Chapter 210: Snake Mountain Adventure
"What the hell is this place, so many poisonous snakes!"
One of the mercenaries slammed the tree next to them, and the scene had already brought them to their senses, because their carelessness had cost Jack's life.
Merlin sighed and said, "The tabby-necked groove snake is a poisonous snake, and any of you have been bitten, I have snake venom here." ”
After speaking, the saber glanced at Morin and said, "Mr. Morin, did you know in advance that there were so many poisonous snakes here?" Even antivenom was carried. ”
"This is Snake Mountain, and if you listen to the name, you should know that there will be a lot of snakes here." Mo Lin said lightly: "Besides, Bai Zongming should have told you about the danger of this mission, you can still be so easy along the way." ”
The saber was stunned for a moment, what Mo Lin said was right, although Bai Zongming didn't tell them the truth, but he also told them about the extremely dangerous things about this mission, but the saber as the leader thought that just conquering a mountain and an ancient tomb was a bit overkill for their mercenaries, but the price offered by Bai Zongming made their companies far away from home very satisfied, so that they must complete the task.
"Everyone be careful, and be aware of your feet and your surroundings." Saber gave the order to move on with a gloomy face, and for them mercenaries, death was accompanied by death in every mission, so they didn't grieve too much for Jack's death at the mouth of the snake.
"Wait a minute!"
The whole team was assembled and was about to set off, when the deputy captain Lone Wolf suddenly noticed that something was wrong and hurriedly called a halt.
"What's wrong, lone wolf?" Saber asked suspiciously.
"Neil, where's Neil? I was still here! ”
After Lone Wolf said this, the entire team found that there was one less person among them! An invisible fear instantly enveloped everyone's hearts, and they looked around vigilantly.
At this moment, the place where everyone is is under the tree of several huge towering trees, these towering trees are particularly thick and tall, and countless tree vines completely cover the sun like the sky, and no light can penetrate it.
The shotgun looked around carefully, and suddenly he felt as if something was dripping on the top of his head, and subconsciously reached out and touched it, and then saw the bright red blood on his hands.
The shotgun looked up suddenly, his pupils shrank slightly, and he hurriedly shouted, "Look at it!" ”
When everyone heard the sound, they saw that above their heads there was a huge zongzi-like object wrapped in vines, and this object was constantly dripping with bright red blood. br>
Snort, just when everyone was still in a stunned state, the tree vines in this jungle seemed to come to life at this moment, attacking everyone, and there were countless sharp barbs on the tree vines, like the tentacles of a big octopus.
"Everyone, be careful! It's a man-eating vine! ”
Iron Fist was the first to react, he hurriedly broke out, Morin was the first time he had encountered this thing, although he didn't know what the man-eating vine was, but he could understand that it was not a good kind by listening to the name.
"Flutter!"
Two mercenaries reacted one step slower, and were directly pierced through the belly by the man-eating vine, and the intestines and liver were directly poked out by the man-eating vine and sprinkled on the ground.
"Break through, everyone!"
Seeing that his team had died again, the two of them couldn't help but feel a little unacceptable, and hurriedly organized everyone to break through.
In the face of these man-eating vines, Mo Lin was also a little overwhelmed, but fortunately, he knew Taoism, as long as a man-eating vine approached him, he would burn it with karmic fire, so the man-eating vine couldn't help him.
There were no more dead people in the back, and the reason why the man-eating vine was able to kill the three mercenaries was completely by sneak attack, and the bodies of the two mercenaries who were killed were wrapped in a huge zongzi by countless man-eating vines and hung in the air.
"What is this, how is there still life in plants?" Morin asked, gasping.
"This tree is a kind of thing called a man-eating vine, which is a subtropical plant." Iron Fist said with a solemn face: "I originally thought that only the Amazon jungle had this thing, but I didn't expect to encounter it in the Huaxia Continent. ”
"Look there, it's all the prey it hunts." Iron Fist pointed to Bai Sensen's bones under the cannibal vine tree not far away, and said.
Most of these bones are animals
There are also a few human corpses, and the human skeletons are estimated to be left by the young man who died in Snake Mountain in Zhao Wenxian's village decades ago.
Saber let out a breath of turbidity and said to himself a little tiredly, "I kind of regret taking on this task." ”
Anyway, the saber still went forward and continued to go deeper into the snake mountain, their mercenaries themselves boasted of being warriors from hell, this mission is no better than others, if they can't complete it and go back like this, it is estimated that the mercenary company will fire them directly.
Everyone went deeper into the Snake Mountain for more than ten kilometers in one breath, and there was no danger in this area, but the road of the primeval forest became more and more difficult to walk.
"Oops, I'm tired."
At this time, everyone stopped to rest in front of a lake, and the water they had brought with them had already been drunk, and they all ran to the lake to get water, and Morin, the saber, the lone wolf, and the shotgun sat together to rest.
Mo Lin took two maps and looked at them carefully, one of these two maps was found by Zhou Qiang for Mo Lin, and the other was drawn by the saber team when they used drones to survey the landform of Snake Mountain.
These two maps have merit, but they are also incomplete, the map provided by Zhou Qiang is a map drawn by Zhao Wenxian from the description of the survivors who came down from the Snake Mountain, because it is a manual drawing and unprofessional and long-term, so the error is quite large, and the only merit is that the dangerous area of the Snake Mountain is marked.
Although the map of the saber's drone survey is relatively professional, there seems to be a strong magnetic field on Snake Mountain, which has a great impact on the drone, so the depiction of the map is very limited.
"This map of the saber is over here, and I can only see this map below." Morin returned the map of the saber to him, and studied it with his own.
He continued: "The lake where we are now is Snake Pond, and after passing Snake Pond is the main peak of Snake Mountain, Eight Snake Ridge, and our destination should be near here. ”
Saber nodded and said, "We'll rest for a while and we'll leave right away......"
"Ahh My eyes! ”
"Ahem!"
"How can I have no strength!"
At this time, the members of the saber team were stunned, and they all wailed.
Saber frowned, and hurriedly ran over to check the situation, only to see dozens of people lying on the ground groaning in pain, their faces were pale, bleeding from their seven holes, and some were dancing incoherently in place, like madmen.
"What's wrong with you!"
Saber roared, and hurriedly helped them up to check them one by one, but he didn't know what the reason was, this phenomenon was too strange, even he had never seen it before.
Morin ran over and glanced at the mercenary who fell to the ground, at this time many people had begun to faint, after investigation, he thought for a moment, walked to the snake pool, looked at the crystal clear lake, and couldn't help frowning.
Now the surviving mercenaries are left with seven mercenaries standing guard in addition to the core members of the team, and the faces of the survivors are all full of fear, this mission is probably the closest they have received to death.
"Mr. Morin, do you know what's going on?" Iron Fist saw Morin staring at the lake and didn't say a word.
"It's just a guess on my part, I suspect the lake is poisonous!" Morin frowned and said, "The dead have all drunk the water, and the people we haven't drunk are fine,"
When everyone heard this, they couldn't believe it, how could a pool of lake water at the end of the lake be poisonous?
"Is this a natural cause?" Shotgun asked.
Their mercenaries have crossed countless mountains of swords and fires, and countless jungles have been climbed on foot, and they naturally know that some lakes in the death zone are inherently poisonous due to the factors of the natural environment, but this time they guessed wrong.
Mo Lin shook his head and said: "This is the Snake Mountain, there are hundreds of thousands of poisonous snakes entrenched here, we have the most water sources here along the way, but at the same time, this should also be the place where the poisonous snakes drink water, hundreds of thousands of poisonous snakes have been swallowing and drinking water here for nearly a hundred years, and this lake has long gathered the venom of ten thousand snakes!" ”
"This is impossible, snake venom must enter the bloodstream to exert toxicity, and it will be fine if it is taken orally!" Shotgun shook his head in disbelief, his face incredulous
's look is heavier.
"I said, the poison of ten thousand snakes is gathered in this pool of water, and the poison of tens of thousands of poisonous snakes will inevitably mutate when blended!"
"This ......"
The shotgun was dumbfounded by Morin, this possibility is very high, because the whole team has been eating dry food and water from their own bodies from beginning to end, and there is nothing to do along the way, and if something happens, it is a few minutes before and after drinking the lake water.
"Boss, we can't do this job anymore!"
The strongest iron fist in the team said in a deep voice: "It's too weird here, who knows what terrible places are waiting for us behind, and besides, we have lost too many companions this time." ”
Iron Fist's words resonated with everyone, and they all looked at the leader of the sword.
The saber glanced at everyone's eyes, then at Morin, and then said with an unkind face: "Mr. Morin, I don't know what you think?" ”
Mo Lin glanced at the saber, and naturally sensed that something was wrong, here he is an outsider, if the saber wants to give up this mission, it is very likely to kill himself, and then smuggle back abroad, Snake Mountain is so dangerous that no one will come up, so that the Bai family will not be able to find out for a while, even if it is discovered in the near future, they will lose some money and pay liquidated damages.
Maybe I thought too much, the real purpose of going to Snake Mountain this time is to explore Snake Mountain and find out the cause of death of the resort construction workers and what the snake-shaped monster in Ding Fanglan's stomach is, if this mission is not successful, the Bai family is likely to be destroyed because of this, and who will pursue this matter at that time.