On the tenth year of the natural disaster, I went to farm with me

Mosses and vines covered the rugged rocks on three sides of the valley. Several blades of light pierced through the gaps between the branches and leaves of the trees high in the evolutionary forest, illuminating the water vapor of the waterfall and the three snakes in the pool.

After entering the pool, three slender snakes, two green and one red, no longer pretended to be grass stems, but swam and lingered flexibly in the water.

There is weirdness and evil everywhere here.

Yang Jin quickly scouted around and confirmed that there were no high-risk areas. He then walked towards Xia Qing and formed a defensive formation with her. "What did you find?"

Although no powerful beasts or aggressive evolution-killing plants were found, Yang Jin was still extremely vigilant because he was not the only one here, there was also Xia Qing who had never been deep into the evolution forest.

Xia Qing pointed to the bottomless pool and said, "There are at least a dozen snakes at the bottom."

Yang Jin's visual evolution level was not as high as Xia Qing's. After Xia Qing pointed out the location, he discovered the entangled red and green snakes hidden in the cracks of the stone wall two or three meters underwater.

The snake has always been considered a rare and high-risk species. This is why Zhang San started the disaster elimination procedure after discovering the snake, and Yang Jin and Luo Pei also rushed over from the safe zone immediately.

But what he saw today has overturned Yang Jin's cognition. Humans' understanding of the creatures in the evolutionary forest is still too superficial.

Yang Jin took off his backpack and said, "I'll check the underwater situation first, you'll be in charge of the guard."

"Okay, be careful." Xia Qing had already used magnetic perception to investigate. Although there were several aggressive and self-evolving plants around, the danger level was not high. As long as they were not touched, there would be no danger.

But there must be something unusual in this pool or its surroundings, or to quote Li Si's famous words, it is "the result of the combined effect of multiple factors" that can attract snakes from twenty or thirty miles away.

Since there is nothing special about the plants above the water surface, the key factor among these "multiple factors" may be hidden in the deep pool that Xia Qing's detection ability cannot reach.

It's time to use the equipment.

Yang Jin took out a small underwater detector the size of a fist, placed it close to the edge of the pond, and began to explore the underwater situation.

"Om - hum -"

Xia Qing, who was on guard duty, felt the phone in his pocket vibrate and ordered directly, "Silly, silly, answer the phone."

Yang Jin, who was standing next to her and directing the underwater detector, raised the corners of his mouth slightly after hearing this.

After the call was connected, before Xia Qing could ask, Zhang San spoke up, "Xia Qing, the pythons in the lake in the north of No. 60 Mountain have begun to release scents containing strong chemical signals. They should be marking their territory and attracting mates. Where is the snake you are following?"

As soon as Xia Qing heard Zhang San's words, he knew something was wrong, and immediately said to Yang Jin beside him, "There is a python in the pond, hurry up and catch it..."

Before she could finish her words, she saw that the surveillance screen of the detection instrument held by Yang Jin had gone black.

Yang Jin pressed the remote control a few more times, "Tell Third Brother that there is a large creature in this small pond, and it swallowed the small detector I put down."

After Xia Qing reported the location and situation here, Zhang San analyzed, "It's possible that there's a python under the water. You guys mark the location of the pool first, and then install surveillance cameras nearby. Yang Jin, can you two beat the thing in the water?"

Yang Jin answered confidently, "We may not be able to defeat them if we jump into the water, but if they dare to come out of the water, they are definitely no match for Xia Qing and I."

The combination of a top speed evolver and a top sniper is indeed reassuring. Zhang San ordered, "Very good. If it doesn't attack, you stay by the pool and capture all the snakes that swim over, and then retreat when there are no more snakes. If it attacks, bring it back if you can defeat it, otherwise retreat immediately."

"Got it." Xia Qing received the order and asked with concern, "Third brother, there is no fighting over at Hill No. 60, right?"

The wolf cubs are probably not even a month old yet.

Zhang San sent out the trained birds from Territory No. 8, who of course knew the situation over at Hill No. 60. "The leaders of the wolf and bear packs are watching the movements of the python in the lake, and they haven't started fighting yet."

Xia Qing hung up the phone and discussed with Yang Jin first, "Captain Yang, you keep an eye on it first. I'll make a net bag for catching snakes."

After Yang Jin nodded, Xia Qing took out steel wire and a fine fishing net from her backpack and quickly made a small net bag. Then she looked around and selected a suitable sapling. Without even using a knife, she walked over, grasped the trunk with her hands and bent it. The sapling, which was thicker than her arm, broke with a "click".

Xia Qing used a knife to neatly scrape off the bark and branches, made the trunk into a wooden stick for catching snakes, and tried it out in his hand.

Very good, very handy.

After finishing the work and noticing Yang Jin looking at her, Xia Qing explained, "I came out on a single-soldier flying vehicle this time, and I didn't bring any retractable steel pipes, as these materials are too heavy. The snake-killing net's attack capability is not strong, so this wooden stick snake-catching net should be enough."

Yang Jin was not questioning the quality of the snake net, but was amazed at Xia Qing's strength and proficiency in making the tool. "It's enough. If it breaks, you can make another one. This is low cost."

Speaking of cost, Xia Qing thought of the underwater detector that was just swallowed, "The detector you just put into the water, it's not cheap, right?"

Yang Jin smiled, "It's not cheap, but it's the spoils seized from Su Feng. This detector is very strong, we can just catch the underwater creatures and then take it out."

Xia Qing fished out a fiery red snake that swam upstream to the small pond, but he was not as optimistic as Yang Jin. "If the python in the water is the one that defeated the northern wolf pack last July, we may not be able to get it back."

On July 18th last year, a pack of wolves, a pack of snakes and a pack of bears started a fight on Hill No. 55. Then in the early morning of July 19th, the leader wolf, carrying the injured wolf with a broken waist and a broken leg, ventured into Xia Qing's territory to ask for help.

After Yang Jin put the killed snakes in the net bag into the bag, Xia Qing asked, "Captain Yang, I forgot to ask you later, what did you detect at that time, the wolf, the snake, the bear, who was in league with whom?"

Yang Jin replied, "According to the reconnaissance video, at Hill No. 55, wolves and snakes, wolves and bears, and bears and snakes were all fighting. It's hard to tell who formed an alliance with whom."

Later, on the night of October 21, during the revenge battle at Hill 60, Broken Waist Wolf took Xia Qing to treat the wounds of the leader wolf. According to her observation, the snake and the bear should be in the same group.

The fights between animals must be related to food and territory. A bold guess gradually took shape in Xia Qing's mind.

While investigating the snakes, she asked, "In mid-May last year, when the leader wolf first entered the wild boar breeding center to kill wild boars, you chased it and it seemed to have run to Hill No. 55. You didn't chase it again, right?"

Yang Jin understood what Xia Qing was thinking and nodded, "Yes. Not only that time, half a month later, when I took all the equipment and led the team north to explore the Evolution Forest, we had just entered Mountain 55. Later, the Broken Waist Wolf who went to your territory to heal his wounds broke into the wild boar breeding center and hunted wild boars again."

In early June last year, Xia Qing, who was hunting porcupines in the Evolution Forest, happened to encounter a Broken Waist Wolf that was retreating after hunting two wild boars.

At that time, Xia Qing knew that she was no match for the Broken Waist Wolf, so she took the initiative to give way and let it go. But she didn't know that Yang Jin went to the 55th Mountain again at that time, "What supplies did you want to find when you led the team to the 55th Mountain that time?" (End of this chapter)