The two of them are facing east and west at the moment, the land temple is on the right side of the passage, it is built with gray bricks and stones, no more than five feet high, no more than three steps wide, and there is a mud tire of the land lord sitting inside, because of the age, and the cave is very damp, the mud tire has long been deformed, and the appearance of the land is no longer recognizable.
The Land Temple occupies half of the passage, and to the east it is still a rugged passage, which is not significantly different from the scenery outside the stone wall.
"Amitabha."
Iron shoes rush to the land temple and chant Buddha, the land temple does not belong to Taoism, to be exact, they belong to Confucianism, and anyone who sees it can say hello out of etiquette.
Iron Shoes is curious, but he doesn't always ask questions, because sometimes he can't find a problem at all, just take this place as an example, this land temple appears very strange, but he doesn't feel abnormal.
Iron shoes can be careless, Zuo Dengfeng can't, at this moment he is frowning and looking at this land temple, the blue brick of the door frame of the land temple is engraved with handwriting, although there are spiders in the cave, they will not weave webs, there is no spider web to cover Zuo Dengfeng quickly recognized the pair on the door frame as "no monk wind sweeping the floor, less lights and moon lighting." ” This is a common pair of land temples, which shows that the land temple was not built 3,000 years ago, but only in the later period, and the age will not be earlier than the Ming and Qing dynasties, because the age of this pair is also in that period.
In addition, the land temple is only worshipped by Han people, which indicates that it was the Han people who built the land temple back then.
"Let's go."
Iron Shoes urged, and at this time, Thirteen and the boss had already taken the lead in running to the front to open the way.
Zuo Dengfeng nodded, and then walked away, the builder of this land temple must have been the residents who lived here back then, and the intention was nothing more than to suppress evil spirits and keep them safe.
Chinese have the habit of holding Buddha's feet, very lack of forward-looking thinking, the majority of people live in a daze with their eyes closed, unless they encounter something, they will not plan in advance, this land temple is built here must be because they have encountered something, that is to say, there are monsters in this cave that they are afraid of.
"Master, hurry up, there may be a giant python in here."
Zuo Dengfeng said to the iron shoes.
"Where?"
Iron shoes look around to the left and right.
"I haven't seen it yet."
Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said.
"Then how do you know there is a python," Iron Shoes asked suspiciously.
"Guess."
Zuo Dengfeng responded casually.
"I guess there are."
Iron Shoes nodded when he heard this, his guess was a real guess, and there was no basis for it.
And Zuo Dengfeng's guess is actually an analysis of things, the land temple was built ten miles away from the exit deep underground, which shows that the poisonous insects in it had run out to harm people before this, so the people outside would invite people from the Daomen to kill it, and came so far here to build the land temple to suppress it.
In the past, there were many places where the passage was very narrow, and it was difficult for animals with large bodies and limbs to pass through, and small animals could not harm people even if they went out, only those large animals without limbs could go out and go to and from the cave smoothly, and large animals without limbs were only snakes.
At this moment, the shouts of the thirteen and the boss came from the corner in front of them, the shouts were not abnormal, and the two of them quickly followed when they heard the sound, and around the corner, their eyes suddenly opened up, and a spacious space appeared in front of the two of them.
The cave is not all narrow passages, there are also spacious areas, this two-mile radius area is high in the west and low in the east, half of the east side is soaked in water, and the place near the passage on the west side is higher and relatively flat, there are no stalagmites protruding from the ground, the first thing the two of them found here was a huge animal skeleton, and it was the skeleton of this animal that made the thirteen and the boss scream.
"Amitabha, it's really a snake."
Iron Shoes was the first to speak.
The skeleton of this animal was three feet long, and the time of death was not short, and the skin and flesh had been decomposed, according to the bones, there was no doubt that it was a snake.
Zuo Dengfeng nodded when he heard this, and turned to the area with water on the east side, what he was most afraid of was the appearance of this horseshoe-shaped terrain, but there was the appearance of this kind of terrain, the appearance of this terrain made his heart very heavy, to sneak underwater is one of the reasons, and another reason is that the funeral procession three thousand years ago could not pass through this terrain, that is to say, Ba Wang Ji Qian was not buried from here, whether this cave can lead to the tomb of Ba Wang is still unknown.
The waterhole occupies half of the area of the cave, there is a mile in a radius, the water quality is very clear, you can see the bottom at a glance, after making sure that there are no hidden monsters in the water, Zuo Dengfeng turned around and carefully looked at the skeleton of the snake.
The snake's head was separated from the skeleton, suggesting that it had been killed by a severed head.
The corpse was bent in a multi-knotted and orderly manner, with its head close to the waterhole and its tail behind, suggesting that it was trying to escape into the waterhole, but was chased and killed.
The head of this snake is not far from the skeleton, it is as big as a basin, and the upper and lower jaws have fangs, whether there are poisonous fangs or not is one of the criteria for judging whether a snake is a poisonous snake or a python, there is no doubt that this big snake is poisonous, it is not a python, but a snake.
The skull of this venomous snake is not quite the same as the common viper skull, with a bony protrusion like a crane top on the top of the head, and the eye sockets of this venomous snake are smaller than those of ordinary venomous snakes, which indicates that its vision has deteriorated, and overall this venomous snake is not much different from the common venomous snakes outside.
Even so, Zuo Dengfeng is still deeply worried about this, because the evolution process of reptiles is very slow, and their appearance generally does not change, but the appearance of this poisonous snake has changed, although it has not changed much, but it is enough to show that the ecological environment here is completely different from the outside world.
"Do you want to go into the water?"
Iron Shoes asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, wait for me to take a closer look."
Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said.
He is accustomed to evaluating and speculating before acting, and he never rushes in and is startled by what is inside.
Zuo Dengfeng carefully looked at the skeleton of this poisonous snake, and after careful observation, he found two strange phenomena, the first is that the chest cavity of this poisonous snake is very small, which shows that the environment in which it lived before its death was lacking in food.
He was also puzzled by the fact that the snake's tail was bald, but there were several small coccyx at the end of the corpse near the tail, which could be explained in two ways, one being that it was born with this kind of skeleton.
The second is that its tail has a regenerative function.
Then Zuo Dengfeng stepped on the snake bone, trying to judge the approximate time of its death by the degree of crisping of the snake bone, but after getting off the foot, he found that the snake bone was extremely hard, Zuo Dengfeng squatted down and reached out to break a section of the ribs of the poisonous snake, and found that the snake's bones were not empty, almost solid, which showed that it lived in the cave all year round, and the water in the cave contained a lot of calcium, making its bones extremely hard.
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"Thirteen, come here."
Zuo Dengfeng waved at Thirteen, and Thirteen ran over from the waterhole when he heard the words.
Curious, Iron Shoes also followed the boss with him.
"Scratch it."
Zuo Dengfeng handed the snake bone to Thirteen.
Thirteen immediately stretched out his red claws from the claw sheath and quickly scratched at the snake bone, and after grabbing it, the snake bone broke.
"Boss, grab it."
Zuo Dengfeng broke a piece of snake bone again and handed it to the boss.
As the saying goes, things become good when they are old, although the boss looks funny, but it is one of the twelve earthly branches, it not only understands people's words, but its own strength is also strong, and the snake bone is also scratched by it after a claw.
This situation reassured Zuo Dengfeng, Thirteen and the boss were the pioneers of this trip, and whether they could restrain this large poisonous snake was directly related to the success or failure of this trip.
"Get in the water and see how far it is from here to the other side."
Zuo Dengfeng pointed to the waterhole and gave an order to the boss.
"It's so dangerous here, you let it go into the water" Iron Shoes frowned and looked at Zuo Dengfeng.
"Master, don't underestimate the boss, it is the water branch of the earth, and in the water it is the overlord."
Zuo Dengfeng waved his hand and spoke.
Iron Shoes wanted to say something when he heard this, but the boss had already quickly run to the waterhole and got in.
Seeing this, Iron Shoes hurriedly ran to the water's edge and leaned down nervously.
Zuo Dengfeng then returned to the water's edge, but he did not look into the water, but slowly opened the skull of the poisonous snake, the crane top-shaped bulge above the snake's head was empty, Zuo Dengfeng groaned for a long time to understand the effect of this bulge, the bone bulge is directly connected to the nasal cavity, which can store a certain amount of oxygen, this mutation allows this poisonous snake to lurk in the water for a longer time without showing its head to breathe.
It didn't take long for the boss to come back, and after going ashore, he cooed and shouted, this was to invite credit to the iron shoes, and also to show off to Thirteen, who glanced at the boss when he heard the sound, and turned his head to look away.
"Master, it's not far from the other side of the river, wrap your clothes in linoleum, and prepare to dive over."
Zuo Dengfeng said to the iron shoes.
Iron Shoes knew that he would not be able to get off this level sooner or later, so he quickly took off the new single clothes that Zuo Dengfeng bought for him, and the things in the wooden box of the two had been wrapped before this, and there was no need to wrap them again.
"Your robe has cotton, and it sinks when it gets wet."
Iron shoes remind the left to ascend to the peak.
Zuo Dengfeng nodded when he heard this, and quickly opened the skull of the snake's head, he wanted to determine the brain capacity of this poisonous snake, the size of the brain capacity is roughly proportional to the degree of intelligence, and the brain of this poisonous snake is small and pitiful, which means that it is very stupid.
It stands to reason that Zuo Dengfeng should be happy to find that his opponent is stupid, but he didn't feel happy at all, on the contrary, he was very worried, the smart opponent would dodge after being hit, and this poisonous snake would be in trouble if it was stupid enough not to know that it was afraid.
After sighing, Zuo Dengfeng threw away the snake's head, quickly took off his robe, and immediately went into the water after getting ready, the more hesitant he was in this environment, the more scared he became.
The pool water is very cool, the visibility in the water is very good, the two of them inhaled and began to dive, the boss took the lead in swimming ahead, although the thirteen is like a cat but not a cat, it is also very flexible in the water, but compared with the boss is still a lot inferior, it has no webbing between its paws, and the speed alone is downwind.
After diving a few meters, there was a waterway in front of them, the waterway was not long, only less than two zhang, the two of them swam over quickly, and when they floated up, they found that the hole above was very small, only one foot wide and narrow.
The boss took the lead in drilling out, and after thirteen, Zuo Dengfeng raised his hand to widen the hole and followed up, and the iron shoes last.
After surfacing the water, a rugged and narrow passage appeared in front of him, and there were a few small reptiles in the passage, these animals were extremely strange-looking, and they quickly fled into the depths of the cave after being chased by Thirteen and the Boss.
"What's wrong" The iron shoes finally surfaced, and Zuo Dengfeng asked with an ugly face.
"The animals here are all moving fast and weird-looking, and I don't know any of them."
Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said.
"Don't you even know the tortoise," Iron Shoes pointed to a slowly crawling tortoise in the cave.
"That's what I know."
Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and smiled bitterly.
As soon as Zuo Dengfeng's words fell, the shouts of the thirteen and the boss came from the front, this time the shouts were urgent and angry, and it was obvious that he had met a strong opponent: