Daomu Biji

Chapter 32 The Third Night: Another one

The fat man didn't resist. I didn't even see him move. The chill in my heart became even colder. Could he be dead?

The snakes were squirming, and I had imagined quite a few ways to speculate on how they would transport the bodies, but I didn't expect it to look like this. Big and small red snakes coiled together, wrapping the body in the center, and then moved their bodies to move the body forward. The fat man was extremely heavy, but these snakes were still able to move him here quickly. Obviously, this method of movement was quite efficient.

After the fat man fell into the pool, the snakes thinned out, climbed back onto the shore one after another, and soon disappeared on the stone wall. I looked at the fat man lying quietly in the water, feeling a little at a loss. I don’t know if he is dead or alive. If he is dead, I feel that people as stubborn as him are dead, and I will die here sooner or later. If he is alive, then I must save him, but it is possible to pass. Just die.

After thinking about it, no matter what, I have to go and take a look. Fatty and I have been through life and death. I can't just leave him here without knowing whether he is dead or not.

I looked around cautiously. It seemed that the snake had gone away. After checking the mud on my body, I climbed down again along the vines and carefully descended into the water. I climbed the rock wall and walked to the fat man's side. The fat man didn't move at all, and most of his head was submerged in the water. I felt cold and trembled a little.

After listening carefully, there was no sound around, so I approached the fat man and turned him over. The fat man's lower body was submerged in the water. When I touched it, my heart relaxed and I was still breathing weakly, but I also immediately saw the blood holes on his neck. He had also been bitten by a snake.

The snakes here are really venomous. Even bitten on the neck. Unless that person is immune to snake venom. Otherwise, it is basically impossible to deal with it and you can only wait for death.

But I felt strange why Aning died within a few minutes after being bitten, while the fat man was still breathing. At this time, he found blood on his body.

I checked that there were no external injuries on the fat man's body. The blood was obviously not his, and I understood. It might have gotten on the ground while fighting the snake. I guess it was because the fat man acted so quickly that as soon as the snake bit his throat, he had already chopped the snake to death with a knife, so he was not killed immediately.

However, if not dead, he is almost dead. I looked around and thought that I must drag him out of this pool first, otherwise these snakes will come back to make up for it.

This was quite difficult, but fortunately the vines were downstream. I helped the fat man up and pushed him downstream using the buoyancy and thrust of the water. Unexpectedly, I lost control in two steps. In order not to rush into the current, I twisted my body hard to let my hands float on it. Grab it as you rush through the vines. Only then did he regain control of his body.

I used all my strength to stand still in the water, and then I hung the fat man on the vine. He secured him with his leash and climbed up first. Wanted to pull him up. But after pulling twice, I found that it was impossible.

Although the vines are strong enough, the fat man is too heavy, and my little strength is really not enough. I looked around and saw a large Y-shaped branch on the branch I was standing on. I immediately hung the vine up, made a pulley, and then used my weight and strength to lift him up.

In just one move, I pressed the branches above into a bow shape, and the whole tree made a creepy sound. I suddenly felt that the fat man was too heavy. It was ridiculously heavy. With my weight and my strength, it shouldn't be that difficult to lift him up. But it's obviously quite reluctant now. I've carried him on my back before, and it's definitely not as heavy as it is now.

If I can go back alive this time, I must let him lose weight, I thought to myself, and continued to exert all my strength, little by little, and it took a full half an hour to lift him out of the water little by little. By the time I dragged him to the branch, my tiger's mouth was completely broken and I didn't even have the strength to raise my hand. At this time, the branch I was standing on was bent horribly under the weight of the fat man and me.

I no longer had the time to think about these things, so I calmed down for a moment, thinking how to deal with his poison. It was already too late for me to suck it out. It looked like I had to go back to the camp and drag him through the woods. I was really alone. It's tough enough. But I have to do it even if it’s tough, otherwise if he dies, how will I survive my own test?

After resting for a while, I went down again, scooped up a handful of mud again, smeared it on the fat man's body, then pulled the vines around, connected the vines hastily, and made a drag frame, trying to lower the fat man from the tree.

When I tied it to the fat man, I found that he was too fat and it was really difficult to fix it, so I had to use vines to tie him tightly in several places. The vines were very thick and my hands were not strong enough, so I stood up and used my feet to help tighten the knot. Probably because he was pulling too hard, the fat man suddenly opened his mouth, and a mouthful of green water spurted out from his mouth.

The green water was extremely smelly, and I immediately covered my mouth, wondering what he had eaten. Then I saw that there were many tiny red scales mixed in the green water.

I touched a piece, not sure what to do, so I pulled the fat man's clothes apart and found that the fat man's belly was huge. I touched it hard and it was as hard as if he had eaten a weight.

Chapter 33 The Third Night: Host

Oops, how could this happen? Could it be that a snake got into his stomach?

I immediately turned the fat man over, pushed my knees into his stomach, and crushed him in hard, and he began to vomit violently. A large amount of green water mixed with some white cotton-like things was vomited out, and all of it was vomited on the branches. Then it drips down.

I pushed hard a few times until he finished vomiting. His breathing became a little easier. It seemed that the thing in his stomach was also very compressing his breathing.

Looking at the vomited things, the amount was huge, as if it was poured from a bucket. Fortunately, the fat man had a big stomach, otherwise the stomach of an ordinary person might have exploded if he put so many things in it.

I put him down and covered his mouth to look at the vomit. A sour smell hit my face. Between the green water, there was white gel like egg drop. I broke off a branch and fiddled with it. It was discovered that the gel was filled with something that looked like eggs.

For a moment, a wave of extreme nausea surged into my chest, and I almost vomited it out. Looking at the mixed scales, I thought to myself, could these be snake eggs? , this is really disgusting, this kind of snake can actually lay eggs in the human stomach, it is like a monster in a Hollywood movie. I thought about poking all these snake eggs immediately.

In this case, the stomachs of the corpses below should also be filled with snake eggs. I can't even imagine what these snake eggs will look like when they hatch.

Trying to hold back my nausea, I looked at the quagmire below, then at the snake eggs floating on the water, drifting downstream, and began to understand what was going on here.

Could this quagmire be an "incubator"? These snakes rely on the heat generated by the decay of corpses to hatch their eggs, so they keep carrying the corpses and dumping them into the mire, letting them rot and mix with the soil to generate heat.

I have heard that many ants can control the temperature in the nest through fermentation and decay. These snakes obviously can't do it, but they are already using the heat of decay to incubate their eggs.

However, the ruins near here are very sunny, so why don't they use sunlight to hatch their eggs like other snakes? Is it because the temperature requirements for the incubation of these snake eggs are very precise?

Thinking about it wrong, I thought of a possibility. If it hadn't been for those heavy rains, there would be no water in this quagmire. It would be a muddy quagmire at most. If the fat man fell into it, it would take a long time to die. Then the fat in his body would be The temperature will be maintained until he is completely dead, which may be why the fat man is not dead yet. Those snakes just want to paralyze us, not kill us, just to use our body heat to hatch their eggs.

I know that there are some very advanced snakes whose eggs have almost hatched in their bodies. They only need one to two days of stable temperature before they hatch. Is this what the snakes here mean? Fortunately, it rained heavily, otherwise, I would have fallen into a pile of snakes just now.

What creeps me out the most is that there are snake eggs here. Doesn’t that mean there is a female snake here? I get chills all over when I think of that relief, but thinking about it again is still impossible. Such a huge female snake definitely violates the laws of natural biology. These eggs may be the offspring of that huge snake mother.

The fat man's belly is still a little bloated, and I don't know if there are still these things in it. I think it's better to be safe and let him vomit them all. So I lifted the fat man up, held his throat, and let him continue to vomit, but what he vomited next was green water, and it turned into retching.

I believe it should be gone. If there is any more, it should have passed through the stomach, and then the only option is to let him pull it out.

The fog had almost dissipated and the visibility was gradually restored. I continued my previous work, tightening the rattan on his body and preparing to lower it slowly. This is very difficult. If I lose my grip a little, the fat man may fall directly from the tree. He is now unconscious and cannot use muscles and movements to protect himself, so this fall may kill him. Therefore, the length of the vines must be controlled.

I got everything ready and then illuminated the tree with a miner's lamp. This big tree grows on the edge of the quagmire. If you don't do it right, it may fall right back into the quagmire and all your efforts will be wasted. You must choose a good place.

As soon as the miner's lamp shone under the tree, I was stunned. It was so hazy under the tree that I couldn't see the ground clearly. The miner's lamp shone over it, as if it was shining on a mass of chaos.

This is really a ghost. I didn't use the miner's lamp to illuminate it just now. I just used the residual light of the miner's lamp to see the blurry shadow on the ground. Why can't I see it now? Is the fog getting thicker again? But why is it only concentrated near the ground?

Upon closer inspection, I discovered that something had changed in the quagmire. A black air evaporated from the water, covering the entire surface of the water. The corpses in it were looming, and seemed to be moving in the black air.