Chapter 4: The young snake swims on the beach and begins to metamorphose
Bai Lan was a little tired after eating, his body was weak, and he didn't want to move, so he kept hiding underwater, and quietly poked his head out to breathe whenever he felt that he couldn't breathe.
It's his first day of life, and the goal is to survive and find the cave!
Yes, snakes also have to sleep, except for hibernation, and they have to sleep and rest every day like humans.
However, due to the different species, some snakes prefer to lie dormant and sleep in caves during the day, while some snakes prefer to hunt during the day and hide at night.
Thanks to his father in his previous life, he was a snake lover, and he also knew some of the survival habits of snakes, perhaps this was also the favor of God, which made him a snake, but not the bottom of the food chain, but also a creature that Bai Lan was more familiar with.
Bai Lan looked at the turbid underwater world and couldn't help but miss the thought of his previous life, this is an underwater world full of dangers, and the slightest carelessness will be reduced to food.
In the afternoon, the sunlight shifts a little bit, and finally the sunset is in the west mountain, the sunset glow is piled on the mountains, the twilight birds return to their nests, and the animals return to their burrows.
In the distance, there were occasionally one or two wild beast roars in the deep forest, the sky gradually darkened, a little stars began to appear on the sky, faint clouds and mist rose among the mountains and forests, the sun finally restrained its arrogance, and everything in the world was a little cool.
It's dark.
It is time for mankind to go home to eat, sleep and rest in peace, and stop the day's life.
But the creatures in the wild are fighting every moment, and every creature is still facing the threat of killing and being killed.
Bai Lan finally moved.
Little by little, he swam to the edge of the beach, where there was very dark and sticky silt.
If he wanders in the night in a white snakeskin, he will not see the next day's sun.
There is often silt and sediment on the banks of the river, and if the mud in the mouth of man stretches for several miles, it can be called a swamp, and the only thing to fall into is death.
But the mud in this waterhole is obviously small and shallow, but it is sufficient.
Bai Lan slowly twisted his waist and paddled into the mud, and then rolled and rolled in the mud like a loach, making the shallow water so muddy that even a crab couldn't see what strange things were doing in it.
Soon, a small black snake took advantage of the muddy bottom and the darkness of the night to crawl out of the water and swim up to the pebble ground.
The little black snake was the disguised Bai Lan, and he controlled the muscles of his body to relax, allowing the mud to wrap his white body from the eyes of the night predators.
From time to time, the sound of toads and frogs sounded in the waterhole, and occasionally a swimming fish swung their tails and set off a splash, and two large praying mantis not far away were intermingling, and then one swallowed the other praying mantis that did not resist into its stomach.
The sharp mantis hook made Bai Lan's body chill, and such an insect was too terrifying for him now.
Bai Lan crawled through the cracks of the cobblestones, and with the help of the pebbles, he climbed out of the water nearly a kilometer away, even though the ground was very rugged, but he did not make a sound, and swam under a boulder.
This boulder seems to be very huge in the eyes of Bai Lan today, and it is not easy to estimate the volume, he climbed under the gray boulder and explored the hot double vision and found that there were only small ants living here.
Although Bai Lan is worried that these ants also have some fears, they are already the best creatures to handle compared to the other "overlords" around them.
You see there's a nest of woodpeckers in the big willow tree over there, and their beaks can peck themselves to death or even eat them.
Besides, the big toad that jumps frequently among the water and grass can wrap its tongue around itself and swallow it in its stomach.
There are also many mud holes by the river, where there may be crabs and large river shrimp, and their claws make Bai Lan's heart chill.
Therefore, these little ants are really very benevolent and can give themselves a place to live!
Bai Lan is covered in thick silt, and even these ant colonies may not be able to bite through the protection of these silt.
But he still deliberately found a place far away from the ant's nest, screwed up close to the stone chassis, and checked a few times before he began to sleep peacefully.
Snakes can suffocate to death when they sleep in water, even if they are water snakes, unless they are sea snakes.
Therefore, the best choice for Bai Lan is the shore near the water.
The moonlight at night is like snow and frost covering the earth, and there are some enlightened beasts in the distant mountains and forests greedily devouring the essence of the moon, without exception, they are at least the beast overlords of a region!
Only when they are strong enough to be feared by nearby creatures and have no worries about life can they have the capital to desire immortality.
Bai Lan is quietly dormant, and the body wrapped in mud is also growing little by little, which is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.
This night, Bai Lan slept very unsteadily, and he would wake up every once in a while to nervously observe whether there was any danger approaching around him.
It wasn't until the sun rose the next day that the nocturnal predators began to rest and the daytime creatures became active.
Bai Lan also woke up for the seventh time and began the second day of survival.
It's the height of summer now, and it's the end of summer in a month's time, and according to Bai Lan's previous life, the four seasons of the year may be the same, and there may be winter here.
Because he found some reeds in the shallow water, although they don't grow much, but if he remembers correctly, the reeds should grow in tropical and temperate climates, but there are no significant tropical creatures in this vicinity, so it is likely to be temperate, so it is very likely to usher in winter!
Humans are still afraid of the cold winter, and creatures are naturally more afraid, and snakes are one of the most feared creatures.
Bai Lan has a sense of urgency, he not only wants to live but also eat more, and then grow up.
He can only survive if he becomes bigger and longer!
to have a better ability to find a place to hibernate and not to freeze to death.
Bai Lan crawled to the waterhole again, and swam to the shallow water with the help of the cover of dense plants, and now the snakes in the hot weather are a little unbearable, even if it is only the first sun, so there is no need to absorb the heat to warm the stiff body with blood activation.
This time, he aimed at the snails at the bottom of the water, and there were also snails.
Bai Lan doesn't care if they have a hard shell, as long as they reach their stomachs, they will sooner or later turn into their own nutrients.
He has no appetite for these plants now.
Because his snake brain and biological instincts have no interest in these plants.
Bai Lan dived into the water, and after a week of visiting, he found that there were no other powerful hunters, so he swam straight to a snail and swallowed the unresponsive snail in one gulp.
The hard shell of the snail entered his stomach, which made Bai Lan a little uncomfortable, but he endured it.
If you want to grow, you have to eat meat, and snakes don't eat plants.
After swallowing six snails and snails in a row, Bai Lan hid underwater again to reduce his activities, and the more he moved, the greater the danger of exposure, and the greater the danger of being discovered by predators!
He found the same kind nearby, a black water snake!
Bai Lan's heart was tight, snakes would eat each other!
Fortunately, this kind of person didn't seem to be interested in him, and walked away leisurely.
They are nearly two meters long, and there is naturally nothing dangerous in this waterhole.
However, it also made Bai Lan a little puzzled, the environment of this waterhole and valley is very suitable for the survival of organisms, and it stands to reason that there should be many large carnivores to form a complete ecological food chain.
For example, if there are birds passing by in this valley from time to time, then there must be snake-eating creatures such as eagles and vultures in this mountain, but Bai Lan has not seen any large birds passing by for a day.
Even, there are no wolves, leopards and other creatures on land.
After all, the land of water in the mountains must be the place where the most creatures appear.
Bai Lan didn't understand it and didn't think about it anymore, he only lived with peace of mind.
……
The sun rises and sets, day after day, and in the blink of an eye, Bai Lan has lived for a month.
His body also grew from less than a foot to a foot and a half long.
It's still short, but it's not the young snake that even insects are afraid of.
Now, as long as Bai Lan is careful, he can continue to grow.
But now, Bai Lan has to get through this last hurdle!
Molt!
Bai Lan has entered the last day of the blindfold period, and his eyes are about to regain his sight.
Snake molting is not as simple as shedding a skin in a few hours, and its complete process is a physiological activity for nearly half a month.
Generally, the cornea of the snake will be smoky blue about six days before molting, and then temporarily blind for three to five days, and after regaining sight, it will begin to molt after another three or five days.
And in this whole process, the most dangerous thing is not only when the skin is molted, but also when you are blind for three to five days.
Although Bai Lan relied on amazing perseverance to survive this difficulty without moving for three days and survived, he is now hungry.
He needs to eat! Otherwise, in three days, he will not have the strength to break free from the snake's skin, and he will be trapped in his own snake molt!
Bai Lan swam into the water, and the snails, snails and other creatures in the vicinity have long been eaten by him, and now only some fish come here to wander for a while.
He's going to eat fish!
Bai Lan hid his body and waited quietly for half an hour, finally having a suitable prey.
An orange-sized flower fish swam over!
It was the biggest prey he could eat, and the only small fish he could eat.
The little flower fish swung its tail deftly through the water until it approached Bai Lan, as if sensing something to swim back.
But Bai Lan immediately shot out like an arrow, biting the little flower fish fiercely, and then his body quickly contracted and wrapped around the fish.
As long as he is entangled, the little flower fish will inevitably die.
Bai Lan tightened his body hard, squeezing the little flower fish fiercely, no matter how fiercely it resisted, it couldn't break free from the entanglement of the snake's body, and was exhausted a little bit, like a fish that had been squeezed dry.
Then Bai Lan opened his upper and lower jaws, which were already difficult to control, and began to swallow from the head of the flower fish, and swallowed the body of the flower fish into his throat little by little, and then the stomach of the body, until the tail of the flower fish swallowed from Bai Lan's mouth, and he finally finished eating!
It's just that the snake's body has become more cumbersome, which is very inconvenient, and the body has been stiffly propped up a lot, as if it has swelled up.
Bai Lan crawled back to the boulder, hid in the small mud hole he had drilled out under the boulder, quietly digested the food, and waited for the day when the skin would molt.
When a snake eats a large prey, it can go days without food. This small flower fish is also a huge thing for Bai Lan.
Three days later, the sun rose and the heat of summer forced the animals to nest in their nests, only Bai Lan crawled out of the mud hole and wrapped itself around a hot pebble that had been sunburned.
The molting begins!
Bai Lan felt that his whole body was extremely itchy, and he longed to tear a piece of flesh from his body, as if that was the only way to stop the itching.
Fortunately, this pebble is extremely hot by the sun, and the hot hard stone body can relieve the huge itching on Bai Lan's body.
Bai Lan gradually went crazy by this itch, he desperately wrapped his snake body around the pebbles, as if he was dying and lingering, the sun was shining, the snakes and stones were entangled, Bai Lan used all his strength to frantically rub the protrusions of the pebbles, and pierced his body with the sharp edges and corners.
Finally, when Bai Lan was exhausted, a hole was torn open in the roof of his mouth, and Bai Lan's head came out of it.
As soon as the first one comes out, the rest will be easy.
Bai Lan drilled out of the old skin with great difficulty, and his body unfolded, and it was two feet long!
Bai Lan was relieved and almost fainted, but fortunately he persevered, dragging a bright white body into the mud to hide his body.