The snake's nest is funnel-shaped, and visually it is as big as half a football field. The entire lower part of the winding chain reflects a scorching red light. At first glance, it looks like someone set a fire on the chain and caught it.
The three of them looked down with some surprise, and found that the red fire light turned out to be a kind of stone that looked like jade but not jade, like hot magma. The pit and the slopes near the bottom were all dotted with this kind of strange stone.
Fire red stone.
Even if the color is close to that of flame, it will not be as hot as the magma erupting from the crater.
With Zhang Shuxun's eyesight, he could easily see long blood-colored strips that were constantly squirming or crawling under the funnel pit, and making scalp-numbing hissing sounds from time to time.
Whether it was from fear or heat, a thin layer of sweat broke out on the fat man's face. He lowered his voice and said in a breathy voice: "My dear, there are snakes down there!"
Zhang Zhu and the two nodded silently.
After observing silently for a while, Zhang Zhuxun guessed that these snakes were probably in the molting stage, because the temperature here was comparable to early summer, and the air he breathed also had a moist and weird fishy-sweet smell, and there was also a trace of blood that was hard to ignore.
"What should I do?" Wu Xie looked at him.
Snakes in the molting stage will become a little nervous and more aggressive. Snakes in this stage may attack anything that comes close to them, even the same kind.
Just at this moment, they saw that there were already a group of snakes entangled and fighting together, fighting for the harder and finer stone for the territory that is conducive to shedding.
But correspondingly, at this time, the snake has stopped eating, and a liquid will be secreted around the head and eyes, making the cuticle irregular, affecting the transmission and refraction of light, causing the eyes to be almost blind. This situation will
Lasts several days or weeks.
"They can't see it, so we approach quietly, being careful not to step on the snake, and get down from there."
Zhang Zhuxun pointed to a dark irregular hole in the center of the funnel. Slightly thicker snakes were gathered on the flaming stone near the hole, indicating that the ones inside the hole were probably molting larger snakes.
Snakes have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. The farther in, the more powerful the snakes are, which means they are closer to the center of the snake nest.
"Okay." Wu Xie and Fatty responded together.
The slope is quite steep. This terrain is just right for snakes, but it is more torturous for humans who are used to standing upright. They suppress the inertia of rushing down, and step by step is like stepping on a tightrope, and they must be careful not to let the stones under their feet slip.
The friction makes too much noise.
Halfway down, the fat man couldn't stand up anymore, so he simply lay down and crawled up the slope. His palms hurt from the hard and rough flaming stone. He grinned and sucked in air. From time to time, he had to turn over to avoid the crowds.
of snakes.
"Damn, damn, it's too steep..." The stone under one of the fat man's feet suddenly came loose. That leg slipped and he rolled down the steep slope.
In desperation, he grabbed a raised flaming stone with both hands and stopped dangerously in front of the largest snakes.
The group of snakes instantly became commotion, and Fatty was too frightened to speak out. However, the series of movements he made just now attracted the group of snakes. Hundreds of snake groups began to squirm and spread outwards, with long blood strips like Hydra cypress trees.
It crawled towards the fat man like a vine.
"Fuck Li Liang!"
The fat man hurriedly got up and retreated to avoid. His feet were unstable and his hands were bruised with blood. He was already surrounded by a group of snakes and there was no way to hide now.
At this critical moment, several whining sounds broke through the air.
"Clang," there were a few crisp sounds of the earthen jars breaking, and the porcelain pieces shattered in all directions. The snakes that had crawled to the feet of the fat man seemed to have been suddenly punched by the air in front of them. The whole snakes were bent into an exaggerated arc, half of their bodies
Stand up and fall backward.
Zhang Shuxun and Wu Xie rushed over as if they couldn't stop the car, threw a porcelain jar and smashed it. While the snakes were retreating, Wu Xie grabbed the fat man and rushed towards the pothole.
Wu Xie shouted softly, "Jump quickly!"
Hearing the sound of the two people jumping into the cave and landing, Zhang Zhuxun turned his back to the entrance of the cave and faced the group of red snakes that were about to move around. The irises of his eyes suddenly began to lighten, gradually turning into an amber-like darkness.
Golden, and quickly squeezed towards the central pupil, and finally shrunk into a narrow arc-shaped diamond line.
Under the reflection of the red light at the bottom of the pit, a thin layer of light-colored scales flashed across the surface of the eyeball, fleetingly.
At this moment, there seemed to be an invisible energy expanding in all directions, covering the entire space. The hissing around him suddenly became quiet, and all crawling movements disappeared.
The tall bodies of the red snakes were frozen in place, and everything was silent.
Wu Xie and the fat man in the cave helped each other to stand up, and suddenly felt a chill down their spines. A chill that made their hair stand on end poured down from the top of their heads. The pores all over their bodies were trembling, and the cerebral cortex screamed and sent out danger signals to the nerves throughout the body.
.
The two of them held their breath tightly and did not dare to move. They knew that they were being watched by a huge creature.
The cold breath was everywhere, and the exposed skin seemed to be wrapped in some mysterious coolness.
A slight click sounded, and the solidified space was broken. Something lightly stepped on the gravel behind Wu Xie and the two of them, with a strong and vigorous body, like a civet.
Wu Xie felt that his whole body suddenly relaxed, and the danger left quietly, but there was something behind him. He did not dare to turn around rashly, so he could only use the light emitted by the red rocks in the cave to sneak back with his peripheral vision.
One glance, another glance.
The fat man couldn't hold himself back. He gritted his teeth and took off the shovel tied to his backpack and threw it over there. When he turned around, he saw a familiar figure standing behind him, bowing slightly and stretching out a hand.
His hands looked lovingly at a fixed snake.
He was very confused as to why all the snakes suddenly stopped moving. It didn't seem like they were hiding from a natural enemy, but more like the weak creatures in nature pretending to be dead in fear when higher-level predators of the same kind passed by.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, the red snake woke up with a hiss, jumped up with its mouth wide open, and bit his arm.
The man reacted very quickly, turned sideways, raised his hand and pinched seven inches of the snake, and untied the part of the snake that was wrapped around his arm. Hearing the sound of wind coming, he picked up the snake casually, like
The shovel flew away like a whip.
"What the hell..." The fat man yelled out with anger, but Wu Xie quickly stopped him with quick eyes and hands.
"Shhhh! I don't want to kill you." Wu Xie covered the fat man's mouth hard, then looked at the man in shock and anger, and whispered, "Zhang Haike, why are you here?"