Hao Song stood on the branch of a three-story building, looking at the vast sea of snakes below with a grim face. The fear of snakes, which has been passed down from generation to generation in human DNA since ancient times, made his stomach throb for a while.

On the slightly taller branches, although Snow's face was still expressionless, her expression was obviously colder than usual, beautiful and frozen. Judging from the constant and steady mental fluctuations she emanated, it was clear that she had used the power of the mental effect to stabilize her spirit.

And on the lowest branch, Edward Miero crouched there with one paw to build a pergola, and his mouth was actually muttering, "Ahhhhh............h Well, not being able to eat is a big problem......"

"......" The corners of Hao Song and Sinuo's eyes twitched almost at the same time when they heard this, but their sense of fear was slightly reduced because of this. At the same time, because Edward Miero had his back to them, the two did not see his rare thoughtful expression. The three of them had just sprayed all three bottles of insect repellent they were carrying on the trunk, but the python swarm was still moving wildly around the trunk.

"The professor said it would take at least 10 minutes. Snow put down her watch and said in a short voice.

Hao Song endured the stomach pain and frowned and thought quickly: "10 minutes? Oops, this number is only afraid of thousands...... If it weren't for the insect repellent to resist one or two, we would have been drowned in the sea of snakes a long time ago. After all, if we really fight hard, we can't stop it with the force of the three of us. So what about escaping? Not on the ground. With that in mind, he looked up at the canopy around him, and his eyes were full of cobwebs and pythons wrapped around the branches.

"Damn! It's hard to do it in the air. Even if he borrowed a T-hook from Sino to escape in the woods imitating 'Tarzan of the Apes', the farthest line of sight was still full of cobwebs and pythons, and the strength of the branches was difficult to guarantee, making it difficult to escape. Moreover, the most important lure target, the Burmese python spirit, and even the spider spirit have not yet appeared. In any case, we have to delay until we confirm the location of the ancestors, or the professor arrives!

With that in mind, he quickly opened his backpack and grabbed a papaya-sized lump wrapped in plastic wrap. Cut out a "" character with three military thorns, revealing the orange solid inside. Without saying a word, it was like sharpening a knife, and rubbed it quickly with a military thorn on the solid surface!

Edward looked back at the voice, and then said happily, "How do you know I'm hungry?!...... But the color and shape of the noodles are not right, right?" Yes, the military thorn scraped off a large piece of orange powder on the "knife dough" or "whetstone", and fell to the ground with a splash!

The cowardly said: "This is realgar, tetrasulfide tetraarsenic." In my Great Heavenly Empire, it is used to ward off evil spirits, and it is the best way to deal with snakes and poisons!"

"Cut~It's not a knife~" Edward Mierro grumbled, but his gaze still looked down.

- But the pythons didn't react.

Hao Song frowned and said, "Hmm, strange, is it not enough?" As he spoke, he threw the piece of realgar in his hand to Edward, and said, "Senior smash it!"

"OK!" Edward's eyes flashed red, and his claw-clad hands slapped the realgar with a double-peaked piercing ear! Suddenly the powder burst and splashed! The realgar crumbled like flour and sprinkled a large amount on the ground at once! Then Hao Song and Edward looked at it with great anticipation.

- Still unresponsive.

To make matters worse, the pythons have begun to forcibly climb the tree despite their instinctive aversion to insect repellent, and the python crawling from between the branches is getting closer and closer!

"This can't be!" Hao Song looked shocked.

Then he was complained by Edward: "I actually said the classic lines when the villain was counterattacked." ”

At this time, Snow-Julius above said calmly, "That's pure realgar purchased at the academy, right?"

"Uh, it's the purest. It should be more effective against snakes, right?" Hao Song replied. His hand clenched the thorns, but he could only watch anxiously as the pythons slowly approached. He was lazy on this mission and didn't bring a "Blizzard" cross/crossbow. And with his ability, he can't use a firearm with a high recoil on the branches, so he can only use the military spur now. This is also the negative effect of the short enrollment period: the inability to use weapons perfectly in all conditions.

"Pure realgar is ineffective against snakes. The Ice Queen explained, "What snakes really fear and dislike is substances with pungent smells. Such as alcohol, tobacco, sulfur, and realgar with irritating impurities. At this time, Edward below was already waving his huge claws, knocking down the pythons that snaked along the trunk one by one. But he couldn't take care of the python that came from all sides to climb the branches.

"Yes, the ancient Celestial Empire used to drive away snakes was realgar wine! Damn!" Hao Song gritted his teeth and asked, "Did any of you bring cigarettes and alcohol?"

Edward jerked around and grabbed a python with its jaws wide open at him, then served it in the classic cinematic pose of King Kong breaking off the jaws of a Tyrannosaurus rex, while replying, "My vodka is all in the hospital." ”

"Then I'll have to think of something else. Thinking with all his strength, Hao Song's spiritual energy level was rapidly consumed, but he half-complained and half-complained, "Why are you so obedient at this time, there are still such sloppy drunkards in the world!"

"I'm really sorry that I didn't reach the peak of alcoholics!"

A little higher, the Ice Queen is methodically retracting the hook that is difficult to use as a common weapon. She reeled, capped, and pressurized, completing the standard action of tightening the hook, seemingly unaware of the python slowly approaching behind the side. Only when his left hand swept over the clip on the side of his leg, he found a short, strangely patterned metal rod. Then, with a casual flick of his wrist to the side and back, as if he was just trying to gently shake the droplets between his fingers, he put the little stick back into the weapon clip with an understatement.

And the python behind her side was like a toy that was suddenly turned off the switch, and after a stiffening, it fell directly and weakly. Snow, who had completed this precise erasure in a split second, had not attracted any attention, and even herself had barely changed color, calm as if nothing had happened. It was only when her cold gaze swept over the sea of snakes that spread all over the mountains and fields that she frowned unconsciously.

At this time, all the tools he was carrying quickly flashed in his mind, hoping to find one to help them delay the snakes. Then a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he exclaimed, "By the way! There are other ways to create pungent odors!"

The Ice Queen was stunned for a moment, then seemed to think of something as well, and asked, "You mean Tabasco chili sauce?"

"That's right, Snow, you should still have your favorite snacks, right?"

This time, Sino didn't reply, but directly took out the last two bottles of hot sauce in his backpack, and then looked at Hao Song with an inquiring face.

"Just spread them under the trees!"

Hearing this, Sino nodded, and immediately opened the cap of the bottle, and with a flick of both wrists at the same time, the red sticky hot sauce poured down. Soon there was a commotion among the snakes below! Apparently the hot sauce had some effect. But soon Snow sensed that the pythons were going even more violent! Not enough stimulation did not make the snakes retreat, but rather made the snakes agitated.

However, Hao Song turned a blind eye and just shouted to Edward, "One last step, the step to fully stimulate the pungent smell of hot sauce and realgar!Senior!Ignite them!" As he spoke, he handed over a packet of a powerful ignition agent that can quickly start a fire in a humid wilderness environment (it was used in the Cloette Volcanic Basin. Produced by the Department of Materialist Science and Chemistry, please use with caution if you are not self-immolators!) tossed to Edward Miero.

"Oh! leave it to me!" the tyrant senior raised his head and grabbed the packet of igniter with his mouth, and then leaned over and rushed down the tree trunk with the momentum of a tiger descending the mountain! Under the sharp claws that sharpened iron like mud, more than a dozen pythons wrapped around the trunk of the tree suddenly split apart, and even the bark was scraped off a large layer!

Edward put down the accelerant without hesitation, and then pierced it with one claw! The accelerant was pressed under heavy pressure and came into contact with the air, and it was ignited and burned violently! The chili sauce soon exuded a spicy and spicy smell after being burned. And realgar, that is, tetraarsenic tetrasulfide, is even more white smoke after being burned!

Under the cover of flames and irritating gases, Edward easily climbed back into the tree and said triumphantly: "Not dishonored!"

The snakes below retreated in the face of the intense and irritating smell, and suddenly a large open space was vacated. Even the pythons on the branches of the trees in mid-air cowered at the foul smell of rising. The three of them could finally breathe a sigh of relief for a while.

"That's enough to delay for 10 minutes. Hao Song covered his nose with the collar of his windbreaker and said, "Speaking of which, this smell is really pungent! I understand that realgar produces a large amount of pungent sulphur dioxide when burned. But what is that white smoke?"

"Trioxide/arsenic. Sino-Julius also covered his mouth and nose with the collar of his night's watch uniform, which was very breathless, and replied succinctly.

"Oh. Ahem..."Hao Song nodded and coughed.

Snow added calmly: "Commonly known as arsenic/frost." ”

"Say it earlier, hey!" Hao Song blew up his hair directly, and his face changed drastically, "I'm just going to be Pluto and Goofy! Sulfur dioxide is poisonous enough, and there is arsenic/frost? So we will definitely be poisoned, right? And we are poisoning the territory of US imperialism! Hurry up and withdraw before the poisoning is deep and the FBI hasn't come yet!"

"Hahahaha! Don't complain about coughing. Edward laughed, "Don't worry, even if the hot gas rises, the white smoke of trioxide/arsenic is still too heavy to float this high." "It seems that this guy is really good at other subjects besides general knowledge, humanities and biology.

After laughing, he seemed to think of something again, and said seriously: "By the way, we may turn white later." ”

"Huh?" Hao Song was stunned for a moment, and then immediately reacted, and complained: "Yes, yes, we are like variegated wool and silk waiting to be bleached in the factory, cough... You're being exposed to the bleach sulfur dioxide, aren't you? But I guess with the quality of the school uniforms, this sulfur dioxide isn't enough, right?"

"That's right, although the first thing that comes to my mind is smoked bacon...... Boy, your chemistry isn't bad. "Edward's ability to associate food was clearly beyond his IQ level.

"It's just high school level. "Then now, before the professor arrives, let's try to find the Spirits!"

"Understood. ”

"Isn't it just playing 'everyone comes to find faults'~ It's easy!"

["Even practical and tested common sense may become inapplicable in exceptional circumstances. So Lao Tzu prefers to rely on intuition!" – Edward Miero]