Chapter 3 Departure
Putting all worries behind, Huang Mang felt his body grow rapidly and become thicker.
A few minutes later, Huang Mang's body had grown from 17 cm to 20 cm now, and his waist had grown from 0.68 cm before to 0.8 cm now.
Even if you don’t need to use the reference objects around you as a reference, Huang Mang can clearly know through the information panel in his mind.
After the body grew to 20 cm, Huang Mang felt the itchy feeling in his body and the dryness of the epidermis, which became stronger again.
Five minutes later, Huang Mang began his first molting of his snake.
It takes at least several hours or even several days for an ordinary snake to successfully shed a skin, but it doesn't take that long for this guy Huang Mang to rub his body with the edges of the pile of stones.
Moreover, because the cell tissues of the whole body are rapidly differentiating and proliferating, the snake skin that is about to shed is soon separated from the new snake skin. In less than half an hour, a snake skin about twenty centimeters long shed.
Snake skin always attracts hunters, so Huang Mang had to temporarily leave his living territory here and move his hunting position to another pile of rocks more than ten meters away.
This time, Huang Mang let go of his courage. In order to grow up quickly, he no longer used the method of waiting for the rabbit to hunt. He felt that the hunting speed was too slow, which also affected his growth rate.
He planned to take the initiative to attack, as long as he did not leave the rock pile too far, once he met a hunter, he had enough time to immediately escape into the rock pile and hide into the cracks of the rock.
Huang Mang twisted his twenty-centimeter-long body and began to look for young frogs on the river beach. This area may be because of the atmosphere of human activity, so there are not many large predators.
For Huang Mang, it is simply a paradise for survival and growth.
After living here for three days, Huang Mang's body has grown to 85 centimeters, and his waist has reached about four centimeters.
This growth rate is definitely a shame for all snakes. I am afraid that even if humans know that there is a snake like Huangmang, they will have nightmares every night.
It's simply a monster.
No one would have thought that this black snake, which was 85 cm long and had a diameter of nearly four cm, was only a young snake that was more than ten cm long and had a diameter of less than one cm three days ago.
On the river beach, these young frogs, two or three centimeters long and with a sharp decline in number, could no longer provide Huang Mang's growth needs. Huang Mang felt that he needed to change the place to hunt.
Moreover, through the lurking observations over the past few days, Huang Mang discovered that a strong brown-haired man and a black-haired man had already begun to check the hull of the Bloody Mary and replaced some of the decaying parts, which seemed to be preparing for a long voyage.
Huang Mang, who is extremely familiar with the movie "The Mad Python: Looking for Blood Orchid", doesn't need to think about who these two people are.
The brown-haired must be Bill Johnson, the owner of the Bloody Mary, the bloody special forces soldier who fucked a crocodile with bare hands, and the black-haired man was his assistant tran.
"Since these two guys have started to repair the Bloody Mary and are ready to voyage, then it is probably because the scientific and technological adventure team led by Dr. Jack from New York has hired them. It is estimated that it will take not long before these guys will go to the upper reaches of the Manhe River and start their adventure of looking for Xuelan."
"It seems that it's already time for me to go to the upper reaches of Manhe in advance, otherwise it would be too late. At my current speed, I might not be able to keep up with the Bloody Mary, and it's time to change places to hunt."
Now that he has grown to more than 80 centimeters, Huang Mang's speed and strength have increased a lot, and his self-protection ability has become much stronger. As long as he does not encounter large predators, he believes that he can't beat it, but he still has a certain ability to escape.
And compared to other animals, he has one great advantage, that is, he has wisdom that other animals have never had.
So should you crawl on land or go upstream along the river?
Huang Mang thought about it and went upstream in the water, because after observations in recent days, Huang Mang discovered that the safety factor in the water seemed to be higher than that of the dense forests on the shore.
"But can I swim, will I be drowned in the water?"
Huang Mang tentatively raised his head, winding his body, and approached a shallow beach by the river.
Climb into the water gently.
Fortunately, in the water, he found that his movements were still agile, even more on the shore. It seemed that he was a snake that could survive on water and land, and was born to be a swimming hero.
However, in the water, Huang Mang's vision and hearing are hindered to a certain extent, and due to the heat absorption effect of water, the heat-sensitive organs will be greatly weakened. However, as long as he is careful enough, he can detect movements or even if there is any creature within five meters.
With a decision, Huang Mang swam along the shallows into the river, went upstream, and began his planned journey.
Although the rainy season is still coming, the river is still turbulent. Huang Mang feels that it is still difficult to increase his speed of upstream. Especially, his small snake, which is only 85 centimeters, often has to be wary of being hunted by other animals, so he only dares to swim down the river bank. Once he finds the wind and grass, he can immediately penetrate into the cracks of the rocks on the river bank to hide.
The disadvantage of this is that Huang Mang can only catch some small shrimps and fish, which cannot provide his strong demand for energy at all. After wandering for a long time, his body has only grown by about five centimeters by swallowing the small shrimps. Now his body is only about ninety centimeters, less than one meter. This growth rate cannot keep up with the expected effect he wants.
The rainy season is approaching, and the flowering period of the blood orchid will last only about one week at most. After a week, at this growth rate, his body length may be only one meter, and at most it is only two meters long. He has no ability to enter the 16 or seventeen meters python territory to compete for the blood orchid.
However, Huang Mang understood that because of the role of mysterious beads, his growth rate was amazing. Almost most of the energy of prey will be distributed in the growth of his body. What he was worried about was whether he could hunt more prey and replenish enough energy.
But the only thing that is not sure is that Huang Mang doesn’t know what kind of snake he is, how big he grows, will he grow to two or three meters long and will not be able to grow any longer.
"No matter what, I feel that my growth trend is not at all about stopping. As long as the growth trend does not stop, I will continue to hunt and continue to grow and become stronger." Huang Mang firmly determined his thoughts.
The food in the river is not as much as Huang Mang imagined before, nor is it as dangerous as he imagined...
Although it is very safe, his current growth rate is not as fast as the ones he had before catching young frogs on the beach.
"I want to be stronger and not take risks, so how can I be so cheap."
"Anyway, in the jungle, you can reach your destination by walking along the upper reaches of the river, and all the avenues lead to Rome."
After thinking about it, Huang Mang decided to go ashore and find a more abundant food source. He vigilantly stuck his head out of the water, spitting out the snake letter in his mouth. The fresh air of reunion after a long time came to his face, and all kinds of insects and animals were filled with fragrance of fragrant grass.
At this time, judging from the humidity of the air, there is no sign of the rainy season yet.
Huang Mang poked his head and crawled up the shore with his body.
Climbing to the shore, Snake Xin played a real role in sensing the breath of prey. Huang Mang firmly believed that he could catch a lot of prey on the shore, but he just had to take a lot of risks.
Huang Mang climbed along the coast and finally climbed into the jungle. The snake letter at the corner of his mouth was regularly sucking and spitting, and soon caught the smell of prey. It was the breath of birds. And judging by the walking traces on the ground, this bird should not be good at flying, which gave Huang Mang the opportunity. Under the quiet attack, there was a great chance of successfully hunting prey. Judging from the depth of the footprints, this bird has at least one pound, which is enough for him to have a good meal.
Judging by the intelligent thinking method of human beings, Huang Mang was filled with joy, accelerated his speed, and followed in the direction of the smell.
Chapter completed!