Bean Donkey explained: "I tell you, poisons also have territorial awareness, and the more advanced the poison, the more so. Poison that has reached the level of the Poison King, unless it allows it, does not want to see any of its kind within a certain range. ”

Bean donkey's words are well understood. It's like the king cobra's territory rarely has other snakes, and the kind that appears is either food for the king snake or is scared to run away.

In a sense, the king cobra is the "poison king" of its own territory.

Bean Donkey continued: "The Poison King does not stay in one place for the rest of his life, sometimes he also moves his territory, if it runs to the territory of other Poison Kings, it is called the Double Kings Society, and you will never give up without separating one. ”

Dou Donkey pointed to the Medicine King Temple and said, "The poison kings I am talking about are all spirit insects, the real kings among poisonous insects, because they can summon their own kind." It's like the golden snake, which can command the snakes, and the snakes follow each other wherever they go, like embracing a prince. ”

I was surprised: "You mean, the eldest brother has to ask the younger brother to go first?"

"It's not just the little brother, the little brother has to rush up first!" said the bean donkey, "When the two poison kings meet, the poison follows each other and devours each other, and I have seen that scene once, two groups of snakes pinch the sky up and down the mountain, and finally one of them is all dead before the matter is over." ”

The bean donkey looked at the temple and said, "If you want me to say, it is not unreasonable for those people to rob snakes. If there is also a poisonous king in the second statue of the medicine king, as long as you throw the golden snake nearby, both sides can be pinched, and it will be much easier to find the statue of the medicine king when the time comes. ”

I pondered for a moment before I said, "If there is still a poison in the Medicine King Temple, what do you say it could be?"

The bean donkey affirmed: "Toad, it must be a toad." No decent poison can be found in this part of Hebei. ”

The five poisons mentioned by the folk are snakes, toads, centipedes, scorpions, and geckos, but there are no spiders. Domestic spiders are relatively small and not very toxic, and even southern spiders are not very toxic. The tarantula black widow is found in Africa and South America.

Although burrowing tarantulas are distributed in Xinjiang, and the toxicity can also kill people, they have not been discharged into the five poisons, in addition to the remoteness of the region, there is another important reason, that is, most things in Chinese culture are sorted by "virtue".

For example: "Yan Liuou Zhao" regular script four families, Zhao Mengfu's line is a must, but as an official of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu ran to the court of the Yuan Dynasty after the destruction of the Song Dynasty and became an official, so he can only rank fourth.

Not to mention "Beige Su Cai". Cai, who should have been Cai Jing, was directly kicked out of the four major families of the Northern Song Dynasty by his descendants because of his bad reputation, and was replaced by Cai Xiang.

The ancients sorted calligraphy like this, and so did ordering other things. Although the five poisons are hideous and terrifying, the five poisons can be used in medicine. The term "five poisons" first appeared in the classics as a good medicine, and it was gradually extended later. Snakes can rank first among the five poisons, not because snakes are the most venomous, but because snakes are the most widely used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Although spiders can also be used as medicine, they are not widely used and are easily replaced by other drugs, so they are not included in the five poisons.

Dou Donkey said that there can only be toads in the Yaowang Temple, because Hebei is not a province rich in poisons, and even the varieties of poisonous snakes cannot be compared with Yunnan and Sichuan, let alone other poisons. The only thing that the poison king in the temple can summon is probably a toad.

I was silent for a while before I said, "Dou Donkey, contact Lao Chen and ask him to find a way to stop the fire brigade for a day, and let's go into the temple to see what they want to do." ”

I waited for the fire brigade to evacuate, we hid in the empty Yaowang Temple, and kept watch on the roof until nightfall, and there was a rustling sound outside the Yaowang Temple, and it didn't take long for snake shadows to swim into the temple gate and gather in the open space in the middle of the Yaowang Temple.

After nearly half an hour's work, hundreds of snakes were like arranging troops to form an incense burner, occupying half of the open space of the Yaowang Temple.

I whispered to the bean donkey and asked, "Do you see anything?"

The bean donkey whispered: "It looks like the golden snake is going to lose!" If you look carefully, there are only a few poisonous snakes on the head, and although the long worms behind are big, they are all vegetable snakes, and they can't get the toads. ”

I don't know the species of snakes, and I can't tell if they are poisonous or not, but I can see that those poisonous snakes dare not cross the incense burner. If there is really a poisonous king in the temple, it must be hidden near the incense burner.

I leaned on the eaves and gestured to Ye Xun on the other side, who gently broke off a tile and bounced it at the poisonous snake that hit the head. After the tiny stone struck the snake's tail without slanting, the poisonous snake sprang up violently, and suddenly crossed the incense burner more than a meter away.

After it realized that it had strayed into the territory of the Poison King, it was too late to try to escape. The panicked viper was not unfast, but it only turned one direction, and then its belly flipped and it lay motionless on the ground.

The vipers guarding behind the boundary couldn't help but let out a mournful roar, and they all moved back a little.

When I looked down again, about two or three meters from the incense burner, a layer of misty white smoke suddenly floated out, and the green bricks on the ground seemed to have been lifted from the bottom to the top by something, but they quickly fell back into place.

I whispered, "There's something down there." ”

"It should be a toad! That thing is good at making holes, and it will be fine to lie in the hole for a year and a half. "The toad didn't call him an accomplice, and it seems that all the toads in the neighborhood have been eaten by it." ”

As the donkey spoke, the green bricks on the ground bulged a few inches again, and this time, I clearly saw a dark red frog skin exposed under the green bricks.

The toad hidden under the stone slab seemed to be unable to stand the provocation of the poisonous snake, and wanted to break through the ground and kill the Quartet, but it seemed to disdain to do it with the ordinary little snake, thinking that it would lose the identity of the poisonous king, so it kept rising and falling against the stone slab, waiting for the appearance of the snake king.

I stared at the slate for a long time, and suddenly I pulled out my gun, aimed at the gap between the two bricks, and pulled the trigger. Although I was crouching on the eaves, I was only a distance of one or twenty meters from the stone slab, which was exactly within Magnum's effective range.

In the night, a bullet with a red light burst between the two bricks, and the two bricks were lifted off the ground along with a piece of colorful rubber.

"Fake?" the bean donkey couldn't help but exclaim, and stood up from the eaves.

"Get down!" I pulled the bean donkey and dragged him down on the roof, and two crossbow arrows flew over our heads.

Before the two of us could look up, a tile not far from me slid down the slope of the eaves. Instinctively, I dodged the falling tiles, only to see a piece of green snake body swimming quickly from under the tiles.

"There are snakes under the roof tiles. "As soon as I greeted the bean donkey, I saw the glazed tiles on the roof fall one by one, and dozens of poisonous snakes seemed to burrow onto the roof from under the falling tiles, spitting snake hyacinths and swimming quickly towards us.

The bean donkey suddenly grabbed my arm and lifted me off the roof: "You go first, I will meet him!"

After I was lifted away by the bean donkey, I spun around twice in the air in a row, and before I could hit the ground, I first threw out a handful of realgar, and the snakes gathered on the ground retreated in panic at the moment when the realgar powder fell, giving me a vacant space.

Before my feet hit the ground, the bean donkey who was still on the house had already raised his voice and shouted: "Lu Yifei, a disciple of the Medicine King Valley, who is a friend who plays with drugs nearby, how about coming out to meet him?"

"Medicine King Valley?" A sneer suddenly came from the hall at the foot of the bean donkey, "A group of unjust ghosts." They can't do anything to me when they're alive, and if they're dead, they can still do it? If you want to see me, you can step on the roof tiles yourself!"

As soon as the man finished speaking, there was a sound of broken tiles on the roof. After the bean donkey on the house fell into the hall one after the other with the broken tiles, he immediately shouted: "Wang Huan, there is a poisonous array here, don't come in!"

The donkey just shouted, and there was no movement in the room, and my heart suddenly lifted.

At this moment, there was also a sound of sword wind breaking through the air on the roof of the house where Ye Xun was hiding.

Ye Xun also did it with someone over there?

As soon as I turned my head to look in Ye Xun's direction, I heard Ye Xun shouting from the rooftop, "Stop!"

"Ye Xun, don't chase!" I wanted to stop Ye Xun but it was too late, and I saw Ye Xun's figure rise up on the roof and fall towards the main hall of the Medicine King opposite. But as soon as Ye Xun stepped on the roof with one foot, the glazed tiles under his feet flew up in an instant, and the rubble ejected and collapsed around, and Ye Xun fell into the hall without accident.

"Ye Xun!" I just wanted to go over for reinforcements, but the snake formation that had retreated into the distance surrounded me in an instant. My steps instinctively paused, but the doors and windows of the main hall, which had been wide open, closed at the same time in an instant, cutting off my view.

The sound of knives broke out in the main hall, and Ye Xun shouted at the same time: "Wang Huan, don't come here, there is an ambush here!"

"Ye Xun, Ye Xun ......" I shouted twice, but the only thing that responded to me was the sound of the knife that broke the wind and laughed wildly.

I quickly pulled over my backpack and pulled out a handful of realgar powder from it. But before I could scatter the realgar at the snakes, I heard a childish voice near me say, "Don't bother, my snakes are not afraid of realgar, they usually bathe in realgar water." If you have to try it, I don't mind if you give my darlings a bath. ”

When I followed the sound and looked over, the little girl who had given me the note in the station had already stepped out of the shadows of the Medicine King Palace.

I glanced at the other party, and then scattered the realgar in my hand, and the poisonous snake on the ground not only did not take half a step back, but swam towards me in the face of the falling realgar powder.

The kid couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Why doesn't anyone believe me when I tell the truth?"