"Viper? Corpse viper? What is that?" I looked at her doubtfully, as if I had never heard of such a thing.
Guo Yingying slowly narrated. She said that she had just remembered that she used to like to read some essays in order to increase her knowledge. She once saw an article in a library. It said that more than two thousand years ago,
There are many ethnic groups living in the southwest of the Central Plains, among which there is a ethnic group called the "Viper tribe". The place where they lived was in harsh mountains and rivers. Although they are now extinct, they were somewhat famous at the time.
The reason why this tribe is famous is that they keep vipers in every household. The vipers they raise are different from ordinary vipers. Their whole body is jet black and they are extremely large. They serve as their food and as pets to look after their homes.
They were influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, especially the voodoo technique in witchcraft, which has been greatly developed there. However, their voodoo cultivation has been separated from the basics and has its own system. The most famous one is the viper voodoo.
Especially the corpse viper is the most evil and vicious.
Like the general art of raising poisonous insects, they first locked many vipers in one place and let them kill each other. The last one left was the "raw material" for refining corpse vipers. They first used the animal's internal organs and
The viper was fed the viscera of the dead for three years, and then some of the corpses were mashed and put into a big jar. The viper was shut in, sealed with something, and stored. Every year, some fresh blood was added.
, repeat this for at least five years. If the corpse viper dies unexpectedly on the way, then the cultivation of the poison will be considered a failure. If it succeeds, it will break open the jar and crawl out. This thing will eat whatever it catches.
, as long as it is meat, it will eat nothing. The more it eats, the bigger and bigger it will become, its lifespan will be longer and longer, and it will become more and more ferocious.
And it's hard to kill this thing, after all, it has no head or limbs. Even if you shoot it a few times with a spray gun, you're basically tickling it.
They are very sensitive to human smells, and they also like fresh flesh and blood. I guess they smelled our scent when they chased us. I didn’t expect that there are such evil things in this world. Maybe it was where the ancient Shu king got this.
This is an evil way to raise poison, so I came up with this thing, but looking at it, I can't connect it with a viper. This thing has no head, no limbs, and even the eyes are hidden in the body.
It looks like a big rotten tumor, how could it be a snake?
However, I believed this theory in my heart. This thing is really weird, and it deserves a weird name. But where did it come from? It is clear in this hall, the ground and the surrounding walls are all
There is no hole. Drilled out of the bodies of those ancient corpses? Of course it is impossible. Even the bodies of ten ancient corpses combined are not as big as the body of this corpse viper. Since it is not crawling from the body of the ancient corpse
Could it be that these three statues came out? When I thought of this, I couldn't help but think of something I had experienced not long ago but had forgotten.
At this time, the corpse viper below has also crawled under the statue. Although its speed is not too fast, it is not slow either. It certainly does not use rolling when walking, but moves forward like a caterpillar. I think it
There must be many legs or tentacles under its body. If that is the case, we will be in trouble, because it can easily climb up the statue.
"We have to think of a way quickly. When it comes up, we will be finished."
Liu Qingping rolled his eyes at Han Qiwei who was speaking, curled his lips and said: "Can you not say anything that makes me look down on you? You can still have some scruples when you can't see it, but what can it do now that it comes up? The place here is so small, it only has
One and there are six of us, plus we occupy high positions and have weapons in our hands, do we still need to be afraid of it?"
Hearing his impassioned words, several of us were stunned for a moment. Yes, why should we be afraid of this corpse viper? If we were on flat ground, we might not be its opponent, but here we definitely have the advantage. What we should be afraid of is
It's just right.
I gave a wry smile. All along, when we encounter danger, we run away like crazy. No matter what danger we encounter, we never stop to think about whether it can really threaten our lives. Running away has become a problem.
He has become accustomed to it, so whenever he sees some abnormal situation, his subconscious thought is to run away.
Now the situation doesn't seem so bad. I rolled my eyes, smiled and said: "No matter whether it is dangerous or not, what we should do most is to find the entrance here. You wait here, I will go down and take a look.
If it were like what I thought, things would be much simpler."
I moved to the front of the statue, climbed along its forehead to its nose, and then climbed directly from the side to its mouth.
The mouth of the ancient King of Shu was wide open. I easily got into its mouth. When I looked inside, a dark hole immediately appeared in my sight. Sure enough, I took a deep breath and almost jumped up.
It is certain that this cave entrance is the only entrance in the entire palace and the only passage leading to the burial place of the ancient Shu king.
Thinking about the huge head we encountered in the canyon when we first came here, it was sandwiched between two mountains. Its mouth and the entire head were empty. That head looked older than the ancient Shu king's statue.
It is even more ancient. It may have existed when the ancient King of Shu passed by there. Perhaps he was inspired to create this same layout.
I didn't let them down immediately, but carefully got in first. Just as I thought, after walking a few steps, two passages appeared. One went directly down and the other went directly up. The one going down must be
It leads to the burial place of the ancient Shu king, and the upper end must be in the skull cavity.
I chose the top because I wanted to see what was inside. This was also done with some selfishness. If there was anything good, it would naturally be mine.
From the mouth but the distance inside the skull cavity was only more than two meters, I easily climbed to the top. The top was open, and I suddenly jumped onto it.
This place is just a space of two or three meters in size. It is built like an ordinary stone chamber and is very narrow. What immediately catches the eye is a huge copper vat, which is entirely made of bronze and has strange patterns carved on it.
The weird thing is that one of the pictures on it, "Picture of Gods and Ghosts", is very well preserved. I think if you want to get this thing out, it will definitely be a sky-high price. Of course, this is a fanciful idea. With what we have now
With the manpower and conditions, it is simply impossible to carry this big tank out.
I turned my attention to other places. There was no such thing as a stone bed here. Apart from this large vat, there were only a few small stone sculptures in the corner. They all looked like "ghost dolls", each occupying a space.
In the corner, he is also kneeling, facing the copper vat in the middle.
After suffering the loss last time, I didn’t bang those "ghost dolls" again. I walked directly to the copper jar. Originally, it should have been tightly covered, but now the lid had fallen to the side. When I stretched my head and looked inside, I saw that
There was nothing, just a dark liquid.
Smelling the sour smell emitted by this liquid, I immediately understood that the corpse viper below might have come out from here. This was a trap. I don’t know why it suddenly woke up. I felt that it was like what we inadvertently did.
Some of his actions are related, but I just can’t remember them.
It doesn't make much sense to say this now. There is nothing precious here. Although I am a little disappointed, I am not too disappointed. What I expected was the burial place of the ancient Shu king. I don't know if the "Book of Heaven" is still there.
Woolen cloth?
I went back the way I came. This inspection only took a few minutes. When I came back outside, the corpse viper below had already crawled to the neck of the statue. In less than two minutes, it could directly
Climb to the top of your head.
Several people above stood up, and one of them was holding a dagger and staring nervously at the corpse viper. Although he said that he didn't need to be afraid of it, he still couldn't help but panic when the matter came. This is human nature and there is nothing to laugh at.
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I felt that there was no need to waste time on the corpse viper, so I hurriedly called them and told them that I had found the entrance. It seemed that they all breathed a sigh of relief, and then quickly slid down from their foreheads and waited for the corpse viper to crawl away.
When it reached the chin, they all entered the statue's mouth.
Unexpectedly, the corpse viper turned out to be very smart. Its body was still stuck to the chin of the statue, but it suddenly changed its shape, like plasticine. The body became longer and longer, and finally formed the shape of a snake. But it
There are still no facial features, only two round eyes on the top of the head. The upper body has been extended into the mouth of the statue, raising its head and staring at us.
It was originally a viper, so it is not surprising that it became like this. Suddenly it launched an attack. It did not bite suddenly like an ordinary snake, but swayed its head and wrapped around our bodies.
I stood on the periphery and saw the snake's head twisting towards me, so I subconsciously raised the dagger and stabbed it. It hit the target, but what I didn't expect was that the body of this thing was like very thick tar, and the dagger penetrated it but
It was stuck and it didn't even come out.
The corpse viper's body trembled slightly, its head swayed, and it rolled directly towards me. At this time, I didn't react, and I was about to be trapped by it.
At the critical moment, Liu Qingping rushed to my side, grabbed my arm with one hand and hugged my waist with the other, and then pulled me back hard. This time he used all his strength, and I finally pulled out the dagger, and my body followed suit.