In the open space at the Longkou location of Bailong Valley, a few students with iron kettles, net racks, wooden sticks and other picnic utensils gathered together to prepare to make a fire and barbecue. There is no restriction on this kind of activity in the academy outing meeting, and the sandy and rocky geology of Bailong Valley is not easy to cause forest fires, so everyone is not surprised by this. On the contrary, there were a few students who temporarily participated in the picnic team because they felt novel.

There is always wind in the mountains, and although the wind is not strong, when the wind pours into the geographical form of Hakuryu Gorge, it tends to increase suddenly. This caused a lot of trouble for the students to make a fire, and the fire was extinguished as soon as it was opened. After a few fire folds were scrapped in a row, someone suggested that a large stone should be found as a windshield to make a fire.

When the students found a big stone to block the wind and successfully lit the fire, they simply used the big stone as the stove wall, added more than a dozen stones to surround it, made a stone stove temporarily, and set up picnic utensils on the spot.

However, the students never expected that they seemed to have found a good place to take advantage of the terrain to facilitate a picnic, but in fact, they had unknowingly stepped on the top of a python's cave, and frolicked at the entrance of the snake cave, and the hidden danger would break out at any time.

The smoke of firewood, the sound of people, and the heat emitted by the flames made the long python, which was supposed to wake up from hibernation in about a month, and crawled out of the cave. The head of the snake silently caught Song De's foot, which was closest to the cave, and although he didn't immediately open his mouth to bite it, it frightened several students around Song De and scattered in shock.

Song De continued to maintain a squatting posture and did not move a step.

One of the students who ran away hurriedly shouted, "Senior Brother Song, run quickly!" ”

Song De didn't say anything, just winked at the student.

Beside the student who was shouting, another student who was about seventeen or eighteen years old whispered to him: "Don't shout, Senior Brother Song can't move without permission at this time, because the python has already touched him, as long as he moves, the python will attack." Didn't you know that snakes are the most aggressive to moving objects? Maybe as long as Senior Brother Song doesn't move, the python thinks that he has touched a stone, and he will naturally leave. ”

The student who shouted at Song De before listened to the explanation of the student next to him, and then he understood, sighed and quickly closed his mouth, and the other students who were watching from a distance also quickly stopped whispering. A few of the masters glanced over to this side, saw that the situation was not chaotic, and then turned around and hurried to find the dean.

On the stone mountain, the dean had also seen the long python, and he was shocked and said anxiously: "How could you meet a snake?" How good is that! ”

Lin Shan took a closer look and comforted the dean: "Dean, rest easy, I look at the little green shadow on the long python and the blue spots of different colors on the black snake's head, and it is estimated that it is a non-poisonous green spotted python." In addition, the student's actions were very appropriate, and the snake had not fully awakened, so it would not hurt the student's life in an instant. ”

When the dean heard this, his tense heart relaxed slightly, the student's life was in danger, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said after taking a deep breath: "Then let's go down the mountain quickly." ”

Not far away, Xing Feng and Mo Ye, who were sitting on a rock and chatting while eating dried meat, also heard a strange sound from the other students. The two of them immediately got up from the stone and jumped to the ground, approaching the students who had gathered in a circle. It was only a few steps into the road, and Mo Ye, who noticed the long python, let out a low exclamation, and then stopped.

Seeing the frightened look on Mo Ye's face, Xing Feng put the oil paper bag in his hand into Mo Ye's hand, and then said softly: "If you're afraid of snakes, don't go and see it, just wait here." ”

"Oh." Mo Ye replied in a dull voice. Holding the hand wrapped in oiled paper, her five fingers tightened, and she whispered again: "Xingfeng, you have to be careful." ”

"It's fine." Xing Feng smiled at Mo Ye, and then walked into the crowd.

Seeing the python up close, Xing Feng was first surprised that the person trapped by the python was actually Song De! He immediately felt an urge to come to the rescue immediately, but at the same time, he heard a worried whisper from a student beside him: "In case of being bitten by a poisonous snake, Senior Brother Song will be in danger." ”

From this student's words, Xing Feng suddenly remembered something, and his mind calmed down a little.

He looked at the long python intently, his eyes carefully swept over the python's head, scales and python tail, and then his expression relaxed slightly, and said softly: "The pattern on this python's body is like mildew spots on the cake, but the whole python's head is pitch black, except for a large green spot on the top of the head." From this, I recognized that it was a blue-spotted python, which was ugly but actually non-venomous. ”

The few people closest to him were also relieved to hear him say this. However, the news only spread among the students, and one or two students were skeptical, but they were about to ask him for details, and it was inconvenient to talk at this time.

In fact, there were not only one or two people in the crowd who had doubts, most of the people who read the book were not familiar with wild knowledge, let alone more than 10 million species of snakes.

It's just that although they don't understand snakes, they have already found out that Xingfeng is the son of Orion in the more than a month since they entered school. In this way, even if they can't be sure whether the judgment of the punishment style is completely correct, they can still believe it.

At this time, he heard the voice of the dean from outside the crowd, and he ordered everyone to disperse a little more, and then Lin Shan walked over. He carried a crusty bow in one hand, and a long box containing arrows in the other, but he walked straight towards the torture wind.

Standing two steps in front of Xing Feng, Lin Shan's eyes said to him with a hint of approval: "Your judgment is very accurate. However, although the blue-spotted python was not poisonous, it was now slowly climbing up the student's legs. ”

Seeing that it was Lin Shan, Xing Feng's eyes were full of surprise, and he hurriedly bowed down and bowed: "Sir! ”

When he stood up straight, pondered the second half of Lin Shan's sentence for a moment, and gradually fell into silent contemplation again. But Lin Shan handed him the bow in his hand and said, "I know you can shoot arrows." ”

Xing Feng was stunned, and subconsciously reached out to catch the bow, but it froze when his hand was just stretched out. I don't know what he thought at this time, so he hesitantly stopped his hand in mid-air.

Lin Shan did not withdraw his hand because he didn't answer, but gave him an encouraging look. Stretching his bow and arrow forward a little more, he said quickly: "As a man, you must have the courage to make decisions, but if you don't have this confidence, you can take or reject, or straight." ”

His words made a clever flash in Xingfeng's mind, and at this time, there was silence all around, and Xingfeng only felt that the two voices in his brain were becoming clearer and clearer:

"Son, my father has worked hard for several years and can finally send you to the best academy in the county, study hard, don't let me down."

"Xingfeng, don't lose your self-confidence, don't give up on yourself."

After a while, Xingfeng finally mustered up the courage to take the bow and arrow from Lin Shan's hand. But as soon as he touched the rough skin of the crusty bow, a strange thought flashed through his mind: Shall I shoot the snake......

At this time, Lin Shan's voice of encouragement came from his ears: "Don't rub shoulders, it's important to save people - one qiē is to save people." ”

When Xing Feng came back to his senses, he saw that Lin Shan was already approaching the scholar who was entangled by the giant python, and Xing Feng hurriedly followed.

Lin Shan walked to a place still a foot away from the giant python and stopped, and then said to Xing Feng, who had already walked behind him: "The python and the snake are one family, and they shouldn't have come out of the hole in early spring. This python was forced out of the cave because the students lit a fire, if it was not in a half-conscious state, once it was entangled, I was afraid that it would either suffocate to death or die with a broken backbone. Although this python is not poisonous, its method of killing its prey is mainly by entanglement. Although it is not fully awake now, if it gets entangled in something with temperature, even if it is dormant, it will subconsciously become tighter and tighter. ”

Xing Feng looked at the long python that had climbed to Song De's waist, and he was also aware of this problem. If the python continues to climb up, even if the padded jacket worn by the person in early spring can separate a little body temperature, but when the snake climbs to Song De's neck, the long python that smells his breath only needs to twist the snake's body, causing Song De's neck to break, then Song De will never escape death.

Realizing that as time passed, the danger that Song De was about to encounter would get closer and closer, Xing Feng hurriedly asked, "Then what should I do?" ”

Lin Shan said quickly: "The snake hits seven inches, and so does the python." However, the bite lethality of the python is not weaker than that of the beast, which should not be underestimated, but you can't shoot the snake's head first. ”

Xing Feng thought for a moment and said, "Is it because shooting the snake's head first will make its winding strength suddenly tighten after feeling the severe pain?" ”

Lin Shan nodded and said, "Yes, to be exact, next you have to fire two arrows in a row, first shoot seven inches and then shoot the snake's head." ”

After his eyes were fixed on Xing Feng, he suddenly raised his voice slightly, as if he wanted to make his next words heard by all the students and masters: "You may have hesitated just now, saving people in this situation is not child's play, why do I choose you as an archer for so many people." I now tell you that I have the most confidence in you as a candidate for the archer, among all those present at the moment. ”

Lin Shan's tone paused slightly, and before Xing Feng could speak, he said again: "I live across the pond from you, and your house does not have a monastery wall, so I can not only see you practicing archery from time to time, but also count how many targets your arrow hits." They can study every day and have ink in their hearts, and you practice archery every day, can you do it now? ”

Xing Feng suddenly understood, and the doubts that had been wavering in his heart finally precipitated. Taking a deep breath, he made up his mind. He leveled the bow and put on the feather arrow, but when he was about to pull the string, his movements were sluggish, so he listened to him: "Sir, if I shoot such an arrow, if the shot misses or the force is too strong to shoot through the snake's body, it is not to accidentally injure Senior Brother Song." ”

Lin Shan pondered for a moment and said: "The combination of the arrow body and the arrow is well-founded, I am afraid that if you remove the arrow, with your current ability, I am afraid that you will not be able to better control the balance of the flying arrow." This bow and arrow is used in the martial arts practice of the academy, and it is much lighter than the military bow and arrow, and the arrow is actually only half of the blade, but it is ...... If you can't rest assured, that's the way it is......"

As soon as Lin Shan finished speaking, when he set off for the outing meeting wrapped around his left arm, the sky-blue brocade ribbon issued by the academy to indicate the identity of the academy was untied. He took another feathered arrow, quickly wrapped it around it with a brocade ribbon, and handed it to Xingfeng.

Xing Feng quickly came to his senses, he glanced at Lin Shan with gratitude and admiration, and put the original feather arrow in his hand upright

Sticking on the ground beside him, he took the feathered arrow wrapped in blue cloth wrapped around the arrow from Lin Shan, and put on the bowstring again.