Chapter Seventy-Eight: Cleanup
A group of poisonous snakes in front of them were happily spitting snake letters, which made our bodies not far from them numb for a while.
At this time, my cousin took out a bag from his backpack, and we all looked at the bag in his hand with curiosity.
"What's in there?"
The cousin didn't answer, but opened the bag directly, and a pungent smell spread with a faint smell, and under the light of the light, you could see that the bag was full of orange-red powder.
"Ahem."
The pungent smell made us subconsciously move away, and a policeman next to him covered his nose and asked curiously: "Brother Tiger, what are these things, so pungent!" ”
"It's realgar." My cousin took a little and looked at it in his hand, and said to us: "Generally, outdoor explorers will have some people who are ready to carry realgar with them at any time, for the simple reason that snakes, centipedes and other poisonous insects are most afraid of realgar. ”
"You're well prepared." I covered my nose and said something to my cousin.
My cousin smiled and then said to us, "Everyone bring gas masks, the main ingredient of realgar is arsenic sulfide, which will be harmful to the human body if it smells for a long time." ”
After everyone put on the gas masks, the cousin grabbed a handful of realgar powder with his hands and sprinkled it directly on us.
After my cousin finished all this, I still said with some anxiety: "I remember that realgar can only repel snakes, as if it can't kill snakes, right?" ”
The cousin nodded: "Realgar does only have the effect of repelling snakes, but this is enough, we don't use realgar to kill snakes, it's this!" As he spoke, his cousin patted the pistol on his waist.
"Alright, everyone follow me, concentrate, and don't make any mistakes!"
The cousin put away his cynical appearance in the past, and became rare and serious.
Five policemen were on standby with guns in hand, my cousin was holding a bag of realgar powder, and Wei Lin and I were at the end, and the eight of us walked forward gently.
Slowly, we got closer and closer to the noises, and even with gas masks I could hear everyone's breathing getting a lot louder, and it would be nonsense to say that we weren't nervous.
Finally, we are not far from the front of these poisonous snakes.
"Whew!"
The human wall in front of me subconsciously retreated, and I also saw the scene in front of me in the gap.
Dozens of poisonous snakes are distributed in different places, some are bright with spots, some are blue and black, some are hanging on the stone eaves, some are entangled, the only thing that is the same is their green eyes, because of our appearance, the stimulation of the light makes them erect their bodies and look at us, which is more than the ten that my cousin said.
Seeing such a scene, I unconsciously broke out in a cold sweat behind my back, more than a dozen highly venomous poisonous snakes were in front of our eyes, and a bite from any one of them was estimated to be a dead word.
While I was still thinking nonsense, my cousin moved quickly, grabbed a handful of realgar powder from the bag and sprinkled it directly at the snakes, and at the same time sprinkled the powder all around us.
As if smelling the smell of realgar, the vipers who revealed the fierce light became more restless, wanting to attack us, but they were afraid of the powder around us, and when the cousin sprinkled the realgar powder on them, the vipers were twisted and rolled.
"Shoot!"
After sprinkling the powder, the cousin gave an order almost at the same time, and the five policemen began to shoot at the poisonous snakes.
"Bang, bang!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
The gunshots in the cave were particularly harsh, I subconsciously covered my ears, looking at them who were shooting in front of me, the lights were shining around and in front, and as they shot, I couldn't see the situation in front clearly.
It wasn't until the gunfire stopped and the policeman in front put down his pistol that the surroundings fell silent.
When it was quiet, I dared to walk up to them and poke my head out to see the scene ahead.
There were pitted gun holes on the floor in front of them, and there was still smoke, and several snake corpses were lying there in a row, some of which had even been broken into two sections.
"It seems that there are a few runs, everyone pay attention, observe the surrounding situation, Xiao Xiao, don't turn off the safety of your gun, the two of us go to the front to clean up what is going on and shoot directly."
After the cousin finished speaking, he took out two folding batons from his backpack, extended them to the longest, and then walked to the snake corpses with the policeman beside him, the cousin was extremely cautious, although these snakes were no longer moving, but who knew if they were really dead? I once read a news report that a poisonous snake that was cut into several sections did not expect that the only remaining snake head could still move when people went to clean it up, and it bit directly into the person's hand, and the venom spread, and the person who went up to clean it was directly poisoned to death.
So in this case, you must be 10,000 careful, my cousin's approach is obviously correct, he separated all the poisonous snakes with sticks, brought one poisonous snake to the side at a time, and then held the head of the snake with a stick, let the policeman next to him hold one of the batons, and then cut off the head of the snake with a knife.
After all the cut snake heads were thrown aside, and after patiently doing all this, my cousin returned to us with a stick.
After wiping the stick that had touched the snake corpse with a cloth, my cousin put it away and said to us: "Okay, let's continue to go forward, concentrate a little in the back, a few snakes have run away in the back, and I don't know if there are new poisonous snakes in the back, so they are all very mental, it is really not fun to be bitten here." ”
"You two must keep up, and if you find anything, you must speak up immediately, you know?" My cousin reminded us at the end.
"Got it." I nodded.
Even so, my cousin still didn't feel at ease and sprinkled some realgar powder on us.
"You don't have a lighter or anything like that, do you?" My cousin asked me suddenly.
I shook my head and said I didn't, and my cousin didn't say anything when he saw me shaking his head, nor did he explain why he asked me so.
The group began to walk again, but this time at a slower pace, because after walking a distance, they had to stop and observe their surroundings in case snakes were hiding in corners or crevices in the rock walls.
The further I walked in, I still obviously felt that the temperature around me was getting lower and lower, as if we were approaching the refrigerator step by step, maybe it was because there was no sunlight for a long time, and there was moisture in the ground, in fact, it was a relatively normal thing, I can only explain it to myself.
I don't know how long I walked, because I wasn't in the mood to look at the time, and now the only thing I know is to follow them, and I will go forward when they go forward, and I will stop when they stop, and so on and so forth, until I stop again.