Chapter 13: "Difficult Choices"
When he ran under the tree, he found that the dead snake with its body separated was still there, but a swarm of ants had come, and the snake head and corpse were crawling full.
He was suddenly a little nauseous, but he felt that he had eaten a squirrel since the morning, and his stomach was already hungry after another big fight.
He looked at the tiny ants crawling all over the green snake body, and even though he didn't have a phobia of denseness, he felt a little itchy on his body!
After hesitating for a long time, smelling the smell of blood in his nose, he finally walked over without holding back his hunger.
He tried his best to avoid the ants under his feet, came to the tail of the snake, quickly flicked the snake's tail, and then immediately withdrew his paws, and so a few times, the snake's tail finally no ant, he lowered his head, picked up the tail of the snake's body, and dragged it to the river.
Running and running, he felt a little itchy, and a few ants actually crawled on his face, and he shook his head with the tail in his mouth in horror, and found that it was useless.
Holding back the itching on his face, he ran quickly towards the river.
Just when he felt that the ants on his face were about to burrow into his ears, he finally reached the river, he quickly threw the snake corpse into the shallow water, turned around and went upstream, regardless of the instinctive fear of the water in his body, and stuck his whole head into the water, shaking it vigorously from side to side.
After simmering for a while, he felt that it was not enough, and found a stone that was half out of the water.
Running in front of the stones, with the help of the stones that he could lean on so that he would not be swept away by the current, he jumped into the shallow water that did not sink into the heels, rolled and writhed in the water, and washed for more than twenty minutes, only then did he feel relaxed on his body, not only the ants were washed away, but even the bloodstains, mud, and dust on his body in the past two days were washed away.
He climbed ashore, shook his neck, shook his wet body, found a beach that was not blocked by the shade of the trees, and lay tired on a rock, drying his hair, feeling tired.
After drying the hair, Li Hang felt that he was almost rested, and walked leisurely to the river, and saw that the flesh on the neck of the fat snake body that he threw into the water had been soaked a little white, and there were no ants.
He stretched out his claws and scooped the snake's body out of the water, and indulged his appetite, eating his flesh and bones beautifully, leaving only a few pieces of snakeskin that smelled fishy on the ground.
The sun was scorching at noon, Li Hang took advantage of the water, took a bath again, took advantage of the drying time, looked up to identify the direction, followed the river, and began to walk towards the foot of the highest mountain peak in the distance.
As the saying goes, "Forget the mountain and run the dead horse!"
Li Hangjue's words are still very reasonable, when he looked at the highest mountain at the top of the mountain before, he didn't feel how far it was, but when he really started walking, he realized that the road was long.
He walked cautiously along the river, and it had been four or five hours since he had eaten the snake, and he felt that he was still a short distance from the foot of the mountain.
Although it is said that the days are long and the nights are short in summer, Li Hang is not willing to really wait until it gets dark and then rush to find the "hotel", after all, when he is cultivating, it is still relatively dangerous!
As the sun set, some animals began to come to the river one after another to drink water, which really opened Li Hang's eyes, especially an animal that looked like a cat and a mink.
When he found it bowing his head to drink water in the distance, Li Hang was surprised and thought it was a bobcat of the same kind, and he called twice to say hello to it in a friendly manner.
The animal attracted by his cry looked over, and saw that although the back of the animal looked like a tanuki cat with a thick tail, the face that turned around was pointed and protruding. The whole cat looked like it had put the head of a mink on the cat's neck, it stared at Li Hang vigilantly with small eyes, and seemed to find that it was not a big threat, so it ignored him and turned around and continued to drink.
Li Hang was speechless for a while, and he had a sense of immediacy when he walked down the street and recognized the wrong person! After recalling it in his heart for a while, he was a little unsure that he could judge that this should be a wild animal called a "civet cat."
Seeing that the frequency of animals by the river increased, Li Hang did not continue to stay, raised his head and sniffled, and ran towards a nearby grove, wanting to find a place for himself to settle down while the sky was still bright!
found that it was dark, Li Hang didn't find a suitable one, there were a few holes in the ground, but they were either too shallow, or too small to drill into, but accidentally caught two mice, in line with the principle of not wasting, quickly finished eating!
The sky had completely darkened, and he couldn't find a suitable place to stay, so he thought of tomorrow's hurry, so he could only just take a break.
He smelled all kinds of scents in the air, avoided those areas that were dangerous to him, found a relatively large tree, came to the foot of the tree, and transformed into a rabbit!
The fat ball-like rabbit walked under the tree and spread its hind legs, sprinkled a soak of urine, and shaved its front paws on the ground, covering the urine at will, feeling a burst of comfort!
It's not that he doesn't have a sense of morality and defecates everywhere!, but based on the experience of beasts learned in the past two days, he has made safety measures!
Within the range of the smell of his urine, other beasts that were also predators would not rush in recklessly, and at least weigh whether the price of angering the owner of the territory was acceptable!
After all, beasts hunt for survival, not pure bravery, and no one wants to be hurt senselessly.
After urinating, Li Hang was not in a hurry to change back, covered with thick fur, climbed a tree, and began to carefully inspect it with a heavy guard. After all, I was almost bitten by a snake today, and the leaves on the trees are so thick, who knows if there will be any other dangers?
It turns out that Li Hang thinks too much, not to mention snakes on the trees, there is not a single big bug, but it is good to be a little more careful, it is much better than dying without doubt at first glance under carelessness.
He found a relatively flat branch trunk among the branches, turned back into a cat's body, hid himself in the layers of leaves, lay down, and began to cultivate habitually!
In the jungle at night, accompanied by the sound of insects chirping and the occasional murmuring of water in the distance! Li Hang always fell asleep on guard.
......
"Chirp. ”
"Chirp"
Early in the morning, Li Hang was woken up by a noisy birdsong, and two colorful birds the size of pigeons were bouncing and playing on the branches above his head!
Early bugs are eaten by birds, and early birds are eaten by cats......
Li Hang unceremoniously jumped up and grabbed a bird, squatted on the branch with his head down and ate breakfast.
The other bird was so frightened that it flew into the sky with its wings fluttering, screaming in circles around Li Hang's head!
The birds seemed to be frightened, pulling turquoise droppings in the air as if they were incontinent!
Li Hang was eating when he was poured an ear of thin bird droppings, and in an instant, his good mood was extinguished early in the morning.
"Meow~Woo~"
He raised his head angrily, frowned, and grinned and howled at the bird in the sky, but there was nothing he could do about it.
Suddenly, his back was hot, and he turned his head to see that the sticky guano on the leaves above his head was dripping down the leaves.
He was so startled that he picked up the bird that had not eaten a few bites, and rushed into another clean branch, muttering bad luck in his heart.
When he finished breakfast, the bird above his head had flown away, and he subconsciously wanted to lick his somewhat uncomfortable back, but fortunately reacted, stopped and turned his head halfway, and forcibly climbed down the tree, like a river not far away.
In the cold river water in the early morning, Li Hang carefully washed himself and thoroughly washed the guano on his body.
Before the sun had risen, he dragged his wet body towards the mountains.
Today's dark clouds seem to be a little heavy, and after walking for a while, the hair on the body has not dried out.
Li Hang felt that his nose was a little itchy, and he stretched out his paw and licked it before wiping it off his nose.
"Sneeze!!"
As soon as the fluffy paws touched the nose, I couldn't help but sneeze!
The sneezing didn't make him any more comfortable, but rather groggy and groggy.
Li Hang was worried for a while, it couldn't be a cold, and just thinking about it, he couldn't help but shiver on his body!
He didn't dare to let himself develop like this, so he quickly found a tree, climbed up, pulled down a few insects that were eating leaves, and quickly entered the cultivation state.
With the circulation of the "true qi" in his body, the cold qi in Li Hang's body was slowly brought out of his body, and he felt that his body seemed to be better.
He didn't stop, he sensed that with the abundant food in the past two days, the "True Qi" in his body had reached a critical point.
Although he hadn't tried to last long, he could think it had been more than two hours.
Originally, he still wanted to go with the flow and improve his skill little by little, but a sudden cold completely interrupted his rhythm, in this forest without antibiotics, with his second-in-command hunting skills, he might starve to death or die of illness when he got sick!
He ran the exercises over and over again, and the remaining birds in his stomach seemed to be digested in an instant, and slowly, the true qi had reached the peak of the critical point.
Li Hang's throat sounded with the special breath attached to the exercise, and he felt that he was always a little short of breaking through!
The dizziness that had just gradually dissipated with the operation of the true qi slowly returned to the body!
Li Hang tried a few times, but found that he could not break through, so he decisively stopped his cultivation, cheered up, and wanted to find some food to replenish.
But where are you going to find food for a while? Except for a few birds flying overhead from time to time, there is nothing on the trees or on the ground.
No, what's that?
He looked at the slightly trembling branches not far in front of him, and found a few green fleshy insects hiding inside, gnawing at the leaves!
Feeling that his head was getting more and more groggy, Li Hang couldn't care so much, shook his head, and stepped on the branches and walked over.
Holding back the nausea, he gently picked up a bug, for fear that he would bite it with a little force.
Enduring the squirming in his mouth, Li Hang swallowed the worm alive into his stomach as soon as he closed his eyes, followed by a burst of retching!