In the wind and snow, Lingyu and Feiyi each wrapped a long fur and struggled to move forward.

Fortunately, with the help of the ethereal ice spell, the road ahead was constantly frozen, and everyone could travel much faster without worrying about the dangerous mire hidden under the snow.

However, the wind and snow on the snow swamp ice sheet are unpredictable, sometimes rushing and sometimes slow, sometimes stopping and sometimes falling. Xia Fan and the others have been moving forward for a long time, but they have never found any trace of the ice snake.

While walking, Ling Yu gradually became suspicious, and said to Xia Fan with a frown, "Young Master Fan, Ling Yu feels that something is wrong. ”

Xia Fan was very concerned about Ling Yu along the way, for fear that Ling Yu would be weak and weak, as soon as he heard Ling Yu say that something was wrong, Xia Fan hurriedly looked up and down carefully, and saw Ling Yu frowning, and couldn't help but ask with concern, "Where is my sister uncomfortable?...... Could it be that the eldest aunt is here?"

"Huh?" Ling Yu didn't understand Xia Fan's words, but knew that Xia Fan cared about him and mistook him for being unwell, so he smiled warmly in his heart, "It's not uncomfortable, Ling Yu is saying that it doesn't feel right." ”

"What's wrong?" Xia Fan asked suspiciously.

Lingyu said, "This cold swamp is a very suitable living environment for ice snakes, there should be a lot of them, and the range of activities should be very wide, although the mother of ice snakes is not easy to find, but ice snakes should not be difficult to encounter." Isn't it strange that we haven't found a single ice snake after we've been walking for so long? ”

Hearing Lingyu say this, Fei Yi and Old Scar and the others also felt a little strange.

Xia Fan was relatively calm, and said, "Could it just be a meeting together?"

"Bang!" Fei Yi slammed his fist on Xia Fan's head and snorted, "Don't talk nonsense in that place!"

"Seriously, you haven't called your brother yet!" Xia Fan complained.

"Hmph, I just don't scream!What can you do to me?" Fei Yi snorted, "You must have known what you deliberately made me!"

"I'm wondering now why you, an ice-based magician, still wear a long fur?" Xia Fan teased, "Aren't ice beauties supposed to be more professional in bikinis in the ice and snow?"

"Miss Ben likes it! Can you manage it?" Although Fei Yi didn't understand what Xia Fan was talking about in a bikini, he was sure that Xia Fan's dog would not be able to spit out ivory, "You're a scumbag!"

"Hmph, one day I will pierce you!" Xia Fan smiled evilly and muttered in a low voice.

"Look over there!" Punishment suddenly noticed a pillar of smoke in the distance, pointed over there, and said, "Is there anyone else there?"

Xia Fan looked at the pillar of smoke, frowned slightly, and said, "Let's go over and have a look." ”

A few men walked slowly towards the pillar of smoke, and walked cautiously for a long time, until they finally approached the pillar of smoke, and several of them lowered themselves behind a clump of coniferous bushes to observe the pillar of smoke.

"Sure enough, there are people. Old Scar whispered.

The pillar of smoke was indeed made by a man-made fire, and about thirty or fifty people were scattered around the fire, and all of them looked very good, and they were busy with something.

"What the hell! These branches are wet, hard to burn, and smoky!" cried a man closest to the fire unhappily.

A middle-aged man next to him smiled and said, "Who told you to make a fire and make trouble for yourself." ”

The man shouted, "Lao Tzu is cold! Of course you have to make a fire! You are not too cold, you should stay away from Lao Tzu's fire!"

The middle-aged man smiled and ignored the man.

"Think about what you have in your hand, just a small bottle can be exchanged for a bucket of alchemy, and you won't be cold. Another, more sturdy middle-aged man spoke.

"That's right. The man nodded, and then said a little bitterly, "But these days it's getting more and more difficult to do, and those ice snakes don't come out at all, they are all hiding, and they can hardly be caught." Boss, do you think those ice snakes are so clever?"

Hearing the man talk about the ice snake, Ling Yu and the others couldn't help but be a little surprised, it seems that these people are also here for the ice snake.

I just heard the middle-aged man called "Chief" say lightly, "It's not that the ice snake is clever, but the mother of the ice snake is not low, we still have to be careful, don't be too careless." ”

"Be careful of what?" said the man, "I'll make a fire now and tell those ice snakes where we are, they won't dare to show up, and if they do, it's better to do so, and we'll dig three feet into the ground to find them." ”

Hearing the conversation of those people, Xia Fan and the others felt a tightening heart, Xia Fan whispered, "It seems that these people are also here for the Ice Snake, I don't know what the purpose is?"

At this time, I only heard the leader say, "Okay, let's deal with what we have first, if the amount collected is enough, we will go back this time, and we will come back after a while when those ice snakes relax their vigilance." ”

"Okay...... everyone agreed, and then they started to get busy.

Immediately, the men took out several large cloth bags that seemed to be very strong, and each bag seemed to contain something alive, and the bags could be seen moving slightly, and at the mouth of each bag was a cylindrical iron hoop as thick as an arm. At this time, each of them took out a pair of special gloves and put them on their hands, and the arm guards of the gloves were also deliberately fixed into a cylinder, the thickness of which seemed to match the iron hoops in the pockets.

I saw a man open the lid of the bag and put his hand into the pocket, and then grabbed out a small ice-blue snake.

"It's the Ice Snake!" Ling Yu said in surprise.

Xia Fan and the others also saw the little ice blue snake, the light blue of the ice and the small body made the little snake look a little attractive, and Fei Yi said in a low voice, "That's the ice snake, it looks a little cute!"

Lingyu said in a low voice, "It is recorded in the "Strange Things" that although the ice snake is highly poisonous, it has a very gentle temperament, and never takes the initiative to attack other creatures except for feeding on small creatures in the swamp. ”

"Oh!" Fei Yi nodded with satisfaction, worried, "What are those people going to do to the Xiaoice Snake?"

Lingyu shook her head and continued to observe the movements of those people. I saw that the man took out a transparent crystal bottle, pinched the mouth of the ice snake and pressed it on the mouth of the glass bottle.

"What are they doing?" asked Fei Yi curiously.

Punishment whispered in his heart, "They're collecting the ice snake's venom. ”

"What are they collecting the venom of the Xiaoice Snake for?" Fei Yi wondered, "Is this what they say is very valuable?"

"Maybe. "Ice snake venom is very effective in killing people, and it is difficult to save it, and some people are indeed willing to pay a high price for the ice snake's venom." ”

"Ahh

"How did he kill the Xiaoice Snake?" Fei Yi said heartbrokenly.

"When the ice snake's venom is emptied, the ice snake will be very weak at this time, and it will take a long time to re-secrete the venom. Lingyu also said bitterly, "I'm afraid they are worried that after they put the ice snake that has taken the venom back, they will be caught again, which will make their efforts in vain." ”

"That's too cruel!" Fei Yi said angrily, "If they just want venom, they can take the Xiaoice snakes away and feed them, and they can often extract venom from them." ”

"No, you can't. Ling Yu shook her head and said, "Once you change to other environments, it will be difficult for the ice snake to survive, not to mention, the poison of the ice snake will also change, and the nature of that cold will be greatly reduced." ”

"It's too much!" Fei Yi watched as the men kept taking the ice snake out of the bag to collect the venom and kill it, and he was furious.

"What should we do now?Wait?Go?Or go?" Punishment asked Xia Fan and Old Scar in a low voice.

"Those bags, each bag can hold dozens of ice snakes, and those bags must add up to thousands of ice snakes, it is very unrealistic to wait for them to leave after collecting the ice snake venom. And these people work to collect ice snake venom, and they have to deal with ice snakes frequently, maybe they will have an antidote to ice snake venom on their bodies just in case. But if these people are not good, we may have conflicts in the past, which will cause unnecessary trouble, which will also delay our time. ”

Xia Fan nodded lightly after listening to the punishment and analysis, and said in a low voice, "Look at it again, I feel that something is going to happen." ”

Not long after Xia Fan's words were finished, the leader of the snake catching team suddenly stood up and watched the surroundings vigilantly.

"What's the matter, boss?" asked the man beside him.

The leader waved his hand and said with a solemn expression, "There is movement, pay attention to vigilance!"

Hearing this, everyone immediately put down what they were doing, and took up their weapons one after another to vigilantly guard the surroundings. But after a long time, the people still didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.

The leader calmly observed the grass and trees around him, and when he fixed his eyes on the swamp in front of him, he suddenly shouted, "Down there!"

Everyone looked at the shout, and at this moment, they saw that a layer of ice blue quickly rose from the snow in front of them, and the snow was scattered, only to see that it was a rather large water, and in the water were countless ice snakes, covering the entire water surface in front of them!

Suddenly, the little ice blue snake in the water shot out suddenly, and countless ice snakes swept towards those people like arrows and arrows all over the battlefield! That scene made Xia Fan and the others, who were secretly observing not far away, couldn't help but be shocked in their hearts.

Those snake catchers hurriedly parried, but under such a dense snake and arrow raid, how could they take care of it so thoroughly, and suddenly several people were bitten by the ice snake. However, once attacked, not only did those people panic, but the poisonous attack also slowed their movements, and they were immediately bitten by more ice snakes, and died on the spot in a short time.

After a storm of snakes, the snake catcher team had already lost a lot of people, but looking at the corpses of the ice snakes under their feet, no one wanted to stay for a moment longer. But they did not dare to act rashly, because they knew that this was far from over, and that a moment of carelessness would cost them their lives.

Just when these people were still apprehensive about the snake rain just now, the water in front of them suddenly surged, and they saw a huge blue ice snake rising from the water, seeing that the ice snake was as thick as an ancient tree for hundreds of years, and it was more than twenty meters tall when it stood upright, and those snake catchers were really weak in front of the huge ice snake like a dragon!