Chapter Forty-Eight: The Snakes
I took a few steps back, but I didn't really feel at ease because of Shen Jingyun's explanation just now. When I arrive in this kind of place, I think of Shen Jingyun asking me to stay motionless on the road several times, as if hiding my body, I can't help but think, in this almost isolated place, is there still a person?
I can't tell whether it's better to be someone or a desert, in short, the feeling in my heart is very complicated, but the panic is very clear in my heart.
I didn't know what Shen Jingyun was thinking, and he didn't know what I was thinking at this time, he just took a few steps back, took a deep breath, and rushed towards the cave wall. With the help of this force, his body was like a sturdy leopard, jumping up high, and then flexibly jumping out of the cave with the help of several uneven points on the cave wall.
I have to admit that I am amazed by Shen Jingyun's skills, cultivators refining their bodies are mostly maintenance skills, and in terms of fighting skills and physical agility, they may not be as good as some martial arts masters, I don't know how many more years of practice will take to have skills like Shen Jingyun?
But what followed in my heart, Shen Jingyun's performance made me feel a little more secure.
"Xiaoshuang, go on." Just as I was thinking nonsense, Shen Jingyun, who had already jumped out of the hole, threw a vine down from above.
Through the light at the entrance of the cave, I saw that although his expression was flat, it was still a little heavy, and it was more serious than just now. I don't know why, but I still remembered Shen Jingyun's words before, I didn't ask much, I just reached out and tugged at the vine, and after making sure that it was very firm, I quickly tied the luggage with my hands and feet.
Shen Jingyun wordlessly dragged the luggage up, and then threw down two sturdy vines, and I climbed out of the cave with the help of the vines and Shen Jingyun's strength to drag me.
The moment I crawled out of the hole, smelling the familiar scent of the land and plants, I almost cried. Although there is no danger in the underground journey, people who have not experienced depression and darkness do not know the joy of returning to the surface.
After crawling out of the hole, I sat down against the trunk of a tree. At this time, I didn't have time to look around, when I heard Shen Jingyun say next to me: "Xiaoshuang, it looks like this is really a sinkhole, a big one, we don't have to go back to the ground." ”
Shen Jingyun's words undoubtedly reminded me that the environment here was not ordinary, and although I had been mentally prepared, when I looked up at the sky above my head, I still had a feeling of indescribability.
I don't know how to describe the sky as I see it today, but looking at the sky from this angle only reminds me of an idiom, sitting in a well and watching the sky. If you want to describe it vividly, it is like a large bowl with an upside-down button, without a bowl bottom. And Shen Jingyun and I are in the space where the big bowl is upside down.
No wonder the light here is darker than other places, this hidden primeval forest, I don't know how long it has existed, looking around, it is full of dense woods and vines entwined in the middle, Shen Jingyun and I are in a special location, there is only an old tree that has withered here, so the light should be brighter.
I looked at other places, those big trees grew to cover the sky and the sun, and the light that was not too bright was almost tightly blocked, looking towards the woods, deep and dark, so that people had not yet walked in, and there was a trace of coolness in the bottom of their hearts.
I don't know what animals live here, except for the birds, there are occasionally a few screams that I can't tell what kind of animals are, and the strange sound of Si Si Suo. With a gust of wind blowing, I also smelled a smell of decay, presumably the fallen leaves piled up in layers, forming a thick layer of floating soil.
Compared to me, Shen Jingyun observed this place more carefully, and I don't know where he took out a pair of telescopes with infrared rays, and at this time he stood closely beside me, observing everywhere.
I was sitting next to the tree, and I didn't know what Shen Jingyun was observing or thinking at this time. But inexplicably, my heart suddenly tightened, and there was a feeling of explosion on my scalp, and I subconsciously stood up from where I was originally sitting.
Such a move naturally attracted Shen Jingyun's attention, he put down the binoculars, turned around, and frowned, and then I saw him make a quick move without warning, and before I could react, a small snake with the thickness of a thumb was sandwiched between his fingers.
"What's that?" Knowing that it was a snake, I couldn't help but subconsciously shouted in horror.
No matter how strong my cultivation is, I still instinctively feel afraid of some things, such as snakes, rats, etc., not to mention that although the snake between Shen Jingyun's fingers is small, it looks very hideous.
The triangular head, the cold eyes, and the dark red patterns on the body kept twisting after being caught by Shen Jingyun, with a fierce appearance, an open mouth, showing poisonous fangs, and wanted to bite Shen Jingyun several times.
All of this gave me goosebumps in my back.
Compared to my horror, Shen Jingyun seemed much calmer, he clamped the snake's two fingers with a slight force, and the snake that kept writhing immediately softened as if it had been twitched. But before he died, he let out a strange hiss.
I've never seen a snake make such a sound? Speaking of which, it was not the sound of the vocal cords, but the unique "hissing" sound of the snake, except that the little snake made a louder movement before it died. But when I heard this voice, my face turned pale, and I felt a sense of crisis in my heart inexplicably.
And this little snake was clearly cut off by Shen Jingyun by seven inches, and it didn't seem to be any threat.
Seeing that I was panicked and pale, Shen Jingyun threw away the little snake in his hand that he had been studying, and said, "I don't know how many years this place has existed in the pit, and it is unknown whether the animals in it have undergone some changes. I lived in the wild with my master for many days, and I don't know how much snake soup I ate, whether it was a poisonous snake or a non-poisonous snake, I still knew some of it. This snake is very strange and nothing special at first glance, but it is a breed that I have never seen before. But it looks like it's supposed to be highly poisonous. ”
Since entering here, Shen Jingyun has been very silent, this is the first time he has said so many words.
I glanced at the snake corpse with trepidation and asked, "Are you telling me this to remind me to be careful?" ”
"Yes, it seems ordinary here, but in fact, it is a crisis, and I am very afraid that I will not be able to take care of you. If something happens to you, I absolutely don't want to, so Xiaoshuang, you have to be careful and pay attention to the situation around you. ”
I just wanted to nod my head, but the sense of crisis that had been suppressed in my heart exploded at this time like a bomb that was detonated, I looked at Shen Jingyun in horror, and before I could say anything, I heard a large number of "banging" sounds from the dense forest on the right hand.
"I feel terrible......" I only had time to say this to Shen Jingyun, Shen Jingyun frowned suddenly, picked up the telescope in his hand, and looked in the direction to the right, obviously he also heard these movements.
In less than a second, Shen Jingyun put down the binoculars, quickly grabbed the luggage on the ground and carried it on his back, then pulled me up and ran quickly in the other direction.
He pursed the corners of his lips and didn't say anything, and in the panic, I only had time to grab a bag on the ground, and I was pulled by Shen Jingyun and stumbled in the other direction.
"What's going on?" I tried to suppress myself from asking too much, but the great uneasiness made it difficult for me to be silent.
Shen Jingyun quickly turned on the flashlight as he ran, because the direction he ran to was another dense forest, and in this inverted big bowl, except for the small clearing where we just came out of the hole, almost all of them were such dense forests.
At this time, it was close to dusk, and the light in the dense forest was not enough for people to clearly see the environment under their feet and around them, so Shen Jingyun needed a flashlight.
At least that's what I thought, but after Shen Jingyun turned on the powerful flashlight, he silently handed the flashlight to me and said, "We got into trouble, you can look back, just one glance is enough, don't take it too seriously." ”
Shen Jingyun's words were inexplicable, and it could be seen that he was trying his best to calm me down, but didn't he make me even more frightened when he said this? I took my flashlight and looked back a little frightened, and beside the dead tree we had just stayed in, there were some bright spots flickering on and off, flowing rapidly towards us.
It was like the reflection of something, but Shen Jingyun pulled me in one breath and ran out of nearly a hundred meters in an instant, and I couldn't see it very clearly, driven by an inexplicable curiosity, I raised the flashlight and went towards the flowing bright light.
With just one look, my scalp exploded.
Snakes, it's snakes, it's the kind of little snakes just now, and a group of them wriggled out of the dense forest, no, it should be hundreds of them gathered together, and they are frantically chasing Shen Jingyun and me...... At a glance, I could see clearly that there were several huge snakes in that group of snakes, some of whom had the thickness of their calves, and the "aliens" of three or four meters long were mixed in them, and unlike the small snakes with dark red ring patterns, those big snakes were already jet black, except for the similar heads, the rest of the parts looked different from the small snakes.
And the largest of them already has a lump of flesh on its head that looks like a tumor, and it looks like it is about to form a crown of flesh.
What is this?! I shouted frantically in my heart, approaching the pure black flesh-crowned snake? How does it feel so weird and terrifying?! And the snake seemed to sense me looking at it, and raised its head sharply.
At this moment, Shen Jingyun pulled me past me and shouted at me: "Turn back!" ”