Traveling back to ancient times to determine the zodiac

The short Xiaosha went into a bush to look for it. He found a shallow hole inside. Looking into the hole, he found 20 to 30 walnut-sized white eggs. He didn't care what the eggs were, so he reported to Brother Dong loudly: "Brother Dong, I found a nest of eggs here. Come here quickly!"

Dong, who was not far away, heard this and hurriedly called the others: "Xi, Bei, brothers, Xiaosha found the egg, let's go over and take a look."

Xi and the others followed Dong and walked towards the bushes near Xiaosha, calling out as they searched: "Xiaosha, you are so lucky to have found the eggs so quickly. Where are you?"

After asking several times, there was no response. When everyone was puzzled, they suddenly heard a faint cry for help: "Help! Brother Dong, help!"

Dong hurriedly looked towards the place where the help was coming from, and saw a giant python as thick as a thigh biting Xiaosha and wrapping tightly around his body.

It turned out that the nest of eggs that Xiaosha found was the python's eggs. The python was coiled on the bushes, and when it saw Xiaosha leaning over to pick up the eggs, it quickly swooped down and entangled him.

Xiaosha was caught off guard and was rolled into a ball before he could even resist, unable to move.

Fortunately, Dong and the others came over quickly, and Dong immediately shouted: "Hey! You damn python, let my brother go."

After saying that, he raised the stone axe in his hand and chopped at the python. The python didn't want to give up the small sand in its hand, so it just moved its huge body to the side, but it was still scratched by the axe. Its skin was immediately torn apart, and it immediately let go of the small sand in pain and ran away.

"Where are you going to escape to, you damn python?" Dong hurriedly chased after it, raised his axe and chopped again.

Xi and the others followed and beat the python with sticks. The python curled up in a heap, with no way to escape. Dong saw the right moment and struck the python's head with a fatal blow with an axe, finally killing it.

"Xiaosha, how are you? Are you okay?" Dong killed the python and hurriedly helped up the attacked Xiaosha.

"Brother Dong, I'm fine! Thank you for saving me!" Xiaosha was almost suffocated by the entanglement just now, but once he was let go, he was fine.

"Where is the egg you found?"

"The egg is in that shallow hole." Xiaosha replied, pointing at the python's nest.

"Xiaosha, this is a nest of python eggs, no wonder it attacked you." Dong looked at the eggs and said.

"Brother Dong, don't care if they are snake eggs or bird eggs, we'll just use this egg to get the job done!" Xidao said.

"Okay, brothers, let's pick up the eggs and take this dead python back with us." Dong nodded.

Everyone followed the order, picked up the snake eggs, and pulled the dead python out of the bushes. Looking at the snake, it was more than two feet long and weighed more than a hundred pounds. Then, Dong and several brothers carried it back.

Xiaoxing, Feng and the others were all shocked after hearing this, but they were relieved when they saw Xiaosha was safe and sound and the snake eggs were successfully retrieved.

"Xiaosha, I didn't expect that you would experience such a dangerous scene in order to pick up eggs. It's really hard for you!" Xiaoxing said to Xiaosha gratefully.

"Xing, this is all for everyone, you're welcome." Xiaosha waved his hand.

"Brother Dong, brothers, now that we have the fish, eggs and seeds, let's go to Snow Lotus Peak again to pray to the Ice God." Xiaoxing said to everyone.

"Xing, brothers, it's been half a day since we came down the mountain, and we are already starving. I think it would be a good idea to roast the python first to fill our stomachs, and then go back up the mountain, right?" Dong suggested, touching his growling stomach.

"Brother Dong is right. Xing, it's not too late for us to go up the mountain after we have eaten." Feng clapped his hands in agreement.

If you don't say you're hungry, you won't feel anything. But once you say you're hungry, everyone feels hungry. Xiaoxing subconsciously touches her stomach and agrees.

So everyone started a fire and cut up the snake. After a while, they had roasted the snake meat. After eating the snake meat, they also ate the papayas. After they were full, they took the three offerings up the mountain.

After another long while, everyone climbed up to the top of the mountain again. Xiaoxing came to the huge rock under the Lotus Peak, placed a tube of water, fish, eggs, and longan seeds on the rock in order, and then inserted a torch. After everything was ready, everyone knelt down and began to pray: "Respected Ice God, we are humans from Hongmeng, and because of the Nian Beast..." Repeat the words of the last prayer again.

Dong and the others knelt down and prayed. After praying several times, they saw wisps of white clouds suddenly appear in the clear blue sky above their heads. Slowly, the white clouds became more and more numerous and thicker, gradually forming a giant with a height of 100 feet and a width of more than 30 feet, floating above their heads.

"Boom——" suddenly there was a loud sound like thunder in the sky. Seeing this scene, everyone was so nervous that they didn't know what to do and could only pray even more desperately.

"Humans, I already know your requests! You can go back, I am willing to lend you a helping hand." Suddenly, a deep voice came from the sky. Although it was not very clear, it was deafening.

"The Ice God has agreed to help!" Xiao Xing jumped for joy, then quickly knelt back on the ground, kowtowed and thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you, Ice God, thank you, Ice God!"

Everyone kept expressing their gratitude, and after half an hour, the huge human-shaped cloud above their heads gradually disappeared without a trace.

"Xing, the Ice God has gone. I wonder how he can help us?" Dong asked, looking at the clear blue sky again.

"Yes, yes, the Ice God left without saying how he could help us. Is he trying to trick us?" Feng Heyun and the others were also suspicious.

"Brother Dong, brothers, since the Ice God has agreed to help us, he must have his reasons. How could he try to fool us? Have you forgotten the incident with the bandicoot last time? Even animals value trust, let alone gods?" Xiao Xing sternly rebuked everyone, then waved his hand and said, "The Ice God has successfully asked for help, and our mission has been successfully completed. Brother Dong, brothers, let's go back!"

"Yes, Xing." Everyone agreed, removed the offerings, and went down the mountain together while it was still early.

As everyone was walking back, they saw a north wind suddenly rising, so cold that people were shivering.

"Brother Xing, it was very warm this morning, why did it become cold in the afternoon?" Hong'er snuggled up to Xiaoxing and asked in disbelief.

"Hong'er, the weather changes so suddenly, it's really weird. Come, I'll help you block the wind." Xiaoxing also felt it was very strange.

Seeing this, Lan Er also clung to Chen's side to resist the cold wind. It was night again, so Xiao Xing announced, "Brother Dong, brothers, it's getting late, the wind is strong and cold, let's find a sheltered place to spend the night. We can leave tomorrow when the wind dies down."

"Okay!" Dong nodded and said, "Everyone has worked hard, it's better to rest early."

So, they found a place sheltered from the wind, made a fire, set up camp and rest.

The next day, the north wind did not stop, the sky was overcast, and it began to drizzle. At night, it even snowed. Everyone was extremely surprised and had no choice but to continue their journey in the snow.

On the third day, everyone finally returned to the swamp camp. At this time, the muddy swamp was also covered with white snow, and the ground was covered with silver.

As the weather suddenly turned cold, Zhi moved the camp to a cave in a nearby Elephant Trunk Hill. He was also worried that Donghe and Xiaoxing would not be able to find him when they came back to ask the Ice God to come back, so he stood alone in the original camp early in the morning and waited. At around noon, he finally waited for Donghe and his group to return safely.

Zhi hurried over to meet the group and asked impatiently, "Dong, Xing, you're back! Have you invited the Ice God?"

"Uncle Zhi, we walked for two days and found the Snow Lotus Mountain that Bai Ling mentioned. We worked hard to climb to the top of the mountain and prayed to the Ice God. At first, there was no effect. Later, Dong Ge thought it was useless and wanted to go back. It was me who insisted on not doing it. After an argument, a fire fox spirit that had been practicing for a thousand years at the top of the mountain couldn't help but come out to blame us. Under our pleading, the fire fox revealed: To pray to the Ice God, you must offer five kinds of offerings, and then it ran away. After we took great pains to guess the offerings, we went down the mountain to find them, offered them, and prayed again. At this time, the Ice God appeared in the sky in the form of a cloud man and agreed to lend us a hand. Then he disappeared without a trace. We received the words of the Ice God and then returned the same way. Unexpectedly, the north wind howled at night and it was extremely cold. In the end, it rained and snowed, making us hungry and cold, and miserable." Xiaoxing recounted the whole process in detail.

"Xing, how can you help if the Ice God hasn't revealed his true form and hasn't followed us?" Zhi frowned in confusion after hearing this.

"Uncle Zhi, we don't understand this either. But I think, since the Ice God has agreed to help, just come back with peace of mind." Xiaoxing replied.

"Uncle Zhi, Xing and I have the same idea. The Ice God will definitely show up to help us when the time comes." Chen said.

"Xing, Chen, I hope it's as you said." Zhi replied.

"Uncle Zhi, why are you the only one here in this camp? Where are the others?" Dong looked around and asked curiously.

"Dong, because the weather is too cold, I ordered everyone to move the camp to the caves of the nearby Elephant Trunk Hill." After explaining to everyone, Zhi Chao continued, "Dong, fellow warriors, you have worked hard. Now come with me to the new camp!"

"Yes, sir! Uncle Zhi." Everyone agreed and followed Zhi towards the Elephant Trunk Hill.

In just a meal time, everyone arrived at the Elephant Trunk Hill. Everyone saw that the hill was not very tall, but there was a huge cave on the top of the hill. From a distance, it looked like an elephant's trunk. Zhi pointed to a cave at the foot of the hill and said, "Everyone, hurry up, that's our new camp."

Everyone quickened their pace and walked towards the cave. They saw a person lying outside the cave from a distance. Dong wondered, "Uncle Zhi, it's freezing cold, who is so fearless that he would lie outside to rest?"

"Dong, that's the sea. Alas." Zhichang sighed and continued, "He died last night because his injuries were too severe and the medicine couldn't heal him. Because you haven't come back yet, he hasn't been buried yet."

"Brother Hai is dead?" Dong shouted in disbelief, and then ran quickly towards the cave entrance. When he got closer, he saw Hai's body lying quietly there. Dong couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, his eyes widened, and roared: "The damn pig spirit actually bit Brother Hai to death. Brothers, let's go fight the evil pig now to avenge Hai."

After saying that, he wanted to walk out angrily.

"Dong, don't be reckless." Zhi stretched out his hand to stop Dong and said, "The Pig King and the Pig Spirit are very ferocious. If we continue to attack, I'm afraid more people will be injured."

"Uncle Zhi, we have defeated wild buffaloes, ferocious tigers, evil dragons and poisonous snakes one by one. Are you still afraid of this stupid pig?" Dong said unconvinced.

"Dong, what we are worried about is not only the fighting power of the evil pigs, but also the poisonous gas and mud. If we don't solve those problems, we will still be defeated." Zhi persuaded patiently.

"Brother Dong, what Uncle Zhi said makes sense." Xiaoxing followed to stop Dongdao: "I think before the Ice God arrives, we should not act rashly to avoid unnecessary casualties."

"Xing, if the Ice God doesn't come, we will wait for one day. If he doesn't come for a month, we will wait for a month. Then when can we return to Hongmeng?" Dong asked back.

"Since the Ice God has promised to help us, he will never ignore it." Xiao Xing said this, and suddenly thought of something. He slapped his head and asked Dong: "Brother Dong, do you feel that this heavy snow came very suddenly and very quickly?"

"That's right, as soon as we got off the snowy peak, the weather changed immediately, and then there was wind and snow, which really caught us off guard. But what does this mean?" Dong asked puzzled.

"Uncle Zhi, Brother Dong, I guess this sudden heavy snowfall was sent by the Ice God to help us break into the pigsty. So, after the snow stops tomorrow, we will go to attack the pigsty, and there will definitely be unexpected surprises waiting for us." Xiaoxing guessed excitedly.