Chapter 5: The Lurking Rattlesnake

In the wild, in any case, be cautious and do not let your guard down on your surroundings. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoEven in the desert where there seems to be little life, you don't know where a poisonous snake or scorpion or other poisonous insect will emerge, and if you are accidentally bitten and not treated in time, you may lose your life.

In front of Ansu was a rock wall of more than ten meters piled up with rocks, Ansu touched the surface of the rock with her hand, it was hot, she turned her eyes to the trees growing under the rock wall, and the height of one of them almost reached the top of the rock wall.

Ansu climbed up the branches, which had brittle branches, and Ansu had to settle down cautiously, as she had already broken a few branches. The broken branch rustled against the branch below, making a rustling sound.

Ansu's body froze suddenly, and in the rustling sound she heard an unusual hissing sound, and she also saw the source of the hissing sound, a rattlesnake.

It was hovered in the shadow of a crack in the rock, arm-sized, and covered in the same gray as a rock, with black diamond patterns interlaced on it, and a series of gray-white rings at its tail, hissing under the violent shaking. At this moment, it raised its diamond-shaped head and stared at Ansu gloomily.

Ansu's blood clotted for a moment, and her breath was held. Ansu was no more than an arm's length away from it, within range of its attack. Ansu doesn't know what happens to the alien rattlesnake's toxin, but she does know what happens if she is bitten by a rattlesnake on Earth. Rattlesnake toxins are blood-type toxins that make wounds bleed and can cause muscles to decay quickly, like a pile of rotting fruit. Some may also release neurotoxins, leading to brain death. An Su didn't dare to be careless, and observed with bated breath, rash movements would only provoke it.

The hot weather and the interruption to sleep made the rattlesnake irritable, its head swinging, as if thinking about where to start, the ring on its tail shook more violently, and suddenly the surroundings became quieter, and the hissing sound became louder.

Click-click--click--

Worst! The soles of Ansu's feet were empty, his body fell down, and at the same time, a gray shadow bit Ansu's arm, Ansu had to let go of his hand, jumped down, and rolled a few times after landing, opening up a distance. The height of the jump was only seven or eight meters, and the ground was covered with a layer of soft sand, and Ansu was not injured, but only kicked up a cloud of sand.

In the billowing dust, a gray shadow persistently pursued!

Ansu quickly picked up a thick wooden stick and smashed it down in the direction that Gray Shadow was heading. She knew that Earth's rattlesnake would chase after its target when provoked, and the alien rattlesnake was indeed the same, and the alien rattlesnake seemed to be even more aggressive.

Another puff of sand and dust flew up, and Ansu's attack missed, and the rattlesnake strangely shifted to the left and dodged, barely pausing, and bit at Ansu again. The elongated fangs glistened coldly in the sunlight, and the tips seemed to have oozing venom.

An Su was distracted, smashed the wooden stick that had broken into two pieces, and stepped back again to open the distance, and at the same time pulled out his saber. Hit the snake and hit seven inches, as long as the snake's head is controlled, there is nothing to fear. It's just that if you want to control the snake's head, you have to be careful of its fangs. It is better to press the snake's head with a wooden stick and then cut it off. But it happened too quickly, and the dead branches nearby were too brittle to suppress the thick body of the alien rattlesnake. Now, Ansu can only use his short saber to face the lightning-fast rattlesnake.

After a few misses, the rattlesnake stopped, its head swinging back and forth, as if considering whether to retreat. It is usually nocturnal, and this attack caused the temperature of its body to rise rapidly, and it continued to swallow the snake hyacinth, coiled its body, and erected the ring of its tail, constantly shaking, as if to scare its opponent away.

Ansu was certainly not going to be scared away, she was already determined to take down the snake, and she strongly missed the taste of meat. Ansu fended off the rattlesnake attack and looked around to see if there were any more sturdy sticks around. There was no stick, but she found a white leg bone, long and thick, half-submerged in the yellow sand. An Su slowly moved over and picked it up, it was quite heavy, and it would definitely hurt to hit it.

As Ansu picked up his leg bone, the rattlesnake finally couldn't stand the heat and turned around to crawl back to the shade of the rock. Ansu had been paying attention to its movements, and as soon as it moved, Ansu also acted, first flying out of a saber to block its advance, and then the white shadow flashed, with a sharp sound of breaking the sky, slammed it on the head, and then crushed it desperately into the sand. The rattlesnake's body flapped and writhed desperately, crackling like a whip on the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust. Its mouth was wide open, baring its sharp fangs, making a last-ditch struggle.

But it didn't have a chance again, and Ansul cut off its head neatly. Despite its different head, its head and body are still capable of moving on their own, its mouth is still open and closed, trying to bite Ansu, and its body is constantly writhing, trying to escape.

Ansu dug a deep pit and buried the snake's head, internal organs, and skin. Fresh snakes are easy to peel, and if you peel the skin down from the incision, the internal organs will also be peeled off.

Meat is prone to spoilage in hot weather, so Ansu had to stop his progress and gather firewood to prepare the snake meat. When collecting firewood, Ansu found that one of the rock walls was wetter and darker than the others, and that there was water, but the amount was too small to form water droplets. But Ann has a way of collecting the water from the rock face.

Ansu untied the laces of his boots, folded them in half, twisted them together and knotted them at the ends, one end embedded in the depression of the rock wall, and the other end hung down naturally to touch the opening of the water bladder. After about half an hour, water droplets will collect on the shoelaces and drip down the shoelaces into the water bladder. Taking advantage of this time, Ansu continued to collect firewood.

There were no tools to make a fire, so Ansu had to use the most primitive drill wood to make fire. This time she didn't use a fire bow, but a drill pipe.

An Su first built a small pyre with small branches, scraped soft and light shavings on the wood with a saber, and formed a ball for later use. Then she made a drill pipe out of a tree branch, and the skin of the tree here was either thorny or uneven, and Ansu grabbed a few handfuls of sand and put it in her clothes, and wrapped the drill pipe in it to polish it up and down. Grit has the effect of sandpaper, and soon, the smooth drill pipe is ready. In addition to the pedestal behind the drill pipe, Ansu flattened a section of wood, dug a hole in the middle that could accommodate the drill pipe, and cut a V-shaped opening to make it easy for the burning chips to fall to a flat piece of white bone underneath.

When everything was ready, Ansu stepped on one end of the pedestal and fixed it, stood the drill pipe on the small hole in the pedestal, and began to rub his hands up and down on the drill pipe. She didn't rub desperately at the beginning, but gradually and slowly accelerated. After dozens of back and forth, smoke was already coming out of the contact point between the drill pipe and the base, and only then did Ansu speed up and rub desperately. The smoke gradually thickened and kept coming out, and Ansu didn't stop until he smelled the strong smell of burning. Ansu pulled the burning bones from under the pedestal and poured them onto the prepared shavings, blowing carefully. The shavings were blown out and the shavings were quickly ignited, and the smoke billowed out.