Chapter 16: The Snake Swallows the Snake
readx; Three days have passed since the last escape, and Qiuqiu is back to its pre-earthquake life, the only change is that it has moved its place of rest for the night to the main square, where there is no damage, and in the eastern corner of the square there is a small peach grove, and the peach trees in the spring are lush and lush. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Although Qiuqiu's little paws are still delicate and delicate, they are hard enough, and he has long become a master of climbing, and he likes to sit quietly on a branch of the peach tree at night to rest, and occasionally work part-time as a hunter, pounce on moths, insects, small mice, etc. There are also several other cats resting here in the main square, they each occupy a peach tree, do not mess with each other, since listening to the purr of the ball at night, these cats will come to these peach trees every night to report, one by one seems to be more and more handsome, change the decadent state of the stray cats in the past, and even in the dark there are some snakes, insects, rats and finches, every night hide far away, quietly listen to the purr of the ball.
Since the earthquake, no one has come to the lively big square, and the cold and deserted scene makes Qiuqiu feel very comfortable. During the day, Qiuqiu is always half-asleep, but if you want to say that it is asleep, in fact it is so alert that the slightest breeze can wake it up. At this time, it always quietly finds a place to hide, such as lying on the back of the landscaping plant, to see what is in front of it to wake it up, if it sees a small prey passing by, it will turn its little ass and pounce, the success rate is more than 90%, sometimes it also takes the initiative to attack, chasing butterflies and teasing bees. Occasionally, when he can't feed himself, Qiuqiu will go to the stray cat relief place to rub some food. Unfortunately, it never waited for the big yellow cat, and Qingqing never appeared again.
On this day, the fourth day after the escape incident, a large number of poisonous snakes were released in Phoenix Mountain Park** crazy reprint on the Internet, through the pictures on **, it can be seen that the number and variety of snakes, black-browed snakes, cauliflower snakes, four-legged snakes, tabby snakes, tree snakes, rattlesnakes, cottonmouth snakes, and even terrifying cobras and bamboo leaf green, the blogger is a young girl, she claimed that she was released to pray for the injured after the earthquake, she believes that the Phoenix Mountain Temple as the epicenter reflects God's will and stern warning, God is punishing people for excessive destruction of the ecological environment and the capture of rare animals, which has led to the extinction of other species, and she calls on everyone to follow her in such good deeds as releasing animals.
As soon as this terrifying blog post was issued, the majority of netizens watched and commented, including various big V opinion leaders. Is this a virtuous accumulation or a creation of evil? If someone is bitten by a poisonous snake while going for a morning run in the park, what kind of virtue is this? What impact will these vipers have on the native ecosystem?
Because the release of poisonous snakes not only endangers people's safety, but also indirectly endangers the species at the lower end of the snake's ecological chain, and even leads to the extinction of these species. For example, merchants buy caught fish from fishermen and sell them to people for release, and people release these fish into nearby rivers, while in the lower reaches of the river, fishermen open their nets and wait for the released fish to swim into the nets, and then they are recycled, released, caught, and purchased...... The same is true for birds, which often die earlier and are sometimes released into unsuitable ecosystems, altering and endangering local biodiversity.
Qiuqiu didn't know that the things that were spreading outside had caused various reports and expert interviews on TV stations, newspapers, and the Internet, and that cats were actually one of the 100 most threatening invasive alien species on the planet. Since there is a purring magic, the cat's appetite has increased a lot, it is not full today, when it ran to the stray cat relief place, it is strange to find that there are two or three less cats on the scene today, the animal protection association people did not come to give cat food, it has been waiting and waiting, and no one came in the afternoon, and finally it can't stand the hunger, and ran back to the big square to find food, mosquitoes are also meat, catch one and swallow one.
In the evening, Qiuqiu lay on the branches of the same peach tree again, and several other cats climbed up the other peach trees one after another, and they waited for Qiuqiu's purr. Qiuqiu's eyes were half-squinted and half-opened, taking a nap, and after a while, he began to purr again, and bursts of low-frequency sounds spread out with Qiuqiu as the center, and all the creatures within a two-mile radius heard it, and they all rushed in the direction of Qiuqiu as they had done three nights before, and stopped after seeing a few cats on the peach tree, quietly feeling the changes in their bodies.
In the second half of Phoenix Mountain, about one and a half to two miles away from the small peach forest, it seems too quiet here tonight, the original sound of the wind and the sound of insects seem to have disappeared, under this pale moonlight, the branches of the trees are like devils with teeth and claws, and suddenly a curved branch catapults out, and instantly opens its mouth to bite a frog that is holding its breath. It turned out that it was not a branch, but a tree snake, which could take off without the help of any tools, and usually crawled to the top of the tree, allowing itself to suddenly bounce into the air, twisting its body to cause itself to slide forward, and then landing on the top of other trees or on the ground.
The frog struggled hard, and soon could not move because of the injection of toxin, when it was about to be swallowed by the snake little by little, but a larger cobra swam on the opposite side, it bit the back half of the frog's body, and quickly swallowed into the stomach, the tree snake was not willing to give up its trophy, bit the frog's head and continued to swallow, but its speed was obviously not as fast as the cobra, the cobra swallowed all the way to the snout of the tree snake, and the tree snake swallowed the frog's head, it still did not let go, in this regard, The cobra didn't seem to care, and continued to open its bloody mouth and swallow it down until the whole tree snake was completely swallowed into its abdomen, and the snake's body swelled rapidly.
And a scene like this, tonight is not just one, some bats that inhabit tree cavities or rock crevices have also been attacked by these alien species, and some voles, squirrels, birds, etc., all suffered, the entire Phoenix Mountain back half of the mountain seems to have become an endless place of death, gloomy, black, dark, with the smell of blood from time to time in the air at the end of life the last whimper.
About one and a half in the morning, suddenly, a low-frequency sound came from afar, instantly, in the grass, on the branches, everywhere there was a swishing snake sound, faintly there was an excited neighing sound of the old snake, under the moonlight, faintly visible countless snakes with different patterns sliding, winding forward, the forked snake letter spit out a fishy mist, the place passed, the sound of insects and birds. If you look closely, the direction they are traveling in is impressively pointing to the small peach grove where the ball lives.