It is a finger-thick snake less than a foot long, and almost all of its body is red, especially its back, which is a brilliant red. I struck hard, the red snake twisting in the air, its two long fangs shining with a terrifying glow in its open mouth.

The red snake made an arc in the air and fell into the water. I jumped to my feet and cut down a small patch of grass on the shore in two or two strokes, my eyes fixed on the shore. I'm going to give it a head-on blow as soon as it comes ashore, and when it gets into the grass I won't have a chance.

I don't know if the snake was run away by me or if it came ashore from somewhere else, but I kept watch on this shore for more than ten minutes, and I didn't see it appear. I thought to myself, this confrontation is too unfair, I rely on my vision to find it, and now it is dark like ink, even if it is bright enough, as long as it is not within a meter or two of my eyes, I will not be able to see it. The snake, on the other hand, is based on its temperature to find and lock on to its prey, and even if I am outside of its vision, it can accurately lock on to me. I'm also worried that it will bypass me to attack two Laotians.

I jumped up and down to the fire, took the cyclops out of my backpack, and turned it up to maximum brightness. Without the fog, the brightness of the cyclops is comparable to the headlights of a car, giving me an unobstructed view of the dry land. The light can even penetrate the dense grass and cast the light on the water in the distance.

I first made sure that the snake was not lurking near the fire, and then I could make sure that there was no shadow of it in the grass cut around the fire, and then I couldn't be sure in the dense grass outside. There's no way I'm standing by the fire waiting for the snake to come and attack us, and I think the chances of the snake coming back to shore are so low that it's almost negligible. I'm more worried now that it's going to attack the people in the water, to attack Jack, who was attracted to my voice.

I kicked the two Laotians who were sleeping a few times, and they didn't react like dead pigs, but snored louder. I really convinced these two people, not only did they sleep without scruples in such a dangerous environment, but they couldn't be woken up by choking on cigarettes. I can't help them, I guess shooting them now may not wake them up.

The fire was still smothered by wet grass, and it was rare for a flame to come out, and the smoke was still billowing out. I was worried that the two Laotians would be smoked to death, so I picked out some of the thick wet grass, but the effect was not obvious, and I could only make the smoke come out a little less, but I couldn't burn it. The grass is so wet that it has to be dried before it can burn, and at the moment I have no way to dry the grass and no time to put the fire to rest. I'm going to send a danger signal to Jack and ask him to lift the snake in the water.

Biting the cyclops with my teeth, I carved a two-meter-wide path to the water's edge in case the damned snake plotted against me. The water is more than a foot deep as if there is no obstacle for the one-eyed, and the one-eyed light can shine directly to the bottom of the water, and the only obstacle is the dense grass in the water.

There was no shadow of the snake in the water near the shore, especially where I had shot it into the water, which I had looked at more closely. This was evident at a glance, and the serpent's crimson color was as obvious as a lighthouse, and as long as it appeared in the light of the cyclops, it could not escape my eyes. This gives me a little bit of peace of mind that at least I'm safe personally for now.

When I pan the light a little farther away, the hindrance effect of the aquatic plants is obvious, not to mention that it is difficult to see the surface of the water by shining the light to the bottom of the water. In this way, my actual search range can only be more than ten meters in front of me, and no matter how far it is, it will not be of much use. At this time, I found that the water I could see was very clean, there were no snakes, no aquatic life, and most importantly, no leeches. I don't know what this information represents, it stands to reason that leeches are extremely survivable, and the requirements for water quality are not high, and there are such dense aquatic weeds here, which indicates that the water quality fully meets its living conditions.

Confused, I didn't have time to ponder the question, and after making sure I was safe, I lifted the cyclops high and shone out into the water in the distance. I still had to hunch over, the smoke kept me from standing, I just had to hold the cyclops high and its light would shine far away. What I'm searching for now is Jack's figure, which doesn't need to shine on the water, the light of the cyclops can shine out more than seventy meters without the fog obstructing it. What I'm going to do is give Jack two signals to let him know that I'm here and there's danger.

Field archaeologists will learn some survival skills, using light to transmit simple messages is a necessary skill, I don't think Jack can't understand the signal I send, this kind of signal is an international signal, just like SOS.

The cyclops flashlight was more than a meter above the aquatic plants, which should be parallel to Jack's line of sight, and I blocked the flashlight's lens with one hand, and then rhythmically emitted different lengths of light. I didn't send a signal in one direction because I couldn't be sure of the specific direction Jack might come from, I had to keep signaling in different directions, hoping that Jack didn't miss my signal. Of course, I don't need to send signals from other shores, the shaking waves happen here, and Jack will only appear in this general direction, and it is superfluous to signal to the shore in other directions.

I signaled very densely, every fifth degree on the surface of the water in this direction, two round trips. I'm sure the person who caused the water to shake was Jack, and he must have received it and understood what I meant.

After sending the signal, I held the cyclops above my head and stood as high as I could, the flashlight moving around my neck. My eyes were fixed on the limit of the aperture, hoping to spot him before the other person, because I was worried that this person was not Jack. If the person who caused the water to shake was Ah Xiang, or even a fat man, in fact, this is what I am most worried about.

It's possible for a fat man to come down to this place. After I couldn't get through on the phone, I knew that the fat man could come down at any time, and I was mentally prepared for this. To be more precise, I'm worried about Xiao Ting. It's not that I'm heavy or light, but the main thing is that I always feel that it's hard to die if the fat man is called thunder, and it belongs to the type of scourge that lasts for thousands of years. Xiao Ting is not. Besides, if something really happened to Xiao Ting, Xiao Guolin wouldn't let me go. It's goosebumps just thinking about it.

As I continued to inspect the water, I vaguely noticed something unusual in the water in the distance. Because the cyclops was already at a distance of its normal size, I could almost see the smoke from the fire at the limit of the fog. There was something strange there, and although it was vague, I noticed it.

It seemed to be a red band of light that was connected into a line. At the end of the cyclops light, under the shade of dense aquatic plants, this line is faintly visible but shocking!

PS: I rushed back and sent out the text that was driven out overnight as soon as I came back. Sorry to make everyone wait.