Treasure Hunt Memo

Chapter 14 Earth Viper Dragon

"Lu Yuan?!"

After I screamed, the others all turned their heads.Only then did we realize that Lu Yuan had disappeared.

A few minutes ago, we heard him talking, and after that, we didn't hear any abnormal noise.

But Lu Yuan just disappeared out of thin air.

"What should I do?" Xin Ran was also frightened and asked Elder Qi.

Elder Qi's expression was also a bit ugly at the moment. After thinking for a while, he patted me and said, "Go back!"

Walking back, Xinran and I took the lead.

I held the flashlight in my left hand and held the engineering shovel tightly in my right hand. After nodding to Xin Ran who was beside me, we led the way back together.

Less than a hundred meters away.

Suddenly, I seemed to see something, and I yelled something bad in my heart.I hastily called to Xinran to stop, raised my engineering shovel and made a stop motion.

There seemed to be a vague figure at the end of the flashlight in front of him, but that figure was not standing on the ground, but hanging in the air... It looked like a person plunged into the ceiling of the cave alive, but the figure was blurred. It's blurry, and it doesn't look very real.

"Then what the hell is it! Why is it still floating in the air."

This time it was Su Heluo who spoke. Hearing what he said, I was convinced that what I was seeing was not a hallucination.All of a sudden, my heart almost jumped into my throat.

After hearing this, Zhao Longyu scolded behind him: "What fart, ghosts are not floating in the air, can't they still walk?"

I thought to myself, what time is this, and I'm still discussing whether it's floating or not.

But seeing that Mr. Qi had already walked in front of me and Xinran, he waved his hands, motioning for us to follow.

At a distance of about tens of meters, we finally saw the "figure" clearly, and suddenly felt a chill down our spine.

It was a khaki-colored giant snake thicker than a bucket, only about one meter long hanging down from the ceiling of the cave. At this moment, it was facing us from the belly, biting a person, and the snake's head was stuck on the person. On the waist, the person in the mouth only has a pair of legs hanging outside.From a distance, it looks like a person is hanging in the air...

"It's Lu Yuan, those pants..." Su Heluo whispered, his voice trembling a little.

Elder Qi sighed: "It's hopeless."

Thinking about a living person who was talking to us just now, he died in Shekou in a short time, and I was also confused for a while.

Zhao Longyu walked up to Elder Qi and asked, "What should we do now?"

Qi Laodao: "If you don't do it now, it will be a disaster sooner or later."

After hearing Elder Qi's words, Zhao Longyu unloaded his backpack and actually took out a short-barreled earthen gun from it.After loading the powder and marbles, he poked the barrel of the gun with an iron rod, pulled back something, then handed the bag to my feet, and took a few steps forward.

A loud gunshot suddenly rang out.

I didn't see whether I hit it, but I saw the giant snake hanging on the top of the cave shake violently, spit out the half-swallowed Lu Yuan, and suddenly jumped down from the top of the cave, turned around, and the snake's head straightened. Googo stared at us.

I collected myself and saw the appearance of the giant snake clearly.

This snake is conservatively estimated to be ten meters long, with a khaki-yellow body and covered with raised scales.The head is oblate, the two eyes are a little dilated, and the pupils form a vertical line.The most peculiar thing is that there are two small horns growing close to the inside of its eyes.

At this moment, its thick body twisted on the ground, almost blocking the way, the snake's head swayed slightly, watching us.

"shot!"

As soon as Qi Lao finished speaking, the giant snake rushed forward at an extremely fast speed.Seeing this, Mr. Qi, Zhao Longyu and Xinran quickly dodged to the rock walls on both sides, while I was suddenly exposed to the sight of the giant snake.

Seeing it rushing towards me, I immediately lost the ability to think, and subconsciously swung the engineer shovel at the snake's head. With a "snap", I felt as if I had slapped on an extremely hard rock, and then the snake's head turned sideways, and a huge force came, and the next second, I was thrown flying and hit the side wall of the cave , There was a sudden sharp pain in the back, and the body seemed to be out of control, and I couldn't stand up after several attempts.

Seeing the huge snake head getting closer and closer to me...

At the critical moment, Zhao Longyu, who stepped aside, finally filled the ammunition, and then there was another loud noise.

This hit was a real hit on the giant snake, and it should have felt a burst of pain. The snake twisted a few times, then rushed back quickly, swam to the previous position, and disappeared along the cave wall all the way up. the roof of the cave.

The cave became silent again.

Xinran ran up to me and helped me up.

"How is it?" Xin Ran asked with concern.

The blow just now really knocked me out of my wits, and after I was lifted up by Xin Ran, my stomach was overwhelmed, and I retched a few times before I said something: "It's okay, this thing is really powerful .”

The giant snake disappeared, and the front became empty, leaving only Lu Yuan lying on the ground.

We walked to Lu Yuan's side in small steps, and looked at the roof of the cave with light, only to find that the roof of the cave here has been remodeled.

There is a huge square bronze plate embedded on the rock wall above our heads, which is carved with patterns similar to the gluttonous Kuilong. There is a hole about one meter square in the middle of the plate. It looks like there is a big hole inside. space.

"The snake should have gotten in from here just now." I coughed a few more times and pointed to the hole above.

Zhao Longyu looked up at the top, and suddenly realized: "No wonder when I first saw the snake, it was hanging on the roof of the cave. If there is no board with holes, the bare cave wall would have no stress point at all."

Everyone looked at it, nodded, and agreed with us.

Seeing the giant snake retreating, we hurried to check on Lu Yuan's situation.

I don't know how to describe Lu Yuan's appearance at this time. He just lay there peacefully, his eyes widened, his expression could not be told whether it was panic or pain, his entire face was bloodless, and his neck was bent at a strange angle. , the upper body was also covered with snake mucus.

Seeing Lu Yuan like this, the happy reaction was the biggest.She wiped Lu Yuan's face with a tissue, closed his eyes for him, and squatted on the ground sobbing.Su Heluo took off Lu Yuan's backpack, looking for any useful equipment and supplies.

I tried to comfort Xinran, but I didn't know how to speak for a while, so I handed her a piece of paper and patted her.Thinking about the thrilling battle just now, if Zhao Longyu hadn't fired in time, I would have died in Shekou just like Lu Yuan.

After crying for a while, Xin Ran calmed down, stood up and asked Qi Lao: "Grandpa, what was that just now? I've never seen such a snake, and it has horns on its head."

"It's an earth viper dragon." Qi Lao explained, "This is a very rare type of viper. It is said that this snake has an extremely long lifespan. Although it is no different from ordinary earth snakes when it is young, it will change shape after living for a thousand years, with a head Double horns grow on the top, and in ten thousand years..."

Speaking of this, Elder Qi coughed.

"What will happen in ten thousand years?" Su Heluo looked puzzled.

"Can transform a dragon."

When these three words popped out of Qi Lao's mouth, my first reaction was incredible.I don't know whether Qi Lao's words are credible, but the giant snake just now did grow a pair of dragon horns, which is beyond my knowledge.

"I didn't expect it to be this thing at first. If I knew it, I don't need to provoke it." Qi Lao frowned and said: "Now that the beam has formed, if we don't kill it thoroughly, I'm afraid this journey will be safe."

Su Heluo on the side seemed to think of something, and said, "Master, I remember that there is a saying that - the viper seeks revenge, and he must retaliate. Could it be this earth viper?"

Elder Qi nodded, and continued: "Now we have to find a way to get rid of this scourge, or we will have to look at the beginning and end of the journey."

Zhao Longyu wiped the soil gun in his hand, and asked: "Old man, does this guy have any weaknesses?"

"As the saying goes, hit a snake seven inches. Find the snake's heart and shoot it. If you don't believe it, it won't die." Su Heluo said.

Mr. Qi shook his head when he heard this: "What you are talking about is an ordinary snake. This earth viper dragon is an ancient alien species, so it cannot be judged by common sense. I read in ancient books that Yi Zeng, the leader of the Youqiong clan in Xia Dynasty, I shot and killed a 99-year-old earth viper, and Yi's arrow hit the eyebrow between the two horns of the viper."

Recalling the slap on Viper's head just now, it was almost like hitting a stone.Now tell me that because of an ancient myth, I believe that the weakness lies in the head, it is too hasty.If the legend is fictitious, wouldn't we all become guinea pigs to verify the rumors.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly opened my mouth, trying to dissuade them from fighting the Viper again: "The Viper has already hid up there, and we can't kill it even if we want to. Why don't we do it earlier, and if it comes out, we can fight it again?" A battle."

Unexpectedly, as soon as I said this, Zhao Longyu directly proved the method to me with his actions.

He filled the soil gun with gunpowder and marbles again, and greeted Xinran and Su Heluo.The two of them lit the round marbles they took out earlier, and threw them at the square holes in the bronze plate above their heads.After that, several people retreated one after another and kept vigilant, and I followed suit and made a retreat.

After a while, a thick yellow smoke came out from the bronze plate, it can be seen that the space behind the plate does not seem to be too big.The smoke soon sank down along the roof of the cave, and the whole cave suddenly became misty.

Vaguely, I seemed to see something wriggling in the smoke, and before I could react, there was a gunshot beside me.

"Quick retreat!" Zhao Longyu fired a shot, then shouted, and began to fill his hands with gunpowder again.

We quickly exited the area shrouded in yellow smoke, but the smoke is still spreading towards us.

After just one shot, the Viper Dragon seemed to be completely annoyed. It held its head high, danced from side to side, and also jumped out of the range of the yellow smoke, crawling towards us, but its actions were much slower.

Only twenty meters away from us, Viper stopped and stared straight at us. I glanced around, and Zhao Longyu also pointed his earthen gun at Viper. We were deadlocked like this. No one dared to move first.

Looking at each other, I felt in a daze that the viper in front of me seemed to be intelligent, and even felt that it was about to say something in the next second: "Stupid human beings, kneel down, hand in your guns and don't kill!"

In a situation where one does not dare to be first, and the other does not dare to be first, time seems to pass extremely slowly.

Suddenly, Qi Lao moved, flipped his right hand, and even threw the flashlight out.The flashlight was still on, and the light flew out spinning all the way, drawing a parabola in the air. According to the normal landing point, it should just hit the center of Viper's eyebrows. This skill is amazing.

However, just when the flashlight was about to hit the Viper, the Viper turned its head sideways and flew out with the side of the flashlight.

Good first-hand test!However, Qi Lao's throw can be regarded as a complete break of the deadlock.

Viper Dragon's huge snake head shrank back first, and then slammed into Qi Lao's position.

(End of this chapter)