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When you pass through the riverbed covered with pebbles, you can still see a vast white snow, surrounded by a large number of shrubs about one meter high, but in front of half a meter thick snow, the shrubs one meter high look very pitiful.

After patrolling around the bushes, Ye Qingshan didn't notice anything strange. He shook his head and continued to explore.

Hibernating snakes all like shrubs, especially those that are close to streams but have dry surfaces.

The main reason is that these places are the places where mice and rabbits like to dig holes. Snakes, like brown bears, do not build nests themselves, so they will seize the fruits of other animals every time they hibernate.

However, compared to the brown bears that directly drive away the original owner of the house and take the house for themselves, snakes are often more vicious and excessive. They will not only drive away the original owner of the house, but will even kill the original owner of the house.

Ye Qingshan originally wanted to see if there were any tree holes or ground holes around the bushes.

Maybe he could find a few snakes to satisfy his hunger, but looking at the denseness of the bushes and the snow that was half a meter thick, Ye Qingshan gave up.

This environment is not suitable for rabbits to survive, nor is it suitable for rats to dig holes. Besides, there are so many snakes around, whose stupid rabbit will build a house here

So Ye Qingshan planned to explore deeper, but after walking for a while, it was less than a hundred meters away. Ye Qingshan suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at the footprints behind him, and a trace of surprise flashed between his eyebrows.

The thick bear paw waved twice on the ground, revealing the fertile black soil. Ye Qingshan's palm pressed hard on the ground. Although it was a bit laborious, Ye Qingshan's clear handprints were still left on the ground. The soil could be pinched, and the soil under his feet was soft!

Subconsciously recalling a possibility, Ye Qingshan's eyes flashed with shock!

This is very unusual. You should know that it is not far away, in the primeval forest where there are still half a meter thick snow in the primeval forest where there are unknown how many ancient pines have grown. However, the earth there has been frozen long ago and has become harder than stones. However, the soil is soft here, which is only less than a thousand meters away!

There are many possibilities for why the soil in winter is soft, but the most likely one is that there is geothermal heat here. Even considering that it is close to rivers, it is very likely that there are hot springs here!

Geothermal snake group is suspected to be hot springs

These words were associated with each other, and a flash of lightning flashed through Ye Qingshan's mind. He finally knew why a large number of snakes gathered here, and even formed such a terrifying snake nest.

Because there are hot springs here, because the soil here is warm, because it is the only place that will not be threatened by the northern winter.

Although snakes living in the North need to hibernate like bears, snakes are different from bears. Bears have thick fur to withstand the cold winter, but what kind of scales do you have on the snake can have the insulation effect?

This is not the south, this is the north, twelve months a year, nearly half of the time is ruled by the cold winter. The temperature here is normally below minus 20 degrees Celsius. The ground below two or three meters can freeze you. There are only a snake with thin scales. Why do you live here and there are so many more than 100,000 snakes appear together.

So a hot spring, and a considerable hot spring cave, became a shelter for these snakes.

As for why it is a cave rather than an open-air hot spring

That's because the thermal insulation effect of open air hot springs is very low, but the caves are different.

Moreover, if it is an open-air hot spring, tens of thousands of snakes gather together and have too big targets, it is impossible to escape the eyes of snake natural enemies. In fact, it is not just a natural enemy of snakes. For creatures like eagles, if there are more than 100,000 snakes entrenched around an open-air hot spring, it will take a few years to take all of these snakes to be eaten by wolves or brown bears.

So there must be a cave here, and it is a quite large hot spring cave.

As expected, as Ye Qingshan continued to deepen, the temperature on the ground began to gradually rise. After walking about two or three miles, there was only a thin layer of snow on the surrounding ground, and it was a bit muddy when you stepped on it.

From the beginning, half a meter thick snow has now turned into less than ten centimeters of snow. It seems that the ten centimeter thick snow seems to be about to melt, and Ye Qingshan's vision was finally frozen.

This is the bottom of a majestic mountain. On the cliff wall that is nearly ninety degrees vertical, seven or eight strong pine trees are rooted on hard stones.

At the bottom of the cliff is a flowing stream. Surrounded by a piece of green bamboo next to the stream, a raised grotto appears in Ye Qingshan's sight.

The cave is very wide, with seventy or eighty square meters at the entrance. On the smooth stone wall, a dark green withered vine growing with no name on the Ye Qingshan Mountain. Below the withered vine is a hot spring that looks not very hot. The gurgling spring water beats the ice chips, stirring up layers of translucent light green ice around the spring water, and strands of white mist appearing, giving a sensation of immortal spirit here.

Around the hot spring, there are more than a dozen stones arranged scatteredly. The largest one is even larger than Ye Qingshan. The smallest one is only the size of a human head. Each stone is surrounded by several colorful snakes, seven or eight meters large, with feet as thick as a big arm, and one or two meters small. One finger wide and two feet thick are these snakes.

It is certain that these snakes are extremely venomous. From the colorful scales on the other party's body, you can see how terrible the toxicity in these snakes is!

Will a bite die? Ye Qingshan, a toxin that is more than three times more than normal humans, can resist the poisonous snake with a body constitution that is more than three times that of a normal human. He doesn’t know and doesn’t want to try it!

But none of these are the most important. What is important is that under these poisonous snakes entrenched on the stone, there are a large number of snakes entrenched on the ground of the cave with seventy or eighty square meters at the entrance of this floor.

Looking around, you press me and I press you. There were at least a thousand snakes in the entrance of the cave of seventy or eighty square meters. This was just the entrance of the cave. Looking inward through the entrance of the cave, there were snakes entrenched everywhere wherever they looked. These snakes were lying there motionlessly, with their stiff bodies as if they were dead bodies.

Although looking up close will not give people a creepy feeling, after watching it for a long time, you will feel involuntarily frustrated.
Chapter completed!