Medicine garden at the foot of the mountain.
The herb collector was lying on the ground with blood at the corner of his mouth. His rough hands tightly grabbed the calf of a fellow villager and refused to let go.
"This is mine...this is my medicine! You can't take it away...!"
"Yours? Is this mountain yours? This is our territory. You are so brave that you dare to steal herbs. This is the herb garden I worked so hard to cultivate!"
The lean man kicked hard to get him to let go, but this guy refused to let go. For him, this medicine garden was the lifeblood of his family.
"You're talking nonsense! This is my ahem...don't touch it!"
The other two people were so happy that they pulled out the herbs. The herb collector finally let go of the lean man's legs and rushed towards the herbs, trying to stop them from grabbing the herbs at the risk of his own life. He protected the two most valuable herbs with his arms and allowed the three of them to kick and beat them. Neither of them would give in.
This is what White Snake saw when he came to the medicine garden. The familiar medicine pickers were guarding the grass, and the three people were cursing and beating people.
Stealing herbs?
It seems that I misunderstood him, but is it really okay to do it for a few common herbs...
Finally, the white snake who was watching the excitement decided to do something, because the lean man's face turned red and his veins were bulging, he was already crazy, he took out the hatchet used to open the road and stabbed the medicine collector in the back!
The hatchet was heavy and not particularly sharp. Even so, it still made a bloody gash on the back.
The other two people were shocked. They were just ordinary mountain people and had never thought of killing people. The lean man's madness frightened them both, and they were stunned and didn't know what to do.
"What are you afraid of! There are only a few of us here, who would know? Are you two going to do something?" The lean man wanted to lure the two of them into the water to avoid being betrayed in the future.
"you you you……"
"What are you! Do you want to do anything?"
"Behind you...!"
Behind you? The lean man wanted to look back as a habit, but suddenly a fishy wind made his nose feel uncomfortable, and his neck tightened as if something had pinched him, followed by severe pain!
Snakes are very fast in preying and attacking, and can launch four attacks in the blink of an eye. Some studies have found that snakes can withstand 30G force when rushing towards prey, which is thirty times the acceleration of gravity. The most elite fighter pilots of mankind who have received strict military training can basically It will lose consciousness at a speed of more than 10G, which shows how powerful the snake's attack is.
White snakes have front fangs. Two sharp fangs are located in the front of the mouth. The upper jaw usually folds and closes, then pops out when the mouth is opened. The moment it bites the prey, the muscles around the venom glands operate to inject venom.
In fact, the venom of the white snake is not strong, but even if the venom is weak, it will be fatal if it bites the neck.
The snake's body stood upright. The snake's mouth tightly bit the throat of the prey. The lean man's eyes were wide open in fear. His hands pulled hard and his whole body twitched uncontrollably. He only struggled for five or six breaths before gradually weakening and finally falling to the ground. The snake's venom had already flowed along. The arteries enter the brain and even taking elixirs cannot do anything about it.
Letting go of the lean man, White Snake raised its head and looked at the other two people.
When the two men reacted, they were so frightened that they rolled away and ran away, crying and shouting as they ran. In the blink of an eye, they disappeared into the forest and disappeared without White Snake chasing after them.
The first time he killed someone, there was no special psychological activity such as a sense of guilt. It was very ordinary, as indifferent as killing other prey. After twenty years of living with hair and drinking blood, his humanity has been almost wiped out.
The herb collector looked at the white snake in horror. Only now did he remember that the white snake in front of him was a poisonous snake and beast...
The snake's tail wrapped around the lean man's feet and dragged him away. He remembered that there was a forest under the hillside in the distance full of large ant nests with a height of two meters. Those ants should like the meat delivered to their door. If the ants were poisoned by the snake, tens of thousands of them could be killed. Reduce the pressure on surrounding animals. After all, there are too many ants and they are too powerful.
As for eating people, forget it, it feels too disgusting.
Arriving near the ant nest, with a gentle push, the body rolled down to the two-meter-high ant nest. The violent vibrations aroused the ants' vigilance, and in the blink of an eye, they came out into a black mess.
The white snake stayed in the distance to observe the ants and think about the disappearance of life.
The corpse was quickly decomposed by the ants at a speed visible to the naked eye. The flesh and blood gradually disappeared, leaving a white skeleton, and then the skeleton was also eaten away by the ants bit by bit. The process of a person going from existence to nothing was staged before his eyes.
Returning to the medicine garden at noon, White Snake found that the people picking medicine became less talkative.
From then on, his eyes looked at White Snake with an expression called fear, and he spoke less and less until he stopped talking. Maybe he thought that the lean man was eaten that day, and White Snake didn't care about it.
The weather is getting colder, and migratory birds flying from the north to spend the winter in the mountains bring rare excitement to the forest.
The man collecting herbs waited for the herbs to mature, dug out the herbs and left. The small medicine garden gradually became deserted, and White Snake returned to his previous life, just practicing diligently every day.
As the practice time goes by, the number of prey starts to decrease. Originally, snakes can eat for a long time without hunting when they are full. Under normal circumstances, they eat once every ten and a half months. The time gradually begins to extend. Now it takes twenty days to hunt again. For nearby birds and beasts, That's a good thing to say.
Practicing every morning, find a place to rest when the sun comes out. If your body temperature is low, go to the sun to increase your temperature. After all, snakes are cold-blooded animals that change their temperature with changes in the environment. When their body temperature is low, they need to be adjusted in time.
Time passes slowly.
The next year, White Snake did not see any herbal collectors coming to collect herbs.
Slowly, the fighting in the forest gradually covered up the traces of someone having been there...
The nearby area has become the white snake's territory. Other wild beasts no longer fight and fight with the white snake. Every time they meet, the lynx will observe it from a distance and then turn away. The big cat is not stupid. It clearly knows its hunting limit. As for the one that is always hovering The goshawk overhead also gave up on the white snake, whose five-meter length already posed a threat to it.
The happiest thing is that the annoying honey badger has been moved away.
I still remember a time when I met a honey badger by chance, and then the world changed. The little guy was like a wind-up toy that I couldn't drive away. I would get closer and take a bite from time to time. I kept walking for nearly five kilometers and couldn't get rid of it. After this incident, White Snake finally understood what it means to be a shameless person, and finally gave up by jumping into the pool.
Facts have proved that the honey badger is not fearless without brains. After seeing his opponent reach five meters in length, this shameless honey badger ran away overnight. Yes, don't leave a good hole and run away without a trace. It makes you want to Le. The white snake who died was deeply depressed.
I only saw the herb collector once after that. He just came over to take a look and then left.
The White Snake didn't know that there had been crazy rumors outside that there was a huge white snake that had turned into a spirit in the mountains. It was even rumored that the white snake had a cockscomb on its head. It was said that the white snake liked to eat people, so people were rarely seen in this area again.
The best legends about ghosts in the mountains and countryside are stories about foxes becoming immortals and collecting gold.
Slowly, some people began to say that they saw a huge white snake in the mountains breathing clouds and mist on the top of the mountain. Others said that they saw a white snake transforming into a dragon and flying up during thunderstorms. The legend of mountain ghosts brought rare entertainment to ordinary people.
