Chapter 75: A snake in the belly
Seeing that the fire was about to spread to Zhang Qixun's feet, the little brother immediately ran over and brought him out of the fire, and then found that his state was very wrong, and immediately decided to take him back to the camp first.
On the way back, I happened to bump into the fat man who was found with someone.
"How are you feeling right now?" The Huo family's team doctor checked and said that you inhaled a large amount of snake venom, but because of the special reason of the blood, the poisoning was not deep, and at most you had some hallucinations."
The fat man handed him the water bladder filled with warm boiled water, "Drink more water, it will help the body detoxify, and after sprinkling two bubbles of urine, the remaining poison will be discharged."
Zhang Qixun nodded, took the cup, and silently thought about the fat man's words in his heart, he remembered the pictures he saw before he was about to lose consciousness, was it really an illusion?
Or could he read pheromones from the black-haired snake's toxin?
So, who is the man in the white cloak in the memory of that snake? Could it be Zhang Menyu?
If it was Zhang Menyu, then what message did he want to convey to himself through that snake?
"Where's the cellar stuff?" Have they all been burned?" Zhang Qi asked.
"It's all burned, and there's not a bit of scum left." The fat man said, "When you left, I used all the cuties I stuffed for you, and that whole area was blown up."
Zhang Qixun sighed regretfully, and asked again, "What about the corpses of the Huo family along the way?" Have you ever checked it closely, it is likely that there are snake eggs inside?"
The fat man's expression was a little subtle, and Zhang Qixun asked him what was wrong, if something was wrong.
The fat man said that after the corpses were carried back, because the death was too miserable, the internal organs were dragged to the ground, and it was inconvenient to deal with them, so they all found a place, and the corpses of those people and lynx in the camp were piled together, and it was estimated that they had been dug and buried at this time.
Zhang Qixun immediately drank all the water in the cup, then lifted the thin blanket on his body and put on his shoes, "I'll take a look."
He has good recovery ability, and the place where the flame licks is a little red at this moment, and there is not even a bubble.
The little brother and the fat man didn't stop him, and followed them out of the tent.
More than fifty meters behind the camp, the lights and shadows were crowded, and the sky was actually a little gray at this time, but if you look down into the bushes, you will find that the black is still the same.
Soon came to the place where they were digging a pit, the fat man went up to stop him, Huo Zhizhi saw that it was them, so he asked his subordinates to stop.
"What did you find?" As soon as Huo Zhizhi opened his mouth, this was it.
Zhang Qixun didn't answer him, his eyes turned around the corpses in the grass a few times, and he didn't find the ones he wanted, so he asked him, "Where are those hanging on the trees buried?"
Huo Zhizhi stretched out his hand and pointed further back, "It's all there, those corpses stink badly, and they were buried first."
"Dig it out." Zhang Qixun looked at him and said.
Huo Zhizhi's expression distorted, but because Zhang Qixun's face was a little pale at this time, he still commanded the two of them to dig the pit.
As soon as the shovel went down, the soil was lifted, and the smell came out, and the two young men who were digging the pit had green faces, and Zhang Jixun kindly supported the two of them.
Everyone else stopped and hid far away.
Zhang Qixun was still a little apprehensive at first, because it was only his guess that there were snake eggs hidden in his abdomen, but as the pit dug deeper and deeper, and even the yellow-green corpse water seeped through the soil and stuck to the shovel, he knew that he had guessed correctly.
The average temperature of the weather in Banai is now 27 to 36 degrees, and according to the normal degree of decay of the corpse, even if it is thrown in the mud pile for 12 hours, it will not turn into corpse water all at once.
So, there must be something inside the corpse that exacerbates this change in it, and even if it's not a snake egg, there must be something else bad.
The two young men wanted to get out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible, so the shovel flew up, and the shovel head went down, and the young man subconsciously picked up the shovel.
It was a round thing, covered with grass roots and slimy black mud, and inside the mud, something was wriggling, slender and long, like a loach, following the circle
something climbs up the shovel handle.
The young man screamed, and the shovel in his hand was thrown out, and the round thing also rolled down to the soles of the Huo family's feet who were watching the play on the other side, and they were so startled that they all retreated.
Almost everyone guessed what the thing was, and when it hit the ground, most of the mud on it fell off, revealing its true face.
At the moment of meeting the sight of the two black rumbling holes, everyone gasped, and then raised the shovel at the same time, and aimed at the "earthworms" that fell out of the wet mud in a uniform manner.
The execution ability is so high that Zhang Qixun is amazed by them.
However, they were a little careless, but Huo Zhizhi reminded them later, and they found that there were more slender strips of that kind in the pit, one by one coming out of the wet and clay soil, like razor clams scrambling to emerge on the beach after sprinkling salt.
It's just that this thing is much more dangerous than razor clams, razor clams are eaten, humans are predators, and this thing can feed on humans in front of you.
Heads covered in mud and the size of little fingers scrambled to crawl from the pit to the edge after sensing the fresh blood around them.
The corpses at the bottom of the pit had turned into a pile of rotten flesh like candles burning and dripping with candle oil gathered at the bottom, and all the flesh in the skin was gnawed.
Moreover, these small snakes seem to secrete a special kind of mucus, which flows out of their shells and mixes with the corpse water, and the liquid that should be pale yellow is a little green.
Huo Zhizhi hurriedly instructed the people to fill the pit, and asked the people to quickly return to the camp to get gasoline.
It's also a shame that the lethality of these little snakes is not very strong now, and ordinary people can solve it with some effort, even chopping and shoveling, pouring gasoline, throwing down a few torches, and the pungent rancid smell accompanied by black smoke permeated the entire camp.
The fat man lifted his shirt and covered his nose, hid behind a tree, looked at the raging fire in the pit, and couldn't help but smack his tongue and said, "What is the origin of this snake, why is it even more powerful than the pheasant neck we have seen in Tamuda before."
The pheasant's neck is still a giant's corpse, and this snake has turned into wax water even as a nursery box, and the hatching speed is much faster than the pheasant's neck.
"This is a metamorphosis subspecies of pheasant neck, called the black-haired snake, which is the adult form of this snake that we have seen in the jade figurines of the West Queen Mother's Palace, and there is also this kind of thing in Milothar." Zhang Qixun explained.
"There are indeed perverted ones." The fat man complained, "Even you can get hit."
Zhang Qixun nodded approvingly, "There was a lot of powder on the wall of the cellar I went into, and I didn't have time to take samples for testing, but I guess that thing has the effect of helping snake venom volatilize."
Perhaps he knew that this snake could transmit memories, so he managed to capture a part of Milota's body in order to obtain some information.
After all, he was selected by Zhang Da Buddha to replace Zhang Qiling's existence at the beginning, no matter what his purpose was for Zhang Qishan to find Zhangjia Gulou, as a handler, he always knew something.
But I never thought that it was to make a wedding dress for Zhang Qixun, and I estimated that the guy was already angry at this time.
But it's a pity, that guy is too cunning, this encirclement and suppression can't be successful, and the next time he does it, it is estimated that he will be in the Zhangjia Ancient Building.
After Huo Xiangu learned about the situation here, she directly ordered all the corpses to be burned and destroyed, and the Huo family seemed to be accustomed to this, and there was no objection.
After this incident, Zhang Qixun and the three returned to the camp, and saw Huo Xiuxiu, accompanied by Huo Chushi, already waiting outside their tent.
"Grandma, please come over." Huo Xiuxiu said.
Zhang Qixun and the three followed her to the tent in the center of the camp.
As soon as they met, Huo Xiangu said directly, "Do you know what is going on with this lynx siege? And the snakes."
Although the words were asked about you, their eyes were looking at Zhang Qixun.
"You should have heard that bamboo whistle, someone is controlling those beasts, maybe the snake is that
People raise them to dispose of corpses." Zhang Qixun chose to conceal the second point.
"You mean to say that this lynx was domesticated?" Huo Xiangu looked at Zhang Qixun with a look of disbelief, "Have you seen that person?"
Zhang Qixun nodded, "Yes, he is also from the Zhang family, but according to our speculation, that person may be from Zhang Qishan's lineage, when we first came to Banai, we were attacked once by the lynx group controlled by him."
The lynx likes to live alone, and is accustomed to cold, likes to inhabit the grassland of the alpine shrub or the subarctic zone, the cold temperate zone coniferous broad-leaved mixed forest area, Guangxi belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone, and the sudden appearance of such a large group of lynx is obviously a very abnormal thing.
Not to mention that wild beasts have an instinct to fear fire, and most of them will choose to avoid unknown creatures that suddenly appear, unless people invade their territory.
Hearing Zhang Qixun's answer, Huo Xiangu fell into deep thought and did not ask any more questions.
A strong sense of urgency surged in her heart, and she speculated in her heart what the purpose of the Zhang family was doing this, using such a large number of killing moves, to prevent them from entering the Zhang Family Ancient Building? Or is that person also related to the forces in the shadows?
Since that person has been wandering near the ancient building for a long time, he has a strong hostility towards them, and he also has a lot of relationship with the Buddha, they all know who is standing behind the Buddha back then, so this person stays here, is he also waiting for an opportunity to find a way to enter the Zhangjia Ancient Building?
Thinking of what she had experienced, Huo Xiangu was almost certain that that person must have been sent by the forces behind it.
Thinking of this, I can't help but feel a little regretful, if I can catch that guy, I can let people torture him, maybe I can get more information.
Immediately, Huo Xiangu ordered everyone to divide into three groups and explore the three directions at the bottom of the valley overnight.
The original team plus Zhang Qixun and the three of them had a total of fifty-six, five of them were killed by a broken shoulder when they went out on the night patrol, and thirteen more were killed and wounded in the battle with the lynx, and now they only have thirty-eight people left.
Huo Chushi left some of his subordinates to protect Mrs. Huo, and he took the rest of his subordinates and led a team of people to the north first, Huo Zhizhi and Huo Xiuxiu took people to the west, and the east, which was most likely to encounter danger, was left to Zhang Qixun for them.
However, Zhang Qixun didn't care about them, and after counting the number of people, he took the equipment and followed the road line that Zhang Qixun had walked before, and carefully investigated all the way.
The speed of the investigation was not very fast, because it was a place that was almost untouched, and the terrain at the bottom of the valley was very complex, with grass and vines on the surface, but in fact there were some bottomless pits hidden underneath.
Just in case, these deep pits they also tied ropes into them, and they were either empty, or they were the nests dug by some wild beasts, which had been abandoned for a long time, and there were some animal bones in them, which were of little useful value.
It wasn't until the day was completely bright that everyone decided to take a break and eat something to replenish their strength.
Someone couldn't help but complain: "Where is this Zhangjia Ancient Mansion hidden, if we continue to look for it like this, I feel that it is purely a grinding work, in vain, there is no trace of human beings left here, could it be that we are looking in the wrong direction at all?"
This sentence also expressed the hearts of many people, and everyone turned their eyes to Zhang Qixun and the three of them, waiting for them to express their position.
This valley area is too big, and it will be the year of the monkey to find it manually, but if they retreat, they don't dare to bring it up, so they can only be found by Zhang Qi, who leads the team.
The communication distance of the walkie-talkie is less than three kilometers, and the distance they have gone out from last night to now has already exceeded three kilometers, and the situation of the other two groups is estimated to be similar to theirs, otherwise someone would have come to inform them to withdraw.
"Let's go further." Zhang Qixun spoke, "Go another five kilometers, and if you still don't find anything, go back and discuss other ways with your family master."
Everyone should come down, and after half an hour's rest, the team is ready to move on.
In fact, the reason why Zhang Qixun chose to lead the team here was mainly to catch the collapsed shoulder, or to find some other clues, but it has been deepened
After all this time, there was not a trace of a collapsed shoulder except for that cellar, or had the guy taken his army of lynx deeper into the valley?
At this time, the fat man suddenly muttered that his stomach hurt a little and he wanted to go out, and it was estimated that the game he hunted last night was indeed a bit of a problem.
Last night, when he set up camp in the evening, the fat man felt itchy when he had a gun in his hand, and went out for a walk and came back with two wild pheasants, which were roasted on the fire, but it may be that the chicken was old and a little woody, and the fat man's cooking skills could not save its taste.
Zhang Qixun tasted a little bit and didn't eat it again, the little brother still prefers to eat white-cut chicken than roast chicken, so in the end, the two chicken fat men ate one and a half by themselves, and the rest was given to Huo Xiaoli.
Afraid that he would be in danger if he was left alone, Zhang Qixun asked a group in the team who wanted to go to the toilet together.
As a result, the fat man shouted, and five or six people went to Hulala, and when they saw the situation, the rest had to wait in place.