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Chapter 234 The Snakes Suddenly Disappeared

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Zhang Hao and others, who had just left not long ago, heard the "clucking" sound of chickens coming out of the altar, which suddenly disappeared, but not long after, it was followed by the screams of chickens.

The people of Jiyuan Village have been dealing with chickens all their lives, and they know very well what their sounds mean.

"That's the noise!" Zhang Hao shouted suddenly.

Last night, there was this noise, first it was extremely quiet, then there were screams.

"Village chief, what's going on?" someone asked.

Zhang Hao swallowed and said, "It was the same last night."

"The chickens were very quiet at first, but then they became all agitated and started screaming."

"The snake god is coming, the snake god is coming!!"

When the villagers heard this, they immediately felt relieved.

"The Snake God is here, that's good."

"It seems that the snake god has accepted the village chief's worship."

"Looks like I can have a good night's sleep today."

...

In their view, whether the snake god eats the chicken or kills it, it means that the snake god accepts their worship.

The most important thing is that the snake ate not their chicken but the village chief's. He used other people's things to do good things, so why shouldn't he be happy? !
After hearing what the village chief said, everyone decided to go back to sleep.

I thought tonight would be a safe night.

...

Doctor's home.

At this time, the doctor had just returned home after attending the village chief's sacrificial ceremony and was preparing to mix some herbal medicine.

result.

A long, dark red figure flew past him quickly and bit his ankle accurately.

"what!!!"

A scream came out.

The apprentice, who had just received the doctor's order to go outside to get medicine, heard the noise inside and immediately ran in to check, only to find that the doctor was already lying on the ground.

"Master, what's wrong with you?"

At this time, the doctor's lips were purple and sweat was pouring down his forehead.

His hand trembled as he pointed at his right ankle.

Seeing this, the apprentice pulled up his trouser legs and saw two clearly visible bloody holes at his ankles, which were oozing black blood.

At the same time, black blood began to spread upward from the two blood holes at an extremely fast speed. In just ten breaths, it had spread to the entire right leg.

At this point, the doctor's entire right calf had turned completely black.

The apprentice had never seen such a grand scene. Yesterday, when the doctor was treating the village chief's wife, he was just delivering medicine.

Now that his master has suffered such a thing, he really doesn't know what to do for a moment?
"Quick, go to the kitchen and get a knife, and chop off my right leg!!"

The doctor covered his right leg and shouted loudly.

"Ah!!" For a moment, the apprentice did not react, and did not know what his master meant.

If he really cut off his master's right calf, wouldn't he become a villain who betrayed his master and ancestors? With such concerns, he didn't dare to move.

Seeing the apprentice still standing there in a daze, the doctor continued to yell, "What are you still standing there for? Hurry up and go! Do you want to let my body be completely infected by the toxins and satisfy me?!"

"Go quickly!!"

Now the apprentice understood what his master meant, and immediately ran to the kitchen, found a machete, and returned to the room.

At the same time, the doctor picked up the medicine cloth next to him and bit it in his mouth to prevent himself from biting off his tongue subconsciously due to the pain when chopping off the legs.

When he raised his machete and prepared to look down, he froze in mid-air, trembling all over and saying, "Master, I dare not!"

"Cut it down quickly, you useless piece of shit!" the doctor yelled angrily.

He knew that his apprentice was very timid and had to use other methods.

Sure enough, when the apprentice heard his master call him a waste, his face turned grim, and he grasped the knife with both hands and chopped down fiercely.

"Ah~~~~"

Suddenly, almost the entire right leg of the doctor was chopped off, blood was flowing, and the severe pain made him unable to bear it and fainted.

"Clang~"

Seeing his master fainted, the apprentice's hands went limp and the machete he was holding fell to the ground. He collapsed to the ground with his hands hanging down.

Just when he didn't know what to do, he felt a warm current on his hands hanging on the ground. He looked down and saw that it was the blood left by his master.

At this point, the apprentice finally came to his senses, looked at his master, immediately stood up, went to the pharmacy, and tremblingly took out various hemostatic herbs and some herbs for treating snake venom, and used them on his master.

During this process, the apprentice occasionally knocked over the medicine bottles.

It was not until midnight that the doctor's injuries stabilized. The apprentice applied the last dose of medicine to the broken leg, and only then did he have time to rest.

"Didn't the village chief just hold a sacrificial ceremony? How come the master was bitten by a snake at night?" the apprentice wondered.

After thinking for a while, in the darkness, the apprentice looked towards the location of the mountain and guessed.

"Could it be that this wasn't done by the Snake God at all? But by the snakes in the mountains?"

Everyone in the nearby villages knows about the strangeness of the mountain.

"If that's true, then why is nothing happening in Dahuangbian Village, which is closest to the mountains?"

For a moment, the apprentice didn't know what was going on.

"I don't want to think about it anymore. I must tell everyone about this tomorrow." The apprentice couldn't figure it out, so he shook his head and sat down beside his master's bed, watching over him every step of the way. For a while, he accidentally fell asleep.

...

Early the next morning.

He woke up when the sunlight shone into the house and reflected on the apprentice's face.

The first thing he did was to check on his master's injuries, and only when he found that his breathing was stable did he feel relieved.

He then went outside and found that the villagers were heading towards the altar that had been set up the night before.

Seeing this, the apprentice followed.

I saw that the altar, which was very simple last night, was now fully equipped with an incense stand and a cage for placing offerings next to it.

Every villager who comes here will burn a stick of incense and worship devoutly.

At this time, the village chief was standing aside, guiding people like the most devout believer.

Zhang Hao saw the confused apprentice and asked, "Where is your master?"

Although his wife died, the doctor and his apprentice tried their best to save her that night, so their attitude was very good.

"My master's leg is broken." said the apprentice sadly.

Suddenly, all the people who were worshiping the so-called snake god looked over with fear and confusion in their eyes.

"What happened?" Zhang Hao asked immediately.

The doctor is the most valuable talent for a village chief. Whenever villagers have any problems, they all go to the doctor. Therefore, the status of the doctor is very high in the village near the mountains.

Now, you said the doctor's leg was broken, that's a big deal.

"Uh--"

The apprentice hesitated a bit, looking at the snake god on the altar. Now everyone understood what it meant, and those who were worshiping became more pious and kowtowed more vigorously.

"Wait, you said your master's leg was broken, not dead?" Zhang Hao asked.

"Yes!" the apprentice replied, "I saw the master when I just came out. There is no problem. It won't be like yesterday."

Then, Zhang Hao pulled the apprentice out of the altar and asked carefully, "Tell me everything that happened last night."

At this time, the villagers also gathered around, and the apprentice told everyone everything.

When they heard that the apprentice had personally examined his master's right leg, their faces twitched unconsciously.

"The doctor is really experienced. He knew that my wife was poisoned yesterday. In order to prevent the poison from spreading, he actually came up with the idea of cutting off her leg. Sigh—"

This sigh was full of helplessness.

"Village chief, what should we do?" someone asked.

Now, the sacrifices have been made, the offerings have been placed, and the heads have been kowtowed, but someone still got bit by a poisonous snake, and it was a doctor. What should I do? !
"Let's go see the doctor first." Zhang Hao said.

This proposal was unanimously agreed upon by the villagers.

A group of people went to the doctor's house, opened the wooden door, and saw the doctor lying on the bed with his eyes open.

"Master, you're awake!" the apprentice stepped forward immediately.

"Master, everyone knows that you are in trouble, so they came to see you specially."

At this time, Zhang Hao had already arrived in front of the bed and saw that the doctor's calf was gone. The wound was wrapped in layers of gauze, and some green juice was flowing out of it, which was herbal medicine.

"Village chief, this is not a snake god at all, but a creature in the mountains!!" said the doctor.

Big Mountain!!
As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked.

The mountains are very mysterious to Jiyuan Village. They only know that they contain countless strange animals and plants, and there are also terrifying creatures.

Even though Jiyuan Village is hundreds of miles away from the mountains, it is still within the range of the mountains. You can imagine how large the radiation range of the mountains is.

Now, the doctor said that the poisonous snakes that appeared in the village were actually related to the mountains?
The mountains are hundreds of miles away! Would a venomous snake come all the way here just to bite people?

"Doctor, how could there be a big mountain?" Zhang Hao couldn't believe it.

"Ahem." The doctor said weakly, "The snake's body is dark red. Snakes like this can only be found in the mountains."

"I saw it last night. It was only for a moment, but I could see that it was a dark red snake." The doctor became more and more excited as he spoke, and his coughing became more and more severe.

After hearing what the doctor said, everyone fell silent. After a long while, they continued speaking.

"When I was young, I once went to the Great Wilderness to learn how to detoxify snake venom. Pharmacist Xie told me that there was a dark red snake in the mountains. It was extremely venomous. Once bitten, no one could survive for even a day."

"Within a day, the whole person will turn into a pool of thick water, and the bones will turn black."

"If you want to survive, there's only one way, and that's to cut off the limbs you were bitten by before the poison spreads throughout your body. Only then can you survive."

"It's been so long since I've forgotten about this incident that I didn't even think about it when the village head's wife died. It wasn't until last night, when I saw a dark red figure in the darkness, that I remembered it."

The doctor's words were like a biting cold wind in winter, which made him shudder.

These words came from the mouth of Pharmacist Xie. Dahuangbian Village can be said to be one of the villages that knows the mountains best.

Unexpectedly, the poisonous snakes in the mountains could crawl over hundreds of miles and come to Jiyuan Village.

"In other words, everything the madman from Stone Village who was at the village gate said was true? Is Stone Village really gone?" someone suddenly asked.

Now, everyone's memories suddenly went back to that evening, and everyone remembered what the madman said.

The thought that a huge stone village was slaughtered by a few poisonous snakes meant that their Jiyuan Village could not escape the same fate.

"Doctor, is there any solution?" Zhang Hao asked with a frown.

The doctor shook his head, "No, unless we can kill them."

"It's not that easy to kill a poisonous snake. It's small and very secretive, and you can't find it even if you try," someone said.

"Well, Jiyuan Village is neither big nor small. There are plenty of places for a few poisonous snakes to hide."

"Why don't we leave Jiyuan Village?" someone suggested.

This proposal was rejected on the spot.

"Escape? Where can we escape to? There's no way the villages near the mountains will take us in, and escaping from the mountains is even more impossible."

"That's right. Besides, even if another village dares to take us in, when the time comes, the venomous snake will see that there is no one in Jiyuan Village and will definitely move on to the next village. Then the result will be the same!!!"

"Village chief, do you have any ideas?" The apprentice kept looking at Zhang Hao.

After thinking for a moment, Zhang Hao said, "There is a way, but I only have one chance."

"What method?" Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Like last night, let's perform another sacrifice. Then, just like last night, the venomous snakes will come to the altar. Then, we'll catch them all in one fell swoop!!"

night.

The villagers of Jiyuan Village gathered at the altar again. Hundreds of chickens for sacrifice were placed on the side, but these chickens were very quiet.

The difference from last night was that every villager's face did not have the same piety as last night, but only endless resentment.

What happened in the village chief's family and the doctor's family has made them realize that this group of poisonous snakes will not stop until they have killed the entire village chief.

Zhang Hao stood holding incense and bowed three times to the snake statue on the altar.

"Welcome the Snake God!"

Then he placed incense on the altar, picked up a chicken, and sprinkled its blood on the ground.

After everything was done, he and the villagers left.

Of course, they didn't really leave, but waited outside the altar for the arrival of the poisonous snake.

At this time, each of them was holding a weapon in his hand, including a shovel, a knife, a hammer, and everything that could be used at home.

Inside the altar, just like last night, dozens of dark red poisonous snakes crawled out from the darkness, came to where the chicken was placed, and began to feast on it.

Suddenly, the entire altar was filled with the screams of chickens.

Zhang Hao heard the voice and spoke immediately.

"Quick, light all the firewood that has been prepared. Guard every exit of the altar. Don't let a single snake escape."

Following Zhang Hao's order, all the villagers started to move and lit the dry firewood that had been prepared long ago.

The altar has four exits, and each exit is guarded by at least ten villagers.

After a while, a raging fire started and the flames shot up into the sky at the altar.

At this time, all the snakes in the altar disappeared.

Zhang Hao, who had been guarding the door, felt something was wrong.

"How is it? Is there a snake coming out of the exit?" Zhang Hao shouted.

"No."

"Neither do I have one here."

Three voices responded.