As snakes shed their skin, the shed skin was stretched, so it was often longer than the snake itself. This thirty-meter-long shed skin probably belonged to a giant python over twenty meters long.
"Don't you think the giant snakes here are a little too densely concentrated? We encountered four that were ten or twenty meters long in such a short stretch of road," Amon said.
"Maybe this shed skin belonged to that big fellow we ran into in the river," Brother Jie replied.
"Sexually mature female snakes release powerful sex pheromones during breeding season, creating chemical signals that draw in males. Often, dozens of males respond to a single female in heat, intertwining into a ball-shaped mass—what we commonly call a snake ball," Sand Scorpion said calmly.
Snow Fox flashed a lewd grin. "You mean a bunch of giant pythons are having an orgy here? Or one woman with over a dozen men? That reminds me of a certain series of Japanese adult films... I rather liked Maria Ozawa's work. I collected more than a dozen of her discs."
Sand Scorpion gave him a rather speechless look. "Listen, now isn't the time to discuss your sexual preferences. We need to find that female in heat. Ordinary female Red-spotted Pythons tend to be larger, and these Dragon-blooded Subspecies may share similar traits."
"Doesn't sound like good news. We need to face a female creature with astonishing combat power, along with her many lovers," Snow Fox said in an exaggerated tone.
After circling around a giant tree, they continued deeper in. Wusen suddenly stopped, slowly raising his head toward the branches ahead. Goosebumps rose all over his body.
Following his gaze, Sand Scorpion saw a yellow-and-black Great Serpent covered in red spots coiled around a branch, its basin-sized jaws wide open as