25. The danger of sniffing out
I couldn't help but feel a shock in my heart, and everyone's expressions were a little flustered, and I turned around and walked back quickly without saying a word. Among the five people, although Zhang Xuan and Lao Wu had never seen the ability of the blind man Chen before, the ear power and the keen sense of smell of the blind man Chen in the past half day made the two of them quite impressed, and the big head and I knew that the feeling of the blind man Chen had never missed once.
Three steps and two steps back to the cave of the Seven Star Array, Chen Blind did not stop, the "click" sound of the guide stick in his hand hitting the ground was fast and short, tilted his head and said to the big head: "Help me to the passage that I tested first." ”
There is no need to ask why, Blind Chen's anxious expression is equivalent to telling him that several people are in danger rushing towards us, and the big head pulled Blind Chen straight to the passage, and just grabbed two steps when he stepped in, Blind Chen stopped his steps again, and quickly turned back, "No, it's not right here." Quick, let's get back and forth. ”
The five people trotted around the potholes underground, just walked on the way to and fro, and when they arrived at the entrance, Chen Blind just stood firm, twitched his nose and sniffed left and right, and immediately took two steps back, and inhaled a breath of cold air with a "hiss", "It's too late, go back, try to find a corner where several sides are next to the wall, and now there is the poisonous smell of snakes all around......"
My scalp was numb for a moment, and cold sweat could not help but break out on my forehead, and for me, it was more unbearable to let the twisted and sinuous reptiles stain me than to kill me, and I jumped a few steps to a recess half surrounded by a stone wall, and turned back and rushed out, trembling and clenching the knife in my hand.
The fear of snakes is innate, and several other people also turned white, and they swarmed together in a very fast manner. Although the blind man was in a hurry, he took out a paper bag in his arms and shouted: "Quick, this is realgar powder, sprinkle it on the ground in front of you, and the snake can't get in." ”
The big head took the paper bag in the hand of the blind man, hurriedly opened it and grabbed the realgar powder with his hand and sprinkled it on the ground, just half a circle, surrounding everyone behind him. From the entrance to the recess until the realgar was sprinkled, the crowd's series of movements was extremely fast, and it took less than ten seconds. Before I could catch my breath, I raised my eyes and looked into the distance, and in the mottled light and shadow, I saw that three or four snakes with the thickness of their wrists of several colors had already exposed half of their bodies at the mouth of a passage, and swam swiftly towards the recess where the five of us were hiding.
My brain exploded instantly, and I subconsciously raised my feet to run, Zhang Xuan shouted, "Don't move!" Snakes are afraid of realgar, so they don't dare to come. ”
As soon as Zhang Xuan's voice fell, there was nowhere to escape even if he wanted to run, and all the dense snakes at the mouth of the passage poured out like a tide almost at the same time, squeezing and twisting together in layers of different colors, and the round or flat snake heads were half-raised and raced forward, spitting red letters, and the sound of "hissing" was everywhere for a while.
The snakes swam outside the circle of realgar powder and no longer moved forward, or coiled or curved to erect the snake's head, I clearly saw a snake head swaying from side to side, I don't know how many pairs of snake eyes stared at us coldly.
The ground, which was half the size of a basketball court, became empty in a few minutes, and there was no place to insert it, and all eyes could see were red and green snake-like bodies with mixed thickness and thinness, tumbling and wriggling together, the fear and disgust brought by this perception made people tremble and almost want to be nauseated, I desperately pressed myself not to faint, but the knife in my hand could no longer be grasped, and fell to the ground with a "dang long".
No one had ever seen such a battle, and several people were so shocked that their lips turned white, and their hands and feet couldn't help but tremble. If it weren't for the fact that Blind Chen had brought realgar powder with him, everyone would have been surrounded by snakes in an instant, and they would have been entangled to death, and I am afraid that it would not take more than a few minutes to leave only a pile of white bones.
When I was dizzy, a heavy smell of snakey smell wafted in the air, I couldn't bear it anymore, my stomach stirred over the river and the sea, I arched my body and vomited heavily, I only felt that even my heart and liver were going to be pulled out, and my mind was blurred.
Sitting in a corner with a sour body, after a minute or two of confusion, I dimly saw Zhang Xuan take out a spare bright flashlight from his backpack, light it up and throw it into the middle of the snake group in the distance, the snakes around him swam and gathered over, the flashlight was immediately pressed by the overlapping snake body, Zhang Xuan followed and roared, "This group of snakes is light-oriented, turn off the lights on your head." ”
The lights above everyone's heads were extinguished one after another, and the surroundings fell silent for a moment, except for the light of the flashlight entangled by snakes in the distance, which appeared from time to time. The voice of the big head trembled in the darkness, and he asked in a low voice, "What should we do?" Run now? ”
It was pitch black, only the gasps of people and the hissing of snakes could be heard, and everyone was silent, and no one dared to make a decision blindly. I reluctantly stood up straight, groped for someone who grabbed my arm firmly, and said in my heart that death should not be this way of death, don't leave me.
When it comes to life and death, there will always be a bearer of responsibility in the team. After a while, Chen Blind said in a slightly hoarse voice: "Follow me, don't get separated." Immediately, the sound of the blind guide stick hitting the ground sounded rapidly, and everyone followed one by one to form a line and walked towards the nearest passage.
Under the faint light of the flashlight that was gradually submerged by the snakes, I couldn't really see anything, and in the darkness it was all up to Chen's blind feeling, and under the occasional flashlight of the flashlight, I happened to see Chen Blind picking up a snake with a stick and throwing it aside, his wrist swinging extremely flexible.
Everyone followed behind Blind Chen, walking very slowly. Attracted by the light emitted by the flashlight, the snakes were densely wound and twisted, and after a while, the flashlight was piled up and blocked so that no light could be revealed. The snakes lost their purpose, and the "hiss" sound in the boundless darkness immediately became restless and restless, and it rang out in one piece.
As soon as I lifted my feet, I was kicking a large wriggling mass of flesh, numb to the point of goosebumps, and the hand that was holding the old Wu Yi's placket in front of me did not dare to spread it and retreat, and then my left leg tightened, and a snake that I didn't know how thick it was winding along my legs, and I suddenly even stood up straight, and my legs trembled uncontrollably, and I shouted incoherently: "I am entangled...... Entangled ......"
"Don't move, don't ......be afraid," Zhang Xuan's voice sounded behind me, with a nervous wheez, "no matter what happens, don't attack these snakes, let them crawl away on their own." ”
My mind fell into a blank, I stood motionless and grabbed Lao Wu's clothes, and my legs moved forward slightly, but there was a pain like a drill, and then the feeling of collapse disappeared completely, and when I slowly tried to move my steps, I felt that my legs couldn't even bend, and I shouted softly in a trembling voice: "It's not good...... Not good......"
The first blind man Chen dragged everyone forward and walked five or six meters, and the sound of "click" knocking came, and the blind man Chen said loudly: "I have entered the passage, and there are fewer and fewer snakes here, so they all hold on." ”