We continued on the overgrown mountain road, and I didn't look ahead, but at the feet, following the old dragon's shoes.

Suddenly, he stopped? All of a sudden, I almost stopped the car and hit him.

I hurriedly raised my head, only to see that the old dragon leaned back slightly, and his hand had already moved. I looked in front of him again, what was it that made him so alert?

I saw a pair of green eyes staring at us on a tree in front of him, covered with black spots on his yellow skin, and his tail raised high like a steel cable.

I thought to myself, there are tigers in this place? No, this body type should be ...... Leopard?

Although not as fierce as the tiger, but I am not Wu Song after all, obviously the old dragon is not either, so such a beast pounces on me, what will happen to us?

I wanted to turn around and run, but I was afraid that the big move would directly alarm the beast, which would be bad for us. I want to see how the old dragon handles, didn't he brag before that there was no opponent for him in this mountain?

The leopard took another slow step towards us, lowering its head slightly, and it felt like it was about to pounce on us.

The muscles in my legs were also very tense, and if he pounced on me, I was ready to run.

Who knows, at this time, the old dragon suddenly turned back to me and said, "Let's go, it's okay."

"Huh?" My mind is full of question marks, what do you mean it's okay?

Seeing that I did not dare to move forward, he smiled and walked forward, completely ignoring the leopard in the tree.

I'm so nervous, isn't it going to die just like this?

But as he got closer, the leopard didn't even move its head in the tree.

When the old dragon came up to the leopard, he turned to me again and said, "Let's go, it's really all right."

I saw that it was still motionless, so I mustered up the courage to walk slowly. Until I got to the old dragon's position, it didn't move.

"What's going on?" I couldn't help but ask the old dragon.

"I froze it. You probably haven't touched the leopard, do you want to try it? ”

"Fixed?" I've only heard of this kind of thing in Journey to the West, "How did you freeze?" ”

The old dragon smiled, and touched two handfuls of them: "It's just a small skill of carving insects, let's try it."

I'm still a little scared, but since he's touched it all, there shouldn't be any major problems. I also reached for it, it was an indescribable feeling, it was really different from a cat or a dog.

"Is it dead?" I asked the old dragon.

"No, I'll recover after a while."

"Shall we ...... it then?"

"It's no longer a threat to us, there's no need to kill it. Now there are fewer and fewer wild leopards in the mountains, and when I see one killing the other, they will become extinct. Let's move on. ”

Although I followed him on, at the same time I also thought about the question, what would happen if he had this ability to use it on people? Walking with such a person gives me a sense of security and worry.

The old dragon was indeed very familiar with this area, and from time to time he bent down to pick a grass and told me what kind of medicine it was and what kind of medicinal properties it was. I don't know anything about that, so I just can't stop nodding.

Then, history is always strikingly similar, and the old dragon once again suddenly stopped. I thought there was another beast in front of me, but I wasn't as panicked as I had just been. When I looked up, it was different from just now, but a few locals dressed up, probably fellow villagers.

But I quickly dispelled this thought, because although I was looking at the back, I could feel that the old dragon's mental concentration was no less than just now.

I looked closely and found that there were five people on the other side, dark-skinned, and probably thirty or forty years old, but they all looked to be strong, and two of them were carrying sacks, and they were very large sacks.

It didn't take a few seconds for me to know that the visitor was not good, for the three of them, who were not carrying sacks, had drawn a bright machete from their waists, and even a fool could tell that they were trying to cut us.

I was waiting to see how the old dragon dealt with them, and suddenly remembered that they weren't fellow villagers, and the old dragon also helped people see a doctor, which can be regarded as a good deed, why do you do this? Could that be...... Against me?

Just as I was thinking about how to deal with it, the old dragon suddenly spoke, and said a series of things to the other side that I didn't understand, I don't know if he was communicating or chanting a mantra, I looked at the other side, and there was a man on the other side who also chattered after hearing it.

Then the old dragon replied to him, and the person on the other side put away all the knives and stood on the side of the road with a blank face, as if to make way for us.

The old dragon beckoned me to hurry up, and I followed him, and walked past the men, who had a foul smell on them that made me want to vomit, so I walked faster.

After walking out of the paragraph, I asked the old dragon, "What happened just now?"

The old dragon shook his head and said, "These people are not doing the right thing, don't worry about them." We go ours. ”

He said so, and I don't want to ask more, the road is not right, and I can also see that the person who has the right path has nothing to do with a knife to cut someone. Not to mention anything else, after this trip, I dare not run around in the woods here.

We walked in the woods until the sun was shining, and when we finally saw the village of the old dragon, I took out my watch and looked at it, and walked for three hours.

The old dragon took me into the village, and some people who were busy working at the door saw the old dragon and me, and they talked to the old dragon, and I didn't understand, so I could only watch them smile occasionally.

Lao Long's home is in a corner of the village, and it is also the only one with a private "fish pond".

Although the house did not look very luxurious, it was relatively tidy, but when he opened the door, the room was quite dark, and he explained to me: "There are some things in the house, and some of them don't like light, so they don't open a few windows."

"It's not a big problem, I can see it clearly." So saying, I went into the house with him.

His house was surprisingly quiet, and there was nothing in the living room that he said he was raising, at least I didn't see any living creatures.

"Are you alone at home?"

"yes, it's just me." He nodded, "Didn't you say that leaking the heavenly secret requires five disadvantages and three shortcomings, I'm afraid I'm also a little involved." ”

As soon as he said this, I understood, he didn't seem to be disabled, but nine times out of ten he was an old man with no wife and no children, widowed and alone.

I stopped talking about it and asked him, "You will show me the treasures you have raised."

"I don't see you're in a hurry. Okay, you're mentally prepared, these things are quite scary. ”

"It's okay, I'm afraid of you with me."

The old dragon smiled and lit a candle, opened the door of the inner room, and it was even darker inside, but I could see it clearly, it was simply a biological collection, there were countless cages of all sizes, and there were many glass or plastic transparent boxes, which were full of living creatures, and I could see that there were spiders and snakes, and they all seemed to feel the arrival of the old dragon, and they were lively in an instant, and they crawled uneasily, making their own noises, making people's scalps tingle.

But when I came, I followed the old dragon in, and he first took me to the snake "display area", pointing to the snakes and explaining to me, what is this, what is that, but without exception they are poisonous snakes.

"The toxins of these snakes are all different, and some of them can have good medicinal effects."

"Transformation, how to transform?"

"Look over here." The old dragon smiled and led me to the other side, where there were transparent boxes containing all kinds of smaller spiders, scorpions, centipedes, etc., and a cyan gecko that made me "refreshed". I thought to myself, isn't this the kind of thing that has something to do with the "five poisons" in the traditional sense?

The old dragon said: "These are all Gu worms, let them transform."

I thought about it, "Are you feeding them snake venom?"

"Not bad."

"Can't they die?"

"No, I've tried it many times, and of course they don't just eat snake venom, they also have to eat herbs, and they have to mix with these." As he spoke, he opened another jar-shaped container, and I looked over and almost threw it up, and it was full of wriggling maggots.

I quickly rolled my eyes and calmed myself down.

Seeing my reaction, the old dragon smiled and closed the lid: "It seems that you are not afraid of poison, you are afraid of this kind of thing, haha, it doesn't matter, let's go out and see something else in a while."

"It's okay, if you have anything, you can take it out, I'm okay."

"Well, that's how young people are open to new things. Let's go back then. ”

The old dragon led me forward, opening another door that led to another room. There seems to be a lot less stuff inside, only a few jars, large and small.

But the experience just now made me alert, and it seems that it is difficult to guess what is contained in these things that seem harmless to humans and animals.

The old dragon picked up a jar, opened it and stretched it out to me, I was ready to look inside, who knew that it was a strange thing, it looked like a locust, it had the head and legs of that exoskeleton structure, but the body was the body of a mollusk, and the first two paws were a bit like a mouse, obviously a mammal.

This thing doesn't look disgusting, but it's really weird, mules and ligers are already the limit of the combination of different species in my mind, but what is it?

When the little thing saw us, it looked up, stood up, and looked at us. The old dragon put the lid on it, put it down, picked it up, took another jar from it, put it in front of me, and said to me, "Be prepared in your heart, this is not an ordinary thing."

I nodded, it's just disgusting, just bear with it, I'm still curious about what kind of good things his jar raises.

The old dragon said to me, "Don't make a noise for a while, just watch quietly, it's not good to scare it."

I nodded, although I was confused, what baby can't make a sound yet?

The old dragon gently opened the jar, and the scene inside made me indescribably disgusting.