Yang Yu told others his idea.
With a frown on his face, Qingshi could not find any creature that matched what Yang Yu had described even if he searched his memory. Perhaps, even his father, who had been doing this for nearly thirty years, had never heard of such creatures in the desert.
"Don't be depressed. You said that there might be all kinds of accidents in the vast desert. Isn't this the accident you mentioned?"
Yang Yu kicked the sand calmly and buried the body of the Desert Golden Python.
"You can only know what that thing looks like when you see it. If you can't make a special antidote, you can't save your father. The key now is how to catch the parasite lurking in the snake's mouth."
Relaxing his frown, Qingshi nodded, and stood steadily at the front of the team again. While touching the sand with a long wooden stick to look for the desert golden python, he was also looking for the underground maze his father had seen.
Soon, Qingshi keenly sensed that in the vast desert, there was a magical power that was constantly spreading outward, which exactly matched the magical power emitted by the underground maze in Qingshi's memory.
Following the magical power forward, after taking a few steps, Bai Jin also sensed the magical messages emanating from the underground maze.
Stepping onto the towering sand dunes, a square platform shining with orange light came into the eyes of Yang Yu and his friends.
The square platform was spotless, and except for the entrance, everything was like a black mirror. It was surrounded by towering sand dunes, as if as long as a strong wind blew, the sand would rush towards the square platform and completely bury this underground maze.
"The square platform is protected by a magic barrier."
Bai Jin pointed around the square platform and gestured with her hands, circling the approximate location of the barrier.
In the desert where magic power is hard to sense, the barrier formed by gathering magic power is extremely conspicuous in Bai Jin's consciousness.
"It seems that because of the barrier, the sand dunes did not swallow up the underground maze."
Mobilizing the magic power stored in her own body, Bai Jin weaved three pure magic missiles and fired them at the barrier. The missiles seemed to collide with something in mid-air and exploded with a loud bang.
A faint yellow light rippled along the barrier and flashed by.
Everyone had a rough idea of the barrier's approximate range.
He approached the underground maze step by step, stood on the bluestone at the front, and poked the sand surface with a wooden stick. Suddenly, he felt the familiar feeling under his feet again.
"coming!"
Before Qingshi finished his words, a golden figure jumped out from the sand dunes near the barrier and attacked him.
This time Yang Yu was prepared. He moved his body in front of Qingshi and swung the sword at the long snake. The long snake adjusted its posture strangely in the air and actually avoided Yang Yu's attack.
The familiar feeling of movement came from under his feet again. Qingshi, who was squatting with his head in his hands, shouted nervously,
"There's one more!"
At this moment, a golden figure suddenly appeared behind Yang Yu like lightning.
Taking a deep breath, Yang Yu twirled his legs flexibly in the sand, opened an illusory shield, and blocked the first snake that attacked him. At the same time, he swung the sword with his right hand at the other snake.
The snake flying in the air hit its head on Yang Yu's shield, causing it to be dizzy. After a while, it thought of using the slope of Yang Yu's shield to climb upwards, but this was exactly what Yang Yu wanted.
Seeing the right moment, Iyas used [Guaranteed Arrow] again. The arrow flew across the sky and instantly hit the long snake on Yang Yu's shield, taking it flying out.
The parasite in the snake's mouth will probably use the sand to escape like it did last time. There's nothing we can do about it. It will be enough if we can catch one.
Without looking at the snake that was killed, Yang Yu looked at the snake that nimbly dodged his attack in the air.
He was a man of great skill and courage. He took three steps back, thrust the blade of his sword into the sand with his right hand, and threw his shield into the sand with his left hand, freeing himself up.
After confirming the way the Golden Desert Python was twisting in the air, Yang Yu grabbed the Golden Desert Python with his left hand.
When the desert golden python saw Yang Yu reaching out his hand towards it in such a suicidal manner, it immediately opened its mouth.
In the mouth of the golden desert python, a creature was curled up.
What Yang Yu didn't expect was that the parasite in the snake's mouth was actually a spider with a golden body and eight black legs.
She has eight legs and they all wear black stockings. It's really a benefit for otakus.
But Yang Yu didn't think anyone could charge against the spider.
A large amount of silk threads sprayed out from the spider's abdomen and stuck to the Desert Golden Python's throat, leaving only a small opening for the Desert Golden Python to breathe.
There are also two long silk threads on the two fangs of the spider, connecting to the fangs of the Desert Golden Python. A hint of purple flows from the end of the fangs along the silk threads into the two fangs of the Desert Golden Python.
Being bitten would surely be as poisonous as being in the scorched sand, but no one could see that Yang Yu still had room to avoid it.
At the critical moment, countless thorns grew out from under Yang Yu's feet. Several thorns intertwined with each other, trapping the desert golden python in the middle. Yang Yu suddenly stretched out his hand, pressed down the snake's head, and pulled out the sword from the sand at the same time.
Yang Yu used his index finger and thumb to press down the upper and lower jaws of the venomous snake at the same time, trying to make the snake shut up and lock the spider into its mouth.
But in this moment of respite, the black-legged spider actually used the snake's mouth as a springboard, and the silk threads on both sides of its fangs turned into two elastic rubber bands.
Before Yang Yu could completely close the venomous snake's mouth, the spider shot out from the snake's mouth and into the yellow sand.
Yang Yu tried to intercept with his sword, but the spider's speed was too fast and Yang Yu missed by one centimeter.
During the process of launching, the black-legged spider instantly took the silk thread used for attachment into its mouth, chewed it into a ball, swallowed it into its stomach, and landed safely on the sand.
It quickly moved its eight long black legs, scratched the sand, and dived into the other side of the barrier.
Throwing the cataract snake aside, Yang Yu wanted to chase after it, but it was too late.
The spider folded up its eight legs and shrank into a Hot Wheels shape, using the slope like a tire to roll all the way to the entrance of the underground maze.
Seeing that he couldn't catch up, Yang Yu stopped and watched the spider climb onto the platform and enter the underground maze.
After seeing the full appearance of the spider, Qingshi frowned and made an unbelievable sound.
"Impossible? It can't be it. How could it be it?"
Retracting his sword and picking up his shield, Yang Yu patted Qingshi on the shoulder and said, "It seems that you know this creature?"
"I know, but that kind of monster shouldn't have that kind of behavior. Such a small hatchling should always stay with its mother. How could it possibly enter the mouth of a desert golden python and control it? Did I see it wrong?"
(End of this chapter)