Snake Venom

Liu Xi glanced at Wang Ming, and his body slightly tilted in my direction as he said softly, "Water! What's wrong? The water in the well should be alive, right? "

Wang Ming frowned: "No, some of the water in the well found underground water, so it's dead water, and the living water is different from dead water."

Liu Xi and I didn't know what was so profound about it, so we asked.

Wang Ming explained that if there was any living water, it would have a water path that continuously flowed inside, and if there was anything inside, it would pollute the water source. Previously, Liu Xi also said that the people here would have a stomachache, which meant that there was a problem with the water source.

If that snake was here, it must have been doing them good. Protecting the people in this village might be because they were afraid that there would be sickness or death after drinking this water.

"That doesn't make sense. If the people in this village die, wouldn't the snake have something to eat?" Liu Xi said with surprise.

If the snake wanted to eat something, in my opinion, no one in the village can stop it. Everyone must die, and the fact that they did not attack the villagers right now confirms what Wang Ming had just said.

Wang Ming pulled me up. He said that he wanted to go and see, that snake shouldn't be able to harm us.

Liu Xi pulled us and said, that snake was very strange, it would sometimes attack the villagers, and its temper wasn't very good. As long as someone went near, it would let out a very strange cry, scaring the people around.

Wang Ming did not care about that at all, and brought me to the side of the well. Both of them did not have any tools to fetch water, they only stood there, hoping that the snake could come out.

After a while, a snake rushed out from the mountain. I was immediately stunned. This is the biggest snake I've ever seen. Although I've heard about it from my father, after seeing it with my own eyes, it still has a strong impact.

Wang Ming indicated for me not to be nervous, not to move in front of the snake and not to make any movements to attack.

Actually, I understand all of this that Wang Ming is saying, after all, he has followed my father for a few years to do this kind of business, but after encountering this kind of situation, his mind is in a complete mess, he doesn't even know what he is thinking.

The snake stopped in front of us, but it didn't do anything. It just stood there, watching us. Wang Ming threw his backpack on the ground. It was a long distance from us.

If this snake is this big, it would naturally have enough intelligence. Basically, he would know what our movements mean.

My heart was thumping, and I had a dagger in my pocket. If I was in danger, we would attack the snake and escape.

Although he had never dealt with such a large snake before, its weaknesses were all the same, so there was no difference in how he dealt with it.

Wang Ming took a few tentative steps forward, sat on the well, pointed downwards, and looked at the big snake.

The snake slowly walked to Wang Ming's side. Wang Ming usually killed a lot of snakes, but that snake seemed to have sensed us and quickly dodged to the side. It issued a strange sound from its mouth, as if it was driving us away.

Seeing that Wang Ming had failed, I slowly walked in front of the snake. Raising my hand, I slowly touched its body.

The snake didn't resist at all. After rubbing my hands a few times, I looked into the well.

That snake rushed straight into the well, and disappeared from Wang Ming and I's sight.

Wang Ming said that the snake was definitely looking for the abnormality in the well water, but there was no news at all. It seemed to be guiding us, telling us to go down the well as well.

But we don't know how deep the water is in this well.

Wang Ming ignored me and continued to climb along the rope. I went over to put the two of them in my backpack and followed Wang Ming down.

When we reached the bottom of the well, Wang Ming tried to probe the depth of the water on the rope, but he was already inside. I couldn't even see his figure from above, and Wang Ming still hadn't come up.

I shouted out strangely. After a while, Wang Ming slowly floated up and said that there was something special underneath, he wanted me to take the waterproof flashlight and place everything that was afraid of water on the well.

Without any reason, I put my backpack on, took my flashlight, my rope, and my two daggers. I couldn't take anything else down with me.

After going down, Wang Ming told me to follow him. If he went missing, I would come up here by myself and let the people in the village drain all the water in this place.

When I went down, I saw that there were paths on both sides of the river. It looked like it was really running water, but we didn't know if the snake was going upstream or downstream.

Wang Ming hesitated for a moment, then went into the downstream hole. The hole was very thick, it looked like it could fit at least three people side by side.

Actually, it was obvious that my breath wasn't enough after reaching this point. If I were unable to breathe for even half a minute, I would have definitely gone up to take a breath first.

Unexpectedly, the moment I entered, I realised that the water in here seemed to have stopped flowing and gathered in one place. Wang Ming signaled me to go up first, maybe he was just holding in his anger enough.

After coming up, Wang Ming said that the underground waterway might have been blocked, or perhaps the entrance was relatively small, so the water flow was relatively slower.

Wang Ming and I will go down again. This time, we'll be using the rope to help him, and if the water flows too fast, we might be washed down, which means that there will be danger.

After the two of them had finished discussing, they directly headed towards the upstream entrance.

When I first came in, I felt that the current wasn't too fast, and there seemed to be a problem upstream as well.

After swimming for a while, they realized there was no exit at all. They didn't know where the water came from, so they didn't dare to linger any longer. They returned to the well.

Wang Ming told me that the structure of this place is very strange, especially the water source. Even though it's very short, it can actually form a river in a place without water.

I never thought about it and said to Wang Ming, "Don't you think it's strange? We haven't even seen such a thick snake since we went down. Where did it go? "

Wang Ming was stunned. Perhaps he also realized the problem, because we had already seen through most of the things below. There was no exit at all, and the downstream exit was also very small.

The two of them did not speak for a while. After resting by the well for a while, they arrived at Liu Xi's house.

Liu Xi saw that both of us were drenched from head to toe, and it was even winter, so he quickly brought us two blankets to warm us up, and some ginger soup for us to drink.

After Wang Ming returned, he did not speak the entire time. His eyes were lifeless and empty.

I said to Liu Xi, "Your well here is really strange. It's so cold, why hasn't it frozen yet?"

"I don't know, from the moment I was born, I've never heard about the ice there. The villagers said that it was the God's blessing for us." Liu Xi spoke with gratitude and admiration.

Wang Ming suddenly opened his mouth, saying that the water here was not only strange, the snake inside was also strange, and the smell of the well water was also very strange.

I took a glance at Wang Ming, who said that he drank a mouthful of water from the well below us. It tasted different from the other water, it was very sweet, as if there was sugar in it.

These words reminded me of diving. Although I didn't drink it, there was still water in my mouth, but I didn't feel anything, probably because I was too nervous at the time and didn't notice the taste of the water at all.

Liu Xi ended up saying that the water here had become sweet only after the snake had arrived. In the past, it was pretty normal, even though it had a sweet taste, it wasn't as sweet as it was now.

Wang Ming stood up, covered himself with the blanket and walked around the room for a while, as if he had discovered something. His eyes lit up, and then, he started to think again.

Until night time, Wang Ming was still in this state, as if he had been possessed. He was also thinking about it during dinner and when he went to the toilet.

Before going to sleep, Wang Ming suddenly jumped up from under the bed, and said loudly: "I know, it must be this, it must be it."

I didn't know what was going on at all, so after Wang Ming put on his clothes, he ran outside. I quickly followed him, afraid that something might happen to him alone.

He ran to the side of the well and threw a water bucket into the well. The snake came out after rubbing itself against the wall for a while, and stopped in front of Wang Ming and I.

Wang Ming laughed and said, "There is definitely a road leading up to the mountain below the well, and this secret is in the passage. We need to find a way to let the snake lead us there, maybe we can also track it."

I smiled, thinking that this was a joke. If that was the case, then why didn't we see any holes when we went down? Could it be that there was a sealed passageway under the water? ~ This is obviously unreasonable, did Wang Ming become stupid after drinking the water from the well?

Wang Ming walked to the side of the well and looked inside, signalling the snake to go down, but the snake kept moving backwards, until we could only see its shadow, and then looked at us again, before returning back to the mountain.

I looked at Wang Ming thoughtfully and felt that there must have been a problem with the well at night. That snake didn't dare to go down now, so I went back instead.

Wang Ming slowly sat by the side of the well and lit up a cigarette: "This snake does not have any hostility towards us, tomorrow we will find two oxygen bottles, we will go down again to see what exactly is inside."

"Wang Ming, do you think this has anything to do with ghosts or something? Because that snake doesn't dare to go down at night, I think …"

Wang Ming immediately cut me off, saying that even if there were dead people, they were simple peasants, and compared to the people in the city, they were much more kind, so there was no need to worry about what was down there.

It was as if I could hear someone talking inside the well. It was the voice of a middle-aged man and a child.

Wang Ming stood up, his eyes shone as he looked into the well, but I still took a few steps back, not daring to come close.