Chapter 6 The Snake Occupies a New Den and Grows into a Snake
The vision is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
Bai Jun climbed down the boulder, retreated into his mud nest, and curled up. Night was coming.
Even though there appear to be no fatal threats nearby, there are too many variables in the wilderness at night, so Bai Jun chooses to spend it quietly.
The next day, Bai Zhen woke up early. Every night he slept restlessly, always waking up seven or eight times a night to prevent being discovered by predators and becoming food while he was resting.
As soon as he climbed out of the mud hole to prepare for hunting, he was startled by a burst of bird song.
"Gudu~"
"Gududu~"
Bai Jun panicked and turned around to see his neighbors on the other side, two woodpeckers.
Seeing them, Bai Jun relaxed.
There are only two male and female woodpeckers in this nest. The male bird is just a gray bird more than 20 centimeters long, and the female bird is only less than 20 centimeters long. It does not pose a fatal threat to Bai Jun today.
But Bai Jun is a fatal threat to them.
Two birds, one female and one male, kept shouting at Bai Jun, as if to expel him.
Bai Jun felt a little strange. He looked at the huge willow tree and thought, could it be that they were laying eggs in their nests?
Only this makes sense. The two neighbors didn't care about him before, but now they suddenly paid so much attention to him.
Bai Jun ignored the two woodpeckers and twisted his body to crawl towards the pool.
But at this moment, the male bird spread its wings and flew towards him. Its sharp claws and sharp mouth looked particularly malicious in the sunlight.
Bai Jun stopped his move and did not cowardly flee to the pool, which would leave his back to the enemy.
He suddenly raised the snake's body, raised the snake's head, and coiled his body to highlight the snake's letter to analyze the smell and thermal imaging in the air, as if he was preparing for war and giving a warning.
The male bird hovered high above him, condescending, as if looking for a weakness.
Bai Yan, on the other hand, held his foot firmly, motionless as a mountain, and did not constantly adjust his body posture, causing the point of focus to become unstable.
After flying for more than ten breaths, the male bird chirped several times in a warning tone at Bai Jun before flying back to the willow tree.
Bai Jun felt relieved and quickly crawled back into the pool, hiding himself. At the same time, he was also staring at the woodpecker couple on the willow tree. It seemed that his two "neighbors" wanted to attack him.
Otherwise, the bigger the Baijun grows, the greater the danger to them and future young birds.
Bai Jun stared at the willow tree with his indifferent eyes. The cold blood of snakes affected his human thinking. He wanted to eat those neighbors!
But Bai Jun did not act impulsively because the risk was too high. After all, he had not grown to one meter in length yet, so he could not compete with a male and female bird fighting together.
Although he couldn't beat the couple, Bai Jun had wisdom.
He stared at the two woodpeckers on the willow tree for a full hour before he saw the male and female birds flying away in search of food.
Bai Jun immediately twisted his waist and climbed onto the land, even boldly climbing up a willow tree.
Snakes are naturally good at climbing trees and swimming, and can even learn to do so without a teacher.
Bai Yan controlled his lower abdominal muscles to suck the willow tree, and climbed up to the willow tree in a winding way. He found that a huge hole in a huge taproot of the willow tree had been drilled by a woodpecker to serve as a bird's nest.
There are still six fresh, live and warm eggs piled in the bird's nest!
Without any hesitation, Bai Jun got into the unguarded hole and swallowed all six eggs in one breath.
The deliciousness of the bird's eggs fell into his stomach and was transmitted to the brain's sensor center. Bai Jun couldn't help but exclaim that it was delicious, and he still couldn't get enough of it.
But he quickly reacted, climbed down the tree, and swam back into the water.
And just over ten minutes later, the female bird came back. When she saw the empty nest, she screamed sadly.
When the male bird heard the call, he hurriedly stopped hunting and came back, also neighing angrily.
In the pool on the side, Bai Jun twisted his satisfied stomach, still sighing that the bird eggs were so delicious! Even though he couldn't taste the deliciousness in his mouth, the feeling sent to his brain after digestion in his stomach was indeed very good.
Bai Jun took a few glances at the fish in the pool. They were either too big or too small. He was no longer interested, so he nestled in the shallow grass.
He would not go ashore now, after all, there were two angry neighbors.
After squatting until dark, Bai Jun returned to the cave following the night light and mud.
He resisted the idea of sneak attack on his neighbors at night. He was still too weak to act rashly. He had to wait a little longer until he grew up!
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A month later, Bai Jun passed the young snake stage without any danger and entered the semi-adult stage. As long as he sheds his skin again, he will be considered an adult snake.
Today, Bai Jun has grown to two and a half feet long, a full eighty centimeters in length, and his body thickness has reached the thickness of two adult fingers placed together.
During this month, Bai Jun had been secretly hunting and resting, making the sad neighbors think he had left long ago.
It's another night.
The moon is at the top of the sky, and the mountains in the mountains are much brighter, so that they are not completely dark.
But this night, Bai Jun took action!
He secretly climbed up the willow tree, spitting out snakes from time to time to collect the smell in the air and sense the heat. Then he quietly came outside the bird's nest and saw two birds nestling together in the dark bird's nest.
Bai Jun did not hesitate, and instantly ejected the snake's head, biting one of the birds and then furiously injecting venom into its body.
The bird was instantly awakened by the pain, spread its wings frantically, stretched out its long beak and pecked at the painful spot.
But Bai Jun quickly retracted his head and climbed to the other end of the branch.
He only saw a bird shadow in the nest that flapped its wings a few times and then stopped moving.
The other bird shadow was frightened and wanted to escape quickly, but Bai Jun who was guarding here suddenly bit the bird that had just left the nest, injected the remaining venom into its body, and then quickly entangled it layer by layer.
During this period, although Bai Jun was scratched and even pecked by the sharp beak of a woodpecker, he still killed the pair of neighbors.
One was poisoned by his own poison, and the other was entangled by himself and died.
Bai Jun endured the pain and chose to devour the thin female bird, the one that died after being entangled by him.
The body of the other male bird was so big that he was afraid that his belly would be burst, so he finally bit its wings and threw it under the tree to be used as fertilizer.
Then Bai Jun climbed into the couple's bird's nest, and from then on it was renamed the snake's nest!
Bai Jun has been coveting this place for a long time. He lives among the branches of willow trees, which are warm in winter and cool in summer. They are extremely thermostatic. Now that it is late summer, his mud nest is no longer suitable.
Bai Jun curled up and looked at his wound. Fortunately, it wasn't too big, but it just bled a little.
Little did he know that his blood fell on the willow branches and disappeared instantly.
Because it was night, it was really difficult for Bai Jun to notice these details.
After that night, the sweet birdsong could no longer be heard from the willow trees in the small pool, but only the "hissing" sound of Bai Jun.
Early in the morning, the Golden Crow leaped into the sky, and Bai Jun woke up lazily from his sleep in the tree hole. He had eaten too much last night and hadn't yet digested it, so he didn't have to hunt for two days.
He felt a slight chill.
Yes, if he remembered correctly, it was already late summer and early autumn.
From now on, the weather is getting colder and colder!
Fortunately, he had a tree hole and didn't have to go into hibernation prematurely.
The longer you hibernate, the greater the risk, and the body's nutritional reserves are not enough to support survival.
But it can't be too late, otherwise you will freeze to death.
It’s time to prepare your hibernation place in advance.
However, now is not the time.
Bai Jun felt like he was about to shed his skin again!
With nothing to do, he slowly climbed out of the tree hole, wrapped around the tree trunk, stretched out his head and looked down, but overnight his neighbor's body was covered with another group of neighbors - ants.
A dense group of ants were eating away at the body of the male bird. Fortunately, he chose to poison the male bird last night, otherwise the male bird's counterattack might have caused him greater harm!
Speaking of which, Bai Jun felt that his poison was indeed quite powerful. Not only did he poison his male bird neighbors, he also poisoned many of his ant neighbors who ate the male bird's body.
Bai Jun lay leisurely on the branches, enjoying the sunshine. There were no large birds in this valley, and ordinary birds would not dare to jump in front of snakes.
He looked at his scabbed wound and couldn't help but feel that snakes have great vitality.
Thinking of this, he turned around and looked at the seven-inch mark, where the original ring had disappeared.
The red jade bead that carried his original will was still in Bai Jun's body. He didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse, but fortunately it did not affect his survival.
There was a faint mist around his eyes, and his vision gradually blurred. Bai Jun crawled back into the tree hole and huddled up. He was about to enter the blindfold period and start the second molt of a snake!