The next day, the witch king suddenly summoned his three children and Cao Xiaoyang to him, saying that he had an important task to be entrusted to them.

More than ten years ago, he had raised a special beetle snake Gu in a place called Hongyue Lake outside the Worm Mountain Valley.

It is to seal hundreds of wisteria pythons in the lake, make them kill each other, and feed on the corpses of dead snakes, and so on until there is only one python left in the lake, and then it can transform into a beetle snake.

Not only is the beetle snake larger than the average python, but its scales also become thicker, and its hardness is comparable to steel.

In addition, large pythons are often non-venomous, and beetles will grow fangs in the process of becoming Gu, and have the ability to release highly poisonous venom, and the most important thing is that once the beetle snake Gu is cultivated, it will also have the ability to soar into the sky like a dragon, which can be said to be a very invincible killing weapon.

The Witch King raised the wisteria python in the Red Moon Lake many years ago, and now more than ten years have passed, and the beetle snake Gu is about to succeed, usually the Gu keeper will control the Gu worm through something called Gu Yin, and Zhang Yulan's Ten Thousand Insect Nest was a kind of Gu Yin before.

A few days ago, the Witch King noticed through the Gu Temptation that although the Snake Gu was about to be completed, the Snake as a Gu worm seemed to have a tendency to break free from the Gu Temptation, and once it successfully broke free, then it would not be controlled by the Gu Keeper in the future and become a fierce beast alone.

Due to the Gu worm's unique ability to sense living beings, it may attack the Worm Valley as soon as it becomes a fierce beast.

Therefore, the task given to the four young people by the Witch King is to go to the Red Moon Lake to strengthen the Gu Yin's restraint on the beetle snake, if it really can't work, then it needs to be strangled and cradled while the beetle snake is not yet mature.

After the Witch King finished talking about the content of the task, Chi Xiaoyue suddenly said: "Father, for such an important matter, you should let Chi Yu and Brother Chi Jiang bring more clansmen over, as for me and Xiaoyang, we don't know much about beetle snake Gu in the first place, and it won't help much if we go." ”

"Look at what your girl said, you are the daughter of my witch king, Xiaoyang is my son-in-law, you will inherit the great cause of my clan in the future, at this time, whether you can help or not, you should practice it. After all, the abilities of your two elder brothers are not innate, and it is not that they later accumulated experience in the process of doing things for their father, so that they have today's achievements. ”

"However, I will be married in a few days, and I really don't have the heart to let me do this kind of thing at this time. ”

The witch king said: "What about getting married, can you just care about your own little life after you get married, and you can forget the great cause of our clan?"

"But ......"

"Don't say it again, this matter is a father's mind, usually my father has always been used to you, this time I must not let you be willful, dealing with the beetle snake Gu, this is a rare opportunity for you and Xiaoyang to experience. If you can't even do this kind of trivial thing, how can you rest assured that the Worm Valley will be handed over to you after a hundred years of being a father. ”

Chi Xiaoyue pouted and whispered: "I didn't want to inherit any worm valley, but they can't leave this kind of thing to my brother......

"What did you say!"

The witch Gu in the Miaojiang region, unless it is in special circumstances, generally uses women as heirs, and Chi Xiaoyue has been given high hopes by the witch king since she was a child, so this kind of thing has never been allowed to be joked about.

"Okay, okay, I didn't say anything, let's go to the head office. ”

After leaving the Worm Mountain Valley, Chi Jiang said to Chi Xiaoyue: "Xiaoyue, are you afraid of getting hurt, so you don't want to go to Hongyue Lake." Don't worry, with my brother here, I will never let that beast hurt a single hair of your hair. ”

Chi Xiaoyue took Cao Xiaoyang's hand and walked behind them, snorted and said, "Brother, do you think your sister looks like that kind of coward? How could I be afraid of getting hurt, I'm just ......"

As soon as she said half of her words, she suddenly stopped, in fact, she originally wanted to say that she was afraid that Cao Xiaoyang would be injured, after all, he had very little contact with witch Gu, but then she thought that saying this would inevitably make him lose face, so she turned to say: "I just hate snakes very much, so I don't want to go." ”

"Yes, I remember that you have raised a lot of red snakes, how can you hate snakes?"

Chi Xiaoyue said with some hesitation: "That...... That was before, and I hate snakes now. ”

"Yes, of course you can ......"

From their conversation, Cao Xiaoyang noticed that this Chi Jiang also doted on this sister very much, so it was no wonder that she could be so presumptuous when she spoke.

Red Moon Lake was not far from Worm Mountain, and it took them about two hours to walk to get there, so it was no wonder that the Witch King would say that the beetle snake would attack Worm Valley as soon as it got out of control.

Along the way, Chi Xiaoyue kept holding Cao Xiaoyang's hand and talking and laughing in the back, or picking a few wild flowers for Cao Xiaoyang to help her carry on her head, Chi Yu kept walking in the front, and did not say a word on the whole way.

Located in the middle of a mountain forest, the Red Moon Lake has a standard circular outline, and from the distant slopes it does look like a full moon.

The lake is surrounded by many towering trees with aerial roots, although the area of the lake is not small, but unless it is noon, it is difficult for the lake surface to get sunlight, so such a backlit and humid place is indeed a good natural place to raise Gu.

After coming to Hongyue Lake, Chi Yu and Chi Jiang nailed a lot of wooden stakes around the lake, and then wrapped some black ropes around the stakes.

According to Chi Xiaoyue, the ropes are made from the skin of a small, highly venomous snake that, despite its small size, is the nemesis of the wisteria python, which can burrow into its scales and release its venom, which can then be easily poisoned to death.

Under normal circumstances, snakes eat their prey by swallowing, and their teeth do not have the function of gnawing and chewing, but this small poisonous snake is one of the few snakes that can eat prey, and naturally likes to eat the flesh and blood of the wisteria python, so it has become the biggest natural enemy of the wisteria python.

The rope made of the snake skin of this poisonous snake has a natural restraint effect on the wisteria python, and it also happens to be the Gu attraction of the beetle snake Gu.

After arranging these stakes and ropes, Chi Jiang said: "The anger on the lake is very heavy, it seems that my father's Gu has been abolished. ”

Chi Xiaoyue said: "That means you want to kill it?"

Chi Jiang nodded. "In this case, there should be no way to control it for our use. ”

At this time, Chi Yu took the iron rod in his hand and stirred it in the dark lake water, and said, "It seems that this guy will take at least three days to mature, so now is the best time to deal with it." ”

"But the lake seems to be full of snake venom, and it's not a good idea to rush into the water." ”

"The beetle snake likes shade, and it will definitely come out to breathe after dark, and then it will be the best time to hunt it. ”

"Just in case, let's pick some herbs around here and do it again in the evening. ”

There is a saying in the Miaojiang area that if a person is bitten by a poisonous snake, then the antidote can be found around the poisonous snake.

Therefore, Chi Jiang felt that there must be herbs around this Red Moon Lake that could detoxify the venom of the snake.

So they split into two teams, Cao Xiaoyang and Chi Xiaoyue, and Chi Yu and Chi Jiang in search of herbs in the woods around Hongyue Lake.

Cao Xiaoyang almost didn't know anything about the identification of herbs, so at this moment he could only follow behind Chi Xiaoyue.

After walking through the bushes for a while, Cao Xiaoyang suddenly felt empty under his feet, and then fell into a cave under the bushes, the cave was not deep, only two or three meters high, but Cao Xiaoyang was still choked enough.

He stood up slowly, and was startled when he suddenly found that there were many figures behind him.

But through the light that came in through the cave, Cao Xiaoyang suddenly found that these figures were not really living people, but some one-to-one humanoid clay sculptures, this cave was very large, and there were hundreds of such clay sculptures neatly arranged in it.

He felt a little curious for a while, could it be that he had fallen into an ancient tomb, these clay sculptures were the same as the Qin Terracotta Warriors?