father snake

This is the depths of a forest. There is a thick layer of dead leaves on the ground. After countless generations of accumulation, it exudes a slight smell of corruption. The towering trees stretch straight to the sky. The sunlight is blocked by the dense canopy. A star and a half can be seen leaking through the gap. For this little bit of sunlight, the plants on the ground are growing towards it in a crooked manner.

Shi Xiaochuan raised his head and wiped off the sweat on his forehead. He had been wandering here for a whole day, and he hadn't walked out of the forest, and he didn't even know the direction. Nothing but wasting energy.

He didn't know why he appeared in this strange place. His last memory was being on duty in the library. He was woken up by the dew dripping from the tree, and he has been in a daze ever since.

He tried his best to keep himself awake, not thinking about what Shi Chen and Zhang Guo had said, and comforted himself over and over again, that it was all right, at least for now, he hadn't encountered anything other than getting lost in this woods. Danger.

He carefully distinguishes the wild berries on the roadside, which ones are edible and which ones are poisonous. Fortunately, he often goes to Shisong’s Taoist temple to play, because he gets hungry and catches the bad habit of eating what he eats. Shisong taught him to identify Many edible fruits and plants.

He picked some bunches of wild grapes and stuffed them into his mouth. The sweet and sour juice overflowed his mouth. It tasted very good, but he couldn't bear the hunger, but there was no way, because he couldn't hunt.

He picked all the bunches of grapes from the wild vine, took off his jacket, tore off a sleeve, sealed the cuffs, and put all the bunches in. Maybe he won't be able to leave the forest for a while, save some Food Just in case, there isn't much food to be found in the woods.

The sun was slanting, and it was exuding the last light and heat. Shi Xiaochuan felt a burst of coolness, and the faint mist began to fill the forest. After thinking about it for a while, he decided to put the matter of walking out of the forest on hold and find a Let's talk about a place to stay overnight.

The faint cry of wild beasts in the distance made one's heart tremble. Shi Xiaochuan thought about whether he should climb up the tree, at least those wild beasts would not climb the tree.

This suggestion gradually took shape after hearing the sound of a group of birds fluttering their wings. He looked around carefully, and finally settled on the thickest and largest tree, which was of course the easiest to climb. Like other trees, the bare trunk has nowhere to rest.

Although Shi Xiaochuan can climb trees, his skills are not very good.

He hung the sleeves stuffed with grapes on his back, and after a little effort, he finally climbed up the tree. He sat firmly on the intersection formed by the three branches. This place is good, and there is no need to worry about falling. It can actually make him lie down and rest for a while, of course sitting or lying on a tree branch must be very uncomfortable.

He looked at the bird jumping around not far away, tilted his head to look at him, then flew to the tree trunk next to him, and began to "tuk-tuk-tuk" knock on the tree trunk with his long beak. A woodpecker.

Shi Xiaochuan watched its every move intently. It looked like a gentleman who was carefully inspecting his property, pecking at the wood, listening to the difference in the sound, and judging whether there were bugs in the trunk.

It finally found a worm, took it out with satisfaction, and then flew to the distance at an extremely fast speed, and disappeared among the thick leaves. Shi Xiaochuan looked back, and the night fell unconsciously. Everyone Everyone was rushing home, even the birds, and only I was left in this empty forest.

Fortunately, it is autumn now. Although the temperature in the forest is definitely lower than that in the place where people live and converge, it is not unbearable.

Shi Xiaochuan groped to stuff the wild grapes into his mouth amidst Ye Xiao's ghostly screams. Anyway, at least he still had something to eat now, he was safe, and he could still see the clear night sky with vast stars and the Milky Way hanging in the sky. The sky was very clear. He tried to recall the knowledge of astronomy he had learned and identified the constellations in the sky.

There's Pegasus, here's Aquarius—

These methods of diverting attention are not very clever, Shi Xiaochuan still feels that the unfathomable darkness surrounding him is getting more and more terrifying, as if some monster is watching him, if only the little white snake is here, at least someone will accompany him Own.

Suddenly, Shi Xiaochuan heard some strange noises around him, as if something was panting, just beside him, Shi Xiaochuan hugged the tree trunk tightly, his eyes looked at the darkness, and he muttered in his heart. So, Grandpa Shisong probably doesn't need to look for the "Snake Scripture", he will throw his life here tonight, but he doesn't know where this place is, maybe there is no one to inform his parents, and the corpse is exposed in the wilderness The tragic fate of the world is at hand.

Shi Xiaochuan was full of random thoughts, hugging the tree to try his best to calm down, the thing slowly approached him.

He could feel its cold tentacles touching his skin, cold and sticky, smelling like rotten eggs, Shi Xiaochuan was stimulated by the smell and retched a few times, which washed away the terrifying atmosphere. It's scattered, at least something that can emit a smell can't be a ghost, right?

The thing in the dark should be an animal.

This smelly and hot animal stuck to Shi Xiaochuan, stretched out its claws and grabbed Shi Xiaochuan's arm, the sleeve he was holding tightly in his hand was released, and fell to the tree, making a loud sound of falling to the ground in the silent forest .

At this moment, Shi Xiaochuan regretted the decision to spend the night in the tree. If it was on the ground, he could escape anyway. Now that he is hanging in the air, he has become something in his pocket, and he can grab it without any effort.

Struggling desperately, he finally got rid of the claws on his arm, groped in the dark indiscriminately, trying to climb to the trunk of the tree, and then escaped, but the unknown object blocked him, this time it had a clear goal He pinched Shi Xiaochuan's neck and lifted him into the air.

Shi Xiaochuan kicked his feet, trying to break the claws on his neck with all his strength, but he couldn't do anything. He gradually began to suffocate, lost strength, his limbs twitched, and he really died here.

In the haze, Shi Xiaochuan saw two bright lanterns floating towards this side in the distance, he desperately wanted to concentrate on looking at the light, in the horror of the darkness, it was too much to see a little light. Well, God finally didn't treat him too badly, at least he didn't let him die in darkness.

He felt a sharp pain, as if he had been slammed against a tree branch, and then there was a fierce fighting sound nearby, the branch broke, the branches and leaves fell, the night birds flew in fright, and there was the low howling sound of wild animals. The sound of rustling kept coming, and he felt his head ached and heavy, and his body was squeezed limply in the gap between the branches.

Shi Xiaochuan didn't know what happened around him, anyway, that dangerous thing didn't know where to go now, and he wasn't necessarily better than before, because he was about to fall, he was caught in the middle of the tree branch, He desperately wanted to wave his hand to prevent himself from falling off the tree, but the attack just now made him unable to use any strength in his whole body, and the commands sent by his brain could not be received by the muscles in his hands at all.

He closed his eyes in despair, thinking to himself, well, it's better to fall to death like this than to be gnawed by wild beasts.

The wind passed by his ears, and he had to break through so many thick leaves and branches. In short, the falling process was not smooth. Shi Xiaochuan was hit dizzy, his whole body was in pain, maybe it was a long time, maybe it was just a In an instant, the slow motion of the falling process formed a blurred picture in my mind.

He passed out.

Thank God, it's finally over.

This time Shi Xiaochuan was awakened by the warm sunlight. Of course, the moment he opened his eyes, he closed them reflexively, unwilling to face reality.

Did he lose his eyesight just now?What is that behemoth?

He opened his eyelids tremblingly, and looked at the long white object with a black ring in front of him. It was a snake, a snake as thick as a bucket, and that snake was staring at him with wide eyes.

Shi Xiaochuan felt that he was going to faint again, but his nerve toughness was obviously beyond his expectation. Instead of fainting, he sat up firmly and looked at the snake.

Its two pairs of lantern-like eyes looked very familiar, Shi Xiaochuan vaguely remembered what happened last night, he was about to be killed by that unknown creature in the dark, and then two lanterns floated from a distance— —

lantern--

He was startled by his conjecture, and felt that the conjecture was correct. Could it be this snake that fought the unknown creature last night and saved him?

Did it move itself from there to this dry cave?

Shi Xiaochuan moved his body slightly, the severe pain all over his body made him let out a low cry, his body was covered with scratches, the shirt on his body was torn several times, it was covered with blood, under the bright sunlight during the day, It looked very miserable.

Holding the wall with his hands, Shi Xiaochuan struggled to stand up. He couldn’t stay here for long. Whether it was the snake in front of him or the creature last night, they were not safe. He had to find the exit as soon as possible to be rescued. The school realized that they should send people to search everywhere, maybe the person looking for him is on a nearby hill.

Enduring the pain, he grabbed the protruding stones on the stone wall, and finally stood up, panting, looking at the half-person-high hole, he hesitated, because the snake was blocked there, and he had no intention of moving. No, Shi Xiaochuan didn't have the guts to climb over the snake's lumpy body, so he had to sit down again.

The snake spat out the bloody snake letter and looked at him. Shi Xiaochuan felt that it was laughing at him. He lost the strength to think, even if he was told that the snake in front of him was actually an alien, he could still nod and accept it with a smile.

Sunlight crawled across the stone wall, and Shi Xiaochuan's stomach groaned a few times. He was hungry. Since yesterday, he hadn't eaten a grain of rice, only eaten a little wild fruit, and today he didn't even have any water. After taking a sip, he pressed his stomach, bear with it, and when the snake leaves, he can go looking for food and scouting the way.

The snake heard the sound and moved its head closer.

He is actually not afraid of snakes, Xiaobai likes him quite a bit, but this creature in front of him is too scary, the snake hesitated and touched his face, the sticky liquid stained his face, emitting With a faint fishy smell.

If the snake could be reduced a hundred times, he would like it as much as Xiaobai.

Shi Xiaochuan looked at the huge snake head in the distance, his eyes turned black.

He leaned against the wall, closed his eyes, and said nonsense, "Here, the snake fairy, the snake hero, please let me go, I don't eat, it's all bones!"

When there was a rustling sound, Shi Xiaochuan felt the snake leave the cave, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the tip of the big snake's tail disappearing into the cave. Get up and leave, only to see the snake go and come back.

The big snake raised its head and looked at Shi Xiaochuan. With a curl of its tail, a huge stone blocked the door.

Shi Xiaochuan stared at the scene in front of him dumbfounded, this snake did it on purpose!It's definitely on purpose!No, this is not the point, why did the snake block the hole with stones?No, this is not important, the important thing is that he can't get out!

Shi Xiaochuan scratched his messy hair, his mind was in chaos, all kinds of thoughts rushed to him, his education made him use scientific and rational thinking to analyze this matter, and what he had heard about gods since he was a child The story of the monster pulled his head to think in a strange direction, and his poor knowledge of snakes made him guess with luck that maybe this is a snake that can block holes.

The last ray of sunlight fell on his face, and night was approaching again.

The big snake didn't go out for a long time, and returned to the cave before dark. It rolled up the stone, threw it aside, and then swam in. Shi Xiaochuan saw that it had many things in its mouth.

It approached Shi Xiaochuan and threw those things at his feet. Shi Xiaochuan smelled a faint smell of blood. He lowered his head tremblingly and looked at the things at his feet. It turned out to be a hare with many knots. The fruit branch of the fruit actually contains a wild fruit called "Jijizi" that I like very much.

Is this for yourself?Regardless of whether it was true or not, it was placed in front of him anyway, and he was about to faint from hunger. Of course, the hare didn't think about it. He didn't have the habit of eating raw fruits, so he would not be polite about these wild fruits.

Take a fruit branch, pick the "chicken stalk" on it and put it into your mouth. This wild fruit looks like a chicken foot, so the local name is "chicken stalk". It looks ugly but tastes very good. Sweet, the only drawback is that there is not much moisture, Shi Xiaochuan licked his dry lips, and shifted his target to the few "mega pears" next to it, which is also the local name, what is the scientific name, no one has ever paid attention to it, in fact it probably A kind of wild pear, the flesh is sour and astringent, but it has more water.

Enduring the sourness, he swallowed those pears, carefully picked out all the wild fruits on the branches, and found that all of them were edible. This snake would not eat these often, would it?Shi Xiaochuan raised his head suspiciously, but after seeing the big snake's bulging body, he decided not to think about what it ate.

After belching, Shi Xiaochuan wiped his hands carelessly on the leaves. The blackness was almost completely black. In front of his eyes was a bunch of blurry, hill-like objects. It was the coiled body of a big snake, and its head was On the top of that hill, two eyes shining like lanterns looked at Shi Xiaochuan.

In the darkness, Shi Xiaochuan could neither sit nor lie down. The ground was full of gravel. Although he had cleared a relatively flat place, it was still uneven. If he lay on it, even if he didn’t consider the wounds on his body, he would The next day, I will definitely have bruises all over my body and back pain.

He hugged his knees, sat on the ground, rested his head on his hands, and even started to feel a little confused.

He is too tired.

When he was in a daze, Shi Xiaochuan felt a cool and soft thing beside him, he couldn't help stretching out his hand to hug this slippery thing, that thing was also very obedient, and immediately entangled him, wrapping his arms around him. Surrounded in the middle, it was like a cradle, and he slept in the middle of the cradle.

Lying on the boneless soft thing, the pain all over the body seemed to be soothed by the cool touch, Shi Xiaochuan let out a comfortable moan in his sleep, the sound was relieved Responding, a hand stretched out, pushed his hair away, exposed his forehead, and scratched his face back and forth, as if playing with his face, Shi Xiaochuan muttered dissatisfiedly, an almost inaudible Laughter came from above Shi Xiaochuan's head.

In the dark, it's ugly.