I think my knowledge of biology is pretty good, and I often watch Animal World, but I've never heard of anything that looks like this! !
Could it be... a beast guarding the tomb?
In ancient times, some dignitaries of noble status would often release wild beasts near their tombs when they were buried, which was also a means of preventing theft. Grave robbers would be killed by these beasts as soon as they approached the tomb. Not long ago, when I was in the Western Regions, the ancient dire wolf I saw near the tomb of Wusun King Lie Jiaomi was a beast guarding the tomb. However, this method of using wild beasts to guard the tomb was not cruel. The most cruel method was to use some artificially cultivated beasts to guard the tomb!
The most vicious tomb with a mausoleum-guarding beast that has appeared so far should be in Miaojiang. It is said that the beasts in that tomb are not birds or beasts, but poisonous insects, and there are several poisonous kings in it. Every tomb robber who enters will die. Later, it is said that a Miaojiang Gu master went there and took away those poisonous kings, and then the tomb was broken open. When the tomb was opened, the tomb chamber was full of corpses of tomb robbers, and there seemed to be several corpses of tomb-grabbing lieutenants with gold-grabbing talismans. For a time, it became a strange thing in the world!
Damn it, could it be that I have also encountered an artificially cultivated mausoleum-guarding beast?
If so, there is a 70-80% chance that I will die here today!
I was a little confused in my heart, and I didn't dare to think too much. I paddled the lake and swam up. No matter what, I ran first!
As a result, as soon as I started to move, I caught a glimpse of the black shadow swimming past me on the left!
It seems to be circling around me?
My heart sank. If this kind of aquatic beast circles around a person, it basically means that it has locked onto this person.
It seems... I can't leave!
I sighed softly in my heart, hoping that Song Yanan and the others would arrive quickly, so that they could take me and escape!
I can't swim as fast as it in the water. If I get caught up, I will only end up being eaten alive. It's better to stay and fight to the death!
At that moment, I bit the flashlight in my mouth, paddled my feet in the water, and kept myself from sinking. Then I slowly pulled out the Baipi Knife from my waist. Under the dim light of the flashlight, the blade of the Baipi Knife flashed a blue arc of light.
Maybe the bright knife light attracted the thing. Anyway, the moment I just pulled out the Baipi Knife, I felt the water flow behind me suddenly moved, and there was a faint force hitting my back.
That thing is coming, right behind me!
At that moment, I suddenly turned around in the water, and then I saw a big guy that looked like a python rushing towards me!
It is said to be like a python, but it is definitely not a python, because there are big differences between its body and python!
First of all, the biggest difference is the four legs on its belly, which are like eagle claws. No snake looks like this!
Secondly, there are white manes on the back and belly of this thing, similar to the manes of horses, but they are particularly long, probably about 40 to 50 centimeters long!
Moreover, there are two protrusions of about ten centimeters on the head of this thing, just like... horns!
This series of characteristics together make me think of a legendary monster-発!
In the legends of our Han nationality, this should be a kind of dragon, a creature that evolved when a snake has cultivated to a certain level!
As mentioned before, this animal is also very spiritual. The most spiritual among them are the four great immortals and the four little immortals. The snake is the Liu family immortal among the four great immortals, the gray, yellow and white willow. It is the animal that the Northeastern horse immortals value the most. If the snake enters the law and has Taoism, it can turn into this creature called Viper within about a hundred years and embark on the road of turning into a dragon!
I remember that I read a strange book "Records of Strange Things" from the Southern Dynasty. It records in detail this creature called Viper - the snake enters the law for a hundred years. At that time, the animals in the mountains and forests will no longer respect the tiger as the king, but the snake as the king. At the beginning of summer, the snake lies in the grass, opens its mouth and blows a strong wind. The surrounding insects and birds will fly into the snake's mouth by themselves to fill the snake's stomach. After the snake enters the law, it can practice like this for a hundred years and become a Viper. After 500 years, the Viper will turn into a Jiao, after a thousand years, the Jiao will turn into a dragon, after 500 years, the dragon will turn into a horned dragon, and after a thousand years, it will turn into an Yinglong!
So... I encountered this terrible creature!
Before I could think about it, the snake rushed straight towards my chest at a very fast speed. I couldn't move flexibly in the water because of the resistance of the water. Even if I swung the knife, I couldn't burst out much power. I had no choice but to hold the Baipi Knife in my hands across my chest to block it.
Then, the snake directly hit the back of the Baipi Knife!
Clang!
I only felt that the Baipi Knife was bent by it, and then it straightened up again with its toughness. The force generated by this back and forth was not small. My tiger's mouth was broken at that time, and my palm was numb. I almost dropped the Baipi Knife. Under the push of this powerful force, the whole person was like a cannonball, and was blown away with a "bang". I was pushed back more than ten meters along the water.
However, after being hit by the Baipi Knife, the snake seemed to have suffered. It fluttered in the water like a ribbon for a few times, and turned its head and disappeared in the dark waters.
Did it run away?
That's impossible!
The snake has some intelligence, comparable to a wolf, at least it has a lot of wolf nature. The temporary retreat now does not mean that it is afraid, but just temporarily retreating to find a better opportunity to attack!
It will attack me again!
I can't get away, so I can only wait for help here. I hope Song Yanan, Lin Qing and others will arrive quickly. By then, seven or eight of us will be holding white blades, and I think we may still be able to fight.
My mind was turning quickly, and I thought of the scene I saw when it came into contact with me-this snake, its pupils seemed to be white!
White pupils...
I was shocked. This doesn't seem to be a normal snake!
I remember reading a book before, which described this kind of snake with white pupils like this: there are strange people who raise snakes in the south. They will collect the 108 most poisonous snakes in the world, and then throw them into a cellar, not giving them any sunlight all year round. Then they will use various methods to provoke the ferocity of these snakes, so that these snakes will kill each other and eat each other. In less than half a year, these snakes will eat each other clean. At this time, the last snake king who survived does not need to practice at all, and has already entered the law and has Taoism! !
Then, after locking this big snake in a place with abundant Yin Qi to practice for a hundred years, this snake king who has entered the law will become a corpse snake. It is said to be a living thing, but because it absorbs Yin Qi, it has no characteristics of a living thing at all, so it is called a corpse snake!
This kind of corpse snake is much more ferocious than a normal snake. As long as it sees a living thing, it will eat it. If there is no living thing, it will swallow Yin Qi!
No wonder I didn't see any creatures after entering this lake. It turned out that they were all eaten by this corpse viper!
Vipers are generally formed naturally. Although they are ferocious beasts, they also grow in accordance with the laws of nature, so there is a possibility of turning into a dragon. And this corpse viper is a pure killing machine cultivated artificially. It is not something born in accordance with the laws of nature. To put it more clearly, this thing is against the will of heaven and has no possibility of becoming a dragon!
As expected, this corpse viper should be the beast that guards the tomb of the tomb owner!
I couldn't help feeling bitter. As expected, I entered this line of work. There are many tombs, and I can encounter anything. This kind of artificially cultivated tomb-guarding beast is rare, even to the extent of being rare. I didn't expect that I would win one today!
Just when my mind was full of confused thoughts, a black shadow appeared in front of me again and began to circle around me. It was obviously looking for an opportunity to kill me!
It was that corpse viper. It really turned back again!