Chapter Eighteen: Treasure Stirs the Heart

  Treasures move people's hearts!

  He felt his own saliva swallowing sound, and he felt his own heartbeat sound.

  That mysterious black dagger flashed with a purple glow, hazy and obscure, as if it had stolen all the colors of the world.

  But the treasure is too enticing, and there's a double-headed sand snake with strength around seven layers of the Post-Heaven realm guarding it. Gu Chao thought to himself that if he went up, he'd be serving himself up on a platter, just like his previous senior brother. If he were to find another external sect senior brother to deal with it, would there even be a share left for him? The treasure is only one mysterious black dagger after all.

  It's hard to get something by force, and it's also hard to make someone come if they don't want to.

  So only wisdom was taken.

  After all, I am human, and those two-headed sand snakes are monsters.

  Humans are smarter than monsters because of their brains, let alone Gu Chao who has the experience and wisdom of two lifetimes in one body, he will always think of a way.

  Gu Cha's usual habit was to first gather intelligence, then analyze the situation based on the intelligence, and finally solve the problem. It was like this during the assessment in Muren Alley, and it was also like this now when he wanted to obtain the mysterious small knife.

  The ancient super-fast climbed up a nearby branch and sat on a distant branch, gazing at the double-headed sand snake.

  Gu Chao carefully observed and found that this sandy area basically had no larger creatures, not even a rabbit-sized one. It made sense, with the double-headed sand snake dominating this place, any animal that came here would be eaten by it, so other animals wouldn't come here either.

  This should be the territory of the two-headed sand snake. In my previous life, I saw in Animal World that some animals urinate to mark their territory, but this two-headed sand snake is afraid of turning sand into a boundary, and everything here belongs to the two-headed sand snake.

  After a while, the two-headed sand snake began to move, its entire body moving rapidly, so fast! The speed was too quick, Gu Chao found that his eyes had not even reacted yet, and the two-headed sand snake had already reached the edge of the sandy ground, entering the decaying leaf-covered surface. As stated in the data, the two-headed sand snake's extreme speed was indeed not an exaggeration. There was a fiery red fox that had not reacted yet, but was bitten by one of the two-headed sand snake's heads, and the other head also quickly bit the fiery red fox. Then, the two-headed sand snake carried the fiery red fox back to where the black dagger was placed, beginning to savor this delicious meal.

  This is how the horned viper hunts.

  Gu Chao was taken aback, and suddenly realized that the two-headed sand snake needed to leave this place to hunt, but because it was a snake without hands, it couldn't take away the dark little knife. Therefore, every time the two-headed sand snake went hunting, there would be an extremely short period of time when it left the knife behind, during which he could snatch the mysterious little knife. This was the first piece of information that came to his mind.

  Then Gu Chao suddenly found that not far from the quicksand area, there was a mountain stream rushing down, and the white creek water flowed straight down. Gu Chao's heart moved, and he went down to the side of the mountain stream, squatted down to try it out, and found that this mountain stream flowed smoothly downwards and was quite deep, with a depth of several feet and a width of more than half a zhang. This mountain stream was not too turbulent, rushing from the top of the mountain to the bottom, and this mountain stream was his second piece of information.

  However, there is still one thing to observe. Gu Chao reached the top of the big tree and threw down a green fruit that he had never seen before from the tree. With a "thud", it landed on the sand, and as soon as the fruit fell into the sand, it sank halfway in. The two-headed sand snake also looked towards where the fruit had fallen, but after seeing that it was just a fruit, it relaxed its vigilance. Gu Chao was also observing, this green fruit wasn't very heavy, about the same weight as an apple, and when thrown down, it immediately sank more than halfway in. Based on this reasoning, if he stepped down with his foot, he would also sink in.

  And if the feet sink, then the speed will not be fast. The speed of the two-headed sand snake on the sandy ground can also be seen from the previous chase and kill of the fire fox by the two-headed sand snake. The two-headed sand snake is incredibly fast on the sandy ground, in this situation, I am absolutely at a disadvantage. Sand is beneficial to the two-headed sand snake but not to me, this is the third piece of information I have obtained. Although it's unfavorable information, unfavorable information is also information.

  Now with three pieces of intelligence in hand, Gu Chao began analyzing them.

  Gǔ Chāo seemed lost in thought as he pondered.

  A sudden flash of inspiration, and I finally came up with a solution.

  However, in order to use this method to seize the small black knife, there is a problem. First, two things need to be prepared: one is a specially-made large slingshot and the other is a specially-made skateboard.

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  Many people can make slingshots, but few people can make special large slingshots. Even fewer have made them before. Gu Chao is currently making a special large slingshot.

  In this nameless mountain peak, there are mainly two kinds of trees, one is banyan tree and the other is bamboo.

  Gu Chao took out a hemp rope. The hemp rope was one of the essential items that outer door disciples of Mount Tai Sect had to carry with them when they went out.

  In the education of outer door disciples in Mount Tai Sect, Elder Nan Gongyuan always reminded everyone to bring eight things when entering the mountain. They are: bag, rope, band-aid, waistband, water bottle, dry rations, fire starter, and weapon. The weapon is used to kill enemies, the fire starter is used for lighting and cooking food, the water bottle is used to hold water, and when practicing in the mountains, one may get injured, so they need band-aids, waistbands, and ropes. Ropes can be used to tie up waistbands, while bags are used to carry spoils of war. In addition, ropes also have another use, which is to tie up bags.

  Entering the mountain for ascetic practice is no trivial matter, and one of the eight essential items must not be missing, each having a very important role.

  The hemp rope that Gu Chao took out was a two-strand twisted hemp rope, which was entirely black in color. This was different from the hemp ropes on Earth in his previous life. It was said to be made from a type of soft grass called "ma ruo cao". This soft grass felt weak and fragile to the touch, but it was extremely tough. Even if you tried to cut it with a long knife, it would be very difficult to cut through.

  After pulling out the extremely long hemp rope, Gu Chao bent down a small bamboo with a diameter of about a bowl mouth and pulled it down continuously. The bamboo was bent but not broken, and then fixed with the hemp rope. In this way, the first bamboo was basically done. Then, after determining the direction again, he found the second bamboo, which was also bent downwards like the first one, and fixed with the hemp rope. Finally, the two bamboos converged in mid-air near the ground.

  That's basically it, and the custom-made giant slingshot is done.

  A general slingshot is only as big as a palm and can throw some small stones out.

  While Gu Chao is now making a giant slingshot that uses the rebound force of two bamboo shoots, which is much larger than ordinary slingshots. This is a super customized giant slingshot. Anyone can make a slingshot, but how many people can make such a super customized giant slingshot? How many people will do it? How many people have done it before? It also needs to consider the effect of rebound force and parabolic trajectory.

  The first thing to prepare is a super large slingshot. After the super large slingshot is done, next is a special skateboard.

  He often played with a skateboard in his previous life, so he naturally understood the structure of a skateboard. He took a wooden rod from a distant banyan tree and slowly planed it, shaping it into a skateboard. He did this at a distance to avoid startling the double-headed sand snake. With internal energy infused into the knife, cutting wood became much faster. The key to making a skateboard was to leave two footrests on the front side and make the backside extremely smooth, suitable for sliding on snowy or desert terrain. At the same time, he also made two slide bars, which were even simpler, just using two thinner bamboo sticks that could be planed into shape with minimal processing.

  At this point, all custom slingshots and skateboards have been completed.

  It's not that the custom-made slingshot and skateboard are ready to go, but also need to wait for the double-headed sand snake to be hungry and have a chance to hunt before taking action.

  Gu Chao was quietly waiting, very patiently, Gu Chao was originally a very patient person.

  Everything is ready, just wait now.

  Time is also passing away bit by bit.

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