Chapter 18: The Great Dog Sage Bravely Battles the Glasses King Snake

  Three meters?

  Ye Fei and I were extremely surprised, you know the longest snake I've ever seen is just over a meter long, which is already very big. In my hometown of Guiyang, this kind of snake is called Guo Shan Feng, the most venomous among all venomous snakes, if it gets angry and flattens its neck, it will chase people to bite.

  We're going to catch a poisonous snake king that's already over three meters long last year, it's really a heart-pounding thing, but it's one of Koseki's medicine ingredients, so we have to go.

  But how can there be such a strange medicine?! The combination of these seven medicines is too weird, it makes me feel like it's for refining Gu poison or Gu insects.

  Although I think this medicine is strange, since my uncle said so, that's how it is. Otherwise, if he says that even one less centipede leg can't cure the disease, there's nothing you can do about it.

  I asked Ye Fei Jiu's uncle if he had any preparations or good methods to catch that big-eyed snake, dead or alive.

  Leafy Ji said that Uncle would certainly catch the live one, and the dead snake had too low medicinal effect, the only value left was to put it in a pot and cook meat to eat. This glasses snake is different from ordinary snakes, its food is other poisonous snakes, and its head is so big, ordinary methods such as using hands can't catch it, but he has his own way of catching it.

  Saying that, the uncle went back to his room and took out a bamboo tube with a hollow section. The bamboo was as thick as a bowl mouth and about three meters long. One end of the bamboo had a device installed, while the other end had a spring-loaded clip. As soon as the snake slithered into the bamboo from one end and came out from the other, hitting the clip, the iron wire inside the bamboo would tightly bind its neck.

  After the snake was tied around its neck, Ye Fei Jiu's uncle immediately went to grab its head, and I went to the other end of the bamboo to grab its tail. No matter how fierce this glasses king snake was, its body was stuck in the bamboo, even if it had great strength and toxicity, it couldn't bite us no matter how hard it tried.

  But saying it is easy, this is still an extremely dangerous thing. If you are bitten, I estimate that there will be no chance for Tongtong to find a leech to suck out the venom before someone dies. So Yefei Chui and Xiaojian Qi don't have to go, but Yefei Chui insists on going to see something strange. Although I repeatedly emphasized the danger, she still insisted on going, just standing a little further away to take a look.

  It was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and it's best to catch snakes early, otherwise it won't be convenient when night falls. We took a hoe, a sickle, a bamboo stick, and a rope, and headed down the mountain. After walking for half an hour, we passed through many rice fields and finally arrived at the foot of another mountain.

  On the mountain, there are many loquat trees, each with a string of small green loquats. Little Sakaki's eyes widened as she looked at them, and her mouth began to water. She grabbed my sleeve and pointed to the loquats on the tree, asking me to pick some for her to eat. I was about to tell her that they weren't ripe yet and couldn't be eaten, but Yae-san intervened, volunteering to pick a few green loquats from the tree for Little Sakaki to eat.

  Kokomi happily took it and stuffed it into her mouth, but after biting down on the sourness, she scrunched up her eyebrows and quickly spat it out. Yefei couldn't help but burst out laughing mischievously beside me. I asked Yefei if she was always going to bully Kokomi like this, always teasing her for fun. Yefei retorted back at me, saying that when they first met, Kokomi was really introverted, but after being with her, she became more lively and outgoing, it was all thanks to her efforts in teasing her, leaving me speechless.

  After passing through the loquat forest, we came to an old grave. Ye Fei said that his uncle had put down his hoe and said it was here.

  Ye Fei and I were both shocked, could it be that the snake's lair was actually inside the tomb? How strange, could it be that the spirit of the tomb had transformed?

  Leafy Ji's uncle told us that snakes often occupy other people's graves as nests, because the inside of the grave is empty, and in the snake's view, it is a purely natural good nest. So we often see snakes crawling out of the grave, feeling very frightened, and may think that this snake is the owner of the grave.

  Ye Fei Ji's uncle said after finishing and also pulled out some wild grass on the tomb, only to see that there was indeed a hole on the tomb slightly larger than an egg.

  Ye Fei Jiao asked her uncle, how to determine if the snake is here. Ye Fei Jiao's uncle smiled and said, "Just take a look inside and you'll know." As he spoke, he took out a small bamboo strip from behind his waist, about the size of a finger, and muttered a few words in Miao language towards the bamboo strip. Then I saw a drop of black water, like ink, dripping down from the lower end of the bamboo strip.

  The black water droplet fell to the edge of the hole in the grave and, unlike what I thought, did not seep into the mud. Instead, it transformed into a small worm-like creature that crawled up and finally drilled into the hole.

  Both I and Ye Fei couldn't help but widen our eyes and ask Fourth Uncle what that thing was.

  Leafy Ji's uncle said you are from outside, we don't understand some things here, and even if we explain, you won't understand. As soon as he finished speaking, the thing that looked like an earthworm crawled out of the hole, and Uncle Ji immediately inserted a bamboo slip in front of it.

  Only to see this black water droplet turn into a small earthworm, immediately shrink back into a ball and become a water droplet again, the bamboo slip sucked it back like a sponge absorbing water.

  After Ye Fei's uncle collected the bamboo pieces, he told us that the snake was still inside, sleeping soundly, but would wake up in a few days.

  I asked him how to catch this snake, it's said that hibernating snakes are three times more poisonous than usual, we must be extremely careful!

  Uncle Jiu lets Ye Fei bring Xiao Jian to the other side of the pomegranate forest, while we start drilling holes in the grave, until we drill into the grave. Then insert a three-meter-long bamboo stick into the drilled hole, about thirty centimeters deep, and the bamboo stick is now like a cannon, at an angle of forty-five degrees towards the sky, and this old grave mound is the gun tower.

  After everything was ready, the uncle began to burn fire at another cave entrance and smoke it out. In less than a moment, the top of the bamboo tube started to emit smoke, just like a cannon that had just been fired.

  It was exciting to watch, and my uncle pulled me aside and said something to me, but I didn't understand, so I just pretended to understand and nodded continuously while staring at the bamboo stick.

  About two minutes later, the bamboo shook and a snake head suddenly drilled out from the end. The snake head was only exposed to the mouth of the bamboo tube for less than 20 centimeters before it triggered the trap and was tightly tied around its neck with an iron wire, stuck in the bamboo.

  The snake's neck immediately flattened, and a hissing sound came from its mouth. It struggled constantly, leaving my uncle and me shocked and trembling with fear, neither of us daring to go near it.

  After the snake was tired from struggling, my uncle called me over and he put on a glove to grab the snake's head and press its mouth shut. After my uncle had subdued the snake, he told me to pull the bamboo out of the grave.

  Goodness, this glasses snake's body was already three meters long in the bamboo, but after pulling it out of the bamboo, I saw that its tail was still two meters long. So to say, this snake's length reached five meters, compared to the one or two meter long glasses snakes I've seen before, it's like the difference between a cat and a tiger.

  My uncle told me to quickly grab the tail and wrap it around the bamboo, I just caught the tail, suddenly another snake head came out of the hole where the bamboo was pulled out.

  Logically, the king cobra is a solitary animal, why would two live in one nest? But who has time to think about this, I let go and ran, my uncle also threw down the bamboo and started running after me.

  We ran about twenty or thirty meters and hid behind a tree, looking back at the second snake that came out was slightly smaller than the one we caught, but it was at least four meters long. I estimated it was male because males are smaller than females.

  The snake that we caught with bamboo is still stuck in the bamboo and can't get out, while the one that came out later is drilling back and forth next to the bamboo.

  I asked my uncle, I'm afraid we won't be able to catch this snake today, should we withdraw and think of another way tomorrow?

  Ye Fei nodded and shook his head, indicating for me to wait a little longer.

  At this time, Ye Fei led Xiao Jianqian out of the pomegranate forest and walked towards us. I hurriedly called her not to come over and run quickly, saying that a big snake had come out and hadn't been caught.

  That glasses snake also found Ye Fei Chui and immediately drilled into the grass thicket and disappeared.

  Ye Fei Jiu heard my shout and hastily turned around, returning to the pomegranate forest. That glasses snake must have sneaked past in the grass. If Ye Fei Jiu or Xiao Jian Qi got bitten, they would be done for, this isn't a joke.

  I don't care about catching snakes anymore, I immediately rushed towards the loquat forest, shouting to Ye Fei to quickly take Xiao Jianqi and run down the mountain, the big snake is chasing us.

  Ye Fei Ji heard me say the big snake is coming, immediately frightened and screamed continuously, legs were so scared that they couldn't run, paralyzed on the ground, Xiao Jian Qi cried.

  When I ran to the edge of the pomegranate forest, the glasses snake had already taken a step ahead of me. At this time, it was raising its body, which was at least as tall as a person, with a flat neck, only two meters away from Ye Fei Jiao.

  Ye Fei was originally screaming non-stop, and at this moment she was even more frightened to the point of her face turning pale, not even daring to breathe, at such a close distance, the snake attacking her would be almost 0.5 seconds.

  But the cobra didn't move, as if it was afraid of something. Seeing this situation, I immediately picked up a thick branch and struck the cobra with force.

  This cunning glasses snake was extremely intelligent, and with a sway of its body, it dodged the attack. The branch hit Ye Fei Jiao's forehead instead, knocking her unconscious.

  At this critical moment, I actually made a big mistake. I was so angry that I wanted to slap myself several times. After Ye Fei was accidentally knocked unconscious by me, I thought the snake would see that it was me who hit it and would come after me in anger. But unexpectedly, it crawled over to Ye Fei's side instead, and Xiao Jian also fainted from fright.

  At this time, my uncle also ran to my side, but the situation was so critical that I didn't care about it. I hurriedly called out to Tiantian to save me, but Tiantian did not respond. In a panic, I took out the pearl and shook it violently.

  After shaking for a while, I finally heard Tongtong's response. All she said lazily was "Isn't it just a small snake? Why do you need my help?" Tongtong told me to enjoy the show!

  Just then, a large black dog appeared beside Ye Fei.

  As soon as I saw this big black dog, the stone in my heart fell to the ground by 70%, and I couldn't help but shout "Dog Great Immortal". This Dog Great Immortal was as black as ink all over its body, about the same size as a wolf dog, and at this moment it was pouncing on that glasses snake.

  That snake may look fierce, but the Dog Immortal is a spiritual entity, and the snake can't bite it. Even if it could, its venom would only work on physical bodies, which the Dog Immortal doesn't have.

  The dog Da Xian is different, after being refined by Ye Fei Chui's witchcraft, every bite can hurt the snake's soul.