Chapter 830: The Shadow of the Serpent
“And I… I will be the one who survives!” muttered the Glasses Man through gritted teeth, as his pace suddenly quickened…
A few dozen seconds later, another figure appeared in the corridor. This tall silhouette seemed to emerge directly from the shadows, moving silently and eerily, as if every joint in her body could twist freely. Her slightly changing eyes were fixed ahead, and she reached up to touch her nose, saying, “This human is good at escaping… But even if I can’t smell you, I can still catch up with you…”
With that, her gaze shifted to the ground. On the dirty tiles and dim walls, she seemed to see something different. As the edges of her pupils gradually turned amber, her appearance and demeanor underwent a significant change. Previously, she appeared merely seductive, but now there was an added hint of dangerous hunger.
Her gaze became colder, and the way she lightly licked her lips resembled a snake flicking its tongue… “Found you,” Li Yalin suddenly chuckled, her eyes resting on a particular row of tiles.
On the surface, these tiles appeared unremarkable, but with her pupils altered, Li Yalin’s eyes gained a certain sensing ability. Meanwhile, the images she perceived had changed. Although most of the scenes remained as she usually saw them, in certain places, she could vaguely make out several red-yellow light clusters. And the area Li Yalin was currently staring at was where these clusters were most concentrated.
“Even though I now only possess some characteristics of the mutation snake, relying on just these is enough to keep up with you… The other light clusters are too weak, likely left by those humans earlier, but this one surely must have been left by that glasses human just now… Too bad these light clusters can’t be seen continuously, making it impossible to track them indefinitely. But Ling Mo said that once I evolve, I’ll gain more abilities of the snake. I wonder what those will be…”
A hint of anticipation appeared on Li Yalin’s face. Over the past three days, she had consumed a considerable amount of mutation beast gel and mother hive, an action that nearly wiped out all the mutation beasts around the Oil Depot, except for the “chicken” drawn by Black Silk, which didn’t appear.
After devouring all these chaotic things, Li Yalin’s physical condition underwent many changes. Her mutation snake traits became more pronounced, making her resemble an amalgam of a leader-level zombie and a high-grade mutation snake. It seemed she had accumulated enough quantitative changes, just waiting for the moment to transform qualitatively.
With a light chuckle, Li Yalin’s figure blurred, appearing five meters away in the blink of an eye, then quickly vanishing into the dark shadows, like a serpent darting into the underbrush…