However, this time, Jill and Barry's instincts truly couldn't be refuted, because that was indeed the case.
At this very moment, Javier and Rebecca were leading the giant snake, mutated by the T-Virus, towards them, which would inevitably lead to an unimaginable battle.
Therefore, it was not an exaggeration to say that Javier and Rebecca were jinxes.
"Roar—!!!"
A furious roar.
A deafening roar echoed through the air, followed by even more violent tremors, like the calm before a storm, the oppressive feeling before a mountain flood was about to erupt.
Looking at the calm wooden door behind them, Jill and Barry felt a surge of trepidation for the first time.
Finally, the next second, the nightmare… no, the terror arrived—!
"Clang—!"
Javier and Rebecca burst through the door.
The M500 revolver immediately blew the wooden door to smithereens, and with a fierce kick, Javier and Rebecca stormed in.
Both of them were utterly disheveled.
Rebecca's small face was covered in sweat, her cheeks flushed from rapid breathing, and her T-shirt was drenched, indicating she was extremely tired.
As for Javier, there was even less to say.
He carried a heavy tactical backpack, with a maximum load of 30 kilograms.
Fortunately, some of the bullets inside had been used up, otherwise, Javier might have literally exhausted himself to death under such high-pressure, heavy-load running.
Furthermore, Javier had taken off that annoying gas mask.
Prolonged running made his breathing difficult, and continuing to wear the gas mask, Javier felt like he would suffocate, and his vision would be blocked by a large amount of mist.
"Huff… huff…"
Both of them ran into the new area, almost out of breath.
But when Javier and Rebecca looked up and saw Jill and Barry looking bewildered, even Javier and Rebecca themselves were stunned.
Could it be such a coincidence?
Could they all run into each other while running around?
However, feeling the tremors behind him growing increasingly violent, Javier had no time to explain anything to Jill and Barry and could only immediately shout a warning:
"Run—!!!"
"Don't stay here, it's dangerous, a big guy is catching up!"
However, before he finished speaking, "Bang!"
"Boom—!!!"
A loud noise struck.
The entire wooden door was once again attacked by a terrifying force, as fragile as crumbling mud bricks and tiles, instantly collapsing along with the wall.
Countless shattered stones and dust flew everywhere, and from inside, an incredibly terrifying giant figure quickly squeezed in.
Its head, as large as a car, tilted upwards, beside which were yellowish-green lantern-like vertical pupils, emitting a dangerous, eerie glow.
A gaping maw was wantonly baring its fangs and claws.
With a twist of its body, dust on its dense scales was flung off, and its massive twenty-meter body completely squeezed into the area where Javier and the others were.
A giant snake!
A massive snake monster that only appears in movies, with an incredibly huge body, a bizarre movie creature that can easily hunt down wild buffalo and elephants, but how could it appear here?
These were the thoughts of Jill and Barry the first time they saw the giant snake…
However, "Roar roar roar—!!!"
The giant snake had no time to concern itself with Jill and Barry's thoughts.
Instead, it opened its gaping maw, roaring madly and wantonly, its yellowish-green vertical pupils filled with rage.
It had been played by Javier and Rebecca for a long time, and at this moment, it was furious and didn't even notice the presence of another master in this area.
Spotting Javier and Rebecca's fleeing figures, it immediately sped up, vigorously twisting its massive body.
Under the power of its strong muscles, the giant snake's crawling speed shot out like a phantom, heading straight for Javier and Rebecca, those two rats.
It was only a few meters away from catching up, and the giant snake even excitedly opened its abyssal maw.
But…!
"Jump—!!!"
At this command, Javier and Rebecca, with perfect synchronicity, jumped apart, leaping to the left and right, instantly dodging the giant snake's pounce.
And the giant snake, unable to stop, crashed headfirst into the defensive vine wall built by Plant 42's lair—!
Chapter Sixteen: Where is Ultraman!
The giant snake's pounce missed!
It was narrowly dodged by Javier and Rebecca's leap, and the giant snake's multi-ton body, unable to stop, crashed heavily into the wall of this area, which was the reinforced lair wall of Plant 42, fortified with vine tendrils.
The surface of these wooden walls was covered with emerald green vines.
The vines and wood were tightly intertwined, extremely tough.
Aside from fire attacks, their hardness was not much worse than concrete walls, perhaps even superior.
But this was only for ordinary invaders…
Clearly, the infected mutated giant snake in front of them was not an ordinary invader.
Its heavy body, coupled with its extremely fast charging speed, meant that it would be difficult for anything to withstand its collision attack.
Therefore—
"Crack… crack…!!!"
"Bang—!!!"
The moment the giant snake's body hit the wooden wall, there was almost no resistance.
The tough vines also snapped, like broken ropes, shattering into countless pieces along with the wall.
The giant snake, with a body as massive as a truck, plunged violently into the center of Plant 42's lair.
Behind the wooden vine wall, was a green hell.
The basement and the first floor were connected, or rather, Plant 42 had forcibly propagated from the basement to the first-floor ceiling, just like tender shoots in a corner can break through the confines of cement and grow out.
The vitality of plants is astonishing; small grasses blown down by the wind or trampled underfoot can still find new life in wind and rain, and breaking through walls is common in the plant kingdom, so it's not that strange for Plant 42.
Its thick and powerful vine tendrils slowly drilled through the floor, tearing countless cement bricks, expanding its living space by twofold.
The basement's water tank was Plant 42's root nutrient source, with large numbers of roots coiling and taking root there, while the entire first-floor space was its tentacles, and the ceiling held its first fruit body!
Giant, man-eating plant-like petals hung from the ceiling, like crystal chandeliers.
The central fruit was pink, and its pistils occasionally secreted a yellow gas.
Thick, pillar-like stems extended downwards, and hundreds of green tendrils were distributed in every corner of the walls like a vast net.
And on the remaining hollow floor and walls, various yellowish-green moss and foliage were spread, making it feel like being in a magnificent tropical rainforest, and this was Plant 42's domain—!
But now, the giant snake had broken this tranquility.
It had also completely intruded into Plant 42's territory, like a violent truck, crashing through the vine wall and then falling heavily into the basement's water tank.
Its massive size smashed into Plant 42's roots, directly breaking several thick ones, causing Plant 42 to let out a furious hiss:
"Hiss hiss hiss—!!!"
Because it has no vocal cords, the sound Plant 42 emits is a strange cry produced by its giant fruit petals hanging from the ceiling flapping together, but it is as ear-piercing as ever.
And the previously dormant defense system immediately launched a counterattack, with the vines distributed in various corners of the wall rapidly retracting.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!!!"
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—!!!"
A sharp, explosive sound echoed in the air.
These tendril vines shot out at an astonishing speed, like bullets, all striking hard against the giant snake's scales at its base below.
"Thump thump thump—!!!"
The force of these shooting vines was actually not much weaker than the power of bullets, perhaps even stronger, just lacking the penetrative power of bullets.
More than sixty vine attacks, like the Thousand-Armed Buddha, struck hard on the giant snake's scales, producing muffled thuds.
"Roar…!!!"
The attacked giant snake also let out a painful cry.
Its scales were extremely tough; even.50 caliber handgun bullets would get stuck on the outside.
Therefore, these vine lashes could not break through its defense.
However, having said that… the power unleashed by Plant 42 was still not to be underestimated.
At the attacked locations, without exception, crimson blood seeped from the giant snake's dense scales, indicating that the vine attacks were still effective.
Otherwise, the giant snake would not have let out such a painful shriek, because the principle is similar to that of a bulletproof vest.
A bulletproof vest can indeed stop bullets, but it cannot nullify the bullet's force.
Some high-grade bulletproof vests can withstand the penetration of 7.62 rifle bullets, but the terrifying force can still break ribs.
Therefore, the same applies to the giant snake's body.
Its sturdy scales helped it resist the vines' penetration, but the powerful lashing force still caused damage to the flesh and blood beneath its scales.
The outer scales appeared unharmed, but the underlying shallow muscles were already bruised, which is why blood seeped out.
Of course, the attacked giant snake was not to be outdone.
At this moment, it had temporarily forgotten about Javier and Rebecca, those two annoying rats, and was instead focusing on dealing with Plant 42 in front of it, because Plant 42 had already posed a life threat and had to be eliminated.
Similarly… Plant 42 felt the same way.
So— a great battle was about to erupt!!!
"Roar roar roar—!!!"
"Pfft… Whoosh—!!!"
The thrashing giant snake suddenly tightened its scales, its muscles tensed, and its huge head instantly tilted upwards.
It then opened its gaping maw, letting out a sharp hiss, while the venomous fangs hidden beneath its abyssal maw were revealed.
The direction of the venomous fangs' needles was aimed at Plant 42, and a venomous spray attack was immediately launched!
Two high-pressure streams of yellowish-green, scalding venom shot out, incredibly fast and difficult to defend against, about to reach Plant 42's hanging petal-fruit head in an instant.
It should be known that the giant snake's venom has a corrosive effect and could easily destroy Plant 42's petal-fruit core.
With this, "I choose you, Arbok! Use Acid and Toxic!"
How will the opposing Bellsprout cope?
The previous Vine Whip attack had already harmed Arbok.
At this moment, Arbok is in a disadvantageous position.
Can it turn the tide?
Let's wait and see!
No!
Look… Bellsprout used Protect.
It wrapped all its petals around its fruit, and the dense vines that were originally distributed everywhere were all retracted, solely to protect its core fruit!
This was a very perilous defense!!!
Countless green vines intertwined and knotted into a thick shield.
This was prepared by Plant 42 to resist the giant snake's venom spray attack.
"Pfft…!"
At this moment, the yellowish-green venom high-pressure stream instantly sprayed onto Plant 42's vines.
As the two made contact, the corrosive strength of the giant snake's venom was indeed astonishing.
The seemingly tough vines began to rapidly dissolve the moment they touched the corrosive venom, directly decaying into a pool of viscous green liquid that spilled onto the ground.
Fortunately, the vine shield was thick enough, and the corrosive venom did not instantly penetrate Plant 42's defense, nor did it harm the core fruit inside.
But watching its countless tendrils melt, Plant 42 once again let out a hiss, only this was not a hiss of pain, but of rage!
And then, from each of those vine tendrils, sudden, frantic growth began.
The tips of hundreds of vine tentacles all revealed sharp barbs.
These barbs were incredibly hard and also carried Plant 42's own plant toxins.
Many people should have seen in nature that many plants possess barbs to protect themselves.
And the tips of these barbs are incredibly hard, dark red in color, and more or less contain a small amount of venom, causing intense pain to those who touch them.
So, while not as astonishing as the giant snake's corrosive venom, it can still be considered a method of attack.
"Hiss…!!!"
"Huff… huff huff—!!!"
At the same time, not only that, but at this moment, Plant 42 also brazenly opened the petals of its pink fruit flesh.
The pistils inside began to incessantly sway and shake, spewing out wave after wave of yellow smoke, which immediately diffused towards the giant snake.
It's Stun Spore!
A common move for Grass-type Pokémon.
These powders, when inhaled into the nasal cavity, easily enter the respiratory tract, then flow into the bloodstream, and then transmit to the brain, paralyzing nerves and simultaneously paralyzing the entire body's muscles.
It is a very troublesome skill, and once excessively inhaled, it can very likely cause brain and muscle atrophy, leading to permanent paralysis!
At the same time, Stun Spore also carries a certain degree of neurological hallucinations.
Prolonged exposure to Stun Spore attacks can very likely lead to unconsciousness, turning one into a vegetative state in name.
It can be said to be a large-scale weapon of mass destruction, very difficult to avoid.
And this was Plant 42's full arsenal of moves.
Having used this attack, Plant 42 had already decided to kill the giant snake here.
If such a massive body of flesh and blood could be completely absorbed by it as fertilizer and nutrients, then Plant 42 itself would achieve an even greater evolution!
"Huff huff huff… huff huff…"
Large swathes of yellow smoke began to spread.