ocean-life Chapter 58 Lakes
Chapter 58 Lakes
Black dust drifted in the air, and the canyon's fissure was bathed in a dim, cold, and strange light, with the abyss stretching out below.
The colossal creature and the tiny human figure stared at each other.
Xu Yang unconsciously swallowed.
As the thunderous scraping sound in his ears disappeared, the giant snake's golden-red vertical pupils stared at him, seemingly scrutinizing him, while a faint black mist flew out from between its scales and swirled around its body.
"What is it determining?"
The thought had barely crossed his mind when a voice appeared in his ear.
Although it was a low, hoarse roar, Xu Yang now fully understood its meaning.
"Come on up."
The giant snake shifted its body slightly.
Xu Yang subconsciously looked down at the stone cone; the snake's body had already moved below.
This was clearly meant to make him jump.
His brow relaxed slightly.
Now it's clear that this was the strange dream the doctor mentioned, or perhaps an ineffective genetic memory.
He became a snake-man.
The personal panel quietly unfolded in my eyes.
Sure enough, there was no mention of "unknown characteristics generated" in the skills section.
Xu Yang felt a slight sense of relief, after all, he had no intention of becoming a snake-man.
Without much hesitation, he leaped onto the giant snake.
Although he didn't know where the giant snake would take him, it would obviously be much better than the lonely stone cone in front of him, no matter where it was.
Perhaps the snake-man he possessed was actually waiting for this giant snake, otherwise why would he be here?
He lay prone on the snake scales of the rock slab, using both his hands and feet to grip the edges of the scales.
It's like a climbing posture.
next moment--
Rumble...
The giant snake began to move.
The massive body moved swiftly among the stone cones, and as it flipped and turned, Xu Yang's gaze suddenly fixed, and his pupils contracted.
On other parts of the giant serpent, other snake-people were clinging to the stone slabs and scales.
Seemingly noticing Xu Yang's gaze, most of the snake people stared at him for a moment.
Only one of them seemed to know the original owner of the body, and it started winking at Xu Yang, its mouth wide open as if it were saying something.
And in them, Xu Yang finally saw his current self.
The ugly snake face was covered with thick scales, with almost no lips. The corners of its mouth split open to the sides of its neck. Its thin tongue curled up, and its mouth opened and closed, revealing a dense array of sharp spines inside.
His body was thick and long, with bulging, full muscles covering his entire body like a stone, and the number of layers of scales covering it was as high as...
"Seventh floor."
Xu Yang closed his eyes and sensed his new body.
The power contained within is more terrifying than himself and the Ringed Scale Serpent Man combined in reality.
They are organisms from completely different stages.
These snake-people are not any of the types encountered in reality; they are more like a higher form of the ring-scaled snake-people.
Or perhaps the Ringed Scale Serpent Man is merely making a clumsy imitation of this form.
Xu Yang looked thoughtful.
Perhaps the evolutionary dream of those Star Stone Serpent People was the same as the dream I am in now, and their identities might even be very similar, which is why I acquired the characteristic of having multiple layers of scales.
And now, this is...
Xu Yang looked at the abyss where the giant snake was swimming downwards.
Suddenly, he remembered the scratches on the snake-man statue.
"Serpent's Abyss..."
This word best describes the current situation.
Thinking of this, Xu Yang's vertical pupils showed some interest.
Ancient Spirits and Serpent Abyss—perhaps we'll encounter some interesting things on this trip.
……
time flies.
A rumbling sound surrounded Xu Yang as he looked around.
As the giant serpent plummeted, the space expanded, bringing more dust and darkness.
Looking up, the scarlet canyon entrance had almost disappeared; by now, it was impossible to tell how deep they had descended into this abyss.
On both sides of the rock wall, the stone cones grew thicker and thicker, often reaching thousands of meters in length, and some scarlet crystals began to grow on their surfaces, casting a faint darkness over the eerie red disc player.
However, perhaps due to the snake-man's unique visual structure, Xu Yang's vision was not obscured by the darkness.
Far below.
Suddenly, a series of blurry buildings appeared in the abyss, beneath which lay a black void.
The buildings seem to be suspended in mid-air, seemingly without any support.
As they drew closer, strange structures began to appear in the pitch black.
Giant spiral cones came into view, and the entire complex was shrouded in a thick black mist.
It floated upwards, growing thinner and thinner...
Xu Yang looked at the black dust in front of him.
They originate from the city beneath him, and as he gets closer to the city, the dust concentration increases, eventually entering his body whether he accepts it or not.
Instantly, it felt like an electric current was flowing through my cerebral cortex.
It brought a sense of comfort I had never felt before.
At the same time, the sounds of wind and rumbling gradually subsided in my ears.
Beneath the black dust, the alien city's outline became clear: a circular structure covered with spikes and caves, with a giant black lake at its center.
The liquid inside was like melted gelatin, bubbling and gurgling, bursting with scalding hot bubbles on the surface, radiating heat.
The giant snake stopped moving.
Hundreds of meters above the black lake, its body coiled around a stone cone.
While Xu Yang was still in a daze, the voice suddenly came.
"Go down."
Before he could react, the black mist between the stone scales he was gripping instantly became scorching hot.
He instinctively pulled his hands and feet back.
The next instant, along with the other snake people, they plunged into the black, boiling lake like dumplings being dropped into a pot.
thump……
The black, scalding viscous liquid poured in from the mouth and nose, and from every pore of the skin. Unlike the expected scalding and suffocating sensation, it was a tingling, bone-deep feeling.
It's like being inside the womb—
Warm, delicious, and not suffocating at all.
For snake people, the black slime is a more nutritious environment, and their bodies instinctively crave it, yearning for a kind of "completeness".
Driven by his body's desire, Xu Yang instinctively opened his mouth.
He swallowed the mucus in large gulps, and an even greater power surged within him, causing his body to gradually sink into the lake.
Thoughts run wild, half-awake, half-asleep.
Sudden--
"ah!!!"
A series of screams and howls rang out.
Xu Yang suddenly woke up and looked up at the lake above him.
Instead of continuing downwards, he swam upwards like a fish, quickly breaking through the viscous lake surface.
Look toward the source of the sound.
Not far away, snake-men were thrashing about on the lake, howling in agony, their bodies covered in black liquid.
And their entire bodies seemed to have shrunk.
Xu Yang's pupils suddenly contracted.
melt?!
The snake-men were melting, like wax figures. The black slime on their bodies was not lake water, but rather a part of their bodies that had turned into "lake water".
So what I just swallowed...
He looked around and suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
Could this enormous lake have come from such a place? Or rather, how many corpses has it swallowed?
Xu Yang subconsciously looked up.
Above, a colossal serpent hung upside down on the stone cone, its head pointing downwards, its vertical pupils staring directly at the lake.
It hung there silently, coldly watching him.
"Kato, help me..."
Xu Yang glanced sideways.
A thin hand grabbed him; it was the snake-man who had previously seemed to know the original owner of this body, but now it was emaciated.
The sound stopped abruptly the next moment.
The skull, now just bones, rolled down his arm and into Xu Yang's arms.
The hollow bones melted in his arms, instantly absorbed by his greedy body.
It is accompanied by a spine-chilling physical pleasure.
Xu Yang's pupils trembled.
This is the snake-man.