Tomb Raiding: My Family's Last Clan Chief is Little Brother

The snake's nest was funnel-shaped, and was estimated to be as large as half a football field. A scorching red light was reflected underneath the winding chains. At first glance, it looked as if someone had set fire to the chains and they were on fire.

The three of them looked down in surprise and found that the red light was emitted from a kind of stone that looked like jade but was not jade, like burning magma. This strange red stone was distributed all over the pit and the inclined slope near the bottom.

No matter how close its color is to flames, it will never be as hot as the magma erupting from a volcano.

With Zhang Wuxun's eyesight, he could easily see long blood-red strips constantly wriggling or crawling slightly at the bottom of the funnel pit, and from time to time making a hissing sound that made his scalp tingle.

Whether it was because of fear or the heat, a thin layer of sweat broke out on the fat man's face. He lowered his voice and said, "My goodness, there are snakes down there!"

Zhang Wuxun and the other person nodded silently.

After observing silently for a while, Zhang Wuxun guessed that these snakes were probably in the molting period, because the temperature here was comparable to early summer, and the air he breathed had a damp, strange, fishy and sweet smell, as well as a hint of blood that was difficult to ignore.

"What should we do?" Wu Xie looked at him.

Snakes in the molting period will become somewhat neurotic and more aggressive. Snakes in this period may attack anything that approaches them, even their own kind.

In just this short while, they saw that there were already quite a few snakes entangled and fighting with each other, competing for the area with harder and finer rocks that was conducive to shedding their skin.

But correspondingly, the snake has stopped eating at this time, and a liquid will be secreted around the head and eyes, making the cuticle irregular, affecting the propagation and refraction of light, causing the eyes to be almost blind. This situation will last for several days or weeks.

"They can't see us, so we approach quietly, being careful not to step on the snakes, and get down from there."

Zhang Wuxun pointed to a dark, irregular hole in the center of the funnel. Slightly thicker snakes gathered on the red stones near the hole, indicating that the snake shedding its skin inside the hole was probably a larger snake.

Snakes have the instinct to seek benefits and avoid harm. The deeper you go, the more powerful the snakes must be, which means they are also closer to the center of the snake's nest.

"Okay." Wu Xie and Fatty responded together.

The slope was quite steep, which was just right for snakes, but it was quite torturous for humans who were used to standing upright. They suppressed their inertia and took each step as if they were walking on a tightrope, while also being careful not to make too loud a noise from the stones under their feet.

Halfway down, the fat man couldn't stand any longer, so he simply lay down and moved down the slope bit by bit. His palms were hurt by the hard and rough red stones. He inhaled with grimace, and had to turn over from time to time to avoid the gathered snakes.

"Damn it, it's too steep..." A stone under the fat man's feet suddenly loosened, his leg slipped, and the whole person rolled down the steep slope.

In a panic, he frantically grabbed a protruding red stone with his hands and stopped in front of the largest snake groups.

The snakes suddenly became agitated. The fat man was so scared that he dared not breathe. However, the series of noises he had just made had already attracted the snakes. Hundreds of snakes began to wriggle and spread outward. Long blood strips crawled towards the fat man like the vines of a Hydra cypress.

"Fuck Li Liang!"

The fat man hurriedly got up and backed away, but his footing was unstable and his hands were bleeding. He was surrounded by snakes and had nowhere to hide. At this critical moment, several humming sounds were heard.

There were a few crisp sounds of "clang" as earthenware jars broke, and porcelain pieces shattered everywhere. The group of snakes that had crawled to the fat man's feet seemed to be suddenly hit by the air in front of them. The whole snake bent into an exaggerated arc, half of its body stood up and fell backwards.

Zhang Wuxun and Wu Xie rushed over as if they couldn't stop, threw a porcelain jar at them, and while the snakes retreated, Wu Xie grabbed the fat man and rushed towards the pit.

Wu Xie shouted softly, "Jump quickly!"

Hearing the sound of two people jumping into the cave and landing on the ground, Zhang Wuxun turned his back to the cave entrance, facing the group of red snakes that were surrounding him. The irises of his eyes suddenly began to lighten, gradually turning into an amber-like dark gold, and quickly squeezed towards the center of the pupil, finally shrinking into a narrow arc-shaped diamond line.

In the reflection of the red light at the bottom of the pit, a thin layer of light-colored, tiny scales flashed by on the surface of the eyeball and disappeared in an instant.

At this moment, it seemed as if an invisible energy expanded in all directions, enveloping the entire space. The hissing sounds around suddenly quieted down, and all the crawling noises disappeared.

The red snakes stood still with their raised bodies, and everything was silent.

Wu Xie and Fatty in the cave supported each other to stand up, and suddenly they felt a chill on their backs. A chill that made them shudder poured down from the top of their heads. All the pores in their bodies were trembling, and their cerebral cortex screamed and sent danger signals to the nerves throughout their bodies.

The two men held their breath and dared not move, they knew they were being watched by a huge creature.

The cold atmosphere was everywhere, and the exposed skin seemed to be wrapped in some mysterious cool touch.

A slight crackling sound was heard, and the solidified space was broken. Something stepped lightly on the gravel behind Wu Xie and the other person, and its body was agile, like a civet cat.

Wu Xie felt his whole body suddenly relax, and the danger left silently, but there was still something behind him. He didn't dare to turn around rashly. He could only use the light emitted by the red rocks in the cave to secretly glance back and forth with his peripheral vision.

The fat man couldn't hold back any longer. He gritted his teeth and took off the shovel tied to his backpack and threw it over there. Turning around, he saw a familiar figure standing behind him, slightly bent over, stretching out a hand and looking lovingly at a fixed snake.

He was very puzzled as to why all the snakes suddenly stopped moving. It didn't seem like they were hiding from their natural enemies. Rather, it was more like the weak creatures in nature who were afraid and pretended to be dead when a higher-level predator of the same kind passed by.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the red snake woke up with a hiss, jumped up with its bloody mouth wide open, and pounced on his arm to bite.

The man reacted very quickly, dodged to the side, raised his hand and grabbed the snake's seven inches, and untied the part of the snake that was wrapped around his arm. Hearing the sound of wind, he swung the snake and knocked the shovel away like a whip.

"Fuck you..." The fat man was about to shout angrily, but was stopped by Wu Xie's quick eyes and hands.

"Shh! You're going to die." Wu Xie covered the fat man's mouth tightly, then looked at the man in shock and anger, and whispered, "Zhang Haike, why are you here?" (End of this chapter)