Chapter 10 The Snake Comes Again
We were both barely wearing any clothes, and with soft soil walls on both sides, Xiao Xi struggled to get up, and we squeezed to the end of the tunnel. We were stuck together again, just like in the narrow gap under the river. I looked back at the black-browed viper, shaking off the dirt on its head, climbing up a few steps, raising its triangular head, spitting out its tongue and preparing to attack. My heart immediately jumped into my throat.
At this critical moment, although a layer of cold sweat broke out on my forehead, I was still calm. I kept encouraging myself in my heart, I must not panic, I must not panic, poisonous snakes are actually afraid of people, and there is only one now, it does not mean that there is no chance of survival.
Thinking this in my mind, I gathered my strength and pushed my back hard. I felt the soil being squeezed and sunken, and a small gap appeared between Xiaoxi and me. At this moment, the black-browed viper turned its head and kept looking at the two of us, as if it was choosing who to attack first. I took this opportunity to prop up the Luoyang shovel on the top of the cave, and then my body slid down along the soil wall and Xiaoxi's body. My movement frightened the black-browed viper, and it no longer had to worry about the choice question, and rushed directly towards me.
This thing was coming for my wrist. It is said that pit vipers can break hands and feet if they bite. It is so scary. I wanted to shake my hand away, but the Luoyang shovel was inserted very deep into the cave ceiling and I couldn't pull it out. I had to let go and dodge to the side. Although the black-browed pit viper is short, it has great jumping power and impact force. It almost brushed the handle of the Luoyang shovel and my palm, and it rushed to the position where I was just now, that is, in front of Xiaoxi's chest.
Xiao Xi screamed and actually covered her face with her hands. I was speechless. You said you didn't want to escape at this time, why did you cover your face? It's not like it would do anything rogue. Fortunately, I reacted quickly, stretched out my hand to grab one of her left feet and quickly pulled her down. She spread her legs and sat on top of my head, just avoiding the attack range of the venomous snake. However, the black-browed viper was above her head, and the danger was not over yet.
The black-browed viper did not attack immediately after landing, but coiled up and raised its head. This gave me a chance to catch my breath. I reached out and grabbed the Luoyang shovel and pulled it down. A large piece of soil collapsed. At the same time, the black-browed viper jumped up and attacked again, but was smashed into the ground and buried by the heavy soil. I took the cylindrical shovel head and poked the part where the soil fell. I felt that I was holding back the slippery and powerful snake body, and pressed hard into the soil.
I pushed it down more than half a foot deep before I stopped panting. But I didn't dare to relax my grip, fearing that it would suddenly come out of the soil. After a while, I didn't see the black-browed viper come out, so I breathed a sigh of relief. I pulled the Luoyang shovel out of the soil, and a large ball of mud and blood came out of the shovel. It seemed that I had injured it.
Snakes are not very good at digging holes, and it can be said that they have almost no such ability. Although the soil was soft, it could not get out for a while, so I immediately swung the shovel and slapped the ground dozens of times to compact the soil. With such a strong slap, even if it couldn't kill it, it would be knocked unconscious, which finally bought us some time to escape.
I turned around, pulled the shovel down, curled up sideways, added a lot of soil to the seal of the soil pile below, and compacted it from top to bottom. Although there were many snakes outside, they couldn't break through this soft soil wall for a while. I picked up the flashlight while panting, and looked at Xiaoxi above. The girl 's mouth was bleeding again, and her eyes were closed. I asked her worriedly, "What's wrong with you?"
After a long while, she finally said, "It hurts so much!" But her eyes were still closed and her face looked very painful.
Hearing her voice sound normal, he felt relieved and said, "Hold on, as long as you're not dead, it's okay." As he said that, he held up the Luoyang shovel, dug the soil above his head, and moved the fallen soil to the pile of soil under his feet.
"I feel like I'm dying." Xiao Xi's tone was full of despair, and she began to cry softly after she finished speaking.
My heart suddenly twitched, as if something was grabbing me and I felt very uncomfortable. I kept telling her in my hand: "Life and death are not something you can feel. It's like drinking. Even if you drink too much, you always feel that you are sober."
"What kind of metaphor is this?" Xiao Xi opened her eyes, as if the pain had subsided. Seeing that I didn't say anything, she tilted her head and watched me digging and moving the soil.
Digging in this crouched position was exhausting and ineffective. We dug more than two feet deep but still could not see any solid soil layer. We were a little discouraged. But this was the only way. If we could not dig into the tomb, we would either starve to death or be torn apart by the black-browed viper. So we gritted our teeth and dug harder.
"What's your name?" I felt very tired from working so hard, but this girl kept her bright eyes open and n't say a word. I broke the silence and took the initiative to chat with her.
"Don't you know it's Xiao Xi?"
"I asked for the full name."
"You want to check my household registration? It's enough for you to know my name is Xiaoxi." This girl was not happy for me to know too much.
"You don't want to tell me, right? My uncle has a famous skill, it's called fortune telling by touching the bones. After touching the whole body, he can tell a person's name and what he did in past and future lives. Do you want to try it?" It is not a lie that men and women working together do not feel tired. After chatting with a beautiful woman like this, I don't feel so tired anymore.
"Bah, an old rogue taught a young rogue." Xiao Xi's face was full of anger and contempt. Obviously, she knew that her aunt Ting was often touched and molested by the old blind man.
"Yeah, I am a little hooligan. You already knew that. You don't have to keep talking about it." I got angry when she called me a little hooligan left and right, and I glared at her.
This girl knows how to adapt to the situation. When she saw that my expression was not right, she immediately lost her temper and said obediently: "My last name is Lin, and my name is Lin Yuxi. Okay, I have told you my full name, so you should just focus on your work."
In fact, the part where I dug the soil was not far from the exit above, only four or five meters away. According to the slope, the soil layer was not very thick. Sure enough, after digging another foot, I finally shoveled hard soil. Xiao Xi said that this was the rammed earth layer. In order to prevent theft, some ancient tombs would build the ground like a diamond wall, mixing glutinous rice juice and boy's urine into the soil, making it extremely hard, not inferior to cement at all.
I was stunned. What if there was a diamond wall above? Not only Luoyang shovel, but even iron spike might not be able to penetrate it. Fortunately, my worry was unnecessary. Although the soil layer had been compacted, after a lot of hard pounding, coupled with the pressure of the bluestone slab above, several cracks soon appeared, and pieces of solidified soil fell down, revealing the bluestone slab.
But at this moment, Xiao Xi suddenly screamed, pointed at my lower body and said, "Snake... the snake has come in again!"
