The black-striped snake nearing the Flood Dragon stage must be a High-Tier Beast General, almost Lord-level!" Gao Feng's expression was grave, his voice low. "And as a mutated Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake, its venom is several times stronger than the normal variant!

Furthermore, it possesses two venom sacs, and each sac fetches double the price of an unmutated Black-Striped Snake of the same rank." "Meaning—" "This Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake is equivalent in value to four standard Black-Striped Snakes! A snake nearing the Flood Dragon stage is worth around 400 million; this one could fetch 1.6 billion!

That’s comparable to an average Low-Tier Lord monster," Gao Feng stated the figure, causing the heart rates of everyone else to surge... After fighting hard for over ten days and slaying over a hundred Beast Generals, not a single one was worth as much as this Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake!

It was clear that killing powerful monsters yielded a far higher profit margin. "Of course, this Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake is extremely dangerous.

Just one bite from its fangs, or simply being poisoned, means certain death!" Gao Feng murmured. "And with two heads, it can attack enemies simultaneously." "Should we take this job?" Gao Feng looked toward the rest of the team, his gaze finally settling on Luo Feng.

The others remained silent, watching Luo Feng as well. The decision rested entirely with Luo Feng!

The Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake commanded a staggering price, but it was also incredibly perilous! "I'll do it!" Luo Feng gritted his teeth.

"Captain, what about you?" With the aid of his Psychic Force, his evasiveness could achieve a level of unpredictability that defied comprehension. "Luo Feng, if things get tricky, give me a hand." Gao Feng bit down hard.

"Being a martial artist means constantly treading the line between life and death. Wei Tie, hand me your shield." "Captain, here." Wei Tie handed over his shield without hesitation.

Gao Feng placed his heavy hammer on the ground, taking the shield in his left hand and the hammer in his right. He managed a self-deprecating smile, "It’s been a long time since I've fought using a shield.

But this Two-Headed Snake is just too dangerous; without it, I admit I'm a bit scared." "Captain, I’ll handle long-range attacks, you focus on close combat," Luo Feng murmured. "If anything goes wrong, I'll apply my Psychic Force to your shield or hammer, allowing you to use the redirected force to dodge." "Understood." Gao Feng nodded.

Luo Feng turned to the other three. "The Captain and I are going down.

You three stay up here. Oh, Brother Chen, keep your sniper rifle sighted...

just in case someone tries to take advantage of the situation later!" "Don't worry, I have it locked on at all times," Chen Gu replied with a slight smile. "Just give the word if you need me to fire." "Good." The team members could communicate instantly via their communication watches.

"Captain, let's go down." Luo Feng and Gao Feng swiftly descended the stairs. Against a monster of this caliber, Chen Gu and the others wouldn't be able to contribute anything meaningful in the fight.

※※ Luo Feng and Gao Feng quickly reached the ground floor, then navigated along a crumbling stone path, relying on memory to locate the Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake’s position. "Boom!" "Hiss~" The piercing shriek of the serpent echoed from afar.

Luo Feng and Gao Feng exchanged a glance. Simultaneously, their communication watches vibrated slightly.

Luo Feng glanced down to see text appearing on the screen—"Three people suddenly appeared and are currently engaged in a fierce battle with the Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake." Gao Feng received the same message and whispered, "Looks like someone got here first. Still, let's go take a look." "Lead the way." Luo Feng nodded in agreement.

The two moved quickly, soon reaching the corner of a residential building. Peeking around the bend, Luo Feng instantly spotted the Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake engaged in combat tens of meters away with three men.

Judging by their appearance, these three seemed to be from West or South Asia—their hair slightly curly and their complexions a shade darker. The leader of the three men was a burly, bald individual wielding a dark gold staff that measured over three meters long.

That staff moved in his hands like a flowing dragon. Every time the serpent’s triangular head hissed and lunged forward at high speed, the staff would strike swiftly.

Even if it missed the head, it managed to push the snake back. Sometimes, a precise tap from the staff would elicit an enraged roar from the beast!

The other two men each carried a square shield in one hand and a massive scimitar in the other. They moved in tandem, coordinating their siege with remarkable precision.

"Bang!" The rusty fitness equipment scattered throughout the complex exploded as it was struck by the serpent’s powerful tail. The bald brute quickly retreated, using his staff to whip up a whirlwind that deflected all the twisted metal and debris, allowing him to absorb the force and step back.

"Excellent staff work," Gao Feng murmured from the distance, unable to contain his praise. "That bald guy is likely a High-Tier War General.

The other two seem to be Mid-Tier War Generals." Luo Feng nodded. The bald man’s audacity in engaging the Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake head-on made his formidable strength easy to gauge.

"Hiss hiss~~" The Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake thrashed like a maniac, its two massive heads fixed with chillingly cold eyes, repeatedly opening their cavernous mouths for a bite. Under the serpent’s assault, the three men retreated, beginning to communicate verbally.

Hearing their exchange, Luo Feng and Gao Feng instantly determined—they were Indian! During the continuous combat, one of the serpent’s heads was already bleeding, struck by the bald man’s staff!

However, the injury clearly wasn't fatal. Swish!

Swish! Swish!

The three Indians rapidly charged toward Luo Feng and Gao Feng's position. "You two brave ones, come on!" the bald man managed to say in broken Chinese just as the Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake roared and lunged towards them.

Luo Feng and Gao Feng merely smirked coldly and stepped aside, unwilling to foolishly confront the serpent head-on. The leader of the Indian trio, the bald strongman, cursed softly under his breath, and his three-meter-plus staff instantly lashed out at the Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake.

"Now is the moment." Luo Feng, who had sidestepped, was already gripping a black throwing knife—one of the Nine-Sequence Blades! With a swift flick of his wrist!

Whoosh! The blade transformed into a streak of cold light aimed at the snake's left head.

As a creature on the verge of becoming a Flood Dragon, the Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake possessed high intelligence. Seeing the seemingly unremarkable human throw a blade, its left head jerked away instantly—snakes are naturally swift in head movements!

The serpent's left head blurred into a residual image. "Cleverness overreaches itself!" Luo Feng sneered coldly.

"Change!" He intentionally threw the blade by hand, intending to trick the overly clever snake into believing he was using a conventional projectile weapon. Normally, a thrown knife cannot change direction mid-flight.

Unfortunately for the snake... Luo Feng wasn't merely a master of hidden weapons; he was ten or even a hundred times more proficient.

Whoosh! When the blade was still about a meter from the snake, it subtly altered its trajectory by the tiniest fraction.

Just that minuscule shift directed the blade straight toward the left eye of the Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake. "Hiss~" The serpent let out an enraged roar, and in that brief instant, its left head performed an evasion maneuver!

Luo Feng's knife was traveling at several times the speed of sound, faster than a sniper bullet! At a distance of one meter, moving at several times the speed of sound, less than one-thousandth of a second had elapsed!

Even Luo Feng, controlling the redirection, couldn't precisely dictate the turn happening at exactly one meter versus 1.5 meters. Given the sheer speed, a slight delay in reaction time meant the blade could have traveled ten meters already.

Even with rapid reflexes, Luo Feng could only manage a single directional adjustment in that fleeting moment! Yet, in that incredibly brief span, the Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake's nerves reacted, and it managed to evade!

Of course, because the time window was so tight, this was an evasion made under extreme duress. "Thwack!" The blade struck the snake’s mouth area, carving a gash before grazing the scales near its neck.

Chhh-chhh~~ It left only white marks before the blade rebounded into the ground. "What terrifying defense," Luo Feng thought with alarm.

"Such astonishing evasion capabilities; it managed to dodge a mid-range redirection? This is troublesome!" Luo Feng understood clearly that eliminating this Two-Headed Black-Striped Snake would be exceedingly difficult.

"Hiss~" Both enraged heads of the serpent turned to fixate on Luo Feng. The mouth of its left head bore a deep gash, from which dark green blood constantly seeped.

"GD!" The bald man wielding the staff let out a hearty laugh, then began retreating while shouting in his broken Mandarin, "Join forces, split fifty-fifty?" He looked towards Luo Feng. Luo Feng and Gao Feng exchanged a glance.

"Deal," Luo Feng replied. "!" Gao Feng even deliberately made a hand gesture.

The decision to form a temporary alliance between the Indian trio and Luo Feng’s duo was instantaneous. The bald man’s strength had earned their recognition, just as Luo Feng’s blade power had earned the Indians' acknowledgment!

Only sufficient strength commanded respect and attention from others! ...

Meanwhile, outside the Vanke Dream City complex, a martial artist squad of nine was advancing slowly. Among these nine, members of the Tiger Blade Squad were clearly visible.

"Hmm? That sounds like a snake, and a powerful one at that," one of the nine, an elderly man with grayish-white hair, remarked.