Speaking of the giant python, Su Ling specifically emphasized its immense size to let Jiang Jiang and the others know the seriousness of the situation.
As expected, after hearing Su Ling’s words, Jiang Jiang and the others looked at the dwindling python meat on their plates.
This python meat, which they found quite tasty, actually came from a python as large as a basketball court.
Of course, that wasn't the main point.
The main point was—
How could there be such a giant python!
Jiang Jiang swallowed, as if engrossed in a story. His curiosity piqued, he put down his chopsticks and leaned back against the table, looking at Su Ling. “Is that where you went to transport building materials?”
Su Ling gave a faint hum. Jiang Jiang nodded in understanding and continued asking, “How could there be such a giant python? Was it mutated? How did you kill it?”
As Jiang Jiang asked these questions, Chu Jin and Zhou Yong had already sat down.
Chu Jin, who had participated in the entire process, wasn't gossipy or curious. He focused on eating.
As for Zhou Yong, he knew about the python meat, but not the specific story. He ate attentively and listened attentively.
In response to Jiang Jiang’s questions, Su Ling briefly replied, “We’re not sure about the specific reason for the giant python’s appearance. It mutated to this size. We couldn’t defeat it, so we could only burn it. Later, it swallowed me and Shang Qi. We found an opportunity to counterattack inside its body, and that’s how we killed it.”
Otherwise, with such a massive python, the three of them would have truly been unable to handle it.
This was a mutated giant python from many years after the apocalypse. To deal with such a colossal creature, their powers would need to have improved to the point where they could contend with it.
As it was, the python they were lucky enough to kill belonged to a creature from many years later, far too advanced for their current stage.
After hearing Su Ling’s words, Jiang Jiang and the others gasped, unable to fully imagine it.
Jiang Jiang quickly recovered and looked at Su Ling, continuing to ask, “So, what’s the necessary connection between this and you and Brother Shang Qi going to North City?”
It wasn't that Jiang Jiang was being nosy. The leap in logic was too great.
They weren’t reborn individuals, so they didn’t understand the twists and turns.
Su Ling didn’t answer. Instead, Shang Qi explained, “Before I met you all, I wandered around aimlessly. I stayed in North City for a while, and there was a research institute there.”
“A research institute?” Jiang Jiang found it increasingly interesting the more he heard, and the more he asked, the more fascinating it became. “What kind of institute is it, and what does it specialize in?”
Jiang Jiang was like a “why” machine, full of questions, all of them sharp and to the point.
Jiang Jiang’s questions were exactly what everyone else wanted to ask.
With Jiang Jiang speaking up, they simply pricked up their ears and listened, not interrupting.
As long as their doubts were resolved, it didn’t matter who asked the questions. There was no competition, and the atmosphere was harmonious.
“It’s an institute that specializes in researching space-time tunnels,” Shang Qi replied to Jiang Jiang’s question and briefly described the North City institute. “It’s an institute with a strong scientific and technological element.”
Shang Qi’s last sentence was somewhat redundant.
Hearing Shang Qi’s words, Jiang Jiang clicked his tongue. “What is space-time tunnel research? What’s the use of this research?”
The conversation had reached a point where Jiang Jiang was starting to feel lost.
He even had the illusion that they were discussing a sci-fi movie plot.
But then again, considering their current world, wasn’t it much like a sci-fi movie plot?
Except their script was apocalyptic sci-fi!