Demon King, Don’t Run Away Chapter 438: Non-venomous snake?

As dusk approached, the desert was dyed orange by the sinking sun. After resting, Yang Yu and the others set off again to search for the underground maze in the desert.

Stepping into the area defined by the burnt sand, it feels like this place is no different from other areas.

Qingshi carefully used a long wooden crutch to poke the ground, beating sand and frightening snakes.

Even his father failed to sense the poisonous snake lurking under the sand, which meant that the poisonous snake was most likely a desert animal.

Since it is a desert animal, it will respond to some extent when it senses vibrations. Everyone will be happy if they can catch the venomous snake directly.

Yang Yu and the others carefully followed Qingshi. Judging from Jiao Sha's description, the poisonous snake moved very quickly. They had to catch the poisonous snake before it rushed out and bit Qingshi to avoid injuring more people.

Walking on the yellow sand, Qingshi suddenly felt a slight vibration under his feet. This feeling was very similar to quicksand flowing under his feet, but it was completely different.

Before Qingshi could make a careful judgment, a long golden snake shot out from the sand like lightning.

As soon as he noticed the poisonous snake, Yang Yu quickly set up his shield and came to Qingshi's side. He slashed at the poisonous snake with his sword. The poisonous snake flexibly turned its body in the air and adjusted the direction of the attack. Bypassing Yang Yu's first attack.

If it were ordinary people, they would have been unable to dodge it, but it was Yang Yu who was here.

Aware of the strange twisting posture of the poisonous snake, Yang Yu immediately threw out his shield,

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An illusory shield unfolded in front of Yang Yu, and the poisonous snake hit the illusory shield.

According to what was communicated in advance, Ias pulled out the arrow in the quiver and used it, aiming at the poisonous snake instantly. Bai Jin also chanted magic and used his own magic power to try to freeze the remaining heat that had not dissipated. Sand noodles.

The viper hit the shield hard, realized something was wrong, twisted its body, adjusted its direction on the illusory shield, and pointed its head at the orange sand.

But before it could twist its body and plunge into the sand, Ias's arrow came quickly, disappeared in mid-air, and then reappeared without warning, hitting the poisonous snake with one arrow. of interruption.

But the venomous snake did not stop twisting and continued to plunge into the sand. Fortunately, Bai Jin used his own magic power to construct magic very quickly and arrived in time to remove the venomous snake's bleeding wound, sand and shot. The arrows that penetrated it froze together.

The venomous snake swung its tail wildly, but it was always able to get under the sand. It struggled a few times and then stopped moving.

Yang Yu opened the panel and did not see any information in the panel. The only things that could not see the attributes were ordinary creatures. In other words, if a creature passed through whether it was a magical creature or not, the system could determine it.

This means that the person who hurt Jiao Sha is really just an ordinary poisonous snake.

After confirming that there was no danger, Yang Yu carefully pulled the snake out of the sand by leaning on its exposed tail.

Even if a snake dies, some parts can still respond. Yang Yu is not sure whether the snake is dead.

At least that's what he thought when he touched the snake.

The smooth scales, the warm blood flow, and the extremely slow crawling feeling all prove that this venomous snake is still alive. It may be seriously injured, or it may be affected by the ice magic of Bai Hibiscus, and its body temperature changes. The animal snake has become so sluggish.

Qingshi couldn't wait to get close to the snake, his honest eyebrows were dancing, but the next moment, Qingshi frowned and said to himself,

"How is it possible? How could it be this kind of snake?"

Noticing the strange look on Qingshi's face, Yang Yu asked: "What's going on? Why are you looking so sad?"

Qingshi shook his head, "The name of this snake is the Desert Golden Python. It is the most common snake near the Gobi. It is a non-venomous snake."

"Non-venomous snake?" Yang Yu shook the snake in his hand and frowned, "Isn't that all the hard work in vain?"

Looking at the snake in Yang Yu's hand, Qingshi frowned again, "If it is a general desert golden python, it should live in an area extremely close to the edge of the desert, where small birds and mice can be preyed on. It should not appear in Such a deep place.

I have seen the golden golden python in the desert before. They said it would indeed bury itself in the sand to ambush weak prey, and its attack would be extremely fast, but it is absolutely impossible for it to spring out of the sand and attack passers-by like this. . ”

The hand shaking the snake stopped abruptly. Yang Yu carefully held the snake's head and looked at the snake head-on.

The snake's originally vertical pupils now looked gray and extremely turbid, as if it had cataracts.

"This snake's eyesight is not very good. Could it be..."

“Snakes don’t rely solely on their eyesight to hunt.”

Hearing Qingshi's assertion, Yang Yu suddenly remembered that he had seen it in the animal world before. Most snakes rely on the heat emitted by living creatures to hunt. The way they hunt is to constantly spit out snake letters to detect their surroundings. of heat.

Yang Yu is not sure whether snakes living in the desert, buried in the sand, use thermal imaging to hunt, or maybe they simply rely on vibrations on their scales to activate blood circulation.

However, it is strange to think that snakes tell directions by spitting, and it has been a long time since I saw a snake spitting.

Yang Yu subconsciously increased the strength of his hand and asked the snake to open its mouth. At this time, the snake twisted a little more violently. Yang Yu looked at it and frowned tightly.

"What did Yang Yu find?" Bai Jin and Ias were a little confused, while Huck stood aside with some fear.

Yang Yu just pointed the snake's head toward the crowd. The snake had no snakes at all, and the snake's mouth seemed to have been eaten by something.

Bai Jin and Ias felt frightened for a while. Bai Jin sought the knowledge in her memory, while Ias tried her best to calm down. When she went hunting, she passed a lot of snakes, but she had never seen anything like this before. of.

Cutting the arrows on the snake's body, Yang Yu placed the snake on the sand. The snake jumped a few times and then stopped moving.

Yang Yu looked at Qingshi, "Do you know this situation?"

Qingshi shook his head vigorously, "I don't think such a desert golden python can still hunt prey, and can launch attacks like that just now. It's as if it was controlled by something."

"This possibility cannot be ruled out."

In Yang Yu's mind, a creature that he had heard of before - the fish louse - appeared.

It is a creature of the same order as the internet-famous creature, the king of podworms, and the free-range rat women at home. When they are young, they are attached to the gills of fish. When they grow up, they will eat the tongues of fish and replace them. According to research showed that they emit a pheromone that controls the fish's diet.

Could the snake in front of me be parasitized by a similar creature that manipulated the Desert Golden Python in some way, making the non-toxic Desert Golden Python venomous and easy to attack people?

It’s scary to think about it.