Slaying an Intermediate Beast General

Wu Ming hadn't expected that after only seven days on the job, he would receive a lead on a Wood Spirit.

If it was a willow tree, it most likely corresponded to the "Millennium Willow Heart," a classic resource that had appeared in the original work.

With that thought, Wu Ming quickly instructed, "This is the first time I've heard of a plant-type monster. Send the photos and information to my computer immediately."

"Received," the liaison officer replied. "The relevant materials have been sent. There are three photos and a video of roughly two seconds. That herbalist secretly recorded it."

"Thanks for your hard work."

After hanging up, Wu Ming opened the internal network on his computer. Sure enough, he saw the newly uploaded files. He examined the three photos and the video one by one, quickly noticing something unusual.

Because the photographer had been far from the target, the images were rather unclear. Only the video showed the two monsters attacking each other.

Or rather, the Black-Scaled Giant Python was unilaterally attacking the willow tree.

From the brief two-second video, he could see that the willow tree was indeed enormous, its branches densely packed. Whenever the Black-Scaled Giant Python approached, more than a dozen branches would lash out and send it flying.

Yet the python never gave up. Whenever it was knocked away, it charged back in. Its scales provided formidable defense, and the willow tree simply had no way to deal with it.

What felt wrong to Wu Ming was that the Black-Scaled Giant Python seemed excessively large. The liaison officer could not distinguish the difference from such a distance, but Wu Ming could.

After comparing it with other photos of Black-Scaled Giant Pythons, he quickly confirmed that this newly discovered python was at least twenty meters long—five