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Dodge and the other two mercenaries seemed to want to see if Derek could take on the giant python alone. If Derek couldn't handle it, they would shoot, trying to kill the giant python from a distance.

Fatty had always looked down on Dodge. This time, Dodge was acting like a coward again, hiding behind Derek and playing with his gun. Fatty looked down on Dodge even more because of this.

Fatty wasn't willing to just watch Derek go to his death alone. He decisively pulled out his knife and followed behind Derek, quietly approaching the giant python.

Joey whispered a reminder to Fatty—

"Be careful."

Fatty made a gesture to indicate that he was fine.

If he wasn't absolutely sure, Fatty wouldn't rashly go to his death.

Derek and Fatty, one in front and one behind, sneaked past the side of the giant python. It was unclear whether the giant python had poor eyesight or was too busy swallowing its food to pay attention to anything else, but it didn't notice that two people had already sneaked up to its side and rear.

"Now!"

—Derek commanded.

Derek and Fatty launched an attack on the giant python from the side and rear.

Before the giant python could react, the two of them had already grabbed its torso. Derek grabbed the front of the middle section, while Fatty was in a worse position, only managing to grab the python's tail.

The giant python was startled by Derek and Fatty's attack, and it frantically shook its body to struggle.

The giant python was wet and slippery all over, making it impossible to grab with bare hands.

Seeing that he was about to lose his grip, Derek didn't care about anything else and directly plunged his hunting knife into the giant python's body.

In its agony, the giant python actually spat out the mercenary it was swallowing, but the barbs on its teeth restricted the speed of ejection.

At the same time, the giant python thrashed its tail and body even more violently. Derek couldn't control the giant python's body at all with just a hunting knife, and was eventually thrown several meters away, along with the knife, leaving him seeing stars.

Fatty, at the python's tail, was most affected by the python's movements, and was repeatedly slammed onto the ground by the python. Logically speaking, Fatty should have been the first to be thrown off, but Derek in the front was thrown off first.

Fatty held tightly to the giant python's torso with both hands, climbing on the snake's body with his hands and feet, moving bit by bit towards the snake's head.

With a "thud," the giant python finally spat out the unlucky fellow it was swallowing.

The mercenary's bones were completely dislocated, and under the compression of the python's powerful throat muscles, his upper body was compressed into an oval shape. The mucus on his body was fishy and foul, and the scene was extremely bloody and tragic. Dodge and the others showed signs of wanting to run away when they saw this.

Having given up swallowing, the giant python now had the opportunity to deal with Fatty, who was stuck to it and couldn't be shaken off.

Fatty had now reached the position that Derek had grabbed earlier. The giant python curled its body, seemingly trying to wrap its body around Fatty to strangle him.

However, still due to having eaten, the giant python's head movement wasn't very flexible. Fatty nimbly dodged it and moved another section towards the snake's head.

This time, the giant python stopped thrashing wildly and aimed accurately, opening its bloody maw and attacking Fatty. Fatty seemed to have been waiting for this moment. He held the knife upright and thrust it violently towards the giant python's jaw.

The hunting knife pierced the giant python's head in one fell swoop, the tip of the knife emerging from between the giant python's eyes. Fatty took advantage of the situation and climbed directly on top, pressing the giant python's head to the ground.

Under the influence of the excruciating pain, the giant python's thrashing force increased even more, its tail frantically whipping Fatty's body, but Fatty was like an immovable Buddha, suppressing the snake's head with both hands.

Fatty turned his head and shouted to Derek, who was completely stunned by the scene in front of him, "Knife!"

Derek finally came back to his senses and threw his hunting knife to Fatty.

After catching the knife, Fatty stabbed it down towards the location of the python's heart that Derek had mentioned earlier.

The giant python was still struggling.

Fearing that he hadn't stabbed in the right place, Fatty stabbed the knife around the area several times.

The giant python struggled a few more times before finally stopping moving. It was dead.

Not only Derek, but Dodge and the two mercenaries were also stunned. Fatty had killed a giant python over ten meters long almost single-handedly. This plot would be considered legendary anywhere.

Under the astonished and bewildered expressions of the crowd, Fatty said disdainfully, "You guys definitely haven't read *Water Margin*. In *Water Margin*, there's a guy named Wu Song who killed a tiger on a mountain after drinking strong liquor. What's this compared to that?"

……

Derek was very familiar with the body structure of this type of giant python called "anaconda." He used a knife to cut open the giant python's throat and digestive tract, and cut out the night watchman who had been swallowed first.

The night watchman's body had been compressed into a flat ellipsoid, covered in the python's digestive fluids. The python's digestive fluids were highly corrosive and had already digested part of the man's skin and muscles. Some of the exposed parts of his body had been digested into a pulpy substance.

Joey felt disgusted and stayed far away.

Even Dodge and the mercenaries, who had seen dead people before, felt a little uncomfortable seeing the tragic state of the person swallowed by the python.

After confirming that both of the people swallowed by the python were dead, Dodge took the lead in digging two pits near the camp to bury the two bodies, and marked them so that the bodies could be transported out and returned to their families when conditions permitted.

Derek slowly recalled the scene of the battle with the giant python just now. He himself had barely contributed any strength. Killing the python was entirely Fatty's credit.

Derek had never seen anyone who could grab a slippery anaconda with their bare hands. To be able to do what Fatty did, either he had used other tools, or Fatty had hooks on his hands.

Derek was puzzled. He immediately inspected the python's body. Under the light of the strong flashlight, he found a large number of indentations on the python's body where Fatty had climbed, and some places even had coin-sized bloody holes.

It turned out that Fatty had used his hand strength to hold the giant python's body in place.

Derek thought to himself, how could a human do this? Even a strongman couldn't squeeze blood holes in a python's body with just his hand strength.

Fatty noticed Derek's suspicion and made a gesture to Derek not to make a sound. Derek understood.

That's right, if it hadn't been for Fatty just now, he would have been the third person to die in the python's mouth. Derek understood in his heart that the leader, Dodge, and their boss didn't care about his life or death. The less trouble, the better. Whether Fatty was a superman or not, it had nothing to do with him.