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Chapter 103 Captain Huo in the Blood Pool
The top two layers seem to be deliberately separated.

The snake on the balcony was wriggling its body without making a sound, which was strange.

Yuanqiao took Gao Leyu and An Muya to the air to look at the second-floor balcony. They flew up a bit, and the third-floor balcony had the exact same view.

Yuanqiao rubbed his arms vigorously, expanded the cloud, set up a small tent, and put on a combat protective suit he bought for 300 gold coins.

He was wearing an extra inner armor and combat boots with speed-enhancing effects.

Even if we disregard these small snakes, a python couldn't bite through them.

Fortunately, the clothes are relatively light and thin, so they don't look bulky.

After Yuanqiao finished, Gao Leyu joked:
"Yuanqiao, are you so afraid of snakes? Then you'd better hide in the future, I'll clear the way."

The four of them didn't find anything on the first floor, so they prepared to go to the balcony full of snakes to check the second floor.

Shi Liu first threw in a fireball, which instantly released a stench and a burnt smell. A large portion of the snakes were easily wiped out.

After waiting on the aircraft for more than ten minutes until the fire subsided, they jumped onto the balcony and broke down the door.

Yuan Qiao gripped the lightsaber tightly. These snakes weren't corrupted monsters; they were just ordinary snakes.

That's very unusual.

The layout of the second floor was similar to that of the first floor. After exploring all the rooms, only one small cubicle had its door tightly closed and could not be opened.

Shi Liu wanted to force her way in, but Gao Leyu stopped her.

"Oh dear~ Brother Pomegranate is so mean, let me do it. I have a universal key prop~"

Pomegranate:"……"

Watching Gao Leyu act all cute and affected, blinking and pouting as she spoke, and smelling the burnt odor wafting from the balcony, made her so uncomfortable that she leaned against the wall and dry heaved.

"Please, don't talk like that!"

"Click——"

As luck would have it, Shiliu's hand, which was bracing against the wall, just happened to touch the mechanism.

The door to the cubicle opened automatically.

"Ah? What a coincidence."

Gao Leyu held the master key and looked at the pomegranate.

The room wasn't empty; there were many miscellaneous items on the floor, and there was a passageway entrance on the right wall.

The ground and walls were covered in blood, and the clutter was in complete disarray.

The passageway in front of us looks a lot like the one at the clock tower.

The four guessed that these might be traces of a fight left by Captain Huo and his men.

"With this amount of blood loss, if they were all on our side, they would probably be in great danger."

Gao Leyu took the lead and entered the passage.

The passage isn't long; you can walk to the end in just a few minutes.

The scene before them shocked them.

In this nest of less than fifty square meters, there was an irregularly shaped circular pool of blood in the center. The liquid in the pool was like thick blood plasma, with a nauseating dark red sheen on the surface, as if it had just been drawn from and gathered from the bodies of countless creatures.

In the center of the blood pool, Captain Huo was struggling to stay afloat. The blood plasma was up to his waist, severely limiting his movement.

Countless snakes surged towards him like a tide, surrounding him completely. The snakes in the blood pool were enormous, their forked tongues flickering constantly, their eyes flashing with cold killing intent.

Captain Huo was on the verge of losing consciousness, and his other teammates were also unconscious in the pool, entangled by the giant snake.

This scene was quite impactful.

There were many snakes of all sizes around the blood pool, and some of them had already spotted them and were swarming over.

As Yuanqiao drew his weapon, ready to fight, he wielded his lightsaber and discovered that these were not corrupted monsters.

The system query indicates that the animals are normal local species.

This underground city holds many secrets.

Yuanqiao had no time to think it through; these small snakes, without the berserk state of the corrupted monster, had little combat power.

Most creatures are driven by self-preservation; seeing that the group of four had quickly killed a group of their own kind, some of the smarter ones circled around the four, too afraid to approach. "These snakes aren't hard to kill, so how come the captain and the others are stuck in there?"

Regardless of the captain's abilities, both Jiang Yiyi and Chen Haoxiang are very capable.

With Xiao Cheng, who has the ability to adjust gravity, the group can withstand the fourth-tier pollution monster for half a day.

Gao Leyu led the way, clearing a foul-smelling path to the blood pool.

The surrounding snakes all kept their distance.

The giant serpent in the blood pool is not suitable for attacking with powerful weapons, as it could easily injure the unconscious people.

The pomegranate plant skill is released, stimulating the growth of blood vines in the planting box to retrieve Jiang Yiyi, who is closest to it.

Only her head was sticking out; her body was coiled around a giant snake, and she was on the verge of death.

I tried several times but it was inconvenient to fish it out.

The giant snake in the blood pool ignored the group, neither attacking nor defending itself, but simply swimming around in the pool, causing the blood plasma to rise and fall.

"A mechanism on the wall..."

The voice was weak and faint.

Captain Huo's internal organs were squeezed by the snake's body. The pain brought him to his senses for a moment, and he saw Gao Leyu and his group, who had used props to change their appearance. They all looked unfamiliar.

They no longer cared whether the newcomers were in cahoots with the one who had captured them and taken them to the snake pit; they were just muttering about the mechanisms on the wall.

"What did the captain just say? Did you hear me?"

Gao Leyu wanted to get closer to cast a healing spell on Captain Huo, but there seemed to be a transparent barrier around the Blood Pool that people couldn't pass through, but the blood vines of the pomegranate could.

Anmuya: "Pomegranate, try to control the Blood Vine to take the healing items into the Blood Pool."

He then took two healing orbs from his system inventory and handed them to her.

The Bloodvine vines wrapped around the healing orb and tried to enter the blood pool, but were blocked by a barrier.

Pomegranate: "No, we can't get in, but the Blood Vine itself can."

Blood vines...blood pools...

The more Shiliu thought about it, the brighter his eyes became. He chuckled out loud. The rough man with thick eyebrows and big eyes had this expression, just like he was seeing a curvaceous woman taking off her clothes in front of him.

"I have another method that I think I can try."

Some snakes are mindless and fearless, willing to come up and die, but since Shiliu said she had a way.

Yuanqiao and the other two then cleared out the other ordinary snakes in the snake pit.

Shi Liu increased her energy output and took out a small energy stone that she had obtained in the past, holding it in her hand.

Green light emanated from her palm and seeped into the planting box.

Nourished by its master's skills, the Blood Vine grew rapidly, branching out into thick vines.

Its skin has an eerie dark red color, as if it comes from the same source as the blood in the blood pool.

Following its master's instructions, the blood vines, like hungry beasts, plunged into the blood pool and began to greedily absorb the energy within.

As the blood vines absorbed the blood, the blood in the blood pool began to churn violently, and the energy gathered through the array was gradually absorbed away.

The dark red color on the vines grew increasingly intense. The giant snake in the blood pool seemed to sense something and frantically twisted its body, trying to stop the blood vines from absorbing it.

"It's like the happiness of a mouse falling into a rice jar."

Shi Liu even took the time to exchange a few words with Yuan Qiao.

To avoid disturbing Shiliu, the three of them surrounded her and protected her, preventing those blind snakes from bothering her.

The giant snakes' struggles were somewhat futile; the formation, which gathered the energy of the blood pool, also limited the snakes' abilities.

Their movements began to slow down, their energy was drained by the blood vines, and they gradually lost their vitality.

The vines carefully encircled the unconscious people to prevent them from being crushed by the giant snake's corpse.

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