A few days ago, the popularity of "Sand Sea", a TV series with tomb robbery as the main line, has brought up a strong wind of tomb robbery. I believe that the vast number of rice should remember that in the snake swamp ghost city of the tomb robber's note, there was an extremely powerful snake - the cockscomb snake, also known as the pheasant neck. In the novel, this snake is very strange and mysterious, first of all, it is very aggressive, the speed of attacking people is very fast, even the only heroine of the tomb robber notes, Aning, died in its hands, and the third uncle is also unknown under its attack. And its IQ is very high, able to calculate people and design traps for its prey. The most bizarre thing is that it can actually imitate people to speak, and in the novel, it has repeatedly led Wu Evil into a trap by imitating people's speech. I believe that many readers will have tingling in their scalps and goosebumps when they think of their necks. So, has pheasant neck really existed in the real world in history?
At present, according to the data of all parties, there are records of chicken crown snakes in ancient Chinese books, snake heads like heads, long fiery red chicken crowns, different body colors, body length of more than a foot, about a few inches thick, can stand upright upper body. Its habits are extremely fierce, extremely poisonous, making strange noises, and calling like a hen "clucking". The ancients believed that the chicken crown snake was a sperm and could not be beaten, and whoever beat it would be unlucky. According to legend, some chicken crown snakes will take the initiative to attack people, when they attack people, the crown will turn red to purple, will spray venom like a cobra, and once a person is angry with it, it will jump up and compare with people. However, this creature also exists only in the folk records of ancient books for the time being, and there are no biological specimens, no accurate imaging data and scientific biological records. However, the legend about it is widely circulated, in Anhui Huangshan, Hubei Guangshui, Liaoning Shenyang, Jilin Tonghua, Sichuan, Hunan and other places have its folklore, do not rule out that there may be similar snakes in history.
But now there is indeed a snake called "pheasant neck" in the world, which is mainly distributed in China, Japan, Russia, North Korea, Taiwan and other places. Its scientific name is also called tabby neck groove snake, commonly known as pheasant neck, body length of about 0.8 meters, the back of the neck is obvious neck groove, there is a pair of thick black patches on both sides, the back of the body emerald green or grass green, the ventral surface is pale yellow. Tabby neck snake is a snake widely debated by China's academic circles, due to its docile personality, many scholars think that it is a non-toxic snake, but in fact it is a poisonous snake (allergies have a precedent of poisoning death, and some foreign countries classify it as a poisonous snake).