Such a huge and terrifying sea creature, there could be no other than a mosasaur. At least the two struggling men had only seen this one so far.

Xia Chuan: "..." He had never shown such a surprised expression in his life.

At this moment, what giant snakes coiling around the body and suffocating the chest, all of that was nothing! Even if those snakes used a little more force and could directly break their waists, Xia Chuan and Dennis had no mind to worry about it anymore.

Everything that happened before their eyes had instantly emptied their minds of all things, not leaving a single bit behind.

Dennis' mouth and eyes had reached their maximum size in his life. Let alone stuffing eggs, even if the giant snakes coiled around his body were stuffed into his mouth, he wouldn't blink an eye.

He was completely shocked silly.

Of course, this was not embarrassing, because the creatures shocked silly in this shallow sea area were not just him, but also included the group of giant snakes coiled around him and Xia Chuan.

When the mosasaur, known as the top predator of the late Cretaceous period, entered the water, the huge splash and waves pushed Xia Chuan and the others to the side.

However, whether it was people or snakes, they were all like stiff wooden logs without any reaction, just drifting back and forth with the water's push, following the shaking ripples, without even changing their postures.

Shen Lan: "..."

In its mosasaur form, it probably had never encountered such a... still hunting scene, and for a moment doubted if it was not awake.

It swayed its powerful long tail and swam a short distance forward, coming face to face with two of the giant snakes, their flat and round heads, and then slowly, as if in slow motion... opened its mouth.

The forked tongues of the two giant snakes were still hanging out, dangling limply in front of their mouths, without the slightest reaction.

Shen Lan: "..."

With the food being so dumb, it made it a bit embarrassed to take a bite. If it was in human form, it might have scratched its cheek and looked at the sky again.

Of course, embarrassment aside, eating still had to be done. It couldn't let the food drag down its IQ.

So it opened its mouth and swayed its tail again, and those two silly snakes naturally entered its mouth.

Even like this, the snakes remained stiff as wooden boards without any movement. Shen Lan had no choice but to reluctantly close its mouth, fulfilling their conscious sacrifice.

The conical sharp teeth pierced into the giant snakes' scales, tearing open flesh, and crushing bones and tendons. Bright red snake blood quickly spread out on the sea surface, and the fishy smell mixed with the salty taste of seawater filled the air...

As this stimulating scent diffused, the remaining dozens of giant snakes finally stirred. As if just startled awake from a dream, they suddenly contracted their bodies, then fled in a rout, scattering in all directions like a disturbed hornet's nest, their bodies twisting into waves, as if they weren't the ones looking down on people from the shore before.

This was the scene Shen Lan was familiar with. It finally mustered some interest in hunting, lazily snatching seven or eight more snakes to swallow, as if playing.

However, it did not completely wipe them out. After casually catching some, it picked up one last giant snake, dangling it from its mouth, and dove back, coming to Xia Chuan and the others.

Before in the water, with the giant snakes coiled around their bodies, the snakes' bodies helped balance them against the water's force, so they could still struggle to the surface amidst the chaos. Now that the giant snakes had fled, they instead lost their support.

Xia Chuan's waist was tightly constricted by the giant snakes before, almost breaking. Now even though he was released, he had little sensation and let alone free movement. He could only instinctively paddle with his hands, barely maintaining floating on the surface. Only his expression had not recovered from the shock, his whole person appearing wooden and mechanical.

But he could already be considered performing very well. The other living person on the sea surface was different.

After being released by the giant snakes, Dennis neither closed his eyes nor shut his mouth. He didn't even have the slightest movement of his limbs, completely forgetting about paddling.

To be precise, it was as if his brain had been taken away by those giant snakes, leaving his head completely empty. Knocking on it would probably produce a hollow echo.

So, when Shen Lan, who had scared away the giant snakes, turned back, sticking out its forked tongue, what it saw was the expressionless Xia Chuan, and Dennis whose eyeballs were about to fall out.

The former was floating, while the latter, due to his inaction, was slowly sinking, like a 6-foot stone statue.

Shen Lan: "..."

Its eyes full of ferocity silently rolled upwards, as if making a huge eye-roll at the sky, then watched as Dennis slowly sank, a string of bubbles rising to the surface.

Its tongue tip brushed across Xia Chuan's face, only to feel that this person barely maintaining his composure had an abnormal body temperature. Soaking any longer would likely lead to trouble. So with a swish of its tail, it dived head-first, lifting Xia Chuan and the submerged Dennis onto its back, breaking through the waves like a gust of wind, and in the blink of an eye... ran aground.

Shen Lan: "..."

The huge body of the mosasaur slid to the shore, slowly decelerating, finally hitting a pile of dark rocks like messy clouds and stopping.

The morning sun leapt out from the edge of the sea, its pale golden light showering the coast like a thin mist. Under the enveloping light, the silhouette of the beached mosasaur shrank, instantly transforming back into human form.

The two people originally hanging on its back, having lost their support, tumbled onto the beach.

When Xia Chuan landed, he supported himself with one hand, coughed up some water, then struggled to sit up. One leg stretched out straight, the other half-bent, elbow resting on knee, fingertips still loosely gripping that military knife.

That knife gleamed coldly, not a trace of blood remaining, not at all showing that it had slain over a dozen giant snake heads just minutes ago.

As for Dennis... he lay on the ground like a dead dog, without even the strength to cough, apparently having choked quite a bit in the sea.

Shen Lan looked at these two seriously weakened people, snorted, and lazily walked to Dennis' side. It picked up the black backpack wrapped around his hand, unceremoniously unzipped it, and took out his spare clothes. A set of shirt and trousers, a set of black vest and light-colored casual shorts.

Shen Lan picked up the clothes with three fingers, looking at them with disdain. He was much taller than Xia Chuan and the others, so naturally the shirt and pants wouldn't fit. He quickly changed into a vest and shorts. The black vest was stretched tightly by his strong chest and abdominal muscles.

He probably hadn't worn clothes for a long time and felt a bit uncomfortable with the restriction. He moved his arms and legs a bit to slowly adapt.

Until he threw the backpack back in front of Dennis, Xia Chuan still maintained that posture, motionless, only his eyes constantly following Shen Lan, silently expressionless, not knowing if he was using a poker face to hide his inner shock or what.

As for Dennis... After being stunned for a long time, he finally sat up, his wet golden hair sticking to his face, but unable to hide his dazed expression. He stared blankly at Shen Lan for a while, opening his mouth, then opening it again, but never making a sound.

It was Shen Lan who spoke first. He glanced at Dennis, but his eyes finally settled on Xia Chuan. In a tone that said "I'm really fed up with you guys", he said a long sentence: "I just went back to the sea for one night, and you managed to get yourselves into the mouths of those big fools?"

Long after he finished speaking, the always silent Xia Chuan finally opened his mouth hoarsely: "You are that mosasaur..."

Shen Lan blinked at him: "Yeah."

These words seemed to be some kind of switch. After they fell, the dumbfounded Dennis finally found his voice. He swallowed, looked at Shen Lan in a daze, then raised his hand and pinched himself hard, hissing in pain at the real sensation, then muttered: "I... I need to pee..."

Shen Lan: "..."

On one hand, he felt that this guy, who could be considered half his kind, was really embarrassing, actually getting scared enough to pee just from seeing his true form. On the other hand, he also felt a bit of arrogant pride and pleasure...

Just as he was about to speak up to show some domineering demeanor and let Xia Chuan worship him a bit too, Xia Chuan spoke again.

He heard him say coldly, with a blank expression: "So, that tail that nearly cost me half my life was yours?"

Shen Lan's so-called domineering aura instantly drained away completely: "..." Not good!