Chapter 34: The Mystery Is Resolved
After a big war. Chi Hua found a fairly clean corner in the hall and sat cross-legged and continued to use his ability to digest some of the snake venom that remained in his body. An An also sat down with Chi Hua on the side, and the use of the Flame Giant just now was also a huge drain on An An.
Only Ma Qingqiu was reluctantly skinning the python on the side. The python skin is extremely tough, even if it is cut a little by little with a sharp big knife, it is also a huge physical work, not to mention that in order to avoid injuring Linjia, Chi Hua also gave Ma Qingqiu a knife. To peel off the entire skin of the 20-meter-long python, I am afraid that it will not be able to finish without a day's work.
However, Ma Qingqiu is also a clever master, so the five women who survived in the end also helped him work. In this way, not only did the speed immediately increase a lot, but Ma Qingqiu and several women also quickly became acquainted, and two bold women even began to laugh with Ma Qingqiu, and in the process of peeling, they always found opportunities to rub against Ma Qingqiu intentionally or unintentionally.
This made Ma Qingqiu, who was still the first brother, suddenly feel uneasy, and accidentally even almost cut his fingers.
Chi Hua, who was watching all this on the side, couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, this is also the survival rule of these women in the last days. The cowardly, the stupid, and the unlucky were all dead in the great battle just now, and whether the remaining women could continue to live depended entirely on the attitude of the three outsiders, or rather, the attitude of the two men. And Ma Qingqiu, who always has a smile on his face with squinting eyes, obviously looks much better than Chi Hua, a man like a god, so it has become a lifesaver that several women want to desperately grasp.
In the last days, whether the strong or the mentally handicapped, everyone is struggling to survive, which is also a process of survival of the fittest for human beings themselves.
Chi Hua didn't think about it anymore, and simply closed his eyes.
There is no sun or moon in the cave, and there is no time to know. I don't know how long I slept, Chi Hua was awakened by the smell of meat.
Chi Hua opened his eyes and pushed An An, who was sleeping soundly on his lap. A big python in front of him has been stripped naked, and only the meat inside remains, and several women are talking and laughing with Ma Qingqiu cooking things on the side.
Chi Hua stood up and felt that he must have slept for a long time, because his body had returned to its best state. It's only because the fight with the python has exhausted all the physical strength, and the stomach is constantly growling, so the body will wake up as soon as it smells the smell of food.
"Senior brother, you're awake. Come and try the snake meat soup they made. Ma Qingqiu, who was full of red light, hurriedly got up to greet Chi Hua.
Chi Hua and An An also sat around, several women seemed to be a little afraid of Chi Hua, and when they saw Chi Hua in the past, they all got up and stood aside. Chi Hua smiled, "It's okay, you can also sit down and eat together." ”
I saw a stone pot the size of a basin on the fire, and in the stone pot was rice porridge that had been boiled thickly, and there was a lot of white meat in the porridge, which must be the python meat next to it. Without waiting for Chi Hua to make a move, a woman had already stepped forward and offered Chi Hua and An An a bowl each, the rice porridge was fragrant, the python meat was delicate and smooth, Chi Hua couldn't help but open his taste buds, and he served three bowls in a row to slightly relieve the hunger in his stomach.
Several women saw that Chi Hua was not vicious, but just buried their heads in devouring food, so they carefully sat around, but they still kept a distance from Chi Hua, no one spoke, and the atmosphere was a little dull.
Chi Hua put the porridge bowl on the ground, turned around and cut off a large piece of snake meat weighing more than ten catties from the python, cut the snake meat into small pieces in front of everyone, threaded it with a skewer, and roasted it on the fire, "If you want to satisfy your cravings, you have to eat barbecue directly!" ”
"Shall I bake it for you?" A young woman with a round face who was still a little beautiful took out a few small bottles of spices from the side. I don't know where these women hid these pots and pans, and the fierce battle just now didn't break these fragile bottles and cans.
Seeing that someone took the initiative to serve, Chi Hua did not refuse, and handed the meat skewer in his hand to the round-faced woman, and several other women also came over to help cut the meat and wear the skewers.
"Seeing that you have quite a lot of stuff here, how did you come up with the idea of hiding here?"
Several women looked at each other, but no one dared to speak.
Ma Qingqiu looked anxious from the side, so he said: "My senior brother just asked you a few questions, looking at your hesitant appearance, Xiao Yun or you should say it." ”
Xiao Yun was the round-faced woman who first proposed to barbecue for Chi Hua, and her eyes turned red before the woman could speak. The woman stabilized her mood and said slowly: "We were all kidnapped, the longest has been half a year, and the short one was only kidnapped last month." ”
Chi Hua was not surprised by the woman's answer, "Who are the men we killed?" How did they discover the cave? You've been living in this cave, doesn't that python attack you? Chi Hua threw out three questions in a row.
"Those people were originally members of a mountaineering club, and they discovered this cave and hall before the end of the world, but the entrance to the cave was not as big as it is now, and only one person could barely walk through. Half a year after the end of the world, these people came here to find a secluded paradise to take refuge, but they found that the entrance of the cave had become larger. After a few days of staying here, they came across the python crawling out of the magma to hunt! The woman had a frightened expression when she said about the python, and she couldn't help but turn her head to look at the snake corpse.
One can imagine what kind of fear ordinary people are when they encounter such a behemoth eating people!
"And how did these people survive?" Ma Qingqiu couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Because the python saved them later!"
"What?"
"Impossible!"
Chi Hua and Ma Qingqiu asked huge questions at the same time, and An An was so shocked that he couldn't speak with his mouth wide open.
"Yes! Those people were all poisoned by the snake at that time, which is the venom spewed out by the python today, but the color is much lighter than today, just a faint red. The python swallowed only two people, and then gave the rest of the people an antidote, which was the little purple flowers that grew in the crater. ”
"It turns out that those are the antidote to snake venom, I thought it was some kind of natural treasure? It turns out that the legend that there must be an antidote within seven steps of the poisonous snake is true? Ma Qingqiu couldn't help but interject.
"And then?" An An seemed to be listening to a supernatural story, and asked curiously about the following plot.
"Those people were so frightened that they all left after taking the antidote, but after a few days they all came back, because the poison in their bodies had returned, and there was no way to completely remove the neurotoxins in them, and they had to rely on taking those purple flowers regularly to suppress the toxins, so they were trapped here."
"Then why didn't they pick the flowers and leave?" An An couldn't help but be curious.
"The members of this mountaineering club are elites in various industries, but they have never seen this plant outside of this crater, according to them, similar plants have appeared in the crater of Mount Chariakala at an altitude of 7,000 to 10,000 feet on the island of Hawaii, but they have not found a similar transplantation environment in China, and the effectiveness of these flowers will continue to decline once they are removed from the flower path."
The woman paused for a moment and continued, "But what really kept them was because they discovered two other things, one was that they found that taking these flowers regularly would make them physically stronger; The other, and most important one, they found the pattern of the python's feeding, the python only comes out of the magma once every week or so, but only preys on two people at a time, never more! ”
"I see!" Chi Hua interrupted the woman to continue, "So these people will go down the mountain every once in a while, in addition to grabbing some food, their most fundamental purpose is to hunt for the python, and the people they kidnapped were all fed to the snake, so that the python would not eat their people." ”
The woman nodded, the truth was exactly the same as Chi Hua guessed, which is why she never saw those kidnapped people again. The woman suddenly blushed and continued: "Except for a few of us women who are members of their club, the others have been kidnapped by them, and if we don't give in, we will be fed to the snakes. I don't know if it's because of the snake venom factor or if the flowers themselves have an aphrodisiac effect, every time you take those flowers, there will be the scene you see today. ”
This python is simply terrifying, did he save these people with such a purpose in the first place? It is actually keeping humans in captivity to hunt for itself!
All mysteries are solved.
Originally, these people wanted to find a place outside the world to avoid the strife of the last days, and they not only trapped themselves in it, but also harmed countless innocent people.
"In this last world, no one can stay out of it, and no one can hide from it!" Chi Hua couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh.
The matter was over, and Chi Hua was ready to leave with An An and Ma Qingqiu.
Before leaving, Chi Hua also took out several other treasures from the python's body with his own hands, cut open the python's head to find the crystal nucleus, and finally found the crystal nucleus the size of an adult's fist, Chi Hua even guessed whether this python had also advanced. Chi Hua carefully took out two long fangs from the python's mouth, deliberately cut off a piece of snake skin and wrapped it, and did not let go of the snake gallbladder. If Chi Hua hadn't stopped him, Ma Qingqiu would have gone to the crater to pick some small purple flowers to take away.
There is also a huge python skin, Chi Hua had to cut the python skin from it and roll it into two rolls that weigh more than 100 kilograms for one person, and Chi Hua and Ma Qingqiu each carried a roll.
The last five women who survived had been standing by and watching Chi Hua and the others pack up the loot, and when they saw Chi Hua carrying the python skin on his body and preparing to leave, they all knelt down.
Chi Hua looked at the women with some astonishment, "You are already free, you are willing to stay, these snake meat is enough for you to eat for a while, and if you are willing to leave, no one will stop you!" ”
"Our home is long gone, please take us away! We are not afraid of hardship, we are willing to do anything! ”
Chi Hua frowned, he naturally couldn't take these women away, there were countless fights waiting for him behind him, where could he take care of these ordinary people who had no relatives and no reason. But if these women want to go on the road alone, they are really a few ownerless fat sheep walking on the road, maybe they will be eaten alive by any force!
Chi Hua raised his head and saw that Ma Qingqiu and An An were also looking at him with expectant eyes, so he couldn't help but soften, "I can't take you with me, at most I can only take you down the mountain and send you to the nearest village, and you can only ask for more blessings in the future!" ”
"Senior brother, let them go to Niutou Village to find my father for the time being, if my father is fine, I will definitely settle them well!" Ma Qingqiu suggested on his own.
Chi Hua looked at Ma Qingqiu with meaningful eyes, "Get all five women into your own house, this kid won't remember the picture of a bunch of children circling around his father that he foresaw, first there are women and then children, Qingqiu, this kid has already begun to pave the way for himself." I just don't know what the master will think of his precious son when he sees these women? ”
Thinking of this, Chi Hua couldn't help but smile.
Seeing Chi Hua laughing, Ma Qingqiu and An An also laughed, and several women also laughed.
Perhaps, only everyone knows what they are laughing at......