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In that instant, Ji Dong’s scalp went numb, and he almost had a heart-stopping moment.
Honestly, the woman that hung upside down, in terms of appearance alone, could be described as beautiful and enchanting. Her skin was truly porcelain white, smooth, and delicate to the point where you couldn’t see any pores.
However, her cold white skin was covered in a layer of slippery slime. When Ji Dong’s headlamp shone on it, it emitted a fluorescent green glow, reminiscent of a slug.
That woman saw Ji Dong too.
In the instant their gazes met, the beautiful woman’s cherry-red lips suddenly split open without warning, stretching to her ears. It was like a beastly trap snapping open, lunging towards Ji Dong’s head.
Ji Dong instinctively leaned back to dodge.
The woman’s distorted mouth got stuck at the narrow opening, and the upper part forcefully collided with those gray-green sticky substances, crushing them with a loud “crunch.”
In the next instant, the woman’s mouth quickly retracted, and her neck eerily twisted to one side, bending about 120 degrees. Her entire head squeezed through the elevator door opening and once again lunged towards Ji Dong.
At the critical moment, Ji Dong was faster than her.
He swiftly reached out his hand, pressing his palm against the woman’s forehead, releasing an electric current.
With a crisp “crackling” sound, the electric arc spread from Ji Dong’s palm, following the cold, slippery slime on the woman’s skin, creating a spider web-like burst of blue-purple sparks in the dark space.
The woman was momentarily paralyzed by the electric shock.
Immediately after, she opened her mouth wide and let out a heart-wrenching scream, lunging forward and crashing into the narrow elevator shaft in an unimaginably agile posture.
Her movements were unbelievably fast, and the force was astonishing.
In such a cramped space, Ji Dong had no way to dodge.
The sudden and immense force sent him flying, causing his hands and feet, which were clinging to the elevator support, to slip loose. With the pull of gravity, his body uncontrollably plummeted into the dark abyss of the elevator shaft.
While Ji Dong was descending, his dynamic vision once again came into play.
He saw the full appearance of the monster attacking them.
That thing had a feminine face and an overly slender upper body, but from the waist down, it had the body of a snake!
——SCP 913, the [Serpent Beauty!]
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Immediately after, the [Serpent Beauty], who had rushed into the elevator shaft, twisted her body in a big S shape and swiftly glided along the vertical wall of the shaft. Like lightning, she headed towards Fan Luming, who was originally above Ji Dong’s head. With her two snow-white jade arms extended, she clamped onto Fan’s younger brother’s spine like a pair of steel pliers.
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After capturing her prey, the [Serpent Beauty] swiftly twisted her snake-like lower body, agilely making a 180-degree turn in the elevator shaft. She then burst out through the entrance from where she came, taking Fan’s younger brother with her, disappearing from everyone’s sight even faster than when she first appeared.
“Waahhhh!!”
From deep within the corridor, Fan Luming’s screams of agony could be heard, growing increasingly distant.
At the same time, Ji Dong summoned his longbow, using the bow as a cushion to hang himself back onto the wall of the shaft, halting his descent and preventing himself from falling to his death in the elevator shaft.
“Xiao Lu!”
The sudden appearance of the [Serpent Beauty] was incredibly abrupt, and the elevator shaft was extremely narrow. Even Ren Jianmo couldn’t come to Fan Luming’s aid in such a short amount of time.
At this moment, everyone was in a state of panic, rushing to catch up and save the Fan Luming.
Ji Dong climbed upward, while Ren Jianmo, Mo Tiangen, and Fan Hemian descended, reaching the exit of the elevator shaft on the negative third floor, one after another.
In the corridor on this floor, there was secretion from the [Queen Bee] everywhere. And on these gray-green sticky substances, there was a bright, shimmering S-shaped trail, reminiscent of the marks left by a snail’s foot after crawling.
Ji Dong immediately remembered the mucus on the [Serpent Beauty]’s skin.
“It’s right ahead!”
He anxiously shouted, “Let’s chase after them quickly!”
On the other side, the [Serpent Beauty], with Fan Luming in tow, swiftly crawled towards the depths of the corridor on the negative third floor.
In reality, she wasn’t the true SCP 913, but rather a newly born individual of the [Serpent Beauty] species.
As a humanoid SCP object, the [Serpent Beauty] possessed the destructive power of both a human and a python but didn’t have any other special abilities.
When the [Queen Bee] broke containment and released a light wave for the first time, the [Serpent Beauty] gave birth to a new individual.
At that time, they fought fiercely, engaging in a battle that lasted almost half an hour, until the original [Serpent Beauty] finally killed the clone.
However, after this intense struggle, the [Serpent Beauty] herself was severely injured. When the [Queen Bee] released the light wave for the second time, she, on the brink of death from her injuries, was no match for the second new individual. She was quickly killed by another version of herself, and her body became food for the [Queen Bee].
The current new individual of the [Serpent Beauty] still retained most of the original host’s behaviors, such as hunting and killing prey like a snake—except the new individual no longer needed to eat, so she offered her catches to her queen.
The [Serpent Beauty] dragged Fan Luming through the corridor, heading towards dark corners, until she found a room and crashed into it.
In this short distance of over a hundred meters, the [Serpent Beauty]’s crawling movements could be described as extremely aggressive.
Fan Luming felt like a sack tied with iron wires to a tire, tumbling forward all the way.
Several times, he tried to break free from the [Serpent Beauty]’s grip or reach for the dagger at his waist to fight back.
But the [Serpent Beauty]’s reckless speed was comparable to a car racing at seventy miles per hour. Fan Luming’s head hit the floor or walls several times, causing him to see stars and nearly pass out.
When the [Serpent Beauty] finally found what she considered a “safe” place to prey and stopped moving, Fan Luming had already suffered a deep gash on his forehead, about the length of a finger joint. Blood flowed profusely from the wound, covering his eyes.
But he had no intention of just waiting to die.
He forced his bloodied eyelids open and struggled to free his right hand from the [Serpent Beauty]’s embrace, reaching for anything that could serve as a weapon.
However, as soon as he made a move, the [Serpent Beauty] immediately tightened her jade arms even more, exerting a force that almost seemed to crush the young man’s ribs, embedding him in her embrace.
Fan Luming felt a lump in his throat, his vision spinning and fading to black.
And at that moment, something even more terrifying happened.
The [Serpent Beauty] began to wrap her tail around him.
First, she wrapped around his legs, then tightened around his waist, gradually moving towards his chest.
In the suffocating dizziness and excruciating pain of his bones being twisted, Fan Luming recalled the nature documentary he had watched as a child—the way pythons hunted by tightly coiling their bodies around their prey, compressing their chests and breaking their bones, suffocating them to death before swallowing them whole.
An adult jungle python could even strangle a water buffalo, let alone Fan Luming’s small frame weighing just a little over 100 pounds.
——Damn…
Fan Luming opened his mouth wide, flaring his nostrils, exerting the last bit of strength he had to try and inhale a bit of air.
He was already experiencing oxygen deprivation, his pupils dilated, and he found himself in a state of near-soullessness, unable to even feel the excruciating pain of his bones being crushed.
——Could it be…
——Am I going to… die here?
In a daze, he faintly heard his sister’s voice and the urgent shouts of their other companions.
Just as Fan Luming was about to completely lose consciousness, the immense force that had been coiling around his body suddenly loosened, causing him to fall from mid-air and crash onto the ground in a sprawled position.
“Xiao Lu!”
Fan Hemian rushed forward in a single step, pulling their little brother out from under the writhing body of the [Serpent Beauty].
On one side, Mo Tiangen firmly held onto the upper body of the [Serpent Beauty] in her human form, engaging in a fierce struggle, rolling around as if in a wrestling match, both trying to overpower each other with brute force.
As Mo Tiangen fought with determination, she still found the time to inquire about Fan Luming’s condition:
“How is Xiao Lu doing?”
Fan Hemian dragged her precious little brother to the corner of the room, away from the chaotic battleground, to prevent him from being swept by the serpent’s tail during its thrashing.
Then, she knelt beside Fan Luming, using her hand to check his breathing, while anxiously calling out his name.
Fan Luming was really in a dire situation this time, experiencing a respiratory pause due to the constriction, even after being freed from the restraints, he still couldn’t breathe on his own.
Fan Hemian couldn’t feel her little brother’s breath, and her face turned pale with fear. She immediately started performing CPR.
Meanwhile, about five meters away from the Fan siblings, Ji Dong, Ren Jianmo, and Mo Tiangen were entangled in a fierce battle with the [Serpent Beauty]’s newly formed body.
Although the upper body of the [Serpent Beaut]y appears human, her skin was far tougher than it looked.
Even an ordinary knife, wielded by someone as strong as Teacher Dagen, could only leave shallow scratches on her flawless skin.
So, they had to target the [Serpent Beauty]’s vulnerable spots.
While Mo Tiangen and the [Serpent Beauty] were locked in a struggle, Ji Dong pulled his bowstring to its fullest, aimed at the monster’s eyes, and shot two arrows, blinding her.
Then, Ren Jianmo seized the opportunity, climbed up the cabinet, and leaped down from above. He thrust his right-hand blade, [Frost Blade], straight into the [Serpent Beauty]’s gaping mouth, piercing through her soft throat and into her chest cavity.
Finally, the [Serpent Beauty] ceased struggling.
Her body relaxed, sliding down Mo Tiangen’s arm and quickly melted into a puddle of grayish-green sticky gel.
Finally dealing with the [Serpent Beauty], Ji Dong, and the others didn’t even have time to catch their breath before rushing over to check on Fan Luming’s condition.
Fortunately, at that moment, Fan Luming had already regained consciousness. He was sitting half-dead against the wall, using his powers to heal himself.
Mo Tiangen approached, trying to help him up. “Xiao Lu, how are you doing?”
Fan Luming raised his hand, stopping him from taking any action.
Then he coughed softly, took a deep breath with force, expanding his chest and pushing the two broken ribs, which had been squeezed by the [Serpent Beauty], back into place.
“Damn!”
Fan Luming exclaimed in pain, sweating coldly on his forehead. “I thought I was a goner just now…”
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