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"Draw!"

After a flash of white light, a crude grayish-white panel appeared before Su Heng.

You spent fifty True Points and received one standard-tier reward draw.

You have obtained the following three talents. You may choose one of them.

Iron Skin (standard tier): Increases the toughness of scales, providing a certain degree of resistance against attacks from sharp objects.

Camouflage (standard tier): Alters the patterns on your scales, making it harder for prey to detect your movements.

Venomous Fangs (standard tier): Grants grooved front and rear fangs capable of secreting venom.

The three talents and their brief descriptions appeared before Su Heng.

His luck was not particularly good.

All three talents were basic standard-tier abilities. He had failed to draw a rare-tier reward.

"Of the three talents, Iron Skin can increase defense, but for an Anaconda that is growing rapidly, this talent's drawbacks clearly outweigh its benefits."

Like ordinary snakes, Anacondas needed to shed their skin continuously as they grew.

While the first talent could increase the toughness of its scales and improve its defense, it would also have an extremely detrimental effect on the Little Boa's growth.

It might even strangle the Little Boa to death within its own hardened scales.

The second talent was even less useful, so Su Heng ignored it outright.

As for the third talent...

Anacondas hunted by using their powerful coils to strangle prey to death. Most Anacondas lacked the ability to secrete neurotoxins like Chinese Kraits and King Cobras.

If it could gain that ability, there was indeed hope of turning the battle around.

Su Heng's gaze flickered, and he quickly made up his mind.

"Choose the third talent."

Selection complete. Talent loading. Talent loaded successfully. Have a pleasant game, Host.

A faint, itchy numbness rose from deep within its mouth.

Two sharp protrusions grew longer and longer. The related glands, constrictor muscles, ducts, and other organs involved in venom secretion also began developing rapidly.

In just a few seconds, the Little Boa had become a hybrid snake with both an Anaconda's size and venom-secreting capabilities.

And at that moment...

The enraged female Caiman Crocodile finally lost her patience and launched an attack on the Little Boa.

Bang!

This Caiman Crocodile was several times larger than others of its kind, yet she did not appear bloated.

Driven by powerful muscles, all four limbs pushed off at once, gouging deep marks into the ground and sending fallen leaves flying as she lunged at the Little Boa.

Hiss—

Although an Anaconda's reaction speed could not compare with that of small and medium-sized snakes like cobras...

It was still far beyond what a clumsy crocodile could match.

The more critical the situation became, the calmer Su Heng grew. He controlled the Little Boa, making it spring sideways to evade the Caiman Crocodile's pounce.

Then, its long tail curled up and lashed viciously across the crocodile's elongated snout.

The Caiman Crocodile was around three meters long, nearly twice the size of an ordinary adult Caiman Crocodile, while the Little Boa was only a little over five meters long, still at a juvenile stage.

For Su Heng, completely coiling around the Caiman Crocodile and strangling her to death was nearly impossible.

But as a human, he knew the Caiman Crocodile's weaknesses and understood his own current strengths. He could therefore adopt more targeted measures.

Whoosh!

After completing her massive pounce, the Caiman Crocodile...

Had not yet had time to launch another attack when she discovered that her mouth had already been tightly bound by the Little Boa.

The Caiman Crocodile struggled violently, constantly rolling and twisting across the ground.

But the Little Boa did not loosen its grip in the slightest. Its body contracted, bones creaking throughout its frame. Even as its wounds split open, it refused to relent.

The two beasts fell into a brief stalemate.

The Caiman Crocodile was huge and possessed greater stamina, while the Little Boa's wounds continued to tear open, blood streaming from them.

If this continued, the injured Little Boa would certainly be the first to fail.

Su Heng had naturally anticipated this situation. The Venomous Fangs talent he had just drawn was meant precisely for this deadlock.

Hiss—

After adjusting its position, its scarlet forked tongue flicked in and out.

Its lower body firmly locked down the Caiman Crocodile's mouth while its upper body rose high, jaws opening wide.

Transparent venom seeped from its two sharp fangs, gleaming brilliantly under the refracted golden sunlight.

Squelch!

Seizing the opportunity, Su Heng bit fiercely into one of the Caiman Crocodile's eyeballs.

His venomous fangs pierced the soft cornea, and freshly secreted neurotoxin flooded into the Caiman Crocodile's eye as though it cost nothing.

Carried by the blood, it spread throughout the Caiman Crocodile's body and even seeped into her brain.

The venom secreted by the Little Boa was not especially potent, and as a cold-blooded reptile, the crocodile had considerable resistance to this sort of toxin.

But the Little Boa was enormous, and the amount of venom it secreted was plentiful.

Moreover, the venom had been injected close to the brain, a truly fatal location.

Not long afterward...

The venom began to take effect. Su Heng noticed that the Caiman Crocodile's struggles were gradually weakening, and her muscles were beginning to stiffen.

But Su Heng did not relax in the slightest.

Who knew whether a mutated Caiman Crocodile like this had gained enhanced intelligence and might instinctively know how to play dead?

With that in mind, he emptied all the venom in his venom glands into the Caiman Crocodile's body.

Su Heng continued binding the Caiman Crocodile's snout, waiting until several hours had passed, the sky had gradually darkened, and the Caiman Crocodile had shown no movement at all.

Only then did he relax his body and crawl down from the Caiman Crocodile.

"Never take such risks again. If I hadn't arrived in time this time, you would have been finished."

Within the deep Consciousness Space...

Su Heng, transformed into a large ball of light, panted heavily as he sternly warned the Little Boa.

The Little Boa swayed from side to side in confusion, clearly not understanding.

As a simple soul, it could not comprehend a complex concept like death.

After thinking for a moment, Su Heng said again, "If you die, you'll never be able to eat anything again. You'll just have to stay hungry forever."

This time, the Little Boa understood.

It flicked out its tongue, sending Su Heng an affectionate emotion and responding with a series of hisses.