wasteland ranch

Chapter 23 Ten Thousand Snakes Pond
After carefully walking down the winding corridor, the two of them and the beast waited at the exit for a long time to make sure that no one was passing by outside, and then got out of the hole.

The wind and dust were rolling in, and the sand beneath his feet covered his insteps, which made Lin Guiyao a little uncomfortable.

"Are there many animals in the desert to hunt?"

To this, Bai Ruochu’s answer was:

"Stop talking, follow me."

Along the cliff, Bai Ruochu was in front, Lin Guiyao was behind, and the two of them walked on the desert of Minghai with one foot shallow and one foot deep.

One hour,
two hours,

five hours,

……

It was not until half a day later, around four or five o'clock in the afternoon, that Bai Ruchu stopped in front of a stone forest.

She lost her memory three times on the road, but fortunately, the good card was very effective. Lin Guiyao's neck did not suffer any injuries, but her shoulders were a little sore.

Because since Gabeng arrived in the desert, he actually began to grab his shoulders, turned himself into a sloth, and fell asleep!

"Gudu, there is actually a stone forest in the desert...the animals are in it, right?"

Lin Guiyao took a sip of water, and seeing a magnificent stone forest appeared in front of him, as if hundreds of large trucks had been planted here, he couldn't help sighing.

Bai Ruochu leaned in front of a stone pillar and pointed at the bottom of the back of a stone pillar. Lin Guiyao took a closer look and saw a little bit of moss growing on the base of the huge stone pillar.

"There is a water source in the stone forest, so in the evening, all the nearby animals will come here to drink water."

"However, those animals are not easy to mess with. Moreover, the stone forest is very complicated and you may get lost if you are not careful. You must follow me closely after entering and follow my instructions."

After finishing speaking, Bai Ruochu suddenly pulled the corner of Lin Guiyao's clothes, and drew a pattern like a mosquito coil on his T-shirt with his fingernails.

I don't know what is painted on her nails, but it can be used as a pen.

"This is a marker incense. As long as you are within 500 meters of me, I can find you."

"Oh."

Lin Guiyao rubbed his nose, but he didn't smell anything, so he just nodded and followed Bai Ruochu into the stone forest.

After a while of turning left and right, Lin Guiyao realized that the terrain in the stone forest was indeed as complicated as Bai Ruochu said.

Every time he walks up five or six pillars, he will have a feeling that I have been here before, but seeing that Bai Ruochu's speed has never slowed down, there should be some way for her to discern the correct path.

As they got closer and closer to the interior of the stone forest, more and more moss hung on the roots of the stone pillars, and the air seemed to become less dry.

The most intuitive thing is that the road underfoot has gradually changed from sand to dirt.

On the way, Lin Guiyao secretly touched the moss, but he didn't receive a prompt from the system. He put it in his pants pocket and sold it, but he didn't receive G coins. It seemed that it was something of little value.

Just as he was thinking about trying another big one, Bai Ruochu suddenly turned around, pressed one palm on his chest, and made a shushing gesture with the other hand on his lips, signaling him to squat down slowly.

This is?

Squatting behind a moss-covered stone pillar, Lin Guiyao imitated Bai Ruochu, poked his head out carefully, and saw the scene behind the pillar.

It turned out to be a small pond!

There are five or six king lotus-like plants floating on the water, but the flowers that bloom are actually bigger than the leaves, and one of them has even grown a lotus pod.

Those purple flowers are bright and transparent, like amethyst, and the lotus pod is like a jade plate, wrapping round lotus seeds.

But on the lotus leaf in the water, there was actually a giant golden python coiled up, more than ten meters long, as thick as Lin Guiyao's thigh!
Fortunately, this giant python seemed to be sleeping, and did not notice Lin Guiyao's prying eyes.

"This... a snake?"

"The last time I came, it was as thick as an arm, and it was unexpected..."

Bai Ruochu looked down at the bandage on his thigh and continued:

"I didn't expect that in just over two months, it has grown so big. Well, let's eat snake meat tonight!"

"Eat snake meat?"

Lin Guiyao was shocked, how could such a big snake be killed?The two of them are probably only enough for one person.

"No, you didn't kill it last time, can you kill it this time?"

"I already had a black wild boar last time, it's unnecessary."

Bai Ruochu took out the dagger and wiped it gently with his cloak, emitting a bit of cold light.

"Stay here and don't move. I'll call you after I get rid of it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Ruochu jumped out of the stone pillar and slowly approached the giant python.

Looking at Bai Ruochu's silent, slowly moving back, Lin Guiyao stayed where he was, and even slowed down his breathing.

I was afraid that a strange noise would wake up the giant python and disturb Bai Ruochu.

"Lin Guiyao, Lin Guiyao, you are really useless! You can only watch!"

Bai Ruochu despised himself, but Bai Ruochu was already only about one meter away from the pond.

"Ok?"

With a soft cry, Bai Ruochu suddenly did two backflips in a row, jumped back, and leaned his back against the stone pillar that Lin Guiyao was avoiding.

And the pond seemed to be boiling, with black bubbles gurgling and tumbling continuously.

Lin Guiyao took a closer look, and was so terrified that his soul would fly away.

Where are the bubbles?
It was clearly a small black snake as thick as a thumb!

That number actually covered the entire pond, I don't know how many tens of thousands of them there are.

What was even more frightening was that Lin Guiyao seemed to see huge white bones hiding or appearing in the water.

No wonder it took so long to come in without seeing any other animals.

It turned out that they were all swallowed up by this snake pond!
"go!"

Bai Ruochu turned over, grabbed Lin Guiyao's arm and fled towards the outside of the stone forest.

If there was only one giant python, she was confident that she could kill it with her agility, but now, there are tens of thousands of small snakes, let alone whether she can kill them all, Lin Guiyao, the village head, must be dead .

She regretted why she brought this guy out.

"hu~hu~"

Lin Guiyao turned his head back for the last time before running, and saw the giant python in the lotus leaf, motionless, as if still in a deep sleep.

But those little snakes, like army ants, rushed out of the pool water, forming a thick black line, sticking behind them, and they had the momentum not to give up until they caught up.

Logically speaking, this small snake, which is only as thick as a thumb and as long as a forearm, cannot catch up with the speed of a human, but this common sense has not been fulfilled on these small black snakes.

I saw mucus constantly coming out of their bodies, lubricating the black snake behind them, and their speed became faster and faster. Seeing that they were only about ten meters away from Lin Guiyao, they could catch up with them in a few minutes. .

At this moment, Lin Guiyao suddenly caught a glimpse of a turtle as big as a car not far away from a stone pillar, and it was also trying to escape.

It's just that its huge body was stuck between two stone pillars because of its panic, and its four claws as thick as elephant legs kept scratching and pulling on the ground, but it couldn't move forward.

Turtle in the desert?

Lin Guiyao was stunned for a moment, and found that the chasing little black snake suddenly split into two groups, and the largest group attacked the tortoise.

As for the group of snakes chasing them, only a few hundred remained.

　Thanks to Feng Feifei, Gulong Aoyue and all the empty hvchuug for their recommendation votes.

　　


(End of this chapter)