Seeing them all standing up instinctively, each of them tensed up as if facing a great enemy, the old man couldn't help but shout, "Sit down! Why are you so nervous? That sound is still far away from here."
After hearing what he said, everyone sat down awkwardly. However, no one was completely relieved. Instead, they were paying attention to whether the wolf howling was approaching this side.
As the night deepened, the mental and physical exhaustion made them gradually fall asleep. In the second half of the night, when they were fast asleep, one of the night guards suddenly screamed and fell down.
"ah!"
The scream startled everyone and they suddenly woke up. They quickly jumped up and shouted, "What happened?"
“Sizzle!”
However, what answered them was not the voices of their own people, but the hissing sounds of poisonous snakes sticking out their tongues in the darkness. The sounds were chaotic and came from far away, and it seemed that there were more than one or two snakes.
"Oh no! It's a group of snakes! Ah..."
Someone cried out in surprise, and then a venomous snake rushed over and bit him on the neck. The man screamed in pain, and he grabbed the snake's head and body with both hands and tried to shake it off, but the snake was biting hard and couldn't let go. So he exerted force with both hands and strangled the snake at the vital point.
Only the sound of flesh being torn apart could be heard, and in the dark night, the fishy smell of snake blood spread in the air. The next moment, the wound on the neck of the bitten man quickly turned black and purple, and his lips and face quickly turned purple-red. He screamed and howled in pain, and black poisonous blood flowed from his seven orifices.
"ah… "
"Sizzle... hiss..."
"Be careful! Everyone, be careful! This snake is extremely poisonous!"
"ah… "
Screams echoed in the night, and everyone in the Ouyang family was in chaos. In the dark night, poisonous snakes as fast as lightning flew out and bit them. Once bitten, everyone died instantly.
"call!"
Suddenly, there was a whoosh of flames. A fire was burning around. Someone was shouting, "Be alert! Be alert! Everyone, come over here!"
A dozen older men quickly stabilized the situation. After a period of chaos, only forty or fifty people were left standing in the circle of fire. As the flames burned, a medicinal smell quickly spread in the air. The poisonous snakes that were originally coiled on the branches, entangled on the corpses, and hidden in the weeds quickly retreated after smelling the smell in the air.
Although it retreated, it still did not leave, and was still hovering not far away, staring at them, with its mouth slightly open, its poisonous tongue sticking out, making a terrifying hissing sound.
Everyone looked around in panic, cold sweat oozing from their foreheads, fearing that the snake would suddenly jump through the flames and pounce on them again.
The old man calmed himself down, glanced at the head of the Ouyang family, then looked at a middle-aged man with a serious face beside him and asked, "Didn't we sprinkle snake repellent all around? Why are there still snakes attacking us?"
The middle-aged man's face was not looking good at this time. He looked around and said, "These snakes are not ordinary snakes. Ordinary snakes, even if they are extremely poisonous, will definitely have a period of relaxation. They will never have venom rushing to the head and killing people instantly like this."