Chapter 157: The Snake
On this day, when she came to a plateau grassy beach, Ouyang Qian saw several eagles circling in the deep sky. Sometimes they circle, sometimes they glide, sometimes they remain motionless in the air.
The sun had just risen above the mountain peaks in the east, and there was a layer of mist between the heavens and the earth, and the mist was fading little by little. There are dew drops on the tips of the grass, and there are countless bright spots shimmering in the morning light, and the bright spots are also decreasing little by little.
It's full of lakes and swamps, and there are fewer four-legged wildlife and more two-legged birds and geese. When a flock of birds flew by, it covered most of the sky in black. There are all kinds of birds, the big ones are the size of the yellow sheep, and the small ones are smaller than the sparrows.
The horses' hooves trampled on the soft grassy flats without a sound, and a few small flowers were trampled into the mud and sand.
"Watch out for the swamp, we'll walk with the horses on foot." Xia Xue ordered, she jumped off the horse and walked in front, carefully exploring the way.
The weather was excellent today, the ground was very wet, and the feeling of stepping on the grass was very soft.
When a person walks on the grass, he accidentally breaks a bird's egg, and his shoes are stained with egg yolks. The birds here are as wary of people as the wild animals they first see on the plateau, and when they come up to them, they stare at them stupidly, and some even flutter their wings at them.
"Snake!" Ouyang Qian exclaimed and took a few steps back.
Following the direction of Ouyang Qian's finger, he saw a half-meter-long snake moving slowly.
"It's a poisonous snake, don't touch it!" Xia Xue pounced, grabbed the snake's tail, lifted it up violently, and shook it in the air a few times, and the snake was paralyzed.
"The bones of the snake are set together one by one, and when you shake it, the bones of the snake are shaken apart." Xia Xue said calmly, "But don't follow me, be careful of being bitten by a snake, this is a poisonous snake." Xia Xue is wearing high-tech protective transparent gloves on her hands, and she can't hit through the bullets, so of course she is not afraid of snake bites.
Ouyang Qian didn't understand that there would be snakes in such a cold plateau, and the survival ability of snakes was really strong.
"Watch under your feet, beware of being bitten by snakes, snakes here seem to be poisonous." Xia Xue looked at the dead snake on the ground and said.
"Look, Eagle Eagle!" They followed the direction of Ouyang Qian's finger and saw a vulture standing on the top of the stone in front of them, more than a meter high, which was relatively large among the vulture carvings they had seen.
"Stay safe, watch out for it coming down and hurting us!" Xia Xue pulled out the Tang knife.
Ouyang Qian, Jiang Yong and the others also pulled out the Tang knife, they didn't move forward anymore, and wanted to wait for it to fly away before moving forward.
More than 20 meters in front of them, another snake appeared, also half a meter long, and it also spat out two red letters.
"It's a seven-step snake, it's very venomous, and if a person is bitten by it, he will die if he takes seven steps at most. Let's beware of it. Xia Xue took a step forward and protected them with her body.
Suddenly, they saw the eagle eagle shoot down from the top of the stone and pounce on the seven-step snake. When it reached the sky above the snake, it was lifted up with both claws, and then soared into the sky, and the whole action was completed in an instant.
"This snake is finished!" Ouyang Qian sighed in her heart.
Suddenly, the eagle statue in the air broke the kite with a broken string and fell down in a flutter.
They ran over to see that the eagle's mouth, nostrils, and eyes were all bleeding and dead. The seven-step snake was also lying on the grass not far from the eagle, and its body was broken into several pieces, and it also died.
"How could the eagle die?" Li Kang asked.
"I was accidentally bitten by the seven-step snake it caught." Xia Xue replied.
Everyone looked up to goosebumps.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, they marched between a huge lake and grassy flats. The more they walked forward, the more suspicious Xia Xue became, the original green grass beach seemed to have been burned by fire, the black scorched earth everywhere, and the bones of animals were also burned as if they had been burned by fire.
Suddenly, there was a huge thunderclap, and a blue lightning stabbed straight down from the air, blasting on the surface of the lake, and the splashed lake water poured onto Ouyang Qian's clothes. This thunderbolt was like a prelude, and in less than two or three minutes, thousands of thunderbolts exploded around them at the same time, like falling into a forest of thunder and lightning, and all the heavens and the earth became the blue light of thunder and lightning. A thunderbolt struck Ouyang Qian not far away, and a burst of blue light flashed in front of Ouyang Qian's eyes, and she couldn't see anything. Ouyang Qian hurriedly closed her eyes, and after a few minutes, she opened her eyes, and her vision recovered little by little.
"Hurry back and get out of here!" Xia Xue ordered loudly.
Although Ouyang Qian, Li Kang and others didn't understand why the queen was suddenly so nervous, out of the instinct of "soldiers take obedience to orders as their duty", they reflexively followed Xia Xue to retreat urgently and left here.
When they were far away, they looked back and were stunned.
I saw a group of antelopes running by the lake, running towards the dense thunderforest, and in an instant, I saw thousands of thunderbolts in the sky above the group of antelopes at the same time, and surrounded them with a burst of indiscriminate bombardment. The herd of antelopes had all been charred by lightning, and some were emitting blue-black smoke, and the air was filled with the stench of burnt flesh and fur.
Ouyang Qian, Li Kang, Jiang Yong, and Song Gang felt the fear of the sudden attack, and rose up along the tail bone, and their hearts were afraid for a while. If they hadn't listened to the queen and hesitated for half a step, they would have turned into charcoal like the antelopes by now.
Xia Xue said to everyone: "Why is there so much thunder and lightning in this place? The reason for my analysis of the lightning Cheedo is that this place may contain an extremely rich magnetite, as long as the cloud has an electric charge, it will be attracted to the magnetite, and the animal body itself is a conductor, and it is very dangerous to move here. ”
Everyone was confused.
"Your Majesty, how are we going to get there? Have you figured out a solution? Song Gang was a little anxious.
"It takes a lot of insulators, it requires that none of us can carry metal items, but that's not possible. Therefore, I decided that we would rather go around a hundred zhang away than take a single risk, let's bypass this minefield and go to Xianbei Mountain in Liaodong from other places. ”
After bypassing this minefield, it advanced for more than ten miles. Suddenly, they saw a herd of antelopes running from afar. When they ran more than 100 meters away from them, one of the antelopes stopped running, stopped there, and actually burrowed into the ground after dozens of seconds. The first to find was Li Kang, when he took out his bow and arrows and was about to shoot, he found that only the head of the antelope was left on the grass, and before he woke up, the head of the antelope was gone. As soon as he shouted, everyone turned their eyes to the herd of antelopes. The running antelope seemed to be caught in some way, suddenly stopped, and quickly disappeared from the grass.
"Song Gang, go over and see what happened to this group of antelopes?" Xia Xue jumped off the horse and held her hand on the hilt of the knife.
"I'll go with you!" Li Kang also jumped off the horse and pulled out the Tang knife.
Xia Xue said: "Song Gang and Li Kang went over there to watch. The others stood by and were not allowed to go without an order! ”
Song Gang jumped off his horse, pulled out his Tang knife, and walked vigilantly towards the grass beach where the antelope had disappeared. Walking to the place where the antelope disappeared, I saw that it was a flat grassy beach, and occasionally I could see a few low-lying places with stagnant water, and there was not even a shadow of an antelope.
"Are they really going to be able to get to the ground?" Li Kang pulled a ball of grass with a Tang knife.
Xia Xue squatted on the ground and carefully inspected something.
"Oops, my foot is in it!" Li Kang suddenly exclaimed.
They saw that his feet had been sucked into the ground.
"Damn, there's something in the ground pulling my foot down!" Li Kang was so panicked that his face changed.