At dawn the next day, the scorching sun in the east rose high, and it began to restrain its enthusiasm. Although it was still blazing, it was better than before.
After Bai Jun experienced a sleepless night, he lazily twisted his snake body to crawl to the place where the sun was shining, and then began to bask in the sun.
His blood had become cold after cooling down last night. Cold blood will become stiff. For snakes, their soft and flexible bodies are crucial to their survival.
Even if there are no deadly natural enemies nearby, being careful will only last long.
It has been a long time since Bai Jun met the big water snake he met for the first time. He has only occasionally seen water snakes about the same size as him in the river a few times. When members of the same race meet, there is nothing to communicate with each other.
The cold-bloodedness of snakes is not only reflected in the blood, but also in the consciousness. Ordinary snakes, even if they are born from the same mother, can swallow their own brothers and sisters when they are hungry.
Even if snakes communicate with each other, Bai Jun doesn't know what to say. How can one ask a snake that has no intelligence: "My name is Bai Jun, what is your name?"
Human beings communicate because they have interests and demands and needs for communication.
Snakes that live alone obviously don't need it.
If it is not needed or used, the communication function will degrade.
Except in late spring and early summer, snakes will communicate in depth during their estrus.
There are even some types of snakes that gather thousands of them to lay eggs and reproduce together. At that time, even if the baby snakes are born, they don’t know who their father is.
The saying that snake nature is inherently lustful is not wrong.
Although Bai Jun felt lonely inside, the pressure of survival always occupied his thoughts, preventing him from thinking about loneliness.
Bai Jin crawled in the cracks of the cobblestones, quietly basking in the sun, absorbing the heat and warming his blood. Today he planned to find a nest, a hibernation nest.
Although the willow wood is warm and suitable for living, it is not suitable for hibernation.
Once he falls into a deep sleep, wouldn't he be seeking death if a big bird falls from the willow tree?
Bai Jun narrowed his eyes. The warm sun felt so comfortable on his body that he softened into a ball.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, without the pressure of survival, wouldn't it be more comfortable to be a snake waiting to die than to be busy and deceitful for the rest of your life?
Bai Jun fell into philosophical thinking.
Suddenly, Bai Yan raised his head, his whole body became alert, and his abdominal muscles in contact with the ground felt the earth tremble.
He dragged his slightly rounder body and hid back in the mud hole.
However, after a few breaths, the ground shook louder and louder, and a patch of dense grass kept swaying, as if someone was separating the lush shrubs and grass.
"Wow~"
A fat figure emerged.
Bai Yan's heart trembled when he saw a wild boar covered with sharp thorns grunting out.
A pair of small eyes rolled around, looking at the valley for a long time, and then he carefully twisted his fat butt to the water's edge, lowered his head, and drank the water.
It turns out to be a porcupine that only drinks water.
After the porcupine finished drinking the water, he walked under the willow tree and peed!
Bai Jun watched this man leave speechlessly.
He climbed onto the boulder and raised his body, trying to raise his field of vision as high as possible to see further.
Bai Jun looked at it for a long time and finally figured out the topography of this valley.
This valley is probably several miles in size. Judging from the direction in which the sun rises and sets every day, there is a tall vertical mountain to the north, and a pool of dozens of feet in size is located under the cliff of this mountain peak.
To the south of the pool is this huge boulder and the thick willow tree. Behind the boulder and ancient willow is another steeply rising ridge less than a hundred feet away.
To the east is a gently rising hillside, covered with weeds and some unknown wild flowers.
As for the west, there is a cliff crossing diagonally, and it is only half a foot away from the mountain peak to the north, so there is a small narrow road in the northwest. This kind of terrain is called a line of sky.
This valley is surrounded by mountains on all sides, but the east and south sides are far away from the mountains, so the sun and moon can shine, nourishing all the creatures in this uninhabited valley.
Bai Jun originally planned to find a place to hibernate in the narrow path of the Skyline Canyon in the northwest corner, but there were too many unknown factors that could lead to the outside world.
This small valley is safe at least for now. After much consideration, Bai Jun decided to find a hole in the mountain on the south side of the valley, behind the ancient willow tree, and crawl in.
The mountain on this side is somewhat heavily weathered, and there are many caves on it. There may be bats in them, but if Bai Jun encounters them, he will naturally taste them.
Just when Bai Yan was about to implement his big plan for winter, a wild deer suddenly ran out of the sky in the northeast corner. He couldn't hold his feet for a moment and fell into the pool with a "plop".
What followed him was a ferocious yellow leopard. Even after chasing him, he couldn't stop himself and fell into the pool.
There is no way, the water pool is less than one meter away from the exit of the Xiantian Canyon. There are cliffs to the north and cliffs to the west. If you want to get here, there is only one waterway.
Wild deer splashed and splashed in the lake. This pool was not shallow. It was at least ten meters deep. Bai Jun's phobia of the deep sea would not be much better even if it turned into a snake. He only dared to see light at a depth of two or three meters. Swim underwater.
The northwest side is the deepest part of the pool. A beast that cannot swim will be in trouble if it falls into the water.
The wild leopard was very agile. He suddenly fell into the water, struggled to get up, and hurriedly swam up to the entrance of the sky. He shook the water from his fur and looked at the wild deer struggling to the middle of the water with an unkind expression.
The wild deer swam to the other side in a panic and swam toward Bai Jun.
The leopard was not good at swimming and did not dare to enter the unknown deep pool rashly. It could only growl unwillingly for a long time and leave angrily.
Bai Jun nestled under the boulder and watched all this with cold eyes. When he saw the wild deer swimming towards the shore, the idea of entering the water and killing the wild deer unexpectedly came to his mind.
But gave up when it turned out the deer was a doe.
This valley is so large that there are no large predators, so it is most suitable for survival and reproduction. Moreover, weeds are everywhere, even raising a dozen deer will not affect the ecology.
What Bai Jun wants to do is to provide some food for himself when he grows older.
After all, if he keeps growing and eating only a pond of fish, sooner or later he will eat them all. He can't use the body of a giant python to find snails in the mud.
Except for some birds, insects, and rats, there are no other larger animals in the valley.
He won't be able to swallow an adult deer for a long time, but a young deer will be able to swallow it when it grows to several meters long.
Bai Jun is a carnivore. If he doesn't eat meat, he will starve to death. There is no such thing as cruelty among animals, only the strong survive and the weak die.
The wild deer accidentally broke into this valley. After wandering for a long time and seeing no beasts that could threaten it, it relaxed and wandered around eating grass.
Bai Jun no longer thought about it. He climbed to the south side of the mountain. After searching for a long time, he finally found a winding cave more than ten meters deep on a slope more than three meters above the ground. Stone cave.
He opened his mouth, and two drops of venom dripped from his upper fangs and fell on the ground at the entrance of the stone cave. This was Bai Jun's scent mark to avoid finding the wrong stone cave. It also serves as a warning to disperse some animals to prevent the cave from being occupied.
The cave is a little damp, and there are no other living things except some insects. The air is humid and the temperature is suitable. It is a very good place to hibernate.
By the time Bai Jun climbed out of the cave, it was already dusk.
The fire clouds on the horizon turned red, and the ink color of the distant mountains was also coated with a layer of gold by the setting sun, making it appear majestic and beautiful.
The birds are returning to their nests, and the goshawks are looking down.
No, why is that eagle getting closer and closer!
"Chirp~"
A high-pitched eagle call pierced the sky, and a goshawk soared into the sky with its wings spread out. Its wings were two meters wide, and its sharp talons were enough to scare all snakes.
When the harsh eagle chirping sound came, Bai Jun's whole body went limp, as if the suppression of his bloodline almost paralyzed him on the spot.
If it were an ordinary snake, it would have been frightened by the harsh hawk call.
But Bai Jun has human wisdom.
He hurriedly wandered down the hillside frantically. At this moment, there was only a dead end for him to climb the rock and enter the cave, because the goshawk had already descended on the cliff and would scratch him to the gut before he could enter the cave.
The only chance of survival is to enter the water! Entering a pool and sinking to the bottom, no matter how powerful the eagle is, it will never sink to the bottom.
Apart from that, there is no life!
Because the eagle's vision can cover prey within a radius of ten miles. No matter how good the disguise is, once it is discovered by the eagle, it will never disappear from its eyes again.
Bai Yan ran away frantically towards the water pool. His abdomen exerted force rapidly, his body formed an S shape, and he rushed towards the water pool quickly.
The eagle in the sky saw this scene and suddenly folded its wings. The strong wind blew past it like water. Like a sharp arrow, it swooped down from hundreds of meters in the sky and shot towards Bai Jun.
Bai Jun was also running towards the pool quickly, one to save his life, the other to catch prey, both running in the same direction.
"Whoosh~"
The sound of the goshawk piercing the sky sounded, and the eagle was approaching the land very quickly, 800 meters, 700 meters, 600 meters...
The camouflaged mud on Bai Yan's body has dried up and fallen off due to the excessive range of movement. His white jade-like body emerged, running towards the pool at a very fast speed, fifty meters, forty meters, thirty meters...
Seeing this scene, Goshawk suddenly exerted force, and the terrifying speed increased again. The speed of chasing Bai Jun was already tens of meters above Bai Jun when he was still five meters away from the pool.
Bai Jun just glanced at it and felt like he was dead. At this speed, he would never be able to reach the pool.
At the critical moment, Bai Jun climbed up the boulder, curled up, and raised the snake's head, as if he was about to fight with it.
When the goshawk saw this, he thought he could eat delicious snake meat again tonight!
"Whoosh~"
The goshawk descended from the sky with its claws as if they were thunderous. When the claws fell, they would scratch even the hide of a cow.
But when the claw fell, Bai Jun's coiled body suddenly collapsed, the snake's tail flicked with all its strength, and the snake's head rushed forward, and even jumped forward when the eagle claw fell.
"Bang~"
The eagle's talon falls in the air. The increase brought by falling from high altitude can make the eagle's talon extremely powerful. However, when the eagle's talon decides to land in a certain position, the goshawk cannot change the direction of the eagle's talon falling again in time due to the gravitational potential energy.
"Pfft~"
The white snake fell into the water!
As if the goshawk was irritated, it spread its wings and pounced on Bai Jun in the water.
Bai Jun swam frantically deeper into the water, but the eagle was faster after all. It penetrated three feet into the water and grabbed Bai Jun's tail. In an instant, the eagle's claws pierced Bai Jun's body.
Not only did the severe pain not frighten Bai Jun, but under the great pain, he turned around and bit the goshawk's wing, injecting all the venom into it.
In pain, the goshawk hurriedly raised its sharp claws to fish Bai Jun out of the pool, and then stretched out its sharper beak to peck out the head of this hateful white snake!
There was a "bang", a very small impact sound came, and the eagle's beak pecked at Bai Jun's seven-inch fatal spot, but who would have expected that this peck just happened to peck the ruby bead in his body, pecking through Bai Jun's body. The upper layer of flesh and blood, but could not go any further.
Seeing that the attack missed, the goshawk struck again, but at this time Bai Jun got entangled in the goshawk's wings, causing it to tremble and almost fall into the water.
Half of the giant eagle's body was submerged in the water, and a lot of feathers on its wings were already wet. It felt like its head was sinking, and something was wrong. Past experience told it that it was caused by snake venom.
It's just that in the past, even the King Cobra's venom didn't act so quickly, but today the venom of this little white snake actually acted so quickly.
Goshawk panicked and quickly took Bai Jun away from the water. Bai Jun was heartbroken, bent over and bit off his own snake's tail, enduring the severe pain and rushing deeper into the water as fast as he could.
The goshawk flapped its wings five or six times with difficulty before slowly flying out of the water. Only then did it realize that what it was holding in its claws was only a small piece of the snake's tail!
It was so angry that it flew into the sky and hovered over the pool for a long time, until it was exhausted and flew away.
The frightened aquatic animals in the lake were restless for a long time before they stopped.
At a depth of five or six meters under the water, a white snake with a severed tail was coiled up in a ball, with a faint blood-red color still floating in the surrounding water.
Bai Yan endured great pain. Despite the extreme fear and pain, he still did not faint.
Because Bai Jun knew that he must not faint. Once he fainted, it would be over.
Bai Jun waited for half an hour before climbing to the shore and hiding in a mud hole under a boulder. His wound could not be soaked in water for a long time, otherwise he would definitely die if pus developed.
Bai Jun endured the severe pain and felt a cold hatred in his heart. One day, he would avenge today's tail-cutting and let the goshawk suffer the same pain as he did today!
One in the sky, one on the ground, the natural enemies of the snake and eagle are enmity! From now on, there will be no rest until death!
Bai Jun calmed down and thought about it, and suddenly realized that the valley was no longer safe.
That giant turtle hasn't appeared for a long time! Has it left? By riding the mountain torrent, you may swim down the river to the sea, or you may swim to other places.
A valley without beasts feeling uneasy is a Feng Shui treasure place!
Bai Jin nestled in the mud hole of a huge rock and no longer used the mud to hide his skin color. He was worried that the parasites in the mud would get into his severed tail.
Fortunately, he now has three caves for hiding, and there are no wild beasts in the valley for the time being.
After a day and night, Bai Jun's wounds finally scabbed over, and he went into the water again to fish to fill his stomach.
The wild deer came to the river to drink water every day, and sometimes it didn't care much when it saw Bai Jun. After all, the size of the beast determines its strength.
