Strange Behavior, Bottom Line

For a moment, Bai Chuan's curiosity flared up, but his reason told him there might be danger, so he shouldn't recklessly barge in to join the excitement.

He hesitated, considered for a moment, and decided he still wanted to go take a look.

Although he valued his life greatly, that didn't mean he was timid and afraid of trouble.

If a person's first reaction to a problem within their own territory was to flee, without even daring to try and understand it, then what use was their strength?

If you retreat today out of fear of danger, then tomorrow you'll retreat out of fear of someone plotting against you, and the day after that...

Retreat again and again, and eventually there might come a day when you have nowhere left to retreat.

After all, in this desolate, uninhabited place where he'd spent half a year, how could any humans possibly appear?

Maybe it was some kind of secret treasure of the forest.

His power wasn't weak anymore now either—just his ability to generate electricity alone would catch anyone off guard and give them a nasty shock.

Thinking this, Bai Chuan lowered his body and silently crawled forward.

"Crack~"

Just then, the sound of a breaking branch came from afar.

Bai Chuan's serpentine body stiffened. "Uh oh, can't be that unlucky, right?"

He'd just said humans couldn't possibly appear, and now they actually had?

The next moment, he burst into motion, silently climbing up a tree in an instant, while the color of his body rapidly changed to match the surrounding environment. At the same time, all movement from him dropped to an absolute minimum.

The entire motion was fluid and seamless, without a single wasted action, and not a sound was made throughout.

It was then that a female voice came from afar, drawing closer, her tone laced with confusion: "%*#...?"

"#%&..."

A gentle male voice responded to the female voice.

Soon after, a man and a woman, both dressed in form-fitting attire, nimbly advanced through the forest, moving like monkeys in the trees.

A dozen seconds later, the pair spoke in strange, incomprehensible words and quickly departed from the area.

Throughout the entire process, Bai Chuan remained completely still, silently watching them leave.

What language were they speaking?

That was Bai Chuan's first thought.

Damn it. He hadn't expected that the first problem he'd face after being reborn in another world was not understanding what people were saying.

Bai Chuan was speechless.

But even though he didn't know what they were saying, who was Bai Chuan?

From the earlier strange phenomenon of the frozen lake, combined with the humans who had inexplicably appeared in this remote mountain wilderness, He guessed they were probably related to it. Otherwise, who would come running into the deep mountains and forests for no reason?

It seemed something big really was happening.

Bai Chuan thought it over, then climbed back down from the tree and began to slowly advance in that direction.

At this moment, his entire body became alert, like an old machine slowly starting up again, about to run at full power. He pushed his perception to its maximum.

Not long after, he stopped again.

Because more humans appeared behind him—some carrying knives, some holding clubs, and some with swords strapped to their backs...

"It looks like quite a few people came this time," Bai Chuan muttered to himself as he watched the direction they were coming from.

The language barrier was indeed a troublesome issue, preventing him from even understanding their purpose.

He wondered what the ability models of these humans were like.

Could they help him understand their speech?

At that moment, this thought suddenly popped into Bai Chuan's mind.

But with so many humans around now, he needed to be cautious and observe their movements and intentions.

Over the next few days, Bai Chuan witnessed what these uninvited guests were doing.

Some of them were light on their feet, moving like the wind, as agile as mountain monkeys; others were heavy and powerful, charging with the force of a wild boar in the mountains...

And they all shared a common goal—they were searching for something, but along the way, they were also capturing all kinds of animals indiscriminately.

At this point, every creature in the forest was suffering.

Some captured deer, forcibly cutting off their tender antlers and drinking their blood raw; others slaughtered wolves, pulling out their teeth and breaking their claws, then smearing themselves with a special liquid; still others caught all sorts of venomous creatures, extracting their toxins to coat their hands...

And of course, there were those who muttered incantations while searching for various plants, stuffing them directly into their mouths and chewing them up.

Their behavior was bizarre and strange, yet they possessed power that even the fiercest beasts had to yield to.

Watching all this sent a chill down Bai Chuan's spine, and he couldn't help but ask himself: Were these really humans? Or were they practicing some kind of evil art?

In that moment, these uninvited guests had completely ravaged the forest that had once been full of primal vitality.

At this moment, Bai Chuan couldn't help but feel relieved that he could simply turn invisible and hide. Otherwise, with so many people ganging up on him, he probably wouldn't have been able to escape.

If that happened, as a venomous snake, he would inevitably be pinned down and milked for his venom. Perhaps, seeing how strange his body was, they might even skin him and drink his blood.

"Roar~!"

Just then, a tiger's roar full of intimidation rang out from afar, shaking the leaves and branches in the forest with a rustling sound.

"Here it comes again."

Bai Chuan looked in that direction and muttered to himself. This wasn't the first time he had heard that tiger's roar, but compared to the furious growls at the beginning, the current roar carried a deep, undeniable exhaustion.

His intuition told him that this tiger was about to be worn down.

That's right—although these newcomers had strange abilities, aside from a few exceptional individuals, most of them couldn't match the king of the jungle in a one-on-one fight.

But they had numbers on their side.

Relying on their sheer numbers, they had spent the past few days trying to wear down this fierce tiger through encirclement and attrition tactics.

If it couldn't rest or replenish itself for several days, even a mighty tiger would be dragged to death.

He just didn't know what their goal was.

Bai Chuan's intuition told him that their target wasn't the tiger, because the strongest among them were still searching nonchalantly for something else.

Bai Chuan straightened his body and left his nest, buried over twenty meters deep underground, slithering toward the surface.

Along the way, he carefully avoided the occasional humans passing by, until he finally arrived before a corpse.

This was one of the humans who had died in the past few days while fighting among themselves over a plant.

Bai Chuan shook his head, his gaze sharpening. Instantly, a notification popped up.

Scanning in progress... 87%...

That's right—over the past few days, aside from occasionally going out to observe these humans, he had been coming here to scan this human corpse.

Normally, the fastest way would be to eat the corpse and scan its ability model. And since this body had been abandoned in the forest, even if he ate it, no one would suspect anything.

But as someone who had been human in his past life, he couldn't bring himself to do it.

Perhaps now that he was no longer human, he could kill someone for his own sake without a moment's hesitation.

But if it came to eating them, he just couldn't.

This wasn't sentimentality—it was the influence of the worldview he had cultivated over so many years in his past life.

In the end, a person must have their limits.

And this was his final bottom line.