Orochi Longevity

When the moon sets and crows cry, everything stops hiding.

On a winter morning, the mountains are extremely quiet.

Withered and yellow weeds all over the mountains and fields, barren and dead silence spread across the wilderness.

The snake poked its head out from the withered grass and carefully identified the direction.

The icy air around made his body stiff, making it difficult to move normally... Every time he took a step, he felt a biting pain echoing all over his body.

At the same time, there is the passing of vitality.

It's winter, and it's supposed to be the day when snakes go into dormancy.

But it still resolutely crawled out of the cave, aimlessly looking for its own glimmer of life.

That's right, the reason why the snake goes against its nature and comes out in the winter is because it knows that if it continues to stay in the cave, it will eventually die.

Because it has already died once.

A snake is born a snake, like all its brothers and sisters, nameless and nameless.

But it is not an ordinary snake, it has broken through the life limit of its kind.

Three years ago, when its last sibling died of old age, every year it lived, it would gain an ability.

Think first.

later language

After that, there is the cycle of death.

In the current consciousness of the snake, there is a brief human language.

[The cycle of death has been triggered, the remaining number of uses: 9. 】

Snakes are smart.

The words in his mind quickly made him understand what happened to him.

During hibernation, its lifespan was exhausted, and it left this world forever.

Just like its last brother, he died of old age.

The snake likes the youngest brother very much, because just like himself, he is cautious, calm, and never competitive.

In the words of human beings, it is to love "to live on an ignoble existence".

Except for the need to go out to take risks to solve basic survival problems, most of the rest of the time lies in the cave and rarely goes out.

If you encounter a natural enemy, you can hide as much as you can, and run if you can't, and don't take your own life as a joke.

But even so, the youngest brother died.

In the spring three years ago, after it crawled into the cave, it never came out again.

die of old age.

Common small snakes usually live two to five years.

The lifespan of medium-sized snakes is five to twelve years.

Large snakes can live ten to twenty years.

Only boa constrictors have the longest lifespan, more than thirty years.

Snake and his elder brother already lived longer than those of the same race.

But even so, after living for twenty-one years, its lifespan has reached its limit.

This winter, snakes routinely crawl into their nests to hibernate. Who would have thought that they could not sleep for a long time like this.

If it hadn't been for its death reincarnation, I'm afraid there would never be a chance to see the sun again.

On winter mornings, the air is bitterly cold.

The snake crawled forward with difficulty, its scales rubbed against the withered grass and frost, making a nice rustling sound.

Soon, its abdomen was covered with a thin layer of frost.

The sun is rising.

The frost melted and turned into drops of water.

But it didn't take long for the cold air to condense into ice again.

Such repeated torture is like torture to the snake.

But the snake had to do it.

Because it knew that if it continued to stay in the cave, it would surely die.

It's better to fight for the last breath, try your luck outside, and look for opportunities.

After waking up from hibernation the year before last, the snake found that it could understand human language inexplicably.

At that time, it had not yet become the King of Snakes, and the mountain had not been renamed Snake Mountain. People from the villages below the mountain often went up to the mountain to collect herbs.

It listens to old herb pickers and little storytellers.

Legend has it that in the Shang Dynasty, a fox fell in love with the human king, so he tasted all kinds of herbs and wanted to become a beautiful woman.

Later, it died eight times before becoming a human.

There is also a creature called the weasel, who worships the sun and the moon, blocks roads to ask for titles, and cultivates to become a spirit.

Among human beings, there are even cultivators who can live as long as the heavens and live forever after cultivating to a certain level.

What it is looking for is this kind of adventure, this kind of "fate".

It has an indescribable intuition, and it believes that there must be adventures waiting for it ahead, which will allow it to break through the limit of its lifespan.

Snakes trust their intuition very much, because it has relied on intuition to avoid many dangers.

While thinking, the snake's body gradually stiffened, and its movements became slow.

Only then did it realize that the cold would dull its thinking.

Soon, the snake's body functions stopped synchronously, and the world fell into darkness.

[You who woke up again realized that if you continue to hibernate as usual this winter, you will not wake up, so you braved the cold wind to go out to find opportunities on the fourth day of the winter month, but you froze to death halfway. 】

[Death reincarnation has been triggered, the remaining number of uses: 8. 】

The snake regained consciousness, and a paragraph of words appeared in his mind.

That's it.

The tip of its tail tapped the ground lightly, and the snake began to think.

If you don't take action and stay in the cave, you will die.

But if you climb out of the cave, you will still be frozen to death by the cold wind.

What should it do?

The snake consciousness stays in the mind, the last paragraph of text.

【. On the fourth day of the first month of winter, I braved the cold wind and went out looking for opportunities, but unexpectedly froze to death on the way. 】

On the fourth day of the winter month, the cold wind froze to death.

These few words changed back and forth in its mind.

After a while, it only felt that there was a flash of light in front of it, and it suddenly became enlightened!

Yes.

The crux of the problem is time.

On the fourth day of the winter month, the wind was blowing and the clouds were dense.

When the moon sets and the sun rises, it is the icy moment when everything is frosted.

It chooses to leave the hole at such a time, and it is naturally seeking its own death.

If you go out when the sun is shining and the temperature is high, maybe the ending will change.

There was a burst of joy deep in the snake's heart.

Thinking is a powerful ability.

If it were another snake, I am afraid that even if you can start over and over again, you will not be able to reflect on your previous failures, and you will inevitably stumble in the same place again and again.

Snakes are always cautious.

Even if it understands its own abilities, it will not take its own life as a joke and try it.

Even if it is an attempt, it must be a meaningful attempt!

The snake lay quietly in the cave, sticking its body tightly against the soil wall.

It uses this method to detect changes in the temperature outside the cave.

The habit of hibernating for twenty years in the past made its consciousness very drowsy, wandering between darkness and blur.

Only by forcibly controlling the willpower can one be awake at times and chaotic at times.

In the cave, the passage of time is undetectable.

I don't know how long it has passed, but the snake suddenly became energetic.

It felt warm against the stone wall where its body was pressed against.

At least, at such a temperature, it can move freely.

The snake raised its head and stretched its long body.

The stiff bones made a slight clicking sound, which was extremely comfortable.

Then, it couldn't wait to climb out of the cave, and it really was a rare sunny day outside.

The warm sun shines on the earth in winter, and even the withered grass looks so moving.

I should be the only snake that sees the cold winter sun, right?

It thought happily in its heart.

The time had come, and the snake immediately unfolded its plan.

Its plan is very simple, that is to wait until the warm weather, go out to look for opportunities.

All the way here, without looking back, and without changing direction.

If you die on the way, you will be "death reincarnation".

When you start over, change the direction and keep trying.

According to the position divided by people, it sets eight attempts for itself.

The eight orientations are east, south, west, north, southeast, northeast, southwest and northwest.

First is the East.

The snake walked among the withered grass, raised its head and spit out the letter.

Through the shape of the trees and the sun, it recognized the direction, swung its body and wandered forward at high speed.

[You summed up your experience through two deaths, and chose to go out of the cave to find fate when the sun was shining on the twelfth day of the winter moon. God seems to favor you, and the next three days will be warm and sunny. You wandered eastward for three days, and finally came to a cliff. You found a strange plant on the top of the cliff. It was a red fruit, shaped like a fire cloud, colored like red blood, and tasted like flames. Seeing that there is no way ahead, you decide to swallow this strange fruit. Unexpectedly, after a quarter of an hour, you will feel unbearable pain in your stomach, and your whole body will feel as if you are being scorched by a raging fire. . 】

【For the fourth time, you chose the south. You wandered south for five days and found nothing. Finally, on the sixth day, heavy snow fell from the sky, and the earth was covered with silver in just half an incense stick. You were covered by the snow, and soon you were frozen into a hard rock, and the snow took your life. 】

[This time, you chose to travel to the west. After only two days of travel, you discovered a natural phenomenon. There is a remote village surrounded by crows. Black crows cover the sky and the sky is covered with crows. You bravely continued to climb forward, but you were quickly spotted by the crows, and they pecked at you quickly. During your futile struggle, the sharp claws and beaks tore your body into pieces. Lost consciousness in excruciating pain. 】