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Li Zhibin scratched his head. "Is that thing really that mysterious? I even killed one in the mountains last year, and it didn't come looking for me."

Hearing Li Zhibin's words, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi's eyes widened. "What? What kind of nonsense are you spouting?! You even hit the pheasant's neck, so why aren't you dead yet?"

After hearing what Wei Wei and Jiang Qi said, Li Zhibin didn't know how to respond.

How did he know he wasn't dead yet? How did he know the snake wouldn't come after him for revenge?

That's not right! Don't these two people really want him to be well? They just want him to die! They're so surprised that he's not dead!

Wei Wei asked in confusion, "That's not right! That Pheasant Neck must be holding a grudge, why hasn't he come looking for you? And the mountain isn't far from here."

Wei Wei was very curious about this. Logically speaking, Pheasant Neck should be an animal that holds grudges.

Not only pheasant necks hold grudges, but animals like snakes are also vengeful species.

As soon as Wei Wei finished speaking, Jiang Qi got goosebumps.

"Isn't it unsafe for us to be with that fool? After all, the snake may come to seek revenge at any time."

It's not like she hasn't heard of that kind of rumor before, the kind where the snake is killed and comes home to take revenge.

Because snakes rely on smell to determine direction. If they remember the smell, you're doomed.

Thinking of this, Jiang Qi's hair stood on end in fear, and Wei Wei, Wu Mei and Liu Jiaojiao were not much better.

Although Wei Wei was scared during the chatter, she was not as scared as she was on the mountain.

Therefore, some things were realized, that is, the snake they saw today seemed to have no comb.

It's not exactly the same as in the TV series, but it's completely unrelated.

Could it be that she remembered it wrong? So Wei Wei quickly turned her head and looked at Jiang Qi, "Did you see the comb on the snake's head just now?"

Jiang Qi also reacted, "It seems so! The snake doesn't seem to have a comb on its head. Could it be that the snake doesn't have a pheasant neck?"

Now this situation has made Wei Wei and Jiang Qi a little confused and they are beginning to doubt themselves.

Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin, on the other hand, looked bewildered, and suddenly doubted their own hearing. What on earth were Wei Wei and Jiang Qi talking about? Why couldn't they understand again?

"Who told you that a pheasant's neck has a comb? A pheasant's neck doesn't have a comb. Even though it's called a pheasant's neck, it has nothing to do with chickens, okay?"

Li Zhibin was completely confused. "Have you ever seen a snake with a comb growing out of its head? Could you please not be so outrageous? Storytellers in the past wouldn't dare write about it like that."

Upon hearing this, Wei Wei immediately retorted, "How is that possible? A pheasant's neck clearly has a comb on its head."

Xiao Xuemu was also a little confused. "In your memory, what does a pheasant's neck look like?"

Wei Wei knew this. After reading the novel and watching the TV series, she was so scared of this thing that she even looked up detailed information.

"When they are born, their bodies are almost transparent white, and they survive by sucking the body fluids of their prey. Their teeth are laced with paralyzing poison.

When they grow to a certain stage, their bodies will gradually turn red.

Their venom has also changed from simply paralyzing the enemy to killing with one drop.

And once fully grown, pheasant necks can mimic the sounds of their prey, including accents and quirks.

When a pheasant grows up, a crown-like thing will grow on its head, which is very similar to a rooster's comb, so it is called a pheasant neck.

Wei Wei thought for a moment and asked doubtfully, "The snake doesn't have a comb, does that mean it's not mature yet?

"They are transparent when they are young. Although the snake's body is not completely red, it seems to still have some red. Could it be that it has not grown up yet? Is it still in the growth and transformation stage?"

Wei Wei was really confused. She seemed to have no idea what a pheasant's neck looked like during its growth period.

I haven't seen any records of it, only records of it when it was a child and an adult.

As for pictures, I've only seen him as an adult on TV.

Jiang Qi was also a little confused. "Isn't Pheasant Neck from the southwest? Why is it also in the Northeast?"

That's something from the former site of the Queen Mother of the West, not the Queen Mother of the East or the Queen Mother of the North. That's in the southwest, so why would it be in the northeast?

After Jiang Qi was no longer so scared, he discovered many highlights and many things that were wrong.

When Jiang Qi mentioned this, Wei Wei also realized, "It seems to be true. Why is there a pheasant neck in Northeast China?"

Unlike Wei Wei and Jiang Qi, who became more and more confused the more they dug into the matter, Liu Jiaojiao and Wu Mei became more and more confused.

Liu Jiaojiao and Wu Mei both got goosebumps as they watched Wei Wei and Jiang Qi give increasingly detailed descriptions of the pheasant's neck.

There was no way. Wei Wei and Jiang Qi explained it in such detail that Liu Jiaojiao and Wu Mei knew it very well.

Generally speaking, the more detailed and clear something is, the more likely it is to be true.

But was that still a snake that Wei Wei and Jiang Qi were talking about? That was too scary! How was it different from a monster?

Didn’t they say that spirits are not allowed after the founding of the country?

Especially Liu Jiaojiao, her legs were trembling when she heard this.

This pheasant's neck is too scary. She will never run up the mountain again. It's too dangerous.

Xiao Xuemu felt something was wrong. Why did Wei Wei know so many details?

Also, why did he feel that this description and depiction were inexplicably familiar, yet at the same time, he felt that something was not right?

So he looked at Wei Wei and asked, "How do you know all this? Have you ever seen a pheasant neck?"

Wei Wei shook her head. "I haven't seen it in real life. If I had, would I still be alive?"

Li Zhibin asked curiously, "Where did you get such comprehensive information?"

"It's been passed down from generation to generation by the elders, and it's also recorded in some magazines and strange stories!"

You can't say he knew this from reading novels and watching TV dramas!

It seems that the novel was not available at that time. The novel should have been written in the early 2000s, which is still too early for now!

By the time the novel came out, they were all old men and women.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin choked, and even Yu Xi choked.

Especially Xiao Xuemu, he said why it was so familiar. He had the same feeling when he read novels and books in the past and saw the descriptions of strange things in the books.

How can you believe all the rumors and strange stories and records that have been passed down?

Most of that is fake, most of it is people’s imagination, and is no different from fiction.

Some things are completely unbelievable. The country has broken away from feudal superstitions.

Many things in it are feudal superstitions. I didn’t expect Wei Wei and Jiang Qi to believe in those things. Not only did they believe in them, but they also believed in them so firmly that they scared themselves like this.

For a moment, Xiao Xuemu, Li Zhibin and Yu Xi didn't know what to say.

They didn't know whether to say Wei Wei and Jiang Qi were smart or stupid.

But Liu Jiaojiao nodded as if she understood, and so did Wu Mei.

Liu Jiaojiao and Wu Mei, however, believed in those things. In their eyes, the world is so big that nothing can stop them.

And as the saying goes, if you don't listen to the advice of the elderly, you will suffer the consequences.

Those old people are knowledgeable and have eaten more salt than they have eaten rice.

I have experienced a lot of things, so I still have to listen to what the elderly say.

There are some things they don’t know or have not seen, but that doesn’t mean those things don’t exist. It doesn’t mean that they don’t exist.

Xiao Xuemu looked at Wei Wei and asked, "Do you know the tiger-necked snake?"

Tiger-necked snake, this was indeed the first time Wei Wei had heard of it. Not only Wei Wei, but everyone in the room, except Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin, had heard of it for the first time, so they shook their heads.

"do not know."

Who would bother to remember these things? The only snake species she knew were those she had seen on TV and on her phone.

"I only know of cobras, pit vipers, rattlesnakes, and pythons. Oh! Last year I even saw a rat snake."

Of course, Wei Wei also knew some other snakes, but she didn’t know their scientific names. She only knew what they were called in the dialect of her hometown in her previous life.

Jiang Qi beside him added, "I also know that there are probably no poisonous snakes in the mountains except for pythons. A bite from the others will almost kill you.

Although pythons are not necessarily poisonous, once they are entangled, even a strong man cannot escape and can only be strangled to death."

Wu Mei and Liu Jiaojiao beside them both gasped. To be honest, they knew very little about snakes.

After all, both of them grew up in the city, so if they are sincere, they would not have much time for these things.

Even if there are any, they are usually non-toxic and used to catch mice.

They usually don't have the chance to see poisonous snakes, as they are beaten by the adults or caught and taken back to make wine.

Therefore, it was the first time that Wu Mei and Liu Jiaojiao heard of so many poisonous snakes.

Xiao Xuemu explained, "The snake we saw today is called the tiger-necked snake, commonly known as pheasant neck.

It can't be said that it is exactly the same as the descriptions of those strange monsters you have seen, it can only be said that it is completely unrelated.

So read less of those random books and stop scaring yourself.”

After finishing speaking, Wei Wei continued, "But the snake you mentioned later, I don't know about cobras, and I've never seen pythons, but I seem to know a little about the others. Those snakes are indeed quite venomous, and their mortality rate is indeed higher than that of pheasant necks."

Hearing this, Liu Jiaojiao and Wu Mei's lips turned pale, and even Yu Xi was a little surprised.

After hearing what Wei Wei and Jiang Qi said just now, he no longer had much hope for what would happen next.

It also felt fake because he had never heard of any of the other snakes except the python and the bamboo pit viper.

But I didn't expect that those snakes were real, and it seemed that the snakes were indeed very poisonous.

After hearing this, Wei Wei and Jiang Qi also realized that they seemed to have made a misunderstanding.

The pheasant neck that Xiao Xuemu and Li Zhibin talked about on the mountain is the tiger-necked snake. This pheasant neck is just a common name. The pheasant and pheasant neck in novels and TV dramas are completely different things.

So they were scared to death, just because their brain circuits were not connected.

Wei Wei and Jiang Qi didn't know what to say. They originally thought that it was a novel reflected in reality and a horror story. Telling it to them now would be a huge misunderstanding.

Although it is a bit hard to accept, it is better to be a misunderstanding than to be the truth.

Otherwise it would be a real horror story. If they really encountered the kind of pheasant neck in the novel, they would not be able to stay in the Red Star Brigade. There was no way, they were too close.

Seeing how frightened everyone was, Li Zhibin explained:

“The snakes Wei Wei just mentioned are generally not found here, so you don’t have to be too scared.

One of the most poisonous snakes here is probably the far northern viper. If you are bitten by that snake in the mountains, there is a high probability that you will be doomed because its venom is even stronger than that of the five-step snake.

There are also pit vipers, which are also venomous snakes found here, commonly known as pit vipers, and they are also very poisonous."

After hearing this, Liu Jiaojiao became even more determined not to go up the mountain in the future.

Even Wu Mei shuddered. She had never thought there was such a poisonous snake here. She quickly asked:

"What do the Arctic viper and the Earth Ball look like?"

She must remember what the snake looks like. After all, she can't not go up the mountain. She still has to make money.

In the future, if you encounter those snakes, you must stay away from them and never get bitten by them.

Li Zhibin did not hide anything and told them everything he knew about the viper and the earth ball.

"The viper has a triangular head, a short and thick mouth, and blood-red eyes compared to other snakes.

The body color is relatively dark, some are very dark, even close to pure black.

Some have a grey base with reddish-brown markings and two brown horizontal stripes behind the eyes.

You need to be careful about this kind of snake, because it can be seen even when the temperature is very low, and it is relatively cold-resistant.

Last year, just after the frost, I went to the mountains and saw this kind of snake.

The head of the scorpionfish is also triangular, and its body color varies greatly, with dark circular spots or a reticular pattern on its back.

When Wei Wei heard that there were two brown horizontal stripes behind the eyes, she immediately thought of a cobra.

"A cobra has what look like eyes on the back of its head if it's held upright.

If you encounter that kind of thing, stay away from it and run away quickly. If you are bitten by it, there will be no time to recover.

If you see nests that look like small towers on the mountain, don't step on them.

Because there may be a mountain inside, it is a mountain nest.

If you encounter that thing over the mountain, you will die, because you can't outrun it. It runs very fast, like lightning. When it really runs, you can hardly see its figure clearly.

However, that thing exists in the south, and there are quite a lot of it. I don’t know if it exists in the northeast, but it’s better to pay a little attention.

After all, it's better to be safe than sorry. Play is play, jokes are jokes, but don't joke with your life."

Wei Wei tried her best to give them some additional knowledge. She knew that she, Jiang Qi and Liu Jiaojiao could not go up the mountain, but Wu Mei could not go up the mountain.

Therefore, I tried to explain things as clearly as possible to Wu Mei so that she could have more knowledge about how to save her life.