I thought that a hand was stretched out of the earthen jar, and when I looked closely, I realized that it was a snake. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The snake's arms are thick, the snake body is short, about a little more than a meter, the snake's head is triangular, the mouth is slightly upturned, the whole body is white, almost transparent, the round abdominal viscera is faintly visible, and it looks very disgusting.

The snake was wrapped around the neck of the braces, slowly wriggling, as if it couldn't figure out what it was for a while, and was there to observe the form, ready to go.

I didn't have time to shout "be careful", the braces had already reacted, and I reached out and pulled the snake off my neck, only to see that the white snake was frightened, shrunk its neck suddenly, suddenly opened its mouth, and pounced on the face of the braces!

The braces suddenly woke up, and with the force of his hand, he threw the white snake on the wall of the cave at once. All this happened in just two seconds, and when the snake pounced, it was only a few inches away from the face of the braces.

The snake was thrown out a few meters, hit the wall of the cave, rolled to the ground, squirmed twice, and suddenly stood up like a cobra, facing us, spit out a white tongue, hissed, and made threatening gestures to us.

I saw that the white snake was not afraid of people at all, and as if it was about to attack again, I quickly felt a stone, knocked on the box at hand, and roared at the snake a few times.

This method was taught to me by my grandfather, saying that if you encounter any poisonous snakes and beasts in the mountains, don't be afraid, just hit the stone or roar loudly at it, those beasts are also bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, as long as they overpower it in momentum, there will be no danger.

The white snake stood in place, swinging its head from side to side, as if weighing the pros and cons, and after a while, it suddenly fell down, crawled towards the crack in a hurry, and disappeared into the hole in a flash.

A few of us breathed a sigh of relief, as if we had walked through the ghost gate, I don't know why, I think the white snake looks very vicious at first glance, its body is round and stubby, the snake's head is triangular, the lips are upturned, and the tail is also short and thick, in my experience, this must be a very deadly poisonous snake.

The braces were frightened by this, and they didn't care about the gold and silver treasures, so they came over and stretched out their hands to us, and said

"It's disgusting, why does this snake have so much oil on it?" It stinks! ”

He put his hand on his nose and sniffed it, which was about to wrinkle into his mouth, and wiped his hand twice on his clothes, still muttering there.

When I watched his actions, my mind exploded, and I suddenly remembered something. I remember when I was a child in the village, an adult told me a story that was so scary that I felt a chill down my spine every time I thought about it. It is said that there was a man who caught a white snake in a cave deep in the mountains, and the snake he had never seen before, and the limbs were stubby and short, and the whole body was transparent, so he thought that the snake must be very valuable, so he put it in a cage, and when the town went to the market, he took it and sold it. He walked to the snake collector with the cage containing the snake, and asked if the snake was collected, and when the snake collector saw it, his face immediately darkened, and he looked at the snake and then at the man, and asked him how much he wanted. The man thought, looking at the surprised look of the snake collector, this snake must be very rare, so he said that if you give me 500 yuan, this snake is yours. The snake collector didn't lower the price, so he took out a wad of money from his leather bag and said "That's it, I'll give you a thousand yuan, and you go home and prepare a coffin board." When the man heard this, he got angry and said that you can't speak, but the money is not fake, and the man complained and took the money back. Within a few days, the man was dead, blackened all over, his hands rotting, and emitting a foul stench. Later, when the snake collector heard the news, he found the cave and put the white snake back. The storyteller told me that this snake was so venomous that it could not be touched, and that if it was bitten, it would kill instantly. It is also said that this kind of snake is very territorial, generally there are only two in a cave, one male and one female, and feeds on the bats in the cave.

But now that I think about it, this story is too mysterious, and I don't know if it's true or not, so I didn't say it so as not to cause panic.

After a few of us discussed it, we all felt that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, so we took advantage of the strange snake to crawl away for the time being, and quickly left here.

The braces are still alive, so let's wait a little longer, and say put the scattered money in place. Boss Chen and I looked at each other, and both shook their heads to express helplessness, and the fat yellow man only scolded a few words, and he didn't even have the mood to stop him.

During this time, I used my flashlight to shine on the box containing the silver dollars, thinking about whether I should touch a few pieces and put them in my pocket as a souvenir, when I was thinking about it, and suddenly found that there seemed to be something hidden under the silver dollars that had been opened. I was taken aback, and said that something was so well hidden, so I reached out and pulled the silver dollar out.

When I pulled it out, it turned out to be a small wooden box, made of sandalwood, and there was a faint fragrance of wood that faintly penetrated my nose.

The box is not locked, just buckled with a metal buckle, I unbuttoned the button, opened the box to see, found that it contained a few colorful military medals, I thought to myself that the owner of the box has also made military exploits, and saw that there is a small book in the box, look through it, it is densely written with pen words, I read a few sentences, only to know that it is a notebook, probably recorded the life deeds of the owner of the box.

I didn't bother to look at it for a moment, so I put the notes back in the box, fastened the box, and thought about getting out of here first.

After leaving the "cave within a hole", we walked for another hour along the looming ancient road, passing through a narrow corridor and entering a hall. This hall is at least the size of a football field, overgrown with all kinds of stalactites, and covered with stone forests, like a forest. The roof of the cave is tens of meters high, and water droplets are constantly dripping from everywhere, and it seems that the stalactites on the ground are due to the impurities in the water droplets, which have been accumulated for many thousands of years, and slowly formed.

I wanted to see what the notes in the box were in, so I told them to rest in place and said that we should eat some dry food to replenish our strength.

I found a rock and sat down, turned on the miner's lamp on my head, took the notebook out of the box, and flipped through it. The paper was yellowed, and some parts were rotten, but overall, it was in good condition. The content is written in traditional Chinese characters, and the form of the article is half vernacular and half classical Chinese, which I have studied and did not have a hard time understanding. The owner of the note is surnamed Wu, born in the late Qing Dynasty, is a native of Hunan, the first half of the whole note, a detailed record of his early life experience, probably said that he was born poor, although his father was a talent in the late Qing Dynasty, but died very early, there are many brothers and sisters in the family, and life is very difficult. Later, when the Xinhai Revolution broke out, he left his hometown to join the army, and in the Kuomintang troops, he successively served as platoon commander, battalion commander, regiment commander, brigade commander and other positions, participated in the Northern Expedition and the War of Resistance against Japan, and made great achievements, but because his cultural level was not high, the theater commander said that he was just a reckless man who was not afraid of death in war, and he had not been reused.

In 36, he was ordered to encircle and suppress the Red Army in Hunan, Guizhou, and Chongqing, and later retreated to Chongqing in ******, and he retreated with his troops. In 49, the old Chiang withdrew to Taiwan, his unit surrendered to the People's Liberation Army and was re-absorbed, he felt that he had killed a large number of Red Army soldiers during the suppression of the Communist Party, even if he surrendered, it was impossible to escape a death, and after weighing it again, he took more than 30 people including cronies and family members and fled into the mountains.

According to the records of the notes, he was entrenched in the confluence of Hunan, Guizhou, Chongqing, and Hubei provinces with his own soldiers and family members, and later the People's Liberation Army sent a large force to suppress the bandits.

They went over the mountains and found a sinkhole here, saying that there was a very old wooden house built near the pothole, and the strange thing was that the house was spotless and clean, and it was obvious that there were traces of human life. He thought it was probably because the villagers had found them heavily armed and mistaken them for bandits, so they all fled. He ordered his men to let go of the rope and entered the pit, thinking that they would take shelter from the limelight for a while and see what was going on.

After they entered the cave, they found an artificially dug ancient road, as if left by the ancients, he did not know what the purpose was, he felt very strange, and remembered the "missing" villagers on the cave, and felt that things were too strange, so he thought about leaving this place. But at that time, his men were exhausted from the physical and mental exhaustion after several days of travel, and did not want to move again, so he had to set up camp in the cave first, thinking of resting for a few days.

That night, they found a very hidden "room" in the cave, which was said to be a fork of a main road, entered through a gap, and there was a naturally formed space inside, strangely enough, this "room" was actually a living relic left by the ancients, with several beds made of wood and stone, a simple stove made of mud, and various living utensils.

They smoked the bats in the cave with fire, and decided to stay in this place for one night to recuperate and make plans the next day.

The last page of the note, looking at the date is the fourth day, the handwriting is very sloppy, compared to the previous record, it is not like it came from the same person's handwriting, the general content is that they have been resting in that "room" these nights, and an incredible thing happened, saying that these things are still "to be investigated", but "the situation is not optimistic" Yunyun, the last sentence turned out to be a warning, saying that if future generations find this notebook here, then they must have encountered accidents, indicating that the things he suspected have been "fulfilled", Caution against those who have strayed into this cave to leave as soon as they see the notes!