Chapter 4: Changes in the Mountains
Yamashita Medicine Garden.
The herb picker lay on the ground with blood on the corner of his mouth, and his rough hands grabbed the calf of a fellow villager and refused to let go.
"This is my ...... This is my medicine! You can't take ......!"
"Yours, is this mountain yours? This is our territory, you dare not dare to steal medicinal herbs, this is the medicine garden I have worked so hard to plant!"
The lean man kicked hard to make him let go, but this guy wouldn't let go, and for him, this medicine garden was the lifeblood of his whole family.
"You're talking nonsense! here's my cough cough...... Don't touch it!"
The other two were so happy that they could not pull out the herbs, and the herb picker finally let go of the lean man's legs and pounced on the herbs, trying to stop them from snatching the herbs with his own life, and his arms protected the two most valuable herbs, and the three of them refused to back down no matter how much they kicked and beat them.
When the white snake came to the medicine garden, he saw this scene, the familiar herb picker was protecting the grass, and the three of them scolded and beat people.
Herb grabbing?
It seems that he was misunderstood, but is it really good to do it for the sake of a few common herbs......
In the end, the white snake who was watching the excitement decided to do something, because the lean man's face was red and his muscles were already crazy, and he took out the firewood knife used to open the way and stabbed the medicine collector in the back!
The knife was heavy, not particularly sharp, and even then it still cut a cut in the back and it was bloody.
The other two were stunned, but they were ordinary mountain people, who had never thought of killing, and the madness of the lean man frightened them, and they were stunned and didn't know what to do.
"What are you afraid of! Who will know if you two can do anything?" The lean man wanted to pull the two of them into the water province and was betrayed in the future.
"You...... You ......"
"What are you, are you going to do it?"
"...... behind you!"
Behind him, the lean man habitually wanted to look back, but at this moment, suddenly a fishy wind made his nose uncomfortable, and his neck tightened as if he was pinched by something, and then there was a sharp pain!
Snake predation attack speed is very fast, blink of an eye can launch four attacks, some studies have found that snakes can withstand 30G force when rushing to prey, that is, 30 times the acceleration of gravity, and the most elite fighter pilots with strict military training will basically lose consciousness at a speed of more than 10G, which shows how strong the snake's attack is.
The white snake has front fangs, two sharp fangs grow in front of the mouth, the upper jaw is usually folded and retracted, and pops out after opening the mouth, and the muscles around the venom gland operate to inject venom into the prey at the moment of bite.
In fact, the venom of the white snake is not strong, but no matter how weak the venom is, it will die if it bites the neck.
The snake body stood up, the snake mouth bit the throat of the prey tightly, the thin man's eyes widened in horror, his hands pulled hard, and he couldn't control the convulsions, but after struggling for five or six breaths, he gradually weakened, and finally fell to the ground, the snake venom had entered the brain along the artery, even if he ate the elixir, he couldn't do anything.
Releasing the lean man, the white snake raised its head to look at the other two.
The two men reacted so frightened that they ran away and crawled and fled, crying and screaming as they ran, and disappeared into the forest in the blink of an eye, and the white snake did not chase it.
The first time I killed someone, there was no special psychological activity such as guilt or the like, it was very bland, as indifferent as killing other prey, and the human nature of drinking blood for twenty years had already been worn out.
The herb picker looked at the white snake in horror, and it was only now that he remembered that the white snake in front of him was a poisonous snake beast......
The snake's tail wrapped around the lean man's feet and dragged away, remembering that there was a forest full of large anthills up to two meters high under the hillside in the distance, those ants should like the meat delivered to the door, if the ants were poisoned by the snake for tens of thousands, it could also reduce the pressure on the surrounding animals, after all, there were too many ants and too powerful.
As for cannibalism, forget it, it feels too disgusting.
Came to the vicinity of the anthill, and with a gentle push, the corpse rolled down to the two-meter-high anthill, and the violent vibration caused the ants to be vigilant, and in the blink of an eye, it was black.
The white snake stayed in the distance and observed the ants thinking by the way, thinking about the disappearance of life.
The corpse was quickly decomposed by the ants at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the flesh and blood gradually disappeared, leaving the Senbai skeleton, and then the skeleton was also gnawed by the ants little by little, and the process of a person going from existence to non-existence was staged in front of his eyes.
Returning to the medicine garden at noon, White Snake found that the medicine pickers had become less talkative.
From then on, there was a look of fear in his eyes when he looked at the White Snake, and he spoke less and less until he didn't speak, maybe he thought that the lean man had been eaten that day, and the White Snake didn't care about it.
The weather is getting cooler, and 100,000 migratory birds from the north fly to the mountains for the winter, bringing rare excitement to the forest.
The medicine picker waited for the herbs to mature and dug out the herbs and left, the small medicine garden gradually fell into disuse, and the white snake returned to his old life, but he was diligent in cultivating every day.
With the passage of cultivation time, the number of predators began to decrease, and the snakes could not hunt for a long time when they were full, but under normal circumstances, they ate once every ten and a half days, and slowly the time began to extend, and now they will hunt again in twenty days, which is a good thing for the birds and beasts nearby.
Cultivate every morning, find a place to rest when the sun comes out, and go to bask in the sun to raise the temperature when the body temperature is low, after all, snakes are cold-blooded animals that change their temperature with changes in the environment, and they need to be adjusted in time when their body temperature is low.
Time passes slowly.
The next year, White Snake did not see the herb picker to collect the herb.
Slowly, the fighting in the forest gradually covered up the traces of people who had been there......
The nearby area has become the territory of the white snake, other beasts no longer fight with the white snake, the lynx will observe from afar every time they meet and then turn away, the big cat is not stupid, it clearly knows its hunting limit, as for the goshawk that always hovers overhead, it has also given up on the white snake, and the length of five meters has already posed a threat to it.
The happiest thing is the annoying honey badger moving away.
I still remember a chance encounter between myself and the honey badger, and then the world changed, the little guy is like a wind-up toy that can't be driven away, from time to time close to bite two, stop and stop walking for nearly five kilometers can not get rid of it, a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water hot posture to know desperately, after this incident the white snake finally recognized what is Lai Pi Lai face, and finally jumped into the waterhole before stopping.
It turns out that the honey badger is not fearless without brains, and after seeing that the opponent has reached a length of five meters, this Laipi honey badger ran away overnight, yes, threw down the hole in the ground and did not run away without a trace, which made the white snake who wanted to strangle it deeply depressed.
After that, he only saw the herb picker once, and he just came to take a look and left.
The white snake didn't know that there was a huge white snake in the mountain that had become a fine outside, and it was even rumored that the white snake had a cockscomb on its head.
The best fairy legend in the mountains and countryside, what fox becomes an immortal to collect gold clouds.
Slowly, some people said that they saw a huge white snake in the mountains swallowing clouds and spitting fog on the top of the mountain, and some people said that they saw the white snake turning into a dragon flying up on a thunderstorm.