest enemies on the battlefield. It was extremely powerful. Other than that, Zhang Heng had also expanded the capacity of the oil bottle.
The standard T-148 flamethrower could be used up to 18 times, but the plus version that Zhang Heng created with Lego and the Infinite Building Block could be used at least 30 times. When he pulled the trigger, Milliped, who was a meter away from him, could feel a shocking wave of heat. His hair curled up involuntarily.
What surprised Milliped even more was the fact that he had no idea where Zhang Heng got his hands on this set of equipment. A few minutes ago, Zhang Heng was lying on the ground, happily playing with his bag of building blocks.
However, so many unbelievable things had happened that night that Milliped was a little numb to it. He knew that even if he asked, Zhang Heng might not be willing to explain it to him.
After burning at least a few hundred snakes around him at once, Zhang Heng put down the spray gun, picked up the Shrouded Sheath at his feet again, and began to deal with the new batch of snakes that crawled toward them from behind. Soon, several snakes followed in the footsteps of their companions. When the snakes behind them gathered again, Zhang Heng picked up the spray gun again.
After repeating this process a few times, the entire station was like being roasted on a stove. Although there were still snakes crawling out of the tunnel, they were either completely frightened by the corpses of their companions or they didn't like the heat, but the number of snakes crawling towards them was decreasing.
On the contrary, the body of the sperm whale was now covered with all kinds of snakes, densely packed. These snakes were constantly eating its flesh as if enjoying a feast. In addition, there were snakes constantly climbing into its head through the blowhole.
"This is …" The cruel scene caught Milliped's attention. For a moment, he even forgot that they weren't completely out of danger yet.
"That's right. The reason this sperm whale is here is because someone wants to use it to feed the snakes in this place," Zhang Heng said calmly as he casually cut off a krait that was trying to crawl to his feet.
After burning it with the T-148, he could basically confirm that although the snakes in front of him were a mix of different species, some of which were endangered or even declared extinct, they were essentially just ordinary snakes. They hadn't mutated in any way.
As for why the three of them were targeted by the snakes, it wasn't because someone was adding fuel to the fire behind the scenes, secretly controlling the snakes, or that the snakes were really just there to support the little viper. It was purely because the three of them were unlucky. They just happened to be at the snake's meal time, and were mistaken for food along with the sperm whale.
"Who — no, what kind of thing would feed a whale to a snake?" Milliped looked shocked.
He asked the question subconsciously because he had already asked the same question during the earthquake. Zhang Heng had no idea what they were going to face, so Milliped didn't expect to get an answer in the first place.
However, he didn't expect Zhang Heng to answer him this time. "I think I know whose territory we're in."
"Who?" Meinan raised an eyebrow.
"You've been Loki's agent for a while, so you should've looked up information about him. You know that apart from his wife, Sigen, Loki also had three children with the female giant, Angor Boda. These three children are much more famous than the two children he had with Sigen."
"The earth-shaking monster Fenrir, the Earthly Python Jörmungandr, and the Goddess of Death are similar to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. When they appear, it means the arrival of the apocalypse." Meinan reacted quickly, and a look of realization appeared on her face. "We've encountered Jörmungandr?"
Jörmungandr was the second child of Loki and the female giant, Angor Boda. He was Fenrir's younger brother, Hela's older brother, and the archenemy of Thor, the God of Thunder. He was a python with a huge body. Odin saw him as a major threat to Asgard the moment he was born.
Odin threw Jörmungandr into the bottomless sea of the mortal world when he was young. When Jörmungandr grew up, his body grew larger and larger. When he stretched his body, he could bite Odin's tail, wrapping the entire mortal world. That was why he was called the Giant Snake That Encircled the Atrium.
In the Twilight of the Gods, Jörmungandr met his archenemy, the God of Thunder, and a fierce battle broke out between the two. In the end, Thor hit Jörmungandr's head with his Mjolnir, and Jörmungandr injected venom into Thor's body. The two died together.
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"I should've thought of it earlier. The Coiled Serpent represents both the beginning and the end. It's an endless cycle. That's why we're stuck in that never-ending tunnel. Those construction workers who suffered from strange diseases must've been poisoned by Jörmungandr. It was also Jörmungandr who brought the sperm whale, which was originally swimming in the deep sea, here to feed the snakes in the tunnel."
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