Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 3 Intelligence? It doesn't exist

High in the distant sky, the sun goddess Sur, driving her chariot, hurries across the heavens on white clouds. Her beautiful and heroic figure can be faintly seen even on the sea.

In this era where humans and gods coexist, the boundary between gods and mortals is not as insurmountable as it seems, and gods often travel to and from the human world, so all of this seems extremely natural.

But on the dark sea, Meng, who was already full, showed no interest in it at all, appearing lazy as he drifted on the waves.

It must be said that the physique of the World Serpent is indeed extremely special. It can grow rapidly without eating anything, which completely violates the law of conservation of mass and energy.

From the time Meng felt hungry until now, less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea has passed, and it has already become extremely large, more than 20 meters tall, with its body as thick as a tree trunk. Its growth rate is almost comparable to that of a certain stone monkey in "Journey to the West" when it used the magic of "Emulating Heaven and Earth" and "grown with the wind".

Indeed, according to legend, after Jormungandr was thrown into the bottomless abyss, its body was so enormous that it occupied the entire abyss surrounding the human world, biting its tail and circling around the entire human world. However, it was precisely because of this that it was completely suppressed and unable to move.

Compared to his later growth, Meng's growth at this moment is nothing.

However, as its body grew larger, Meng became increasingly hungry. But because it was a giant snake that was almost like a god, it was impossible for it to starve to death. In the end, the giant snake was almost driven mad by hunger, and its two crimson eyes were shining with hunger, looking like two big red lanterns.

When the giant snake caught a whiff of human scent on the lost raft, it was so hungry that it had completely lost its mind. Without caring about anything else, it opened its mouth wide and swallowed the entire raft whole.

At this moment, apart from a few fragments of wooden oars remaining on the sea surface, there is almost no trace of any other rafts that once existed.

But because of this, this giant snake, which had not eaten since its birth, experienced for the first time what it meant to be stuffed, to the point that it had to float on the surface of the sea and drift with the current to slowly digest the food in its belly.

Satisfy.

happy.

Relying on its hazy human memories, the giant snake managed to retrieve two words it didn't quite understand from its mind.

Based on its memories of being human, these two words seemed to be wonderful things. Thus, the giant serpent, having experienced the feeling of fullness for the first time, quickly came to a conclusion.

"Being full equals satisfaction equals happiness."

After all, no matter how unscientific it may seem, even if gods exist, it's still difficult to expect a simple-minded snake to think about what happiness is. Even in mythology, Jormungandr has never been known for its intelligence. Apart from the occasional glimpses of humanity and vague human memories that give the giant snake some human thought patterns and occasionally reveal a bit of humanity, this giant snake is nothing more than a stupid snake with an intelligence of less than 50 under normal circumstances.

"Oh right, what did I just eat?"

It wasn't until after a long period of laziness that the sluggish giant snake remembered to think about what it had just eaten.

In that state of extreme hunger that had driven him to utter madness, Meng only remembered smelling something delicious and then seeing something before lunging at it without even seeing what it looked like.

So, he didn't even know what he had just eaten.

This is something that Kyle and Old Boots, whose souls have just arrived in the Land of the Dead, could probably only manage a bewildered and bitter smile at. However, although his mind wasn't working very well, Meng still felt a deep sense of fear about the frantic hunger he had experienced before.

He never wanted to experience that crazy state of being so hungry that all he could think about was "eat, eat, eat, eat, eat..." again.

So, in order to stop starving, this giant snake decided to do something for the first time in its life:
"Find a place where we can get enough to eat!"

Then, it flicked out its long tongue, and relying on its keen sense of taste, Meng quickly sensed a faint fishy smell in front of it.

So he simply swam in that direction.

……

Meng didn't know how long he swam, he only knew that the sun above his head set and rose again, set and rose again... this continued for six times.

The seawater beside me gradually changed from a dark color to a deep blue, and life began to appear. The giant waves and storms that often occurred in the dark sea disappeared.

At first, there were only small white fish such as sturgeon and white salmon, as well as squid and octopus. Later, the species gradually became more abundant, with all kinds of large fish and strange creatures, which kept Meng eating non-stop.

However, according to Meng's vague human memories, the sea did not seem to look like this. This clear distinction between sea areas was beyond his previous common sense.

He naturally wouldn't know that the deep sea belonged to Egil, the god of the deep sea, while the near sea belonged to Njord, the god of summer and the near sea, who was also the god of ports.

Nyord belongs to the Vanir gods and is subordinate to Odin, while Egil is an ancient god who existed since the beginning of the world.

This ancient god, who was not good-tempered, had always been lukewarm towards Odin, the king of the gods, and had always kept to himself and Njord, with neither of them interfering with the other. Under the influence of their divine power, this strange scene naturally came into being.

However, this is something that even if the giant snake, whose intelligence is now less than 50, had its intelligence at its peak, it probably wouldn't be able to understand. After pondering for a while, the giant snake simply gave up thinking and chose to have a hearty meal.

As a result, these innocent fish suffered.

The fish, usually caught by Norse fishermen, had never seen such a ferocious hunter. Wherever the giant snake went, almost no one survived.

Whether it's a flounder the size of a person, a sturgeon as thick as an arm, a squid, or even a seabird too close to the surface... they could all be suddenly attacked by the giant snake at any time and swallowed whole.

And this giant snake, which only cared about being full and had no picky eating habits, ate with great satisfaction.

However, the giant serpent was unaware that something concerning him was happening on an island dozens of miles away...

(End of this chapter)