The vision is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

Bai Lan climbed down the boulder, retreated into his mud pit, and curled up, the night was coming.

Even if there are no deadly creatures nearby, there are too many variables in the wilderness night, and Bai Lan chooses to spend it quietly.

On the second day, Bai Lan woke up early, and every night he slept soundly, always waking up seven or eight times a night to prevent being found by predators and turned into food during rest.

He had just crawled out of the mud cave to prepare for the hunt, when he was startled by the sound of birdsong.

"Goo~"

"Gooo Dudu~"

Bai Lan panicked in his heart, and looked back to see that it was his neighbors on the other side, two woodpeckers.

Seeing that it was them, Bai Lan relaxed.

This nest of woodpeckers has only two males and females. The male bird is just a gray bird of more than 20 centimeters, and the female bird is less than 20 centimeters long, which does not pose a mortal threat to today's Bailan.

But Bai Lan is a mortal threat to them.

Two birds, one female and one male, kept calling at Bai Lan, as if to expel them.

Bai Lan was a little strange, looked at the huge willow tree, and his heart moved, could it be that they were laying bird eggs in the nest?

Only in this way does it make sense, the two neighbors didn't care about him before, but now they suddenly pay so much attention to him.

Bai Lan ignored the two woodpeckers and twisted his body and crawled into the pool.

But at this moment, the male bird spread his wings and flew towards him, and his sharp claws and sharp beak looked particularly ill-intentioned in the sun.

Bai Lan reined in his movements, and did not cowardly flee to the waterhole, which would leave his back to the enemy.

He suddenly erected the snake's body, the snake's head was raised, and he stood up to highlight the snake's letter to analyze the smell and thermal imaging in the air, a picture of preparing for a warning.

The male bird hovers high above him, condescending, as if looking for a weak spot.

Bai Lan stabilized the lower plate, did not move like a mountain, and did not keep adjusting his posture because of this, resulting in an unstable focus point.

After flying for more than a dozen breaths, the male bird chirped a few times at Bai Lan with warning meaning before flying back to the willow tree.

Bai Lan's heart was relieved, and he hurriedly crawled back into the pool, hiding his figure, and at the same time staring at the woodpecker couple in the willow tree, it seemed that his two "neighbors" wanted to attack him.

Otherwise, the bigger the bailan grows, the greater the danger to them and their future young.

Bai Lan's indifferent and ruthless eyes stared at the willow tree, the cold blood of the snake affected his human thinking, he wanted to eat the pair of neighbors!

But Bai Lan did not impulsively implement it immediately, because the risk was too great. After all, he hasn't grown to a meter long, and he can't fight male and female birds together.

Although he can't beat the couple, Bai Lan has wisdom.

He stared at the two woodpeckers in the willow tree, and it was a full hour before he saw the male and female birds fly away in search of food.

Bai Lan immediately twisted his waist, climbed onto the land, and even boldly climbed the willow tree.

Snakes are naturally good at climbing trees and swimming in water, and they can even learn it without a teacher.

Bai Lan controlled his lower abdominal muscles to suck the willow tree, and climbed up the willow tree by a winding climb, and found that a large hole was punched out by a woodpecker in a huge taproot of the willow tree, which was used as a bird's nest.

And there are six fresh, hot eggs stacked in the nest!

Without a trace of hesitation, Bai Lan burrowed into the unguarded hole and swallowed all six bird eggs in one go.

The deliciousness of the bird's eggs fell into the stomach and passed into the brain sensing center, and Bai Lan couldn't help but call it delicious, and the meaning was still unfinished.

But he quickly reacted, climbed down the tree, and swam back into the water.

And after just over ten minutes, the female returned, and when she saw the empty nest, she screamed incessantly.

When the male heard the call, he also hurried to stop predation and returned, also hissing angrily.

In the waterhole on the side, Bai Lan twisted his satisfied stomach, still sighing that the bird eggs are really delicious! Even if he can't taste it in his mouth, the sensation coming from his brain after digesting it in his stomach is really good.

Bai Lan glanced at the fish in the waterhole a few times, it was either too big or too small, and he was not interested, so he nested in the shallow grass.

He's not going to go ashore right now, after all, there are two angry neighbors.

Squatted until it was dark, and then Bai Lan returned to the cave with the glow and silt.

He resisted the idea of sneaking up on his neighbors at night, he was still too weak to act rashly, he had to wait a little longer, and wait until he grew up a little more!

……

A month later, Bai Lan passed the young snake stage by the waterhole without danger and entered the semi-adult snake stage. As long as he sheds his skin again, he will be considered a snake.

Today's Bai Lan has grown to two and a half feet long, a full 80 centimeters long, and its body thickness has reached the thickness of two fingers of an adult together.

And for the past month, Bai Lan has been sneakily hunting and resting, making the sad neighbors think that he has long since left.

It's another night.

In the middle of the moon, the mountains that shine brightly are much brighter, so that they are not dark.

And this night, Bai Lan acted!

He secretly climbed the willow tree, spit out the snake hyacinth from time to time to collect the smell of the air and sense the heat, and then quietly came to the bird's movement, and saw two birds snuggling together in the dark nest.

Bai Lan did not hesitate, and instantly ejected the snake's head, biting one of the birds and then frantically injecting venom into its body.

The bird was awakened by the pain, and frantically spread its wings, stretching out its long pointed beak to peck at the pain.

But Bai Lan retracted his head one step faster and crawled to the other end of the branch.

He only saw a shadow in the nest flapping its wings a few times and then did not move.

The other bird shadow was frightened and tried to flee from the place, but Bai Lan, who was guarding here, suddenly bit a bird that had just left the nest and injected the little venom into its body, and then quickly wrapped it in layers.

During this period, although Bai Lan was scratched and even pecked by the sharp beak of the woodpecker, he still killed the pair of neighbors after all.

One was poisoned by his own poison, and the other was entangled by himself and died.

Bai Lan endured the pain and chose to devour the thin female bird, the one who was entangled and killed by herself.

The other male was so big that he was afraid of breaking his belly, so he bit his wings and threw it under the tree as fertilizer.

Then Bai Lan climbed into the couple's nest, and later renamed it the snake's nest!

Bai Lan has been coveting this place for a long time, living in the willow branches warm in winter and cool in summer, with strong constant temperature, and now that it is the end of summer, his mud nest is no longer suitable.

Bai Lan crossed his body and looked at his wound, fortunately it was not too big, but it was bleeding a little.

Unbeknownst to him, his blood fell onto the willow branch and disappeared instantly.

Because it was night, it was really difficult for Bai Lan to perceive these details.

After this night, there was no longer a pleasant birdsong on the willow trees of the small pool, and there was a "hissing" sound of white land.

As soon as possible, the golden crow jumped into the air, and the white lan in the tree hole woke up lazily, and the food last night was too full and not digested, so he didn't have to hunt for two days.

He felt a chill.

Yes, if he's not mistaken, it's late summer and early autumn.

After that, it gets colder and colder!

Fortunately, he has a tree hole and does not have to go into hibernation too early.

The longer you hibernate, the more dangerous it is, and the body's reserves of nutrients are not enough to survive.

But not too late, or you will freeze to death.

It's time to prepare for hibernation.

But now is not the time.

Bai Lan felt that he was about to molt again!

He crawled out of the hollow of the tree, wrapped around the trunk, and stuck his head out to look down, but overnight his neighbor's corpse was crawling with another group of neighbors—ants.

A dense swarm of ants is eating away at the carcass of the male bird, but fortunately he chose to poison the male bird last night, otherwise the male bird's counterattack may cause him to receive more damage!

Speaking of which, Bai Lan felt that his poison was indeed a bit powerful, not only poisoning the male bird neighbors, but also the ant neighbors who ate the male birds' corpses were poisoned a lot.

Bai Lan lay leisurely on the branches, enjoying the sun, there are no large birds in this valley, and ordinary birds dare not jump in front of snakes.

He looked at his scabbed wound and couldn't help but feel that the vitality of snakes was vigorous.

Thinking of this, he looked back at the seven inches away, where the original ring had disappeared.

The red jade bead that carried his original will was still in Bai Lan's body, and he didn't know if it was a blessing or a curse, but fortunately, it didn't affect his survival.

There was a faint fog in the eyes, and his vision gradually blurred, Bai Lan crawled back into the tree hole and shrank into a ball, he was about to enter the blindfold period, and began the second molting and growth of the snake!