"Xiao Pei, what exactly is this special lizard you are talking about?" Ma Xiwen asked me directly.

"Didn't I say that? It's called a horse snake! I glanced at Ma Xiwen and said, "The lizards we know can either eat snakes or be eaten by snakes, but there is one kind of lizard that can coexist peacefully with snakes...... No, to be precise, it should be dependent on each other, living and dying together! ”

"Actually, this lizard, called the horse snake, is not a specific species, it can be any kind, but this lizard grows in the snake's nest!" I say.

"Living in a snake's den every day? The snake doesn't eat it, and it doesn't eat the snake either? Tanzi asked with some surprise.

I nodded and said, "That's right!" And not only that, but the snake that lives with it will also feed it and give it the prey it catches to eat, and the horse snake only needs to lie in the snake's nest every day and enjoy the treatment of opening its mouth with food. ”

"I'll go! Did this snake get into the water in its brain, or did it owe a lot of money to the horse snake's family? So groveling, flattering, and even servant? What kind of treatment is this? This is an ancestral treatment! In the human world, how come I can't meet such a good thing? The jar sighed and said.

Xu Yunshu and others also have the same view as Tanzi, how can two animals, which were originally predators and predators of each other, be in the same place? Not only that, but the snake also feeds lizards, which is obviously a parasitic relationship.

I shook my head and said, "There will be a reward for what you give, and there will always be something to pay for what you get, this world is so fair, whether it is in the human world or the animal world, it is the same truth." ”

"What do you mean...... This horse snake is not a white eater? Jarzi asked.

"That's right!" I said, "The snake is responsible for feeding the horse snake, and the horse snake has to sacrifice his life to save the snake at the critical moment." ”

"Sacrifice yourself to save the snake?"

"Hmm!" I nodded solemnly, "Actually, this is just a folk legend, and I heard it from the stories told by the old people in my hometown when I was very young. ”

"What kind of story is that?" Xu Yunshu also asked curiously.

"According to the story, there has been a kind of contract between the snake and the horse snake since a long time ago. The snake had to feed the horse and the snake for the rest of his life, but when the snake died, the horse snake would resurrect it...... Even if it is cut in two, the horse snake can catch it......" I said slowly, "but this resurrection comes at a price, and the price is to sacrifice a certain part of the horse snake's body...... Of course, this part does not include the tail ......"

"I don't know if you've noticed, but the black snake has two purple-red marks on its body, like a scar, and it's new, I guess it's the scars from the previous two cuts......

"You mean, the poisonous snake that Cheng Laosi hacked to death at the end was actually the one that my brother and I killed before?" The second dog was startled and jumped up directly.

"Highly likely!" I replied to him.

"Impossible!" Ergou still didn't believe it, "How can a dead snake that has been cut in two and has long since died come back to life?" ”

"What's impossible then?" I said, "Even dead corpses can jump in front of us and eat people, so why can't dead snakes be resurrected?" ”

"What Xiao Pei said makes sense, you can't think about what is happening now with your perception in society. These are beyond our imagination...... Who would have imagined that there would be zombies in this world? Before I saw it with my own eyes, I always thought it was just someone else who made it up to scare the tomb robbers. Park Yifan said.

"Uh......" Ergou thought about it, along the way, he had seen a lot of demons and monsters, and the thing of resurrection from the dead was not so difficult to accept.

"You're just sure that the last two snakes are the first snakes you saw before, based on those two marks on the snake's body?" Park Il-nam asked.

"Nine times out of ten! You can think about it, after the first poisonous snake was hacked to death, where did its corpse go? When we went to the grave this time, did anyone see the body of the snake? I said.

Wang Yuesheng said: "It seems that this is indeed the case, I remember the second time we went down to the coffin stone door, there were no snake corpses on the ground in front of the door...... It's just that it's a trivial matter, and no one cares. ”

I continued, "yes, I don't know if you noticed when the lizard first appeared......"

"It was after the second snake died!" Xu Yunshu reminded.

"Yes!" I stuck out my index finger and said, "Who saw that lizard at the time?" ”

"It's blind in one eye!" Ergou hurriedly said.

"Not blind! It's missing an eye! "I correct the second dog," its eye sockets were empty, and there was nothing. Do you remember if the blind eye was left or right? ”

"It seems to be the ...... of the left eye" Ergou was a little uncertain this time.

"It's the left eye!" I affirmed his statement, "The second time the lizard appeared, it was missing a leg and an eye, which happened to be the left eye...... Maybe I'm face blind and can't tell the difference between the appearance of the same animal other than humans, but I don't see any difference in the appearance of the lizards that appear these two times. Then I thought of the legend of the horse snake that I heard when I was a child, so I thought that this lizard was a horse snake, and the black poisonous snake we encountered three times was also the same snake! ”

I stopped talking to hear what everyone thought, but no one spoke. After being silent for a while, Pu Yifan spoke first: "Xiao Pei said that the horse snake he saw twice looked the same, which doesn't mean anything, but the rest of the evidence does make some sense." ”

Wang Yuesheng held his chin and said thoughtfully: "If according to your meaning, the horse snake lost his left eye after saving the black snake for the first time, and lost his left leg for the second time, then this time it ......."

"yes, what should I lose this time?" Ergou hurriedly asked.

The altar also said: "You said that this snake is also, knowing that he will die when he comes out, and he still moves forward bravely and comes out as if he were dead, it doesn't want to find death, it wants to kill the horse snake that lives with it!" If this continues, the horse snake will not need to turn into a snake a few times, and only a bare body will remain. ”

"It's not like that!" I said, "Legend has it that the horse snake is not infinitely saved, and there is a limit to the number of times. It is said that it can only save snakes three times in its life, the first two times when it lost part of its body, and the third time it lost its life. ”

"That's right!" Jarzi said, "Even if you play the game, you won't have infinite resurrection, which is too buggy!" ”

"But after being resurrected three times, people have been upgraded!" I said to the jar.

"Upgrade? What upgrades? The altar was stunned by my brainless words.