Chicken Snake (1), very spoofed, very funny name. But anyone who knows about this kind of magical beast must not think it is ridiculous, not only is it not ridiculous, but it is synonymous with death in their hearts.

Legend has it that there is a very rare and terrifying monster in the Datam Grand Canyon, and its name is the chicken snake. As its name suggests, this terrifying beast has the head of a chicken, the tail of a snake, the claws of a chicken, and the body of a bird, but instead of feathers, it has a layer of dark and shiny snake scales. Everywhere it passed, the Mubu was full of death, as if the god of death in the underworld had asked it to come to the mortal world to speak for it.

The rain was still dripping, dripping on its smooth scales and dripping down the eroded mud. The chicken's paws walked step by step, one by one on the ground with fork-shaped footprints, it didn't walk fast but in the blink of an eye it had already arrived at the corpses of the monsters, still like a chicken eating food, pecking open the corpses of those monsters with its beak, but there were jagged thin hooks between its beaks, and with a flick of the neck, it tore off a bloody piece of meat.

Doroth and Greenty spent two days in the cave safely, and apart from the occasional few monsters crawling here, they were not in any danger for a day. They decided not to leave the place until the rain stopped. Teacher Jesse, of course, has no objection, this is their survival test, not his.

The campfire had already cooked one of the lizards left from yesterday, and although some of them were poisonous, they had already learned how to remove the poison sacs and eat the edible parts. To survive outside, you have to know what you can eat and what you can't eat.

Cut the meat with a knife, dip it in the salt, honey and spices you bring with you, and bake the outermost layer of the meat until it is charred and golden.

Dorothy bit a piece of hot meat, took it in his mouth and breathed it hot, and it was easy to eat it, and he couldn't help but praise: "Fuck, where is the exam now, it's obviously camping." If it weren't for the damn weather on a rainy day, spread a blanket on the grass below, set up a barbecue, and make a cup of chilled lemon tea, with a beautiful woman like Greendy, it's really ......" Speaking of which, he couldn't say it anymore, he must have known Greendy for a short time.

Green Di looked very generous: "It's okay, if you can taste the food like that, you can also cultivate your temperament." ”

"Haha, that's it, that's fucking cool. Doroth said: "Teacher Jesse, is this canyon often like this, if it always rains, I can't stand it." ”

Jesse said: "No, it's not that it rains all the time, it's just that it's too big, and the climate is different, so we're just unlucky now, and other places may be sunny and sunny." ”

"Hey, it's really unlucky, even when I go camping, I encounter this kind of weather. Doroth grumbled.

Jesse sighed, "Hey, we're not camping, we're taking exams. ”

"Well, what is that?" Ludi suddenly noticed that there was something like a snake and a chicken at the entrance of the cave, and quickly picked up the magic wand beside him, but it looked like a chicken, not like a powerful magical beast.

The students may not know each other, but it can be seen that the well-informed teachers are different, and they were shocked to see this monster, and hurriedly covered the eyes of Ludi and Dorothy, and lowered their heads and closed their eyes from looking at it.

Doroth didn't understand what was going on, and asked, "Teacher, what are you doing?" ”

Jesse said eagerly, "Don't open your eyes, don't look at it, especially its eyes, remember not to open your eyes." Stepping back, it should be attracted by the aroma of the food, retreating, slowly retreating. ”

Hearing what the teacher said so seriously, Ludi didn't dare to disobey, closed her eyes and touched the dark, and retreated into the depths of the cave little by little, she still couldn't help but wonder in her heart, and asked, "Teacher Jesse, what is this?"

Jesse also stepped back and said, "It's a chicken snake!." ”

"Chicken snake?" Doroth laughed, "What the hell, is it that scary?" ”

Lu Di had heard the rumors of the chicken snake, and exclaimed: "Yes, yes, yes, I have seen this kind of thing in the murals in the building, this is the chicken snake, the kind of monster that can kill people with his eyes!"

"Kill with your eyes!" Doroth exclaimed, "It can't be true, can you kill with your eyes, how can you kill?"

Greenty shook her head and said, "No, I don't know, it's just that the rumors say so." Whoever comes into contact with its vision will die. ”

"When you come into contact with your eyes, you must ...... Death!" Dorothy didn't believe it, but she didn't dare to joke with her life.

Jesse said: "Greenty is almost right, it is not said that he will die, but the average person who is not strong-willed is definitely dead." Its light eyes emit a special kind of spiritual magic, and anyone who comes into contact with its vision will receive a very strong mental suggestion, and the content of the implication is death! If you really accept this kind of spiritual suggestion, you will really die. ”

"Heart, mind domination magic!" Doroth was shocked, "Can a monster also perform such a complex and difficult mind magic?"

Jesse said, "No, it's its instinct, it's born with it. And the effect is extremely strong, not a person with a very strong mind, absolutely do not come into contact with it. Fortunately, it only eats dead things, and it does not eat living things. ”

"Don't eat living things, weishenme?" asked Green, curiously, "Aren't we like dead people, and we can't look at it." ”

Jesse said: "I don't know, but the rumor is that it doesn't dare to eat living people, and I think it makes sense." Usually the creatures it has seen are dead, but those that are not dead may be afraid to attack. But whether it's the case or not, some people have seen it escape in this way. ”

"That's good, that's good. Doroth was also frightened enough, if he touched the gaze, he would die, it was really terrifying, and suddenly asked, "If you ambush it, won't it become very powerful." With such a terrifying monster by his side, it is absolutely invincible!"

Jesse shook his head, "Maybe, but I haven't heard of anyone ambushing it." Chicken snakes are said to have very weak reproductive abilities, and not many people have seen them, let alone ambushed them. ”

After retreating for a long time, he finally retreated to the bottom of the cave, and Lu Di said: "The teacher is right, if there are many such magical beasts, shijie will die." ”,

"Ah, yes, I guess all the people who saw it died. Doroth was sweating profusely, not knowing if she was too fat or too nervous.

The chicken snake smelled the smell of meat, and watched the three of them retreat into the depths of the hole, not knowing if it was a living creature that did not dare to provoke its death gaze as Jesse said, and did not chase it in anyway. I just finished eating the cooked things next to the fire, and also ate the corpses of the demonic beasts they had stored, and after a few circles, I didn't find anything else to eat, and then slowly left.

The heavy rain is still pouring down, and the noisy rain feels less upset after listening to it for a long time. After all this time, they never heard the sound of chickens and snakes crowing again.

Dorothy's closed eyes still didn't dare to open, and asked, "Mr. Jesse, is the chicken snake gone?"

"You ask me, how do I know, I have my eyes closed. Jesse listened carefully for a while, and seemed to be silent: "You should go, right?"

"Should the fuck be gone or not?"

Jesse was angry: "You don't know how to open your eyes and see." ”

Dorothy couldn't believe it, "Boss, you're a teacher, you let us take this risk!"

"I ......," Jesse thought for a moment and said, "Are you taking the test or am I taking the test?"

"Huh, despicable. Such audacity, teacher, I despise you. ”

Suddenly, there was a rustling sound in their ears, like the sound of someone's footsteps slowly moving away, and then they heard Greenty shouting, "Teacher Jesse, Dorothy, the chicken snake is gone." ”

The two big men breathed a sigh of relief, and they couldn't help but feel ashamed in their hearts, their courage was not as good as that of a little woman. opened his eyes and said, "Ludi, you still have the guts, the heroine of the female league." When the two came to the entrance of the cave, they saw that the chicken snake had gone. Zaijian Ludi found that she was leaning against the wall with her eyes closed, and her heart was deceived.

When Ludi heard their footsteps, she knew that there was no danger, so she opened her eyes and looked around, but she didn't find the figure of the chicken snake, patted her chest and said, "Ahhh

The two big men were as ugly as if they had been punched, and they scolded themselves for being idiots and stupid in their hearts, and they even did this kind of thing. Doroth wanted to be angry, but she was too embarrassed to scold a woman, so she had to wave a branch and smash it on the cave wall, cursing incessantly.

Jesse is also embarrassed, but he is also embarrassed to scold others, it must be because he has no courage, and secondly, he has lost a layer of wisdom, sighing again and again with self-pity, and saying that women are like devils and snakes and scorpions in their hearts.

Of course, Greenty also paid to the two of them, and it was very sincere.

Jesse should have helped the students escape this time, and it stands to reason that they should have quit. But thinking of his own embarrassment, he had to talk to them about the matter, and asked them not to talk about today's affairs, and naturally they didn't do anything to help them this time.

Greenty and Dorothy, of course, agreed.

By morning, when the rain had finally stopped after a few days, Doroth and Greenty refused to delay for a moment, and jumped under the cave to stretch their muscles.

Jesse stood at the mouth of the cave and smiled slightly: "The purpose of the actual combat test is to train them, and it doesn't matter if you make an exception." ”

(Note: (1) I have already explained the detailed characteristics of the chicken snake in the book.) The name "Cockatrice" began to be synonymous with "Basilisk" and appeared in paintings, coats of arms, sculptures, architecture, and as decorations in churches during the Middle Ages. Interestingly, despite its proliferation in art, there are very few stories about it, perhaps because its gaze kills people too much to find its place in literature. Medusa only turns people to stone with her gaze, and its lethality is too perverted.

In my novels, I weakened the ability of the chicken snake and turned the gaze killing into seeing its gaze to be killed. I described this murderous gaze as a kind of psychic suggestion magic, which was just my own whim and idea, it was apocryphal, and I thought the explanation was reasonable. In fact, I didn't find the real reason for its killing eyes in the data. ）