In the Xiaoxi Nature Reserve in Yongshun County, Xiangxi, there is a valley that terrifies the locals.
As we all know, the five-step snake is a very venomous snake, and a person bitten by it can die within four hours.
The nearest hospital to Yongshun County is also 70 kilometers away, that is to say, once bitten by a five-step snake here, it is basically equivalent to a death sentence, and with this terrible poison in the valley, the locals no longer dare to set foot easily, and this valley has become the famous Death Valley.
One day in the summer of 2011, the tranquil Valley of Death welcomed several special guests.
The leader was a middle-aged man of ordinary appearance, about forty years old, with a thick Hunan accent, dark skin and steady steps, and a light face.
Behind him, followed by several young men, polite and carrying camera equipment, different from the middle-aged man in the lead, the expression on their faces was slightly serious, with four points of anticipation, six points of nervousness, and obviously fearful of Death Valley.
In fact, these young people are TV reporters, and the reason why they dare to venture into Death Valley for filming is because of the middle-aged man in the lead, Lu Chenggui, who is known as the "Snake King of Xiangxi".
According to rumors, Lu Chenggui has been collecting medicine in the mountains for generations, and has an ancestral skill that can control poisonous snakes and make them incapacitated, which is called "snake locking technique".
It is precisely because of this unique skill that Death Valley is full of crises for others, but for Lu Chenggui, it is no different from his own back garden.
Lu Chenggui's name is known to everyone in the local area, and the reporter also came here this time, intending to see with his own eyes the so-called "snake locking technique", whether it is as magical as the legend.
Lu Guicheng did not shirk this, anyway, his ancestral stunt was not something that could be learned by looking at it twice, so he took the reporters to the Death Valley where there were five-step snakes.
A few people chatted and walked, and before they knew it, they came to the valley, and they were about to enter the valley, and it was impossible to be afraid at all, but looking at Lu Chenggui's relaxed face, the reporters felt a lot more at ease.
I only heard Lu Chenggui chuckle and said: "Death Valley is ahead, wait a few moments, wait for me to perform the snake locking technique, and then we will continue to move forward." ”
With that, Lu Chenggui walked to the side of the road and leaned down, his eyes scanning back and forth in the grass, as if he was looking for something.
In order to find out the mystery of the "snake locking technique", the reporter came to Lu Chenggui's side, only to see that Lu Chenggui was holding an unknown handful of grass in his hand at this time, and under the reporter's curious gaze, he tied it into a circle, and then, Lu Chenggui stood up and clapped his hands, turned to the reporter and said: "The snake locking technique has been completed, the poisonous snake can no longer move, we can enter the valley." ”
The reporter behind him looked confused at this time, that's all? Just find a knot in the grass, the poisonous snake will be locked, how to look at how unreliable, just enter the valley of death, can you come out alive?
Lu Chenggui only smiled faintly in the face of the reporter's questioning, turned around and took the lead in walking towards the valley, thinking: "Anyway, what I say now, you won't believe it, it's better to go into the valley and take a look, and let the facts speak." ”
When reporters saw this situation, even if they were reluctant in their hearts, they could only follow hard.
Next, the reporters followed Lu Chenggui with apprehension and walked around the Valley of Death for several hours, and to their surprise, during this time, not to mention the highly venomous five-step snake, even if it was an ordinary snake, everyone could not see one.
This is very unreasonable, the deep mountains and dense forests are dark and damp, how can there not even be a snake, is it really that ordinary grass knot that plays a role?
After coming out of the valley, the reporter asked Lu Chenggui: "How does a small grass knot lock the snake, and can anyone follow your method to achieve the same effect." ”
Lu Chenggui smiled and said: "Actually, the grass knot is not the point, the mantra I recited when I tied the grass knot is the key." ”
This answer is a bit subversive of the reporter's cognition, does such a thing as a spell really exist in reality? When the reporter further asked about the specific content of the "snake locking technique" spell, Lu Chenggui said that this is an ancestral secret and will not be passed on.
didn't get the answer he wanted, and the reporter couldn't help but have doubts about the so-called "snake locking technique", could it be that there are no five-step snakes in Death Valley at all? The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this was the truth, and in order to verify this, the reporter decided to hire bold snake catchers and take them on a second trip to Death Valley.
There is a snake catcher who is willing to take this risk, but the snake catcher has a word in advance, once someone in the team is bitten by a five-step snake, life and death are in peace, and the snake catcher will not cure this snake venom.
The next day, everyone was ready, and under the leadership of the snake catcher, they entered the valley of death for the second time, and after walking in the valley for a long time, although they found a few poisonous snakes, there was no trace of the five-step snake.
Seeing this scene, the reporter felt more and more that Lu Chenggui was a liar, and there was no five-step snake in Death Valley at all.
However, just as everyone was about to reach the mouth of the valley, the snake catcher suddenly stopped everyone with a serious face, and then pointed to a dark corner in the grass and said, "Don't move, there are five-step snakes." ”
The reporters were startled by the serious tone of the snake arrester, and instinctively looked towards the place where he fingered, only to see a large snake full of patterns lying in the fallen leaves, the triangular snake head slightly raised, and the snake letter kept swallowing.
Seeing this scene, the reporters broke out in a cold sweat, but fortunately, this snake catcher has excellent eyesight, and if everyone continues to move forward, maybe someone will be bitten by a five-step snake.
After that, the snake catcher stepped forward and subdued the five-step snake, and everyone walked out of Death Valley without danger.
After this battle, the reporters felt that Lu Chenggui's "snake locking technique" was extremely strange, so they came to Lu Chenggui's house again, intending to further explore the mystery.
Who knew that the second contact with Lu Chenggui, instead of figuring out the "snake locking technique", he saw another magical skill of his, which made him more and more mysterious.
The day after the reporters came to Lu Chenggui's house again, Lu Chenggui was explaining some knowledge about the treatment of poisonous snakes to reporters.
At this moment, a noisy footstep suddenly sounded outside, followed by a rapid knock on the door, and someone was vaguely heard shouting Lu Chenggui's name.
Lu Chenggui hurriedly stood up and opened the door, only to see several people standing outside the door with anxious faces, two of them carrying a stretcher, on which there was a middle-aged man with a painful face, as if he was seriously injured.
After careful questioning, I learned that the man on the stretcher was a local herb picker, and the harvest of herbs in the mountains on weekdays was limited, and Death Valley has always been rarely visited, and there are countless precious medicinal materials in it, so the herb picker decided to venture into Gu Yibo.
When Nai was unlucky, soon after entering the valley, he was attacked by a five-step snake, and his body was highly poisonous, knowing that this snake venom was extraordinary, the medicine picker tried his best to break out of the valley and shouted for help, fortunately, some mountain people passed by and heard the shouts of the medicine picker, so he found someone to carry him to Lu Chenggui's house.
The reason why everyone sends the herb picker here instead of sending it to the hospital is that the hospital is too far away, and when the person is delivered, I am afraid that he will die a long time ago, and on the other hand, because of Lu Chenggui's method of treating snake venom, it is very famous in the local area, and the treatment of five-step snake venom is the only one, and there is no other semicolon.
After asking the reason, Lu Chenggui said: "You hurry up and carry him to the house, and I will go to the mountain to find antidote herbs now." ”
When the reporter heard this, he was also interested, so he proposed to go up the mountain with Lu Chenggui, Lu Chenggui thought about it for a while, and nodded in response.
After going up the mountain, Lu Chenggui took the reporter all the way to the hurry, and soon came to the place where the herb picker was bitten, and then he took out a handful of incense from his backpack, lit it and inserted it three times on the ground.
After doing all this, Lu Chenggui pointed to the incense on the ground and said to the reporter: "You all stand in the circle, and in a while I will summon the five-step snake that bit the medicine picker, and you will not be attacked if you stand inside." ”
After listening to this, the reporter did not know why, but he still did it honestly, after all, it is not a joke to face the five-step snake, and no one wants it to bite.
When the reporters all stood in the circle, Lu Chenggui moved again.
I saw him take out a candle from his backpack and place it in human form, and then he squatted on the ground and began to burn the paper money, and he couldn't hear what was being said.
After a while, Lu Chenggui finished reciting, stood up and walked into the incense circle and said to reporters: "I have already performed the ancestral snake trick, and the five-step snake that bites people in a while will come to give us an antidote." ”
Hearing his statement, the first reaction of the reporters was not to believe it, and everyone did not have too much doubt that they could attract snakes, after all, it was not difficult to light some special spices and release the taste that snakes like, and it was not difficult to attract snakes, but let the snakes take the initiative to send the antidote, isn't this fooling people?
Seeing the suspicion in the eyes of the reporters, Lu Chenggui didn't explain much, the atmosphere suddenly became a little dull, time passed little by little, and seeing that the incense was about to burn to the end, at this moment, a gray five-step snake appeared in the grass not far away.
Lu Chenggui stepped forward in the suspicious gaze of everyone, and began to chant obscurely, and after a few minutes, the five-step snake left, Lu Chenggui bent down, picked up something in the grass where he stayed, turned around and said to everyone with a smile: "We can go back, just now the five-step snake has sent the antidote." ”
The reporter was far away from the five-step snake, and he didn't see what Lu Chenggui found in the grass, out of curiosity, the reporter asked to see what the antidote was, for this request, Lu Chenggui said no, this is a family secret, can not be for outsiders.
After getting the antidote, everyone sped up and rushed back to Lu Chenggui's house, at this time, the medicine picker had been tortured by snake venom, the wound was badly swollen, glowing with blue and gray, and exuding a faint fishy smell.
Seeing this, Lu Chenggui did not dare to delay for a moment, hurriedly spread the crowd, and smeared the antidote in his hand on the wound, although the process of getting the antidote was very mysterious, but the effect was indeed immediate, and the herb picker recovered quickly, and in less than three days, he was already moving freely.
In fact, in addition to reporters, Lu Chenggui's various miraculous deeds have also attracted the attention of many animal experts, and the famous reptile expert Deng Xuejian is one of them.
In order to find out the truth of the matter, Deng Xuejian once visited Lu Chenggui in person and asked him to teach him the principles of various secret techniques.
Because the so-called "snake locking technique" and "snake beckoning technique" are rumored to be miraculous, and the famous snake catchers in Xiangxi all said that they have only heard of the name of secret art, but no one has ever used it, so the doubts about Lu Chenggui in the society are getting louder and louder.
Experts generally believe that the so-called "snake locking technique" is likely to be because Lu Chenggui knows the living habits of the five-step snake well, and knows in what season and which time period, the five-step snake will not come out to move, so he can enter and exit freely in Death Valley.
As for the "snake trick", it is even more nonsense, it must be in his hands that he has a powerful antidote drug, which has a significant effect on snake venom.
And the whole process of him going up the mountain to attract snakes is just a trick, using the smell that poisonous snakes like to attract them, giving people the illusion that poisonous snakes come to the door to deliver the antidote, and even say that the poisonous snake that was recruited is the one that bites people, and there are many doubts.
If you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to find that the poisonous snake personally sent the antidote, which cannot be explained at all, even if Lu Chenggui really has the ability to summon the biting poisonous snake, this poisonous snake is willing to help detoxify, but a poisonous snake, where to get the antidote?
Some people may say that the antidote serum is not extracted from snake venom? That being said, extracting serum from snake venom is a very complex process, and it is obviously impossible for a venomous snake to do this.
In any case, one thing is certain, that is, the antidote in Lu Chenggui's hand has an extraordinary effect, and his series of myths about his actions are just to improve his social status.
But it seems too arbitrary to characterize him as a liar in this way, and the biggest possibility is that everything he does is something that has been passed down from generation to generation, and if he has to tell the reason, I am afraid he himself will not understand.
There are many phenomena in society that we cannot explain with science, and they may just be some kind of conclusion that our ancestors have come to by summarizing the laws for generations.
We should not classify these phenomena as feudal superstition, and only by fully respecting the wisdom of the ancients and picking up their essence and eliminating their dross can we better promote the continuous progress of the entire society.