Chapter 183 The Terrifying God

Wearing a mask, he continued to search through the boxes. At the bottom there was a pack of peach slice cakes and a set of Da Song EDC equipment designed by Su You himself.

A multi-purpose folding knife imitating a Swiss Army Knife, a tool card, a brass fire holder, a folding leather funnel, and a high-pitched whistle.

Tools, fire, and drinking water. Solving these three problems will greatly increase your chance of survival.

Turn the book box over and you will see that the four corners of the book box are made of purple lacquered bamboo tube frames. Use a folding knife to scrape off the surface paint layer and you will see that there are seams on the bamboo tubes.

Pry open the seam and take out four steel pipes from inside.

The steel pipe is not long, only half a foot, and looks like a big firecracker.

In fact, it is just a big firecracker, but the shell is made of red-hot iron wrapped around a round iron rod.

There is also a copper pipe made using the same method. Between the steel pipe and the copper pipe are scrap steel balls, and inside the copper pipe is black powder.

Anyone who has attended middle school knows the formula of black powder, which is one of the four great inventions of traditional China.

However, the urinary properties of the black gunpowder of the Song Dynasty made Su Youdan feel pain, so he sacrificed the third magic weapon to make it more refined, finer and purer.

The sulfur is sprayed with water to remove soluble impurities, and then a very fine pure powder is obtained.

Fire saltpeter takes ready-made fire saltpeter from the Song Dynasty, melts it into a solution, then filters it, removes impurities, and crystallizes it step by step to obtain potassium nitrate crystals of maximum purity.

The carbon powder is taken from the soot, rinsed, and then dehydrated with concentrated sulfuric acid to carbonize the large amount of remaining wood powder, and then rinsed and dried in the sun.

The three powders are sieved to obtain a uniform fine powder, and then mixed with egg white according to the test proportion, put into a pump for making the finest pen refills, extruded into thin strips, and when semi-dry, cut into small particles.

It was placed in a cool place in a clean environment, and after the egg whites dried, the most powerful black powder in the Song Dynasty was born.

Originally, black powder was qualified as a propellant, but not nearly as good as an explosive. However, what Su You created was already a modern concept of black powder, and its power was far beyond the Song Dynasty's gunpowder, which was full of impurities and had an unknown formula.

The two ends of the pipe are sealed with bolts, and there is a small hole at one end for a fire twist.

During the development of the back mountain of Kerongli, Su You tied up Zhang Zao and the others and did it several times. The paper shells they used were very effective at exploding rocks, but Hachiko severely scolded them and prohibited their use.

The reason is very simple. When the firecrackers are set off so loudly, the chickens and ducks will be scared to death.

After many improvements, Suyou came up with several such things during this trip.

This is a different concept from the hemp rope ballista. Su You only asked Li Shuanshui to make the shell, and he did the rest himself.

No one knew that a very powerful bomb had been quietly born in the Song Dynasty.

However, Su You did not dare to expose it, let alone go deep into foreign countries, even in the Song Dynasty, he did not dare to expose it at will.

A true military weapon, with such a weak strength, coupled with the virtues of the scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty, if the Liao Kingdom and Xixia knew about it, then I would really cry blind.

Therefore, this trip has been hidden in this special book box as a last resort for self-defense.

There is a screw cover on the outside of the steel pipe to seal it. Only after unscrewing can the fire twist inside be exposed, which can prevent moisture at ordinary times.

Unscrewing the lid of one of them and lighting the fire, Su You began to explore the cave with the faint light coming from the entrance.

The place we were just now was a small open area with a tunnel leading deep into the mountain.

Holding the steel pipe in one hand and the fire stick in the other, Su You walked cautiously toward the cave.

The tunnel is very clean, not high, and can be entered by two people side by side. So many years of human and animal sacrifices have not left any traces at the entrance of the tunnel.

Walking inward along the cave, after walking about seven or eight meters, the passage suddenly opened up, and there was a space of several hundred square meters here.

It turns out that the entire cave looks like a slender gourd with a small front and a large back.

Only part of the large cave was covered by the dim light, while the remaining half of the cave was shrouded in darkness, as if leading to a deep hell.

Except for the bamboo couches and wooden couches used to carry people during sacrifices, there are piles of dead bones everywhere in this hall.

Su You was startled by the sudden scene, but he was instantly overshadowed by boundless anger.

Those dead bones are very small, and the skulls are also special. They are not those of adults. There are at least a dozen bones here, all of which are children.

Su You took a few deep breaths, calmed down his mind, squatted down at the dead bones closest to the passage, and examined them carefully.

A boy, wearing a strange mask, squatted next to the withered bones of another child, staring at the bones carefully. If anyone else was present, this scene would probably be creepy.

There are many strange things about this skeleton.

His body was still wrapped in some of his clothes, which showed signs of corrosion.

The same goes for the skull and finger bones.

I picked up strips of a bamboo mat and picked apart the torn pieces of clothing, arm bones, and leg bones. There were no breaks or signs of bites.

However, several ribs were broken, as if he had been hit hard during his lifetime.

Su You inspected two dead bones nearby, both of which were in similar condition.

He stood up and checked the entire visible area of ​​the cave. There was no trace of blood.

This situation is really weird.

While there was still some light, Su You took the time to collect the broken bamboo mats, wooden frames, bamboo poles, and broken futons in the cave and transported them to the small cave outside.

Most of the things are in decay, but many are still usable.

He put the damp bamboo wood against the dry place at the entrance of the cave to dry, picked up a few stones to surround a small fire pond, and went to the entrance of the copper door to find some dry sand, spread it on it, and set up a small firewood pile.

After getting ready, Su You found a bamboo pole, smashed one end with a stone, then used a folding knife to divide the front of the bamboo pole into bamboo pieces along the cracked area, sandwiched some rags and bamboo straw, lit it and then re-entered the cave.

With the torch lighting, the large cave can be seen clearly.

There are many stalactites at the bottom of the cave, which is much humid than the front hall.

There was a pool of spring water at the bottom of the cave. Su You stretched out his hand to explore and found that the temperature was estimated to be five or six degrees higher than the surface of the body.

The hot spring water is very clear, so clear that you can see a few scattered children's bones on the stone bottom of the pool.

There is an exit under the water at the bottom of the cave, which leads into the mountain.

Standing up, the firelight shines on the other side.

Between several stalactites, a huge black object lay across it, which made Su You's heart skip a beat.

He finally understood what kind of terrifying creatures the so-called gods in the cave were.

This is a slough, a slough of a huge and terrifying snake!

Everything makes sense. Big snakes such as anacondas and pythons usually wrap up their prey after catching it and tighten it with force to suffocate it to death.

Then feel the temperature and heartbeat of the prey through your body.

After it is determined that the prey is dead, regardless of its size, it is swallowed whole without chewing.

This way of swallowing by pythons is mainly due to the special structure of their jaws. Their jaws are composed of two independent parts and can swallow prey much larger than their bodies.

You can completely imagine the tragic scene in the cave at that time. The giant snake came out of the hole at the bottom of the cave, swam out of the hot spring, used the snake's unique heat-sensitive organs to detect the unconscious children, then bit them, wrapped them with its body, and suffocated them.

Death, this is why Su You saw many bones and ribs being crushed and broken.

When the child stopped breathing, the big snake began to slowly swallow the child into its belly, starting from the head or feet.

After a long period of digestion, the big snake will spit out the remaining bones from its stomach. This is why Su You saw that the bones and clothes have been corroded. This is the result of the big snake's stomach acid.

This snake is so big that there may be fish and amphibians in the underground river in the cave, so it has no shortage of food.

In addition, there are hot springs here, so it doesn't even need to hibernate. It keeps growing like crazy, so that the length of the incomplete snake slough that Su You saw was more than seven meters long. The widest part could easily wrap around an adult.

It is estimated that there is no other big exit in this cave, and the cave door is sealed, so it is trapped here.

The python is a nocturnal animal. There is no daylight in the cave. Who knows when it will swim out from the hole at the bottom of the cave.

This thing is good at climbing. The children who were used as sacrifices, let alone being unconscious, even if they were awake, could not escape the pursuit of the giant python that hunted with heat-sensitive organs in the dark cave with the copper door locked.

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Perhaps, the bowl of poison given to them by the great witch was really a kind gesture.

The big snake is not in the big cave now, but according to the great witch, no human being can escape for three days, which means that what is coming will always come.
Chapter completed!