Chapter 441 Acid Rain. Snake Catching
Chu An and the other two heard the sound, and they saw that it was getting closer and closer to them, obviously running in this direction.
"Do you want to go down and take a look?" Gu Ye had already pulled out the Black Stone Dagger.
After experiencing the end of the world, Chu An realized a truth: some things must be resolved as soon as possible, and one must never adopt the mentality of ignoring them and not caring about them.
"Go out and take a look."
She took out cotton gloves from the space and asked them to wear them, and also took out a fishing net in case of emergency.
The people fleeing had already run to the front and back of the building. A few gathered in front of their car, but most of them ran to the front entrance of the building.
Bang, bang, bang——
The next second, there was a knock on the door, and then the door of the small building opened from the inside, and a tall and thin man in a black T-shirt walked out. Maybe because he was too tall, his upper body was a little hunched.
He wore white cotton gloves, a thin blanket wrapped around his body, sheets tied to his limbs, a nylon bag in his hand, and a wooden stick under his armpit. This outfit made him sweat after taking a few steps.
There were two men following behind him, one with a sturdy build and the other of normal build, both dressed the same.
“How many nests are there this time?” asked the man in the black T-shirt.
"Five or six nests...seven or eight nests..." someone answered.
"Xiao Wu, go and save your uncle Zhang. He came out from under his house and he is still inside." An old lady slapped her thigh and cried loudly, obviously very frightened.
Chu An and his two companions had already come around from the back mountain. They were all shocked to hear that there was a nest of snakes. Usually, there were 15 to 20 snakes in a nest.
"Have you told the joint defense team?"
"Xiao Yuan is gone."
Xiao Wu nodded and said to the two people behind him, "Let's go and take a look."
People seemed to be bolder because of him and followed him in the same direction. At the same time, two members of the joint defense team at the door came over and joined them with rifles.
Chu An and the other two followed at the back. They didn't hear clearly what they said, but they should cooperate in catching the snake.
After walking about ten meters, a shrill scream suddenly rang out amid the overwhelming sounds of people fleeing. It was the kind of scream that erupted from the depths of one's heart due to extreme fear or pain, and it was hysterical and made people feel despair when they heard it.
The people in front stopped and time stood still for a few seconds. Then someone stepped back screaming, while someone else covered his chest and retched.
Because someone stepped back, there was a gap for Chu An to see everything clearly. He saw a man with snakes all over his body kneeling in front of a small shed.
His eyeballs were bulging, obviously he was extremely frightened, his mouth was wide open and there was something shaking inside, which was definitely not his tongue, and there was half a snake tail outside his ear.
The already worn-out shirt was torn into strips, and something seemed to be moving under the shirt. The exposed skin was dark red, as if someone had tightened it with a rope.
He tried to reach out his hand, hoping to get help, but no one dared to step forward. Around him, there were dozens of nests of thumb-thick snakes, each with hundreds of snakes.
Some small snakes were about one meter long and crawled in all directions at a very fast speed. Many people were attacked.
The brave ones just grabbed them and threw them away, while the timid ones just screamed and cried.
Xiao Wu hurriedly asked everyone to retreat, as this was at least ten times more serious than the last snake infestation.
Last time, there were only three nests of snakes, each with about 20 snakes, but even so, it was not easy to deal with them. The main reason is that they are too fast and appear only at night. They are black and can disappear if you are not careful. They will suddenly appear and bite you.
Fortunately, their venom is not fatal. 90% of the people who were bitten last time survived, and the remaining 10% died from being bitten in vital parts.
Those who recover will have sequelae. Mild cases will cause drowsiness and drooling. Moderate cases will be unable to do physical labor. Severe cases will suffer from confusion in thinking, that is, go crazy.
The base caught a snake and took it back for research. The results showed that this snake was a fire snake and was not poisonous.
Regardless of whether they are poisonous or not, it is difficult to survive being attacked by so many snakes.
Before they knew it, Chu An and the other two were already standing in the first row, alongside Xiao Wu and the joint defense team members. Directly in front of them was the man who was entangled by snakes. He finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell to the ground, twitching all over.
"Help, help!" A young woman waved her arms wildly and rolled on the ground. There was a small snake on each of her arms and legs. When she fell, more than a dozen of them crawled towards her.
Xiao Wu rushed forward immediately, first picked up several snakes that were approaching, then pulled the snake off the young woman and stuffed it into a nylon bag.
Killing snakes over and over again will only make them bear a grudge, and this time it may be a revenge.
Later he heard from the old people here that the snakes after the earthquake were all snake spirits that crawled out from underground and they just wanted to find a place to resettle their nests.
If you don't want to give up this place, you can only make them feel scared and let them know that there is already an owner here, and a powerful owner, so that they will leave on their own initiative.
They must never be killed, as snakes will gather in groups and hold grudges very deeply, never forgetting them for hundreds or thousands of years, and will attack in groups until the enemy is dead.
"Don't kill snakes. Listen to Grandma Hu, catch them and throw them out to the suburbs," Xiao Wu shouted.
Chu An didn’t know what happened in the past, but he felt that this man named Xiao Wu was quite reliable.
In her previous life, she encountered a snake plague in the wild. Everyone chose to escape, and they eventually escaped at the cost of half the people dying. Snakes are definitely difficult animals to deal with.
She took out a cotton needle from the space and, with the help of her mental power, instantly fixed the small snake that was close to Xiao Wu and the surrounding people. She did not kill it, but just made sure that the small snake could not break free, and the people who were rescued ran madly to the safe area.
Snakes kept crawling out of the snake den, and Xiao Wu began to pick them up one by one and put them into the nylon bag.
Chu An first dragged Gu Ye and Lao Chu to a shaded place, took out a waterproof leather jumpsuit and leather boots for fishing from the space, and put motorcycle helmets on the two of them. Then he followed suit and gave each of them a nylon bag and a wooden stick.
Both of them wore very thick cotton gloves, their jumpsuits were made of thickened PVC material, their helmets had neck protectors, and when they put down their masks they were protected from all snakes.
Gu Ye and Lao Chu approached the snakes. Xiao Wu was shocked. These...are their equipment much better than his? ? ?
Gu Ye was holding three safety helmets in his hands and handed them to Xiao Wu and the other two.
"Thanks, brother." Xiao Wu took it without hesitation.
"Thank you." The other two people also thanked him.
The five people continued to catch snakes and moved towards the snake nest in a semi-encircled state. With the equipment, everyone's speed of picking up snakes was significantly faster.
Chu An was keeping a close eye on the snake's movements from behind, making sure it couldn't escape the encirclement and hurt them.
Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye she saw a snake struggling frantically to break free from the cotton needle, even at the risk of tearing its body apart in an attempt to escape.
She turned around and saw a woman with red and swollen skin and large patches of ringworm on her face pouring hot water on the snake, muttering, "Burn you to death, burn you to death."
Next to the woman with tinea versicolor, there was an old man with fluorosis in his mouth, who was stepping on the snake with his feet. Others were also eager to try, all trying to find a way to kill the snake that Chu Anding had pinned down.
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