Daomu Biji

Snake Swamp Ghost Town (Part 2) Chapter 40: Python Disaster

It is said that the tree crown above our heads is actually very close to us, almost two or three meters away, and the scales of the snakes can be seen clearly. This is a tree python. The thickest part is as thick as a bucket. The canopy is dense. Most of the body is hidden inside and I don’t know how long it is. What surprised me was that the snake’s scales reflected a brownish gold color under the light of the miner’s lamp. The color is as if the snake has been gilded.

When we climbed up just now, there must have been no pythons around. This snake must have crawled along the tangled tree crowns while we were resting. The boa constrictors move very slowly except when hunting, and their movements are very stealthy. There is still a little wind outside, and the jungle is filled with the sound of leaves. Several people were confused and didn't feel it at all. Pan Zi, who was keeping watch at night, didn't notice its approach.

But it’s not surprising that pythons appear here. The tropical rainforest is the hometown of pythons, and after seeing too many weird things, a big snake seems not to be enough to tighten our nerves.

Pan Zi and the others have all seen the world, and they were all surprisingly calm. No one moved or screamed. This kind of snake has a very long attack range. We don’t know if it is interested in us now. If we move rashly and startle the snake, it will attack in an instant. We will always suffer a loss in the tree.

There was a stalemate on our side, and the tree python slowly coiled down. The huge snake head hung under the branch and looked at us. The yellow and vicious snake eyes made people extremely uncomfortable in the dark night.

Pan Zi had already raised his gun and was still pushing Fatty. This bastard was really capable of falling asleep and couldn't wake up no matter how hard he pushed. Menyou Ping's black gold knife was also placed across the back of his waist, and the dagger was held behind his back in his other hand. Everyone subconsciously shrank back and tried to keep as far away from the snake as possible.

At the end, I secretly wanted to attack, but they wouldn't attack me first, so I looked under the tree and wondered if I could jump down. After all, this is a tree, and it's quite high. It's hard to move around. I'm afraid if I try hard, Will suffer a loss.

After the heavy rain, the waterfalls on both sides of the cliffs converged into a large number of creeks at the bottom of the canyon. Now these creeks have merged, and the muddy ground under the trees has turned into a black pool. There should be tree roots and mud underneath. Don't know if you can run or not.

Thinking about it, I turned my head to look at the rainforest in front of me. At this time, there was another sound of shaking tree crowns and rustling. This time it seemed to be coming from behind me.

Looking back, I was sweating like a waterfall. Another smaller tree python hung from the back of my neck, also brownish-gold in color. This one was about the thickness of a thigh, only an arm's length away from my face, and a fishy smell assaulted my nostrils.

I was so frightened that I shrank forward again. The people in front of me shrank back, so I shrank forward, and several people were crowded together, with no way out.

I really don't dare to move now.

Everyone was frozen there. People stare at snakes, and snakes stare at people, even breathing tightly.

I feel strange in my heart. Pythons are solitary animals and have a strong sense of territory. They rarely hunt together unless it is mating period. Is the rainy season here the mating period for them? That was really the wrong time to come in. These two pythons, one behind the other, seemed to be deliberately trying to attack us. They were probably a male and female that had just mated. Thinking of the human corpses inside the snake bones, I felt sick and thought to myself, damn, I can’t I don’t want to be your happy snack.

The two phases were in a stalemate for a long time, and no one moved. The python probably rarely saw people and couldn't figure out the situation for a while, so it didn't dare to attack. Moreover, Menyou Ping and Pan Zi's momentum was very strong, and the two of them were dead like stone sculptures. Staring into the snake's eyes, the python seems to sense potential danger and hesitates to move forward.

Ten minutes later, as expected, the two pythons couldn't find our opening and slowly retracted into the canopy, seemingly wanting to give up.

Seeing the snakes on both sides being rolled up, I couldn't help but slowly let out a breath of relief. Pan Zi's tense body also slowly relaxed, and the head of the gun was slowly lowered. I was glad in my heart. To be honest, it would be better not to fight a snake in a place like this. Not to mention the snake's attack power, even if you lose your footing and fall from here, it would be enough.

But just when I wanted to breathe out softly and calm myself down, the fat man on the side suddenly turned over and snored very vaguely, and also made a long nasal sound.

It was a sound that suddenly came out in the extreme silence. Everyone was shocked. Aning rushed to press his mouth, but it was too late. The whole tree trembled violently, and a fishy wind blew. The tree python in front poked its head back again. This time, the snake's body was already bowed into a U shape. It was obvious at a glance that it was about to attack.

Pan Zi immediately raised his gun but was a step too slow. The python's head bit like lightning. In an instant, Pan Zi reluctantly lowered his head, and the snake's head bit him from the side of his head. The Menyou Bottle behind him had a poor sight, so he couldn't dodge and bit his shoulder. Then the muscular python's body rolled in like a strong wind. In a very short period of time, its upper body like a dragon slammed onto the snake bones at our feet. The already crumbling pile of bones immediately fell apart, and we were trapped by the snake's body. It knocked over, and then collapsed under its feet. Everyone was wrapped in snake bones and fell down.

Fortunately, there were a lot of vines wrapped around the snake bones. The bones were broken and the tendons were broken, and half of the bones collapsed, and all parts were caught by the vines. I scrambled with my hands and feet, grabbed the vine and slid down a few meters and got stuck. When I looked up, I saw that the bottle of oil was tightly entangled by the python and rolled up into the air. The ancient black gold sword hit somewhere. The snake curled up, coiling tighter and tighter. Menyouping struggled hard but there was nothing he could do.

I was so angry that I shouted to Pan Zi to shoot quickly. I turned around but couldn’t see Pan Zi. I didn’t know where he fell. At this moment, I saw Mengyou Bottle in mid-air suddenly shrug his shoulders, his whole body shrank up, and he fell out of the entanglement of the python's body, fell on a branch, turned over and jumped into the tangle. He slid down the vines and slid to my side, shouting to me: "Give me the knife!".

I quickly went to draw the knife, but I was so nervous that I didn't even pull it out after several pulls. At this time, the python realized that it had no space to coil. It was furious and suddenly coiled back into the tree. In an instant, it was in front of us. The snake turned its head and bit hard again.

"Holy shit", I cursed loudly, and saw the bloody mouth coming towards my face. I'm afraid few people can see that kind of visual impact. Mengyou Ping grabbed the vine and pulled it out of the vine. I threw a bone and the python dodged in the air, buying us some time. Menyouping shouted to me: "Jump down!"

But at that time, I was already blinded, and I didn’t know what I was thinking. I curled up as a result of my conditioned reflex. I couldn’t react at that moment. At that moment, the snake’s head arched up again, and the stuffy oil bottle made a “tsk” sound and flew up. He kicked me out with one kick.

This kick was so hard that the vine I pulled broke. I panicked and grabbed again, but couldn't catch anything after a few grabs. I fell straight down, hitting several branches, and then He fell heavily to the ground. Fortunately, there was water and mud underneath. I rolled over a few times and lay down in it. There was mud in my mouth, but it didn't hurt very much.

I was helped up in a daze and dragged out. After dragging for a few steps, I started to feel burning pain all over my body. I wiped the mud off my face and saw that it was Aning and Fatty who were holding me up. I looked around again and saw the miner's lamp. It all fell into the mud and was extinguished, and everything was blurry. Pan Zi aimed his gun at the tree, but from the bottom of the tree, it was pitch black inside the canopy and nothing could be seen.

"How are you?" Aning asked me.

I shook my head and said it was okay, and they dragged me out. I said no, that kid is still in the tree, we can't leave him alone!

As soon as he finished speaking, the whole tree trembled wildly. Menyouping stepped on the trunk of the tree like a monkey and jumped down. At the same time, the leaves and bark rolled up a huge black shadow and followed him down like a gust of wind. The two shadows were almost wrapped together and fell into the muddy water. Before the water splashed down, he saw the python rushing towards him with one bite. Menyou Pingqun ducked and was wrapped in the water splash and lost sight of it.

When I saw it, I thought to myself, he was actually fighting this snake hand to hand, and I yelled "Pan Zi, hurry up and help!"

Pan Zi cursed and rushed over before I could say anything. He tilted his head to avoid the splash, raised his gun and took aim, and finally fired the first shot. His shooting skills were extremely good. He hit the snake on the head with one shot, causing the snake to twist in the air. The oil bottle flipped out from under the snake and ran away. The snake was not dead. It flipped over violently and turned back to bite it like a spring. But at the same time, Pan Zi shot it again and retracted it. He backed away at the same time, and then yelled at us: "I'm covering! Get out of here—!"

Before he finished speaking, another tree python suddenly shot down from the tree and bit Pan Zi's shoulder. In the blink of an eye, the snake's body lifted him up with a bow.

The attack was so fast that no one could react. We were shocked and he was already rolled into the air. I watched him scratching his hands and feet, and my heart suddenly sank, I said it was done!

Soon after, Pan Zi was not afraid in the face of danger. He turned his folding saber out with one hand a few times, then stabbed it upwards, and suddenly plunged into the snake's eye. The giant python's whole body bent in pain, and then it let go. Pan Zi was thrown away, hit a tree, somersaulted and fell, with blood all over his face. Then Aning picked up two cold fireworks from his backpack, banged them on his knees with both hands and ignited them, then rushed between the python and Pan Zi, blocked the python with cold flames and shouted at us: "Take him away, run." !”

I yelled no! Cold fireworks are not warm enough! Aning said, you know the snake but not the snake!

Fatty and I rushed over, helped Pan Zi up and ran into the woods, but before we had taken a few steps, water suddenly hit us like a wave of mud. I turned around and saw that the giant python behind Men You Ping was still alive. The snake's head was covered with blood. Its huge body was chasing Men You Ping angrily, and the latter was rushing towards me. The huge python was dancing wildly behind it. , it actually looked like it was flying.

The python is very angry! Very serious consequences! This sentence suddenly appeared in my mind. Seeing the situation, my feet became weak. Menyoupin shouted "get down". The fat man grabbed me and ran forward for a few steps, and suddenly fell down in the water. The python arrived in an instant. Menyouping and Aning rolled into the mud as soon as they turned over. The python's huge body rolled up against my back. Unable to stop, it hit a big tree on the side. The tree almost collapsed. The collision broke, and the leaves and attachments on the trees fell like rain.

When we got up, we couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north. The fat man's murderous intention became fierce and he cursed: "You ****, fight it!" As he said that, he pulled out the knife from my waist and pointed at it. He rushed towards the blinded python. I rushed up and hugged him, preventing him from passing by. Menyouping also got up. I saw that his shoulders were covered with blood, and he was obviously seriously injured. He panted and pointed to the jungle on one side and shouted to us: "Run quickly, something is wrong with these two snakes!"

Seeing that Menyou Ping was injured like this, the fat man also muttered, and hurriedly picked up Pan Zi, and threw Pan Zi's gun to me. I raised the gun and stood behind, and the group of people fled straight into the jungle. As soon as I rushed into the bush, there was a splash of water behind me, and the snake came again.

No one had time to look behind. Under the trees was an extremely lush bush and fern. We rushed in, and the branches were all covered with thorns. They slid across my exposed skin and pulled out countless blood strips. It hurt me. He grinned, but he couldn't care less, so he gritted his teeth and ran away.

No one could have imagined that we could reach that speed in the jungle. If we had kept going at this speed, we would have crossed the canyon as early as noon today. We quickly rushed to the edge of the canyon. There were waterfalls all over the mountain wall. The water was as deep as our knees. Now we couldn't run any faster.

When we looked back, holy shit, that snake barely missed us, and followed us like a dragon in the bushes like lightning. We wanted to run again, but there was a waterfall further ahead. There was no way, and the fat man yelled: "**, who led the way!"

Several people were panicking. The water here was so deep that they couldn't move, and the tree python was very flexible in the water. This time it was really dangerous. At this time, Aning saw something and shouted to us: "There!"

We followed her miner's lamp and saw a crack behind the waterfall on one side of the rock, which seemed like a place for hiding. The fat man shouted urgently: "Hurry up!"

We rushed over and rushed into the waterfall. The opening of the crack was very narrow, and the python would definitely not be able to get in. We all went in reluctantly. Several of us squeezed in sideways, and it was full of water. The few of us reluctantly squeezed in, but the fat man could not. Even if you kill yourself, you won't be able to get in.

We pulled him with all our strength, and he also squeezed in with all his strength, and only one leg came in. Aning, who was inside, shined the miner's lamp out of the gap. The huge snake head was already outside the water curtain of the waterfall, which was a huge shadow. . The fat man also panicked and shouted, "What are you taking pictures of?" Turn off the lights!

I went up to cover his mouth and whispered to him to shut up. But everyone knew that hiding would be useless. They all picked up the guy and were ready to fight.

But the strange thing is that the python was wandering outside the waterfall without putting its head into the waterfall. After wandering for a few times, it turned around and walked away.

At this point, we looked at each other in confusion. As long as the snake pokes its head in, the fat man will definitely be doomed. We can't just stand by and watch. It is a life-and-death battle. Even if half of them die, it will be enough. Why does it suddenly leave? Is it afraid of this waterfall?

At this time, we all heard a series of "cluck cluck" sounds coming from the depths of the gap, like a rooster's crow. The sound of water rumbling outside was not loud, but hearing the rooster's crow here was particularly awakening. We heard it all at once.

Everyone turned their heads, and only then did they have the energy to observe the gap. They found that the water inside was not even up to our waists. Looking inside the gap, there was no more water. And in the stone gap at the end, there was something standing there. thing. This thing is completely hidden in the darkness, and it can't be spotted using the residual light of a miner's lamp.

My eyes were dazed for a moment and I couldn't see clearly, but as soon as I saw the way this thing was standing, I couldn't help but feel it. I couldn't tell what was strange, so I asked Aning to turn the miner's lamp around.

The light looked over and the thing revealed its true identity. I took a look at it and didn't realize what it was for two or three seconds. It was a two or three seconds of extreme surprise. Then I realized what I was doing and couldn't believe it. Glasses.

I saw a snake about the thickness of my wrist in the innermost part of the gap. This snake was not a python. It was red all over. The snake's head was a very sharp triangle with a large comb on it. What I couldn't believe was that this snake was actually standing there straight, with its head lowered and looking at me fiercely. Its whole posture was like a person without arms and legs.

I looked into the snake's eyes and could hardly move. I just stared at it. It wasn't until Aning pulled me. At that moment, I realized what I had seen. I immediately knew why the giant snake was staring at me. The snake is giving up on us. The fear from my childhood spread all over my body.