Chapter 14: The Mountains
Playing with the snakes all over the mountains and fields, I really have hair on my guts.
But there's no way around it.
If I kill a few more snakes and anger that worm spirit, and then the child dies because of it, I won't want to sleep peacefully for the rest of my life.
Don't take risks, those four words were on my mind at the time.
"What are you going to do?" Shen Han also picked up the shotgun at this time, with two grenades pinned to his waist, how did he look like he was going to the front line of Laoshan to fight.
"Salute first, then soldiers, wait until I go and communicate with them first." I whispered, then took a few steps forward, standing generously in front of the group.
Under the light of the flashlight, I saw many snakes that I knew and didn't know.
As far as I can recognize, there are more than a dozen cobras alone, and there are even more golden and silver kraits.
I can already feel the hostility of the long worm spirit, really.
The snakes guarding us at the mountain pass are basically all poisonous, and the snakes that are not poisonous are not even a tenth.
I thought I couldn't be afraid of snakes, and I'm not a girl, where are there so many things to be afraid of?
But when I saw the serpent all over the hills
It's no exaggeration to say that I coaxed.
"These are all hallucinations, all hallucinations"
I took a deep breath and slowly pushed the tension down.
Immediately, I put on a smile on my face and beckoned to the snakes in a friendly and harmonious manner.
"Hello everyone! I want to kill you! ”
My cordial and friendly greeting not only made the other party scratch their heads, but even Shen Han and them felt a little surprised.
Zhao Qingluan is a person who knows my character better, so his expression is a little complicated now, as if he is calling me stupid in his heart.
"Hiss"
The snakes seemed to be ready to make a move, and one by one they all stood up and kept spitting snake letters.
Hearing this tingling sound, the smile on my face couldn't help but stiffen a little.
"What! We are not enemies! I waved at them again: "Everyone is our own!" There's something to say! Let's get out of the way?! Just give me a face! ”
I think this sentence still carries a lot of weight, no matter how I say I'm a gentleman, give me face, I'll give you a way to live, how harmonious!
But these snakes are indeed impersonal animals, and no matter how kind I am, they have no intention of giving way, but they also have no intention of coming to attack, and they just look at us from afar.
"Let's go up the mountain." I sighed, "It seems like there's no other way around now." ”
"You'd better pray that your animal avoidance wine will work." Shen Han said coldly, with a faint sense of panic in his eyes.
I hesitated for a moment, then asked her tentatively, "Are you afraid of snakes?" ”
"Who's Scared ?!!" Shen Han glared at me viciously, and the hand holding the shotgun trembled slightly.
"It's okay, they won't bite us." I said, walked over and dragged Shen Han behind me, and without waiting for her to speak, I instructed: "You follow me, run away if the situation is not right, you know?" ”
Shen Han nodded, biting his lip tightly, as if trying to overcome his fear of snakes.
"Otherwise, you and Brother Qiang will wait for us here, and Xiao Zhao and I will go up first." I couldn't help but persuade, looking at Fan Guoqiang, whose legs were trembling, I only felt a little helpless: "This is it"
"I'm not afraid." Shen Han gritted his teeth and said, "You hurry up and get out of the way, and we will follow you up." ”
The courage required to walk through the mountains and wilderness is definitely not something that ordinary people can imagine, maybe at first I think it's nothing, anyway, they won't do anything to us if they spray animal wine, but
Damn, when I first came into contact with the first wave of snakes, I felt like I was dying.
The nearest snake to me was a krait, which was slightly propped up, and kept spitting letters at me, and its eyes were very cold, as if it were looking at its own prey.
If it wants to bite me, it only takes a blink of an eye to make me have two more blood holes in my calf.
At this point, I didn't dare to go any further, but stood there and watched for a while, and when I was sure that it didn't mean to attack me in the slightest, I began to lead them inside.
The snakes didn't get out of the way for us, they didn't attack us, they just stayed where they were, staring at us.
At this time, the moon slowly emerged from the dark clouds, and the miserable white moonlight made people feel a chill in their hearts.
"Be careful when you pass through the snakes, don't step on them." I reminded them with a solemn face, and then gently lifted my right foot and placed it in a small clearing in front of me.
This open space is just enough for me to put one foot down, and a few poisonous snakes are entrenched only ten centimeters away from my right foot, and the scene is really terrifying.
At first, Fan Guoqiang was still a little scared, and he didn't dare to settle down for a long time when he walked, but after he walked for a while, he found that those poisonous snakes didn't attack us at all, and the grandson was relieved in an instant.
"Oops! Mr. Yuan! You're a god! Fan Guoqiang was shocked and said: "If this kind of wine can be used by mountain people when they work, then it will definitely be"
"It's all at this time, you should think less about those things," I smiled bitterly, looking at the mountains and forests in front of me, and only felt a headache.
After only a few dozen meters of progress, the surrounding snakes became more and more scarce, and they did not mean to follow, but still stayed where they were and looked at us.
After a little further in, there was no sign of the snake in the area, which was quite puzzling to me.
What does this mean?
"Brother Yuan, in this barren mountain and wilderness, if you want to find a snake, I'm afraid it's a little difficult." Zhao Qingluan shook around with a flashlight, and said to me thoughtfully: "And it's not convenient to do anything at night."
"Let's go to the mountainside first, and when we get there, I'll have a way to find the snake." I laughed.
"I once heard my grandfather say something about animals, some powerful live animals, knives can't penetrate, guns can't penetrate, and when you meet them, you can only run away." Zhao Qingluan asked me, "Are you really sure this time?" ”
"Well, there are several plans, but we haven't decided which one to use yet, all in all, we have to save the child first." I sighed.
Because mountain people often enter the mountain, on this barren mountain, there are a total of seven or eight paths leading to the top of the mountain, all of which are wild roads that the mountain people slowly drive out.
Although the road is too narrow, and there are a lot of thorns and weeds on both sides, it looks a little unsafe, but in terms of convenience, it is much easier to walk than the original mountain.
In about twenty minutes we were halfway up the mountain, a meadow with no trees around and no thorn bushes to hide, which made us all breathe a sigh of relief.
In this situation where snakes may be encountered at any time, those thorn bushes that people can't see through at a glance always give people an inexplicable sense of danger.
"There should be no situation here" Zhao Qingluan held the shotgun tightly in his hand, his eyes were full of solemnity, and he was always paying attention to the wind and grass around him.
It seems that he is still quite afraid of the big snake that has never appeared, and the cold sweat on his face has been layer after layer, which shows how empty this girl's heart is.
In fact, not only him, but also me, was nervous when he went up the mountain, for fear that the giant python would suddenly jump out.
With my small body, as long as that beast gives me a bite, half of my body will basically say goodbye to the world.
"You help me keep an eye on the situation around me, I'll go up and look for the beast now." I said, holding a compass and determining the direction of east, west, north and south.
As soon as the words fell, I put away the compass, took out the bag of copper coins I had brought, found a slightly flat place and arranged it in a circle, and then used my dagger to engrave the talisman in the circle of copper coins.
"Can this one find the beast?" Zhao Qingluan asked curiously: "Don't you Taoist priests use compasses to find monsters?" ”
"I'm not going to use that." I shook my head: "And the ordinary compass can't find the wrong, unless it is processed, or the person holding the compass is extremely high-level, and can find the traces of injustice from the weak changes in yin and yang."
With that, I put the dagger aside, took out another bottle of cinnabar, and began to fill it with the concave charm.
"What's your trick here?" Zhao Qingluan asked with great interest.
I replied to him as I filled the charm with cinnabar.
"Nine Veins Ancestral Animal Dingyin Mountain."