Traveling back to ancient times to determine the zodiac

They kept running for about a mile. Suddenly, some people at the back fell to the ground one after another. They were unable to get up and just kept shouting, "Help! Help!"

Donghe, Xiaoxing and everyone else stopped and turned around to see that there were more than 20 injured people including Rihexia, Damao, Xiaomao, Miao, Ya... who fell to the ground unable to hold on due to the effects of the poison.

"Brother Dong, Brother Xia, Ri, Damao, Xiaomao and the others can't run anymore because they were bitten by poisonous snakes. Let's go and rescue them quickly." Xiaoxing said to Dong.

"No, people bitten by poisonous snakes will die sooner or later. Saving them will implicate us. Now the Snake King and the Snake Army are chasing us, it will be too late if we don't run away." Dong shook his head, indicating that it would not be possible.

"Brother Dong, if we don't go to rescue them, are we just going to let them die there?" Xiaoxing stamped his feet anxiously.

"Xing, if you want to save me, go ahead and save me. I don't care." Dong said, and walked forward without looking back.

"Chen, Yue, Feng, Yun, brothers, we can't abandon them. If you want to save them, follow me." Xiaoxing turned around and ran back without hesitation.

When everyone saw Dong and Xiaoxing running in opposite directions, they were stunned, but soon the thought of saving people prevailed, and Chen, Yue, Feng, Lei and most of the people followed Xiaoxing and turned around and ran.

The snake king and his snake army behind him hissed and swarmed over.

Danger was imminent, Xiao Xing waved his hand and ordered: "Chen, Yue, brothers, hurry up and rescue them. No matter what, you must bring them back to the cave."

After Xiao Xing finished speaking, he spotted Xia lying on the ground, so he quickly ran to him and asked, "Brother Xia, how come you are injured too? Come, I'll carry you back."

"Xiao Xing, I was bitten by two poisonous snakes. I can't stand it anymore. You should leave quickly, otherwise you will be caught up by the snakes." He waved his hand weakly and refused.

"Brother Xia, my good brother, I will not let you die. The cave master has medicine and will definitely cure you. Hurry, get up quickly." Xiaoxing pulled Xia up without saying a word, then carried him on his back and ran away.

Chen, Yue, Feng, Yun, Lei, Dian and more than fifty other people also hurriedly rescued the more than twenty injured people on the ground, either lifting or carrying them, and ran back.

Qiu, who was waiting in the cave, heard the horn and knew something was wrong again. He quickly ordered everyone in the cave: "Zhi, Ping, all warriors, listen up: the patrol team blew the horn just now, and they must have discovered the beast army coming to attack again. I order: some people to follow me to meet Dong Hexing and others; the other part of you stay in the cave and guard the cave door to wait for the enemy beasts."

"Yes, Cave Master." Everyone agreed.

Qiu then led Zhi Heping, Yang, Liu, Tong and other 100 warriors, each holding a weapon, and headed towards Zhuoshugang. Lao Zhu, Lao Zhang and Lao Song led some people to guard the cave gate.

Qiu Hezhi and his companions had walked less than half a mile when they ran into Li Hemei, Lianhua, Juhua, and other women. Qiu hurriedly asked, "Li, you escaped so quickly, what happened?"

"Cave Master, Dong said that the Nian beast sent the Snake King and the snake army to attack. They couldn't resist and all fled into the cave." Li replied breathlessly.

"Snake King and Snake Army?" Qiu couldn't help but take a breath when he heard it, and stroked his white beard and said, "Old people always say: Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of dead vines for ten years. If you are bitten by a poisonous snake, you are at risk of death in a moment. Li, Mei, you should go back to the cave quickly."

"Yes, sir! Cave Master." Upon hearing this, Li and the other women continued to run towards Tianju Cave.

"Cave Master, snakes, scorpions, centipedes, geckos and toads are commonly known as the five poisons, and the poisonous snake is the worst of the five. Cave Master, it looks like we are in big trouble this time!" Zhi said worriedly.

"Zhi is right. Venomous snakes are no less dangerous than tigers and vicious bulls. I predict that this will be another extremely dangerous battle." Ping nodded.

"Zhi, Ping, since the venomous snakes have already attacked, there is no point in being afraid. Let's go and take a look!" Qiu said, raised his stone axe, and led everyone to continue moving forward. After walking for a while, they met some of the leaders, including Dong and Xi. Qiu asked anxiously, "Dong, how are you? Are there any casualties?"

"Reporting to the cave master, this time the Nian beast sent the snake king and snake army to attack. The attack of these snakes was extremely fierce and extremely poisonous. We could not resist and had no choice but to retreat to the cave. During the escape, some warriors who were bitten fell to the ground due to the poison, and we didn't know whether they were alive or dead." Dong replied.

"Dong, since someone is injured, how can you just watch him die and do nothing?" Qiu was very dissatisfied and shouted harshly.

"Cave Master, the snakes are chasing us so fiercely that we can hardly protect ourselves, let alone those who are injured." Dong Jianqiu was furious and hurriedly explained.

"Dong, since we are all fighting together, we should live and die together. If you don't save them today, and you get injured in the future, no one will save you. What do you think?" Qiu continued to scold.

"Uncle, I know I was wrong." Dong was scolded and bowed his head to show that he admitted his mistake. Then he waved to Xihe, Bei, Heizi and others and said, "Brothers, come back with me to save them."

"You don't have to bother rescuing him. We've already rescued him." An angry voice came from behind.

Dong looked carefully and found that it was Xiaoxing and Chen's team who had come. Xiaoxing was carrying him on his back, panting and sweating profusely. He finally caught up with Dong, Xi and the others. When he heard that Dong wanted to go back to save people, he stopped him angrily.

"Xing, you saved all the injured, that's great!" Qiu nodded in appreciation, patted Xiaoxing on the shoulder, and praised them: "Xing, Chen, Yue, Feng, you all dared to disregard danger and risk your lives to save people. On behalf of all the people in the cave, I thank you."

"Cave Master, helping each other is what we should do." Xiaoxing said humbly: "Now the Snake King and the Snake Army are chasing us, let's go back first." Xiaoxing said.

"Okay! Everyone, hurry back to the cave." Qiu waved his hand and gave the order.

The group continued to run as fast as they could, and soon they arrived at the entrance of Tianju Cave. Lao Zhu, Lao Zhang, and Lao Song saw the group returning from afar, and hurriedly led people to open the three cave doors to welcome them. After the group entered the cave, they immediately closed the cave doors again.

"All warriors listen up: This time the Nian beast has sent the Snake King and the Snake Army to attack us. Now the Snake Army will soon chase to the cave entrance to attack. Everyone pick up your weapons and prepare to fight." Qiu ordered everyone.

"Yes, cave master." Upon receiving the order, the warriors including Dong, Xi, Bei, Zhong, Heizi, etc. took up their weapons and stood ready at the cave entrance.

Xiaoxing, Chen and other generals carried the injured Xia Heri, Damao, Xiao Mao... and more than 20 others to the meeting place and put them down, and then they came to the cave entrance to prepare to meet the enemy.

The snakes soon chased to the front of Tianju Cave. "Hiss-hiss--" the snake king saw that everyone had fled into the cave, and shouted: "Listen, my people: the humans are in this cave, and there is no way to escape. Everyone, charge at me, wipe out all the humans, rescue my big brother, the Dragon King, and then report back to the Nian Emperor."

"Yes, my king." The snake spirits responded in unison.

"Launch an attack, charge!" the Snake King gave an order.

The snake spirits received the order and led the little snakes to launch a fierce attack on Tianju Cave. These snakes are fast and good at climbing. Although the cave gate and the wall are high, they can't stop them at all. The little snakes are seen climbing up the wall one after another as if they were walking on flat ground. The first mountain snake swam to the top of the wall and leaped down directly towards the people in the cave like a flash of lightning.

"Everyone be careful, the snake army is attacking." Qiu reminded everyone loudly.

"Go to hell with that poisonous snake." Dong changed his hand to a wooden stick, and when he saw the mountain snake jumping down, he was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and hit it hard with the stick, knocking it to the ground. The others followed suit with sticks and beat the mountain snake into a pulp.

As soon as this snake died, another one came whizzing by. Everyone kept swinging sticks and beating them vigorously. Soon, the dead snakes were scattered all over the ground, which was a horrible sight.

Although the snake army suffered many casualties, they did not retreat and continued to attack, making everyone in a panic. Suddenly, a snake spirit nearly four feet long and as thick as a thigh flew up, directly jumped over the cave door from the outside and jumped in. For a moment, everyone was stunned by this huge snake spirit. Xiaoxing and Chen hurriedly swung their sticks to hit it, but both missed. As soon as the snake spirit landed, it jumped towards Lao Song, who was frightened and had not yet reacted, and bit his leg. Then its long body wrapped Lao Song up like prey. It turned out to be a python spirit.

"Help, everyone, help!" Qiu shouted hurriedly when he saw the situation.

Xiao Xing and Chen threw away the sticks, picked up the stone knife, and chopped at the python. After a few chops, the python was not hurt at all, but it became even tighter. Xiao Xing was helpless and asked Qiu Dao: "Master, this snake is invulnerable to swords and guns, what should we do?"

"Xing, since we can't cut it, let's pull it apart." Qiu strode over, threw the stick, grabbed the python's tail, and tried to untie it. No matter how hard Qiu tried, he couldn't pull it apart. Xiao Xing and Chen hurried forward to help, and everyone tried their best to pull, but it didn't work. Then Lao Yang and Tong also joined in. The five of them tried hard, but they still couldn't pull it apart. In fact, the python's twisting force can reach an astonishing 2,000 kilograms, so no one could pull it apart.

At this time, Lao Song had been entangled by the python spirit and his face had turned black, his breathing was rapid, and his chest was almost squeezed to pieces. He could no longer get rid of the python spirit, and even his feces would be squeezed out. He was doomed to die.

"Cave Master, this snake monster cannot be hurt by chopping it or pulling it away. What should we do?" Old Yang cried in despair.

"Wait for me to find a way, wait for me to find a way." Qiu looked around, but still had no idea what to do.

"Cave Master, I have an idea." Xiao Xing said, and quickly ran to the pile of fire, pulled out two burning firewoods, ran back, and then put the firewood directly on the python's back to burn.

"Xing, this is a good idea! Burn it to death." Old Yang nodded repeatedly and praised.

Although the snake scales were hard, it was still flesh and blood after all, and soon it was roasted with a "sizzling" sound, and a fishy smell rushed into the nostrils. The python immediately loosened its body and let go of Lao Song in pain, then swept its long tail and swept the firewood in Xiao Xing's hand to the ground.

Lao Song was saved and tried desperately to crawl back into the cave. Qiu picked up the stick again and shouted, "Evil snake, die!"

With a whoosh, the stick hit the python's vital point, causing it to shrink its neck and curl up. Xiao Xing, Chen, Lao Yang, and Tong also picked up their weapons and hit the python with their sticks, but it was too resistant to the blows and could not be hurt.

The python became anxious and hissed, then opened its mouth wide and attacked Lao Yang.

Old Yang was so frightened that he quickly dodged to the side, and the python took the opportunity to swim away in a hurry and escape. Everyone hurriedly caught up with it and surrounded it.

"Cave Master, this guy is too resistant to attack. We must find another way to kill it." Tong looked at the python spirit and said helplessly.

"Tong is right. Let's think of a solution quickly." Qiu frowned.

Hearing this, Chen suddenly dropped his stick and ran towards the door. After a while, he came back holding a stone block weighing more than 100 kilograms and smashed it on the python.

With a "snap", the stone pillar broke its spine. The python was in unbearable pain and opened its mouth to bite randomly, but it had lost its ability to attack.

Chen then picked up a stone pillar and gave it a fatal blow on the head, finally killing the python.

"Chen, you are awesome. You actually used a stone pillar to smash the python to death." Xiaoxing praised loudly.

Chen smiled and said, "Xing, I didn't expect you would praise me sometimes."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and were about to return to the cave entrance when Zhi ran over from the other side and said to Qiu, "Cave Master, the snakes are attacking too fiercely. Two warriors over there have been bitten by snakes. With my hunting experience of more than fifty years, I have never encountered such a dangerous situation. I don't think this can go on. We must think of a countermeasure quickly."

"The snake army has just arrived and their morale is high. Plus, there are so many of them, I'm afraid we can't stop them in a short time!" Qiu replied with a frown.