Time is of the Essence

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The two-meter tail is nothing compared to the more than twenty-meter body.

However, Mu Fan's single strike completely neutralized the giant python's insidious and ruthless tail whip attack.

Without that subsequent insidious sneak attack, the odds of winning would increase by another 30%.

The python suddenly raised its head and coiled its body into a ball.

Um?

Could there be some other special attack?

My jaw suddenly bulged out!

Not good!

Instinctively, Mu Fan stepped on the wet, slippery bark beside him, creating a dent more than a centimeter thick with each step, instantly lifting him onto a branch more than five meters high.

Sizzle!

A glob of black liquid spurted from the python's mouth, landing where it had just stood, covering an area with a radius of three meters. The dense black dots emitted wisps of smoke, giving Mu Fan goosebumps.

If I were sprayed with this venom, my body would probably be reduced to nothing but bones.

The python's jaws bulged again, and this time it raised its head, pointing it in its own direction.

In the Blood-colored Vision, Mu Fan's body was almost entirely in an instinctive emergency response state. His right hand flicked out in a blur, whoosh!

The dagger pierced directly below the giant python's head, and this time it was a complete outburst; the hilt of the dagger even disappeared into the body.

Hiss! Hiss!

The Withered Wood Poison Python, writhing in pain, slammed its head heavily onto the ground, its coiled body disintegrating.

Now!

With a snap, his legs exerted force again, the thick tree branch beneath his feet broke, and he flew to the python's already severed tail.

He grasped the tip of the tail precisely with his right hand.

Slippery and difficult to hold!

Mu Fan suddenly wrapped his arm around the snake's tail several times in quick succession, and within a second, he had wrapped the snake's tail entirely around his right arm, while his left arm remained suspended.

The enormous python head turned and stared directly at Mu Fan, charging at him with a frenzied, reckless thud, intent on crushing the tiny insect to death before swallowing it whole.

Mu Fan stood proudly with a cold expression on his face, and the dark shadow reflected in his pupils was rapidly enlarging.

He suddenly swung his right hand!

Whoosh!

A surge of energy rose from the right arm to the snake's tail, but it did not diminish. This force traveled along the python's spine, and its twenty-meter-long body was whipped out with a loud bang!

The python's head, which was attacking, was jolted.

Hey, Blood-colored Vision activated, all the power in his body now gathered in one arm, Mu Fan's right hand fingers pierced directly into the python's body, then he took a big step and bent down.

With a loud thud, a sound wave rang out, and the person pressed forward with astonishing force. His right arm still dragged the giant python's tail, its skin already ripped and blood-red, and the snake's tail tightly coiled around it.

This shows that Mu Fan had been resisting the giant python's powerful strangulation with all his might.

The giant python had lost most of its strength from that shudder, and now it was trying to pull its tail back, but it was too late!

Smash it!

Drink!

Ah!

The body, weighing several tons, was swung straight by Mu Fan and then slammed down heavily!

The more than 20-meter-long body, stretching from head to tail, was slammed heavily onto rocks and the ground.

With another backhand tug, a loud thud resounded Mu Fan leaped into the air, his body slamming down violently. The sound of bones twisting burst from his right arm as his entire body began to forcefully contort in mid-air.

360 degrees, is this... a single arm?

The Great Stele Throw!

Mu Fan's eyes were bloodshot. His left arm hung at his side, while his right arm swung the several-ton giant python into the air and slammed it down again. This time, the area he swung down in reverse was a pile of moss-covered boulders.

Boom!

He suddenly felt the giant python in his hand go limp, its powerful muscles instantly becoming soft and weak.

Dead?

A mysterious smile suddenly appeared on Mu Fan's lips. Then, with another sharp shout, he swung his arm up again without any intention of withdrawing it. At this moment, the python's head, which had been drooping, suddenly rose up, as if trying to spit out venom again.

Bang!

This time, the giant python's head slammed into a sharp rock that was four or five meters high.

Mu Fan then casually discarded the entangled snake tail.

In the Blood-colored Vision, the beating heart is the most vivid red dot in the field of vision; playing dead is pointless.

First hunt in the Rainforest, a success.

Stepping forward, Mu Fan saw the snake's head, now a mangled mess of flesh, kicked it away, and then reached under its jaw to pull out the dagger that had been embedded in it.

Phew, I just landed and ran into this beast. Luckily, I'm alright.

fine...

Wrong!

The "beep beep" sound just now seemed to come from my backpack.

He quickly went over and looked through the backpack.

Only the Electronic Map on the off screen was still flashing a red light.

Turn on the screen, and a line of text and an automatically playing voice message will appear.

"The first round of elimination will be held in five areas, codenamed C22, H6, T7, U10, and W7. Candidates still within these areas after one hour will be eliminated. Please wear your combat uniforms and carry Electronic Map. Failure to do so will result in elimination."

Is the first round of elimination about to begin?

I quickly clicked on the location information again, and the current time and my location immediately appeared on the panel.

My current location: w7, and twenty minutes have already passed!

The closest V14 Area, which, according to the scale, is seventeen kilometers away.

This 17-kilometer stretch is through an unknown Rainforest zone. We encountered this ferocious beast right after landing, and who knows what might happen if we go any further?

Time remaining: 40 minutes!

Mu Fan turned his head and glanced at the python's corpse over there, his face filled with reluctance.

He had only taken a few steps when he turned back and used a dagger to cut open the snake's abdomen, finding the fist-sized, still-warm snake gall bladder, which he then shoved into his mouth without regard for the fishy smell.

It tilts its head back, bites open, and sucks out the juice.

So bitter!

However, after a few bites, only a thin layer of skin remained of the snake gallbladder.

This is a highly nutritious food; the essence of a prey fought to the Geshā should not be wasted.

Although it was just a few sips of juice, my stomach quickly felt warm, and the energy I had just used was rapidly being restored.

Looking down again, Mu Fan still drew his dagger, cut off a large piece of snake meat, picked a Big Leaf Banana leaf, picked up the snake meat, and threw it into his backpack.

This was his Rations. Food was hard to come by in the jungle, and he would never give up so much food unless absolutely necessary.

With a few leaps, Mu Fan quickly disappeared from the area, stepping on the crisscrossing tree trunks.

Travel upstream along the river, 35 minutes left!

With some sensation returning to his left arm, Mu Fan felt more confident about traversing the Rainforest. However, he had no idea that he would encounter three examinees more than ten kilometers ahead.

More than ten minutes after Mu Fan left, two pairs of black feet appeared next to the area. Two dark figures stood under the shade of a tree, looking at the corpse that had been cut in two. One of the figures bent down, stretched out a finger to wipe the blood flowing from the giant python, and then put it in his mouth and smacked it.

He spoke a strange language that seemed to be different from the common language of the Federation.

Then blackness spread from the ground until it swallowed the entire area...

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