Seeing that the fire was about to spread to Zhang Zhuxun's feet, the little brother immediately ran over and took him out of the fire. Then he found that something was wrong with him and immediately decided to take him back to the camp first.
On the way back, I bumped into the fat man who was leading someone to find him.
"How do you feel now? The Huo family's team doctor checked and said that you inhaled a large amount of snake venom. However, due to the special nature of the blood, the poisoning was not deep. At most, you only had some hallucinations."
The fat man handed him a water bag filled with warm water. "Drinking more water will help your body detoxify. After you urinate twice, the remaining toxins will be eliminated."
Zhang Zhuxun nodded and took the cup, silently thinking about the fat man's words. He thought of the pictures he saw before he lost consciousness. Were they really hallucinations?
Or maybe he can also read pheromones from the venom of the black-haired snake?
So, who is the man in the white cloak in the snake's memory? Could it be Zhang Menyu?
If it was Zhang Menyu, what message did he want to convey to himself through that snake?
"Where are the things in the cellar? Have they all been burned?" Zhang Zhu asked.
"It's all burned, there's no residue left," the fat man said, "The two little cuties I gave you when you left were all used, and the whole place was blown up."
Zhang Zhuoxun sighed regretfully and asked, "Where are the corpses of the Huo family members along the way? Have you checked carefully? There are probably snake eggs inside."
The fat man's expression was a little subtle. Zhang Zhu asked him what was wrong and if something had happened.
The fat man said that after the corpses were brought back, because they died too tragically and their internal organs were dragged all over the floor and it was inconvenient to dispose of them, they all found a place and were piled together with the human corpses and lynx corpses in the camp. A hole has been dug and buried.
Zhang Zhuxun immediately drank all the water in the cup, then lifted off the thin blanket and put on his shoes, "I'll go take a look."
He has good recovery power, and the place where the flames licked is now a little red, without even a blister.
The little brother and the fat man didn't stop him and followed him out of the tent.
More than fifty meters behind the camp, lights and shadows were dancing. The sky was actually a little gray at this time, but when you lower your head and dig into the trees, you will find that it is still as dark as ever.
Soon they came to the place where they were digging the hole, and the fat man went up to stop them. When Huo Zhizhi saw that it was them coming, he asked his men to stop.
"What did you find?" Huo Zhizhi said this as soon as he opened his mouth.
Zhang Zhuxun didn't answer him. He looked around at the corpses placed in the grass several times. He didn't find the ones he wanted, so he asked him, "Where are the ones hanging on the trees buried?"
Huo Zhizhi reached out and pointed further back, "They're all there. Those corpses smell so bad, they were buried first."
"Dig it out." Zhang Zhuoxun looked at him and said.
Huo Zhizhi's expression twisted, but because Zhang Zhuxun's face was a little pale at the moment, he still directed the two of them to dig the hole.
As soon as the shovel went down, a layer of soil was lifted, and the stench spread out. The faces of the two young men digging the hole were green. Zhang Zhuxun kindly provided them with two masks.
The others stopped and hid far away.
Zhang Zhuxun was still a little nervous at first, because it was just his guess that there were snake eggs in the abdomen. However, as the hole got deeper and deeper, and there was even yellow-green corpse water seeping through the soil and sticking to the shovel, he knew that he had guessed it right. .
The current average temperature in Banai is 27 to 36 degrees. Based on the normal degree of decomposition of a corpse, even if it is thrown in the mud for twelve hours, it will not turn into corpse water all of a sudden.
Therefore, there must be something in the corpse that exacerbates this change. Even if it is not snake eggs, there must be other bad things.
The two young men wanted to get out of the sea of misery as soon as possible, so they waved the shovel in the air, and when the head of the shovel went down, something hit them. The young man subconsciously picked up the shovel.
It was a round thing, covered with grass roots and sticky black mud. Inside the mud, something was squirming, long and thin, like a loach, moving along the round thing.
Something crawled up the handle of the shovel.
The young man let out a strange cry and threw the shovel out of his hand. The round object also rolled down to the feet of the Huo family watching the theater on the other side, making them all retreat in shock.
Almost everyone guessed what the thing was. After the thing fell to the ground, most of the mud on it fell away, revealing its true appearance in Lushan.
The moment they met the eyes of those two black holes, everyone gasped. Then they raised their shovels at the same time and aimed them neatly at the "earthworms" that fell out of the wet mud. With a burst of output, those long and thin things and mud were chopped into pieces.
The execution ability was so high that Zhang Zhuxun and others were amazed.
However, even though they were a little careless about the end, Huo Zhizhi reminded them from behind, and they discovered that there were more slender strips in the pit, one after another emerging from the wet and sticky soil, just like after spreading salt. There are razor clams vying to emerge on the beach.
It's just that this thing is much more dangerous than razor clams. Razor clams are eaten, humans are predators, and this thing in front of you can feed on humans.
Each one's head, covered in mud and as thick as a little finger, scrambled to crawl out of the pit to the edge after noticing the fresh blood around it.
The corpses at the bottom of the pit were like burning candles dripping candle wax that gathered at the bottom. The wax turned into a pile of skinny and rotten flesh, and all the flesh in the skin was eaten away.
Moreover, these little snakes seem to secrete a special kind of mucus, which flows out of the body and mixes in the corpse water. The originally light yellow liquid turns a little green.
Huo Zhizhi hurriedly directed people to fill the pit with soil, and asked people to quickly return to the camp to get gasoline.
Fortunately, these little snakes are not very lethal now. Ordinary people can solve them with a little effort. They even chop them with a shovel, pour gasoline on them, and throw down a few torches. The pungent rotten smell along with the black smoke permeates the entire place. Camp.
The fat man lifted up his clothes and covered his nose. He hid behind a tree and looked at the raging fire in the pit. He couldn't help but smacked his tongue and said, "What's the origin of this snake? It's more powerful than the pheasant neck we saw in Tamutuo before." .”
After all, the pheasant neck still leaves a whole corpse that looks like a giant. This kind of snake even turns into wax water when used as a nursery box, and the hatching speed is much faster than that of the pheasant neck.
"This is a perverted subspecies of pheasant neck, called the black-haired snake. We have seen the adult form of this snake in the jade figurines of the West Queen Mother Palace, and there is also something like this in Miluo Tuo." Zhang Zhuxun explained. road.
"There are indeed perverted ones." Fatty complained, "Even you can fall into this trap."
Zhang Zhuoxun nodded in agreement, "There was a lot of powder on the wall of the cellar I entered. I didn't have time to take samples for testing, but I guess that stuff helped evaporate the snake venom."
Tall Shoulder may have known that this kind of snake could transmit memories, so he tried every means to capture a part of Milotuo's body in order to obtain some information.
After all, he was originally chosen by Zhang Dafo Lord to replace Zhang Qiling. No matter what Zhang Qishan's purpose was in searching for the Zhang Family Ancient Building, as the person who handled it, Tiao Shoulder always knew something.
But I never thought that I would make a wedding dress for Zhang Shuxun. I guess that guy was already furious by now.
But it's a pity that the guy is too cunning. This time the encirclement and suppression failed. The next time he takes action, he will probably be inside the Zhang Family Ancient Building.
After Huo Xiangu learned about the situation here, she directly ordered all the corpses to be burned and destroyed. The Huo family seemed to be accustomed to this and had no objections.
After that, Zhang Zhuoxun and the others returned to the camp and saw Huo Xiuxiu, accompanied by Huo Chushi, already waiting outside their tent.
"Grandma, please come over," Huo Xiuxiu said.
Zhang Zhuxun and the others followed her to the tent in the center of the camp.
As soon as they met, Huo Xiangu said directly: "Do you know what's going on with the lynx siege this time? There are also those snakes."
Although the question was about you, his eyes were looking at Zhang Zhuxun.
"You should have heard that bamboo whistle. Someone is controlling those beasts. The snake may be that
Raised by humans to dispose of corpses. "Zhang Shuxun chose to conceal the second point.
"You mean, this lynx was domesticated?" Huo Xiangu looked at Zhang Zhuxun with a look of disbelief, "Have you seen that man?"
Zhang Zhuoxun nodded, "I have seen him before. He is also a member of the Zhang family, but according to our speculation, that person may be from Zhang Qishan's lineage. When we first came to Banai, we were attacked by his lynx group under his control. Once."
Lynx like to live alone and are accustomed to the cold. They like to live in alpine shrub grasslands or subarctic and cold temperate coniferous broad-leaved mixed forest areas. Guangxi belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate zone. The sudden appearance of such a large lynx group is obviously Very unusual thing.
Not to mention that wild beasts are instinctively afraid of fire, and most of them will choose to avoid unknown creatures that suddenly appear, unless people invade their territory.
After hearing Zhang Chuxun's answer, Huo Xiangu fell into deep thought and did not ask any more questions.
A strong sense of urgency surged in her heart. She speculated in her mind what the Zhang family's purpose was. Did they use such a large number of killing moves to prevent them from entering the Zhang family's ancient building? Or is that person also related to secret forces?
Since that man had been wandering near the ancient building for a long time and had developed strong hostility towards them, and he also had a close relationship with Buddha. They all knew who was standing behind Buddha back then, so this man stayed here. Are you also waiting for an opportunity to find a way to enter the Zhang family's ancient building?
Thinking back to what she had experienced, Huo Xiangu was almost certain that that person must have been sent by the forces behind it.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a little regretful. If I could catch that guy, he could be tortured and maybe get more information.
Immediately, Huo Xiangu ordered everyone to divide into three groups and explore the three directions of the valley bottom overnight.
The original team, including Zhang Zhuxun and three others, had a total of fifty-six people. Five of them were killed by Slumped Shoulder when they went out for night patrol. Thirteen more were killed and injured in the battle with lynx. Now they only have thirty-eight people left. .
Huo Chushi left some of his men to protect Mrs. Huo. He took the rest of his men and led a group of people to the north first. Huo Zhizhi and Huo Xiuxiu led people to the west, the east where they were most likely to encounter danger. It was left to Zhang Zhu and others.
However, Zhang Shuxun and the others didn't care. After counting the number of people, they took their equipment and followed the route Zhang Shuxun had taken before, carefully investigating along the way.
The speed of the investigation was not fast, because this was a place where almost no one had set foot. The landform at the bottom of the valley was very complicated. On the surface, it was grass and vines, but in fact, there were some bottomless pits hidden underground.
Just in case, they tied ropes into these deep pits and checked them. They were either empty, or they were lairs dug by some wild beasts, which had been abandoned for a long time. There were also some animal bones and remains in them, which were of no useful value.
After finding that the sky was completely bright, everyone decided to take a break and eat something to replenish their strength.
Some people couldn't help complaining: "Where on earth is this ancient family building hidden? I feel like if we continue to search like this, it is just a waste of time. There is no trace of human beings left here. Could it be that we don't have any traces of it at all?" Are you looking in the wrong direction?"
This sentence also expressed the thoughts of many people. Everyone turned their attention to Zhang Shuxun and the other three, waiting for them to express their stance.
This valley area is so huge that it would take years and months to search manually. However, if they were to back out, they would not dare to bring it up. They could only find it through Zhang Zhu, who led the team.
The communication distance of the walkie-talkie is within three kilometers. The distance they walked out from last night to now has already exceeded three kilometers. The situation of the other two groups is probably similar to them, otherwise someone would have informed them to withdraw.
"Let's go further." Zhang Zhuoxun said, "Go forward another five kilometers. If you still don't find anything, go back and discuss other methods with your family master."
Everyone agreed, and after resting for half an hour, the team was ready to move forward.
In fact, the reason why Zhang Zhuxun chose to lead the team here was mainly to catch the flat shoulder or find some other clues, but he had already gone deep into the area.
After such a long time, except for the cellar, there are no traces left by the slumped shoulders. Or maybe the guy has taken his lynx army to hide deeper in the valley?
Just at this time, the fat man suddenly said that his stomach hurt and he wanted to get some food. It was probably because there was something wrong with the game he hunted last night.
When we set up camp in the evening last night, the fat man felt itchy after holding a gun in his hand. He went out for a walk and came back with two pheasants and roasted them on the fire. But maybe the chickens were old and a little woody. , Fatty’s cooking skills couldn’t save its taste.
Zhang Zhuo tasted a little and then stopped eating. The boy still preferred plain chicken to roasted chicken, so in the end the fat man ate one and a half of the two chickens, and gave the rest to Huo Xiaoli. .
Afraid that he would be in danger if he was left alone, Zhang Zhuxun asked anyone in the team who wanted to go to the toilet to go together.
As a result, the fat man yelled and cheered, and five or six people left. Seeing this situation, the rest had no choice but to wait where they were.
