Zhang Haike dropped the dead snake in his hand, smiled at Wu Xie and the others, and said, "I've been waiting for you for a long time."
It's like this thing just popped out of thin air.
Wu Xie carefully observed his expression and confirmed that he was a human being, then he relaxed his vigilance slightly.
He looked around and asked Zhang Haike, "What's going on with these snakes? They were very lively when we came down, but why are they all running away now?"
"Shouldn't it be your masterpiece?" Zhang Haike was surprised at first, then thought of something, his face suddenly changed, and he walked over in a few steps, "What did you bring here?"
He was sure that the chill that suddenly appeared out of thin air was not an illusion. Although the feeling was gone now, I am afraid that the real crisis has not been resolved.
Hearing this, Wu Xie and Fatty also became nervous and drew their swords in defensive postures.
Hengdao gestured in front of him for a moment, and Wu Xie's mind cooled down, and he suddenly thought of a problem that he had ignored just now in the urgent situation.
Why hasn’t the wooden fish come down yet?
Grandma is a jerk, he won’t take the opportunity to sneak away and disappear again, right?!
Wu Xie was holding back the anger in his heart. He stroked his chest to comfort himself that the wooden fish should not be far away. He gave the fat man a look and said, "I'll go up and have a look. The wooden fish hasn't come down yet."
The fat man was stunned for a moment, and his little mind turned around and connected the strangeness just now with Zhang Zhuxun, and cursed in a low voice, "Fuck, you haven't come down yet, I guess the bastard's energy has been released, and he is withered on top again.
Already."
There was a considerable distance between the entrance of the cave and the ground. Wu Xie and Fatty climbed up on top of each other.
Zhang Haike stood behind them and listened to the riddles, his eyes flashing slightly, thoughtfully, and somewhat enlightened.
It seems that that special Zhang family still has some unknown secrets hidden in them.
"What a bastard spirit, it's unpleasant!"
As soon as Wu Xie's head popped out of the hole, he received a slap on the top of his head, and the fire energy instantly turned into ashes.
Zhang Zhuxun squatted in front of him, with a normal expression on his face. He held a brown translucent egg in his hand and showed it to him, "Look, I found something good."
Wu Xie took it and touched it. It felt as cool as jade. When he looked through the light, he could vaguely see a coiled white baby snake inside.
"Fossilized snake eggs?" He exclaimed, "It's so big. Where did you find it? How did the shell become like this?"
Zhang Zhuxun smiled as if he had picked something up, "The stone that the fat man kicked out looked too round. I picked it up and found that the weight was not right, and I knocked off the outermost stone shell.
"
The fat man screamed angrily from below, "You two careless bastards can't come down here to talk any more. Get off now. Fatty is going to be crushed!"
Wu Xie pursed his lips and whispered: "He is jealous of you."
"What are you talking about? I can hear you." After the fat man finished speaking angrily, he asked Zhang Zhuxun, "How much is this kind of egg-shaped jade worth on the market? Are there any others? Get some for me, Fatty."
I have made a selfless contribution to my journey along the way, so I should take some souvenirs before I leave."
"Then I'll give you this. It's the egg of a very big snake. It's estimated to be thousands of years old." Zhang Zhu said, "This kind of thing is more expensive at auction. I remember that one was unearthed in the last century.
The crystal python egg fossil has been sold for more than nine million yuan so far."
"Really?" The fat man's mouth watered when he heard that. The old monk straightened his back and waved his hand, "Good brother, I won't say thank you. Next time when the innocent bitch gets sick and wants to poke his neck with you, I will
We will stop him in advance."
"Bah, my current strength level is an advanced version. Can you stop me?" Wu Xie jumped off the fat man's back and said disdainfully.
Zhang Zhuoxun ignored the two people who were accustomed to bickering, said hello to Zhang Haike behind him, and jumped down.
Let Zhang Haike look at the jade egg first. He felt that Zhang Haike should know something.
Zhang Haike pulled out a cultural relic mirror as big as a fingernail from under the dial. It has a specially modified soft light lamp on it to facilitate identification and observation.
Zhang Haike stared at the young snake in Yuli carefully, his eyelids almost touching the cultural relic mirror, his expression reserved.
He knew what Zhang Zhuoxun wanted to ask, but instead of answering directly, he asked him how he did it.
Zhang Zhuxun did not go into great detail, he only said: "There was a slight change in my body. I only discovered it after entering the snake's nest."
Wu Xie left the fat man who was still thinking casually, raised his head and asked nervously: "Is it a good thing?"
Zhang Haike flicked the jade egg with his fingers, "I don't know about other people, and I haven't seen them, but if it happens to him, it seems to be a good thing so far."
The fat man was confused, "Because of this egg?"
"Of course not." Zhang Zhuxun gave the two men a relieved smile, "It's just that they are somewhat similar in appearance. This change should have appeared a long time ago, but I have always ignored it. Recently, it was affected by the environmental factors of the Snake Nest, and the change
It’s just become more obvious.”
For example, the night vision does not require system energy supply.
"Then...do you still have any use for this egg?" The fat man rubbed his hands expectantly.
Zhang Zhuoxun glanced at him with a smile, weighed it up and threw it to him, "Put it away."
The fat man hugged the egg and touched it with gleaming eyes, sighing "oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh," he happily accepted this unexpected egg with a smile.
The space below that contains the flaming stone is much smaller than the cave above. The snake that was just driven away by the "Qi of the Overlord" has slipped into the cracks in the stone and disappeared without a trace.
Wu Xie always kept their destination in mind and searched around, but couldn't find any openings to get through. Then he asked Zhang Haike, "How long have you been wandering here and you haven't found the way to the Snake Temple?"
Zhang Haike nodded seriously and pointed in one direction, "I found it, but it's a snake path, not a human path, so I decided to stay and wait for you."
Wu Xie trotted over there. There were seven holes in the fiery red stone wall, which became smaller one by one from left to right. But even the largest hole was only as big as a child's head, and he couldn't get through it even if his bones shrank.
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Zhang Zhuxun suddenly untied the black strip of cloth tied around his wrist, straightened it between his fingers, then raised his hand to cover his eyes and tied it behind his head.
The fat man asked three times in a row, "What's wrong with you? Your eyes hurt? Are you suffering from the sequelae of snow blindness?"
Zhang Zhuxun shook his head, his thin lips parted slightly, "Instinct will tell me the right direction."
"Really?" The fat man was suspicious. He took a deep breath and felt it with his eyes closed before saying, "My instinct tells me that if you breathe too much hot air, you will want to fart."
Zhang Zhu looked for the black line, turned around and walked away. The uneven ground faced him without any hindrance.
As soon as Wu Xie came back, he said this with an expressionless face, "Get the hell away before you let go."
Zhang Haike waved his hand like a fly, his disgust evident in his words.
The fat man ran away obediently.
When he came back to relieve himself, he saw Zhang Zhuxun and three others digging the ground with shovels, making a clanking sound against the iron and rocks.
In the southwest corner of the seven holes, there is a place where the flaming stone is as red as the arterial blood that has just flowed out of the blood vessels.
Those stones seemed to be alive, and the red light looked really like the trembling muscle fibers on the heads of fresh large cows. The movement made one's liver tremble, fearing that they might come to life.
The fat man came over and took over Zhang Zhuxun's shovel, "Is there a road down here?"
"This place contains the most energy." Zhang Zhuxun said what he sensed. Instinctively, he knew the reason why those crimson snakes chose this place as a place to shed their skin.
"Those little snakes need to rub the hard flaming stone here to shed their skin, and then absorb the energy in the ground stone to build harder scales."
The creatures with human heads and snake bodies described in the murals outside the snake nest walked on such hard snake paths. Before heading to the ancestral land, they needed to wear off their old scales and finally complete their evolution in the ancestral land.
After a lot of effort, they only got a few white marks, and couldn't help but feel a little discouraged.
"Muyu, can't you suck in these red stones? Those gray stones are very brittle." The fat man said whimsically and thought divergently.
Zhang Zhuxun hesitated. He didn't know how to absorb energy. He had only had some contact with it with the help of the system. After "eating" the dome in Qinling, his physical condition had indeed improved a lot. If he "eats" the energy again,
If you eat the energy here, there is no guarantee that he will not evolve into something weird in the future.
Just imagining it made him resist instinctively.
Zhang Zhuxun lifted up some blindfold and stared at the stones at his feet, frowning.
Zhang Haike saw his hesitation, recalled the information collected from the ancient building, and revealed a few things to him, "No, I don't know what the reason for your change was, but judging from your performance just now,
, it is obvious that your evolutionary source is very advanced, and your evolutionary direction will be more primitive, which probably means that you don’t have to stick to your form, and you will be more powerful.”
Zhang Zhuoxun looked at him with one eye, "You suddenly speak so nicely. Why do I feel like you are looking forward to it and have bad intentions?"
"How could it be possible?" Zhang Haike showed an innocent smile, "You are the most special Zhang family member I have ever met."
Zhang Zhuxun still felt that his smile was inexplicably permeable. He suddenly thought of a blind spot, "How did he get in in the first place?"
"Yes!" Fatty said in unison, his eyes widening.
But then Zhang Shuxun found the answer. His tone was unbelievable, "Have you noticed that the shape of these large flaming stones looks like scales?"
Wu Xie's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly gestured to the ground, and said in surprise: "Could it be that these flaming stones, this whole place, are the result of countless big snakes coming here before they die, dissipating the energy of their bodies and disintegrating,
After hundreds of millions of years of accumulation, a large amount of energy finally formed what we see today."
"According to this, their purpose is to raise cubs, just like the cycle of life." Fatty realized.