The Evolutionary Path of the Past
The world is so quiet.
It was as if all the noise was suppressed by this tiny drop of blood, and Su Nanxiu's eyes were also stained with the color of this drop of blood, and the light of a blood moon shimmered in her pupils.
Su Nanxiu's body trembled slightly as she turned around. Behind her, the dense forest branches twisted and convulsed, struggling to grow long, thin vines. Their wild, dancing appearance reminded her of disheveled men and women in a nightclub dance floor, looking like madmen.
The branches parted, and the distant moon had not yet completely sunk behind the mountain. In Su Nanxiu's eyes, the moon seemed to be stained with the color of blood, like a large, red eyeball hanging in the sky.
Su Nanxiu felt that her vision must have been disturbed, but she could clearly see Liu Chang'an's appearance.
He remained calm, as if he were doing something trivial and ordinary, silently watching the bead of blood.
Su Nanxiu had already understood Liu Chang'an's actions; he was using the life force contained in this blood bead to attract those mutated creatures.
These mutated creatures did not evolve intelligence. After their mutation, they instinctively craved further evolution. Upon contact with Liu Chang'an, their desire for the vitality and blood energy emanating from Liu Chang'an even drove them into a frenzy, causing them to lose their keen animal instincts... Ignoring Liu Chang'an as the evolutionary master who endowed them with their mutated abilities, they launched an attack on him.
The wild boars on the banks of the Xiang River, and the grass carp in the lake just now, were all driven by the same reason, desperately wanting to attack Liu Chang'an, just like the monsters on the journey to the West who smelled the flesh of Tang Sanzang.
However, Liu Chang'an was much more difficult to deal with than Tang Sanzang was powerless to even kill a chicken.
Now that Liu Chang'an has released blood beads containing even more abundant blood essence, how could those mutated creatures possibly hold back? Naturally, they will swarm over and be wiped out by Liu Chang'an.
Su Nanxiu remained clear-headed, analyzing the problem, but when she regained her senses, she found her body uncontrollably drawn closer to Liu Chang'an. She felt her blood boiling, surging wildly, every organ in her body exceptionally active and almost frenzied. Spasms ran through her lower abdomen, and Su Nanxiu instantly understood this instinct... It was the instinctive stirring within her as a female when she sensed a male with whom she could reproduce.
Scientific analysis may be inaccurate due to a lack of certain considerations, but instinct will not... Just like in the manifestation of reproductive isolation, crickets with different calls, even if they look exactly the same, will not have the desire to mate with each other.
She still possessed the reproductive ability of a woman, and this ability awakened at this moment, a feeling Su Nanxiu had never experienced before.
Her body instincts were telling her that her theory—that only a body like hers could bear the responsibility of procreation with Liu Chang'an —was correct.
That must be it.
Su Nanxiu laughed, a laugh as melodious as a nightingale's song, but under the red moon, even she felt it had a somewhat eerie and magical quality.
Her body underwent changes; her fair, lotus-root-like arms became fuller, her slender legs grew longer and filled with more flesh, and her slender waist and pert hips matured, becoming surprisingly soft and elastic. But what was most striking was that her top ripped open, bursting forth with a dazzling light under the moonlight, like a snow-capped Snow Mountain reflected in a silent sky with only a full moon.
Su Nanxiu was still smiling, her steps unsteady. She remembered that night, and it seemed to be the same scene. Her Ziqing aware of the current situation, but her body and impulsive desires were completely out of control.
"Zhu Juntang's dream was an illusion, but I didn't expect your situation to be real." Liu Chang'an remembered that Zhu Juntang once said that she had big breasts that night, and was heartbroken because her dream did not come true, and almost rolled on the ground.
After saying that, Liu Chang'an was about to slap Su Nanxiu to the ground, but when his palm approached her proud Cygnus- like neck, Liu Chang'an withdrew his palm, looked left and right, and quickly swallowed the drop of blood back.
Su Nanxiu's alluring, swaying figure stopped. As if she had finally regained control of her body, she staggered a few steps, then blushed and raised her hand to cover her private parts.
Liu Chang'an ignored her, because the person he truly wanted to attract, seduce, and make irresistibly impulsive had already appeared in his sight.
A snake and a wild boar arrived at opposite ends of the ruins of the Dragon King Temple, one on the left and one on the right.
The snake was Serpens white snake.
Liu Chang'an had thought of White Lady not long ago, but the white White Snake in front of him had none of White Lady's quiet and elegant temperament. Its snow-white scales were stained with blood and dirt, and the long snake's body was bulging, with countless animal carcasses waiting to be digested inside.
What's most striking is that the snake has two gray-white horns growing on its head. Actually, snakes with horns aren't that rare in the world; they just hide in remote, deep forests, making them difficult for people to spot.
Liu Chang'an sighed softly, "It really looks like a dragon. I could have spared its life just for that."
However, the snake's head was extremely strange; its eyes were not located on either side like those of a typical reptile, but were concentrated side by side at the front.
Above the snake's eyes, there are two rows of slightly darker-colored scales on the left and right sides, resembling eyebrows. The entire snake head looks like a woman with a delicate and slender face, giving off an indescribable eerie feeling.
As for that wild boar, it wasn't much different from the one Liu Chang'an killed last time, except that its mutated physique was exceptionally robust.
This time was different; neither the snake nor the wild boar immediately attacked Liu Chang'an. Liu Chang'an could sense that they were wary of each other.
This is a stable triangular situation: the snake is wary of the pig and Liu Chang'an, the pig is wary of the snake and Liu Chang'an, and Liu Chang'an is wary of... no, he is not wary of any small animals.
So Liu Chang'an ignored the snake and the pig's perception of a triangular relationship, charged straight at the wild boar, and punched it in the forehead, killing it instantly.
As soon as the massive wild boar collapsed, Liu Chang'an felt a chilling wind carrying a strong, pungent smell of blood as it swept up his back. If an ordinary person smelled this, they would probably feel dizzy and vomit uncontrollably.
Liu Chang'an shifted sideways, a streak of black venom grazing past him and landing on the wild boar.
These venoms have an extremely strong corrosive effect; the wild boar skin was burned and emitted a foul odor, then the skin split open, revealing the Blood Red flesh inside.
It's not edible.
Snakes are inherently patient hunters who know how to seize opportunities. Taking advantage of Liu Chang'an's exposed back, this guy actually launched an attack, which was also unexpected by Liu Chang'an.
Having missed its first attack, the White Snake slithered a few steps, raised its head, and its face, which resembled a human female serpent's, suddenly revealed an expression. It opened its mouth again and sprayed another stream of venom at Liu Chang'an.
The smell was truly unpleasant. Liu Chang'an dodged, and the snake venom landed on a clump of thatch, instantly corroding the grass leaves to ash, as if they had been burned.
Liu Chang'an had no interest in fighting a snake. He instantly vanished from his spot, picked up a long stone from the ruins of the Dragon King Temple, jumped behind the White Snake, and plunged it into the White Snake's abdomen, pinning it to the ground.
The White Snake, severely injured, struggled desperately, its head crashing into a nearby small temple, causing one wall of the temple to collapse, and breaking off one of its grayish-white horns.
Liu Chang'an jumped up again and punched the snake's head, slamming the entire head into the ground. A stream of black venom, like that sprayed from a fire hose, shot out and covered the entire ruins of the Dragon King Temple. A foul stench dissipated, and the ground was covered with signs of burning and corrosion.
The snake twitched a few times and then fell silent. Liu Chang'an looked at the snake's swollen belly and wondered how many birds and beasts it had devoured from Elephant Nose Hollow Mountain. In the end, it could not suppress its greed for life and blood and ultimately lost its life here.
This scene was no different from the battles he had faced against all sorts of strange creatures throughout the ages, even since the emergence of humankind.
Mutated snakes, mutated wild boars, and the Sinian-era creatures that looked like ferns but were actually animals and would cause trouble whenever they met, as well as later Tyrannosaurus Rex, Siberian Elasmodon, and Megalodon, are no different.
Compared to the Titanoboa from long ago, this snake is somewhat lacking in physical strength and fighting power; its venom, however, is more potent.
However, if you encounter a mosasaur, the snake venom will be mostly useless. Nowadays, people don't know the true fighting power of the mosasaur, and can only say in general terms that it was a creature that could wipe out the dinosaurs.
In fact, the mosasaur, a top predator, evolved from a very inconspicuous small lizard called the cliff lizard.
How a tiny lizard, only a few dozen centimeters long, evolved into a colossal creature tens of meters long has always been an unsolved mystery in the history of biological evolution. This small lizard was almost wiped out by dinosaurs on land. When their last group clung to a coastline, barely surviving, they encountered a mysterious and powerful creature that looked like one of their own. This group of adorable little lizards became followers of this strange creature, living with it on the coast, evading predation by land dinosaurs, and learning to survive in the water. Eventually, they evolved into the Mosasaurus, the world's overlord who slaughtered dinosaurs.
Liu Chang'an went to check on the wild boar. Sure enough, the snake venom was extremely potent. After corroding the boar's skin, it also seeped into its flesh, making the entire boar reek of a foul, sour, and rotten smell, rendering it completely inedible.
As for the snake, there was even less chance of eating it... Liu Chang'an wasn't the kind of person who always considered whether the other party could eat it or whether it tasted good, so he didn't dwell on the regret of not having snake soup.
Liu Chang'an clapped his hands, turned around and glanced at Su Nanxiu. Although he hadn't spent much time dealing with the snake and wild boar, her silence was clearly abnormal. Logically, she should have been heartbroken that Liu Chang'an hadn't left her any live specimens.
Su Nanxiu lay on the ground. Zhu Juntang had been knocked unconscious by Liu Chang'an that day, but Su Nanxiu seemed to have fainted on her own.
The moonlight had long since sunk behind the western foothills, leaving only Su Nanxiu's body, which seemed to glow with a pure white light, standing out starkly in the darkness. Her body was covered in tattered clothes, a result of the physical transformation she had just undergone... Now, her body had returned to its original slender and delicate form, so light that it felt as if one were holding a long, thin pillow when one picked her up.
"Hello." Liu Chang'an patted Su Nanxiu's cheek.
With no reaction or movement, Liu Chang'an then reached out and pressed his fingers against her neck to check her blood vessels and heart condition.
Could this be a side effect of her body being stimulated by his blood and essence? Liu Chang'an had been worried about whether she could withstand it, so this situation wasn't unexpected.
Su Nanxiu now possesses Mrs. Karnstein's abilities, but that doesn't mean she can withstand Liu Chang'an's blood energy... That night, Mrs. Karnstein was in a dying state, essentially an almost completely empty vessel. Liu Chang'an's blood energy filled her body, allowing Mrs. Karnstein to absorb and recover from the essence within the blood energy.
Su Nanxiu, on the other hand, was in a normal state. She was neither injured nor in an empty bottle state, so how could she withstand his gushing blood essence? Not only did her body exhibit abnormalities and her mind become excited, but she has even lost consciousness.
Liu Chang'an didn't hesitate, didn't overthink, and simply straightened Su Nanxiu's torn clothes... Her lake-green jacket and skirt were made in the Ming Dynasty style, which used a lot of material, so even though they were torn, they could still cover her small body without much problem.
Liu Chang'an picked up Su Nanxiu and, before dawn, skipped and hopped all the way from Elephant Nose Hollow Mountain, across the Xiang River, from the River West to the River East, leaping from the Du Fu River Pavilion to the roof of the Grand Hyatt, and finally arriving at the roof of Baolong Center Building One.
Liu Chang'an placed Su Nanxiu on the sofa lounge chair by Zhu Juntang's pool. The home furnishings used by Miss Zhu were always exceptionally exquisite and luxurious. The leather armrest on that lounge chair was even made of the finest ostrich leather... it was just a bit ugly.
As for how Zhu Juntang Su Nanxiu explained herself to Zhu Juntang after seeing Su Nanxiu lying there, that was not Liu Chang'an's concern. He simply sent her to her family, following the standard of a good person doing their best.
He has done his best.
When Liu Chang'an returned to the top of Mount Lu, the guest room and bedroom were quiet. He checked his phone and found it was still on the sofa, untouched. Knowing this, Liu Chang'an decided to skip the hassle of reporting his whereabouts.
Remembering that Qin Yanan and An Nuan had soaked in the hot springs last night, and since they were probably still fast asleep, Liu Chang'an wanted to enjoy it too, even if it wasn't as exhilarating as soaking during an underwater volcanic eruption... but it would still be comfortable, wouldn't it?
So Liu Chang'an pushed open the door and went inside.
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