The cockscomb snake is haunting and extremely difficult to find, that is, these snake catchers have trained an extremely sensitive sense of smell since childhood, coupled with the special traces of the identification and crawling of the cockscomb snake through guò, which can be traced all the way.

However, Rao is like this, it is extremely difficult to catch a cockscomb snake that walks like wind and lightning, even if it is a qiēshun lì, it will take ten days and a half months to do it. Many times, it is often useless to do futile work, tracking for dozens of days, but the cunning beast jumps into the mountain stream, hides in the cracks of the cliff and escapes.

But once caught and handled properly, the gains brought by the cockscomb snake are also great.

The cockscomb snake can be said to be a treasure, snake skin, snake eyes, snake gall and snake venom can be used in medicine, which can treat many incurable diseases that are helpless in today's medical profession.

The secret medicine was made and sold to people who knew the goods, and the price before the Republic of China was a pair of medicine and a large yellow croaker, that is, a large gold bar weighing ten taels.

Therefore, although this snake catcher is hard and dangerous, as long as he can catch one within a year, then this year will not be in vain, if he catches two, then the next year's food and clothing will be earned.

Of course, this big yellow croaker is not only their own, but also some of them need to be handed over to the clan to feed the old, weak, sick and disabled who cannot enter the mountain.

And as the strength increases, the number of surrenders will become more and more, but on the whole, there will be more and more leftovers.

is like a brother and sister like a snake eye and snake heart, and he has to catch a dozen or twenty every year.

However, all things have spirits, and the butcher has killed too many pigs and dogs, and the animals have to retreat when they see it, not to mention the snake catcher and cockscomb snakes and other snake species that have been covered with blood since childhood.

As they get older and older, there are more and more snakes to kill, and the murderous aura on their bodies will naturally be more vigorous, in the eyes of these spirit beasts, as long as they appear, they are like a lighthouse in the dark night, unusually piercing, so they are seen from afar, they can escape, they can run, only those unlucky eggs who can't escape or fall into the trap will be peeled and cramped into medicine, and dedicated to the great cause of sacrificing themselves for others.

And the snake eye and snake heart have been troubled by this question for a long time.

When they stepped into the transformation realm, their body elements were greatly enhanced, and they ran through the barren mountains and mountains as if they were walking on flat ground, and their speed could even catch up with the supernatural snakes that had evolved for hundreds of millions of years before they survived the fittest and generated such a body.

As a result, they also enjoyed the dividends brought by the improvement of the realm for a period of time, and the number of cockscomb snakes and chessboard snakes and other xenomorphic snakes they caught soared several times.

But the good times didn't last long, it only lasted a few months, and after fifty or sixty arrests, the problems that plagued their entire ethnic group also appeared in them.

The prey has been greatly reduced, and even for many days he returned empty-handed, and he could only eat his old book.

If it weren't for the fact that the number of prey caught by others had not changed much, and if it weren't for the words and deeds of the old people in the family, they would have really thought that those valuable xenomorph snakes had been caught by them.

Fortunately, the snake catcher is also a big family that has been inherited for hundreds of years, and in response to this situation, they have also come up with many methods, such as chasing one person and blocking the other, setting up traps, and throwing them into the net, such as arranging a formation to hide their breath, and waiting for the rabbit on the road that these different species must pass.

Chen Yi didn't find any trace of the snake heart before, just because she had been hiding in the formation, and her aura and body were hidden, if an ordinary stone in the mountains was like a dead tree stump, it was extremely difficult to distinguish.

After the snake heart and snake eyes walked out for several miles, the snake heart saw that his brother seemed to be in a state of despair, looking back in the direction of the road from time to time, and couldn't help laughing: "Brother, can't you let go of that He girl?" Hehe, there are so many women outside the mountain, and there are some who are better than her appearance, as long as you use a little means, then it is not obedient to your mercy?"

Snake Eye shook his head and said, "No, I'm not thinking about the He family's girl, I'm thinking about where they are going, we have caught fewer and fewer snakes recently, and the Snake King is no longer satisfied, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid the Snake King will anger the two of us." ”

Snake Heart's face darkened, and he said helplessly: "Then what can be done, the snake king only needs the cockscomb snake and the chessboard snake, and the others are regarded as grass mustard, and these two snakes are so time-consuming and laborious to catch, it is not something we can do if we want to do it." ”

Snake Eye stopped, took out a small colorful snake with the thickness of an index finger and a length of twenty centimeters from the collar, put it in his hand and played with it, hesitated a little, and said, "Perhaps, we can go to that place to try our luck." ”

"Where is it?" Snake Heart asked.

"Caiyun Gorge!"

"Caiyun Gorge?"

The snake heart was stunned for a moment, and then his complexion changed greatly, stared at the snake's eyes, and said: "You are crazy, you must be crazy, there are not only countless cockscomb chessboards in Caiyun Gorge, but also countless other poisonous insects and poisons, ordinary people are dead ends, let alone snake catchers like us?"

Caiyun Gorge is a canyon in the depths of Shennongjia, because it is surrounded by mountains on all sides, the middle is low, and there are several huge holes that are said to be straight to the center of the earth, and bursts of heat come out of it, so the climate there is humid and hot all year round, and the vegetation is vigorous, even after winter, there is still green grass like old trees budding, and the bare scene outside, completely two layers of heaven and earth.

And there are often seven-colored fog floating in the sky above the canyon, and the clouds are steaming and foggy, just like a fairyland, so it is named Caiyun Gorge.

Legend has it that the ancient Shennong clan had tasted herbs here, identified medicines, and lived for several months, so it was contaminated with the breath of the gods, which gave rise to the thick mist of colorful clouds like the heavenly palace.

However, the snake heart knew that these colorful clouds and thick mist were not immortal breath at all, but the poisonous gas produced by the breath of countless poisonous substances condensed together, forming this beautiful and deadly "auspicious cloud".

And because they hunt too many poisons, they are mortal enemies with those poisonous snakes, and a cockscomb snake or a chessboard snake may not be able to tolerate them, but if there are dozens or hundreds of them together, I am afraid that even the snake king will come to hate this place, and pay off the blood debt of those decades of hunting.

For their snake catchers, that Caiyun Gorge is no less than the Yama Ghost Palace, and they will die if they enter it!

Snake Eye is not crazy, he knows the danger there very well, but he still said so, and he is ready to do so, but before going to Caiyun Gorge, he must convince his sister.

He smiled, a rare warm smile on his ugly face, and said: "I'm not crazy, but we can really try our luck, the mountain movers asked us a lot, I feel that their destination is the Caiyun Gorge, and the Xieling Lux is also here, presumably it is the same purpose, they will inevitably have the means to restrain those poisonous insects, we just need to follow behind them and pick up some poisonous insects and poisons, which is enough for our ten years of hard work." Haven't you always wanted to get out of this forest and go to live in a big city, with those poisonous snake poisons, even if the snake king is unreasonable, it is impossible to leave you and me here. ”

The big eyes of the snake heart demon turned around, this is a dream she has had since she was a child, not that she has to go to the big city, but she wants to leave this damn place, get rid of this ghost day of dealing with poisonous snakes all day, any place can be, but she was born in the wrong place, became one of the snake catchers, and accidentally became the snake heart, one of the five most important humerus of the snake king, which has been left in this inaccessible jungle.

Looking at his sister's expression, Snake Eye knew that she was moved, although his sister has always been eccentric and often plays with people in applause, but he is Snake Heart's brother, and he knows more about Snake Heart than herself, a look, an expression, he can guess what Snake Heart thinks.

"If we can come back from there, we can move out, like those Xieling Lux, go overseas, buy a few houses and a few plots of land, and live the rest of our lives in peace, if we can't get out, how much worse do you think we can be than the current days? It's nothing more than death! But if we continue like this, our fate may be worse than death!"

The withered yellow eyes of the snake eyes stared at the snake heart motionlessly, he has never been good at talking, but he can analyze the pros and cons thoroughly, thinking that these words have been stored in his heart for a long time.

As Snake Eye expected, Snake Heart's heart moved, and the heart that had not been felt for a long time was pounding, like someone holding a hammer and beating a radical rock music in her bosom.

She embarrassed He Qingqing and his party just now, not because of any grudges, but because of jealousy and unwillingness. Of course, the jealousy and unwillingness here have nothing to do with the little man who has been secretly watching from the corner of her eyes, but because the snake heart is jealous that she can choose her own life, and her family and her teachers will not prevent her from choosing her own life.

The serpent's thoughts are spinning rapidly, on the one hand, it is a wonderful life, but the price is the possibility of death, and on the other hand, it is temporarily safe, but the consequence is that life is worse than death!

There seems to be nothing to hesitate about.

But the snake heart still hesitated!

"If I go overseas, then what should you do, I remember you once said, you like the forest, these flowers and trees are much better than people, they never deceive, let alone deceive, you are familiar with every inch of land here, every tree, every stone is your friend, if you go to the world of reinforced concrete, can you adapt?"

She raised her head and looked up at her brother's ugly face, and felt unbearable, and felt even more sorry for him.

At that time, he was also a handsome man, thin and tall, clean, with his hair always covered in front of his eyes, and many girls around him regarded him as the first choice for marrying in the future.

However, it was not until that time that they went into the mountain together, because of a small mistake of hers, that the little chessboard snake that she had just caught flew out and bit him in the face, and the venom was injected, and the white and pure face quickly swelled.

When she hurriedly used the secret antidote to snatch his life, one side of his face became like this forever.

I don't know if it's because of the disfigurement, from a handsome guy to a yaksha ghost who can stop children's night hooves, and can't accept this gap, or because the world is really powerful, the attitude before and after the change is great, so that his heart is sad, anyway, since then, this snake eye has rarely interacted with outsiders, if it is not necessary, he is either in the mountains and forests, or in his own house.

Snake Eyes smiled, the corners of his mouth were a little crooked, and said, "You are the heart of a snake, the smartest of the snake catchers, how come you don't even have this bit of wisdom." There are forests overseas, and there are poisonous snakes overseas, I don't live with you in the steel forest, but I can still build a hut in the forest and live freely. ”

"Really?"

A wonderful light suddenly burst out of the snake's eyes, full of hope for the future.

"Really!"

The snake eye nodded heavily, and the dead face on his face seemed to be about to sprout in the sunlight shining through the branches, which was exceptionally warm and amiable.