Chapter 40: Mutation
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The well-trained SWAT officers quickly responded to Bai Yan's order. Dozens of officers grabbed their guns and started shooting at the giant snake. Countless bullets hit the snake, the collision between bullets and scales creating a muffled sound. The giant snake was injured, and blood began to ooze from its body... Bai Yan emptied her M16 rifle's magazine quickly! As she reloaded, she watched the snake and felt a sinking feeling. Yes, the snake was injured... It had been hit and was bleeding a lot... But it wasn't enough! Not nearly enough!!! The powerful rifle and the immense impact couldn't penetrate the snake's body. It only scratched the scales... The snake, in pain, seemed to become more frenzied. With a powerful sweep of its tail, it overturned a snowmobile. Then, it opened its bloody mouth again, swallowing the fallen officers... Bai Yan shouted, "Throw grenades!" The team had no heavy weapons; the most powerful they had were rifles and grenades. Dozens of grenades were thrown at the snake simultaneously. Explosions echoed through the snowy night... As the smoke cleared, the snake was left bloody and battered, but still not fatally wounded. It roared and attacked the other snowmobiles. Bai Yan's heart sank, "Even this can't kill the snake, not even severely injure it..." "With our snowmobile's speed, retreating isn't an option." "Our SWAT team is doomed."
As Bai Yan prepared to organize a full counterattack, a deafening wolf howl echoed. A giant snow wolf, nearly 20 meters tall, suddenly charged into the group. It moved so fast that it instantly crushed a police officer's head with a swipe of its paw. The giant snow wolf and the snake seemed to have an unspoken agreement, not attacking each other but targeting Bai Yan and her officers. The SWAT officers quickly began shooting at the snow wolf, but its defense was astonishing. The bullets couldn't even penetrate its fur. In the combined attacks of the snow wolf and the snake, Bai Yan's team fought bravely but was ultimately wiped out... All the snowmobiles were destroyed, and dozens of SWAT officers' bodies were scattered around. The snow wolf and the snake devoured many of the officers' bodies before heading towards the third city.
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An hour later, Bai Yan regained consciousness. She struggled to crawl out from under her comrades' bodies... She had been knocked out by the snake's tail. "Why did this happen? I've never seen such a giant snake or snow wolf..." "Could it be that with this extreme cold disaster, some animals have started mutating?!" Bai Yan checked her body; several ribs were broken. She stood up with difficulty and took a few compressed biscuits from a comrade's pocket. "I can't die yet... I need to report this to Yan Shan. I'll head back to the third city first."
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Two days later... On the thirteenth day of the extreme cold, the temperature was minus 110 degrees Celsius. The snow outside was nearly three meters deep. Residents on the first floor were almost completely buried in the snow. They couldn't open their doors or windows. The situation was slightly better in the villa area, but it was still difficult to move. Lu Ming didn't care; with his supplies, he could survive in the safe house for a century.
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