Chapter 217:

Liang Yu quickly left the third floor, afraid that Su Lan would put him to the test.

After all, Su Lan’s figure was already quite impressive.

He was no saint; staying too long would definitely lead to trouble, so he chose to slip away before anything happened.

Ever since leaving Su Lan’s room, Liang Yu had been contemplating future events.

After all, he also thought it was possible for the temperature to rise, as Su Lan had mentioned, given that it could increase by fifty degrees overnight.

So why couldn’t it rise another fifty degrees after today?

If it truly reached seventy degrees Celsius, it wouldn’t significantly impact the RV, but they might not be able to leave it.

Considering this, he was already searching through his backpack; insulated clothing was essential in such weather.

Unconsciously, he walked out of the vehicle and saw that most of the snow on the ground had melted.

The insulated room built not far away had also collapsed to the ground.

Liang Yu couldn’t help but wonder at this moment how wonderful it would be if this disaster could end now.

After walking a bit further, Liang Yu suddenly noticed something.

As he walked this path, the terrain continuously lowered, and the degree to which the surrounding snow melted decreased.

This left Liang Yu somewhat dumbfounded; he had initially thought the heat came from underground, causing such a drastic temperature change overnight.

Now it seemed the change was likely coming from the high-hanging sun in the sky.

It was then that he remembered how long it had been since he last saw the sun.

Since the cold wave, although there were still day and night, he truly hadn’t seen the sun hanging high in the sky.

He didn’t know the reason for this, as it touched upon Liang Yu’s blind spot of knowledge.

Ultimately, he was just a relatively lucky ordinary person.

Liang Yu didn’t continue walking forward; going further would just be a waste of time.

So he simply headed towards the Blood Pool, intending to check how many corpses Lan Ling had collected.

After walking for more than ten minutes, Liang Yu appeared near the Blood Pool.

At this moment, he saw large snakes, as thick as an adult’s arm, lurking near the Blood Pool.

Although their numbers weren’t particularly high, they were likely those that escaped during the previous clearing of the snake people.

Among these snakes, the larger ones had already begun to swallow smaller snake people corpse fragments.

Upon seeing this, Liang Yu decisively pulled out his pistol and continuously fired at a large snake that was feeding nearby.

Liang Yu could not allow these snakes to run rampant in this situation.

He couldn’t be sure what mutations these large snakes would undergo after eating the snake people’s corpses.

What if some bizarre species evolved? However, thinking of this, Liang Yu didn’t think they could evolve to be more deformed than the abominations in that deep pit.

He thought this, but the gun in his hand didn’t stop firing.

Any snake within his line of sight did not escape Liang Yu’s judgment.

After dealing with all the snakes he had cut down, the gunfire also ceased.

Just as Liang Yu thought he had cleared out the remaining large snakes, another group of large snakes appeared two to three meters beside him.

Seeing the snakes surrounding him, Liang Yu pulled out another pistol.

With the help of his glasses’ shooting assistance, he easily dealt with the appearing snakes.

However, after Liang Yu dealt with the snakes, what appeared before him was Rosa Lia, who had already manifested snake-like features.

Liang Yu, holding dual pistols, pointed them at Rosa Lia, while retreating and also checking for any other snake people nearby.

As for Rosa Lia, her body was covered in hard scales, and her eyes glinted fiercely as she looked at Liang Yu.

“I’ll give you one last chance. As long as you hand over the formula, I can let you go.”

“Don’t stall for time. If I count to ten and don’t get a satisfactory answer.”

“Then don’t blame me.”

Indeed, without Su Lan’s suppression, it seemed the other party was still coveting the so-called formula in his hand.

Without waiting for Rosa Lia to count to ten, Liang Yu quickly pulled the trigger.

The dual pistols in his hands fired alternately, bullets raining down on Rosa Lia.

However, Rosa Lia, who had revealed her snake-person features, was exceptionally agile.

She easily dodged the bullets while continuously closing the distance to Liang Yu.

She opened her gaping maw and spewed a stream of venom behind Liang Yu, attempting to block his escape route.

Facing Rosa Lia’s venom blocking his path, Liang Yu advanced instead of retreating, charging towards Rosa Lia.

Along the way, he also shot Rosa Lia a few more times, but being pistols, the bullets’ power was limited.

Several shots fired at her scales were all blocked.

When the two got close, the dual pistols in Liang Yu’s hands were long gone, replaced by a Light Sword.

Liang Yu sidestepped, dodging Rosa Lia’s arm attack range.

Instead, after dodging, he severed the arm she had extended.

The opponent’s attack clearly held back, not intending to kill Liang Yu.

This allowed Liang Yu to exploit an opening.

Rosa Lia cried out in pain and quickly used her snake tail to coil around her severed arm.

She picked up her arm and placed the severed limb back onto the wound in front of Liang Yu.

A bizarre scene unfolded: red bloodlines appeared around the wound on Rosa Lia’s severed arm, connecting the severed limb.

And the cut wound also showed a network of blood vessels, wrapping around the severed arm several times, just like gauze bandaging a wound.

This ability of the other party made Liang Yu curious: what kind of animal must she have mixed with to achieve such a degree?

He switched the Light Sword to his left hand, holding it with a reverse grip like a dagger.

His other hand took out a high-explosive grenade from his pocket, pulled the pin, and threw it towards Rosa Lia’s side.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to throw it in front of Rosa Lia, but there was no need; if he threw it directly at her, she would bat it back with her tail in a minute.

Facing the high-explosive grenade thrown to the side, Rosa Lia ran to the other side to avoid the grenade’s explosion.

At this moment, Liang Yu carefully observed Rosa Lia’s movements and noticed that every time Liang Yu attacked, Rosa Lia would prioritize blocking her abdomen with her hand or tail.

This meant that Rosa Lia’s abdomen was her weakness.

And Liang Yu discovered a very important detail: the scales on the part of Su Lan’s abdomen that she protected were noticeably lighter in color than those around it.

Connecting this to Su Lan’s sudden severe injury, this abdominal area should be where Su Lan was gravely wounded.

And it seemed the injury was very serious; after almost a day, Rosa Lia was still very concerned about this abdominal area.

Therefore, Liang Yu decided to take a risk and see what the other party’s reaction would be.

He quickly charged towards Rosa Lia, while the pistol that appeared in his right hand continuously fired at Rosa Lia’s abdomen.