Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 509 Siguniang Mountain (69)

5095 Chapter Siguniang Mountain (69)

Before going up this slope, my brother and I stopped first, and we observed the depth of the gap.

My brother randomly selected several holes in different locations to illuminate and observe the situation inside. While he was observing, I asked him in a low voice: "How is it? Is it really inside?"

I looked at several holes with him, and they were all dark and narrow. Wherever the light touched, there were countless criss-crossing holes, like irregular nets.

If you look deeper, you can only see endless darkness. The criss-crossing pattern above is caused by the fracture and collapse of the mountain, but it is very likely that this pattern is not the same deeper than you can see.

The unknown darkness and the possibility that something might suddenly appear in the cave at any time made me really afraid to look further into the cracked hole. I moved my eyes away and looked at my brother.

After looking inside some cracks, my brother suddenly reached out and spread his palms in front of me.

As soon as the big hand came to my door, I would have put my little hand on it, or even rubbed my face against it. But in this case, he definitely didn't want me to act coquettishly. He seemed to be asking me for help. what.

I looked at his palms, then at his expressionless handsome face, and finally at the gap he was shining on under the light. I asked him, "Did you find something that you want to see from below?" take it out?"

I waited for a while, but he didn't answer. I felt that I was right, so I asked him again: "There is a distance? Is it heavy? Is it big?"

Then he said to me: "It's less than 3 meters, very light, not big."

Based on the conditions given by my brother, a tool I had seen popped up in my mind. It was a tool specially designed to grab things in narrow passages. I said in a confident tone: "I I know what to use.”

As I said that, I took out a stem handle from the bag. I pulled the horizontal handle and pulled out a spring tube. The spring tube became longer and longer as I pulled it out. When it was about one meter long, I stuffed the handle into my brother's hand. in the palm of your hand.

The main body of this thing is a thin and long steel spring tube. There is a horizontal handle on one end for holding the force. Next to the horizontal handle is a small round handle with two fingers. A little further down, there is a thick spring on the spring tube, and at the other end of the spring tube is a telescopic steel claw clip.

I continued to pull on the remaining spring tube until the steel claw clip was exposed, and then I completely took this thing out of the bag.

I held the closed steel claw clamp and handed all the tools to my brother. I rubbed my cold hands and said to him: "This thing has a three-meter spring tube and a load-bearing capacity of about 10 kilograms. The steel claws are very delicate and lightweight." Even small things can be grabbed.”

I paused and asked him: "Brother, what are you trying to catch? It's not something scary, right?"

Zhang Qiling fiddled with the tool in his hand to try out the feel, and gave a faint "Yes".

With his answer, my first reaction was to breathe a sigh of relief, so I said "oh" lightly, but I immediately remembered that "not scary" in my brother's eyes seemed to be completely different from my eyes. It's not the same thing.

I quickly turned to look at him and said, "That..."

In the blink of an eye, my brother had already dropped the tool into the gap he was targeting.

I immediately paused, and he also paused in his hand. He glanced at me, meaning to ask me "what's the matter?" I said to myself that I just threw it in before I could think of what to say, then... then continue. So she shook her head at him and pointed at the gap to express "You continue."

As soon as the brother loosened his hand, most of the spring tube went into the gap hole. He moved his wrist slightly to adjust the position of the claw clip, and soon there was a slight sound coming from the hole. , my brother pressed the handle and made a "click" sound, and then began to lift up the main body of the spring tube.

The thing that was clamped up quickly emerged from the hole. The color and shape of the thing looked like a slightly see-through old strip of cloth. It was very light. This was near the snake cave, so something like this should be " "Snake shed", I just blurted it out as I thought about it.

I looked at the snake shedding and said, "A snake sheds its skin from the beginning. When most snakes shed their skin, they rub their heads against hard objects in order to shed their skin easier. Usually, they use stones to grind the skin off their heads. The stones here are hard and sharp, making it much easier to grind and open seams. The area above seems to be their molting area. Snakes will not molt too far away from the snake cave, so this location is about the same distance from their old nest. How many meters is it?”

My brother said: "Ten meters."

I asked: "Within?"

The elder brother said "yes" in affirmation.

I took a breath and said, "Snakes can shed their skin 3 to 4 times a year, and a cycle lasts for two to three months. Although the specific time and frequency of shedding depends on the species of snake, if there is someone nearby who is in the shedding period, Especially the ones in the "blindfolded" state, and they happen to be preparing to shed their skin, so they will be closer to the entrance of the cave."

My brother nodded, and I asked him: "Half of the number of meters you just mentioned?"

My brother said: "Two meters to five meters."

I said, "Then it will be easy to disturb them on the way there." As I said that, I glanced at the snake slough that looked like an old piece of cloth, and my brows wrinkled unconsciously.

Brother took out this snake very carefully, and it is relatively complete. The skin and scale lines on the snake's body are clearly visible. If you look closely, you can see that the skin lines are quite delicate and beautiful, but the skin on the head is obviously the skin of the snake. At that time, I was severely injured, and the skin of the snake's head was a little twisted.This snake is at least a meter long when stretched out, so it's pretty big, but I can't tell whether it's the red snake with rooster combs on its head or the skin left by the long-haired black snake.

Zhang Qiling gently shook the snake slough in his claw holder. The thing was swaying and still somewhat elastic. It was obviously not completely dry, but in a semi-dry state.

I asked, "Brother, do you think it's because it's too humid here that it hasn't dried out yet, or because it hasn't been molted for a long time so it hasn't dried out yet."

My brother put down the snake on the only way up the slope. He rolled up the tool and handed it to me to put it away.

I looked at the part of the claw clip holding the snake's slough and unconsciously hid it. I remembered that the untreated snake slough might have parasites. Thinking about it made me feel sick. If the current situation didn't allow it, I would definitely give it. Sterilize this thing before putting it away.

I immediately grabbed the small bag and put it in front of me. I opened the mouth of the small bag that obviously couldn't hold the tool and moved it to the tool. I looked behind me and saw the silhouettes of several people following me. I blocked myself with my body. Small bag, I said in my heart, I have to collect my own things like a thief.

I patted Xiao Bao's belly three times with one hand, and the corner of the tool suddenly turned into a wisp of smoke and was sucked in by Bao. I smiled innocently at my brother and packed the small bag in my hands.

My brother also glanced at the figure following me, but he didn’t pay too much attention. He just turned around and patted my shoulder lightly, and then started walking towards the slope of the snake cave.

I followed him, bending over and picking at the edge of the crack hole, and climbed up the steep slope. The road here is wider than before, and there are more places for my hands and feet to put strength. But every time I reach out to grab it or lift my foot to step on it, When I saw the edge of the crack hole, I was afraid that a snake would come out of the hole.

After climbing a few meters, the slope gradually leveled off, but we still had to walk with our shoulders down, when we heard Qi Tiezui’s voice from behind shouting: “Wait for me.”

Gou Wuye slapped him unceremoniously, gritted his teeth as if he wanted to kill him, and said in a low voice: "Keep your voice down, you are looking for death."

Qi Tiezui whispered confused and aggrieved: "Fifth Master, I...what happened to me?"

Gou Wuye said: "You can't see the snake shedding just now."

Qi Tiezui said: "The clan leader made it so obvious that I saw it. Isn't it just a snake shedding? There are many snakes in this place. It's not unusual to have this."

Gou Wuye stopped and glared at him fiercely. Qi Tiezui paused, coughed twice and said, "I...I was wrong. Let me do it this way." The more he spoke, the softer his voice became. As if he was suffocating in a quilt, low and light, Gou Wuye finally retracted his sight of stabbing him to death and continued to move forward.

Zhang Rishan said to him: "It doesn't matter if you yell in the area where snakes shed their skin. After all, snakes are not afraid of noise and are afraid of people. It's just that the snakes I met outside before seemed to like live people jumping around. , the habits and preferences of the snakes here are different from those of ordinary snakes. The snakes here should be the same as the ones you encountered when you came here, so your surprise is not to tell them that there is a big living person jumping around here. Delighted.

The fact that the clan leader left the snake shed means that there are not only snakes here, but also snakes waiting to shed their skin. During the shed period, the eyes of the snakes are covered with skin. Because they are temporarily blind, the snakes will be timid. , and then we will have a bad temper and strong aggression. If we encounter one, we will probably die worse than the few who were bitten to death before. "

Qi Tiezui's eyes widened as he listened to Zhang Rishan's words and said, "Then... let's leave quickly." As he spoke, he took steps.

As I was crawling, I suddenly felt that the sound I had been hearing since I came in came from the gaps under me, but this time the sound felt very close.

In my mind, I wanted to leave this place quickly and reach out to touch the next point of strength. I stopped when I reached halfway, because something long and thin with a fork at the tip stretched out. It came out, flicked in my hand and disappeared. I knew that the last thing I wanted to happen had happened.

The sound of "hiss...hiss..." followed by several times made my heart skip a beat. This sound came from a certain gap in front of me.

Almost at the same time, my brother's voice sounded, and he warned: "Be careful, something is coming."

My brother's words were serious and powerful, and his voice was calm. It didn't sound loud up close, but it could be heard far away.

My brother said this, which means that there is no time to waste at all. I used my fastest speed to rush forward to catch up with him. I thought that as long as I moved fast enough, the things in the hole would be touched. Not to me.

When I moved closer to my brother and was raising my hand to grab the edge of the gap, my brother hung one hand on the edge of the gap and stretched out the other hand toward me. I put my hand directly into his palm, and he He turned his hand and grabbed my hand, pulled me up and pulled me to his side.

I gasped and said to him: "I spit on you, I almost touched you, there were several of them."

The nearby snakes were gradually becoming more active. He signaled me not to stop and continue to move forward. I continued to move forward at the same speed.

However, I didn't go far forward. The moment I was running forward, there was a muffled "bang" sound, and a cold object hit my forehead. This time it wasn't too painful. I tilted my head back. When I looked When something hit me, it almost made me fall.

A snake head with its neck raised suddenly popped out of the gap in front of me. Its eyes were white, and it must have been blindfolded. The snake was rushing towards me again.

My brother quickly grasped my back collar with quick eyes and hands. I swung my body up with my brother's hand and raised my hands to avoid the hole. The snake passed by my ear and flew out of the hole. go out.

I immediately turned around and put my arms around my brother's slim but strong waist to steady myself.

(End of this chapter)