Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Iron Relic Serpent
Tonight's dining hall was very lively, with hundreds of pine oil torches blazing, illuminating the vast venue as bright as day.
Kang Jia was dragged here by the blacksmith elder, and many hungry ape-man warriors didn't care about waiting for the additional dishes for dinner, so they squatted on the ground and drank some gruel that had been boiled and cooled aside.
As soon as Kang Jia's figure appeared, he was discovered by a sharp-eyed kitchen worker before he approached the canteen cave.
"Kang Jia is here, Kang Jia is here. ”
The cook was overjoyed, his exaggerated expression, and his thrilling shouts made Kang Jia stunned.
The blacksmith always quipped: "You kid is also famous now, and every time I come over, they are not so enthusiastic." ”
Kang Jia scratched his head, "Is it that exaggerated!"
The blacksmith sighed and said: "Hunting 100,000 catties of meat at a time, who can do it except you Kang Jia." ”
In the sigh, Chef Liu wore an animal skin apron, carried a knife with cow ears, and sweated profusely to welcome him out of the dining hall.
"Looking forward to the stars and the moon, but I hope your baby back! ”
Kang Jia was dragged into the cave by Liu Chulao, and on a flat ground, the scarred python corpse was presented. There were dozens of kitchen workers gathered around, all with knives and saws, glaring at the python corpse.
"Get out of the way......"
Chef Liu pulled Kang Jia straight to the huge python corpse, pointed to the python corpse and said, "Look, it's this big guy." Its scales are too hard, you look at my knife. ”
Liu Chulao raised the ox ear sharp knife in his hand and pointed out a few cracked gaps on the knife edge to Kang Jia.
"To dissect this big guy, we cut several bone choppers and broke two saw blades. It took half an hour, but it could only cut a hole more than two feet deep on its flat python head. ”
Kang Jia's attention was focused on the python corpse.
Such a huge python, he had never seen before. Even if this thing has been dead for a long time, the ferocious aura that can be faintly emitted is definitely more terrifying than the shark king of the shark group.
If this python was still alive, Kang Jia felt that he would have to go all out if he encountered it, but he didn't expect the ape warrior team to be able to hunt it.
It can be seen that the cooperation of thousands of ape-man warriors is very terrifying, and it must not be underestimated.
Putting down the ancestral hammer in his hand and circling the huge python corpse, Kang Jia saw the cuts that the cooks had sawed in its bloody flat head.
"Huh. ”
Kang Jia frowned suddenly, and found that the blood oozing from the foot-deep mouth was not red, but purple with gold, which was very strange.
"How is its blood the color of this?"
Chef Liu smiled bitterly.
"I don't know. I've lived a long time, but I've never seen anything like this. It should look like a python, but I have never heard of such a big python, not to mention that its blood is purple and gold, and the python skin is also hard, which is really terrifying. ”
Unable to get an answer, Kang Jia was a little disappointed.
He dipped his hand in some purple-gold python blood and put it in front of his nose and smelled it, the faint fishy smell was very different from the fishy smell of shark blood, and the strange smell was a bit like the smell of pig iron.
Shaking his head, Kang Jia couldn't guess the origin of the python, so he didn't bother to continue to investigate, turned his head and beckoned to Chef Liu: "Give me your knife." I'll try to unravel it. ”
"Oh, good. ”
Chef Liu handed over the ox ear sharp knife with an expectant expression. Kang Jia rolled up his sleeves and raised his sharp knife to dissect the python corpse through the sawed opening. However, at this moment, the shouting of the ape bush suddenly sounded behind him.
"Kang Jia, slow down. ”
I don't know when, Ape Cong also came to the dining hall, her hair was a little messy, and the corners of her forehead were covered with sweat, but she didn't care about tidying up her appearance, and walked forward with a solemn expression.
"Iron Relic, this seems to be the Iron Relic Snake?"
Looking at the body of the python up close, the ape Cong also dipped some purple and gold blood in his hand and sniffed it in front of his nose, and his face changed greatly.
"Oh no, this is really the Iron Relic Snake, how did you hunt it?"
Ape Cong looked eager, looking back at everyone.
Everyone was startled by her reaction, but when they saw the corpse of the python, it had been cold for a long time, and they felt that the ape bush was too much of a fuss.
"What's going on?"
Chef Liu looked at the ape cong with a puzzled expression, "This thing was hunted back by Lu Suke and them." Cong Nuwa, how do you recognize this thing? It's all dead, is it that terrible?"
Ape Cong hurriedly said: "No, you wait for me." She hurried out, and in a quarter of an hour she ran back again, with an old scroll of animal skins in her hand.
"Look for yourself, this is the ancestor's "Mountain Ape Travels". ”
The ape Cong rolled the animal skin in his hand on the python carcass and spread it flat, and the six or seven feet long animal skin roll was full of dense small characters.
Seeing Kang Jia's curious face, Ape Cong tiptoed and picked him up.
"The ancestor's "Mountain Ape Travels" has always been treasured by our lineage, in fact, it has a record about the iron relict snake, you see this. ”
Ape Cong held Kang Jia in one hand, and pointed to a line of small writing in the middle of the parchment scroll with the other.
"The iron relics of the big snake, the skin is like copper and iron, the bones are like steel, the tendons bear the mountain, the blood is the same as the iron smell, its nature is extremely fierce, it is the ancient fat relics of the snake side branch. ”
"In and out of pairs, the female snake is not more than ten zhang long, easy to deal with; the male snake can be fifteen zhang long, and the power of entanglement is 108,000 catties......"
Kang Jia followed the ape's fingers and read aloud the account of the Iron Relic Snake.
"Huh. ”
Ape Congda was surprised, "Do you know the words? The cursive characters of the Mountain Ape Ancestor are not even recognized by our tribe." ”
Kang Jia was also a little strange.
"Auntie, I don't know why, I haven't seen these words, but I just recognize them. ”
The magic of Kang Jia is once again seen by everyone.
"Wait, what do you mean, Kang Jia, read the rest of the passage again. ”
Chef Liu's face changed.
Kang Jia read the latter paragraph again: In and out of pairs, the female snake is no more than ten zhang long, which is easy to deal with; the male snake can be fifteen zhang long, and the power of entanglement is 108,000 catties......
Re-read it, and everyone finally reacted.
"What, in and out in pairs. ”
"Oh my God, if this is really the Iron Relic Serpent, doesn't it mean that there is another one on the edge of our tribe? ”
looked at the snake corpse of Fu Cheng, it was not more than ten zhang long, and it was probably a female snake. If the record is true, thinking of the fifteen-zhang long male snake, everyone feels bitter.
"How could it be. This should not be the Iron Relic Snake, if it is like the record, the movement made by Lu Suke when they hunted this snake would have already alarmed the male snake. ”
"That makes sense, but this python basically matches the characteristics of the Iron Relic Snake. ”
"The skin is like copper and iron, the bones are like steel, the tendons are heavy, and the blood is like iron...... If Kang Jia dissects it, let's take a look at its tendons and heel bones. ”
Everyone's eyes looked at Aunt Kang Jia's nephew.
Ape Cong gritted his teeth, "So far, I can only determine whether it is an iron relic snake first." If the tendons and heels are the same as written, we must make plans whether the male snake is around or not. ”
"Reasonable. ”
Ape Cong put Kang Jia back on the ground, put away the "Mountain Ape Travels", looked at Kang Jia and said, "Are you sure to untie it?"