Mother Serpent Nest (Part Two)
Although the nurse seemed a little uncomfortable, she happily accepted the appearance because Lu Li liked it. Lu Li noticed that the nurse's tongue had become thin and long, but it hadn't turned into a snake's forked tongue, and her teeth were still normal; no fangs had grown out.
At this point, her current abilities began to show. Perhaps it was due to professional habits or something else, but the nurse was able to use magic to condense a syringe and create a Healing Potion was almost a replica of the one created by Lu Li's magic.
However, unlike other treatments, the nurse's Healing Potion contained not "insects," but eggs. Perhaps it was a manifestation of the Beast Species, as she could produce a large number of tiny snake eggs. The ability of Giant Species to grow to gigantic size and absorb life force was also reflected in these snake eggs.
Once these snake eggs enter another person's body, they Greed absorb the host's life force and quickly hatch into baby snakes. As long as they receive enough nutrition, these snakes will grow rapidly and burst out of the body. If there is enough food, they can even grow to tens or hundreds of meters long.
Of course, the strength of those Giant Serpent that have not yet been born is still unknown as they have not been tested, but just thinking about their numbers is enough to make one's scalp tingle. A nurse's syringe contains at least several hundred snake eggs.
Moreover, although the Healing Potion made by the nurses were not as potent as those made by Lu Li, they were plentiful and sufficient. With the magical support of the Shadow Mask and the mask's own magical regeneration speed, the nurses could produce ten syringes of medicine per hour.
Combining the functions of healing and troop production, the Nurse was transformed from a repetitive and easily discarded unit into Lu Li's most valuable unit. This was truly turning waste into treasure. Lu Li nodded in satisfaction, which made the nurse excited once again.
"Since your appearance has changed, like a rebirth, then let's change your name as well." Lu Li felt that calling you "Nurse" all the time wasn't quite right. Looking at the beautiful snake woman before him, Lu Li, who had originally planned to just pick a name randomly, suddenly felt a strange sensation. He discarded that random name and said in a solemn tone, "From now on, your name is: Lilith, Nest of the Mother Snake."
Lu Li didn't notice that not far away, the snake patterns under the Bronze Tree were faintly glowing, as if conveying something, foreshadowing something, that this name might one day spread to unimaginable heights.
After the name was uttered, the strange feeling gradually subsided. The name seemed to possess a strange magic; it represented the entirety of the beautiful snake and was her true name. Lu Li, who already had a close relationship with the beautiful snake, became even closer after giving her her true name. Lu Li could directly control the beautiful snake, and this level of control was several orders of magnitude higher than his control over Shadow Assassin.
The beautiful snake murmured the name twice. She could feel the connection between the name and its owner, and so she happily accepted the name.
At this moment, the space shook again, and the shaking became more and more violent. Lu Li walked to the Thorn ball on the side. Since the mask was not destroyed, this Insect Species was still stubbornly alive.
Lu Li touched the exposed handle of the spear, unleashing his muscle power to easily lift the Insect Species. Lilith used her snake tail to move, following beside Lu Li, and together they arrived around the Bronze Tree.
Upon seeing the Bronze Tree, Lilith's expression turned slightly strange, but she calmed down upon sensing Lu Li's presence. After Lu Li offered the Insect Species as a sacrifice and infused it with some magic power, the snake patterns on the Bronze Tree transformed into a three-eyed Giant Serpent, its mouth open in anticipation.
The shaking of space became increasingly terrifying. Lu Li grabbed Lilith's hand, transformed into a stream of light, and entered the mouth of the Bronze Three-Eyed Snake. They then traversed once more, arriving at the Morgue space.
The familiar cold air enveloped Lu Li and Lilith. Lilith, whose hand was being held by Lu Li, convulsed for a moment, then her snake tail coiled into a ball, the tip standing up and swaying slowly. Her body went limp on the snake tail. Looking at the boundless spring scenery revealed under the tattered nurse's uniform, Lu Li shook his head, took off his hospital gown top and threw it to her. Just wearing that vest made her feel dizzy again.
A loud noise came from afar, and a gust of wind swept away the cold air. Lu Li up and saw an endless blood mist descending from the sky. A blood-red mushroom cloud rose from the ground, and a blood-red gale lashed at Lu Li and Lilith, staining them both bright red.
Wiping the cool, red blood from his face, Lu Li thought about the disaster that was about to happen.
"The chain reaction is still continuing. At this rate, it won't be long before the Morgue space collapses and returns to its Morgue size." Relying on his connection with the Bronze Tree, Lu Li could not perceive everything inside and out as clearly as he could with the Shadow Mask, but he could still judge whether the space would continue to collapse.
The Morgue is currently the largest space supported by the Bronze Tree. Because there are no spatial limitations, the Beast Species do not need to eat, so they reproduce desperately. There are even super-large life forms such as Marine Species and Giant Species inside.
Because the Bronze Tree absorbs the overflowing power during the collapse, the spatial collapse will not directly harm life. However, once the spatial collapse occurs, the mutated space will return to normal space, and everything inside will be squeezed into a super-compressed air patty.
Countless Beast Species or other species, if the space shrinks, will all be squeezed alive into a pulp, then compressed together with the air. This vast, Mutation space will eventually be compressed to the size of a normal Morgue.
Lu Li couldn't imagine that so many things, compressed into the size of a Morgue, would cause the spatial barrier to shatter, releasing the internal energy of these compressed objects. The pressure inside the Morgue would rise rapidly, eventually bursting through Morgue and causing a physical explosion. The power of that explosion was estimated to be enough to destroy most of the entire city.
"Wait a minute, there's still a way!" Lu Li's mind raced. The root cause of the explosion was the spatial collapse. To stop the explosion, all he needed to do was stabilize this Morgue alternate dimension and break the chain reaction of the Domino. Lu Li realized that the key to everything lay in the Bronze Tree that created the space. By communicating through rituals, Lu Li might be able to barely maintain this alternate dimension. However, the Bronze Tree itself wasn't here. To get the Bronze Tree, he would need the hospital's help.
Suddenly, the space shook violently like an earthquake, reminding Lu Li that time was running out. The Morgue would collapse in about half an hour, and it would be too late for Lu Li to run out and negotiate with the hospital.
Lu Li, his mind racing, suddenly tilted his head and asked Lilith, "Do you have Morse code here?"