Halfway along the way, we saw several gradually rising hills in the distance.
Fu Shuo said, "What is that? Why didn't I see these mountains? Is it a mirage?"
Dong Gong said: "No, it seems that the big guy is coming. Let's take a detour."
It turned out to be the Shacheng Savage Snake. They can burrow in piles of sand. Use the scales to push sand and soil back. From a distance, I saw its huge head sticking out of the sand. It was covered with sand and dirt and had countless scratches.
They are too large to snake easily. So they march in a straight line above the ground, using the scales on their abdomen to push forward, just like many small feet. Snakes that move this way have a triangular pyramid shape with a flat belly that touches the ground.
Yonghan said: "Why is it coming out now? It wasn't there when we came."
Lei Ling said: "The habit of snakes is to move towards water sources on the one hand, and to stay away from noise sources on the other hand. Snakes move around looking for food and drinking water at 20-35°C. This kind of large wild snake usually goes out for food in the morning and dusk. Eating is called morning and evening sexual activity.”
"Snakes are carnivores and eat many types of animals, ranging from invertebrates (such as earthworms, spiders, various insects and their larvae) to various types of vertebrates (such as fish, frogs, toads, lizards, snakes, birds and small mammals).”
Yonghan said: "Can we get around it? Can it hear us?"
Lei Ling said: "Snakes do not have external ears and tympanic membranes, so they cannot receive air-conducted sound waves. One end of the otic columella bone of the snake's middle ear is connected to the vestibular window of the inner ear, and the other end is not connected to the tympanic membrane but to the quadrate bone, making the snake more sensitive to air-conducted sound waves. It is extremely sensitive to surface-conducted vibrations such as the sound of approaching footsteps of people or animals.”
Fu Shuo said, "What about stopping the car and turning off the engine?"
Lei Ling said: "The snake will see this side. But sometimes its vision is not good. For example, when shedding its skin, the cuticle on the surface of the transparent circular membrane must be shed. Before molting, the transparent circular membrane becomes turbid, and the snake cannot see clearly. .”
Fu Shuo said: "Let's drive the off-road vehicle and leave quickly."
The snake seemed to have seen it, and several off-road vehicles were swimming towards this side quickly.
The SUV began to accelerate. A high cloud of dust rose behind.
Too much sand makes it difficult to increase speed. The wild snake has caught up. Raising its huge tail, it slashed from top to bottom, directly hitting the back of the off-road vehicle. The off-road vehicle accelerated to avoid it, but its tail swung very quickly and upwards, and the entire vehicle was lifted up. The car spun twice in the air and stuck one end on the sand. Luckily I was wearing my seat belt.
Fu Shuo said: "Oh my god, why are you so dizzy?"
Yonghan said: "This is more dizzy than riding a roller coaster."
Lei Ling said: "I'm okay, I'm used to it."
Yonghan said: "What do you mean? Did your car get knocked over by a snake?"
Lei Ling said: "Yes, I encountered this kind of giant snake when I first came here to work. The whole car was sent flying. Fortunately, it fell into the sand. If it had fallen on the road, it would have definitely It was smashed to pieces.”
Fu Shuo said: "Does this snake like to play badminton? Does it use its tail as a racket and play us as badminton?"
Yonghan said: "I think so, there is a snake here and there is a snake there, and there are two badminton rackets on both sides."
A huge figure also appeared on the other side. It turned out that another giant snake came over and wanted to stop another off-road vehicle.
They want to regard moving things as prey, and then want to stop them all.
Due to the effect of gravity, the rear of the off-road vehicle gradually sank, and the four wheels fell to the ground again.
Fu Shuo said: "This place is so dangerous, why are you still living here?"
Lei Ling said: "Normally not. The place where snakes live is still far away from our cities, but their living environment has changed a lot recently."
"It's all your robbers' fault for messing up the water and biological environment." Dong Gong glared at the two robbers.
"Okay, it's all our fault." They gasped, "Let's leave this place quickly and don't let them treat them as food."
Ahead is the simple road in the desert. After the off-road vehicle drove up, it quickly increased its speed.
Another giant snake arrived and hit it with its head. The first time it hit the rear of the car, the car slid a few times. The second time the car was overturned. The car fell to the ground like a turtle, with its shell facing downwards and its body facing upwards, making it difficult to turn it over again.
At this time another snake also arrived. Snake eyes look down. Snake eyes have no movable upper and lower eyelids and no nictitating membrane, but a fixed transparent circular membrane covering the outside of the eye, so the eye cannot be closed.
They opened their mouths wide and began to shake the car door.
Yonghan said: "Sonic transmitter!"
Lei Ling said: "I also remembered, there is this thing, can't they drive away snakes?"
He took this thing out of his backpack and turned on the start button. .
The car door has been bitten open.
Then the sonic emitter started making strange noises.
But the snake didn't run away.
Snakes cannot receive air-conducted sound waves.
"It's over now." Everyone thought so.
At this time, an off-road vehicle came from a distance.
Look at the ropes flying over here from the off-road vehicle.
Looking from a distance, I don’t know who it is.
"Do you have a sonic transmitter?" the man shouted. It turned out to be Xu Jingsi.
"I have brought a catching net. I need to fix the sound transmitter on the snake's body so that it can hear it. And after it leaves, the net must be removed."
Yonghan said: "Okay then. I'll fix the sonic transmitter on one of the nets first."
Jingsi said: "Okay, then I will launch."
He quickly threw the generator out and hooked a rope to a round hole in the sonic transmitter. The catching net was sprayed out and wrapped around the snake's body. The sound wave emitter began to make sound on the snake's body, and the sound was transmitted to the snake's ears through She's body.
A wild snake began to scream strangely, left quickly, and finally got into the ground.
The wild snake dragged the capture net gun down. He was about to drag the capture net gun away. Jingsi pressed the release button, and the net automatically released and left the snake's body.
Another wild snake saw its companion running away, and when he saw this situation, he also left quickly.
Yonghan said: "Fortunately you came here in time."
Jing Si said: "I saw you haven't come back for so long, so I brought someone over to have a look."
Yonghan said: "Today I saw the Shacheng Barbarian Snake."
Jingsi said: "Let's go back quickly."
Yonghan went to the back of Oasis City and drove the truck out. Put down the drill bit on the car and use the earth drill to dig a channel.
On the way down, they encountered a pipe. Walked along the pipe for a while.
Yonghan said: "What kind of pipeline is this? It's so strange?"
Lei Ling said: "This is the skin of a wild snake..."
Snakes shed their skin starting from the tip of the snout and gradually moving backwards, including the tip of the tongue and the transparent membrane outside the eyes. The skin of snakes is divided into two parts: epidermis and dermis. The epidermis is composed of the germinal layer at the bottom and the living cell layer, cuticle A and cuticle B upward in sequence. There are some epidermal pigment cells mixed between the cells of the germinal layer. On the outer surface of each scale, type B cuticle is thicker than type A cuticle, while the inner surface and twisted area of the scales are dominated by type A cuticle. Dense connective tissue in the deep dermis separates the skin from the subcutaneous tissue beneath it. The skin is thinner in the twisted areas between scales.
Yonghan said: "It seems that the wild snake has been here."
Lei Ling said: "Maybe I will come here sometimes."
The earth drilling machine drills into the underground of the liquid mine, where the water layer breaks, and fills the bottom of the water layer with filler. The upstream water gradually flows and the water level gradually recovers.
Oasis City temporarily reduces water supply in large areas. Many people moved to Fushu City. The wild snake sensed the decrease in water volume and gradually returned to the liquid mine.
Yonghan drove the car to the place where the cable was broken, put down the drill bit on the car, drilled away, and dug out the protruding sand and gravel. Then replace the cables, connect them, and cover them with insulation. Power supply restored.
