Chapter 183: Encountered Winged Serpent
Wu Xiaowen's words are really confusing. But since he said that, we can only be careful.
I asked everyone to take a break first to restore their physical strength, and then come to a high slope with Fu Ying and Hengqi and look at the situation ahead. I saw that the primeval forest in front of me was like a green ocean, with no end at a glance. Only in the place where my sight was almost out of reach, I could vaguely see the snow-capped peaks. The primeval forest in front of me was estimated to be more than 100,000 acres, which was beyond the edge of the view, and it was 100,000 acres wide, and it would take at least two or three hours to pass through the forest to reach the bottom of the snow-capped mountain.
This is just a conservative estimate. Because we do not know the terrain in the forest now. If the roads in the forest gradually rise with the terrain, our speed will be slower. Because the rise of the terrain means climbing a hill. The speed of climbing is naturally much slower than walking a flat road. Moreover, there is no road in the forest, we have to cut off the vines and trees that block the road to open up a road.
This is just a natural difficulty, not irresistible. What is most worrying is what is the "moaning in the dark"? Or who moans in the dark?
"It's two o'clock in the afternoon now. I guess we can reach the foot of the snow-capped mountain at four o'clock and camp there." Hengqi looked at the snow-capped mountain in the distance and said with great enthusiasm.
I shook my head and said, "Your guess is a bit too optimistic. I guess we may not be able to get out of this primeval forest even when it is dark. Alas, we should just hire a local person as a guide."
"No way? We can't get out of this primeval forest for two hours? This forest looks big, but it's not that big, right? After all, it's just an island, not a continent!" Heng Qi shouted in surprise.
"Brother Yang's concerns are reasonable, but given the confidentiality of our mission, we cannot ask the locals to be guides. I think as long as we take a more cautious action and plan carefully, it should be no problem to complete this mission." Fu Ying cheered me up.
I nodded and agreed with Fu Ying's opinion: "Yingying is right. Since we have arrived here, there is no reason to retreat! Okay, let's head to the foot of the snow-capped mountain now!"
After a little preparation, we began to cross the primeval forest. Hengqi and I were holding a machete in front of us, and Fu Ying followed me and corrected the direction for me. Behind us were three panting girls: Yang Liu, Jiang Rulan and Liu Ting. Monkey Xie Ke was taking care of the three girls in the middle. As for Huang Paopu and Chen Traitor, they played the role of the palace behind.
The terrain in the forest is indeed not flat, and some places are simply no way out, so you can only cut out a road from the bonds of vines and miscellaneous trees. And as I guess, the roads in the forest gradually rise with the terrain. This naturally increases the difficulty of walking. This is not counting. The most troublesome thing is that, like all forests, the visibility in this forest is also very low. Walking under the towering ancient trees is like walking into dusk. Only a small part of the sunlight can be scattered onto the ground through the gaps between the leaves. It is not an exaggeration to describe the place where the sun cannot shine.
The forest is naturally full of all kinds of strange, even weird sounds. The sounds of ordinary animals and birds are already palpitations. What’s more terrifying is that one or two strange and terrifying sounds will appear from time to time in these natural sounds. I don’t know which birds and beasts are making it sounds. There is a kind of throbbing that shocks the soul. People with poor concentration will probably be scared to death!
"The forest should be full of normal animals, right?" Hengqi cut off a small tree blocking the way and said to me.
I nodded and said, "It should be normal, right?" In fact, I can't tell whether the animals in the forest are normal? What we call "normal" should correspond to "mutated". The so-called mutated is naturally the kind of animals that have become aggressive by invading certain evil spirits. We encountered many of those animals three years ago.
However, in such deep mountains and forests, even if it is not a mutant animal, a jackal or a leopard will be enough for us to drink a pot of food, and even if a poisonous snake appears on our way forward, it will become an insurmountable obstacle for us!
"A snake!" As soon as I thought of the snake, the girl's panic scream came from behind.
"Don't treat four-legged snakes, lizards, etc. as snakes. They are not snakes!" Heng Qi scolded him righteously without understanding the situation below.
"No, there is a snake!" Fu Ying suddenly interrupted Hengqi's reprimand with caution, and then quickly walked backwards.
"Where is the snake?" Fu Ying said calmly at the three girls behind.
"Where..." Liu Ting pointed to a big tree next to her with trembling fear.
Our eyes were attracted - we saw a big snake with a teacup-the mouth hanging on the branches of the big tree. The snake was covered with colorful mottled scales, and each scale was thick with human fingernails, which looked like it was wearing a layer of armor. The snake's head was hard to tell whether it was a triangle or a round one? To be precise, it was more like a Dou that was used to measure rice in rural areas in ancient China! Of course, its head was not as big as a Dou, but just like a Dou. You must know that ten "liters" can only be used to fill a Dou. One liter is equal to two pounds, and one pound is twenty pounds! The head of this snake is obviously not twenty pounds - the weight of its whole body is probably not more than twenty pounds!
"What kind of snake is this?" I asked in surprise. To be honest, I have never seen this snake before. I even suspected that it was not a breed on Earth!
"This is a colorful winged snake, not a normal snake on the earth. They live deep underground and it is impossible to see it normally. However, I have seen them in an ancient tomb. At that time, they were used as tomb-suppressing spirit beasts to deal with the tomb robbers." Fu Ying said with a serious expression.
"A strange snake? Is it a strange snake that is 'there is a strange snake in the wilderness of Yongzhou'?" Heng Qi asked in confusion.
"It's not a strange snake, it's a winged snake!" Fu Ying made a flying move.
"What? This snake can fly?" Everyone gasped.
"This snake did fly here because I didn't feel its existence just now! If it were here early in the morning, I would definitely be able to feel it!" Fu Ying stared at the snake and said.
I believe what Fu Ying said is true, because we had seen her skills in the expedition at Coffin Creek and knew that she was a family that caught snakes! Her feelings and judgments would never be wrong. But how could there be a flying snake in this world?
"Is it poisonous?" Xie Ke looked at the snake and said in a palpitation. The snake was just hanging there, a long bloody red letter rolling around outside the mouth, as if it was exploring its goal, so it has not taken the next step yet. However, even if it was just hanging there, it was enough to make people frightened.
"It is toxic, but it is not very toxic." Fu Ying replied.
"Then there is nothing scary." Hengqi, Xie Ke, Huang Paopuo, Chen Traitor and others all breathed a sigh of relief. Huang Paopuo even wanted to catch the snake.
"But it is a demon snake! Its body is like a chemical container jar, which can produce chemical reactions to the substances stored in its body and use them to attack humans or other organisms! Specifically, it will spray a poisonous fire. In addition to being burned to death, people or other animals will also be poisoned to death!" Fu Ying's tone was cold.
"How did this thing appear here? Is there an ancient tomb nearby?" Heng Qi frowned.
Huang Paopu, who was eager to catch a snake, was like a dazed chicken, frozen in the place where he stood.
"Tingting, how did you find it?" Jiang Rulan suddenly asked Liu Ting.
"I was walking, and suddenly I heard a 'pitch' sound next to me. I turned my head and saw it, so I screamed in fear." Liu Ting replied.
At this moment, everyone stood in their respective positions and did not dare to move, for fear of disturbing the snake.
We came here this time, and we didn't bring any weapons. Each of us only had a stick to kill snakes (that was actually used to kill grass and scare ordinary snakes away, not to deal with the snake in front of us). In addition, it was the machete in my hands and I. This was just bought temporarily in the market in Princijuan.
Should we use the machete in our hands to chop the snake at this moment? But I guess this is not realistic. Because it is really a problem whether we can cut it.
Time passed by minute by minute, but we still didn’t dare to act rashly, and we didn’t know how long this stalemate would last?
"On—Chi Chi Chi Chi" Someone suddenly gave a huge fart, followed by another rush. The fart sound immediately broke the calm here. The snake immediately moved. We only saw a colorful shadow piercing from the tree, like an arrow shooting towards the place where the fart sound came.
The farting one was naturally one of Huang Paopu and Chen Traitor. When the two men saw the colorful shadows coming, they suddenly burst into tears and howls: "The snake is coming, run quickly..."
"You two are about to go away!" Fu Ying's fierce shout also sounded at the same time, and her figure also flew over almost at the same time.
Chapter completed!