Reborn at 80: From Village Scoundrel to Billionaire

"It should be!"

Liu Bei's eyes narrowed, staring intently at the white snake.

Its eight- or nine-meter-long body was coiled on the river surface, and it looked to weigh at least 300 pounds.

"Such a big snake? How did it suddenly appear?" Fan Ha'er swallowed hard.

"The black bear smelled too strongly of blood. Snakes are sensitive to the smell of blood, so it was probably attracted by the smell of blood," Liu Bei analyzed.

"What...what kind of snake is that?" Li Dazhuang and Tan Si exclaimed almost simultaneously, "A snake spirit?"

"It's not a snake spirit." Old Tan's face turned ashen as he shook his head. "It's a giant python. But a python this big... I've lived most of my life and never heard of one before."

"It looks like it weighs at least 300 pounds." Fan Shuanzhu swallowed hard. "Such a huge python could swallow a living person whole in one gulp."

"Xiao Bei, you said before that Boss Sun who needs the White Snake wants it alive, right? This thing is so big... how are we going to catch it? If we don't use guns, we'll probably be the ones who die in the end."

"What?"

Upon hearing this, Fan Dayong and the others' expressions changed drastically.

The legs of the strong men started shaking again.

"Oh my god... I just escaped from a black bear's claws, and now I'm going to become snake food..."

"What the hell is today?!"

"If I'd known today would be this dangerous, I should have checked the almanac before leaving! This time, we're really doomed!"

……

As they discussed it, everyone's eyes fell on Liu Bei.

"Capture them alive?"

Liu Bei frowned and pondered for a moment, then immediately raised his hunting rifle.

Sun Changjiang wants a live White Snake?

But the white snake in front of us is a giant python weighing over 300 kilograms. How can we catch it alive?

After all that effort, they probably didn't catch the white snake, and everyone was gone.

Human life is at stake.

Compared to human life, money is nothing.

"Everyone, listen to my command!" Liu Bei raised an eyebrow. "Raise all your guns and aim them at that white python. When I say fire, fire at once!"

"Anyone who dares to back down, not to fire, or to take the opportunity to desert will never come up the mountain with me again. And they can forget about ever getting involved in any money-making ventures in the future."

"..."

Upon hearing this, Fan Dayong, Fan Daqiang, and the others exchanged glances and fell silent.

Especially the two brothers, Fan Dayong and Fan Daqiang, were terrified, but in order to be able to eat meat and drink soup with Liu Bei in the future, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and raise their hunting rifles.

Seeing that the two brothers had raised their guns, the other able-bodied men had no choice but to grit their teeth and, one by one, aim their guns at the white python on the river.

In an instant, more than twenty gun barrels were all aimed at the white python.

At the same time, the white python slowly raised its head.

Its triangular head was as big as a washbasin, and a blood-red snake tongue protruded from its mouth, forked at the end, trembling incessantly in the air, as if it were tasting the scent of every living thing in the air.

A pair of vertical pupils glowed with an eerie green light. After scanning the crowd, they finally locked onto Liu Bei.

"Hiss~"

The white python moved in the next instant.

Its enormous body shot out of the river at incredible speed, splashing water as it hurtled towards Liu Bei.

"Click-clack~"

Suddenly, the giant mouth opened wide, big enough to fit a human head inside.

"Oh no! Its target is Xiao Bei!"

"Xiao Bei! Get out of here!"

Fan Shuanzhu and Lao Tan shouted at the same time, and their fingers pulled the triggers simultaneously.

"Bang!"

In an instant, more than a dozen gunshots rang out.

Immediately afterwards, bullets began to pierce the air.

"Whoosh~"

As the bullets came hurtling towards him, the white python jerked its entire body to the side, dodging the bullets' trajectory. Then, with a "plop," it plunged back into the river and disappeared into the water, leaving only splashes of water that sprayed onto everyone's faces.

"Damn? So many bullets and none of them hit?"

"It went underwater!"

"Holy crap! It's become sentient, it's definitely become sentient!"

The able-bodied men instantly erupted in chaos.

"Shut up, all of you!" Liu Bei shouted in a low voice.

"..."

In an instant, everyone fell silent and turned to look at Liu Bei.

At this moment, in Liu Bei's line of sight, the red dot was still there; it hadn't truly left, and it was still underwater not far from them.

"It's lurking at the bottom of the river, everyone watch your step! Of course, we can't let our guard down either! Don't let it ambush us!" Liu Bei instructed, his eyes fixed on the river.

"Yes!" Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Splash!"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a column of water suddenly burst open a dozen meters to the right of the river.

The vanished white python shot out again.

This time, its target shifted to Fan Ha'er.

Everything happened too suddenly and too fast.

By the time everyone realized what was happening, the white python was already right in front of Fan Ha'er.

It grew a huge mouth and tried to swallow Fan Ha'er.

"What?"

Fan Ha'er froze on the spot.

A thought popped into my head:

Damn it, I was planning to sneak a peek at Fan Xibei and his wife fighting tonight to learn from their experience. Now the White Snake is going to eat me?

Finished!

He was about to become the white snake's food.

There's no point in learning from experience tonight!

"Hah! Run!"

"Get out of the way, daring one!"

Just as Fan Ha'er was lost in thought, Fan Shuanzhu's expression changed drastically, and he, along with Lao Tantou, Li Dazhuang, and Tan Si, desperately tried to remind him.

"Whoosh~"

Liu Bei then raised his gun directly.

The gun was aimed at the white python's head.

Fingers were on the trigger.

"You dare eat my brother, you beast! Die!!!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Liu Bei, at the critical moment when a tiger's roar suddenly came from the opposite bank.

"Awoo~"

The sound waves penetrated the entire forest, even causing ripples on the river's surface.

"Um?"

Liu Bei's fingers suddenly paused.

At the same time, the white python also stopped.

The triangular head suddenly turned to the side.

Everyone turned to look in the direction of the sound.

"Whoosh~"

A gigantic, snow-white beast appeared on the opposite bank.

That giant beast was the same white tiger with its cubs from before.

It actually came back.

"Damn it!!!"

Liu Bei's expression changed drastically.

But the next second, another tiger's roar echoed throughout the forest.

"Awoo!"

This sound was even more powerful and awe-inspiring than the white tiger's roar.

As the sound passed, the pebbles beneath everyone's feet began to tremble in fear.

"Anything else?" Li Dazhuang and the others looked pale.

Suddenly, the bushes deep in the forest began to shake violently.

The next moment, a giant yellow tiger leaped out of the forest.

It was a full third larger than the white tiger.

Its four legs are as thick as pillars, and its shoulder height is at least 1.2 meters.

The tiger's back features alternating black and yellow stripes, which appear incredibly fierce in the sunlight.

The most eye-catching feature is the pair of bells hanging from its rear end.

It was a male tiger.

As the saying goes, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain.

Unless it's a male and a female.

The white tiger appeared first, followed closely by the male tiger.

They are clearly a pair of tigers.

At this moment, the male tiger and the white tiger stood side by side on the opposite bank, their four tiger eyes simultaneously fixed on the white python on the river surface.

The white python also turned its head, its green vertical pupils fixed intently on the two fierce tigers opposite it.

Three colossal beasts stand facing each other across the river.

The air instantly froze into ice.

Liu Bei and his group of more than twenty people were caught in the middle, with nowhere to advance or retreat.

"It's over..." Fan Dayong's voice seemed to be squeezed out of his throat, "This time it's really over..."