The mutual interdependence of the creatures in this poisonous swamp seems to be an alternative existence.
Blood-eyed corpse boys are not afraid of snake venom and can tear alive snakes, but snake blood is equivalent to an anesthetic that can make the whole body weak. The consciousness of the corpse boy stained with the snake's blood was still there, but he couldn't muster the strength to resist at all, so he could only let the python slaughter him wantonly.
However, if those pythons want the domineering blood-eyed corpse boy to become a delicacy in their mouth, they have to pay a heavy price. At least they have to sacrifice most of the group to eliminate the blood corpse.
I put my hands behind my back and looked at the battlefield. The giant python swimming around had swallowed the last bloody-eyed corpse boy. Dozens of pythons like hammers were stretched to the point where they could no longer move. They lay lazily near the altar and began to slowly digest food.
"Watch the outside, no matter what happens down there, don't come down, remember!" I told the last two detectives, turned around and walked back.
The corpse king, which had already calmed down, heard me walking down the secret room, and then looked at me through the iron door. In addition to the ferocity that had not yet dissipated, there was also a hint of loneliness in its eyes.
I walked to the iron door and said, "Can you lure the hook snake out of the cell? It's best to let it rush out at once."
The Corpse King thought for a moment before pointing to the wall at the door of Hook Snake's cell. Li Binning walked up behind me and whispered: "There is a secret compartment there."
The position pointed by the Corpse King happened to be under the atmosphere covered by the hook snake's poisonous hooks. For those who don't know how to appease a hook snake, as long as they get close to the hidden grid, they are exposing their back to the vicious beast's poisonous hook. No one will try it easily.
I hesitated for a moment, then unscrewed the bullet again and poured out the bullet. I lit a cigarette and held it in my mouth. I slowly approached the hidden compartment of the mechanism, quickly pulled open the handle in the hidden compartment, and retreated away.
Before I could stand still, I saw a secret door like a dog hole slowly opening on the door of Hook Snake's cell. The door was just big enough for Hook Snake to barely get in and out. At the same time as the secret door appeared, a palm-sized mechanism secret grid also opened on the ground in front of the cell door.
The strange thing is that except for the round tube made of metal, there is nothing else under the hidden compartment.
The Corpse King was stunned as he stared at the dark grid, and soon stretched out a hand from the window of the cell door and slapped the iron door desperately, hoping that I would kill the snake quickly.
But I ignored the corpse king's urging, and instead strolled up to the dark grid, took off the Mi Tian from my body, inserted the knife handle downwards into the dark grid, and pointed the blade at Hook Snake's cell door. The one-meter-long Miitian immediately sank into the secret door. Only about a foot of length was exposed, but it was enough.
Although Northeastern people generally do not like to eat snakes, it does not mean that hunters are helpless against snakes. Burying "ripper knives" is one of the ways.
Among all the burrowing animals in the northeastern mountains, only snakes only recognize one path, and they take the same path in and out of the snake cave. As long as the hunter finds the snake path, buries the thin-edged dagger upside down in the soil with only the tip exposed, then he can wait to pick up the snake.
Not only will snakes not be able to change their way back to their nests, but they will also not be able to go backwards. After their jaws are opened by the tip of a knife, they will only crawl forward desperately, and the result will be that they are disemboweled from head to tail by the knife.
If the hunter never takes out his knife, he can kill a whole nest of snakes in a few days. It's just that Orion is afraid of damaging his moral character, so he will stop as soon as he gets a few snake gallbladders, and rarely does such desperate things.
I dropped Miao Tian and stepped aside, turning to look at the Corpse King, but the latter stopped motionless.
The Corpse King is smarter than I thought. When it emerged from the secret compartment of the mechanism, it discovered the key to the problem - I wanted it to be useless. As long as I can get the hook snake out of the cell, the sky that I put on the ground is enough to kill the hook snake. Do I still need to join forces with it
It seems that the Corpse King only knows that there is a mechanism on the wall to open the door, but does not know that this mechanism can also kill the hook snake. Otherwise, it will never show me how to open the door, but will try to make me open it first. Let it out.
When I turned my head to look at the Corpse King, the latter let out a roar unexpectedly, and a blood arrow shot out from its mouth, landing on the back of Mie Tian's sword with perfect accuracy. As blood beads rolled down the blade, the tail hooks of two hooked snakes shot out from the door panel in two directions. One slashed vertically towards the top of the long knife, while the other grazed the ground. Mi Tian swept away with his sword.
Then I remembered that according to the records in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", the hook snake's tail is divided into two forks, which means that it should have two tail hooks. The Hook Snake and the Corpse King are natural enemies. How could they not draw out both hooks when they suddenly smelled its scent
"Oops! Don't breathe!" I reacted immediately. The hook snake uses not only its fangs to attack its opponent, but also the poisonous hook on its back. The Corpse King deliberately vomited blood on the knife, not to attract the Hook Snake, but to anger it.
Li Binning was even one step faster than me. She quickly took out two gas masks from her backpack and threw one of them into my hand. I don't know if this thing will work in front of the hook snake, but it is much better than nothing.
The moment I grabbed the gas mask and put it on my face, the hook snake slashed wildly in the air and stopped in mid-air. The poisonous hook it swept out from the ground drew a fan shape on the ground and then rolled towards the long knife. passed.
The snake's tail that had been drawn into the blade suddenly wrapped around the blade half a circle under the action of inertia, and then violently threw it towards the blade - this was the real purpose of the Corpse King, which was to cut off the hook snake's tail.
I didn't wait for the hook snake's tail to completely hit the blade before I jumped up and pounced on the handle of the mechanism in the cell where the Corpse King was.
There is only one mechanism in the direction of the hook snake, and its function is only to let the hook snake in and out. As for whether to kill or not, it all depends on the wish of the person who opens the gate. If you kill, the knife will be buried, and if you don't kill, it will be allowed to come in and out freely.
There are three agencies around the Corpse King. It can be seen that the people who imprisoned the Corpse King at the beginning had already expected that the other party would be difficult to deal with. One of these three agencies must be able to completely restrain the Corpse King. However, I only have one chance to choose one of the three.
Although my steps were fast, they were not faster than the tail of the hooked snake that was sweeping towards me wildly. I only took two steps, and the snake's tail, which was stirred by the wind, had already collided with Mie Tian's blade, and the sound of the blade breaking bones suddenly started. The poisonous hook cut off by Mie Tian dragged a string of bright red blood beads, spinning like the wind and shooting into the air.
What I didn't expect was that Mie Tian, who was stuck upside down in the ground, was knocked out of the ground by Hook Snake's violent blow. The blood-stained long knife and the flying bricks flew into the air chasing the poisonous tail of the hook snake.
The hooked snake in the prison screamed in agony, and its head slammed into the iron door. The thick iron gate instantly changed its shape amid the deafening sound, as if a blown balloon was inflating from the inside out.
As I kept moving my feet crazily in the direction of the Corpse King, the hooked snake retracted its two snake tails at the same time, lowered its head, and burrowed into the hole under the iron door. After just a blink of an eye, the hooked snake's forehead, which was spewing white air, emerged halfway out of the door, and the several-foot-long snake bullet whistled around its mouth.
Hook Snake has now reached the peak of its rage. Once it escapes from trouble, it will definitely go on a killing spree - this is the purpose of the Corpse King. If I don't let it out now, I can only face Hook Snake alone, which is driven mad by anger.
I turned my head and looked at the corpse king. It also had a sneer on its face, looking sideways at my hand that was grabbing the mechanism.
I only hesitated for a second before moving my hand to the handle used to open the brake, gritting my teeth and pulling down the handbrake.
The door to the Corpse King's cell also opened a small door below.
This was used by the people who originally designed the cell as a precaution. The main door could not be opened, leaving only a small door. If the corpse king wanted to get in and out, he could only crawl out like a hooked snake. As long as it showed its head inside, it would stand there. The people outside will have enough time to behead it with a knife.
Is the current Corpse King still afraid that I will kill him
If I kill it, I will die in the snake's belly.
Feeling confident, the Corpse King lay on his back on the ground, grabbed the edge of the iron door with both hands, and moved his head out of the door little by little.
I had to admire the corpse king's caution. It was almost foolproof and still prepared for me to kill suddenly. When it goes out on its back like this, although the speed will be slower, it can still see my next move and can advance or retreat.
I waited until the corpse king's head was completely exposed outside the door, and suddenly pulled the wrench in charge of the execution.
"Ah—" The Corpse King made human movement for the first time in horror.
The sound of the machine turning in the cell suddenly started, and the Corpse King also had no choice. Unless it wanted to die in the cell, it could only use both hands to hold the cell door and break free from inside as quickly as possible.
By this time, the Corpse King no longer cared about my other plots. He pressed his hands on the door and tried to save himself. But in an instant, I jumped up and turned my hands into claws to hunt for the goshawk. At the same time, I grabbed the corpse king's eye sockets, pulled out its two eyeballs alive, and stuffed them into my pocket.
With my hands full of blood, I quickly retreated and shouted sharply: "Li Binning, pick up the knife and the snake's tail, take them with you, hurry up. People above, light explosives."
In fact, when I rushed to the cell door, Li Binning had already snatched my Mi Tian back, but she didn't touch the hook snake's poisonous tail. After hearing my order, she quickly picked up the snake's tail. He pulled away and ran towards the altar stairs.
All the actions of the two of us happened in the blink of an eye. It wasn't until Li Binning got close to the stairs that the hook snake emerged half of the body from the door. The corpse king, whose eyes were gouged out, was still covering his eyes and screaming in agony.
What I didn't expect was that after we started to escape, the first thing that came to our attention would be a hook snake. The snake letter it poked out trembled towards Li Binning's back, and another barbed tail flew out from above the door, turning and pointing at Li Binning - did it smell the scent of its own tail hook