Tomb Raider: Call Me Dragon Vein Cleaner

Chapter 69 The Long-lived Serpent

"Wenjin, you and Huoling hide first. There's a big guy in this red mist. I'm going to try and see if I can take it down!"

Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling looked serious, knowing they couldn't afford to waste any more time.

"Don't worry, we'll protect ourselves. Be careful of those pregnant women's corpses; the things inside them are alive."

Cheng Feng nodded in agreement.

Then Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling ran to the boulder furthest from the shore.

Holding submachine guns, they kept an eye on Cheng Feng, ready to fire if he needed support.

On the shore, Cheng Feng held the Zhanlu sword and gazed at the red mist in the pool.

As the red mist spread to a point not far from the shore, the water suddenly burst open.

A giant worm, as thick as a small car and tens of meters long, leaped out of the pool.

It opened its huge mouth full of sharp teeth in mid-air and smashed down on Cheng Feng from above.

The two women watched in horror; the insect was covered in scales, and despite its enormous size, it possessed unimaginable agility.

When she twists her body, it's as if she has no bones.

With a loud bang, the insect's head slammed into the spot where Cheng Feng had been standing, sending up a shower of rubble of all sizes.

The powerful slam didn't harm the insect at all.

It nimbly raised its head, trying to find Cheng Feng's figure.

But Cheng Feng had already retreated several meters while it was still in mid-air.

The moment it crashed to the ground, Cheng Feng leaped onto its head amidst the rubble kicked up by the giant insect.

The top of this insect's head is big enough for four or five people to stand on without being crowded, and it has a pore the size of a soccer ball.

Its face was covered by a huge golden mask, beneath which was a single eye, and its mouth was shaped like a tiger's mouth.

It has ring-shaped teeth inside, and the saliva dripping from its gaping mouth is highly corrosive.

It quickly realized that Cheng Feng had jumped onto its head and began to shake its body frantically, trying to shake Cheng Feng off.

But Cheng Feng was not about to sit idly by and wait for his death. He used his feet to hook onto the giant insect's scales and then gripped Zhanlu tightly with both hands.

He used all his strength to stab the giant insect through its spiracles.

‘Puff’

The sharp sword pierced the giant insect's spiracles as skillfully as a butcher dissecting an ox.

The giant worm, its weakness attacked, let out a huge roar and slammed its head against the cliff face beside it.

The immense impact caused Cheng Feng to lose his footing and be thrown more than ten meters into the pool.

The impact of the water flow caused the bellies of several pregnant corpses in the water to rupture.

Several humanoid creatures, their bodies a bluish-gray, crawled out of the pregnant corpse's belly.

They hunched over, with long, thin limbs and sharp claws, and the moment they crawled out of their bellies, they rushed towards Cheng Feng.

This little monster crawls on all fours and moves incredibly fast, even in water.

Cheng Feng dared not be careless. He stood up from the waist-deep water and first smashed the humanoid creature's head with a punch.

Just as they were about to deal with the remaining few, gunshots rang out from the shore.

Chen Wenjin and Huo Ling's reinforcements arrived, and the remaining six monsters were forced to retreat by the bullets.

Taking this opportunity, Cheng Feng quickly returned to the shore, where he saw the giant insect repeatedly ramming its head against the boulders on the shore.

They attempted to smash the Zhanlu sword out of the air hole.

"These insects are too resilient; they're hard to kill!"

This insect is scientifically known as *Homo sapiens*, also called the long-lived worm.

It originated in the Cambrian period, and its survival was due to the unique environment here.

The most distinctive feature of the lizard is its extremely tenacious vitality; even if only one nerve remains intact,

It can then be restored to its perfect state by relying on this nerve.

In the original novel, although Hu Bayi blew up the bug's head, it's hard to say whether it actually died.

Perhaps it will be fully restored in a few years.

Cheng Feng's mission required a complete elimination, which put him in a difficult position.

"I've got it. First, we need to find a way to control its actions, then throw it into the imaginary space."

The insect is too large and too fast; to send it into the imaginary space, it would have to be trapped for a period of time.

Otherwise, the situation would be similar to when the eagle owl was exiled before. Not only would the exile fail, but Cheng Feng himself might also suffer a severe beating.

Having made up his mind, Cheng Feng immediately ran a few steps and lightly jumped onto the cliff face.

Using the protrusions, Cheng Feng quickly stepped onto the head of the giant worm again.

This time, having prepared himself mentally, Cheng Feng managed to stay firmly on the head of the giant worm by relying on his limbs when it struck him.

Taking advantage of the moment when the serpent raised its head, Cheng Feng grabbed the hilt of the sword with one hand and pulled it out.

The long serpent roared in pain, then plunged into the water.

Huo Ling and Chen Wenjin on the shore saw the once calm pool begin to surge with waves.

The enormous body of the worm occasionally bulged out of the water, perhaps because the spiracles of the worm were injured.

The red fog emitted from the vents was even denser.

Soon, most of the pool was completely shrouded in red mist, and the two women on the shore could see nothing but the constant sound of water.

"Huo Ling, look at those corpses in the water."

Huo Ling looked toward the shore not far away, where the humanoid monsters she had just killed were constantly crawling out of the water.

They rushed toward their location.

The two women immediately opened fire and began to flee along the shore.

At that moment, Cheng Feng, who was wrestling with the giant worm in the pool, heard the rapid gunshots and knew that the two women were in trouble.

Without further delay, the demon opened its eyes, and several snake mothers, each over four meters tall, fell from the void onto the body of the Yulang worm.

The moment they fell, they used their sharp claws to embed themselves in the gaps of the giant insect's scales.

No matter how much the lizard thrashed about in the water, it could not shake it off.

"If five snake mothers can't subdue you, I refuse to believe that ten or a hundred of them can't handle a mere insect like you!"

In a fit of rage, Cheng Feng pushed his Ghost Eye to its limit, and one after another, the Snake Mothers emerged from the void into reality.

Some of them were unlucky and were thrown off by the large, struggling insects.

Cheng Feng didn't let them chase the long-horned worms either, as that would be too much to ask of them.

Instead, let them go and help the two women. There are plenty of monsters there that they can use to vent their frustrations.

As Cheng Feng summoned more and more snake mothers, the speed of the Yulong worms began to slow down.

Until it could no longer withstand the biting and tearing, it finally crashed into the pool with a thud.

"Hold him down, and once we send him to the imaginary space, you can feast on him!"

At Cheng Feng's command, nearly a hundred snake mothers pulled even more frantically at the Yulong worm, causing it to writhe in pain.

But it's impossible for it to run around in the water like before; no matter how strong it is, its stamina isn't unlimited.

Seeing that the worm-like creature could no longer run around, Cheng Feng immediately opened his Ghost Eye and tried to banish it to the imaginary space.

At this moment on the shore, Chen Wenjin and her two female companions could only fight and run in order to conserve bullets.

A large group of humanoid monsters were hot on their heels.

They were very fast; if it weren't for the many obstacles around them, the two women would probably have been caught up long ago.

"Sister Wenjin, I'm running low on bullets!"

Huo Ling tossed aside the empty magazine in her hand, loaded the last magazine full of bullets, and said.