At night, cold rain falls.

Such a night is a cruel test for any living being.

A lot of animals die on nights like this.

There are also many animals who are hungry and cold on this night, but they can only curl up and endure in silence.

However, a team of more than a thousand people, cloaked in cloak and carrying a series of tools such as hoes, chainsaws, axes, ropes, etc., quietly set out from the West Gate.

Their garments were divided into four layers, a linen coat, a burlap coat, a boar fur coat, and finally a cloak of withered grass.

In addition, their feet are wrapped in thick pigskin, which is very warm.

At first, their bodies were also cold, and they shivered in the cold wind, but after walking a few hundred meters, their bodies gradually warmed up.

By the faint light of the day, they walked through the meadow, through a secret passage in the wild boar forest, towards Hump Mountain.

The reason why this time was chosen was to avoid confrontation with wild boars.

It was slightly light, and the party arrived at the area of the river valley, which was already occupied by wild boars, and the old party led the team carefully through the woods.

Due to time and weather, the team did not encounter a herd of wild boars along the way, so they arrived at the foot of Hump Mountain without realizing it.

Further west is the Mystery Forest, and beyond the Mystery Forest, there is a large plain, and the snake cave is in the canyon between the Mystery Forest and the Great Plains.

After investigation, there are few large animals in the current Hump Mountain and the Lost Forest, and the biggest reason is nothing more than the group of pythons

There are no herds of wild beasts, a big reason is that the terrain of the mountain is too steep, the huge rock wall in the west is almost perpendicular to the Lost Forest, and the trees are scarce, which is not conducive to the hiding of animals.

Lao Fang has taken a fancy to this place, forests, stones are important resources, and more importantly, this is a springboard to the great plains.

Now what the old side has to do is to hoard resources, the wood here is extremely rich, and the stones on the mountain are also very rich, when the old party feels that he has the strength to march into that plain, he can completely pass here, send supplies over continuously, and then quickly build a city.

The team found a place to stay, in the edge of the Hump Mountain, there is a fairly flat grassland, the terrain of this grassland, which happens to be more than ten meters higher than the terrain of the mystery forest, the old party was overjoyed, and immediately ordered the team to set up camp.

……

Snake Cave.

Overall, snakes are super-fertile creatures.

But nature is fair, and every winter, it is a great test of nature for snakes.

As the temperature drops, the snake gradually goes into hibernation, and if the temperature is too low, the snake will die completely.

According to statistics, wild snakes will have a one-third to one-half mortality rate in the cold winter.

In other words, on average, one snake will be frozen to death by the cold winter.

But the situation is different in such a large snake cave, where many of the same kind are crowded together, making the temperature two or three degrees higher than that of solitary snakes, which greatly reduces the mortality rate.

The old man has no good impression of snakes, he has a demand for the territory of Hump Mountain and Mystery Forest, so he wants to take advantage of this winter to kill all the snakes in the snake cave.

In fact, Lao Fang has been consuming the strength of these snakes these days, he has sent the old, weak, sick and pregnant into the cave, and in addition to eating some wild boar every day, the most eaten is snake meat.

A thigh-thick python was caught, and as soon as the bronze sword came out, it directly chopped its head, and then peeled the skin and cut off its meat piece by piece, whether it was eaten raw or roasted, it had a unique flavor.

After eating the first piece of snake meat, many people become out of control, often running alone or in groups to go to the burrowing caves where the snakes hibernate and steal snakes.

For them, their feelings are more inclined to humans, which may be that most of them crawl out of human bellies, and the first thing they come into contact with is the caring eyes of humans.

And the snakes never come to care for them.

And those beautiful snakes are different, they are also like other snakes, through the oviparous, out of the shell, they live in the snake nest since childhood, and they inhabit snakes, so, in their minds, they are a snake.

During this period of time, the beauty snake automatically takes on the security work of the snake cave, and once it is found that someone sneaks into the snake cave, they will attack it in groups.

Although the snake people and the Wa people are both combined with the genes of humans and snakes, the intelligence of the Wa people is much higher than that of the snake people, which comes from their brains and inherits the human brain.

In addition, some Wa people have also inherited the power of giant pythons, their bodies grow with age, and when they reach adulthood, they are more than ten meters long, and relying on the strength of the snake body, they can make their vertical height exceed three meters and a half.

In addition to these two mutant varieties, there is also a snake-headed human variety, this creature is also classified as an unacceptable species by the old side, although the old side can also descend on them through the power of the bloodline.

There are not many such creatures, and their status among snakes is not high, and they belong to the two-sided unflattering role.

In his eyes, between species, just like some simple chemical reactions, two elements meet, a chemical reaction occurs, and then a compound is formed, but the compound will show different properties because the valence state of a certain element is different, but in any case, it still inherits some characteristics of these two elements.

Of course, both humans and snakes are species that nature has evolved over hundreds of millions of years, and the genes of these species are far more than just a few elements.

Lao Fang didn't have time to delve into the genetic issues between organisms, and he was thinking about what way to use to wipe out the snakes in this snake cave, so that they could no longer gain a foothold in this land.

After all, if the old party builds a village, the high wall can block ordinary animals, but no matter what, it can't stop the snake's footsteps.

Based on this, the snakes here must die.

If a strong enemy is on the side, how can you sleep soundly?

There are snake caves in this forest, and the old party wants to live and work in peace and contentment, let alone how to develop.

But now, I can only blame the fate of this group of snakes, but I met someone like Lao Fang.

It seems that they will not survive until next spring.

Before Lao Fang had already taken action on this snake cave, he did not plan to transfer the humans here, the living conditions here were good, the snake meat meal was enough, and it was particularly safe.

There is no other place better than this place, Lao Fang thought.