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The serpent climbs high!

 Lorraine was always unable to understand the muscle patterns of snakes, just like this big snake in front of her, a breath ago it was still coiled and head high, suddenly, its triangular head climbed high as if it was pulled by some force, traced a parabola, and opened its jaws and slithered towards where Lorraine and Hina were, with the force of the wind and the thunder.

 Lorraine and Hina jumped out of the way left and right.

 The two jumped out of the way and ran wildly toward the snake's tail in unison.

 The great snake's torso slammed heavily on the sand, and its tail, like a whip, lashed out at Lorraine.

 Lorraine stopped sharply to set up her blade!

 He knelt on one knee, his left blade horizontal, with the back of the blade against his right arm, his right blade hanging straight down, the tip of the blade on the ground, and the edge facing the serpent.

 The powerful snake's tail whipped up and snapped at the knife holder, splattering blood and blooming the snake's skin.

 Lorraine flew backwards and smashed into the cave wall with a bang. Crumbs of rock slid down, and the spiderweb on the wall cracked wider and wider.

 However the snake has only one tail.

 The large snake's tail swept towards Lorraine, and on the other side, Hina took advantage of the situation and leapt up.

 She leapt onto the snake like a cat, two short knives thrusting high and hard, poofing through the scales and pulling them out with a slant along the blades.

 Two fountains of blood soared upwards.

 The big snake ate the pain, one side with the tail whip flying Lorraine, one side raised his head, along his torso upside down folded to bite towards Haina, Lorraine did not know when to pounce back, the two long knives spread to the maximum, rushed to the snow-white snake's abdomen, force chop!

 The sound of breaking leather suddenly rose in the cave, the big snake suffered the biggest damage since the beginning of the war, the snake belly position two crystal snake flesh broken skin extrusion.

 It hissed as it raised its head in pain.

 The big snake is Boa!

 Being physically strong is its strength, and being non-toxic and clawless is an irreparable flaw.

 There were only so many ways for it to attack, bumping, biting, whipping, and strangling, and naturally it could be unbeatable in the face of holes full of prey and clumsy sailors, but when the only opponents left were Lorraine and Haina, it could no longer act recklessly.

 But it is huge after all.

 Lorraine and Hina worked together and could easily deal with its strong attacks, and were equally powerless against its hardened skin scales and muscles. The slashes and straight stabs were already at the end of their strength after breaking through the skin, and it was like a pipe dream for them to try to make a quick kill on their own.

 It's a fragile secret cave that could collapse at any time!

 No one knows the conditions outside the cave, except for a bare guess that the cave may be soaking in a hot spring at the right temperature.

 For the inside of the cave was very warm, and not so warm as to be excessively scorched by prolonged intimacy with lava or boiling water.

 As long as he wouldn't get wet and die, Lorraine wasn't worried about the cave collapsing, only about it being collapsed by the dragon's essence, the great snake.

 Snakes were hydrophilic animals, and once they were trapped in the water in a collapsed state, even he didn't seem to be able to fight the swift serpent, and it was even more difficult for the others to find a way out.

 It needs to be fought, it needs to be won, and it needs to be done quickly!

 The slender four-pounder poked its head silently through the tunnel, and Yacharin's voice, hard and wavering, changed to shout at the top of his lungs, "Ignite!"

 The sound reached Lorraine and Hina's ears, and the two of them immediately abandoned the snake and ran, one on the left and one on the right, towards the cave wall.

 The enraged serpent chased Lorraine with its head and Hina with its tail, unconsciously pulling itself across and lengthening itself, exposing its stout carcass, in its entirety, to the range of the loose bullets.

 Boom!

 The artillery roared and hundreds of projectiles flew out with a loud bang, nearly half of them bombarding the giant snake.

 The serpent flew out horizontally and smashed into the sand, half of his body defeated like broken leather, blood and flesh flying.

 Waves of sound spreading from nowhere echoed through the cave, crisscrossing it, and the entire cave was like a house in disrepair, with the fallen ash from the dome Jan spilling over the space, almost obscuring one's vision.

 Lorraine saw that the serpent was still attempting to tilt his head back, opened his mouth wide, braced himself against the wall, and resisted the urge to vomit by shouting, "Yacharin, go on!"

 "Following ... continue?"

 "Go on!"

 Yacharin's face was white as all blood, his teeth chattered in his open mouth, and his stalking neck trembled uncontrollably.

 He kicked the sailor beside him, "Didn't you hear the captain? Raise the gun barrel 2 degrees and load!"

 The gunnery squad went off in a hurry and got busy.

 While they were loading, a shaken and staggering Lorraine struggled back into the tunnel in square steps, holding on to Haina, who was even less well off than he was, and retreated all the way back to directly behind the artillery.

 The tattered serpent spat and swam up slowly, slow and soft, bright red snake blood running down the rotting shelled flesh and onto the sand, a brown stain in its path.

 It swims to the tunnel.

 The movements of the gunnery squad became more and more urgent, and a sailor stood behind Acharin, constantly announcing the distance of the great serpent.

 "30m, 25m, 20m ...10m, 9m ..."

 "End ..."

 "Fire!" This time there was no need for Lorraine to urge him on, the great serpent had already opened its mouth, and Acharin, faceless, ignited the hairline, and in an instant the raised barrel roared again!

 Boom shakes down seriously wounded serpent ...

 The serpent fell softly to the sand with a thump as all the projectiles grazed its body and blasted against the cave wall.

 Ka-la-la! Ka-la-la!

 Lorraine and Yacharin couldn't help but look at each other.

 "Ten meters, Luigi, and you managed to miss?"

 "This ... life is well, even the most skillful gentleman can hardly guarantee that he will not miss before love."

 Ka-la-la! Ka-la-la!

 Haina, with her sharp eyes, was the first to notice the water stains seeping out of the sides of the crack, which widened, and before long, the cave began to drip.

 Acharin gulped, "Captain, how about another round?"

 "Come on a ghost, run!"

 Boom! The cave wall collapsed!

 Lorraine, Haina, Acharin, and the six sailors of the gunnery squad made a desperate run down the darkened tunnel, the smell of sulfur overflowing their chests as they were followed by the heated, turbid waves.

 One sailor fell, and with a scream was swept into the wave, and no one was able to stop to save him, for the wave was faster than the man, and soon after him the great wave lapped over all, and swept all into the turbid current!

 Lorraine hugged Hina the first moment she was engulfed by the huge wave.

 They were faster than when they were running away, their feet off the ground and running across the room.

 The torch in his hand was extinguished the moment he entered the water, leaving only endless darkness and a never-ending journey ahead.

 Lorraine did her best to shield Hina in her arms, and Hina, like a meek kitten, tried to hold her breath and curl up.

 Boo!

 Lorraine's back slammed hard against the rock wall, and the sharp pain caused him to open his mouth and squeeze out a long string of bubbles.

 But he was seized by the turbulence and was powerless to struggle, only to bounce with the waves in the water to meet the next, heavier, more sudden impact.

 Boom ...

 He began to suffocate, his consciousness fading.

 In the midst of blurred consciousness, something struggled in his arms, softness and delicacy covered his lips, and sweet air metered into his heart and lungs from the void.

 Lorraine's spirit snapped.

 Light!

 Wow!

 A huge wave slapped the ground, and he and Hina were thrown out of the watery wave and fell into a small hole in a patch of surplus light.

 He saw Noa standing in the cave and was running over in a hurry to assist her, and saw the sailors of the expedition, giving each other high fives of joy.

 Immediately afterward, Yacharin and the sailors of the gunnery class were thrown out by the waves, and one by one they crashed to the ground, unconscious.

 Lorraine let Noya help him up and gave a weak laugh, "Save the day, don't let the heroic gunners drown ..."

 Wow!

 Huge splashes of water rose with the waves that lapped into the cave, and the heavily wounded and dying snake probed from the waves like a dragon coming out of the abyss, opening its mouth wide to take a bite into the empty space of the cave.

 The large mouth was only less than a meter away from Lorraine, and the black, lidless snake's eyes locked with Lorraine's eyes.

 It spat out its letter, and its slender, tattered snake's body slowly fell back, disappearing into the water, and in no time at all there was nothing left but the trace of blood, if any, as the turbid waves, tumbled and lapped at the shore.

 This sudden thrilling scene stunned everyone in place, not daring to move a step for a long time.

 Lorraine coughed twice, "Where are the snakes in this hole?"

 "Not long ago, it suddenly fled toward the exit, giving up the entire fluorescent cave, or we wouldn't have dared to come in."

 "It seems that they still have temperance, unlike Yemengarde, who actually isn't even afraid of sulfur ...," Lorraine bitterly laughed and shook his head, "It won't come, so quickly save the people. Any later and our gunners should have drowned on land."

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