Chapter 42 Strange Statues in the Mountains and Forests
Ten thousand snake mountain radius of more than 300 miles, the mountain peaks continue more than 20 times, the outer mountain beasts live, the inner mountain ten thousand snakes coiled, I don't know how many poisonous snakes and pythons, more than 100 years have tasted the greedy snake catcher lost in the mountains and forests and can no longer go out.
The vicious and sinister place of Ten Thousand Snake Mountain is also famous in several states of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the people under the mountain mostly believe in Liu Xian as the most.
In the two hundred years of the Holy Emperor's calendar, the Northern Barbarian Kingdom went south, 300,000 elite soldiers swept through thousands of troops, eight wins in ten battles, one draw and one loss, Beizhou fell, and Jinjing was in an emergency!
In the same year, Yue entered the east and sent troops to attack the border of Mingzhou in an attempt to recover the homeland of a hundred years ago.
But a hundred years is too long, no one in the land of Mingzhou and Yinzhou regards itself as the Yue country, and the Great Jin Dynasty has a strong military, advanced weapons, strange and changeable military formations, and the fortress border defense is extremely strong, and the 200,000 troops of the Yue country can only wander on the border for a time.
This two-hundred-year-old Holy Emperor once again encountered resistance to his expansion of territory, and he even wanted to drive the expedition in person, but after kneeling for three days and three nights before the ministers made a pilgrimage to the temple, he finally dispelled the idea.
There are many wars in the world, and naturally there are families who are ruined, and there are also characters who take advantage of the situation.
The commander of the Northern Qi army, Liang Jin, the young hero was only eighteen years old, and he led the army to defeat the elite soldiers of the Northern Barbarians, giving the Beijing division a place to breathe.
The Northern Qi army was also the only army that defeated the Northern Barbarians since the war began.
The Holy Emperor was appointed as the general of Huaihua, increased the army by 180,000, countless grains and grasses, and guarded the last place of Beizhou to defend Jinjing.
The mobilization of soldiers and horses in the ten states of the Great Jin Dynasty, the northward movement of seven states, and the westward movement of three states, the dispatch of the battle situation is as fast as the wind and thunder, like a huge war machine, and the dispatch of government orders, grain and grass unification, war exploration, and tactical confrontation are all responsible for special officials and even priests.
Under the rule of this wise and martial saint emperor, the Great Jin Dynasty has accumulated a huge foundation for two hundred years of living and working in peace and contentment, and once it cannot take the Jin capital directly with lightning speed, it can only be dragged into a stalemate.
For a time, the war did not stop, and the world was in turmoil.
Ten thousand snake mountain, in the valley of the snake king, the towering branches of the willow tree hang down into the pond water, the small fish under the pond sway at the bottom of the aquatic weeds, and occasionally one or two dragonflies point to a pond of water.
The ripples spread on the surface of the water, getting wider and wider, and a huge snake head suddenly poked out from under the pool, alarming the fish at the bottom of the water, and the dragonfly that had just stood on the sharp horns also shook its wings and fled quickly.
Bai Lan glanced at the water in the pool, and wondered in his heart, it seems that the water level of the pool has dropped a little over the years.
However, I didn't think much about it, and the deep part of the waterhole is connected to the dark river, which may be the dry season before the rainy season, and it is normal for the water level to drop.
It stands to reason that the creatures in the mountains should be afraid of the demonic energy migrating and fleeing early, but the creatures in the Snake King Valley seem to be accustomed to the breath of the green and white snakes for more than a hundred years, and they are not afraid of migration.
Except for the rats and frogs in the valley, there are no more to be seen.
He looked up and saw a small half of his tail exposed outside a cave, and knew that Qingcang was still sleeping.
He didn't pay attention to it, it was already noon, and it was the time for the monster to retreat.
The snake's head was raised gently, the snake's tail swayed slowly, and the noon sun reflected a dazzling light on the white snake, and a person walked out of a clear light.
That's right, a figure stepped out of the pool and stepped on the pebbles that had been smoothed by the pool, making a clattering sound.
This person walked up to the waterhole, the sun shone on his straight nose bridge, Danzhu lips, Hengshan eyebrows, phoenix eyes, but a pair of vertical pupils were a little bewitching, a light green shirt with a willow hairpin, tied green silk, tied long hair, held a jade bottle, and walked towards the canyon A line of sky.
At the last moment of stepping into the shadows, the sun shone on the human, but the shadow on the ground was a crooked shadow, and the shadow looked like a snake!
Bai Lan walked through the world, holding a foot-long jade bottle in his hand, this thing was a good thing that he only got from a big family under the mountain in his dream.
This bottle is made of glazed jade, not a jade born naturally from heaven and earth, but a kind of glaze, which is not dirty or sinking, can withstand ice and fire, and does not invade evil poison.
What Bai Lan values most is that it is not poisonous and invasive, because this glass jade bottle is used to hold snake venom.
There are thirteen snake nests in Ten Thousand Snake Mountain, and there are nearly 100,000 snakes in the snake nest alone, and there are more than tens of thousands scattered outside, which cannot be counted at all.
As the king of these mountains and snakes, Bai Lan can have as many snake venom as he wants.
After practicing Transfiguration for more than 20 years, he finally gradually got its essence, and now his appearance is the appearance of his previous life, but with more long hair behind him and more green shirts and elegant belts, he is no longer human.
Although it is an illusion, it may be a lot more convenient for him now.
Moreover, Bai Lan devoted himself to cultivating illusion art, and was proficient in the original meaning of illusion words, one word illusion, all things are virtual and real, between thousands of lines, everything is empty.
Although he doesn't say that he is as magical as Hu Qi Niang, it is easy to fool some mortal demons.
No matter what Hu Qiniang's cunning fox calculated, Bai Lan told himself that he had to calm down and keep his heart, otherwise he would be in chaos, and one wrong step would be like entering ten thousand illusions, floating like a dream, and dreaming for thousands of years.
This is the tenth year that Bai Lan has practiced the poison art of ten thousand dragons, and every day he will find a snake, and then collect enough venom from seven hundred and forty-nine poisonous snakes of the same kind, and use himself as a vessel to merge his body with poison.
Even if he is a poisonous snake, a snake king, or a snake demon, thousands of poisons can be kneaded and combined together to mutate points, and no one can be immune to all poisons.
So naturally there will be some suffering, but it is still within the range of tolerable.
The same kind of poisonous snake that Bai Lan is looking for today is the white-browed belly snake, which is a highly venomous snake, this kind of snake is highly venomous but slow-moving, and its body is mostly reddish-brown and light brown, most of which are only half a zhang long.
This snake is mostly found in hilly areas, or in rice fields, grass houses, and grass cemeteries, and is a snake species that is adjacent to people.
There were not many of them in the snake's nest, and after squeezing them dry, Bai Lan came to the outer mountains to look for them.
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Outside the mountains, two hunters, one large and one small, went into the mountains to hunt with bows and arrows, machetes, animal clips, dry food and other sundries.
"Dad, did you say you could catch something in the trap you put last time?" The fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy was already a young would-be hunter, and he rubbed his belly, "I haven't eaten rabbit meat for a long time. I really want to eat rabbit meat. ”
The hunter in his thirties laughed and scolded: "You are greedy, this is thinking about rabbit meat?" ”
The young man in the coarse cloth animal skin sewn clothes smiled: "The trap made by Dad is so good, he will definitely be able to catch good things." My mother said, Dad, you are the best trapper in the village. Maybe, catch a big tiger this time...... Hmm"
"What are you talking about, you rabbit!" The hunter hurriedly gagged him, "Don't talk nonsense as soon as you enter the mountains!" Have you forgotten what Daddy taught you? ”
The boy nodded, and his mouth was released, "Okay, I remember Dad,"
"Maowa, you have to remember, there are rules in the mountains, we are relying on the mountains to eat, and we can't say a word if we can't say anything." The hunter never tires of emphasizing again.
The father and son gradually went deep into the mountains and found several traps that had been laid last time, but unfortunately they found nothing.
Maowa frowned and said with a bitter face: "Dad, why haven't you caught anything?" ”
The hunter sighed, "It seems that the Mountain King is in a bad mood. ”
"Could it be that there is no wild stuff here? Why don't we go inside? Maowa sighed: "Our family has not had good meat to eat for almost a month, and my mother will not give birth until three months, and the eggs at home have been eaten, and my mother has no strength to get out of bed to work." ”
When the hunter heard this, he blamed himself in his heart, and just a little worried that he had gone too deep into the mountain, he left it all behind. "Then let's go into the mountains again, even if you catch a hare here, you may not be able to catch it, I remember that I laid a big trap with your uncle four or five days ago, and let's see if I caught something good today."
Maowa said excitedly: "Okay! Dad, let's go! ”
The two went deep into the mountains and forests, walked for an hour and rested for a while, but also hit a little pheasant. After walking for another half hour, he stopped at the edge of a mountain forest.
Maowa saw the trap that had been stepped on at a glance, and ran over sexually excited and shouted, "Dad, I'll go see what's there." ”
"Be careful, don't fall."
The hunter was also slightly happy in his heart, and followed forward.
"Roar~"
A rough beast roar came, Mao Wa was startled, the hunter hurriedly ran to the entrance of the cave, and looked down, but it was a yellow leopard with a big flower skin, and the front legs were stuck by the beast made of steel, and they couldn't use their strength at all, and they could only roar and warn when they saw the two.
The hunter said excitedly: "Maowa, get up quickly." Grab a bow and shoot it! ”
With that, he opened his bow and shot a hunting arrow and pierced the bun, and the leopard immediately let out a miserable cry and stared at the hunter viciously.
The hunter was about to shoot a second arrow, but suddenly heard Mao Wa exclaim: "Dad! Father! There's a leopard behind you! ”
He was horrified, and he didn't want to pull out his machete and slash behind him.
He felt a gust of fishy wind coming, and the hunter was knocked down by a strong force and almost fell into the deep pit, and he turned up to see that it was indeed a leopard, staring at him with a trace of saliva.
Orion was actively nervous, and he was still stunned in the face of the wild leopard.
"Roar~"
At this time, another yellow-skinned leopard ran out, but this leopard was much smaller, about the same size as the family dog, and much less threatening.
But he rushed towards Maowa.
Orion was shocked and hurriedly shouted: "Maowa, run, run into the woods, take the machete, don't ......!" ”
Before he could finish speaking, the adult wild leopard pounced, and the hunter hurriedly guarded him with a knife, but fortunately he had some punches and kicks, but the leopard scratched his neck.
On the other side, Maowa rushed into the dense forest frantically, only remembering his father's words and running with a machete, the little wild leopard quickly caught up, looking for flaws around Maowa.
Two young hunters and beasts are battling.
The little wild leopard finally couldn't hold his breath anymore, and pounced, Mao Wa slashed at the wild leopard with a machete, and he was also pounced on by the leopard and bit his thigh.
Maowa screamed in pain, endured the sharp pain in her legs, and slashed at the wild leopard's neck very hard, stabbing again and again, and actually hacked the wild leopard to death.
And he was also rolled down the slope by the wild leopard's counterattack, and after a period of origin turning, Maowa fainted.
The little wild leopard that rolled off the side didn't understand why its mother taught it to bite the belly of its prey had no effect, maybe it didn't know that hunting deer was not the same as pounceing on people.
Mao Wa woke up, his lips were dry from the scorching sun, and he struggled to stand up to find that his leg was lame, and the flesh of the bite on his right leg was blurred.
He looked at the carcass of the little leopard and wanted to eat meat, roast meat...
But when he got closer, he found that there were several poisonous snakes crawling on the leopard's body, and the triangular one was very similar to the five-step snake that his father had said.
Maowa was so frightened that he turned around and ran lame, he was lost, he didn't know how long he walked lame, he had tied up the wound on his leg with a strip of cloth, and even picked up a few dead branches to tie to the root of his leg.
Maowa found that the further she went, the fewer animals she encountered, the quieter the mountains and forests, and the more snakes there were.
He raised his head and looked up, and suddenly saw a figure, Mao Wa was overjoyed, it would be good to meet someone, and he could ask for the way down the mountain, and he didn't know how his father was? A wild leopard, dad can definitely kill it!
But when Maowa finished thinking about it, when she looked at it again, she was gone.
He remembered walking up in a hurry, but the slope in the forest was steep, and he fell down all at once.
Maowa gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain, climbed to a high slope and looked down, and saw a picture that he could not forget in his life.
I saw a gentle slope river under the high slope, a tall man in a green robe with his back to him, a jade bottle on the ground in front of the man, he took off a bamboo flute from his waist and stood in front of his lips, blowing a strange flute sound.
"Rustle~"
"Rustle~"
"Hiss~"
"Hiss~"
Maowa felt that the temperature around him suddenly dropped, and he looked back to see long snakes crawling out of his side at some point!
There were flower-skinned, black-skinned, round-headed, and triangular-headed, and all kinds of snakes crawled up to the man's side, forming a circle of snakes.
Hundreds of snakes raised their heads and spit out snake letters, and Mao Wa was so stunned that he couldn't even feel the sound.
Then, he saw the man grab a brown snake from the group of snakes and hold it in the palm of his hand, the head of the poisonous snake actually touched the forehead of the man in the green robe, and then the poisonous snake was put back on the ground, and it raised its head to the mouth of the jade-colored bottle, revealing two poisonous fangs dripping drop after drop of venom.
Then, the man in the green robe picked up the bamboo flute and lit the snake head in the snake group, and the snake that was lit would bite the jade bottle and drip venom.
Drop after drop of venom fell, and soon the bottle was gradually filled
The blue-robed man waved his sleeves, and the snakes dispersed as if they had received an order.
He picked up the jade bottle, raised the bottle and looked at the liquid in the bottle, the glazed jade bottle under the sun seemed to contain the elixir jade liquid, flickering with a faint light.
Mao Wa was stabbed in the eyes by the sunlight reflected by the jade-colored glass bottle, he rubbed his eyes and opened his eyes again, only to see a magnified human face suddenly appear in front of him, a pair of golden vertical pupils like snake pupils glowing strangely, reflecting himself.
"Ah~"
Mao Wa screamed in fright, and was so frightened by fear that she fell to the ground and stepped back with her hands on her body, but it turned out that it was the man in the green robe who came to him in an instant and approached Mao Wa to take a look.
He was so frightened that he hurriedly covered his eyes and turned his head, crying, "Don't come here!" Don't come here! ”
After shouting twice and finding that there was nothing unusual, he trembled and revealed a gap in the hand covering his eyes, and the man in the green robe stood at the bottom of the hillside with his back to him, and the sunlight fell through the leaves, as if a layer of light mist was rising.
Mao Wa saw the blue-robed man walking towards the light mist, and disappeared in the blink of an eye, but at the last moment of disappearance, Mao Wa saw a white snake tail.
He had forgotten even the pain, and stared at the empty forest with wide eyes, as if everything that had just happened was a dream.
Maowa shook her head and sobered up, is it an illusion?
Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly saw a bamboo flute falling on the ground, and a leaf gently floated down and landed right next to the bamboo flute.