Chapter 9 The city is deep in spring and grass
A month later, the weather finally warmed up and spring returned.
The ice and snow gradually melted, new shoots emerged from the branches, the northern swallows returned to the south to sing, and the spring rain swept on the ground.
Wang Yang is six years old.
At the age of six, he is far larger than his friends of similar age, looking like an eight- or nine-year-old child, and his height reaches his father's shoulders, about 1.21.3 meters.
The muscles on his body are also full of explosiveness, with plump lines and extremely smooth.
In the eyes of the adults, he has the qualifications to survive, and he will no longer be hindered from wanting to enter the forest.
And after six years, especially the experience of going deep into the forest, he has a slight understanding of this world full of dangers, and it is time to fly out of the ivory tower and welcome the vast life.
It is better to say that it is to face a vast life, but it is better to face a cruel life.
Forests in spring are innumerable times more dangerous than forests in winter.
Although food is scarce in winter, many deadly animals hibernate and do not come out to make waves.
But in the spring, when everything comes back to life, the grass and trees grow rapidly, and you can't see the land under your feet, and you don't know if you will step on a poisonous snake or a centipede.
More likely, as you walk, a snake or a spider descends from the sky and offers a kiss affectionately, all you need to do is find a big tree to lie down and slowly look back on your life.
Especially snakes, Wang Yang is most afraid of snakes, this sticky and disgusting reptile will always be coquettish in front of your eyes from time to time.
Although it is said that snakes are also afraid of people and generally do not take the initiative to attack people, this generality and not taking the initiative to attack are debatable.
Because you don't know if you'll encounter a hot-headed snake, or if you've entered its territory.
Especially in this world, wild beasts are rampant, the number of animals is countless times greater than in modern times, and there are minefields everywhere.
The reason why Wang Yang expressed this emotion was because after he entered the forest this time, he had already found three kinds of snakes.
And now, he's eye-to-eye with a snake.
He was on the outskirts of the forest, surrounded by towering trees, and at his feet were dense grasses and bushes.
A road about a meter wide is the one they often take and the safest path.
And in front of Wang Yang's group, a colorful snake stood in the middle of the road, spitting out the core, and the fierce eyes flashed with a ruthless light.
Its head is round and brightly colored, and it should not be poisonous, but Wang Yang really can't be sure, whether it is poisonous or not can only be known after being bitten.
The snake was not afraid of people, and sizzled around the road, looking ready for battle.
The crowd had to stop, not daring to get too close.
In this era, there has always been a dispute between humans and snakes, because snakes are widely distributed, poisonous, and concealed, and often kill people.
It bites whether people take it as food or not.
Therefore, people were angry and afraid of it, which gave rise to the later worship of snakes.
Countless fossils have proven that the history of the struggle between snakes and humans has been going on for millions of years.
Wang Yang pulled the adult standing at the front, wanting him to retreat and let this snake pass, who knows that in this world of lack of food, catching snakes is also one of the necessary skills.
And they know more about snakes than Wang Yang.
I saw an adult take off the animal skin on his body, spread it, and slowly approached the snake, which seemed to have the calmness of Mount Tai collapsing in front of him without changing its color, and did not move.
He slowly shook the skin from side to side, getting closer and closer to the snake, and his other hand slowly approached the snake's head.
The serpent remained still.
At this moment, he stretched out his hand like lightning and pinched the snake's head accurately, and the adults on the side immediately rushed up, cut off the snake's head, and threw it into the grass on the side.
During the whole process, the snake did not fight back, or rather, did not even react.
Wang Yang couldn't help but be a little strange, but soon realized that snakes are ectotherms, and their reaction ability plummets when the temperature is lower than 18 degrees Celsius, and when it is as low as 5 degrees, it will remain motionless, and if it is lower, it will enter a state of hibernation.
Although it is spring, the temperature is only about 10 degrees Celsius, and the snake's reaction is very slow, and it is generally difficult to dodge or attack quickly.
The adults threw the snake body into a bag and prepared to take it back to be eaten as food.
Wang Yang looked at the snake head in the grass with its mouth open, and was a little worried, what if he didn't pay attention and was bitten by this half-dead snake head?
But soon, he was gone.
For he saw one or two small animals popping up in the grass beside him, and these two small animals were similar to the civet cats he had caught that day.
The body length is 80 centimeters, of which the tail accounts for more than 30 centimeters, a yellow-brown fur, two small eyes are wide, black and not slippery.
Almost immediately, Wang Yang recognized them as mongoosees, natural enemies of snakes, and were not afraid of any poisonous snakes.
And they eat poisonous snakes, the more venomous, the better, and they seem to have a mortal enmity with snakes, as long as they find snakes, whether they are hungry or not, they will bite the snake to death.
Ordinary snakes have to make a detour when they see them, and they dare not provoke them.
Wang Yang's eyes lit up, if he could raise some and take them with him when he went out, he wouldn't be afraid of snakes.
It's just a pity that they move faster than snakes and can't be caught without tools.
And he also found that there were some horned frogs on the side of the road, they were ferocious frogs, small in size, but with great appetites, in their worldview, as long as they could move, they would eat.
They jumped and jumped, and then they approached the snake's head, opened its mouth and bit it hard, and when the snake's head stopped moving, it swallowed.
Seeing this, Wang Yang's sense of security increased greatly, there were many snakes, and there were many animals that ate snakes.
He and the adults continued to move forward, picking some fruit along the way, not encountering any special dangers, nor hunting, after all, the large animals seen in the forest were more ferocious than the other.
Rao is so, there are no tigers, wild boars or other wild beasts on the outskirts of this forest, and it is estimated that they also understand that there is a group of predators called people in this territory.
Occasionally, there are some small animals running around, and all of them are scared away.
Wang Yang also went to pick fruits, and it was quite easy for him to climb the trees.
He ran two steps, stepped on the trunk of the tree a few steps, and then stuck an awl into the tree, and finally climbed two meters, and suddenly a blood-red core appeared in front of him.
"Snake!" Wang Yang was startled, his hands were loosened, and he immediately jumped to the ground.
He was stunned, and when he looked there, he saw that it was not a snake at all, but a lizard.
At the end of the day, Wang Yang still had palpitations, he couldn't understand, it was only a long time after the winter, why were there so many animals in the forest, where did they come from? (kneel and beg for collection, recommended vote!) )