The villain also has spring 2

Chapter 2024, Part 2.22: Exciting Good News

Before sunset, Team 4, along with two surviving flight attendants from the chartered plane, returned to the container safe house.

They brought back important news: a world-renowned, Nobel Prize-winning bioweapons expert, nicknamed "The Angel of Death," had parachuted near the lair of a jungle serpent and disappeared. Their mission was to search for some kind of prehistoric artifact.

Needless to say, this prehistoric artifact is definitely related to the current Anaconda disaster. Wu Chen judged that it was perhaps this mysterious prehistoric artifact that caused the current Anaconda disaster. Especially after witnessing firsthand the giant python that was so frenzied as to devour an entire airplane, its terrifying size already exceeding that of the giant python in the original Anaconda storyline, Wu Chen was already certain that this was the result of player intervention. Considering the services offered by Fulong Temple, the answer became obvious: Dragon Balls.

These enormous pythons, catalyzed to their current size, must have been influenced by that dragon ball.

"If it can swallow airplanes, it can swallow shipping containers." Captain Nine-Tailed reminded the female producer before ending the call.

“Yes, ma’am.” The female producer clearly understood the gravity of the situation. Unbeknownst to many, those giant pythons that initially devoured humans had evolved into colossal monsters capable of swallowing airplanes whole. This was certainly not good news for the safe zone converted from a container terminal.

"By the way, do you have any background information on this container terminal?" Captain Nine-Tailed wanted to know more.

The initial trust built through the search for the crash site led the female producer to conditionally reveal some important background information: "This place was originally an isolated mountain in a swamp. With the rise of the 'jungle adventure craze,' it was first built into a transit dock, and later a jungle hotel. As more and more people and supplies were continuously transported here, it accumulated to its current size. Later, man-eating pythons began to appear frequently, thus becoming the only safe zone in this open water area."

"I see." Captain Nine-Tails couldn't help but ask, "Knowing that this swamp is so dangerous, why do people keep coming here?" What she really wanted to ask was whether they were all coming for the Dragon Balls.

"Just like you," the female producer said succinctly, "everyone has their own needs."

"Agreed." Captain Nine-Tails readily ended the call. In relationships, the worst thing is to be too forward with people you don't know well. Don't ask what you shouldn't ask. Even if you ask, they won't tell you.

The ratio of time spent at Fulong Temple is also 60:1.

Team 4 doesn't need to rush. Focus on completing as many side quests as possible to achieve a perfect ending. Of course, finding the "Halloween Dragon Ball" is the top priority. As for whether to collect all seven Dragon Balls and summon Shenron to grant a wish, we'll see then.

Stepping into a small, two-story safe house made up of five military-grade encrypted shipping containers, the two flight attendants, still shaken, finally let their guard down and fell into a coma.

The scan shows this is a normal physiological phenomenon caused by both mental and physical weakness. It's also a protective mechanism of the body, using forced hibernation to reduce energy consumption. Restarting is also simple: just a full charge and battery, and a one-button restart is all it takes.

"My lord, shall we give him an injection?" Captain Nine-Tailed asked Wu Chen. Whether all the characters who were saved in the story need to receive a "rejuvenation injection" to "rejuvenate" depends entirely on the situation.

"No need," Wu Chen thought for a moment and said, "We can use existing medical methods to repair it."

"Yes, sir." Captain Nine-Tailed immediately used the medical supplies stored in the small safe house to provide medical treatment to the two flight attendants.

After sunset, the lights surrounding the entire port were turned on one after another. Except for essential personnel on duty, everyone else took refuge inside the secure containers. The survivors knew that pythons were nocturnal predators; daytime was relatively safe.

"Captain, are we going?" Hu Xueji asked.

"We're new here and haven't established a firm foothold yet. Showing off would be disadvantageous for us," Captain Nine-Tailed replied decisively. "Let's get through tonight first."

"Okay." So the team members stayed at the safe house until sunrise.

What I saw when I went outside was shocking.

The neatly stacked container walls from yesterday now had multiple breaches, and many containers converted into safe houses lay scattered haphazardly on the ground. The deformed front halves of the containers and the entrances filled with digestive fluids spoke volumes about what the survivors inside had experienced the previous night. Seeing the female team members safe and sound, the exhausted female producer, who had been working all night, staggered forward to greet them: "Just like you said, they've gotten bigger again."

"How much was lost?" Captain Nine-Tails didn't waste any time.

"The count hasn't been done yet. It won't be less than a hundred people." The female producer sighed, "They're like 'opening a can,' grabbing the container and dumping people right in."

As Captain Nine-Tailed Fox said yesterday, if they can swallow airplanes, they can swallow shipping containers.

"How many are coming in total?" Captain Nine-Tailed asked.

"Two," the female producer said, lighting a cigarette as she took a moment to pause. "One male and one female."

"The safe zone is no longer safe. Is there any other escape route?" Captain Nine-Tailed asked again.

"Plan B?" The female producer shook her head. "That's a plot in movies, unfortunately we don't have one."

"Is there anything we can do?" Captain Nine-Tails aptly handed over the initiative to advance the plot to her.

“There are some tricky things,” the female producer said, tossing away her cigarette butt. “First and foremost, we need a lot of fuel.”

"Not surprising." Captain Nine-Tails nodded slightly. "Where to get it?"

“We have a distress signal from an oil tanker, along with the coordinates of the location.” The female producer pulled out a stack of sticky notes and quickly wrote down a string of numbers: “Here you go.”

Captain Nine-Tails readily accepted it: "I'll go right away."

"This is the only piece of exciting good news today." The female producer immediately coordinated the staff: "Around when do we depart?"

"15 minutes later." Half as fast as the first field mission.

"Okay." The female producer was very satisfied.

Thirty minutes later, the quay crane started its crane and opened the gate.

Twelve armed motorboats were launched and headed to the scene of the incident.

Upon arriving at the coordinates, we could see a shuttle oiler that looked as if it were wrapped in a layer of "cling film" lying motionless in the open water.

Shuttle tankers are specialized vessels used to transport oil from offshore oil fields to land. Equipped with bow loading systems, dynamic positioning systems, and helicopter platform facilities, they typically have a deadweight tonnage between 8 and 15 tons. They feature underwater rotary loading systems, adjustable propeller systems, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cabins, enabling them to transport crude oil in complex sea conditions. Loading and unloading operations require monitoring liquid level parameters via a central control screen, with alarm thresholds configured to trigger an alarm when the liquid level exceeds the set range. They are highly integrated and offer safety exceeding that of typical cargo ships.

"Is that a shed snake skin?" Magnifying the structure of the giant "cling film," Bai Feifei discovered that it was a layer of biological tissue.

"Probably." Captain Nine-Tailed scanned the ship's hull and displayed the image in the pop-up window, then noticed the keel had been crushed: "First, a giant python wrapped itself around the oil tanker and crushed the hull. After eating and drinking its fill, it shed its skin and left. It must be one of the two super pythons that attacked the safe zone last night."

Continuing the scan, Captain Nine-Tailed made another discovery: "Huh? There's something wrong with the facilities inside."