142 Ganoderma lucidum and snake molt

Zhao Xinghua and the three of them raised their eyes and saw more than a dozen winding snake shadows faintly on the dense canopy, could it be that the black bear deliberately led them here? The three of them had seen the power of the big snake in the Qinglong Cave, and knew that at this time, the three of them didn't say that there were more than a dozen on the tree, even if it was one, they would not be able to win, and it would be difficult to save their lives this time.

The three of them slowly retreated, and finally stood with their backs against a big tree, Zhao Xinghua asked in a low voice:

"Who has experience in snake fighting? Except for hitting the seven inches, I don't know where the seven inches should be now. ”

"I've been trained in this, first of all, the human body has 700 to 800 muscles; Snakes, on the other hand, have between 10,000 and 15,000 muscles. The snake's eyes have degenerated, relying on the cheek sockets between its eyes and nostrils. The cheek socket is like an infrared receiver for snakes, and it can know the location of its prey based on the temperature it receives. That is, snakes have weak eyesight, they rely on their senses, they can only see shaking objects, and they cannot recognize stationary objects. Especially in these days when snakes are molting, the molts will cover the eyes, making them more visible, which can only be distinguished by conduction and smell. ”

"Wait, you're saying they can't see us if we don't move at a distance? And molting? ”

Zhao Xinghua interrupted Ning Yue to continue.

"Do you have any problems looking at those snake shadows in the canopy?"

"Captain, they look like they're empty!"

Tang Chao immediately understood the problem.

"Indeed, it looks like a snake! Then we will be developed! ”

Ning Yue said in surprise like a little girl.

"It's better to go up and take a look, Ning Yue, you find a safe angle to go up, don't get too close. Look at them one by one. ”

Ning Yue obeyed Zhao Xinghua's instructions, flew over to a big tree far away from them, and tried to move towards the looming snake shadows.

Soon he jumped up to a large tree, pulled up the snakeskin hanging between the branches, and shouted to the two people below:

"Sure enough, it's a snake!"

As he spoke, he pulled the snake's skin and jumped down from the tree. Zhao Xinghua and Tang Chao stepped forward to take a look, this snakeskin is more than 5 meters long, and it is very complete from beginning to end. It was very light and thin, and he pulled it hard with both hands, but he couldn't pull it, Tang Chao took out a military dagger and stabbed it, but it didn't destroy it at all, the three of them looked at each other, and said at the same time: "Good baby!" ”

In a few minutes, Ning Yue took off all the snake skins from the tree, the big ones were more than ten meters long, and the small ones were two or three meters long, it seemed that they were all grown and shed by a big snake.

Snake molting is a physiological phenomenon, snakes begin to molt as soon as they are born, under normal circumstances, molting 2 to 3 times a year, as many as 10 times. The natural disaster broke out for half a year, this big snake is growing rapidly, the snake is a cold-blooded animal, its metabolism is faster than that of humans, all its cells can be said to be metabolized, the speed is also fast, as long as the conditions allow, it can continue to grow, until the bones can not bear it. Generally speaking, venomous snakes are relatively small, which is also a special setting to balance the various species, after all, if the viper is too large and highly venomous, then other creatures are basically unplayable. However, it seems to have been forgotten by God, it is highly venomous and has a huge size, and the world's largest venomous snake is a species endemic to Mangshan, and does not belong to any of the taxonomic classes recognized by any known international animal nomenclature code.

Worried that something would go wrong with a few people, Ma Jincheng and the rest of the team also chased here along the blood trail of the black bear, and they were also surprised to see the snake skin on the ground.

Ma Jincheng apologized to Zhao Xinghua with a guilty face, he didn't kill the black bear on the spot just now, but Zhao Xinghua didn't take it seriously, if he was killed on the spot, how could there be these discoveries, and if these snakes were taken back and made into body armor, they would be invulnerable. Everyone packed the snakes on the ground, found vines and tied them up, and each of them carried a huge luggage, but fortunately this thing was not very heavy.

When everyone was about to leave, Zhao Xinghua suddenly said:

"Have you ever wondered why this snake keeps choosing a place to grow? And according to the evolution speed of animals, it shouldn't evolve so fast, for example, the man-bear just now, in my opinion, is only the level of the third level, the highest-level evolutionary animal I met is the clouded leopard, it is estimated to be the level of the fourth level, it eats dozens or hundreds of advanced evolution beasts to have a chance to become the fourth level. And the big snake we encountered in the Qinglong Cave, in my opinion, should be at the level of level five or above, and this level of evolution generally requires a large amount of consumption and absorption of the pituitary gland of other higher creatures. Mangshan is only a hundred kilometers in circumference, where are there enough creatures to feed them? ”

"Captain, I understand what you said, just say your inference, I can't think of this kind of brain-using thing."

Yang Hao asked anxiously.

"I think there must be some kind of mutant plant like Dendrobium around here, which will not only allow these animals to evolve quickly, but also reinvent us. Let's find out how it goes. ”

"Bang~"

Yang Hao and Gao Lie Xiong threw the snake on their backs to the ground at the same time, and their eyes looked around.

……

A few minutes later, the seven people gathered in front of a basin-large, auspicious cloud-shaped, and something similar to Ganoderma lucidum in a daze, this thing like Ganoderma lucidum, the color was red, and Zhao Xinghua touched it with his hand It was very hard.

"Captain, this thing is very hard, huh? It doesn't look like it can be eaten. ”

"This color is a little too bright, will it be the same as mushrooms, the more vivid it is, the more toxic it is?"

"Captain, are you going to dig this thing up?"

"If you make a mistake, don't let it go, of course take it away."

"Captain, this thing is heavy enough, it can be stoned to death if thrown out, like a magic weapon, not like an elixir?"

"Wrap it up and put it on Yang Hao's back."

"Captain, this thing is not too big, how can it be heavier than steel. Is it filled with lead? ”

"It's not for you to eat it now, what are you afraid of, take it back and show that Lan Yuqing Niangniang, if it's useless, throw it away, but I think the evolution of the big snake is inseparable from this thing."

A few people repacked their bags and rushed to the brigade, and a few Yao soldiers also came over there to check if there was an accident when everyone left the team for so long, and after meeting with Zhao Xinghua and a few people, they saw that there were no casualties, and the black bear was also driven away, which was very admirable. In the conflict with the black bear for a short time, several clansmen were slapped to death under the bear's paws, but they didn't even lay a single hair on the black bear, and it was not until Zhao Xinghua and the two appeared that a turnaround occurred. Seeing that several people came back with a large package, no one asked anything.

There were several waves of animal interference along the way, and this time Zhao Xinghua and others didn't need to come forward, they were all beaten away by the Yao soldiers led by Lei Tianhuo.

Finally arrived at the bottom of the mountain before sunset, although there were casualties along the way, but it was much better than expected, this time if there were no reinforcements to help, those hungry wolves were enough to make the migrating people kill and wound a lot, not to mention the black bear behind it.

Zhao Xinghua and several people were invited to go again, thanked them again for their help, and took out a few teas to give to everyone as gifts. This is a mutated tea tree picked, baked into Yaoshan red, before the end of the world there is the title of "Mangshan Muyun", the tea soup color is ruddy, honey floral fragrance, sweet aftertaste, bubble resistance, long aftertaste characteristics, there are beauty and beauty, refreshing the brain, sterilization and detoxification, shengjin thirst quenching, diuretic laxative and other health care effects. Someone said: "Twist and knead, cut and fry, condense people's feelings, and ask; Steaming, drying and drying, containing the will of heaven, seven bowls into immortals. ”

There is only one tea tree in this tea forest that has undergone special evolution, and the yield is very low. That is, if you drink it for a long time, you can be as light as a swallow, and it is unknown whether this will be the case, and it will be verified by everyone in the future.

A few people recalled the war horses, and they couldn't hurry at night, so they also lit a fire, and prepared to spend the night on the side of the Yao people, and when they had nothing to do, Zhao Xinghua asked Ning Yue:

"I now feel that among these mutant creatures, the python is the most terrifying, this thing has great strength and is not slow, and there seems to be no place to go except that it can't fly. The main thing is that this thing grows really fast. When I encounter it, I will have the feeling that there is nowhere to start, its scales are hard, and it moves quickly, how do you say to deal with it? Tell us about your training? ”

"We've learned how to deal with the desert king cobra, which is one of the biggest venomous snakes in the world. Like the Mangshan soldering iron head, due to the huge body size, the amount of venom secretion also increases, once bitten, its snake venom will quickly attack with the blood in the human body, if not treated in time, it will die on the spot. The venomous snake's instantaneous attack speed reaches 1/25 of a second, and the snake attacks in a straight line when attacking, and it is very simple to dodge its attack, you only need to change the direction, and it is very laborious for the snake to turn its head. Second, since there is a set of muscles on each side of the spine, one side contracts and the other side relaxes, which causes the snake body to bend. This wave-like motion can be transmitted from beginning to end on the sides of the body in opposite positions. If this wave movement does not encounter obstacles during the transmission, the bend formed by these muscle activities will pass through the whole body without resistance, but if the ground is uneven or bumpy and narrow, the bending movement will be disturbed, so try to escape to the uneven ground, which can greatly interfere with the speed of the snake. ”

Speaking of this, Ning Yue saw that everyone was listening attentively to her explanation, so she continued:

"The third point: poisonous snakes are afraid of pungent odors, and poisonous snakes spit out letters in their mouths, which are not tongues, nor do they have the taste function of the tongue, they are used to capture the chemical components near the space, and when they spit out the letters and then retract them back to the top of their noses, let the nose smell. Of course, this refers to the ordinary venomous snake before the end of the world, and the kind of more than 20 meters long that we see is not in this consideration. Venomous snakes are afraid of smoke, and some snake catchers can catch snakes by smoking when they see that they can't catch them after they enter the hole. The fourth point: the snake is a cold-blooded animal, its endurance is very limited, and the energy consumed by the snake for each attack is equal to the energy of a cat running a kilometer. Although snakes look terrible when attacking people, they can easily catch them as long as they use something to exhaust their physical strength, and some small animals use this way to defeat cobras. Fifth, the snake's vertebral body activity is limited by a certain angle, so that it cannot turn around, so the snake catcher can catch the snake's tail behind the snake to avoid the snake's injury. ”

"Listening to you say this, it seems that this poisonous snake is full of shortcomings, and it is not terrible?"

Yang Hao was on the side.

"But I still haven't said, where do we start when we encounter such a big snake?"

"It should be poisoned and smoked first, then find a place to run in a pothole, consume its physical strength, and then use the angle that the cervical spine cannot bend to defeat it in one fell swoop."

"Not to mention the poisonous smoke that smokes it, potholed roads are no longer very suitable, for small snakes, ordinary potholed roads have an effect on muscle contraction, and have no effect on this huge giant snake with a diameter of almost half a meter. With its huge body, its physical strength will be hundreds of times that of before, and these are not very suitable for ordinary poisonous snakes. ”

Everyone was chattering about how to kill such a giant snake.

"Why do you have to kill it, as long as it doesn't affect us? I figured since snakes were averse to pungent smells, it would be enough for us to find something that would repel them. You don't have to kill it, do you? ”

Fan Yao, who had been silent, expressed a different opinion.