Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Viper in the Temple
Gidlin's Law says: Write down the problem clearly and you're half done. Only by recognizing the problem first can we solve the problem well.
The car went along the path, all the way up the mountain, and while driving, Huang Xuan also told me the purpose of the trip, first of all, to go to the bluestone temple to put away all the pendants, in case anyone had an accident because of the pendant.
As for bringing me, the main reason was that I had hallucinations after getting the pendant last time, and he wanted to see if it was the same this time.
More importantly, from the mouth of the temple people to ask the ins and outs of this pendant in detail, the last time I asked about the origin of the pendant, the old man on duty answered very vaguely.
As long as you find out who put these pendants here, you will find the key person in the case.
The rules are clear, and I think he did a good job, but he misses the fact that in this world there is always a plan that cannot keep up with the changes...
It rained all night last night, even if it was sunny today, the mountain was still wet, and even the bluestone temple in front of me was full of water marks.
When I got out of the car, I was a little surprised to see that the gate of the bluestone temple had opened a gap wide one person wide, because we had been here many times before and we had entered through the small door next to it, and the gate had been tightly closed.
Huang Xuan walked in with me, the temple was as quiet as ever, and I could only faintly hear the sound of chanting.
"Anyone?"
I followed Huang Xuan all the way to the front of the lobby, but I didn't see anyone, and the old man who walked in last time found me immediately.
shouted but no one answered, Huang Xuan and I stood in place for a while, and there was no artificial sound.
I thought for a moment and said, "Maybe I fell asleep in the duty room." ”
I remember that the old man came out of the duty room last time, so I walked to the door of the duty room on the side of the hall and knocked lightly. After waiting for a while, there was no sound inside.
"I guess it's not in there."
I said something to Huang Xuan on the side, and subconsciously unscrewed the doorknob lock, but I didn't expect the door to be unlocked and opened by me like this.
I opened the door a crack, I wanted to see if there was anyone inside, but the curtains were closed, and the sight inside was very dark, and I couldn't see anything clearly, so I simply pushed the door open.
The scene that caught my eye unexpectedly made me unconsciously scream "ah".
To my surprise, there was a man, a man lying motionless on the ground to be exact, his back to me so that I couldn't see his face clearly, but I probably knew from the clothes that this should be the old man on duty.
I was about to go in to see the situation, but Huang Xuan immediately stopped me.
"Don't go in!"
I paused and looked at him suspiciously, and he made a silent gesture and said, "Listen." ”
Seeing him like this, I also frowned and stood still, and after listening for a while, I finally heard a slight "hissing" sound coming from the room.
"Snakes?"
Huang Xuan nodded, his eyes intently looking into the room.
"It sounds like it's under the bed." The large furniture in the room only had a bed, a table, and a cabinet, and Huang Xuan quickly made a judgment.
Not long after Huang Xuan's words fell, they were immediately confirmed, and a pointed head poked out from under the bed, and there was still a snake letter in his mouth.
It could be that the sunlight from outside the door that we opened the door was shining in and stimulating its emotions.
Seeing that its head was triangular, my first reaction was poisonous!
The snake also noticed us outside the door, and stood up erect from under the bed to demonstrate to us.
"Ren Sheng, you call an ambulance, I'll see if I can kill it."
Huang Xuan pushed me with his hand and motioned for me to step back.
I also knew the seriousness of the matter, and some of them took out their mobile phones and called the emergency number.
I quickly told the reason for the incident and the address here, and hurriedly hung up the phone after getting an answer.
Seeing that I hung up the phone, Huang Xuan asked me to help him find a sturdy stick, he wanted to watch here to prevent the snake from escaping, so he couldn't leave.
I immediately looked around, there was no stick in the yard except for the branches on the tree, I went to the lobby to look for it, it happened that there was a bamboo broom for sweeping the floor in the corner of the lobby, and I hurriedly took off the head, and hurriedly rushed back to Huang Xuan with the broom stick, and when I ran, I hurriedly glanced at the Buddha platform where the pendant was placed, and found that there was nothing on it, and I was in a hurry to hand the stick to Huang Xuan, so I didn't think too much.
Hurriedly rushed to Huang Xuan's side and handed him the stick, Huang Xuan, who got the stick, said to me with a serious face: "You stand farther away for a while, this snake's scientific name is Round Spotted Viper, it is a highly venomous poisonous snake, and it is very fierce, it will attack people who are close to it, and the attack speed is very fast." ”
After listening to Huang Xuan's explanation, I said worriedly: "Brother Huang Xuan, why don't you ask a professional person to deal with it, in case you... ”
Huang Xuan tightened the stick in his hand, smiled at me and said: "The police station has specially taught me how to deal with poisonous snakes, so I am also a professional, if other people's families encounter this situation differently, can they call the police to deal with it, don't worry!" But you have to stand farther away, I'll draw it out in a moment, the room is too small to be used. ”
Hearing him say this, I also let go of my worries, and after telling him to be careful, I consciously stood far away.
In the distance, I saw Huang Xuan skillfully pick out the snake, the snake came out and wanted to attack Huang Xuan, Huang Xuan deftly retreated, and then smashed the snake with a stick, smashed twice, the snake was lying there softly, and I immediately thought of a word in my mind, hit the snake and hit seven inches.
Seeing that the snake had no strength, Huang Xuan was still not at ease, so he used a bamboo stick to hold the snake's head against it, then took out the knife he carried with him, cut off the entire snake's head, and then pulled the snake's body and snake head aside.
After all this, he motioned for me to come over.
Glancing at the miserable death of the poisonous snake, I was more concerned about the safety of the old man lying on the ground.
Unexpectedly, Huang Xuan still wouldn't let me in, no one knew if there was another snake inside, even Huang Xuan carefully turned the old man over with a bamboo stick, and carefully probed to make sure there was no problem before walking in.
Standing at the door, I could also see clearly, the old man's whole face was blue, foaming at the mouth, Huang Xuan tested his snort with his hand, frowned, and then leaned over to listen to the old man's heart, his brows furrowed even deeper.
Then he carefully examined the old man, and was silent.
"Brother Huang Xuan, how is he?"
Huang Xuan slowly put down the old man's body and walked out: "It's dead, it should be too deeply poisoned, and the body is starting to stiffen, but the details can only be determined when the doctor comes over." ”
After Huang Xuan finished speaking, his brows were always locked, and his eyes lowered as if he was thinking about something.
As the two of them fell silent, everything around them became quiet again.
In fact, I already have a lot of questions and speculations in my heart, but I don't want to disturb Huang Xuan's thinking.
Until he opened his mouth and asked me, "Do you have anything to say?" ”
I glanced at him and nodded.