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Fang Zheng bit his lips tightly to prevent him from yelling, so there really is such a snake in the world? ?Seeing the pictures on the relief charcoal paintings in the forest, he thought those ancestors liked to exaggerate.

The woman crouched on the bedside with her head in her arms, almost crying uncontrollably, when she suddenly felt a small but warm hand covering her mouth, choking her muffled screams in her throat.She was surprised to see Fang Zheng made a "shh" gesture with the other hand. There were beads of sweat on his forehead, and his expression was also surprised, but he was miraculously so calm and alert.

There were miserable screams outside the house.Fang Zheng looked through the small hole, and saw that snake actually pressed onto the roof of another house. Its head was half the size of the house, and it directly crushed the stone house of another family not far away.Fang Zheng also finally saw the uplifted snake's head—it was indeed blue, its eyes were like two small light bulbs, and in its wide open mouth, the snake's teeth were dripping with wet light.

There were people in the stone house, and that was where the screams came from.The big snake didn't stop, and ran towards another house.The camouflage of the sinkhole at the door of the house was swept away, revealing a gully ten feet wide, covered with sharp grasses, stone spears, and hooks.The snake's body was too heavy, and it suddenly sank a small part, and the sharp grass poked the scales, but it couldn't penetrate the solid scales.

A device against the beast that only works when it hits the crevices in its scales.Now it's like knocking on its belly through an iron plate, which didn't hurt the real thing, but it made the snake even more furious.

The screams of people and the screams of domesticated animals came from the village one after another: the snake's head could bite a cow in the middle, and the chicken couldn't fly over its body lying on the ground.The snake's teeth directly pierced the abdomen of the livestock and poultry, and was thrown aside by the snake's head, dying utterly.The big snake crushed the house, and someone ran out ahead of time and was also bitten to death by the big snake.

After a while, the big snake crushed seven or eight houses and killed two cows and three people.It meanders all the way to the center.The commune where the elders are stationed.

The big snake was far away from Fang Zheng's house, so he breathed a sigh of relief, looking back at the woman's more frightened appearance, and patted her on the shoulder to comfort her.After being horrified, Fang Zheng calmed down and began to think about doubts: No matter how huge it is, it is just an animal.Such a large cold-blooded animal, as the top of the food chain, should be hunted mainly for food, but judging from the fact that it bites to death but does not swallow it: this snake is not hungry.

When Fang Zheng swam across the wall in a snake body, although he was nervous, he did not completely lose his composure.Since Ji Liu and the others knew that the snake would come, this snake was manipulated by the people of the suzerain country. To control such a ferocious beast, the manipulator cannot be too far away.

Fang Zheng looked around, and finally caught a glimpse of a person wrapped in black robes at the end of the empty road at the end of the village road.The man had two wooden sticks in his hand, both carved with snake heads.A brass chain as thick as an arm was attached to one of his staffs, and the chain was of unknown length, extending all the way to the snake.

It's like a dog walker, who brings a chain to the dog, except that the animal is more than ten feet long, and the chain extends to hundreds of meters...

Fang Zheng suddenly realized that it was the so-called "snake witch".

Witch culture is an integral part of important ancient civilizations. Witches are tribal healers, dancers, and spiritual communicators...and wizards who can manipulate "snakes" are also described in "Shan Hai Jing" in full detail, and they are called "snakes". witch".

As if to verify Fang Zheng's idea, the next moment, Fang Zheng smelled a not strong, but very special fragrance.It was exactly what he had smelled in the fruit forest where snakes were slaughtered in the forest.

This aroma should be related to the extract of that fruit, which is one of the means of controlling snakes.

Fang Zheng stared intently at the scene on the other side of the commune through the wall. The huge round stone house was two stories high.There are many unknown plant strings hanging under the eaves, some dried meat is drying, and the outside of the stone house is painted with mountain varnish in a circle of white.There is a flag on the roof, with strange patterns painted on it.

Walking out of the commune was an elder in a long white tunic, holding a tortoise shell and some divination plants, maintaining his composure in front of the snake, raised the ball-shaped cane at the top of his hand, and shouted words that Fang Zheng could not understand.Burning wormwood and tortoise shell.

"Who is that?" The elder was not Xuansi, and certainly not the dead Wuxu.

Ji Liu trembled and sobbed, "It's the Great Elder who went on a tour, Ming Ye, he came back this morning, and he told us the news."

"What is he doing?" Fang Zheng was almost shaken at that moment: Is this man going to talk to the snake?Does this era really have mysterious powers such as gods and gods, otherwise how can cross-species communication be possible?The old man looked so unpredictable... Fang Zheng even admired it a little. Everyone hid in the house, and this elder dared to face the giant snake.

The big snake opened its mouth wide, and bit down on the great elder holding the cane high.Great Elder Mingye stood still, as if he was about to be swallowed whole by the big snake in the next second, but he remained motionless.I don't know whether to be objectively scared or subjectively stupid...

Fang Zheng gasped and was speechless: how can he reason with wild beasts.This snake was really big and scary, and he thought wildly, if in modern times people had to call in the People's Liberation Army, it would take dozens of guns to shoot him to death, and then he would shoot the snake witch to death.What divination tortoise shell and wormwood is nonsense, feudal superstition kills people...

At that moment, Fang Zheng heard the sound of breaking through the air from a distance.

Fang Zheng's five senses are much more sensitive. For example, he can easily smell the fishy smell of big snakes, the smell of fragrant fruits manipulated by snake witches, and even the smoked smell of elders lighting tortoiseshell and wormwood.He could also hear a lot of things, the sound of running water was very slow, the saliva dripping from the big snake's teeth was even slower, the sound of the bones opening and closing, the sound of the copper chain tied around the neck shaking, the sound of the powerful tail sweeping across the ground... …

But at this moment, what occupies the auditory sense is a mass of things that suddenly erupted. The thing came from the other side of the village from far to near. Friction and agitation diffuse the humming sound.

Fang Zheng's vision is also very good, but even if he can clearly see how the big snake lowered the sight of the ugly head bit by bit, he can't see clearly the thing that suddenly shot from a distance. How to rush to the gate of the commune in a nearly perfect arc, and rushed into the head of the big snake.

With a slight "bang" and a loud "click" sound from the bones, the snake's head was like a still piranha, and huge bright blood flowers burst out from the eyes, and a large amount of blood poured into a small river, covering the snake's head. It became a blood cake, but it couldn't hide a long shiny golden arrow that pierced through the snake's head.

The arrow was about a foot long, and it just perfectly penetrated from the snake's left eye to the right eye. Only the foot-long triangular arrowhead and the pine needle-like tail were exposed. When viewed at countless times, it was like two light bulbs being pierced by a golden needle.

If Fang Zheng couldn't see the arrow, from the movement just now, he almost thought it was the speed of the bullet fired by a modern machine gun.

He suddenly looked in the direction of the arrow, and at the other end of the village, a figure holding a bow stood on the roof of a stone house.That scene still impacted Fang Zheng's memory after a long time, making him frequently think of exaggerated stories such as Houyi shooting the sun, Huarong who pierced Yang with a hundred steps.His mind was agitated as if he was looking at a majestic and magnificent painting.

Fang Zheng had never seen such a big bow, which was a foot high, and one end of it stood on the ground, like a huge golden harp.Only a bow of that size can shoot arrows more than ten feet long, piercing through the terrifying snake's head.

Compared with the Zhang Zhang tall bow, Fang Zheng really couldn't believe that the archer was so small.

Fang Zheng thought that this kind of bow could only be pulled by someone with the size of Kuafu in the myth.But standing behind the longbow was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy who was about the same age as Fang Zheng.Fang Zheng always forgets the age of his own body, and always feels that he is still 23 years old, so a boy of that age is a child in his eyes.Even that "child" is actually over 1.8 meters, a few centimeters taller than Fang Zheng.But it is still a little shorter than that bow, in Fang Zheng's eyes, the visual effect is very small in comparison.

So small, where did the power erupt from, and shoot such a powerful arrow, straight through the snake's head, killing it with one blow?

It won't be long before Fang Zheng will recall how reasonable the tribal woman's words are:

——"Young heroes, all come out of the East."

The big snake's blood-red and white mouths froze, and the slapped sharpened tail also stopped moving, like a piece of water-like black silk softened.Behind it, the fields are in a mess.All the living tribal women tremblingly poked their heads out of the stone house to stare blankly, and it took a long time for helpless sobs to be heard.

The big snake died almost immediately, and the blood burst from the snake's head drenched the elder in white robe into a bloody man.The giant snake's heavy head hit the ground, and dust flew up.Sweeping's body was still twitching mechanically, pinched section by section from head to tail by an invisible giant hand, gradually twitching and then stopped moving.

Fang Zheng's ears were strong enough to hear the clinking of the brass chain accompanying the sound of the snake's body falling to the ground.The copper chain went through the tail of the snake, it did not bleed, it was old.Fang Zheng immediately turned his attention to the snake witch who was covered in a black robe at the entrance of the village.

The boy shooting arrows from the eaves at the end of the village, the big snake in the center of the commune, and the snake witch at the entrance of the village are all in a straight line.The archery boy and the snake witch are just separated by the farthest two ends, and the straight-line distance is estimated to be more than 500 meters.

Fang Zheng calculated in his heart that such a distance is no longer suitable for shooting big arrows, and that kind of big arrows should not be used against humans.

Sure enough, Fang Zheng saw the young archer jump off the roof with agility. Once the other party jumped off the roof, Fang Zheng couldn't see how he acted on the stone road under the house.But the trajectory of the snake witch at the entrance of the village can be clearly seen - fleeing in a hurry outside the stone wall at the entrance of the village in the opposite direction.

Fang Zheng guessed that after the boy killed the giant snake, he would not let the snake witch go. The snake's blood had not stopped flowing, and a new chase had begun.

Fang Zheng counted the time for three breaths in his mind, and saw a swift shadow swaying from the road at the door.Fang Zheng could barely see the boy running, but couldn't see the clothes on him.

Run so fast!With a thought, Fang Zheng also opened the door of the stone house, and ran out after the shadow.He couldn't restrain a surge of emotion in his chest, as if the blood spurted out by the giant snake had also showered him on the head, and his limbs and bones were all hot with excitement.

This kind of emotion comes from the fact that people in this era have mastered such a superb snake-killing technique. Fang Zheng has witnessed the whole process of all this close at hand twice.Naturally strong, he can't wait to learn more about Xiangduo.

There is another powerful republic in the east that is at odds with Bardeen.With advanced weapons and equipment, it is suspected that more than one soldier was dispatched to slaughter the snake.Their weapons are all bright golden copper.The toothpick eunuch Fang Zheng met yesterday was one, and the boy who shot a big arrow on the eaves just now was another.

The reason why Fang Zheng felt that they were two different people was because of the weapon. That day, he vaguely saw that the weapon of the vegetable chicken eunuch was a large weapon with a strange shape and an upward edge, while the boy just now seemed to be majoring in archery. And his body is light and small, so how could he be a guy who was as heavy as Tarzan that day.

The second is...Although Fang Zheng didn't see his face, he still insisted that the person who was pressing on him that day was a pervert. Chirp was as small as a toothpick, and he must have a twisted mind.Perverts are supposed to be ugly, hideous and menacing.But the young man who shoots arrows has a vigorous beauty, lightness and swiftness, which can't be imagined together.Fang Zheng subjectively presumed that they were two people.

Also take this opportunity to find out where the damned toothpick eunuch was yesterday. If that boy is the other party's accomplice, then Fang Zheng will be able to find that guy's whereabouts by following him carefully.