Small Rat Snake tried hard to stretch out its neck, hoping to make itself look fiercer.
This was more or less the most common posture snakes adopted when facing an enemy. But because it was not very large and possessed no real venom, no matter how it changed its posture, it was only putting on a show.
Ma Lu's expression showed that he had not taken the little snake's threat very seriously. However, his ease lasted less than a few seconds before he heard another wave of rustling.
If the earlier rustling had sounded like someone shaking a sheet of white paper, this now sounded like tens of thousands of sheets being shaken at once. None of the sounds were particularly loud on their own, but gathered together, they made the hair on his body stand on end.
Especially when Ma Lu followed the beam of his flashlight and saw the sight in the tunnel, he felt as though all the blood in his body had frozen.
The tunnel walls and floor were now covered in densely packed snakes. There were not only rat snakes, but also vipers, pythons, cobras, water snakes... Ma Lu had never seen so many snakes in his life. It was like walking into a snake museum. Many of these snakes came from different habitats and required different living conditions, and he had no idea how they had gathered in this abandoned subway line from all over the world.
And how were so many snakes living together supposed to hunt and obtain food?
But this was clearly not the time to worry about such questions, because the snakes were already scrambling toward the tunnel entrance, seemingly backing up Small Rat Snake. And after crawling out of the tunnel, they did not stop. They soon slithered straight