Chapter 21
When I heard the snake talking, I was stunned for a moment, then I was stunned. I could hardly believe my ears, fixed there, stunned.
How is this possible?
I have been prepared for the evil nature of the cockscock snake, but no matter how smart they are, they cannot speak human words, but the words just now are so clear that I can never hear them wrong-
I immediately felt that I must have been auditory hallucinating, which was absolutely impossible. Obviously, my nerves were too nervous and there was a confusion. I gritted my teeth and continued to dive down.
The snake looked at me from a high place, watching me sink, suddenly twisted its neck, as if it was looking at me, then suddenly leaned down and hung it in front of me. The cockscomb shook and then said, "Mr. Three?"
This time it was clearer, and the movement was so similar to someone talking to me. My cold sweat kept coming out and I didn’t dare to move. I thought to myself: Damn, I really encountered a snake spirit this time, it was really a snake talking!
My mind was almost completely confused, and countless thoughts surged up in one second. Is this a divine snake? After the Human Language CET-6, Is this snake that graduated from graduate school? Is this cockscomb snake really human, or is it just a thinking snake?
In an instant, I suddenly remembered that we are now in the sphere of influence of Queen Mother of the West. Damn! That was a fairyland in ancient times... It was not uncommon for snakes to speak.
The snake looked at my expression change, and was probably very interested. She turned her head again, shook the cockscomb, and said, "Mr. Little Third Master?"
I was mentally prepared for this moment, so I heard it more clearly than the first two sounds. I suddenly realized something was wrong. Hey, why did this snake speak with a Changsha accent?
Could it be that this is a cockscot snake whose ancestral home is Changsha, who came to the Queen Mother Kingdom of the West to support the construction of the western region?
At that moment, a very outrageous thought flashed through my mind. I suddenly wanted to ask it: "Are you sent by Hunan Satellite TV?" But then a flash of inspiration in my mind, and a cold sweat came down, and I gradually realized what was going on.
If this snake really has extraordinary spirituality, it should be the language of the Queen Mother Kingdom of the West at that time. However, the snake now speaks Mandarin and has a Changsha accent. This is obviously too unusual. Mandarin was promoted in the 1950s, and Changsha-style Mandarin is used by people born in the 1970s. This is completely modern. Even if this snake has superhuman wisdom, it should not speak this accent.
Then there is only one possibility. If it is not "speaking", then it must be "studying". This snake is like a parrot, learning to speak!
I immediately calmed down, it must be like this. Thinking about the sounds I heard along the way, they were just called "Xiao San Master". There was no second sentence, and even the tone was the same. Obviously, this is not a conscious behavior. The Mandarin in Changsha accent is Pan Zi's accent, and Pan Zi likes to call me "Xiao San Master, Xiao San Master". He repeated these three words the most, and the snake must have been following us all the time, so he learned it.
However, it is human training for parrots to learn to speak, and it is very strange that snakes learn to speak. It is obviously not just fun. There must be a reason for it to learn this sound.
Thinking of this, I was sweating profusely. I calmed down and thought of the rattlesnake. This snake attracted prey by imitating the sound of water flow. Is this snake's speech the same purpose?
When I thought, I was attracted to it, but it was so embarrassing that I was fooled by a snake this time.
The snake looked at me, and the blood-red triangle head was almost a slap from my nose. I could smell a spicy fishy smell on it. These thoughts flashed through my mind and I couldn't continue thinking. I thought that no matter what, there was still a very poisonous snake in front of me.
I slowly leaned back, trying to stay as far as possible, at least stay away from it, and then find a way to dive into the water.
However, after a little movement, the snake suddenly moved a little closer, staring at my eyes tightly, as if I knew my intention. I backed a few times and it got closer, without attacking me, but just kept a slap with me. The drooping snake head made me stiff all over and didn't dare to make any major moves.
I think it is very strange. It seems that it just wants to control me, but this behavior itself is very strange. Because snakes are a reptile, all their behaviors should be conditioned reflexes. It has no meaning to do this. What does it want to do?
Just when I was puzzled and had no choice, I suddenly felt something touching my ankle, as if something had dived from the bottom of the water.
I didn't dare to bow my head, but soon bubbles appeared in the water around me. I glanced down and saw a white human-shaped shadow under the water.
The shadow was almost at my feet, and I couldn't see clearly whether it was a human or a ghost. But looking at the white shadow's movements, I felt that this should be a little more likely.
Who is it?
The fat man on one side definitely couldn't wake up. Pan Zi was still in the temple. Even if the two of them came here, they wouldn't be so white.
I had no choice but to watch out for the snake while watching the changes.
The bubbles popped around me, and I felt that the man must have grabbed the roots of the tree underwater. The roots around me shook for a while, ripples shaking on the water surface.
The snake became alert and turned around and looked around. It was obvious that it couldn't figure out how the surroundings were vibrating. It looked around quickly and saw nothing. It immediately raised its head and stood upright, making a series of loud cries like a chicken crow.
In an instant, I felt that the snake's cockscomb became even redder, and the whole snake body bulged, as if blood was about to burst out. I don't know if this was a warning or a gathering of companions.
At the same time, I felt my ankle scratching, and it was grabbing the place where I was sprained. I bared my teeth and then the man started to move on my calves, as if writing.
This is a thing I often play when I was a child. I felt that he wrote "preparation". I didn't feel clear about the word "accurate", but the word "preparation" was very obvious. I felt at ease and knew that it must be a breath below. I immediately moved my feet to show that I knew, concentrate and calm down, but I didn't know what to prepare.
The snake didn't know the tricks under the water. After screaming a few times, it slowly softened. At this moment, I saw the shadow under the water suddenly floated up. Before I could realize what was going on, the water in front of me exploded. A snow-white man suddenly jumped out of the water and pinched the head of the cockscoon snake at a speed that was lightning speed.
I squeezed the man, and his feet slipped into the water. I didn't see what happened next, and I didn't want to see it. I took the opportunity to push out, swam out and swam in the center of the pool, swimming straight for three or four meters before I dared to turn around and look back.
I saw a splash of water over there. Obviously the snake was not so easy to deal with. For a moment, I didn't know whether I should escape, watch or go over to help. While he was still hesitating, a red light suddenly exploded from the splash, rolling the branches around the pile of branches, and making a series of extremely shrill sounds.
The white man immediately shouted to me, "Go away, it's asking for help, it's too late!" As he said that, he dived into the water.
Before he finished speaking, there were already clatters in the surrounding wells, as if countless snakes were around us.
I panicked and hurriedly chased the man's shadow in the water and swam. After swimming for a few moments, I suddenly thought of the fat man. I thought I could not leave him, and then poked my head out to look at the fat man, but found that the fat man was gone in the shaft.
This was so fatal. In the darkness, a large number of clucking sounds were getting closer and closer. I turned around and couldn't see where the fat man was. I screamed again in front of me. After thinking for a few seconds, I could only grit my teeth and sigh in my heart, saying "I'm sorry," and hurriedly chased me.
The man swam very fast and soon climbed up another dry shaft in front of him and disappeared into the fog. I was anxious and thought to myself: Who is this man? Should he come to save me or play with me? I followed me and leaned against the side. At this time, I had no idea of the direction at all, but was forced to furrow all over by the death-like clamor, and I just wanted to climb up immediately.
After climbing for a while, I found that I could not reach the shaft at all. I was so excited that I screamed a few times, jumped up with all my strength, but still slipped down. The giggling sounds around me had gathered behind me. I hit the tree roots with my head a few times, and I felt almost despair. Suddenly, my hand was held tightly, and someone pulled me up with force.
I pulled me into the shaft and immediately saw that the person who pulled me was a man wearing a gas mask. There were sixteen or seven big men in the same dress behind me. Sixteen or seven strong flashlights shone brightly around. I was about to ask "Who are you?", the man pulled off the gas mask and showed a familiar old face.
"Uncle San." I screamed in shock, but before I finished calling, Uncle San slapped me and almost didn't cover me up. Then someone handed me a gas mask and immediately pressed it on my face.
When I was lifted up, I saw Uncle San again covered his gas mask. With a wave of his hand, someone immediately unscrewed a yellow smokescreen and threw it into the water. Others held me and quickly retreated into the depths of the shaft.
I was so angry that I had no temper. I didn't dare to say anything when I made it like this, so I had to stand it in a deep place. I was dragged around the narrow shaft and walked around a few bends. I was pulled out and found that the lower shaft was the same as before, but it was wider. It seemed that I had experienced collapse. There were huge rocks lying across the bottom of the shaft, with a large number of withered tree roots on it. I looked up and thought that there should be ruins on the ground above. On the rock, I saw a few people waiting for us.
I walked up and saw a tightly wrapped fat man mixed in, still unconscious. Someone was giving him an injection. He felt relieved and sighed inwardly, "God bless". It seemed that when the white man saved me, someone else rescued the fat man. This bastard was also very lucky.
At the same time, I saw the man sitting on the rotten wood. He put on a gas mask and shrank between the roots of the tree. The white skin looked snowy in the water, but when I looked on it, it was very strange, as if it was yellow. I looked carefully and found that it was a very old-looking diving suit.
When I looked at the others, almost all of them were wearing diving suits, but they were all new. Obviously, Uncle San was quite prepared, and it would be much more comfortable to have diving suits here.
The man didn't pay attention to me. I thought that I had hardly seen his appearance just now, and thought to myself: This is such a great benefactor, I should thank him well. When I was held in front of him, I wanted to thank him, but the head turned around and I saw a pair of very familiar black glasses from the lens of the gas mask.
I was stunned and said, "It turned out to be him." I couldn't help but say "ah".
He looked up and saw me, as if he was smiling, and nodded to me.
I nodded and was about to thank me, when the third uncle on the side came over and I was dragged in front of me. He squatted in front of me, looked at me, and sighed: "Damn it, why are you so disobedient?"
I felt a little embarrassed. It was unexpected that things turned out like this. I didn't know what to say. I wanted to call him, but I stopped him by him. He sat down and did not blame me. He just immediately asked me in Changsha dialect, "Don't talk, I'll ask you, where is Pan Zi and that guy?"
I immediately told the things we had just experienced. Uncle San said "tsk" after hearing this: "I didn't expect that this fat man was so smart, and he was also hit this time."
"What's wrong?" I felt uncomfortable when I heard him say this.
"The snake here is so evil. It can learn human language. Its cockscomb can imitate the sounds you hear and lead you over. I almost killed them." A guy said on the other side, "In a ghost place, you can't believe anything you hear."
I looked at the fat man and asked Uncle San: "How is that guy? Is it okay?"
"He has already given him serum, so I can only leave it to fate." Uncle San looked at his watch and said to me, "Take off your clothes soon."
"Take off your clothes? What's wrong?" I thought to myself, they had already done it themselves. My top was torn off and I was pressed on the well wall. As soon as I took off my clothes, I immediately heard a soft voice, "Damn, it's really there." I don't know who sent it.
I was stunned and sweated coldly. What does this mean? Is there something on my back? I wanted to turn back to look at my back, but I was pressed down.
"Don't! Don't move!" Uncle San whispered, "Just stand like that!"
I started to have goose bumps, so I carefully felt my back, but I couldn't feel anything. The feeling seemed to be unfair and it was so uncomfortable.
"What is on my back?" I asked, and then I heard Uncle San shrew again: "My ancestor, don't be curious at this time, you will know later." Then I heard the voice of Huo Zhezi.
"What are you doing?" I cried in my heart and said to myself: Does he want to "serve the country with loyalty"?
I felt the back was getting hot. Before I could prepare, I suddenly felt something moving on my spine, and then we all heard a series of screams coming from behind me. What made me creepy was that the sound actually sounded like a baby.
Before I could think about it, Uncle San made a ruthless move. I felt a huge hot thing poking my back a few times, making me almost jump up. At the same time, the strange scream became sharper, and then the thing moving on my back slid down, and it felt like a ball of loach fell off your back.
"Get down, go away!" I didn't know who screamed, and I stood up quickly, but my feet were soft and I didn't stand successfully. I staggered a moment and saw several white things as thick as pencils hanging on my ankles like intestines. I shrank back and kicked them off, but in an instant, all the things moved. I clearly saw the little poisonous fangs spread open in their mouths and bit my calves.
At that moment, someone next to him took action. A black light flashed and a stone hit him, killing the first one. Then the rocks were slapped. In an instant, the heads of these little snakes were all flattened and turned into a ball of batter.
I wiped off the cold sweat from my face, shrank my feet and saw that it was a snake twisted like an intestine, white, with only my body rolling and twisting constantly. I felt the mucus behind me dripping down my spine, so I sat down on the ground and started to retching.
Uncle San made several more stabs at the snake and cut them into two pieces before he breathed a sigh of relief. He handed me his clothes: "Wipe clean and put them on, tie the collar and trouser legs tightly."
"This...this...this...this is going on?" I touched my back. Those were all very small cocks-combed snakes, but the snake was not red, but white. It was also very small.
"This is a small snake that has just hatched, and its skin is not hard yet. You have just stayed in the Dead Pond. There are actually these small snakes under the mud there. If something passes, it will definitely be attached. Almost everyone has it before." One person said, "This snake bites your skin with its teeth, and you will only feel the pain. Then your back becomes numb, and you don't feel it whipped by the whip. Then it slowly drills into your skin and sucks your blood. When it grows up, it is so toxic that it poisons you to death that it will come out of your skin. At this time, the whole body is full of blood, and the skin becomes red."
I looked at the snake, feeling scared, and said to myself: Why did it get on my back just now, I don’t feel anything at all.
Such a disgusting thing, no matter how you get into my clothes, you should feel something strange. It is impossible not to know.
When I thought about it, I always felt that something was biting my ankle in the water just now. Could it be that at that time, these snakes were sneaking up? Thinking of it, I touched my back, it was full of mucus, and it was so disgusting.
I applied my clothes, and another group of people retreated from the entrance of the shaft. When I saw Uncle San, I shook my head and said softly: "San Master, it's not easy to get out, what should I do?"
Uncle San stood up, thought for a while, sighed, nodded, and said to him, "There is nothing I can do, I can't stay here anymore. We have to go back, we can only come out tomorrow." He said, and scolded me again, and then said, "Let your brothers go."
The man nodded and responded, then whistled at the people around him. All of them stood up and immediately carried their equipment.
I was also helped up. Uncle San saw that I seemed to have something to say, so he said to me: "If you have anything to say when we are in the place where we are. It's too dangerous here. Don't talk in the shaft, do you know?"
I understood his concerns and nodded to show that I knew. They set out immediately and retreated deep into the shaft.
As I walked along the way, I had no idea where I was heading. I only knew that the visibility was extremely low. From time to time, I could hear a "grizz" sound from the depths of the forks around me. It was very close and very high-pitched. Obviously, this is their place, and snakes are everywhere around us.
I was a little nervous, but there were many people here. As soon as the snake yelled, someone would immediately warn that direction, which made me feel at ease. It seemed that people really needed a sense of security.
I don’t know how long I walked, but I passed two watery shafts during this period. I guess it would be at least an hour. I began to hear a sound in the quiet shaft, which was very familiar and gradually appeared. I wanted to ask, but the others didn’t speak all the way and didn’t even cough, so I felt embarrassed to make a sound.
As we went deeper into the shaft, the temperature gradually decreased. After walking for a while, we began to pass through some severely damaged places, and we could see traces of dried moss and vines on it. In some places, there were living tree roots. The roots above were coiled in the cracks of the stone and grew below. We must be sure that this section of the road is close to the ground, and maybe you can see the sunshine by just poking a stone.
We crawled through the complex roots of the tree that were adsorbed on the well wall, and we could vaguely see some rotten black snake sheds. This should be an active area for snake activities. It is terrible to think about it. Such a complex underwater system can probably be compared with ancient Rome, but unexpectedly it turned into a huge snake nest.
This kind of biological defense technology is considered high-tech in the Western Regions. I don’t know why this country did not continue to dominate at that time. I feel that it may be that a country finally discovered a way to deal with these poisonous snakes.
I walked for a long time, until I was a little dizzy, and we arrived at the destination. I saw a faint light of fire from afar. I gradually got closer and found that it was a huge reservoir like a staircase, composed of six to seven terraced pools. Stone pillars and stone beams could be seen around me. This seemed to be an underground building like a Roman bathhouse at that time. After climbing down, I found a large number of caves on the entire rock wall around. The caves were very deep and large, like stone square caves, and it seemed that there were passages and stone steps, forming a corridor between the caves and the caves.
So I felt that it might be a temple for religion. In any case, it should not be a simple reservoir. Because there are signs of human activities here.
The firelight comes from the grottoes. We went over, walked up a stairs, passed through the passages between several grottoes, and entered a relatively spacious grotto, which was 60 or 70 square meters.
When we went in, we saw a tent, sleeping bags and a lot of equipment, piled up in messy places, with two people sitting by the campfire, probably watching the fire, and facing our backs didn't seem to notice that we were back.
The group was exhausted from leaving, and there was no strength on their feet.
I put it down for someone, jumped a few times on one foot, and the man who was holding me was so tired that he rubbed his shoulders and kicked the two men who were watching the fire, saying, "I can't get up and let the third master sit down, and I'll stick it like a wood like something."
Chapter completed!