My cousin seemed to have seen the deeper secret of this strange snake, so everyone concentrated on talking about it.

My cousin squinted his eyes slightly, looked at the dark night outside, and said leisurely: "I just talked about the Feng Shui characteristics of snakes, but in fact, there are more subtle and mysterious explanations for snakes. It is said in some ancient books

, snakes, roundworms, and maggots all belong to the same category, called "worm ghosts". In ancient times, the word "ghost" was the same as "gui". The ancients believed that death is like the soul returning home, so they called it "gui".

Gui', later gradually derived from the word 'ghost'.

Why are snakes, maggots, and roundworms called "worm ghosts"?

Of course, 'thin' is easy to understand, because their shape is slender, and they are related to people's life and death. After death, the body will rot and maggots will be born. When people are alive, there will be roundworms in the body, and this

Seeds of roundworms can be seen in feces, and in ancient times, because people's sanitary conditions were not good, it was very common to have roundworms in the stomach, so the ancients were very familiar with roundworms. After the human corpse was completely decomposed, there would often be traces of roundworms in the coffin.

snake.

Therefore, when a person is dead, he or she will develop roundworms. When a person has just died, maggots will develop. When a person turns into a skeleton, there will often be 'longworms'. Northerners call snakes 'longworms'. Therefore, in people's

Different stages can be related to this kind of slender bug. Therefore, the ancients thought that these three kinds of slender bugs were the same type. They were the messengers of death and slowly led people into death, so they called them

For 'Slender Ghost'.

The snake is the highest and final among these three kinds of 'slender ghosts', so it is responsible for bringing people's souls into hell and has special energy.

What does the legend I mentioned have to do with today’s strange snakes?

What I want to say is that regardless of whether this legend is reasonable or not, the characteristics of snakes do have a special connection with human death. Studies have shown that snakes’ sense of smell is particularly sensitive to the putrid smell of corpses. In addition, the smell of corpses

The putrid smell is not only present after death, but occurs a few days before death.

If a person is suffering from a disease, he will emit a special smell a few days before death. Humans cannot smell this smell, but snakes can smell it. Therefore, some famous doctors in ancient times made a special medicine.

, this medicine is not used to treat people, but is sprinkled around the house of the sick person. If there are traces of snakes, this medicine powder will turn into light green, which is similar to the color of moss, so it is also called 'moss'

Damn it, why did these famous doctors in ancient times sprinkle this kind of medicine?"

"They want to see how many snakes there are around the patient's house. If there are more snakes, the patient will die soon. Therefore, it can increase the accuracy of his diagnosis and make people think that he has superb medical skills. Isn't that true?

?Cousin."

Hongmei replied.

My cousin nodded with a smile and said: "Hongmei is right, that's it. This method was a 'secret method' in ancient times. It was absolutely passed down from one person to another, and from son to daughter. It was the ancient doctor who established his own medical name.

For example, in the Song Dynasty, there was a famous doctor who was later called to the royal family as a doctor. He knew this method.

Once, a well-known local squire had abdominal pain and went to see a doctor. He said that the squire was terminally ill, that there was no cure, and that he would die in a few days. After hearing this, the squire became furious and even beat him.

After a while, he kicked him out of the house.

But what I didn't expect was that the squire died a few days later. After this incident, the doctor's reputation became famous."

"You mean, with so many snakes suddenly appearing around us, is it possible that some of us are close to death?"

Old Yuan, who had been silent until now, suddenly said this after coughing twice. As soon as he said this, all of us, except my cousin, were shocked!

"No way, these snakes must be caused by Zhang Liangchen or Blind Man Gao. They can't appear because of the smell of corpses because of us!" Mr. Chen also put forward his own point of view.

Everyone was staring closely at my cousin. What he said was really shocking, but what he said next made us shudder even more:

I think there should be more than one person with corpse stench. The most likely thing is that we all have some kind of corpse stench, which is why the smell is so strong and attracts so many strange snakes; although strange snakes are very different from ordinary snakes.

They are the same, but they also have the characteristics of snakes after all, so their appearance may mean that our bodies really smell like corpses."

The female translator seemed to have thought of something, and turned to Crazy Six and said: "If the smell of corpses appears on our bodies, then our meridians must have also changed. Senior, you can see the meridians, then take a look at our body

Are there any changes in your meridians?”

After Xiaolei's reminder, we all suddenly realized that this was a good method, but we didn't expect Madman Six to shake his head and said: "The corpse odor that Researcher Wang mentioned is an extremely small change, so people

You can't smell it, and the changes in the meridians are even smaller, so you can't detect any abnormalities at all."

Hearing what he said, everyone was a little frustrated, but Crazy Six said calmly: "If you want to verify it, it's not difficult. Have you forgotten? Brother Ouyang's monkey eagle has a sensitivity of smell that may

No worse than these weird snakes."

Yes, how could we forget that we have all experienced the Monkey Eagle's sense of smell, which is absolutely unimaginable and unbelievable. But now the Monkey Eagle is next to us. Old Man Ouyang asked it quickly: "

You heard what I just said, right? Do we smell corpse smell? If so, just nod."

After listening to Old Man Ouyang's question, everyone stared at Monkey Eagle's reaction. Our most terrifying situation appeared - Monkey Eagle paused for a moment, and then nodded firmly!

When Mr. Chen and his wife saw this scene, they both sat slumped in their chairs, with frightened and shocked expressions on their faces, as well as a hint of suspicion. However, the rest of us were relatively calm, especially Mr. Yuan, who was only slightly agitated.

He smiled bitterly and shook his head, seeming to be doubtful about this kind of thing.

But we all know that this kind of thing is very likely to be true. Are we going to die in a few days? How did things suddenly turn around and become like this?

Madman Liuze said calmly: "The situation mentioned by researcher Wang is actually quite consistent with our previous inference. Think about it, if on a full moon night in a few days, we really become monsters

If so, then to a certain extent, our current body will die and a new body will evolve.

In other words, our bodies have undergone some changes, and even if we leave here, we may still die in a few days."

If this is the case, we seem to have been possessed by a kind of poison, similar to the poison that Mr. Chen was possessed by before, that kind of mysterious and terrifying poison.

It’s already past one o’clock in the morning. Although the environment is difficult and dangerous, we still need to have a good rest, because in the past few days, we must recharge our batteries and make the last push. Xiaolei and I will take turns to stand guard, and everyone else will go back.

The house is resting.

When I woke up, it was already three o'clock in the morning. When I walked outside, everyone was already up. The weather today was also very good. The early autumn air made every cell in my body feel extremely refreshing.

The courtyard door was open. Xiao Lei, my cousin, Madman Six, and all the others were standing outside the courtyard talking about something. I also walked over quickly. Everything that happened last night appeared in my mind, those scary strange snakes.

, and there are cracks...

But when I got outside, I looked at the position Xiao Lei mentioned. Everything was as usual, there were no gaps at all, and there were no strange snakes. Ordinarily, I can completely understand this situation, because in this big mountain, there are

Many cracks will open and close automatically. We have seen many of them before. The cracks Xiaole saw must be the same type as before.

The cousin put his hands behind his back and said: "For us, the disappearance of the crack is not surprising. The strangest thing is another thing. Do you still remember the strange snake head? It was the one bitten off by the monkey eagle. It has always been there.

On the ground, I woke up very early this morning, and it was just dawn when I woke up. I felt that the strange snake head was a very important clue, so I gritted my teeth, overcame my fear and nausea, and observed carefully, especially the one on the snake head.

I read the words even more carefully.

I don’t know how long I watched it, but I suddenly felt that the strange snake head was slowly getting smaller and weaker. I thought it was because I was dazzled at first, so I rubbed my eyes and looked around at other objects. I felt that my vision was not good.

Nothing unusual, just that weird snake head slowly disappearing

, and became smaller and smaller, and finally seemed to evaporate, leaving no trace at all. Not only that, even the blood stains it left on the ground disappeared. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I would never have known it.

It’s unbelievable to believe that something like this could happen.”

We returned to the house and took a closer look at the place where the snake head was placed. Sure enough, there was nothing left, not even a trace of blood. This was incredible. Ordinary blood stains are difficult to clean even with water.

How could he disappear into thin air?

Moreover, not only the blood stains disappeared, but also the snake head as big as a fist!

If more than ten of us had not witnessed all this with our own eyes, we would never have believed that such a thing would happen.

What on earth is going on with the weird snake heads and the smell of corpses on our bodies? My head almost explodes thinking about it, but I just can’t think of a reason.

Just when we had no clue, suddenly, the Japanese female assistant and the female translator started chatting in Japanese. At first, we didn’t pay much attention, thinking that the Japanese female assistant must not understand Chinese, so we asked the female translator.

content of the conversation.

But after the two talked for a while, the female translator’s expression became more and more excited. She turned around and said to us in Chinese: “My colleague said that she had seen this similar phenomenon before and explained it to me in detail.”

After everyone listened, they immediately became excited. This Japanese female assistant studied in Germany and specialized in medicine. Last time, it was she who used her knowledge to help us crack the secret of that kind of jade, and this time

Such a weird snake head, does she also know what's going on?
Chapter completed!