After a while, the snake was completely knocked out. Some workers fell to their knees from exhaustion and their heartbeats finally returned to normal. They had faced the possibility of death countless times during the past few hours, so they were relieved to have survived.

Now the vet could finally turn her attention to the big bulge on the snake: the one she had come all the way out here for. She took her surgery kit from the big company warehouse jeep and prepared it to start work.