Chapter Ninety-Three: The Legend of the Great Serpent

Autumn white walks along the shallow river.

Just one night, the plants around the shallow water river have undergone earth-shaking changes, and now you can't see a little water surface at the shallow water river, because the river surface is dense with peanut vines and various aquatic plants, dense and impermeable, Qiubai also tried to step on the peanut vine, good guy, very thick, as if it can hold people up.

In addition to the surface of the river, these aquatic plants have also begun to develop towards the riverbank, and there is a great tendency to turn the riverbank into a green space, and the barnyard grass in the rice fields has grown taller than the rice, and everything looks vibrant and green, of course, this is on the premise of not worrying about this year's rice harvest.

As the river slowly penetrates into both sides of the river, it will certainly be the case for the next few days, first the most vigorous weeds will start to become more and more luxuriant, then the grass will become more and more bugs, and the more bugs, the more birds and insects that eat bugs, and then the creatures that prey on birds or insects, a new chain of organisms will slowly form here, but this time may be a little longer.

The barnyard grass in the rice field suddenly parted to both sides, Qiubai stood on tiptoe and looked in, only to see a toad, swimming in it with a big belly, this toad has also undergone genetic mutation, almost the size of a basketball, Qiubai has seen a lot of big guys in the past few days, and feels that this toad is really inconspicuous at all.

In addition to the river, many animals in the field are missing, like frogs, before the mutation of the frogs near Repulse Bay at night screamed happily, last night Qiubai did not hear the sound of frogs at all, because they have become larger, with a little wisdom, they are all hiding, after all, even if the frogs have become bigger, the rats are not idle, if they do not hide, such a large size is completely caught and eaten by the mice.

This toad swims slowly, as if not worried at all, the pimple on its back is more and more terrifying, it is full of toxins, as long as it touches the enemy, the venom on the back can save its life as soon as it sprays out, even if it is a big rat, it doesn't want to provoke this kind of guy, as far as Qiubai knows, toads in the wild are easier to survive than frogs, they have quite few natural enemies, and mice would rather eat frogs than toads.

Qiubai ducked behind, trying his best not to let the toad see, and the guy slowly crawled into the reeds by the river, and then squatted down, and waited for the rabbit there.

"What will this guy eat?" Qiubai was a little curious.

Toads feed on insects, such as moths or something, and sometimes they eat locusts, but now that they are so big, can they still find insects of comparable size?

Qiubai waited for a while, only to see the toad's tongue stretched and contracted, and something in front of it was rolled into its mouth, Qiubai saw that it was actually a snail, this snail was about the size of a fist, and there was a thick shell, but it even rolled up its mouth, and swallowed it.

"How good is this guy's digestive system?" Qiubai sighed.

Qiubai stood there for a while, and found that there was no need to worry about the food of this toad, many creatures in this river were several times larger, like dragonflies, which used to be at most a finger long, but now they are almost a foot, as long as they dare to fly over the toad's head, the toad's tongue will stick out, the toad's tongue is old, at least one meter, plus jumping, the dragonfly can not escape its poisonous tongue even if it flies two or three meters high.

In fact, a new biological chain has been formed in this river, and the first thing that many gigantic creatures think of is to come to the river to hunt, because only here can they be fed.

There was a rumbling in the river, and a big fish stretched the peanut vine open, and the fish's head poked out for a breath, and then sank down after a few seconds.

These water mosquitoes are not small, about the size of a tail finger, compared to the previous size, at least ten times larger, a few dragonflies do not know where to fly out, from the gap swept by, the gap at the water mosquitoes are much less, and are eaten by dragonflies as food.

A shellworm quietly climbed up from the gap, this shellworm was a bit like a turtle when it was small, because the shell on their back also wrapped them tightly, now this shellworm has grown to the size of a fist, but the running turtle is completely different, there are lines on the shell of the turtle, but the shellworm is not, it is smooth.

The shellworm got up from the gap, quickly hid under a peanut vine, and bit a small fish in its mouth, and spit the small fish out of its mouth first, and the shellworm looked around, as if it was not dangerous, and began to enjoy its breakfast.

Dragonflies don't eat water shells, their thick shells are strong armor, but water shells are clearly too happy too soon.

A bird swooped down from the sky, grabbed the water shell insect with two claws, spread its wings and flew into the sky, this is a sparrow, but this sparrow is at least the size of an adult eagle, the wings are spread, the wingspan is nearly two meters, it is effortless to catch the water shell worm, and it disappears in front of Qiubai's eyes after a while.

"It's interesting that the river has become a source of war."

When he went home, Qiu Bai went to Aunt Lu's house to take a look, and the door was actually open.

"Auntie, are you at home?" Qiubai shouted.

Niu Niu ran out of the house: "Uncle." ”

"Hey, Niuniu is so good." Qiubai touched Niuniu's head.

Aunt Lu and Uncle Lu then walked out: "Qiubai, you're here." ”

"Auntie, you didn't go to town?"

"Alas, I originally wanted to go, but then as soon as we went out, I saw how much grass grew in the field, and I don't know what's going on, or I won't be able to harvest food this year, and then I remember that there was nothing to do last night, so I didn't go to the town at all, how is your family? Did you have a big mouse last night? ”

"No, we didn't have anything to do last night, presumably the big mouse was eaten by the snake a long time ago, by the way, Auntie, is there a big snake nearby?"

"The Great Snake?"

"Looks like there's one." Uncle Lu suddenly said: "It's just a few decades ago, when I was still young, it was before liberation, and it was my father who said it at that time." At that time, my father went to help a warlord build a road, and that road seemed to be the road from Longtan Town to Nanchuan. ”

"Ran into a serpent?"

"Well, it's not good, my dad said that he was digging the road at the time, digging and digging and digging felt that there were a few earthquakes, and then the road he dug collapsed, and then he saw a big snake in the original ground, very big, all with long legs, originally sleeping, was dug up and woke up, and then ran away."

Eh, Qiubai was speechless, originally he just wanted to give them relief, but he didn't know that Uncle Lu told a legend.

Like this kind of legend, Qiubai can tell dozens of them casually, as for whether it is true or false? Nonsense, of course it's fake, even if many of these legends are said to be Qiubai Laozi's personal experience, Qiubai did believe it when he was a child, but now he doesn't believe it at all.

Qiubai Lao Tzu also told a more outrageous legend, which is also his personal experience, that is, to go hunting in a forest, cook at noon, hundreds of people, find a piece of moss and start to burn the fire, and when the meal is almost ready, the moss suddenly moved, and then Qiubai Lao Tzu saw a hundred meters long big snake crawled away, it turned out that this moss is the moss that grows on the scales of the big snake.

"Uncle, since there is a big snake near us, then we don't have to be afraid, the snake will definitely eat the big mouse, let's settle down in peace, everything will get better in a few days."

"Well, that's all there is to it."

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