Chapter 20: Killing the Snake
Led by a brave young man, they walked up the mountain in the dark night with lanterns, slipping step by step in the muddy rain. They did not walk along the edge of the dense forest, but only along the valley beside the stream. Since this C-level task was limited to 4 hours, the search process would not take too long. In addition, Fang Lin was familiar with its habits. Not long after, he heard a strange "cluck, cluck" sound from a distance, and it quickly marched over! The young man next to Fang Lin was frightened and immediately ran away.
Fang Lin smiled slightly, but raised the lantern. He saw a sudden "clatter" sound in the long grass next to him, and the thatched grass surrounding this open space shook violently. For a moment, it seemed that countless unknown horrors were staring at him in the dark grass. Fang Lin bent down slightly and inserted the lantern into the tree next to him, fixing it like a rock. He did not look panicked at all, but pulled out Te. Veith's pistol and held it tightly. Soon, a strange snake with a fiery red comb on its head and a green body was seen winding out of the grass. It was nearly two meters long and extremely swift as it moved. When it was about six meters away from Fang Lin, it stood up with its upper body and made a strange sound, like the "cluck, cluck" sound of a hen, which was particularly loud!
Fang Lin first tried to use the horror technique, but got a hint from the nightmare mark:
"The target is immune to mental magic."
However, this was also within Fang Lin's expectations. If this strange snake would be tempted by a powerful magic charm or suffer a mental shock attack, then the difficulty of this task would be too simple.
The black muzzle of the gun aimed at the seven inches of the comb-shaped strange snake, and a silver light shot out!
With a light "pop", the comb-shaped strange snake was hit and blood was splashed and thrown away. This shot coincidentally hit a low-probability event that ignored defense, and directly knocked off nearly 1/8 of its health!
The crested snake was obviously extremely angry after being attacked. It stood up the upper half of its body and croaked. The tone of its voice changed. The crest on its head turned from red to purple. Its tail hit the ground and bounced. Its whole body actually flew into the air!
Its jump just happened to avoid the shot that Fang Lin fired at it. It twisted and turned in the air and directly opened its mouth to bite Fang Lin. The crested snake moved extremely fast. It glided over a distance of six meters in the blink of an eye!
Fang Lin ignored the muddy water on the ground and rolled to the side to avoid the fatal bite. At the same time, he raised his hand and threw the big red rooster that he brought with him. The rooster was tied up loosely and had difficulty moving. Once it was free, it suddenly cried "Oh oh oh".
Strangely enough, the situation at hand was that the crested snake could have easily defeated Fang Lin, the great enemy, with another bounce and a bite. But when it heard the rooster's crow, it straightened up and tilted its head suddenly. It was as if it had witnessed a mortal enemy. The snake's tail hit the ground with a "snap", splashing mud and water. With the rebound force, it flew out diagonally and bit the rooster's red crown!
The poor rooster twitched and trembled all over, and died with a black body. However, the cockscomb snake still bit the rooster viciously. Its venom seemed to have the function of spider digestive fluid, corroding the inside of the rooster into a viscous liquid and sucking it directly in.
Fang Lin watched calmly from the side, and did not take this great opportunity to shoot and disturb the "meal" work of this evil snake. When the cockscomb snake was sucking the rooster. Its own blood value also slowly recovered, and finally recovered to full. Finally, it sucked the rooster until only a layer of shriveled outer skin and feathers were left, and then it shook its head suddenly. It threw it out with force, and "snap" fell far away in the grass.
With the weak light of the lantern, the cockscomb snake stood up again, and the dark red snake tongue in its mouth was breathing out, making a strange sound of "clucking". Its two vicious little eyes had turned red, which was very scary.
Suddenly, the cockscomb snake opened its mouth, and several points of bright red venom flew like bullets. Under the weak light, it shone with a mysterious light, making it even more difficult to distinguish.
Spraying poison!
Fang Lin did not move his body, but calmly stepped on it. A wide and thick rotten wood suddenly popped up in the mud and blocked in front of him. The bright red venom shot on it with a "pop". It corroded quickly. A puff of green smoke suddenly rose from the rotten wood, and Fang Lin was extremely afraid of the smoke. He hurriedly stepped back a few steps with a solemn face and covered his mouth and nose.
Seeing that the attack failed, the cock-crested snake became even more angry, and swung its tail loudly, "Cuckoo, cluck, cluck" excitedly. The sound was extremely shrill and sounded particularly strange in the dark night. Fang Lin took a step back. Through the two ejections of the cock-crested snake just now, he had roughly estimated the farthest distance of the strange snake's flight. It happened to be standing in a place where the evil snake could not pounce. At this time, Fang Lin raised his gun and aimed, but the cock-crested snake also felt the threat and dared not act rashly. The man and the snake were in a stalemate, waiting for the opponent to reveal a fatal flaw.
After a few minutes, the slender body of the cock-crested snake suddenly trembled, and Fang Lin showed a half smile at the corner of his lips. He suddenly fired!
A little silver light shot out, and the cock-crested snake's upper body was directly knocked away. I think because of the extremely tough snake skin, the snake body was only slightly injured. The cock-crested snake was extremely angry, and screamed "Cuckoo", slapped the ground with its tail, and opened its mouth in the air, biting it ferociously!
But after this blast, it flew less than three meters before falling into the muddy water with a "snap", far from the previous fierce and violent momentum. At this time, with the help of the weak light of the lantern next to it, it can be seen that the color of the blood crown on the head of the cock-crowned snake is gradually fading, and the luster on the snake skin is also fading rapidly.
Fang Lin smiled triumphantly, stepped back half a step and started the continuous shooting mode. The silver light shot out continuously, and the cock-crowned snake was hit seven or eight times in a row. In pain, it kept rolling and jumping to avoid subsequent attacks. But even after Fang Lin stopped firing, the ground was splashed with mud and water by its crazy flying and jumping. Obviously, this cock-crowned snake was in great pain.
In fact, from the beginning, Fang Lin did not intend to force it directly. In fact, he had always been cautious, because there was a clear reminder in the continuous task c: Snake: This task can only be completed by you alone. In other words, even summoning an elite fat man is not in compliance with the rules.
If Fang Lin was a person with agility, then this task would certainly not be difficult. However, according to the information in Fang Lin's memory: this snake has a vicious temperament, tough skin, moves like the wind, is good at spitting poison, and those who are hit are helpless. If it can be killed directly with a silver spear, the difficulty is too low, so he based on the habits of this strange snake he knew. This snake has a cockscomb, so it absolutely cannot stand other creatures with a crest (er: this habit is very similar to female humans not liking other female humans to wear the same clothes as themselves, which seems to be called "wearing the same clothes"... It can be seen that there is indeed some ambiguity between beauties and snakes.)
In response to the habits of this cockscomb snake, Fang Lin went to catch a big rooster, and when he heard the call of this cockscomb snake, he forced the rooster to drink realgar powder. Then he poured some wine on it to cover up the smell of realgar, and threw the rooster after angering the cockscomb snake.
Sure enough, this cockscomb snake, just as recorded in the book, abandoned itself and attacked the rooster in anger, and sucked it up-------just like a person who takes poison, the toxicity will take effect soon, and he will roll in pain.
After Fang Lin waited for the realgar medicinal properties in the cockscomb snake to fully exert themselves, he cautiously walked to a place about five meters away from it, turned on the continuous shooting mode and shot it into a sieve. The cockscomb snake screamed miserably, and was under fierce attack from the outside, and its internal organs were eroded by the power of realgar. Even so, Fang Lin's ordinary attack with bullets could not break its defense at all, and he could only rely on the short-lived ability to ignore defense to grind its blood value (physical value).
And this damn cockscomb snake seems to have another characteristic, that is, its defense value seems to increase sharply as its blood value decreases. Fang Lin saw that his damage was getting smaller and smaller. He stood there for nearly half an hour and shot at the target. He had only about ten points of mental power left. Then he successfully received the prompt:
"Your critical hit caused 5 points of damage to the cock-crowned snake."
"You killed the cock-crowned snake."
"Continuous task C: Snake (completed). Task goal, kill the evil python entrenched in the mountains. This task can only be completed by you alone. Task time limit, 4 hours. Do you want to receive the reward immediately, or accumulate the reward points for the next step?"
Fang Lin took a breath and thought about it. Choosing to accumulate, he waited on the side, picked up the key dropped by the damn monster snake, summoned the treasure chest and opened it, but only got one thing:
"Strange snake???. Nature, unknown, purpose, unknown. Needs to be identified."
This was the first time Fang Lin got a prop that needed to be identified. At this time, Fang Lin made a strange discovery: the body of the strange snake did not disappear after death, but always lay quietly on the ground. Fang Lin thought about it, found some tough straw nearby, picked up a few straw ropes and tied it up carefully, picked up the guy's tail and brought it back to the village.