Chapter 657: Hill No. 55

Mosses and vines covered the rugged rocks on three sides of the valley. Several light blades passed through the gaps between the branches and leaves of the trees high in the evolution forest, lighting up the water vapor of the waterfall and the three snakes in the pool.

After entering the pool, the three slender snakes, two green and one red, no longer pretended to be grass stems, but swam and lingered in the pool flexibly.

There was a sense of weirdness and evil everywhere here.

Yang Jin quickly scouted around and confirmed that there was no high risk. He walked towards Xia Qing and formed a defensive formation with her, "What did you find?"

Although no powerful beasts and aggressive evolution plants were found, Yang Jin was still extremely vigilant. Because he was not the only one here, there was also Xia Qing who had never been deep into the evolution forest.

Xia Qing pointed to the bottomless pool, "There are at least a dozen snakes at the bottom."

Yang Jin's visual evolution level was not as high as Xia Qing's. After Xia Qing pointed out the location, he found the entangled red and green snakes hidden in the cracks of the stone wall two or three meters underwater.

Snakes have always been considered rare and high-risk species. This is why Zhang San started the disaster elimination program after discovering the snakes, and Yang Jin and Luo Pei also rushed over from the safe zone immediately.

But what he saw today has overturned Yang Jin's cognition. Humans' understanding of the creatures in the evolutionary forest is still too superficial.

Yang Jin took off his backpack, "I will explore the situation underwater first, and you will be responsible for guarding."

"Okay, be careful." Xia Qing had already used magnetic perception to detect that although there were several aggressive evolutionary plants around, the danger level was not high. As long as they were not touched, there would be no danger.

But there must be something unusual in or around this pool, or to quote Li Si's famous saying, it is "the result of the combined effect of multiple factors" that can attract the snakes from 20 to 30 miles away.

Since there is nothing special about the plants above the water, the key factor among these "multiple factors" may be hidden in the deep pool that Xia Qing's detection ability cannot reach.

It's time to use the equipment.

Yang Jin took out a small underwater detector the size of a fist, put it down close to the edge of the pool, and began to explore the underwater situation.

"Buzz-buzz-"

Xia Qing, who was performing the guard duty, felt the vibration of the mobile phone in her pocket and directly ordered, "Silly hat, silly hat, answer the phone."

Yang Jin, who was standing next to her and directing the underwater detector, heard it and his mouth curled up slightly.

After the call was connected, before Xia Qing asked, Zhang San spoke, "Xia Qing, the pythons in the lake in the north of No. 60 Mountain began to release a strong chemical signal, which should be marking the territory and attracting mates. Where did the snake you are tracking swim to?"

When Xia Qing heard Zhang San's words, she knew something was wrong, and immediately said to Yang Jin beside her, "There is a python in the pond, hurry up..."

Before she finished her words, she saw that the monitoring screen of the detection instrument held by Yang Jin had gone black.

Yang Jin pressed the remote control a few more times, "Tell Brother San that there is a large creature in this small pond, and it swallowed the small detector I put down."

After Xia Qing reported the location and situation here, Zhang San analyzed, "It may be a python underwater. You mark the location of the pond first, and then install surveillance cameras nearby. Yang Jin, can you two beat the things in the water?"

Yang Jin answered confidently, "I may not be able to beat them if I jump into the water, but they dare to come out of the water, and they are definitely not the opponents of Xia Qing and me."

The combination of the top speed evolver and the top sniper is indeed reassuring.

Zhang San ordered, "Very good. If it doesn't attack, you stay by the pond and capture all the snakes that swim over, and then retreat until there are no more snakes. If it attacks, bring them back if you can beat them, and retreat immediately if you can't."

"Got it." Xia Qing asked with concern after receiving the order, "Brother San, is there no fight over Hill No. 60?"

The wolf cubs are probably not even a month old.

Zhang San sent the trained birds from Territory No. 8, and of course he knew the situation over Hill No. 60, "The leaders of the wolf and bear packs are watching the movements of the python in the lake, and there is no fight yet."

Xia Qing hung up the phone and discussed with Yang Jin first, "Captain Yang, you keep an eye on it first, I'll make a net bag for catching snakes?"

After Yang Jin nodded, Xia Qing took out the steel wire and a fine fishing net from her backpack, and quickly made a small net bag. Then she looked around and selected a suitable small tree. She didn't even use a knife. She walked over and held the trunk with her hands and bent it. The small tree thicker than her arm broke with a "click".

Xia Qing used a knife to neatly cut off the bark and branches, made the trunk into a wooden stick for catching snakes, and tried it in his hand.

Very good, very handy.

After finishing the production, Xia Qing found Yang Jin looking at her, and explained, "I came out on a single-soldier flying vehicle this time, and I didn't bring any retractable steel pipes. This kind of material is too heavy. The snake-killing snake's attack ability is not strong, and this wooden stick snake-catching net should be enough."

Yang Jin was not questioning the quality of the snake-catching net, but was amazed at Xia Qing's strength and proficiency in making tools, "It's enough. If it breaks, you can make another one. This is low cost."

Speaking of cost, Xia Qing thought of the underwater detector that was swallowed just now, "The detector you put into the water just now, it's not cheap, right?"

Yang Jin smiled, "It's not cheap, but it's the spoils seized from Su Feng. This detector is very strong, just wait until the underwater creature is caught and then take it out."

Xia Qing picked up a fiery red snake-killing snake swimming upstream to the small pond, but was not as optimistic as Yang Jin, "The python in the water, if it is the one that defeated the northern wolf pack last July, it may not be brought back."

On July 18 last year, wolves, snakes and bears fought at Hill No. 55. Then, in the early morning of July 19, the alpha wolf took the injured broken waist wolf and broken leg wolf and ventured into Xia Qing's territory for help.

After Yang Jin put the killed snakes in the net bag into the bag, Xia Qing asked, "Captain Yang, I forgot to ask later, what did you detect at that time, wolves, snakes, bears, who was with whom?"

Yang Jin replied, "According to the video we detected, at Hill No. 55, wolves and snakes, wolves and bears, bears and snakes were all fighting, and it was unclear who was in an alliance with whom."

Afterwards, at the revenge battle at Hill No. 60 on the night of October 21, the broken waist wolf took Xia Qing to treat the alpha wolf's wounds. According to her observation, snakes and bears should be in the same group.

The fight between animals must be related to food and territory. A bold speculation gradually took shape in Xia Qing's mind.

While investigating the snakes, she asked, "In mid-May last year, after the alpha wolf entered the wild boar breeding center for the first time to kill wild boars, you chased it and it seemed to have run to the 55th mountain. You didn't chase it again, right?"

Yang Jin understood what Xia Qing was thinking and nodded, "Yes. Not only that time, half a month later, when I took all the equipment and led the team north to explore the Evolution Forest, I had just entered the 55th mountain. Later, the broken waist wolf who went to your territory to heal his wounds broke into the wild boar breeding center and hunted wild boars again."

In early June last year, Xia Qing, who was hunting porcupines in the Evolution Forest, happened to meet the broken waist wolf who retreated after hunting two wild boars.

At that time, Xia Qing knew that she was no match for the broken waist wolf, so she took the initiative to give way and let it go. But she didn't know that Yang Jin went to the 55th mountain again at that time, "What supplies did you want to find when you led the team to the 55th mountain that time?" (End of this chapter)