Chapter 2326: Anomaly and Clues
Jiang Qiao pulled out another file. "Since ancient times, our country has had the saying that snakes turn into flood dragons, and flood dragons into dragons. It used to sound like a legend, but now it's become reality. So far, we've discovered snake mutations of various species and sizes in twenty-three places across the country. Most of them have grown horns and claws, which at first glance looks like a return to their ancestral form. But they still differ from lizards of the same lineage. Of these mutated snakes, only one python has briefly been able to rise into the air."
She played the footage captured at the time. Torrential rain poured over the churning water, and several tornadoes connected the clouds to the lake, making it impossible to tell whether the lake water was rising or the rain was falling. But in the dense, dark clouds, a slender shadow writhed. It lurked in the rain for only a few seconds before suddenly plunging down and revealing itself.
It was a black python, and a large one. Its skull bulged outward, two slender horns had broken through its skin, and whiskers grew beneath its mouth. Its scales gleamed with a faint light, and when it struggled, its roar rang like a bell. It had quite the bearing of a dragon from legend.
"You suspect there's a mutated snake beneath Cangxian Lake?" Jiang Qiao mused. "That's possible. They say a flood dragon has appeared in the sea, too, dozens of times larger than the one in the lake. But it's elusive, and it tends to appear in places frequently hit by storms. Our equipment has never managed to capture it properly."
"One mutated snake isn't much to worry about," Xu Huo said. "Even if it's highly