【Chapter 59】A nest of snakes and rats

Rowan looked at the three-barreled revolver in his hand, Zu Long looked at the short sword in his hand, and then the two looked at the sea together: "What's moving?" ”

The sea pointed to the body of the hooked snake still in the pool and said, "It seems to have moved."

Rowan looked up in the direction pointed by the sea, and sure enough, the snake body really moved close to the water! It's just that it moves very unnaturally, as if a big bag suddenly bulged out of the snake's body, like a heart beating irregularly through the snake's skin!

"That's not right! It's the snake that swallows and writhes in there! Rowan judged.

I saw that the things in the snake's body kept moving in the direction of the snake's head, but the speed was very slow, as if it couldn't find the direction, it hit this side, moved there, and sometimes turned back to the snake's tail, but the general direction has been towards the snake's head.

And this hooked snake seems to be very uncomfortable, began to keep writhing its body, at first the frequency and amplitude were not large, just like a spring carefully stretched by people, until the belly moved to the middle of the snake's body, the swing of the hooked snake began to gradually violent, the snake's head began to sway from side to side, unnaturally shaking the body, the fluff of the abdomen vigorously rubbed the ground and gravel under the body.

As time passed, the shaking became more and more intense, the snake's head and body began to sway wildly, and the truck-sized snake's head hit the surrounding stalagmites broken and broken, as if it was a wiper to clean the cave floor repeatedly, and the rubble also flew around, and the three of Rowan were in a hurry.

But just when the three of them began to be overstretched, the hooked snake suddenly remained motionless as if it had been cut off from power, and the first half of its body stopped in mid-air, raising its head as if it was petrified, and rushed towards the door in a daze. Immediately afterwards, the whole body began to tremble, and even the pupils of the snake's eyes expanded and contracted rapidly and repeatedly, and the thing in the abdomen had moved to seven inches of the snake's head.

Rowan hurriedly checked the bullets in the magazine, then stared at the hooked snake and said, "That thing is coming out, be careful!" ”

Before he finished speaking, he saw that the pupils of the hooked snake began to shrink sharply, and then the upper and lower jaws that had been tightly closed suddenly opened slightly, and a purple-red letter poked out of its mouth like another giant python, sticking out of its mouth and pulling it at the side of its mouth. Then it was like the big mouth on the front of the truck suddenly opened, and when a big mouth of blood basin was opened, it was twice the size of the original! When opened, the whole thing is bigger than its head!

At this time, the body of the entire hooked snake began to show a wave-like tremor, transmitted from the snake's tail to the snake's head, repeated several times, and finally in a sound similar to a low roar, the hooked snake suddenly spewed out a huge black shadow from its mouth as if vomiting!

As soon as the shadow hit the ground, it hid in a dark place in the corner, leaving only a huge puddle of goo on the ground, which was still steaming.

The sea stared intently at the direction where the black shadow disappeared, and wanted to pat Rowan on the shoulder with his hand, but he who was also sitting did not take into account the height difference between Rowan and himself, and gave Rowan two slaps firmly, and then asked: "Luo, Team Luo, do you see it clearly?" ”

Rowan didn't pull back in a rare good temper, but nodded honestly, stared at the black shadow and said, "What a big mouse!" ”

"Old, mouse?"

Just as in order to prove Rowan's accuracy, the black shadow slowly walked out of the corner, and with the help of the other flashlight on the ground at the entrance of the cave, the sea also clearly saw the true face of the black shadow, and then swallowed saliva and said to himself: "I have a mother!" ”

This thing was the size of an adult African elephant, not only did it not have a single body hair on its body, but even the skin was not an inch visible, and its body was full of large areas of festering and rotten scarlet flesh, and occasionally there were pustules of various colors of different sizes, and the yellow-green pus was rolling back and forth in this transparent pus, which was disgusting.

The two cartilage ears on his head stood straight, but one of them was missing a large piece of flesh, and a pair of fiery red eyes stared at the hooked snake, as if he didn't even notice that there were three other lifeforms under one wall of the cave. The two extraordinarily protruding front teeth under the slender nose are exposed like upside-down ivory, isn't this an oversized rat yin beast!

When the sea grew its mouth and marveled at this, what caught Rowan's attention more than these was that the front paws of this mouse actually had five fingers like a human! And the length of the forearms is completely out of the proportions of normal rodents, and instead more like the upper limbs of chimpanzees! The sturdy shape is reminiscent of the appearance of the sea when it was embodied.

"Oh my god! How many buds does this big mouse have to eat in one meal? The food we have in the whole village is not enough for three days of supper! Team Luo, this is also a Yin Beast? ”

Luo Wenen sighed: "Judging from the appearance, it's not a big problem, but this big rat is definitely beyond the scope of our understanding of the bardo beast, and it is estimated that it is directly related to the purpose of Unit 731 to build this place."

Speaking of this, the two of them stopped talking, only to see that the hook looked a little weak after spitting out the mouse yin beast, and the flat body was still writhing intermittently, on the other hand, this huge mouse yin beast seemed to be a little uncomfortable with everything in the outside world at first, and kept sniffing back and forth with its gray-black nose, and the two huge deformed forelimbs were quickly scraping back and forth on both sides of the nose and mouth, and the scarlet eyes kept looking around.

The old rat's huge body movements were extremely agile, and then he suddenly seemed to be startled to see the hooked snake in front of him, and suddenly retreated and jumped out several meters, and the hooked snake also suddenly stood up with the first half of its body and spit out the letter repeatedly, making a sound that made people's hairs stand upside down, putting on a condescending momentum.

The rat yin beast slowly lay its two forelimbs on the ground, revealing two huge teeth, and raised a thick tail to pose in an attacking posture. Almost at the same time, the flat body of the hooked snake instantly became more flattened, but the horizontal plane became wider, like a flattened straw, opening its bloody mouth to reveal a row of jagged teeth, the purple-red snake letter was stretched extremely straight in the mouth, like a javelin poked in the mouth, and the two poisonous sacs on the head also bulged up at once, ready for the attack.

The sea trembled his nostrils twice and asked Rowan: "This is going to fight!" ”

Luo Wen's eyes turned back and forth between the two, and then shook his head: "I think it is a kind of deterrence, the first instinctive reaction of animals when they encounter their opponents is not to fight, but to use changes in shape, voice, texture, etc. to deter the other party, which is actually an instinctive reaction to avoid fighting."

If it is a simple hunt or wants to kill the opponent, the animal will not choose this method at all, and generally the quieter the better, so as to kill with one blow. The current state is mostly in the division of territory among animals, the competition for mates, and the ownership of food, so they are intimidating each other, hoping that they will not use force to subjugate people.

To put it bluntly, they feel that each other has a fairly high threat and may be evenly matched. And the rat is definitely not in the snake's stomach for a day or two, and it is a big fortune to hold on until now that it has not been strangled or corrupted by gastric juice, and there is such a big guy in the stomach of the hooked snake tossing for so long, it is estimated that it is also exhausting, so now the two of them will stalemate with each other, otherwise the fight would have started long ago"

The sea took the time to glance at Rowan: "Don't they all say that snakes and rats have a nest of snakes and rats." It stands to reason that their old brothers should be in a pretty good situation, at least they should be the brothers who worshipped the son, how do you say this now? ”

Rowan said in an impatient tone, "Who told you that they were friends?" Snakes and rats are natural enemies, and a nest of snakes and rats is two creatures that describe each other as natural enemies, and if they can coexist peacefully, it means that something very abnormal has happened. It's like a thief and a policeman hugging their necks as brothers, either the police are breaking the law, or the thief may be an undercover person. Tell me the truth, how much did the monkey reveal to you in your exam questions? ”

The sea quickly pretended not to listen and patted Luo Wen's thigh: "Oops, hey! Team Luo, you see how the teeth of this hooked snake are similar to sharks, isn't the snake just four teeth up and down? ”

Rowan glanced at him: "I don't know how to go, I haven't seen a few people alive with this hooked snake, and I haven't said much in the book, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I always thought it was an apocryphal creature."

Zu Long eased up a little after such a long time of adjustment, and said weakly: "Wen'er, look at the waterhole"

Rowan and Dahai hurriedly turned their heads to look at the deep pool, only to see that the tail of the hooked snake was very slowly exposed to the water, and the two huge tail hooks were hanging with water droplets and slowly sticking to their backs.

Zu Long was afraid that the sea and Luo Wen would not be able to hear what he said, so he tried to move his body in the direction of the two of them, and said with a few breaths: "Such a big place, maybe it will take our lives in that moment, it's an opportunity" After speaking, Zu Long patted the sea.

Rowan raised his eyes and noticed this action, then looked at the deep pool, and carefully calculated, the sea looked back and forth like a rattle between the two of them, scratched his butt and turned his head to ask Rowan: "Team Luo, what do you mean, what do you two want to do?" ”

Luo Wen stared at the eyes of the sea and said: "Zu Shao means that this hooked snake is ready to kill this big mouse, once the two of them start to move, this cave is not enough to toss, and it is the three of us who will suffer first." Now the body of this hooked snake is estimated to be more than half of the waterhole, and the water is flowing, so the entrenched poison should disperse quickly, if the water is fast enough and the exit distance of the waterway happens to be not too long, we may be able to get out of the water alive if we hold our breath, it is better than waiting here to die."

The sea subconsciously turned around to look at the deep pool, and then looked at Luo Wen: "Why can you always take me with you for such a thing?" ”

Luo Wen laughed when he heard this: "It's not me who takes you this time, it's Zu Shao who has to take you, and you have to bring it, this is the only way for us to live."