Lao Jiang smiled flatteringly and said: "My dear disciple, aren't you an expert in cracking accounts? It's time to show off your skills again!"
I knew that time waits for no one, so I didn't argue with Lao Jiang. Instead, I took out the Garuda statue from my backpack and put it in the palm of my hand to look at it carefully.
As I watched, the two rattlesnakes that were entangled on the corpses of Warner's men in the desert suddenly came to my mind.
It was at that time that we accidentally discovered the statue of Garuda.
Thinking that Garuda and poisonous snakes are naturally incompatible, a bold idea slowly grew in my heart...
Seeing the light in my eyes, Lao Jiang immediately asked me if I had an idea. My answer was just one sentence: "Look for snakes for me!"
Everyone looked at each other and looked at me in confusion.
Especially Yin Ling'er, who showed a very disgusted expression: "Snake things are so disgusting, I can't even hide them, and yet you let everyone find them."
Yueyue also muttered: "He is indeed a pervert!"
Lao Jiang stood by my side this time and asked me to talk properly.
I explained: "The Garuda bird feeds on snakes and dies because of snakes. If you want to make it spit out its secrets, you can only force it with snakes!"
"There is a proverb among the Chinese people: On March 3rd, the snake comes out of the cave, and on September 9th, the snake returns to the mountain. This means that every spring, poisonous snakes will wake up from hibernation. At this time, snakes are the most vulnerable. It’s poisonous and must not be touched.”
And the snake at this time is also the most threatening to Garuda!
As I talked, I became more and more confident: "As long as we can find enough rattlesnakes, we can accomplish great things."
Master Diao couldn't help but look at me with admiration. He stroked the green crutch and said with satisfaction: "Good boy, your mind works fast enough. If you really succeed, I will reward you with a jade pendant."
I rubbed the back of my head in embarrassment and accepted Lord Diao's compliment.
But now there is vast desert everywhere in the west, and trying to find a rattlesnake is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Just when everyone was discussing how to divide the troops, Professor Xiang Wanli suddenly said: "I have a way to find the snake."
Everyone's eyes fell on him. Professor Wan Li elegantly picked up a stone and drew on the sand, then said: "The rattlesnake hides during the day and comes out at night. It crawls sideways in the desert, so the traces it passes are Like the waves of the sea.”
"Remember! It's this shape." Xiang Wanli told us that as long as we find enough wavy patterns, it means that there must be a snake nest hidden in that place, and there will be enough snakes available.
At present, we divide the Camel team into Western groups, and each team has at least two masters to guard the formation to prevent accidents.
Then equip yourself with some realgar powder and set off in the east, west, south, north and west directions.
Everyone was looking for wavy patterns along the way, but Yin Ling'er was lazy and hid behind her companions all the way, not doing anything serious at all. He only yelled at me and asked me after a while if he had found it and when he could go back.
We don’t have a clue yet, but this is Professor Xiang Wanli’s strength! Not long after, a signal was sent from the Free Commune.
Everyone headed in the direction of the radio. After the team reunited, I found that this place was actually a shady place in the sand mountain!
The sun can't come in, and it can block the wind and sand, which is what Feng Shui says: it hides dirt and evil.
It's really a good place for rattlesnakes to live.
What's more important is that there are scattered snake-thorn plants growing here.
Xiang Wanli pointed his hand: "Look, there are so many traces of snakes crawling here..."
Following the direction of his finger, we could clearly see that in the shady depressions, there were all Z-shaped crawling traces, like waves that had been ruffled by the wind.
If you meet someone who doesn't know how to do it, you may mistake it for the traces of wind blowing. Fortunately, we have such a knowledgeable university professor in our team.
I looked at Wanli with admiration and asked, "Professor, can you tell how many rattlesnakes there are around here?"
Xiang Wanli pondered for a moment and replied: "It can range from dozens to thousands."
"The wind was strong in the afternoon, and many crawling marks were covered with sand. But I am 100%25 sure that there is a huge snake nest hidden in this place!"
Yin Ling'er was so scared that she grabbed my sleeve, as if she was worried that a snake would suddenly appear somewhere.
I patted her hand and reassured her: "It's still broad daylight, and those snakes won't come out in large numbers."
It was almost dusk when the ship was broken, and there were two rattlesnakes hiding under the bodies of the foreigners.
Xiang Wanli also made a guess: "This shady slope is so large and there are so many snakethorn grasses. The rock formation below must be the largest snake nest in the entire Desert of the Dead."
"On March 3rd, all the rattlesnakes in the area will come here to worship!"
My expression was stunned: "Can snakes still worship? What are they worshiping for?"
Xiang Wanli smiled bitterly and replied with two words: "Snake Mother."
When I heard the word snake mother, I felt a chill down my back and even goosebumps appeared. Others were not much better.
After all, humans are naturally afraid of snakes!
Yin Ling'er and Yueyue were so frightened that their faces turned pale. Looking at their trembling expressions, they must have imagined vivid pictures in their minds. On the other hand, that little Nuwa was playing with the snake-thorn grass carelessly, and she was not afraid of being poisoned to death.
We stood on the dune and carefully observed the back slope.
At this moment, a sudden gust of wind blew away the sand on the back slope. At that moment, I saw the most scalp-numbing scene in my life!
When the desert was lifted up, thousands of earth-yellow snake heads were actually exposed below. All of these snakes spit out scarlet snakes, and their bodies were densely covered with black scales.
Their tails whistled in the wind, their eyes were red, and their skin was sticky.
It is colorful and covered with dense snake eggs.
Everyone was shocked and speechless by this scene. I even noticed that there was a huge shriveled snake skin in the middle of the snake nest!
The snake skin was translucent and at least seven or eight meters long. Could it be that it was shed towards the mother snake that Wan Li mentioned?
Seeing the grimaces on our faces, Xiang Wanli wiped his sweat and explained: "In nature, social animals have their own nests and their own leaders. Just like a beehive has a queen, and ants have ants. Later, the snake group also had a mother snake."
He even mentioned a personal experience he had when he led a team to Daliang Mountain in Xichuan to study an ancient village.
In that inaccessible virgin forest, Professor Xiang Wanli witnessed such a spectacle with his own eyes: Countless bungara snakes fell down the waterfall. The scene was so spectacular that all the viewers were terrified and could not bear to look back in their lives.
Each of the thousands of bungara snakes holds a mouthful of prey in its mouth, whether it is a rabbit, a bird, or even a fruit.
It turns out that they provide food for the big snake mother that hatches the eggs!
