Start from a baby to become a Taoist

Chapter 249 Big Snake Big Snake
Xu Ran came out of his observation of the animal skins. It was already evening. Even though the banquet was held at noon, the Xu family was still very lively in the evening.

Moreover, people from other villages came in an endless stream to congratulate the Xu family. Regardless of whether they had succeeded in body training or not, they all received a large number of gifts, all of which were food, drinks, and fine silk.

The person who was happiest to receive these gifts was Lian Ji.

Soon, a day passed, and even after the banquet was over, a large group of people remained in the Xu family yard to clean up.

The next morning, Xu Ran woke up and found that the yard was just like when it was newly built, without a trace of dirt.

Ring noon.

Old Xie, who lived next door to Xu Ran, went into the mountains carrying a bow and arrow and a seven-leaf lily plant.

Old Xie was previously the pharmacist of Dahuangbian Village. In addition to his unique Seven-Leaf Flower, he was also very familiar with pharmacology. He was the doctor of Dahuangbian Village, and the title of pharmacist was not for nothing.

The venomous snakes that massacred the village a month ago made him realize that there were many strange things in the mountains, and his current knowledge of pharmacology might be useless. So he thought about going into the mountains to collect various herbs and study pharmacology.

After he successfully refined his body, he would go into the mountains every day to study various herbs, and bring seven-leafed flower with him as a precaution.

He passed the narrow path in front of Xu Ran's house, and through the crack in the door, saw Xu Ran sitting cross-legged in the yard, and then entered the mountains.

As soon as he entered the mountains, he felt an inexplicable chill, which made him feel a little familiar.

"What's going on today? It feels like the mountains have grown cold!"

Although he said that, his movements also became extremely cautious. After all, he had taken Mr. Qi's hunter course and knew that everything in the mountains required caution, caution, and caution again.

Even if you are refining your body now, don't forget that there are monsters everywhere in the mountains. It is not enough to just refine your body for the first time.

Old Xie walked carefully, step by step.

Suddenly, I found a red herb a hundred meters away, and my eyes lit up.

"I've never seen this herb before. I wonder what its effect is?"

Old Xie was a little excited and walked quickly to check. When he was only ten meters away from the herbs, a familiar chill arose and made his body tremble.

He subconsciously took a few steps back.

Suddenly, his eyes focused, and a long red figure passed by his eyes, only a finger's distance away from his nose.

When he saw the creature passing by clearly, he was shocked. It was a big snake with a red body. Judging from its size, it was the same one that entered the Great Wilderness Village a month ago.

“Gurgle——”

Old Xie swallowed and murmured, "It seems that the big snake in front of us is a snake demon."

The snake demon is still an insurmountable mountain for him now. When he encounters it, there is only one way to deal with it, which is to run away, otherwise, he will die.

"However, this large snake, although red in color, does not look like the venomous snakes that invaded the village. I just don't know if it is poisonous?"

"Furthermore, this giant snake was able to pass right in front of his face. It's obvious that it's not afraid of the Seven-Leaf Flower!!"

Now the effect of the Seven-Leaf Flower is getting weaker and weaker, which is also related to the fact that the big snakes in the mountains are getting stronger and stronger.

Although Lao Xie knew that he could not defeat the big snake in front of him, he still took off the big bow on his back and immediately bent the bow and drew the arrow.

"call out--"

An arrow hit the snake accurately.

"clang--"

As a result, only a crisp sound was heard, like the sound of two steel knives chopping against each other.

"This giant snake is invulnerable to swords and spears! Even arrows shot at it without leaving any scratches, and it even made a crisp sound."

Old Xie was a little scared.

Although he had just completed his first body training, his strength had reached 600 kilograms. Combined with the bow's shooting speed, the arrow he just shot probably had a force close to a thousand kilograms. Even so, the big snake was still unharmed.

If he rushed forward without knowing what was going on, he would probably be killed by the snake's mouth.

Moreover, it seems that the big snake in front of him is only guarding the red herbs a hundred meters away. As long as he doesn't get close, he will not be attacked.

"With my current strength, it's probably impossible to get that red herb."

"It looks like the buds on that red herb haven't bloomed yet. It might still take some time for them to mature. I'll try again after a while when my strength has improved."

After thinking it through, Lao Xie left the area of ​​red herbs.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

As usual, Mr. Qi took the young men in the village who were not yet fifteen years old to the mountains to learn various outdoor knowledge.

"Although most of the animals in the mountains have now transformed into monsters, animals are still animals, and their instincts haven't changed."

"The mountains have been divided into hundreds of areas by various monsters. Each area was conquered by powerful monsters with all their might."

"To prevent other monsters from entering their territory, they leave behind unique evidence, such as feces and snake skins."

"If you encounter something related to this in the mountains, the first thing to do is not to enter easily, otherwise it will be regarded as a provocative act."

Mr. Qi warned everyone in a serious manner, and the dozen or so children behind him listened very carefully.

Seeing their expressions, Mr. Qi was very satisfied and continued.

"Experienced hunters can tell a monster's status from its feces, snake sloughs, and other evidence of its territory. Some hunters can even discern a monster's strength from these traces."

"The strongest hunter in the village right now, Xu Binghu, can do this."

While saying this, Mr. Qi did not forget to praise Xu Binghu.

Now all the prospective hunters in the village regard Xu Binghu as their idol.

They all wanted to be like him, to become the strongest hunter in the village of Dahuangbian, and to eat delicious fish and meat every day.

"Also, you can tell what kind of monsters are in the territory by their feces."

Old Qi pointed to a piece of dried feces in front of him and walked forward to sniff it.

"Like this piece of feces, it belongs to the monkeys. Once you know this territory belongs to the monkeys, you can understand the living habits of the monster beasts. Once you really want to enter the territory to hunt, you can choose the best hunting location and time based on the monkeys' living habits."

"To achieve this, it takes a long time and accumulation of experience."

Mr. Qi taught the children tirelessly, and the adults who followed the children also benefited a lot from listening to his words.

After all, when Mr. Qi taught them before, he only did it in the classroom and he never went into the mountains to teach them by example.

At this time, a child in the crowd raised his hand and asked.

"Grandpa Qi, since you know that the monster in this territory is a monkey, can you kill it?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the other children looked at Mr. Qi with anticipation.

The adults who were protecting them behind them also began to get ready.

Although they cannot defeat monsters alone, fighting in groups is their forte. Moreover, they have Qi Lao, an experienced hunter, who can quickly work out a suitable hunting plan.

Old Qi glanced at everyone with an indifferent look and said.

“That’s the second point I want to tell you.”

When everyone heard this, they pricked up their ears again.

"The second thing about hunting in the mountains is knowing your own strength. Safety comes first. Only when you survive can everything else be possible. If you die, you're truly dead."

Elder Qi looked at everyone and nodded. "Yes, with our current lineup, we can kill the monkeys in this area, plus my arrangements. But what if you're left alone?" "If we succeed in hunting the monkeys this time, will you misunderstand your own strength later?"

"The most important point is, now that you know my plan for hunting monkeys this time, will you copy it when you encounter monkeys in the future?"

Mr. Qi spoke every word with an extremely stern tone, which made everyone lower their heads in shame.

Mr. Qi was very satisfied with the results.

"My plan for this monkey is to use feces to treat this one monkey. The situation won't be the same for the monkeys you encounter in the future."

"Experienced hunters know this, but you haven't even hunted an animal, let alone a monster. This will create a stereotype for you, and it may cost you your life in the future."

Every word that Mr. Qi said hit them hard in the heart, and they all lowered their heads and spoke.

"Grandpa Qi, we were wrong."

Mr. Qi nodded, "Well, that's good to know."

Mr. Qi knew very well that it was normal for these children to have cognitive errors. He was here to teach them. The more problems they had now, the greater the benefits it would bring to them in the future.

"Hunting is originally for survival. Every time we kill prey, the profit must be reasonable. If a large group of us hunt a monkey, the profit is too small. How should we divide it?"

"And, for humans, there aren't many places where monkeys can be eaten, and humans rarely eat monkeys. So, this hunt is time-consuming and laborious for the hunters, and the harvest is low!!"

Survival is the most primitive nature of a hunter.

This is also what Mr. Qi wants to teach them the most.

Seeing that he had gained a lot today, Mr. Qi nodded with satisfaction and said, "Okay, I've taught you enough today. Go back and digest it first."

After saying that, he prepared to leave with everyone.

As a result, when Jean turned around, he heard a hissing sound coming from the bushes around him.

When Mr. Qi heard the sound, he suddenly became nervous and said gloomily, "It's a snake!"

snake! !

Everyone suddenly became nervous.

The people of Dahuangbian Village have been traumatized by snakes. They can still vividly remember the incident of a poisonous snake slaughtering the village a month ago.

A snake that can appear in the mountains, and moreover, in the territory of monsters, is undoubtedly also a monster.

There were a total of twenty-three people in this group, fifteen of whom were children who came out to learn and had no hunting experience. The rest were all hunters who had just undergone their first body training and had a strength of 500 kilograms.

Only Old Qi had a strength of 700 kilograms. Even so, he had no problem facing a snake demon.

However, judging from the sounds coming from all around, there were at least ten of them, and these ten were enough to keep them all here.

"Protect the child." Old Qi ordered.

"Yes!"

After that, the eight people surrounded the ten children and protected them. Fortunately, because of the poisonous snake that slaughtered the village a month ago, although the children were a little nervous, at least they were not in a panic.

Under the nervous gaze of the eight hunters, dozens of large snakes crawled out of the bushes. Each one was two meters long and as thick as an adult man's arm.

This is definitely a monster.

Each big snake had its tongue sticking out in the air, as if it was treating the twenty-three people in front of it as food, and slowly attacked them.

Seeing this, Qi Lao said, "Prepare for battle and take out the Seven-Leaf Flower."

Everyone who enters the Dahuangbian Village in the mountains will carry a seven-leaf flower with them.

After everyone took it out, a faint floral fragrance spread in the air, as if forming a protective shield to protect them.

However, these dozens of giant snakes were not affected at all and continued to move towards them, staring at everyone with their tiny snake eyes, as if they were going to swallow them into their stomachs in the next moment.

"Mr. Qi, what should we do?" someone asked.

Old Qi drew the machete from his waist, and it goes without saying that the other seven people did the same.

The machetes in their hands were extremely shiny, and when they were placed in front of their eyes, they could clearly reflect people's faces.

These machetes were made by the blacksmiths of the Iron Casting Village. Currently, there are only ten in the entire Dahuangbian Village, and they are all equipped to hunters who go into the mountains to protect children.

"Leave two people to protect the child, and the rest of you, follow me and fight your way out."

As soon as he finished speaking, Old Qi rushed out with a machete in hand, using his aging body to carve a bloody path for them. The remaining five people did the same and rushed out directly.

Children are the future of the Great Wilderness Village, not to mention those who have been practicing physical training since childhood. Their potential is much higher than that of middle-aged people like them.

The big snake blocking their way stood halfway up, and when it saw the hunters rushing towards it, it actually used its head and machete to fight back.

"clang--"

"clang--"

"clang--"

"clang--"

"clang--"

"clang--"

At the same time, six clear sounds echoed in the silent bushes, like the collision of two steel machetes, crisp and powerful.

The children looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the giant snakes that were fighting the hunter were pushed back several meters, while the hunter stood still.

Seeing this, a look of joy appeared on his face.

"Great, it works."

"The snake was repelled."

"Mr. Qi has cleared a path for us."

The children thought that they had the advantage in the current situation, and they shouted loudly with their blood boiling.

In the past month, they went into the mountains almost every day, and Mr. Qi and others came to teach them and protect them every day.

But during this month, no large monsters were encountered at all. The main reason was that Mr. Qi was very experienced.

Today, it can be said that this is the first battle they have actually seen.

In this first battle, I had the advantage, and we were facing a monster, which greatly boosted their confidence.

Only the two hunters responsible for protecting the children noticed that something was wrong with the six people in front of them.

After several breaths, the six people were still standing there. A closer look revealed that their hands holding the machetes were shaking, and there were several tiny cracks on the extremely hard machetes.

Both of them thought they were dazzled, and rubbed their eyes to confirm again.

It turned out that all six people had the same problem, with a notch on their machetes.

Now they knew why the six people were standing there and their hands were shaking.

Then, the two men turned their eyes to the big snake that was knocked back several meters. They saw that its head, which had collided with the machete, was fine and was now slowly crawling towards the six people.

The six of them looked at each other and thought to themselves, "Not good."

(End of this chapter)