Chapter 6: The Pit Viper

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It only took one day for Ye Hong to prepare the desert travel equipment: a sand donkey (an animal similar to a camel), a backpack, a steel dagger, a convenient shovel, antidote, tents, etc., of course, food and water bladders, in addition to the blacksmith specially made several flying needles and smeared with paralyzing poison. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info The next morning, he embarked on a desert journey in the face of the newborn sun.

The vast desert is always full of danger and death, lack of food and water, desert storms and sand caves, and Ye Hong's goal: poisonous desert snakes and insects can ruthlessly wipe out life. Of course, the desert is also pregnant with legends and wealth, and like in previous lives, the desert here also had a glorious civilization, but with the deterioration of the environment, everything turned into grains of sand.

Under the blazing sun, Ye Hong cleaned up the corpse of a desert monitor lizard that had been charred by the fireball technique just now, and dug out a crystal nucleus the size of a little finger from the monitor lizard's head and put it in his backpack. Tilting his head and pouring saliva, he squinted his eyes at the large fireball that radiated a huge amount of light and heat above his head, "I've been wandering in the desert for half a month, and I haven't found either a pit viper or a curved-tailed scorpion, is my luck so bad?" muttered in a low voice, he led the sand donkey with a wooden stick and stepped on the sand grains and continued to walk forward with a deep foot and a shallow foot. Due to the completion of the sixth exercise of "Peiyuan Cultivation Spring Gong", Ye Hong has a physique beyond ordinary people, although he is in a dry and hot desert environment, he does not feel very uncomfortable. In half a month, he had crossed the edge of the desert and began to enter the hinterland of the desert, but he had gained very little.

Turning over a sand dune, looking far away in the western sky, there was a dark cloud, a vague piece under the dark cloud, a gust of wind full of sand particles blew in the face, relying on the experience and knowledge of the previous life, it seems that there is a sandstorm coming, you have to find a place to hide. Ye Hong rode on a sand donkey and drove quickly in the opposite direction of the sandstorm, looking around as he ran, looking for a place to escape.

Half an hour later, Ye Hong finally found a lonely round boulder buried deep in the yellow sand, revealing that the sand surface was about seven or eight meters high, just enough for one person to dodge. At this time, the sandstorm was very close, and the violent storm made Ye Hong feel that he was about to be blown up, and after giving up the sand donkey, he hurriedly hid in the back of the boulder, leaning against the boulder tightly, feeling a little stable in his heart. Immediately after that, the desert storm all over the sky followed, and Ye Hong, who was a human being, felt the terrible power of nature for the first time, the whole world was yellow, and there was only the scream of the storm in his ears, and the earth seemed to tremble.

He adjusted his standing posture, so that the whole person was as close to the boulder as possible, and spit out the saliva full of sand grains, just about to pick up the water bladder to drink water, and suddenly felt the boulder on his back tremble violently, "Not good!" Before Ye Hong could react, his feet suddenly emptied, and the whole person fell, and he was instantly caught by the yellow sand, and he didn't know anything as soon as his eyes were dark.

I don't know how long it took, Ye Hong slowly opened his eyes, and found that he was lying on his back on a pile of sand, surrounded by an empty darkness, only a faint light carrying sand particles above his head shot down, he moved his hands and feet slightly, and found that his body was basically fine except for a few abrasions.

Ye Hong sat up slowly, let his eyes slowly adapt to the dark environment, and found that he fell into an empty hole in the ground, the hole was very large, and he couldn't see the edge in the dark, and he only saw a few small holes that emitted a faint light upward, and it was estimated that there were three or four people high from the top of his head, and it was impossible to return to the surface from here without the help of tools, Ye Hong was at a loss. At this time, his stomach also made a slight "gurgling" sound in accordance with the environment, and sighed softly, Ye Hong dragged the backpack that fell down from not far away, and thought while taking out dry food and water bladders to eat and drink. Ye Hong, who is a human being, is very calm, since he has fallen and can't return the same way, he can only carefully explore this cave after replenishing his energy to see if he can find a way out.

After eating and drinking, Ye Hong began to explore, first released his divine sense, carefully scanned a circle of more than ten meters around, and to his surprise, it turned out that the place he was in was not a hole in the ground, but a tall building covered by sand grains. Because he scanned with his divine sense, he felt that not far away, there was a huge stone pillar that could only be hugged by five or six people, and the huge rock that sheltered from the desert storm was probably the exposed part of this cylinder in the desert, which had been eroded by the wind and sun and could not see its original appearance, but the giant pillar in the sand cave could clearly see the traces of artificial carving. With the help of the little glimmer sprinkled on it, Ye Hong relied on his eyesight beyond ordinary people to see a huge dragon relief carved on the giant pillar, and the pattern of scorpions was sporadically carved in the blank space of the giant pillar, which was a strange combination. Ye Hong slowly circled around the giant pillar, but he didn't find any vision.

Suddenly, a "whooshing" sound of water came into his ears, "Is there water here?" Ye Hong shook his head suspiciously, and listened carefully again, and the sound of "whooshing" came intermittently, "It should be right, there is really water." Ye Hong was overjoyed for a while, the scientific knowledge of his previous life: a person can go without food for seven days, but he can't go without drinking water for three days. If there is water here, then his near-term survival is guaranteed. With a happy mood, he slowly walked towards the sound of water, because he knew that there was more or less danger in every water source in the desert, and it was very likely that a certain one or a group of fierce desert creatures occupied this water source, so as the sound of running water became louder and closer to the water source, he became more and more cautious.

Ye Hong clenched the dagger in his hand, and at the same time controlled the paralyzing flying needle to levitate in front of his chest, ready to fly out at any time. The sound of running water was getting louder and louder, but his steps were getting smaller and slower. Suddenly, a ribbon-like black shadow rushed towards him, Ye Hong hurriedly carried the spirit monkey butterfly fluttering footwork and retreated sharply, and at the same time controlled three flying needles to shoot towards the ribbon black shadow, it may have happened suddenly, the first flying needle was not well controlled, and the ribbon object passed by, but second, the three flying needles were accurately nailed to the ribbon black shadow, nailing it to the sand, only to see it desperately twisting its body to break free from the flying needle, but with the paralyzing drug of the paralyzing poison, it gradually did not move.

Ye Hong used his true qi to form a fireball in the palm of his hand, and slowly approached this banded black shadow through the illumination of the fireball, which turned out to be a poisonous snake about two feet long and about three fingers wide, with a few black stripes in the middle of the earthy yellow and a few holes in the tail, which was indeed the pit viper he was looking for. This snake is a rare species of highly venomous snake in the desert, attacking extremely fast, coming and going like the wind, often hiding in dark hiding places and waging its tail, using the hole in the tail to make a sound in the air that is close to flowing water to attract other creatures to approach, and then relying on the advantage of speed and poison to suddenly launch a fatal blow. Its poison is so strong that even if the beast king sand lion in the desert is bitten by this poisonous snake, it will definitely die, so ordinary desert creatures will retreat as long as they see this poisonous snake. Fortunately, Ye Hong was more cautious and restrained it with a flying needle in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable once he was bitten by it.

Finally found a pit viper, Ye Hong excitedly picked up this pit viper snake and prepared to take snake venom. Inadvertently, his eyes swept around, but he saw a scene that made him creepy: there was a rectangular stone on a sandy ground more than ten meters in front of him, and there was a vague stone statue behind the stone, but what made his hair stand on end was that there was a large piece of gently wagging tails and a burst of "whooshing" sound of running water on the large open sand around the stone. Ye Hong strengthened his divine sense and scanned the surroundings, and found that there were pieces of tails wagging on the sand in front of him and on the left, only the right and the back were not. Let Ye Hong look for a pit snake that he hadn't seen for many days, there were as many as hundreds of them in this underground building.

strayed into the snake's nest, and Ye Hong's legs were weak for a while. Fortunately, except for this lone pit viper, the other hundreds were at least ten meters away from him, the snakes were all amblyopia, and Ye Hong moved carefully and carefully, and the hundreds of pit vipers did not notice his existence. Ye Hong kept releasing his divine sense and carefully retreated, only to feel that his heart was beating fast, and kept telling himself to calm down.

After half a pillar of incense, he finally retreated to the edge of the column, and after his divine sense scanned the fact that it was indeed safe around him, Ye Hong's legs were weak and he collapsed on the sand. After a violent gasp and control of the heart that was about to come out, he took out the water bladder with difficulty and poured two mouthfuls of water before regaining a trace of strength, "It's so dangerous!" Ye Hong muttered to himself after wiping a handful of sweat on his face.

It is indeed dangerous, if it is not discovered in time, I am afraid that if I walk a few steps further, I will be besieged by hundreds of pit vipers, and I will definitely die. "Gotta get out of this dangerous place quickly. Ye Hong looked up the giant pillar expectantly at the few points of the aperture that emitted a glimmer of light. Suddenly, as if he had found something, he quickly moved his gaze to the giant pillar, and finally understood why he felt strange after seeing the relief on the giant pillar for the first time, the relief on the giant pillar was not a dragon, but a huge pit viper. Could it be that this is...

Ye Hong's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, when he went to buy medicine, he once heard the shopkeeper of the pharmacy say that the pit viper is the holy snake of a extinct indigenous tribe in the desert, this indigenous tribe obeys the pit viper as the protector of the tribe, and once spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build a magnificent temple in the center of the city of the tribe's capital "City of Hope": the pit viper temple. The temple houses a large number of pit vipers brought from all over the desert, fed daily with the flesh and blood of young people, and worshipped day and night in the hope that the snake god will give the tribe strength. At the beginning, it seems that the snake god really blessed the tribe with blessings and strength, and it is said that the tribe has given birth to several legendary heroes in just a few decades, leading the tribe's armed forces to conquer many nearby indigenous tribes, and at its most glorious time, it once occupied half of the territory of the Eastern Desert.

It's a pity that when the whole tribe is looking forward to when they can conquer the entire desert, the snake god doesn't know why he withdrew the blessing and power given, and the heroes withered one after another, but this is still secondary, the most terrible thing is that the pit viper after devouring the flesh and blood of most of the young people of the tribe had a large-scale snake tide one night, and the pit viper rushed out of the temple and entered the city to bite everyone in the "City of Hope". Since then, the tribe has been in ruins, and with the weakening of the tribe and the invasion of foreign enemies, the indigenous tribe and the "City of Hope" have disappeared into history, and no one knows where the once magnificent work has been covered in the desert. Could this be the Temple of the Pit Viper in the City of Hope?

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