Just as Ye Xun and I drew our knives on guard at the same time, Douduzi suddenly threw a handful of medicinal powder into the fire.
The moment the translucent powder puff fell into the fire, red flames rose into the sky. The fire on the corpse suddenly ignited within a few feet. The snake shadow wrapped in the fire suddenly disintegrated, and the fire that was still blazing in the air also dissipated in a moment.
The clothes covering the body had been burned away by the fire, but the body on the ground did not suffer much damage.
Douduzi rushed to the corpse in a few steps and shined a flashlight on the corpse. The first thing I saw was a string of snake bones entangled in the abdomen of the corpse.
After Ye Xun used a knife to lift the snake bones into the air, I saw the iron wire threaded through the gaps in the snake bones - what was originally hidden in the corpse was not a living snake, but a poisonous snake skeleton fixed with iron wires. But what happened to that snake shadow just now
Ye Xun moved the flashlight, illuminated the runes carved on the snake's skull and said, "This is a curse. Someone is casting a curse."
"Venomous snake curse!" Douduzi's face changed drastically, "Something happened in Yaowang Valley, come with me."
Ye Xun and I followed Dou Donkey and jumped up from a protruding rock and rushed towards the city wall under the rock. Falling down from here happens to be a city tower in Yaowang Valley. You can enter the valley after descending the city wall.
According to common sense, there should be dedicated personnel guarding this place to be safe. The three of us fell from the mountain and made a sound, but there was no response from the surroundings. It can be seen that the outside of Yaowang Valley has been completely lost.
Douduzi immediately panicked: "Let's go quickly, let's go quickly..."
"There's something going on!" I made a gesture of silence, and listened behind the city wall. Sure enough, a weak cry for help came from there.
The wall between the three of us standing and the rock wall of Yaowang Valley are not perfectly connected, but there is a gap nearly one meter wide, and the cry for help came from there. I looked down with a flashlight and saw that there were more than ten corpses of Yaowang Valley disciples piled up in random directions.
After looking carefully for a long time, I discovered that there was a human hand swinging slowly in the gap between the two corpses. Is that the person calling for help
"I'm going to save people." Doudu pulled out the rope and was about to wrap it around his waist, but I stretched out my hand to block him back: "That person can't be saved. The only serious thing is to get into the valley quickly."
"No!" Douduzi's eyes suddenly turned red, "We must save even if there is a glimmer of hope. Every disciple of Yaowang Valley can be saved."
Ye Xun and I looked at each other and said, "Ye Xun, help me pull the rope; Doudu, hold on for me. I'll go down."
Doudu hesitated for a moment before finally stepping aside. I tied the flashlight to my head, wrapped a rope around my waist, and walked down the wall from head to toe. I raised my hand about one meter away from the body. Ye Xun signaled to hang me upside down in the air.
I put on a pair of special gloves, then carefully grabbed the arm of the corpse above, and slowly moved the corpse to the side.
I only lifted the body halfway, and saw half of a strange human face exposed under the body. The other person seemed to be reclining among the bodies, with half of his sneer face slightly exposed.
As soon as my eyes came into contact with the other person, the head that fell on the corpse rolled to the ground on its own, still staring at my face with its eyelids rolled up.
An ordinary person would definitely be frightened by the other person's gaze that seemed to be coming back from death, but I just looked at the open pupil, and then turned to look at the trembling human hand stretched out on the corpse.
I came down from the city to save people, not to see any corpses. The owner of that hand was my target.
The moment I grabbed the other person's palm, my index finger unconsciously clasped the pulse gate on that person's wrist. As soon as I touched the other person lightly, my expression suddenly changed - what shocked me was not that the other person had no pulse, but that his pulse was too strong, even several times stronger than that of an ordinary person.
I was shocked and instinctively looked behind my arm, but what I saw was a snake body twisting among the corpses.
"Pull me..." I just yelled two words, and the corpse in front of me was flipped to the side by a huge force. A black snake as thick as an arm jumped up from under the corpse, with two ferocious fangs thundering. It came towards the tip of my nose without covering my ears.
Unable to avoid it, I raised my hand and whipped the snake's head hard. The snake's head, which was the size of a duck egg, was deflected by half a foot with my slap. Ye Xun on the top of the city also lifted me from the ground at this moment. Pulled up.
Ye Xun pulled me up very quickly, but the black snake I missed was a little faster. The snake's body, which was more than two meters long, stood upright on the ground, like a bamboo pole standing on the ground, chasing me upwards. Its barb-like fangs showed its ferocity several times in front of my eyes, but because it was just Just a few inches away, he withdrew the snake's kiss.
If Ye Xun hadn't dragged me up so fast, that poisonous snake would have had at least three more chances to kill me with one blow.
Just when I thought I was about to escape the tracking range of the other party, the black snake suddenly opened its mouth and sprayed out two streams of venom as bright as autumn water from its fangs.
I was hanging upside down in the air, and the opponent sprayed poison as fast as lightning. By the time I wanted to swing away, it was already too late. At the critical moment, I put my hands together to cover my face.
As soon as I protected my exposed skin, I heard a rustling sound from my clothes, and fishy white smoke instantly rose from my arms.
I felt dizzy after just inhaling a puff of smoke, and almost vomited on the spot. The hands protecting my face unconsciously dropped down, and my face was completely exposed to the snake's mouth. As long as the poisonous snake spews venom again, I will definitely be able to avoid it.
Sure enough, the black snake under the city opened its bloody mouth again at this moment. Its two fangs were like two cocked crossbow arrows, pointing directly at my face with murderous intent.
"Come up!"
When the black snake under the city opened its mouth again, Ye Xun suddenly shouted loudly, lifted me up more than one meter in the air, and dragged me to the top of the city in a few moves. At the same time, the venom from the black snake's mouth burst out again. Fortunately, Ye Xunji pulled me to the city and I escaped the disaster.
Doudu pinched my neck and poured me two sips of medicinal wine, and I finally breathed a sigh of relief. When I turned around to look, Ye Xun had already stepped on the city head and shot three arrows at the black snake standing on the ground. One of the arrows penetrated the snake's head and nailed the black snake to the rock wall.
The black snake, which had not yet expired, twisted its body desperately and wrapped itself between the crossbow arrows. The tail of the snake actually picked up a human hand.
Half of the snake's tail was tied to the severed wrist, but the pale fingers of the human hand were still expanding and contracting as the snake's body twisted. At first glance, it seemed like it was constantly calling for help.
I said urgently: "Ye Xun, nail the snake's tail to the wall."
Ye Xun picked up his gun and fired another arrow. The arrow flew away through the wind, penetrated the snake's tail from below and sank a few inches into the stone wall. This time, the snake's tail, which had lost its strength, finally hung down. The human hand hanging on the snake slowly fell off to the ground, revealing a weird snake tail that was divided into three forks like a willow branch and half hung in the air.
"The snake can fish?" I couldn't help but gasped - I asked Ye Xun to shoot through the snake's tail just to see if it unconsciously extended its tail into a dead man's hand, or if it was the black snake's talent. of superpowers.
Now it seems that the black snake is using the body parts to attract prey. If I had reacted a little slower just now, or if I didn't have the protective suit specially made by Dr. Bai, I would have died long ago.
When I subconsciously looked at my arms, I couldn't help but take a breath of cold air - the two sleeves of camouflage fabric on my hands were all corroded by snake venom and turned into sieves. If the beans hadn't been poured into my hands in time just now, Knowing the poisonous wine, maybe the snake venom will continue to corrode the inner protective clothing I wear. Once the snake venom gets on my skin, the consequences can be imagined.
This time, for the sake of completeness, Dr. Bai specially gave us each a set of protective clothing. Although this piece of clothing is not as invulnerable as a bulletproof vest, it can prevent mosquito bites and is also waterproof to a certain extent. So the snake venom only burned my coat and didn't touch my skin.
I turned to look at Doudu and said: "Old Donkey, I know you are anxious, but you have also seen now that the people who broke into Yaowang Valley have planted their killing moves on the road. If we rush in regardless , maybe we will end up on the road somewhere. We have to be careful."
I'm not being alarmist, that strange black snake must have been an ambush left by someone. He deliberately threw all the corpses under the city and stuffed black snakes among the dead just to lure people into taking the bait.
More importantly, there were neat cuts on the edge of the human hand. It was clear that someone cut off the human hand to help set a trap for the black snake - that snake must be a poison that was raised by someone.
Douduzi said in a deep voice: "I'm sorry, I'll listen to you next time. Come with me!"
Douduzi simply jumped off the city wall with Ye Xun and me. Going straight from the middle of the valley stairs to the depths of Yaowang Valley, half of the Tai Chi diagram faintly appeared on the mountain path.
Douduzi said: "Have you seen that Tai Chi picture? That is Baicao Spring and the real entrance to Yaowang Valley."
After Douduzi explained it to me, I realized that Baicao Spring is where Yaowang Valley entertains guests.
The mountains and plains of Yaowang Valley are full of medicinal herbs. The spring water flowing out of the mountains already has certain medicinal properties through the herbal rhizomes. When Yaowang Valley welcomes distinguished guests, they usually move people to the Baicao Spring and offer a cup of herbs cooked in the spring water. Tea, and then invite people into the valley.
In other words, after passing Baicao Spring, you will reach the inner gate of Yaowang Valley. It’s not surprising that Douduzi said this is the real entrance to Yaowang Valley.
We are getting closer and closer to Baicao Spring, and thick blood gradually floats in the air. Looking forward from the mountain path we were on, black mist gradually surged up on both sides of the bluestone steps.
"Poisonous miasma!" The first thing I thought of was poisonous miasma.
Ye Xun stopped suddenly: "That doesn't seem to be a poisonous miasma. It looks a bit like Yin Qi to me. You two, be careful."
Yin energy
Douduzi and I frowned.