Chapter 211: Death Sonata

According to later maps, Death Valley is no longer in Arizona, but on the border between California and Nevada.

It's one of the hottest and driest places in North America. The reason is that the "three mountains" of Mount Nevada, Mount Panamein, and Mount Agas form a rain barrier, resulting in a very small chance of precipitation here.

In fact, millions of years ago, due to the movement of the earth's crust, this was once a huge salt lake. It's even bigger than Utah's salt lakes. But then the place was steamed and roasted by the scorching sun for millions of years, and it has long since dried up, leaving only some mud and rock salt layers.

As soon as Wang Xijia walked into the valley, he felt that something was wrong, this place was a bit "evil".

According to Feng Shui, Feng Shui is not good here, surrounded by mountains and without a life gate - it is a form of trapped death. In short, whether it is to build a house or build a grave, this place will not be chosen.

According to science, the magnetic field of this place may not be right, and the surrounding mountains may contain some kind of mineral that will affect the magnetic field of animals.

In fact, animals have a sense of geomagnetism in their brains, especially birds. They rely on geomagnetic induction to determine direction. The magnetic field in Death Valley is very strange, and birds can easily get lost and even die when they come here.

Dinosaurs are actually very close to birds in terms of evolutionary lineage, so it's understandable that Cullinan is reluctant to set foot in this valley.

Wang Xijia didn't care about this, he felt that this place was just a little arid. But at most, it's the Taklamakan Desert and the Sahara Desert, and where can it be drought? It's not on Earth, it's not air to breathe. As long as you are not affected by the change in the magnetic field and bring enough water, you can completely cross the valley of death.

Both in past lives and in the present, there are people who have been able to cross this so-called "valley of death". In the previous life, it was even turned into a tourist attraction.

As for Feng Shui, Wang Xijia believes that it is believed, but it is not so affected. The emperors of China have found themselves a feng shui treasure as a cemetery, but these cemeteries have undoubtedly been dug up by tomb robbers. The palace chosen by the emperors was not a "land of dragons" where Tibetan wind gathered, but the dynasty they ruled was also wiped out in the end. It seems that the treasure of feng shui has not blessed them.

On the contrary, those who chose the cemetery on the cliff face of the treacherous place rarely had their graves robbed. So it's good to use the "feng shui" thing as a reference, and you don't have to pay too much attention to it.

After walking a mile or two in Death Valley, everything was calm. Nothing but the sun makes everyone feel uncomfortable. Cullinan also regained his composure and walked slowly forward.

"I don't think there's anything to be afraid of in this valley of death, it's just to scare yourself. As soon as Wang Xijia finished saying this, as if he had "set up a flag", the gray beaver walking in front suddenly screamed: he was bitten by a rattlesnake jumping up on the ground.

Because of the drought, Death Valley doesn't have much life. But that doesn't mean it's a forbidden, it's a great habitat for rattlesnakes.

Because rattlesnakes prefer a dry environment, they don't need to drink much water. The environment of Death Valley is just right, and the natural enemy of the rattlesnake is the eagle, but because of the problem of the magnetic field of Death Valley, the eagle can't fly over, so the rattlesnake can be said to have no natural enemies in Death Valley.

For other creatures it is a place of death, for rattlesnakes, it is indeed a paradise.

Rattlesnakes have a tail ring on their tail, and each time they shed their skin, they get an extra ring. When encountering an enemy, the rattlesnake will quickly shake the tail ring on its tail at a frequency of 40-60 times per second. This tail ring can emit a large, distinctive sound for a long time, hence the name of the rattlesnake.

But the rattlesnake that bit the grey beaver did not make a sound beforehand, because it happened suddenly, and it was accidentally stepped on by the grey beaver.

Zack next to him quickly slashed the rattlesnake to death with a sword, only to see that the snake was about two meters long, and the tail ring was dense, and it looked like a big snake.

The rattlesnake's head was cut off, and it was able to rise into the air and try to bite Zack - this is also a characteristic of rattlesnakes, which can bite people after death. In later generations, people who have been bitten by rattlesnakes have been interviewed, and more than half of them have been bitten by rattlesnakes after death.

Everyone is on guard against a living snake, but who would be on guard against a dead snake? When a rattlesnake loses its defense, the success rate of a rattlesnake increases dramatically.

However, this time it miscalculated, because there was a monk next to it, and Munch directly nailed the rattlesnake's head to the sand with an arrow, and could no longer bite anyone.

The rattlesnake is very poisonous and is a blood neurotoxin. If you don't get an antivenom injection after a bite, you usually die within an hour. And the toxin causes muscle decay, and people who have been bitten by a rattlesnake find that the muscles in their arms have turned into a puddle of rotting black water.

But how can there be antivenom in modern times? The gray beaver was sweating profusely, his lips were blue, and his breath was getting weaker and weaker.

Nikolai rushed over quickly, cut a cross wound with his knife at the place where the grey beaver had been bitten, and sucked out the poisonous blood with his mouth.

Fortunately, the vampire's saliva has a unique substance that can resist snake venom and save the life of the gray beaver. But the gray beaver still had a high fever. Nikolai thought for a moment and said, "Block, block find some cactus for the gray beaver!"

It turns out that the best way to treat rattlesnake venom wounds is to use cactus mesophyll. This mesophyll has the effect of removing saprophytic muscle, which is a special medicine for the treatment of eye snake venom.

Cacti are everywhere in the Solano Desert, but not in Death Valley.

"I'll go find it! I'll fly fast!" "Tengu is self-exalted, and it is usually appropriate for him to do this kind of work to fetch things elsewhere.

"Go, go and come back!" Wang Xika also said.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!" said this, the tengu spread his wings and flew high, but he flew into the sky as if he was drunk, and crashed into the mountain wall and fell down.

It turns out that although the tengu is sufficient, he is closer to a bird when he flies, and he also uses magnetic field sensing to discern direction like a bird. Disturbed by the magnetic field near Death Valley, he lost his sense of direction and fell.

"Damn, this Death Valley is really a bit evil!" Wang Xijia didn't expect to lose two generals before he entered Death Valley and was halfway through. You say it's a coincidence or luck, in short, the gray beaver and the tengu fought the "snake god" Haken before, and the "fire god" Aked can get out of the whole body, who knows that something will happen as soon as they enter this death valley?

If you want to talk about snakes, the forests of the Americas are full of snakes, where are there no snakes in this era? The gray beaver has never been bitten in his life, but it happened that he was bitten in this valley of death.

Wang Xika is not a "head iron" person, since this road is so difficult to walk, then just don't go, there is no need to fight here.

"Why don't we retreat?" had just entered the valley for 20 kilometers, and it was too late to walk back.

"No, the tengu and the grey beaver are not allowed to travel and must be treated as soon as possible. Grey beavers, in particular, are in dire need of cacti. Why don't you look here, and I'll go get the cactus?" Dr. Nikolai was also anxious to see the grey beaver's condition deteriorate.

"Doctor, you stay here, or I'll go. I'm fast, and I'll be back in a moment," it was Bloodfang, the leader of the Komochi werewolves, who spoke.

Once the Komochi and the Apache were bitter enemies, today they are brothers.

Aside from the Tengu, the fastest ones are werewolves, and compared to Lang Naduo, Bloodfang is more familiar with the terrain. Therefore, Bloody Tooth is the obvious choice.

The Blood Fang Transformation was about to fetch the cactus, when suddenly there was a loud noise in all directions. At some point, the crowd was surrounded by rattlesnakes. It turned out that the rattlesnake that was killed by Zack and Munch before was quite popular among the snake group. This time, the snake was killed by Wang Xijia and others, and other snake friends and snake friends had to come to avenge it.

Wang Xijia took a cursory look, and there were at least tens of thousands of rattlesnakes around him, and it should be that all the snakes in the vicinity were coming! Generally, this kind of thing of encircling humans can only be done by creatures with relatively high IQs like wolves.

The brains of snakes are not well developed, and although snakes usually gather together, it is only for the purpose of reproduction. It's unheard of for snakes to gather for revenge. However, this strange thing actually happened! It seems that there is something in this valley of death.

The sound of tens of thousands of rattlesnakes was deafening, and it sounded even more sad than the cry of the "snake god" Haken from his abdomen - after all, the "snake god" Haken was only a sounder, no matter how loud it was.

And these tens of thousands of rattlesnakes gathered are tens of thousands of sounders. These rattlesnakes were basically participating in a group activity for the first time, and they were not convinced when they saw the other snakes being loud, and they also began to wag their tails as if they were competing. For a while, there was a loud sound, like a death sonata.

"Cover your ears!" Wang Xika shouted. However, the sound was muffled by the rattlesnake's snake roar, and even Wang Xijia himself couldn't hear what he was saying.

Fortunately, everyone is not stupid, and they know how to cover their ears without Wang Xijia's instructions. This caused the two dinosaurs, Lie and Cullinan, who had no hands and couldn't cover their ears at all. Especially Lielie, except for the name of the short hand.

Distraught by the rattlesnake's chirp, both dinosaurs finally lost control of themselves and ran wildly towards the depths of the canyon.

Dinosaurs have rough skin and thick flesh and are the overlords of reptiles. Rattlesnakes, which are also reptiles, still can't deal with dinosaurs, and they have given way to a snake path. When the two dinosaurs ran out, they closed again.

Wang Xijia wanted to rush out when he ran with the dinosaurs, but the speed at which the snakes closed together was too fast, and he had no time to react, so he had to retreat.

The encirclement of the snakes is getting smaller and smaller, and these are really not the same as the earth, and it is impossible to dig ditches in the desert to prevent snakes, and the sand will scatter as soon as it is dug.

As a last resort, Wang Xika had no choice but to light a torch to scare off the snakes. Snakes are also afraid of fire.

It's just that there aren't many combustibles in the desert, so what to do when the torches run out?