Chapter 34: Escape From the Snake's Stomach
Chapter 34 Escape from the snake's... stomach
"Huh..."
A huge column of air gushed out of the snake's nostrils, mixed with the sea water, and turned into a violent whirlpool on the seabed.
This huge creature sleeping on the seabed has not fully awakened, and is still drowsy. In its transparent pupils that seem as calm as a lake, there is still a strong sense of confusion and absent-mindedness, without any focus.
Although this world is very strange in every sense and completely inconsistent with the knowledge Meng learned as a human, snakes do not even have any difference between warm-blooded and cold-blooded. However, in many aspects, it is similar to the habits of snakes that Meng knew before.
In the knowledge learned by humans, most snakes in that world are cold-blooded animals, which are easy to lose heat and must be sunbathed to obtain heat. Otherwise, if the temperature is too low, the body will gradually fall into freezing, slow movement, slow reaction, or even fall into hibernation and motionless. However, this also allows snakes to have the characteristic of not eating for a long time after eating once, thereby maintaining their low consumption.
However, this is strangely reflected in Jörmungandr, who is neither warm-blooded nor cold-blooded.
For a period of time after waking up, the snake's body will temporarily maintain a low-consumption state, and its thinking, reaction, and movement will be in an extremely slow state, making it difficult to quickly recover its combat power. Only as time goes by will the snake gradually become sober, which can be regarded as a weakness of the snake.
However, generally speaking, it often takes less than two or three minutes for the snake to recover, so it doesn't matter. Now, the snake is in such a state that it was suddenly awakened by thunder in the middle of the night, and the whole person is in a daze.
And the reason for being awakened is also very simple...
The position of the heat source in its stomach is wrong.
No matter how deep it sleeps or how slow it reacts, the heater in its body that constantly provides it with heat gradually moves from the stomach to its throat, which is enough to make the sleeping snake instinctively feel that something is wrong and wake up.
"It seems... there is something... somewhere... somewhere... something is wrong with my stomach..."
Because it had just been awakened, its groggy brain was thinking. The not-so-sharp brain and this slow reaction successfully made the snake's logical thinking extremely fragmented and difficult to make sense.
The snake's body could clearly feel that something was wrong, but its brain couldn't figure out what was going on for a while.
The restless body was unconsciously shaking in the depths of the sea, causing the entire sea to boil, causing countless tsunamis and huge waves on the sea surface.
The night with the bright moon hanging high gradually became more and more gloomy, and dark clouds began to gather above the sky...
...
And the snake's movements were reflected in another way inside its body.
The red flesh and blood walls and the solid flesh and blood ground under its feet were originally sleeping quietly, but with the awakening of the snake, these flesh and blood walls began to wriggle restlessly.
It was obvious that the flesh and blood were gradually shrinking in the process of agitated wriggling, as if a strange living creature had awakened.
"What's going on..."
Thor looked around and asked in confusion.
"Jörmungandr seems to have woken up... Run!"
Loki looked at the wriggling flesh and blood and the disgusting blood vessels, and suddenly shouted to the sun goddess Sur who was holding the reins beside him.
"What?"
The sun goddess Sur asked without responding.
"Run! It's awake! If we don't run, its intestines will trap us here and digest us!!!"
Without time to explain more, Loki shouted.
And as if to confirm Loki's words, suddenly, from the flesh wall made of flesh and blood, a whip-like tentacle made of solid muscle stretched out from the flesh wall, with a slender sickle-like, metal-like hook on the top, looking extremely fierce.
"Hula!"
Accompanied by a sharp sound of breaking through the air, the metal hooks of the tentacles with metal hooks collided with the sun chariot, pulling, bumping, hooking or dragging, and the friction with the sun chariot produced dazzling sparks, which was enough to show its sharpness. These tentacles also flexibly crawled forward and wrapped around the sun chariot, like vines, quickly wrapping around the sun chariot tightly, making it unable to break free.
The heavy chariot that even the sun could bear made a creaking sound as if it could not bear the weight under the brutal dragging of these tentacles, and was slowly pulled down by these fierce tentacles.
"Hmph!"
But only a cold snort was heard, and suddenly, countless thunder and lightning roared, and thunder and lightning struck those flesh and blood tentacles mercilessly, and in an instant, countless tentacles broke off one after another.
The sun goddess Sur also reacted immediately, shaking the reins in her hand, and the two flaming horses galloped forward like dragons. The sun chariot that had been stagnant was galloping in the air at an unimaginable speed.
"What are those things!"
Because the wind was too loud, the sun goddess who was driving the sun chariot had to turn her head and shout loudly to Loki behind her.
"I don't know!"
In the face of Sur's question, Loki had to shout at her helplessly.
Everything around him flashed by like a fleeting light. In the giant snake's intestines, which were as dark and vast as the abyss, only the sun chariot, shining with countless brilliant lights and flying in the air, could illuminate everything around him.
Under the illumination of this light, all kinds of strange things that were originally sleeping began to wake up. Flesh tentacles of varying thickness screamed and stretched out from the flesh walls, trying to hook the sun chariot like flying ropes to prevent it from leaving, and then drag it back to the deepest part of the giant snake's stomach.
However, just these may be enough to deal with most ordinary creatures, but facing the three famous gods, these are obviously not enough.
There is no need to move, just the countless thunders covering the sun chariot are enough to cut off these tentacles that dare to attack.
However, there were too many tentacles. Those tentacles that seemed to have life kept flying towards the speeding sun chariot. There were so many that even Thor was deeply annoyed.
"Damn Loki! After I get out, I must settle accounts with you!"
After a sudden attack of a thick tentacle was cut off with a lightning bolt, Thor, who was full of anger but had nowhere to vent, roared at Loki with his eyes wide open.
The logic of this thunder god was very simple. The giant snake was the offspring of Loki, so if it weren't for Loki, there wouldn't be so many things.
Facing Thor's anger, Loki could only shout helplessly.
"Then let's wait until we escape first!"
He was right. With the passage of time, the originally extremely wide flesh and blood intestines were wriggling and shrinking, as if they were all trapped here to death, and this also meant that in front of them, the escape passage was becoming narrower and narrower.
...
Outside, deep seabed.
The snake, feeling something was wrong inside, unconsciously raised its head in a confused state of mind. The huge vibration caused by its huge body caused the mud buried under the sea for tens of thousands of years to be lifted up, and the originally clear water in the entire sea area immediately became turbid.
"Boom..."
On the calm sea, billions of tons of seawater suddenly burst out with the sound of landslides and tsunamis. A low black mountain emerged from the water, followed by ten, one hundred, one thousand...
A huge land with countless mountains on it and still expanding gradually emerged from the sea.
No, it was not land, it was a huge monster that was so huge that it was hard to imagine.
Those peaks were not mountains, but its black scales. That piece of land was the huge snake head of that monster that was so huge that it was hard to imagine.
This huge monster unconsciously raised its head, and it slowly breathed out the long-lost air towards the gloomy sky covered with dark clouds. Then, two huge tornadoes spewed out from its nostrils.
"Crack!!!"
In an instant, lightning and thunder flashed in the dark night sky, and lightning danced in the sky. The dazzling lightning illuminated the dark and gloomy night sky.
Heavy rain fell immediately, falling on the turbulent sea with huge waves, and falling on the huge monster that caused all this, as if the whole sky was in awe, feeling fear and trembling in front of this huge monster that had never been seen in the universe.