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Chapter 97: 093 A Walking Jiao Dragon? Are You Two Here to Joke Around? (4th update! Asking for subscriptions! Votes for the month! Bookmark requests!)_2

The disaster relief personnel didn’t want to argue with this father and son duo any longer.

He had realized that these two were here to stir up trouble and spread rumors.

The more dangerous and busy it got, the more people there were who would spread rumors and create panic.

He was such an idiot to have actually spent so much time talking to them.

Still insisting on a “walking serpent”?

That’s just ridiculous.

As the disaster relief personnel was about to leave,

at that moment, a little girl stood up inside the temporary aid station.

“Brother, I can prove that what you’re saying is true.”

The girl who spoke was none other than Li Qigou’s sister, Li Yaya.

The little girl was only eight years old this year.

Having just been through the flood, her voice trembled as she spoke.

Seeing an eight-year-old girl step forward to speak,

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the disaster relief personnel was speechless.

Damn it, even an eight-year-old kid is trying to con me?

But Li Yaya didn’t say much after that.

She took several photos out of the children’s instant camera hanging around her neck and handed them to the disaster relief personnel.

An instant camera, also known as a simple camera,

was something Li Qigou had bought online for his sister after noticing her keen interest in photography while watching TV.

He couldn’t afford an expensive camera for the time being,

but he was able to afford this kind of instant camera that cost three or four hundred yuan each.

The camera’s advantage was its cheap price, plus it produced images instantly, convenient and quick.

After all, it was meant to cultivate interest for kids and beginners.

The only drawback was the expensive film, which Li Qigou specifically told his sister to use sparingly and not to take pictures randomly.

At this moment, the photos Li Yaya took were of the real situation at the Wanjiang City Reservoir when the downpour had just started.

The first photo showed the sky split open inch by inch by purple lightning, like a shattered mirror.

The second depicted the torrential rain and windswept village, appearing incredibly small under the stormy skies, a vision of the apocalypse.

The third captured the Wanjiang City Reservoir at the entrance of the village where a massive whirlpool had suddenly formed in the middle; within the whirlpool, a huge dark shadow loomed.

When the disaster relief personnel saw the fourth photo,

his breath hitched.

A buzzing noise filled his head,

as if his brain had crashed.

Because the fourth photo captured the moment when lightning flashed over the reservoir,

revealing a giant python-like water monster, huge in size and scales gleaming like silver and iron, emerging from the waters.

The camera froze this all in time.

This time it wasn’t the kind of grainy, pixelated photo of a suspected monster circulating on the internet.

The enormous water monster appeared for the first time, so clearly and completely before human eyes.

The remaining photos were of the giant python gliding through the edges of the village, plunging into the valley.

All were captured by the little girl.

It was so real it inspired fear.

The disaster relief personnel looked at these photos.

These photos were ironclad evidence.

It wasn’t villagers babbling nonsense this time.

It was real evidence laid out in front of them.

The disaster relief personnel took a sharp breath.

He took the photos and went to his superiors.

Quickly,

a set of photos was leaked online from within Wanjiang City.

It was the set of giant python photos taken by Li Yaya with her instant camera.

On the trending searches, an old topic about “walking serpents” resurfaced.

Sparking a national debate.

“#WhatIsAWalkingSerpent?”

“#Did the ancient folk legend of the walking serpent really exist?”

“#How long can a snake live, and how big can it grow?”

“#The truth behind the torrential downpour in Wanjiang City, not natural disaster but a walking serpent!”

“#Was the dragon sighting in Dragon Country’s Yingkou years ago true or false?”

“#Does Blue Star actually have pythons as big as mountains?”

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“Holy shit, waking up to see something this thrilling? I initially thought that the heavy rain in Wanjiang City was just an ordinary storm, but who would have thought there was such a big twist behind it?”

“I’m clueless, what exactly is a ‘walking serpent’? Can any expert explain?”

“Don’t know what a walking serpent is? No way, it’s just a legend, an ancient folk tale: A snake after a hundred years of cultivation becomes a lesser serpent, after five hundred years it becomes a flood dragon, and after a thousand years it transforms into a dragon, during which if the lesser serpent can use a flood to reach the sea it can become a dragon, this process is called ‘walking serpent.’

If this legend is true, then once a snake ‘achieves the ultimate transformation,’ it can live forever!”

“Damn! Is it that incredible? Eye-opening!”

“Walking serpent, it sounds so badass. I’ve heard the old folks in the village talk about it. In ancient times, to protect the hard-built stone bridges, people would prevent walking serpents from emerging.

They would hang a sword under the stone bridge, called the Dragon Slayer Sword! Legend has it that this sword could kill the flood dragon as it passed under the bridge!”

“Sounds so mystical! And that Yingkou dragon fall incident that’s been dug up again, do dragons and serpents really exist in this world?”

“Who knows, perhaps they did exist in the past, but surely not now. The giant python we see now in the Wanjiang City Reservoir might just be the last flood dragon on Blue Star.”

“This is so thrilling! I’m ecstatic; to see a real walking serpent in my lifetime feels like my life is complete. But guys, do you think this flood dragon could really transform into a True Dragon?”

“I doubt it. Nowadays, Blue Star is almost like the “Dharma-Ending Age” described in novels, with scarce Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy. For a serpent to cultivate in such an era and live for over a thousand years…

And, crossing the tribulation is actually an avoidance of the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation process. The so-called entrance to the sea, turning into a dragon, is really about surviving the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation before it can transform into a dragon.

But look at the world now, Dragon Country’s population is huge, so many people living along its path, and with the nearest ocean so far from Wanjiang City! If we let this serpent journey all the way to the sea, how many people would die along the way?

So whether it’s the public or the Dragon Country officials, they’re likely looking for ways to prevent this serpent from crossing the tribulation into the sea, otherwise, the cost to Dragon Country would be too great.”

“So does that mean the Dragon Country higher-ups will deploy military forces to stop the serpent from reaching the sea?”

“They probably will, let’s just wait and see.”

Online, discussions and posts about the flood dragon and walking serpent reached a terrifying scale.

And as the higher echelons of Dragon Country looked at the data transmitted from Wanjiang City,

They were also very troubled.

Using professional technical methods, they confirmed that the giant serpent lying inside the valley beside Wanjiang City Reservoir did indeed exist.

Now it was lying in the valley, sleeping.

For Dragon Country to encounter a serpent on the verge of Dragon Transformation in modern times,

This was simply outrageous.

Although the existence of this serpent corroborated the ancient creature called dragon was indeed real,

The aftermath of a walking serpent event

Would be unprecedentedly huge.

The Dragon Country higher-ups were now troubled about how to address this issue.

Deploy military force to kill the giant serpent?

It was not a choice they were willing to make!

After all, this might be the last remaining flood dragon on Blue Star, on the cusp of becoming a dragon.

The last one in the world.

It’s incomparable to less significant creatures like the giant panda.

Although giant pandas are precious, their numbers have increased through conservation efforts, even being removed from the endangered species list.

This serpent was a different story.

Not only was it exceptionally valuable, but its historical status was also different.

If they could control it, they could boast without restraint on a global scale.

The concept was incomparable to that of a giant panda.

The Dragon Country higher-ups didn’t want to kill the serpent.

If there was a chance to control this serpent, of course, not killing it was the preferred choice.

But if not, they would have to prevent the serpent from reaching the sea.

The Dragon Country higher-ups quickly convened and released several feasible action plans.

Among them, the first plan was to move mountains!

To enclose the small valleys surrounding the serpent with earth and stone, trapping the serpent within the valley and halting its quest to transform.

This plan was the first to gain internal recognition.

Relatively speaking, it was the most straightforward method and the one the higher-ups deemed feasible and effective.

They believed that as long as they could build a wall high enough, it would surely contain the giant serpent.