Its nose was filled with the alluring aroma of food. It could clearly sense the enormous power in Lin Huang's body. Moreover, it believed that it would become very powerful if it could eat Lin Huang.
However, after losing a few teeth, the skeletal crawler realized that Lin Huang was too tough.
It thought of swallowing Nagini directly. As a skeletal crawler that was over 40 meters long, although it was not very powerful, it was not weak either.
However, even if it opened its mouth as wide as it could, it could not swallow Nagini who was two-fifths of its size.
What should it do?
Hesitation flickered in its eyes, but eventually, the skeletal crawler used its thick tail to entangle Nagini and crawled deeper into Skull Island.
Skull Island was huge. Although it was an isolated island, the island was actually larger than many western countries' territories. As the skeletal crawler kept moving deeper into Skull Island, the danger became more and more dangerous.
The surroundings gradually became dangerous. A mantis that was more than ten meters long was hunting a white elephant that was three stories tall.
Its sickle-like claws left huge scratches on the white elephant's body as if it was cutting a watermelon.
Unfortunately, before the mantis could have its fill, the food that it had painstakingly caught was snatched away by the skeletal crawler.
The mantis pretended that it was not to be trifled with. It even waved its two huge sickles as if it was going to launch a torrential attack in the next second.
However, after the skeletal crawler growled ferociously?
Although it was missing a few teeth, which made the skeletal crawler look rather ridiculous, the mantis that was over 10 meters long did not hesitate at all. It jumped up with a 'swoosh' and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Similar things happened from time to time during the rest of the journey.
The skeletal crawler was a terrifying creature. On the entire Skull Island, apart from King Kong, no other creature could fight the skeletal crawler. Although a skeletal crawler that was over 40 meters long could not compare to the overlord that was hundreds of meters long, it was still considered the top hunter on the island.
After dragging Nagini for about half a day, the skeletal crawler passed through a forest.
In front of them was an ancient ruin. It could be seen that a large number of humans had once lived here. There were two reasons for this:
One was from the wreckage of the ruins. It could be vaguely seen that this was a huge city. There were barricades around the city, as well as a large number of defensive spikes.
Another reason was that there were abandoned paddy fields around the city walls.
Judging from the spread of the rice paddies and the state of corrosion of the barricades, it should have been less than a hundred years ago. There should still be humans living in this city.
Unfortunately, on the hundred-meter-long city wall, there was a huge gap that took up half of the city wall. And from the marks left on the city wall, one could tell that it had been destroyed.
It wasn't hard to guess that the giant beast that destroyed the city wall was at least three hundred meters tall. There was a ditch that extended into the city from afar, which should be the traces left behind by the giant beast many years ago.
It was very desolate inside, with large amounts of weeds and white bones.
The skeleton crawler seemed to be very familiar with this place. Following the ditch, it came to the interior of the ruins and successfully found a huge natural karst cave.
The skeletal crawler was not a beast. Although it looked like a beast and its behavior was no different from a beast, it had intelligence.
Should it give Nagini to its great-grandfather?
What could its great-grandfather give it?
A piece of fresh meat or a small piece of Nagini's body?
This was not what it wanted. The skeletal crawler knew very well that if it could swallow Nagini, it would become very powerful.
It might even be able to obtain the rights of a partner from its great-grandfather.
Therefore, it had to wait. It had to wait until it grew to sixty to seventy meters long. It had to wait until it could swallow Nagini in one gulp, or until it could tear off the tough skin on his body.
However, just as the skeletal crawler was about to put down Nagini and find a few big stones to seal the cave entrance, it was surprised to find that the food that its tail entangled moved.
At first, the skeletal crawler did not care.
But soon, it realized that something was not quite right.
Nagini had been sleeping for two days since the last fight with the giant abyss octopus. A large amount of energy in his body had been converted, but there was no change in his body shape.
It looked almost the same as two days ago.
However, if one were to enter Nagini's body, they would find that his body was undergoing earth-shaking changes. A large amount of energy was injected into various cells in his body.
Every cell looked extremely full and tight, like a balloon that was about to burst.
At the same time, a layer of wrinkled membrane was piled up between the cell wall and the nucleus. In the past two days, 70% of all the energy that Nagini had accumulated was absorbed by this membrane.
The remaining 30% was inside the nucleus.
In fact, what made the seemingly tight cells look full was not the cell fluid, but the membrane that was about to fill up and even propel the cell wall open!
Accompanied by the passage of time?
The membrane grew more and more, and the original cells became more and more swollen. Until a certain moment, there was a "bang" sound, like the first firecracker on New Year's Eve, followed by the crackling sound of firecrackers.
The cells that were born during the first hibernation were torn apart at this moment. The membrane that originally filled the space between the cell wall and the cell nucleus turned into a new cell wall. 70% of the energy that had accumulated previously gushed out at this moment.
On the other hand, the nucleus, which contained 30% of the energy, collapsed and shrank like a black hole at the same time as the cell wall expanded. Finally, a new nucleus was formed.
On the outside, the skeletal crawler gradually realized that things were about to go out of control. The food that it thought was about to wake up was actually expanding at this moment. At first, the skeletal crawler was very happy, but as the 14-meter-long Nagini continued to soar?
Twenty meters, thirty meters, or even forty meters later?
Looking at the "food" in front of it that was not much smaller than itself and was still expanding, the skeletal crawler that could no longer wrap Nagini with its tail felt threatened at this moment.
It let out a threatening roar from its throat, as if it was ordering the other party to stop this behavior that it could not understand.
However, Nagini, who was in a hibernation state, did not know what was happening outside at all.
This made the skeletal crawler panic a little because the power emitted from Nagini's body made it more and more uneasy. It wanted to escape, but the fragrance on Nagini's body made the skeletal crawler feel like it could not move.
Therefore, the skeletal crawler made up its mind and bit Nagini fiercely.
It thought that a few more teeth would be broken this time, but what the skeletal crawler did not expect was —
This time, the skin was broken.
Although only a little blood flowed out, the thick and sweet blood contained a huge and pure power, which made the skeletal crawler so excited that its body trembled.
Like a crazy demon, the skeletal crawler kept biting Nagini's body, from its claws to its teeth, and its thick tongue kept licking Nagini's blood.
He was like a wild beast that had gone mad.
As for Nagini?
He was still in a deep sleep, as if he had cut off all contact with the outside world. The cells in his body kept exploding, and new cells replaced the old cells until the last cell completed the transformation of the third power.
In an instant, Najini opened his eyes. Apart from the unsettling red in his dark golden eyes, there was more of an instinctive hunger in them.
Looking at the skeletal crawler that kept biting his body, Kieran did not think. It was just an instinctive reaction driven by hunger. He grabbed the skeletal crawler's neck, regardless of whether it was still alive or struggling at the moment.
"Crack!"
The white bone plate on the skeletal crawler's head was crushed. Following the crisp chewing sound, the claws that were still stuck with Nagini's flesh gradually stopped struggling.
In the remaining half of the skull, a pink brain with brain fluid stuck to the ground fell.
It made a "splat" sound.