The strongest bear system in history

Chapter 39-Snake Cave

Passing through the riverbed covered with pebbles, what you see is a white snow, surrounded by a large number of one-meter-high bushes, but in front of the half-meter-thick snow, the one-meter-high bushes look very pitiful. .

After patrolling around the bushes, there was no strange Ye Qingshan, and he shook his head and continued to explore.

Hibernating snakes like shrubs, especially those close to streams, but the surface is dry.

The main reason is that these places are where mice and rabbits like to burrow the most. Snakes, like brown bears, do not build nests themselves, so every time they hibernate, they will grab the fruits of other animals' labor.

However, compared to the brown bears who own the house after directly chasing the original owner of the house, snakes are often more vicious and excessive. They will not only chase away the original owner of the house, but even kill it. The original owner of the house.

Ye Qingshan wanted to see if there were tree holes or ground holes around the bushes.

Maybe he could find a few snakes to satisfy his hunger, but seeing the density of the bushes and the half-meter thick snow, Ye Qingshan gave up.

This environment is not suitable for rabbits to survive, nor for mice to dig holes. Besides, with so many snakes around, whose stupid rabbit will build a house here?

So Ye Qingshan planned to go deeper and explore, but after walking for a while, less than a hundred meters away, Ye Qingshan suddenly stopped, turned to look at the footprints behind him, a hint of surprise flashed between his eyebrows.

The thick bear's paw waved twice on the ground, revealing the fertile black soil. Ye Qingshan's palm pressed hard on the ground. Although it was a little laborious, the ground still left Ye Qingshan's clear handprints. Pinch, the soil under your feet is soft!

Subconsciously thought of a possible Ye Qingshan's eyes flashed with shock!

This is very unusual. You must know that it is not far away. In the virgin forest where you don’t know how many ancient pines grow, there is also half a meter of snow, but the ground there has long been frozen. It has become harder than the stone, but the soil is actually soft just less than a thousand meters apart!

Why is the soil soft in winter?There are many possibilities, but the most likely is that there is geothermal here, even considering that it is close to the river, it is very likely that there is a hot spring here!

Geothermal?Snakes?Suspected hot spring?

Associated with these words, a flash of lightning flashed across Ye Qingshan's mind. He finally knew why there were so many snakes here, and even such a horrible snake nest.

Because there are hot springs here, because the soil here is warm, because here is the only place that will not be threatened by the northern winter.

Although snakes living in the north must hibernate like bears, snakes are different from bears. Bears have thick fur to withstand the cold, but what does snakes have?What insulation effect can a layer of scale armor have?

This is not the south, this is the north. Twelve months a year, almost half of the time is ruled by the harsh winter. Normally the temperature in winter is below minus 20 degrees, and the ground below two or three meters can give you Frozen, there is only a snake with thin scales, why live here?And there are still so many?Hundreds of thousands of snakes appear together?

So a hot spring, and a rather large hot spring cave, became a shelter for these snakes.

As for why it is a cave?Instead of an open-air hot spring?

That's because the thermal insulation effect of the open-air hot spring is very low, but the cave is different.

Moreover, if it is an open-air hot spring, hundreds of thousands of snakes gather together and the target is too large to avoid the eyes of snakes’ natural enemies. In fact, they are not only snakes’ natural enemies, but creatures such as eagles are actually There are hundreds of thousands of snakes entrenched around the hot springs. Within a few years, all of these snakes will be eaten by wolves or brown bears.

So there must be a cave here, and it is a rather large hot spring cave.

Sure enough, as Ye Qingshan continued to deepen, the temperature on the ground began to gradually rise, and it was about two or three miles away. There was only a thin layer of snow on the surrounding ground, and it was a little muddy when you stepped on it.

The snow that was half a meter thick from the beginning has now become less than ten centimeters thick, and it seems that the ten centimeters thick snow is about to melt, and Ye Qingshan’s line of sight is finally It was frozen down.

This is the bottom of the cliff of a majestic mountain. On the cliff that is almost 90 degrees vertical, seven or eight pine roots are rooted on the hard rock.

At the bottom of the cliff is a flowing stream. Surrounded by a piece of green bamboo beside the stream, a raised grotto appeared in the sight of Ye Qingshan.

The cave is very wide, with an entrance of 70 or 80 square meters. On the smooth stone wall, there is a dark green withered vine that is not named by Ye Qingshan. Under the dry vine, there is a hot spring that does not seem to be very hot. The gurgling spring water slapped the icicles, and a layer of translucent light green ice layer was stirred up around the spring water, and wisps of white mist rose up, giving the place an indescribable fairy spirit.

Around the hot spring, there are dozens of stones scattered around. The largest is even bigger than Ye Qingshan, and the smallest is only the size of a human head. On each stone are several colorful snakes, the big one. They are seven or eight meters in length, with a large arm thickness, and a small one or two meters, one finger wide and two fingers thick.

To be sure, these snakes are highly poisonous. From the colorful scales on the other side, you can see how terrible the poison in these snakes is!

Will a bite kill you?Can Ye Qingshan's physique, which is three times more than normal humans, resist the poison of poisonous snakes?Ye Qingshan didn't know, and didn't want to try!

But these are not the most important. The important thing is that under the venomous snakes entrenched on top of the stone, there are a large number of snakes entrenched on the ground with a cave of 70 to 80 square meters at the entrance.

Looking around, there are frozen snakes, you press me, I press you, in the 70-80 square meter hole, there are at least a thousand snakes, and this is only the hole, through. Looking inward through the entrance of the cave, wherever he looked, there were snakes entwined together everywhere. These snakes lay motionless, their bodies stiff like dead corpses.

Although looking up close will not give people a sense of creepy, but if you look at it for a long time, you will involuntarily feel panic in your heart.

Especially as I looked towards the deepest part of the cave, all I could see was pitch black. I don’t know how many snakes are sleeping at the bottom of the cave, or even how many snakes are hovering in the depths of the cave. Spit a forked snake letter.