Yi Liuling squatted on the branch waiting for the next test, but nothing happened.
"Is the exam stuck?" Yi Liuling looked up and saw that nothing seemed to have fallen down. "There aren't only two questions in total, right?"
At this time, he suddenly felt some shaking under his feet. This was definitely not an illusion, it was a real earthquake.
However, this is a cliff. If there is a landslide, the things taught in the general class cannot save him at all, so there must be other intentions.
Sure enough, although there was an earthquake, the rocks fell from the cliff on the other side of the canyon, and a hole was suddenly exposed. It was so dark that it was difficult to see what was inside.
Yi Liuling visually measured the distance between the two sides. He probably couldn't jump over it, but the tree he was stepping on was a tree, not a vine, so weaving a rope seemed unreliable.
Just when he was at a loss what to do, a strange noise came from the cave opposite. It seemed that the previous earthquake was not just required by the plot, but was triggered by something in the cave.
This sound... Yi Liuling listened carefully, and then swooped towards the cliff opposite.
Of course he couldn't reach it, and he didn't even cross half of the canyon, but he didn't fall, because just as he threw himself out, a black shadow flew toward the tree where Yi Liuling was.
"Boom!" It was a huge black snake with a width of more than one meter. The snake's head hit the cliff hard, and Yi Liuling jumped just behind its head, slid down a few times, and barely stopped. On its back - fortunately, the back of the black-threaded snake is a bit uneven. If it were any other snake, Yi Liuling would have fallen off, but maybe this is the reason for choosing the black-threaded snake.
The target of the giant snake seemed not to be Yi Liuling, but the tree. After uprooting it and swallowing it, the giant snake slowly retracted into the cave with satisfaction. There was no place to stay on the original cliff, so Yi Liuling could only follow the snake back and wait a while to see if there was any other way out. If not, just lose her life.
After the black-lined snake retreated into the cave, Yi Liuling discovered why it was here - there was a large nest of snake eggs in the mountain.
Although most snakes do not hatch eggs, black-lined snakes are an exception, because their eggs are very nutritious food. If they are left alone, they will most likely be dug up and eaten by other monsters. Therefore, black-lined snakes have the custom of male snakes incubating eggs and female snakes hunting.
Of course, it may be more appropriate to say that it protects eggs, but some scholars have studied that the egg-hatching behavior of black-lined snakes can accelerate the hatching of snake eggs in a sense, but the specific mechanism has not been fully understood. When Yi Liuling visited the library before, he saw a lot of theoretical books on this subject. Of course, he just glanced at them and did not open them to read.
At this time, the male snake had coiled itself around the egg again, lowered his head, and entered a deep sleep.
Because there is a layer on the back of the black-lined snake that is similar to the carapace of a crocodile. It is very thick and has no nerve coverage. In theory, if it can be sanded off silently, the snake cannot be found. Naturally, Yi Liuling, who was lying on its back, was completely ignored.
Although this kind of carapace has a certain protective ability, it is not very useful, especially since the normal black-lined snake is only as thick as a finger, and the carapace is completely a line, so it is called a black-lined snake. Yi Liuling remembered that there was also a kind of tail-wagging snake that also had this characteristic. That kind of snake got its name because its tail always swung back and forth inexplicably.
But compared to the slender black-lined snake, the tail-wagging snake has a stubby body shape, and there is no similarity at all. As for blood, of course the two have nothing to do with each other, so scholars are still studying the formation principle of this carapace.
In any case, since the snake fell asleep, Yi Liuling had to find a way to escape. Now that he had no rope and no place to borrow strength on the cliff, he would definitely not be able to climb down or up. So, let's try to find if there is any other exit from this snake cave. It's impossible for him to tame the giant snake on the spot and send him up, right?
After making up her mind, Yi Liuling carefully slid off the snake's back and walked deeper into the cave, avoiding the snake eggs - these eggshells had mucus on them and would be easily targeted by other monsters once stained. .
However, the only opening in this cave is the exit. It seems that the male snake sealed it with rocks, but it was too hungry just now, so it broke the seal and ate a tree to satisfy its hunger.
Speaking of which, it was so hungry that it almost ate grass. Where did the female snake responsible for foraging go? Is he dead or ambushed somewhere?
Yi Liuling leaned against the deepest stone wall of the snake cave and thought. Suddenly, his hand touched something slippery. He looked down and saw that it was a damp and smooth stone, the color of which was completely different from the surrounding stone walls.
He didn't see this thing when he just came over. Sure enough, it was refreshed again, right?
But no matter what, the hint was put to her mouth, and Yi Liuling could only squat down and look at the rock carefully.
There is nothing special about this rock. It is just an ordinary stone that has been polished smooth by water. Even looking at the water stains on it, could it be that the teacher just moved it from some pool? However, there are some lines on the ground under the rocks.
Yi Liuling moved the rock away and saw a complete magic circle. Although magic circles are generally learned by mages, they are still mentioned in the general summoner classes, mainly to judge what a magic circle is supposed to do through the basic format.
Based on the knowledge she had learned, Yi Liuling looked at several runes on the side and guessed that they might be teleportation arrays or the like. No, there is a very important symbol missing here, it is not really a teleportation array.
Now, he was in trouble: asking a summoner to redraw the magic circle by himself was completely over the top, right?
"Isn't the key to understanding the magic circle itself?" Yi Liuling thought in his heart, so he searched around again and found another magic circle that was very similar to this one, and it was also incomplete.
In this way, Yi Liuling figured out that this was the way to draw the energy supply array.
The so-called energy supply array means that due to limitations of the site and other reasons, a magic array cannot be completely drawn, so someone will draw the area originally used to place magic crystals and other energy sources separately not far away, forming a Bluetooth charging mode.
It seems that this should be a trap for students who have not carefully reviewed the basic theory of magic circles. If a person only has a general impression of the teleportation array, it is very likely that the energy supply array will be regarded as a real teleportation array, resulting in It cannot be teleported away in time when it is started.
The premise for this trap to work is that something will happen if the students cannot evacuate in time. In addition, the smooth rock and the water stains on it are very similar to something. Yi Liuling guessed what exactly the energy supply array was going to be. on top as starting energy.
Yi Liuling's eyes slowly moved towards the snake nest and the huge black-lined snake: "Are you sure you're not kidding me?"
