Xiangxi Shadow Chapter 42 The Disaster of the Python
Looking at Long Quan who was knocked unconscious by the python, I became more and more anxious, although I have always doubted Long Quan's true identity and motive, but I never thought of hurting him, no matter what, we are all teammates, his life and death to save me are unknown, I don't want to see it.
But there was nothing I could do, for I was still following the python deeper into the water, and soon the suffocating feeling of suffocation came back at me.
The python was still writhing violently, at first, I thought it was the smaller python struggling, I looked back, but found that the small python wrapped around the python did not move, as if it was born on the python.
After sinking for a while, I noticed that the speed had slowed down, and I knew that it must be the python going up again, so I quickly turned around to check the harness, trying to break free of the python before it dived again: if I did it again, I was afraid that I would really be suffocated!
Who knew that when I put my hand to my back, I suddenly felt a tingling pain, and I jerked my hand back, only to see a cut on my finger.
Knowing that the branches behind me were not so sharp, and that the wound on my hand was obviously not cut by a stone, I quickly reached over again, but this time, I was a little more careful.
Suddenly, I felt something cold, a long strip of iron, with blades and rough edges.
I see, it's Long Quan's short sword!
I felt a burst of joy in my heart, thinking that although Long Quan didn't know whether he was alive or dead, he had left me a glimmer of life.
So I hurriedly reached for the hilt of the sword, trying to pull out the dagger.
But I couldn't pull it out after a few attempts, and the dagger seemed to be stuck somewhere, and, every time I tried hard, the python writhed violently.
Could it be that Cheng Long stuck his sword into the python's body?
No, the dragon wouldn't be stupid enough to kill the python at this time, he should have wanted to cut my strap with a short sword!
As a last resort, I groped again, and after touching, I found that the short sword was not inserted in the python's body, but stuck between the python and the branches.
At this time, the python took me to the surface again, and I took the opportunity to take a look outside.
At this moment, the water level in the cave had completely overflowed the walkway, only a few meters from the exit, and to my dismay, I didn't see Qiu Yan and them.
I smiled bitterly helplessly, in my current situation, where do I have the leisure to worry about them, it should be that they are worried about me, maybe it is nature, I just can't rest assured.
The more worried I became, the more anxious I became, and the more anxious I became, the angrier I became, and when the python took me down to the water again, I decided that I didn't care so much.
I gripped the hilt of my sword with my backhand, and with all my strength, pulled the dagger out.
I saw a mist of blood rise behind me, and the mist drifted in front of me as the python swam wildly, and then quickly moved away from me.
Without delay, I stretched my dagger behind my back, trying to cut the strap.
But this time the python swam deeper than before, and before I could even start to feel tightness in my chest, I felt like I couldn't breathe.
At this time, the python was still diving, and there was no light around me, and I knew that if I continued to let the python go downstream, I would only have a dead end, so I had to do something.
I tightened the short sword in my hand, and with the last of my strength, stabbed it into the body of the python behind me.
Who knew that after the python was pricked, not only did it not turn around, but instead accelerated its speed and continued downstream, I complained in my heart, and then I lost consciousness.
I don't know how long I was unconscious, but when I woke up again I felt a burning pain in my face, and when I opened my eyes, I realized that I had come to the top of the cave because I could see the light again.
But before I could rejoice, I felt my body crashing against the wall of the cave, and I couldn't stop it, so I could only watch myself being slapped against the wall.
In the past, I never understood what it was to experience meat and eight vegetarians, but this time I realized it thoroughly, the python slapped me on the cave wall, and I immediately felt that my internal organs trembled, and then the whole person was numb.
The python slapped me and it didn't finish it, it squeezed me against the cave wall with its huge body, and pulled me to rub against the cave wall, and now I finally understood what was going on with the hot pain in my face before!
Fortunately, the python's body is not very hard, and we are in the water, there is resistance in the water, and the mud on the cave wall has also been soaked and softened by the flood, so I have not lost consciousness for the time being.
Maybe it was because I felt that I was no longer moving, and this time the python swam out of the water and did not rush to go down again.
I peeked at the head of the snake and found that the little python had been swallowed up a lot, but judging from the little python's wriggling from time to time, it was not dead, and it seemed that it was gathering strength.
The python slowly swam to the shore at this time, as if to take a breath, I took the opportunity to look around, and found that the water had risen through the outlet at this time, and the so-called shore was actually only the ground of the cave when we first entered, but now there is waist-deep water here.
With the lesson from the last time, I don't dare to move at this moment, and I don't have the physical strength to move, I just pray that this python will be curious about what it looks like outside, instead of taking me to continue diving and playing.
After a while, the python began to move, maybe the sky didn't want to kill me, and I found that the python was actually moving towards the exit, and it was moving very slowly, which gave me time to adjust my body.
While adjusting my body, I thought about where Qiu Yan and the others had gone, I hoped that they were out of danger by this time, but I also somewhat hoped that they were still nearby waiting to save me.
In any case, I didn't see Qiu Yan and them, nor did I see their corpses, which proved that they had left the cave, and I thought to myself, after all, there were no dead people under my leadership.
The python swam to the edge of the cave and stopped, I don't know what it was thinking, but I saw it poking out its half-swallowed snake head and dangling on the water.
I tried to touch my back with my deep hand and found that the dagger was still stuck in the python, and the strap behind me was hanging intact from the branch.
To be honest, I was tired and hungry and cold now, and I thought that when I was in the army, no matter how hard the training was, I never felt so tired, and I even wondered how I survived in the water, and I thought to myself that if I had died then, I would not have to suffer this sin now.
But people are still animals in the end, survival is our instinct, as long as we still have a breath left, we will do everything possible to survive.
At this time, I was thinking, relying on the method of using a short sword will definitely not work, not to mention whether I have the strength to pull out the short sword, even if it is pulled out, this python will inevitably give me a toss, the python is too big, and now it is in the shallow water, in case it finds a stone and shoots me again, it will not be a problem.
So I had to find another way.
I slowly twisted my head to see how the strap was attached, only to see that it was not only the strap that was being caught by the branches, but also my clothes and even the underwear I was wearing had been pierced by the branches.
Only then did I understand why Long Quan stuck his short sword between the branch and the python's body at that time, it turned out that he didn't want to cut my strap, but wanted to cut off the branch.
While I was pondering, there was a sudden vibration in the cave again, this time the vibration was not as loud as before, but I could feel the amplitude of the vibration.
The python seemed to be stimulated by the vibration and began to slowly swim towards the outside of the cave.
I was overjoyed, thinking that if I could come out, my chances of survival would be doubled!
Who knew that as soon as the python took me out of the cave, I saw that large pieces of earth and rocks began to fall inside the cave, and then, there was an earth-shattering sound in the cave: the cave has collapsed!
Before I could rejoice, I suddenly felt the python under me writhe violently, and I looked back and found that the small python that had been swallowed by the big python in its mouth was now moving.
I saw that the little python was tightly wrapped around the head of the big python, and then bowed as if trying to pull it out of the python's mouth.
Obviously, the little python did not have enough strength to compete with the big python, it tried several times, but only pulled out a little, and then the two pythons fell into a stalemate again.
At this time, I noticed that the python began to shrink its body, and it shrank its body under its head in a circle, as if it wanted to wrap itself around the small python.
I secretly screamed that it was not good, the python would definitely entangle me in the snake body if it was entangled like this, and my small body would not be squeezed into powder at that time!
I unfastened my breathing gear in twos and began to undress, but there was more than one branch hanging from me, and it was criss-crossed, and I was tired enough to take off the oxygen cylinder harness, let alone the tighter clothes.
Seeing the snake body under me start to squirm, I was a little flustered, this is not like being underwater, I can wait until I come up if I go down, if I am swept in, and when I come out, I may not be alive!
So I kicked the snake with all my might, only to hear a "tear" sound, and my clothes were pulled out of a gap.
I wasn't able to break free, but I gave myself more room to move, and I turned around, grabbed the hilt of my dagger with both hands, and pulled it out hard.
The python was in pain and began to writhe in place, and I was carried around in the water.
What's worse is that after the big python turned his attention to the little python and me, he stopped holding on to the bottom of the water, and the three of us began to roll forward in the flood.
As we rolled to the mouth of the canyon with countless boulders, the two pythons writhed more violently because they were scratched by the stones.
I clung to the dagger and curled up in a ball, but despite this, I was cut in several places, and I was bleeding immediately.
We rolled over the rocky area, and suddenly came to the mud puddle, where there were no stones, but the water was more than twice as deep.
I had no breathing equipment at this point, so I could only drink muddy water one by one, and the two pythons seemed to think that it was not cruel enough to drown me like this, and from time to time they would show my head and change my breath.
In a panic, I reached out and touched my clothes, and then stretched out my short sword to cut it, but when I first started cutting, the little python suddenly broke free from the big python's mouth.
I watched in amazement as the little python raised its head in mid-air like a giant dragon, it was covered with acid from the stomach of the python, and one of its two eyes was broken, and it spat twice in the air, and then opened its mouth to bite the python.
The big python was tightly wrapped around the upper half of the body by the little python, and it was difficult to move for a while, so it was bitten by the little python like that.