Snake Venom

I took out the pictures and shared a few with Wang Ming. I realised that there was no distortion here, only in the pictures, and every corner was the same, this photo should be from a few months ago, could it be that there wasn't any change in this place during these few months?

Wang Ming looked at the photo for a while, then took a step forward. I grabbed his arm, letting him see the terrain clearly before entering. After saying that, I took out a lighter from my backpack and threw it inside.

After a while, the lighter seemed to slowly sink into the ground. It was almost the same as the swamp.

Wang Ming picked up a handful of soil from the ground and rubbed it with his hand a few times, then said that the quality of the soil here was very good, there were a lot of nutrients inside, and the humidity was very high, the plants here should die.

I don't understand. If the soil is so good as I said, why do you say that plants die here?

Wang Ming explained that this place was very strange. The more fertile and moist the land was, the more plants would die, because there was too much nutrients and plenty of water.

Moreover, there is a desert behind us, and the water here is so abundant. It's obviously not normal water, but someone has tampered with it. This road is the only way to enter the village, which means that there are experts in the village.

"What kind of expert?" "Botany?" I asked in confusion.

"Why do you look like a newcomer? "You don't even understand this?" Wang Ming complained a little before he started to explain.

There wouldn't be much water in this place. Even if there was water here every day, it wouldn't be this wet. There was only one possibility: there were a lot of corpses down here, so the Yin energy was strong enough to gather the water.

I was stunned for a moment, and looked at Wang Ming, as if I understood, that this was a place for keeping corpses, using corpses to maintain the water, corpses can even be used to harm people.

If that's the case, then it would be difficult for us to enter the village, and we even have to capture a snake. This is almost impossible, those people who died in the forest must have been poisoned by corpse poison.

If one was poisoned by the corpse poison at night, it was very likely that they would see the thing they feared the most. This would explain why these people died in such strange states.

Wang Ming smiled, then placed the little snake he brought with him into the forest. It said that it was looking for a way for us, the snake has its own intelligence, it will not go to dangerous places, thus its way here is basically safe.

The snake crawled around in the forest for awhile, before stopping in the middle of the forest. After looking around for a while, it returned back to its original route. Wang Ming shook his head and placed the snake back into his backpack.

"This place doesn't seem to have a safe path, but those villagers are definitely going to go in. We should look for another way." After Wang Ming finished speaking, he walked along the edge of the forest.

But the more I walked, the more I felt that something was wrong, because the desert was much more serious than before, the trees in the sand were alive, the sand was also moist, and I felt that all of this was inconceivable.

Wang Ming stopped in the middle of an open area. He said that the sun had already set and that he had to hurry. If it was night time, this place would be even more dangerous.

By the time it was pitch dark, we still hadn't found the way to enter the village. I got anxious and asked if there was any way to deal with the corpse rearing grounds.

Wang Ming thought for a while, took out a military blade, took a deep breath and said: "I have never encountered such a situation before, I can only try."

I also didn't know what Wang Ming was going to do, so I just followed him. When I came across a few trees that were slightly larger than the others, Wang Ming started to use his blade to chop down the branches that were bigger, and even asked me for help.

When they were done, Wang Ming tied the branches together with a rope. He thought that the corpse rearing ground was like a swamp, but if the wood could float, then as long as we were fast enough, we should be able to pass.

"You mean what we're making now is a boat?" I stared at Wang Ming, feeling that it was a little ridiculous.

Wang Ming said roughly what I said. If I have any other ideas, I can say it to everyone and they can study it together.

I didn't have any other choice. I had only heard of the corpse rearing grounds and I thought that it would be impossible for me to encounter such a thing in my entire life. I didn't expect that I would encounter a foreign corpse rearing site.

While we chatted, Wang Ming and I had already finished our work on the so-called boat. We were running on the ground while pushing this wooden guy forward, and when we felt that we couldn't run anymore, we would climb up, and forcefully push the tree behind us to allow this boat to move forward.

When we were in the middle, our boat started to sink slowly. I pushed at the tree beside me anxiously, Wang Ming told me not to be nervous.

Suddenly, I felt a chill behind my back. This familiar feeling made me stop what I was doing and subconsciously glance behind me.

Apart from the tree, there were only a few people's bones. Nothing else was found, and there was a feeling of movement above me. I looked up, but there was still nothing.

Wang Ming stared at me and said: "Hurry, with how you are, both of us will die here. Don't take off your gloves, there might be corpse poison on this tree."

Am I the only one who felt the aura?

I raised my head again to look at the sky, and it seemed that there was a black shadow above my head. I shouted loudly, and pointed to the sky for Wang Ming to see, but Wang Ming said loudly, "Don't worry about anything now, it's just a tree that's trying to confuse you!"

But the feeling around me was very obvious, just like how it was for Jin Congwen who was by my side. Goosebumps were all over my body, my legs also felt cold, I looked, it was my feet inside the viscous liquid, Wang Ming patted on my head, telling me to climb onto the tree, this boat couldn't handle the two of us.

With that, Wang Ming climbed onto the nearest tree and I followed along.

"Wang Ming, do you feel anything here?"

Wang Ming nodded his head and said: "This is a body rearing area, there are some things that is normal. Be careful, I already knew about it."

The two of them found a branch and sat down. We started to slowly collect new branches. I looked under the tree and found that the liquid seemed to be moving. Ripples also appeared.

And with the sound of the wind, could it be that the wind had caused this liquid to react? I climbed onto a lower branch and observed.

Wang Ming told me not to care about that, I will die here soon.

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt the tree start to shake as well. If the wind was blowing, it wouldn't have made such a big noise, because I didn't think the wind was that strong at all.

Wang Ming looked at me and said, "Quickly, jump down."

This is a swamp, Wang Ming jumped down right after he finished speaking, completely ignoring me.

As I watched his body slowly sink, Wang Ming decisively grabbed onto a tree and threw the rope away. He went around a tree branch and tied himself up, preventing himself from sinking any further.

I followed his example, but once I went down, I felt that this thing was as dense as water and was able to swim. I put down the rope a little longer and swam a little further forward.

After Wang Ming saw this, he also started to swim like me. As soon as the two of them met, someone below me seemed to pull on my leg, causing me to be unable to move.

Wang Ming hurriedly released the snakes in his backpack, then scattered a few Realgar Powder around the two of us. His speed was extremely fast, almost in the blink of an eye.

Just as my neck was about to enter the liquid, my feet stopped feeling. Wang Ming shouted loudly, and quickly swam to the shore.

The two swam to the shore of the village. They were already exhausted. Lying on the ground, they laughed.

Wang Ming stood up, looked at the village and said: "Let's go, we should all be covered in corpse poison, the plants here should be beneficial to our corpse poison, let's go and find them."

I am a snake trader, although I know some things, I don't understand them at all. I pulled Wang Ming and asked him a few questions.

Wang Ming said that as long as he moved slightly slower, the two of us would be pulled in and drowned, and the bones would float up, turning into the bones that we had seen before.

"Then what was that thing that pulled our feet?" This is my most relevant question.

Wang Ming said that he was not sure either, it should be something like a ghost. He was too nervous just now and did not feel it carefully, only concerned with escaping, but the liquid here, is mixed with a large amount of corpse poison, some preservatives, and even all kinds of poison. We just touched it on our skin, it's not a big problem.

After hearing this, I felt a burst of fear and hurried forward a few steps, away from the place.

After walking a few steps, all the lights in the village suddenly lit up. Wang Ming and I were a little surprised, and looked around vigilantly.

We took a few steps forward and saw that everyone in the house had come out. They were all walking towards us with weapons in their hands.

Wang Ming said that no matter what these people did, they would not fight back. After they have the chance to exchange pointers, they will say that even if we fight back, we will not win.

I closed my eyes and waited for the men to come after me.

But what I was thinking did not happen. I heard Wang Ming conversing with those people using his fluent English, and it seemed like everything was going smoothly.

Wang Ming told me that they were questioning Wang Ming, asking him about his origins, and they had to know the reason why they were here.

Looks like things aren't as simple as I thought. Wang Ming's reply were obviously not satisfied, as he picked up the weapon in his hand.

I took a few steps back to see if there were any usable weapons around me so I could temporarily defend myself against these people. However, Wang Ming walked forward and began to chatter with these people.

A person walked out from the back of the crowd. He looked at us with a face full of suspicion and did some weird things, Wang Ming told me that those people wanted to capture us, and advised us not to resist.