Chapter 3: The Snake Dances
"Let's go, hurry back after collecting the medicine." Wang Chengqiu looked at the mountain, and from his expression, there seemed to be no sense of fear.
"How can we help?" Li Fangzheng asked.
Wang Chengqiu took out the rope in the back basket, "If you really can't help it, you will be used."
"...... you want?" Liu Xingye looked at the rope and swallowed unconsciously.
"This time, I mainly came to find some herbs to clear heat and detoxify, if you can't find it, then there is no way..."Wang Chengqiu pointed to the steep cliff halfway up the mountain. When the time comes, you will have to watch carefully, and my life will be in your hands. Wang Chengqiu said with a smile.
"Can there be herbs on the cliffs?" Liu Shiye stared at the steep cliff with wide eyes and asked in disbelief.
"I remember that Li Tieshi once mentioned that many herbs on Yansheng Mountain grow on the cliffs that don't see the light, but we generally don't need to go up to find them unless we have to." Wang Chengqiu smiled and said. "Let's go, follow me as you enter the mountain."
In this way, the three of them entered this rarely visited mountain. Perhaps due to nervousness or other reasons, Liu Shiye always felt that the mountain seemed to be exceptionally quiet that day, and there was not even a bird call. Although Wang Chengqiu showed them a relaxed expression and posture along the way, after the conversation on the road, Li Fangzheng and Liu Shiye always felt a chill down their spines after entering the mountain, and felt that someone was following them, but every time they looked back at the mountain road that Wang Chengqiu cut out with a sickle, they realized that it might be their own illusion. The three of them walked to a big rock and stopped, and Wang Chengqiu looked into the distance.
"You two are waiting for me here, I'll look for it." Wang Chengqiu wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Remember, don't wander around!" Wang Chengqiu glanced at Liu Xingye. Obviously, if the two of them get lost, it must be Liu Xing's trouble.
"Don't worry, Xiao Wang, I, Liu Shiye, will watch him, you can look for him with peace of mind." Liu Xingye took out an honest look. Li Fangzheng smiled bitterly and waved his hand at Wang Chengqiu, and said, "We don't dare to run around, don't worry." ”
"Xiao Wang's courage is about to catch up with me, dare to go up alone." Liu Xingye wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.
Li Fangzheng: "......"
In the next two hours, Wang Chengqiu searched almost all the nearby mountains. "It's impossible, it's usually possible." Wang Chengqiu searched for so long and didn't feel a little anxious. "Huh?" Wang Chengqiu noticed something and walked towards the grass in the distance.
"Huh? What does it smell so stinky! Liu Xingye called Li Fangzheng, who was leaning on a big stone and dozing off not far away. Alas...... I haven't taken a bath in years. As soon as Liu Xingye finished saying this, his body moved as if he had been electrocuted.
Li Fangzheng opened his eyes and asked, "Is Wang Chengqiu back?" After saying this, he also noticed this strange smell.
"Xiao Li, listen to your brother Liu, stay there and don't move or talk. Good way~" Liu Xingye said hesitantly, and at the same time, he reached out to take the stone next to him and aimed at him.
Li Fangzheng looked at it and thought: "It's not good, is he crazy too." He was about to get up when suddenly a "hiss" and the sound of a body squirming came from the rock behind him. Li Fangzheng suddenly felt a chill in his back, and a thought came out of his mind: "Is it a snake, or a big snake!! ”
"Don't !! Move" Liu Xingye shouted and threw the stone in his hand towards the snake. Unexpectedly, the force was too strong to control it, and the stone flew towards Li Fangzheng's head, Li Fangzheng couldn't see it well, and his body tilted and dodged the stone. The stone slammed into the rock behind him, and the snake on the top of the stone seemed to be frightened, and slipped off the top of the rock and landed in Li Fangzheng's arms. Li Fangzheng was about to get up and scold Liu Xingye, but he found that the big snake with a body length of nearly two meters and a golden light all over his body was wriggling in his arms, and he was afraid and almost fainted, he shook his head vigorously, got up and threw the big snake out, got up and ran.
The big snake didn't seem to have any intention of chasing, and coiled up on the ground, swaying from side to side and staring at the two of them, as if showing off.
Li Fangzheng and Liu Industrial retreated to a distance of more than ten meters, staring at the big snake.
"You were going to kill me, huh? And let me not move! Li Fangzheng scolded Liu Shiye.
Liu Xingye also sweated for the scene just now, and said: "I was in a hurry just now, and my hands slipped for a while." ”
"It's such a big cauliflower snake, fortunately it's not a poisonous snake." Liu Industrial said.
"When I was a child, I saw this snake in the back of my house, but this one is really big, can the cauliflower snake grow so big?" Li Fangzheng was afraid when he thought about the scene just now.
"Why didn't it chase after it, was it scared?" Liu Shiye wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead.
"This snake only eats rats and toads or something, and is very afraid of people, so we should be safe." Li Fangzheng said with a sigh of relief.
"Then why doesn't it run? Still shaking his head there. As soon as Liu Shiye finished saying this, he saw a big cauliflower snake hanging from the tree behind Li Fangzheng, and he was sticking out his tongue at him, and suddenly opened his mouth to bite Li Fangzheng. Liu Xingye kicked Li Fangzheng away without saying a word, and Li Fangzheng planted himself on the ground without knowing what the situation was, and the snake on the tree also pounced.
"Damn! Are you really crazy? Li Fangzheng held his stomach and scolded Liu Shiye.
Liu Xingye shouted: "Run, do you kid not take a bath all year round to attract snakes?" ”
Only then did Li Fangzheng notice the snake on the tree, and his whole body suddenly trembled, and he got up and ran towards Liu Shiye.
The two ran for a distance of more than ten meters before stopping, and turned around to find that the snake in the tree was gone. Liu Xingye looked at the rock again, and was shocked: "The snake on the other side of the stone just now is gone......
Li Fangzheng sniffed the hand holding the snake just now, and a foul smell came to his nose, and scolded: "It's actually two, is this snake so smart?" ”
"No, it's definitely a coincidence that we hid under the tree just now, the snake can't know, it's just trying to attract our attention, I'm afraid there are more than these two snakes around." Liu Shiye said tremblingly. "And now both snakes are gone." As soon as Liu Xingye finished speaking, the two of them heard the sound of "呲呑" from the weeds around them.
"This is the first time you've spoken so accurately...... Li Fangzheng said.
"Damn, maybe the snakes of the whole mountain have come to the meeting, why didn't the birds chirp when I came, it seems that I died here today, but it's a pity that I have a good life in my thirties, and I didn't even marry a daughter-in-law before leaving." Liu Xingye said as sweat dripped from his forehead.
"Why do you think they're attacking us, they can't eat us." Li Fangzheng said.
"Who knows! Hungry? Liu Industrial said.
After a while, countless snakes began to stand up in the surrounding grass, Liu Shiye and Li Fangzheng originally thought that they were going to suffer, but it didn't seem to be the case, suddenly the two big snakes scuffled together, and then there were also snakes over there, and snakes were twisted and entwined everywhere.
"What a situation! Fight for food? Liu Industrial said.
"Don't run yet!! Suddenly, someone shouted at him in the distance. Liu Xingye saw that it was none other than Wang Chengqiu. I saw Wang Chengqiu running quickly towards the road where they came, brandishing a sickle as he ran, obviously the road they came from was also full of snakes. Wang Chengqiu shouted to the two: "Run, don't stop with me, go back the way you came!" ”
Around them are all entangled snakes, the two of them have not yet run to feel a chill in their backs, Liu Industrial and Li Fangzheng were just about to run back desperately, at this time a snake entangled Liu Shiye's feet, Liu Shiye planted his head on the ground, Liu Shiye looked at the snake, the snake was about to open its mouth to bite Liu Shiye's thigh, Li Fangzheng grabbed the snake neck, and firmly grasped the snake with both hands, probably too much force, the snake's lower body began to twist, and Liu Shiye was released.
"You admit that you are mistaken, this is a leg, not the same kind, I want to find your kind to fight!" Liu Xingye scolded at the snake, but before he could get up, two more snakes crawled towards him quickly, and for a while several snakes surrounded the two, and gradually there were more and more snakes.
"Damn, I'm really going to die here today." Liu Xingye looked at the snake in this place and felt numb.
At this time, they found that Wang Chengqiu was running towards the two of them with his sickle brandished, and looking at this posture, he was slashing with his eyes closed.
"Open your eyes, don't hurt your own people, Xiao Wang!" Liu Xingye shouted at Wang Chengqiu, who was still slashing with his eyes closed a few steps away from him.
"Don't move yet!" Wang Chengqiu said as he ran. Several times the snakes attacked and grazed his trouser legs, he ran to the two of them and swung his scythe at the nearby snakes, these snakes were very flexible, Wang Chengqiu came all the way, and almost did not hurt them. The snake also seemed to be intimidated, and stayed in place and did not dare to move forward. The three of them also knew that in the face of snakes in all directions, it was only a matter of time before they were trapped and died.
"I'll count one, two, three, and you follow me and run in the direction I came." Wang Chengqiu said.
"Okay." The two agreed at the same time.
"One, two, three, run !!" Wang Chengqiu shouted.
Then the three of them began to run in the direction where Wang Chengqiu was running, Wang Chengqiu rushed to the front with an arrow and brandished a sickle, cutting off several snakes blocking the way, but the snakes behind quickly chased after the three of them. Liu Xingye didn't know where the strength came from, so he avoided the snake and Wang Chengqiu's sickle in one breath and ran forward, and after a while, the two of them were separated by a few steps. At first, the snake in the back kept chasing after it, but it didn't take long before it stopped.
The three of them began to run back the way they came, and regardless of the vines and branches around them, they just wanted to get away from this place of right and wrong. After the three of them crawled for nearly ten minutes and found that the snake did not follow, they gradually stopped their pace and began to pant roughly, feeling that they still had goosebumps.
"What the hell, where are there so many snakes." Liu Xingye said while panting.
When Li Fangzheng thought of the scene of so many snakes just now, his stomach couldn't help churning, and he vomited on the side.
"I didn't think there were so many of you here." Wang Chengqiu said while panting. "When I went up the mountain to collect medicine just now, I found big snakes everywhere on it, and I recalled that Li Fangzheng's father was bitten by a snake, I didn't think it was right, and it was really ...... when I drove it down."
"Did you get the medicine?" Li Fangzheng asked.
"Well, I've picked it, now I have to hurry down the mountain." The doubts in Wang Chengqiu's heart surfaced again, he had never seen so many snakes when he was collecting medicine before, and it was a poisonous snake that bit Li Fangzheng's father, but the snake he encountered this time was a large non-poisonous snake, what happened?
The three of them hurried down the mountain, and when the three of them arrived at the foot of the mountain, the three of them, who were already frightened, were frightened by the scene in front of them. Not far ahead, lay a bloodstained man.