Chapter 17: The Snake of Flowers

I retreated against the wall, and left and right, the second uncle and the fat man also looked around, for fear that a young clam who had accidentally retreated would attack us again. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info We don't know how this man-eating mother clam survived in this ancient tomb in an environment that is almost extinct, maybe it is really like the ancient river or the stone slab said, thousands of creatures from the depths of the sacred mountain are enshrined and nourished by the sacred water.

We carefully descended the stone steps, but the stone steps under our feet did not look like they were naturally formed, but resembled a man-made mine. This stone step is very narrow, and we don't dare to turn on the miner's lamp or fire a signal flare in it, because if we encounter something that even clams are afraid of, we won't even have a chance to fight back, so I think we will be killed if we enter this mine, but I would rather go down to this mine to find out what is going on than to return to the ancient river and be laid by the mother worm in the water.

The second uncle walked in the first place with a small flashlight, and we moved forward little by little by the faint light, so we couldn't see the specific situation in the cave clearly, so we could only keep going down the stone steps in front of us section by section.

I was leaning on a wall and walking down carefully, suddenly I felt a little itchy in my arm, so I subconsciously retracted it, but it was still itchy after shrinking, and then the itch suddenly turned into a stinging pain, as if something was eating at my skin, I couldn't help it, and I couldn't care about any big monsters, so I screamed "ahhhh

"What's the matter, what's the matter, Yiqi, what are you shouting quietly?" asked Erzhuang in a low voice.

Before Er Zhuang finished speaking, I could feel the left and right gently touch my itchy arm, and directly retreated a few steps down the stone steps, I thought to myself that it was over, and I was going to be unlucky, every time I panicked left and right, Zhun Bao encountered a very tricky thing.

"Fatty, flare gun, second uncle, turn on the miner's lamp, hurry up" shouted left and right.

I only heard the fat man's "bang" to the top of the mine to shoot a shot, the mine is unexpectedly large, this shot signal flare was stunned did not touch the top of the mine, the signal flare exploded in mid-air, directly illuminated the entire mine, oh no, we were all frightened by the scene in front of us, retreated a few steps, and leaned hard into the stone steps, the fat man was even more frightened that the flashlight rolled down from the stone steps, for a long time, only to hear a "bang", the flashlight landed.

What kind of stone steps are we walking under our feet at the moment, but a pair of hanging coffins densely inserted into one side of the wall, which is the so-called hanging coffin, often appearing in the tombs of some ethnic minorities in the south, digging several holes in the cliff and nailing the coffin to the wooden stake on it, and placing one end of the coffin in the cliff, and the other end is on the stake nailed by the cliff, but at this time the coffin under our feet is very small, not like it can hold any dead adults, and the other side of our feet is this abyss, even if one is not careful, Slipping off the coffin can break your bones.

So many hanging coffins, I still see it for the first time, I just heard my father tell me in the book when I was a child, the Song Dynasty's "Taiping Yulan" has recorded that "the house of the immortals, there are thousands of hanging coffins in the middle of the cliff" is intended to think that the hanging coffin is the place where the gods are buried, and the hanging coffin is out of mid-air, the gods have the ability to soar the clouds and drive the fog, and the hanging coffin will of course not have any difficulty. And there is also a record of hanging coffins in "Taiping Huanyu Ji", which is called the hanging coffin is the place where the gods descended, and even has the reputation of Shengzhen Cave, Xianji Cave, and Bone Changing Rock, but most of them are suspected of immortalizing the thing itself. There is even such a description in "Ji Shen Lu": "Wuyi Mountain, Jianzhou, or the night of wind and rain, hear the sound of people and horses, and Ming, there is a coffin on the cliff." The purpose is to show that if the hanging coffin was not built by immortals, it would be impossible for mortals to insert the coffin in the middle of the mountain, especially with so many coffins under our feet at the moment.

I don't believe in fairy legends, and I imagined that the ancients would use something similar to a modern wheel and then put a rope on it to hang the coffin from the top of the mountain to the mountainside, but I can't explain how to solve the problem of hitting the stake firmly into the stone on the cliff.

I was confused, only to hear "Brother Beauty" also screamed loudly, I only heard Brother Beauty say itchy, then I remembered that on my arm, I don't know what I had just bitten several times, but now it is neither itchy nor painful.

I looked down at my arm by the second uncle's miner's lamp, this is not good, I almost didn't vomit the duodenum out of the stomach at that time, I saw that my arms were full of red spots, and each protruding red dot touched hard, and there was also a half of the tail with a pattern, I carefully pulled out a half of the hard shell with my nails, followed by the upper part of the tail directly into my skin, I also pulled the tail hard, then pulled it out, and finally saw, It looked like a small snake with a big fingernail, its upper body was still twisting and wriggling, and the snake's head was staring straight at me.

In fact, this is not a small snake, the snake body and snake head from top to bottom are only as long as the nail cover, and the center of the back of the snake body is gray as the background color, and has a large reddish-brown markings with black edges, the tail is light red, and has a black wide ring band mixed in, very similar to the flower snake we see in our lives, and the snake has a lot of food, and the venom is also very strong, I don't know what the snake in front of me or the mutated snake egg is, but I thought in my heart that it is not a flower snake, If it's really true, I'm afraid that no matter how big my life is, I really have to leave it here.

Suddenly, a torch was lit left and right and roasted directly on my arm, and my hair was scorched black, emitting a mushy smell, "Second uncle, give me the miner's lamp" said left and right.

I saw that the left and right miner's lamps shone on my arms, and the top was densely packed with this kind of charred tail, motionless, there were hundreds, and the left and right were pulled out one by one with their fingernails, and the body part of the snake head and snake that was still very flexible just now was motionless, as if it was dead, "This kind of snake is afraid of fire, it is non-poisonous, and it will temporarily stop its activity when it encounters fire, but the fire can't kill them, so quickly pull them out before they wake up, otherwise I can't do anything about it when the time comes."

Seeing this, Er Zhuang hurriedly turned around and also helped the beauty brother deal with the "Hundred Flowers Snake" on his body, and the second uncle and the fat man also checked whether there were any disgusting snake eggs on their bodies.

"How did you stick to the snake eggs," the fat man saw that there was nothing on him, so he turned to me and asked.

"I don't know, I just kept holding on to the wall, and suddenly I felt that my arm was itching, and then, then, it's like this now," I replied with a strong sense of nausea, and Brother Beauty should say that he was the same as me.

"On the wall, they're on the wall," the fat man said, glancing left and right, and then lowered his head and continued to help me handle the snake eggs on my arm.

Sure enough, as soon as the flashlight shone past, the wall on the side we leaned on was densely packed with this kind of "flower snake", some were motionless, some kept wriggling, falling down from the wall, and the one that fell to the ground kept squirming and crawling into the coffin, and the coffin under my feet was embedded with a small slit, at this time, I saw a pair of vicious eyes staring at me through the small slit.