6: Chapter 6: A Feast of Carnage! Unlock New Skill: Snake Venom Immunity

That scream was filled with endless pain and despair over her ruined appearance, enough to move anyone with a soft heart.

However, Qin Yu only furrowed his brows slightly.

Not out of pity, but because the scream had disrupted the rhythm of his hunt.

He ignored it, and the slaughter in his hands did not pause for a single moment.

To him, whether Zhao Lei lived or died was far less important than killing a few more snakes and gaining another 0.1 in attribute points.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

The blade's light flashed like a ribbon, carving trails of death through the pitch-black rainy night.

Qin Yu was completely immersed in the pleasure of his rapidly growing power.

His body was cheering, and every single one of his cells was craving more slaughter, more life essence!

【Ding! Killed Tier 1 creature: Pit Viper! Agility +0.1!】

【Ding! Killed Tier 1 creature: Bamboo Viper! Agility +0.1!】

【Ding! Killed...】

The system notification sounds echoed in his mind like the most beautiful symphony.

On his attribute panel, the numbers behind Agility and Constitution were jumping wildly upward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This hellish snake disaster that meant doom for others was, for him, an unprecedented, god-given opportunity!

In the direction of the train wreckage, Zhao Lei's screams gradually weakened, turning into painful moans and intermittent pleas for help.

"Save... save me... Qin Yu... I don't want to die..."

"It itches... it hurts... my blood..."

Clearly, she had been bitten by more than one venomous snake, and one of them had likely bitten her on the face.

The mixed snake venom took effect rapidly within her body, destroying her nerves and tissues.

She could feel her life slipping away rapidly, and her consciousness began to blur.

On the edge of death, she finally let go of all her ridiculous pride and resentment, leaving only the purest instinct to survive.

She began to plead for help from the man she had previously despised and resented the most.

However, the only response she received was the cold sound of rain and the ceaseless, dull thuds of a sharp blade entering flesh in the distance.

Qin Yu heard her plea for help.

But he remained indifferent.

His gaze did not even glance in that direction once.

He was waiting.

He was waiting for a notification.

The slaughter continued.

On the beach, snake corpses had piled up in a thick layer; green, black, and foul-smelling blood merged with the rainwater, dyeing this stretch of beach into a bizarre quagmire.

As for the surviving girls, apart from the three behind Qin Yu, the remaining seven or eight had long been so frightened that they were hiding behind a huge reef in the distance, shivering, not even daring to peek out.

They could only hear the terrifying sounds of the slaughter and the gradually fading wails of Zhao Lei and the others.

Every minute and every second was a purgatorial torment for them.

I do not know how much time had passed when Qin Yu felt his arm grow slightly heavy, and his slashing motion showed a trace of discord.

It was not because he was tired.

But rather...

He lowered his head to look at his calf, where, at some point, a small, pitch-black snake no thicker than a thumb was hanging.

Its fangs had already deeply pierced Qin Yu's hardened skin, injecting venom into his body.

A sensation of paralysis instantly spread from the wound, attempting to propagate throughout his entire body.

【Ding! You have been poisoned (Prehistoric Black Mamba Venom)! Constitution -0.5! Nervous system slightly affected!】

It finally came!

A glimmer of excitement flashed in Qin Yu's eyes!

This was exactly what he wanted!

He did not deal with the small snake, but instead let it hang on his leg, continuing to inject venom.

At the same time, the blade in his hand swung even faster!

He needed to complete the final harvest before the toxins completely affected his movements!

"Pfft!"

"Pfft!"

Another dozen venomous snakes were instantly slain!

And at this very moment, the long-awaited system notification finally exploded in his mind!

【Ding! Congratulations, host! You have killed over 333 snake-type creatures in total!】

【Slaughter milestone reached!】

【Unlocked special constitution: Primary Toxin Resistance!】

【Primary Toxin Resistance: Your body has developed extremely high resistance to most biological toxins (neurotoxins, hemotoxins), rendering you immune to the venom of most Tier 1 creatures and significantly weakening the effects of Tier 2 creature venom!】

【Detected toxins within the host's body, clearing... Clearing successful!】

The moment the notification sound ended, Qin Yu felt a warm current surge from his heart, instantly flowing throughout his entire body.

The paralysis that had originally spread from his calf vanished without a trace in just a single second, like snow meeting the blazing sun!

The small Black Mamba still hanging on his leg seemed to sense something; it fearfully released its bite and tried to escape.

Qin Yu sneered, flicked his foot, and launched it directly into mid-air.

Hand up, blade down.

"Pfft!"

The small snake was sliced into two pieces in mid-air.

【Ding! Killed Tier 1 creature: Prehistoric Black Mamba! Agility +0.2!】

Done!

Qin Yu exhaled a long, heavy breath.

With 【Primary Toxin Resistance】 obtained, his survivability in this perilous rainforest had risen to a significantly higher level!

Just then, the dark clouds in the sky seemed to have exhausted all their water, and the torrential rain gradually subsided into a light drizzle, before finally stopping completely.

The snake tide also seemed to have received some kind of order, and began to slowly recede.

The surviving venomous snakes no longer attacked crazily; instead, like the ebbing tide, they silently retreated back into the depths of the dark rainforest.

A catastrophe had thus ended.

The entire world seemed to have fallen silent.

The beach was carpeted with a thick layer of snake corpses, which, under the newly revealed, pale moonlight, reflected shimmering scales, resembling a sea of deathly scales.

And in the center of this mountain of corpses and sea of blood, the man slowly straightened his body.

Qin Yu was covered in blood, with rainwater and snake blood mixing together and dripping down his chiseled cheeks.

His black eyes, after enduring such prolonged slaughter, had settled into a chilling coldness and majesty that made one's heart tremble.

He stood there, holding a blood-dripping dagger, like a blood-bathed Asura who had walked out from the depths of hell.

Behind the campfire, Su Qingyao, Chen Xiao, and Liu Qian had long since ceased their movements; they stared blankly at the scene before them, their minds completely blank.

Behind the reef, the surviving girls also tremblingly poked their heads out. When they saw the beach littered with corpses and that figure like a demon god, their fear reached its peak at this moment, and then... it began to undergo a qualitative change.

An emotion called "worship" began to uncontrollably sprout from the deepest depths of their hearts.

It was the most primitive awe and reliance of the weak toward the absolute strong.

Qin Yu ignored these gazes; he turned around, stepped over the viscous snake corpses beneath his feet, and walked back to the campfire step by step.

His footsteps landed in the direction of the train wreckage.

There, it was deathly silent.

Only a faint, kitten-like moan continued to come intermittently.

Qin Yu walked over.

He saw Zhao Lei curled up in the cold, muddy water, her entire body covered in dozens of snake bite wounds, and her whole person had swollen until she was unrecognizable.

Her face, furthermore, was a bloody mess, with a hideous wound extending from the corner of her eye down to her chin, the flesh turned outward, and traces of black-purple venom still remaining on it.

She had not yet died, but clearly, she was not far from death.

Seeing Qin Yu approach, she used her last ounce of strength, extending a hand that had swollen like a carrot, and grabbed at Qin Yu's pant leg.

"Save... save me..." Her voice was so hoarse it was almost inaudible.

Qin Yu's gaze lingered on her face for half a second.

Then, he lifted his foot and, expressionless, stepped over her body.

As if she were merely an obstructive stone.

Zhao Lei's hand fell limply, and the last glimmer of light in her eyes was completely extinguished.

Qin Yu walked back to the campfire, and under the awestruck, fearful, and slightly puzzled gazes of all the survivors, he wiped the blood off his tactical folding knife on a snake corpse.

Then, he bent down, casually picked up the corpse of an Ironclad Anaconda that he had just slain, which was as thick as a water bucket, from the sea of corpses at his feet, and threw it by the campfire.

"Did you all see that?"

His voice clearly reached the ears of every survivor in the silent night sky after the rain.

"These will be your rations for tomorrow and the next few days."

He paused, his cold gaze slowly sweeping over the girls hiding behind the reef, and finally, it landed on the dying Zhao Lei.

A cruel arc curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Of course, food is not free."

"Only those who have worked are qualified to eat."

"As for those useless trash, and disobedient burdens..."

"What do you think should be done with them?"