The nocturnal rainforest was a paradise for nocturnal animals. They hid from the sun during the day, lurking in the shadows to rest, and came out at night to forage.

A fat, large rat went out to forage and discovered a huge fruit. It circled the fruit several times before finally finding a perfect spot to move it. It pushed against the fruit, and it moved a short distance. It continued to push, little by little, trying to move the fruit toward its burrow.

After a long time, the rat finally managed to move the fruit to the entrance of its burrow. It planned to call its family to help divide the fruit into smaller pieces and carry them into the burrow.

It waited and waited, but no rats came out of the burrow. Curious, it poked its head into the burrow. At that moment, a pair of black, abyss-like eyes emerged from the burrow. It suddenly realized something was wrong and was about to run away, but a monster, like black lightning, instantly swallowed it into its belly.

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Fatty was awakened by a rustling sound. With his keen senses, he realized that the campfire in the camp had gone out. He figured the night watchman had fallen asleep and hadn't added wood in time.

So, Fatty struggled to get out of his sleeping bag, found a flashlight, and prepared to go out of the tent to see what was happening. He also checked on Jennifer's condition. Jennifer's breathing was weak but steady, and her condition seemed to have improved slightly.

Fatty quietly unzipped the tent, turned on the flashlight, and walked out. The campfire was out, and the night watchman was nowhere to be seen.

Fatty wondered, had the kid gone to pee or poop?

Even if he went to poop, that wasn't an excuse to let the campfire go out, was it?

As Fatty was wondering, he suddenly noticed something wriggling at the edge of the flashlight beam, near Dodge's tent.

Fatty instantly aimed the flashlight at the wriggling thing—it was a giant python, about a dozen meters long and half a meter in diameter. Its head was already probing into the tent.

Fatty exclaimed, "Holy crap—wake up, there's a snake! There's a snake!"

Joey woke up at the sound and quickly came to Fatty's side.

The people in Dodge's tent were doomed.

They were awakened by Fatty's shouts and opened their eyes to come face to face with the giant python. A chaotic scene erupted inside the tent, filled with screams and howls.

The giant python was startled and instantly withdrew from the tent with great speed. The people in Dodge's tent quickly scrambled out.

The python had just eaten, and there was an oval bulge about a meter away from its head. Moreover, it still had a person in its mouth that it hadn't completely swallowed. The person's legs were still dangling outside the python's mouth, and it looked like they were already dead.

From the scene before them, it was easy to conclude that the night watchman had been swallowed by the python.

Perhaps the python wasn't full after eating one person, so it quietly sneaked into Dodge's tent and swallowed another.

The crocodiles had eaten one person, and now this python had swallowed two. The team was now down to just seven people. Besides Fatty, Joey, and Jennifer, only Dodge, Derek, the medical assistant, and another mercenary from Z organization remained.

In the wild, this giant python was large enough to be considered a monster. It had almost no natural enemies in the rainforest, but it was nothing compared to the giant python Fatty had seen in the underwater stone city.

Although the scene was tragic, Fatty was, after all, someone who had seen the "world" and was relatively calm.

But Dodge and the mercenaries had never seen such a monster before. They were all terrified, their legs trembling, and they shakily pulled out their guns from their holsters, searching and aiming at the giant python in the darkness.

Derek's fingers trembled as he pointed at the giant python in front of him and said, "T...that's an anaconda. This is the first time I've seen an anaconda this big..."

"Anaconda..." Fatty thought it sounded weird, but he didn't care about such professional terms. He quickly asked Derek, seeking a solution, "What is this giant python afraid of? What can we do to repel it?"

Derek, reminded by Fatty, remembered the countermeasures and quickly said to the people around him, "Light a fire! Hurry, light a fire! It's afraid of fire, and it won't dare to approach if we light a fire."

Dodge quickly took out a lighter from his pocket, shakily lit a dry branch, and gathered the surrounding dry branches and leaves to create a simple small fire.

The group confronted the giant python in the firelight.

Derek said, "Don't shoot. There may be other predators nearby. Shooting rashly may attract them."

Dodge asked fearfully, "Then what do we do? We can't just sit here and wait to die, can we?"

Derek swallowed, trying to embolden himself, "It's currently in a state of eating and swallowing, which is when it's slowest to react. We might have a chance to kill it if we attack it now."

Dodge stared at Derek with wide eyes, his expression as if to say, "You're not kidding, are you?"

Derek believed there was no other solution at the moment, so he said to the team members around him, "Its skin is very slippery and difficult to grab. You must pin it to the ground, and then insert the knife into its head half a meter behind its head. That's where its heart is. Stabbing other places won't kill it, but it will only anger it."

Derek cautiously drew his hunting knife and quietly walked to the side of the giant python.

Dodge and the two mercenaries were afraid of the giant python, and they stood in place with their guns raised, hesitant to act.

At this time, only Derek bravely walked towards the giant python's side with his knife.