Chapter 3 Eaten? His head gently touched Song Ke through the plastic box...

It turns out that little snakes don't eat frozen mice.

Song Keling used long tweezers to pick up a thawed mouse baby the size of her little finger and fed it to the little white snake's snout. The snake immediately stepped back and turned its head away.

Feed it again, and the little snake will twist again.

Later, perhaps feeling annoyed, it swam away slowly, with its back to Song Keling, and buried its head in its slender body. It finally tucked its thin tail in, and the postoperative suture line near the tail was still clearly visible.

Song Keling: “…”

It’s better to feed it alive.

Because she didn't know whether the little white snake was poisonous or non-venomous, Song Keling had to be careful when feeding the frozen mouse and kept her long tweezers in her hand.

But you don't need to feed live rats, just put them directly into the scum box.

Song Keling picked up the baby mouse's tail and put it into the corresponding corner of the scum box.

There is actually another way to determine whether a snake is poisonous, which is not 100% accurate but very intuitive and effective - observe how it eats.

Generally speaking, when a non-venomous snake bites its prey, it will quickly roll its body around and wrap it around several times, using the force of continuous tightening to kill the prey before swallowing it.

This is how they hunt, by strangulation.

Venomous snakes are different. They can inject poison, so they often bite their prey at lightning speed, inject toxins, let go, and wait for the prey to die from the poison before slowly eating it.

But Song Keling soon found that this observation was futile.

Because Qianqian still maintained the same posture as before, hiding in the corner of the box.

Two or three days later, the postoperative wound had probably recovered well, and even the tip of the white tail that had just been retracted was beautifully coiled.

It's like having obsessive-compulsive disorder, perfect to the point of fitting every detail.

If Song Keling hadn't been afraid that it might starve to death if it didn't eat, she would have thought this scene was quite peaceful.

Unfortunately, there is no if.

Song Keling opened the lid and picked up the pink and tender baby mouse from the corner of the box and brought it to the little snake.

The baby mouse fell down, got up and sniffed as it moved closer to the snake. It seemed that mice had no innate fear of their natural enemies and were completely unaware of the danger that was so close to them.

But it's not dangerous.

Because the little snake spit out thin black tongue, after a while, it moved to the side a little and left the range of the baby mouse's activities.

Obviously, it was not unaware that there was a creature in the box.

Before, Song Keling was stared at by it with its beautiful red vertical pupils, and she knew very well that it was not "looking", but just looking vigilantly in the direction of movement.

Most snakes have poor eyesight, and except for a few species, they basically rely on their tongues to collect the surrounding air.

Now Qianqian has captured the scent of food through her tongue, but she doesn't hunt it, which means she doesn't want to eat.

Then, there is only one last solution left.

Before feeding directly by plugging, Song Keling also needs to know whether Qianqian is a venomous snake or a non-venomous snake.

Because venomous snakes can be divided into those that spray venom and those that don't.

I was too focused and tired during the surgery, and I didn’t know if the patient could be saved, so I didn’t do anything else.

Venomous snakes and non-venomous snakes can also be distinguished from their fangs.

Although some venomous snake species, such as the black mamba, have fangs that are far shorter than those of the pit viper, in addition to tube fangs, there is also a type of posterior groove fang venomous snake.

However, the teeth of non-venomous snakes are basically the same, neatly and smallly arranged in the upper and lower jaws of the mouth, and the shape is relatively uniform.

Song Keling opened the scum box again.

The mouse was scratching at the transparent box, and the "easy to bully" little white snake Qianqian had already given up her original position to the "invader" and quietly hid in another corner.

Hearing the sound of the box being opened, it became alert again, raised its little head and looked over with its pupils erect.

Song Keling first used the snake hook to hook the little white snake, and tested its temper at the moment. Seeing that it did not shrink its body to attack, she put down the snake hook and pinched the area under its head.

It's safer to hold the tail, but it has a wound on its tail.

Moreover, you can't see the snake's fangs by grabbing its tail, and you can't feed it either.

The second time I caught a snake, the feeling was completely different from the previous times in the mountains and on the operating table.

The little snake's body was icy cold, like a delicate jade bracelet engraved with special fine lines. Because it was in the recovery period, it was still healthy and strong, and its body twisted restlessly in the air.

"Hey, you're still angry." Song Keling couldn't help laughing.

Qianqian is very small and doesn't have much strength to struggle.

At special moments, Song Keling can pinch an adult pit viper, let alone such a small baby snake. Her technique is very steady.

"You have such a good temper, I can even step on your head with 'food', and you're angry with me." Song Keling said to the little white snake that was "looking" at her with its vertical pupils: "Do you know that I am your savior?"

"If you could cultivate into a human, you would be my lifesaver and pledge your love to me, and yet you get angry with me?"

"Little heartless."

Song Keling muttered to herself, then picked up a long pair of tweezers and slightly separated its upper and lower jaws.

The little teeth look relatively neat, but there are two that are slightly pointed.

Song Keling found a tool to extract the venom.

The simplest method of biting the membrane dish works all the time.

However, when the funnel covered with nylon membrane was gently placed in front of the snake's snout, the snake turned its head away without any desire to attack.

Song Keling: “…”

The little snake turned its head and quickly placed it above the funnel. For some reason, its bright red vertical pupils were bright, yet it looked a little aggrieved.

Song Keling knew that it was strange to see the emotion of "grievance" in a snake's eyes.

But she couldn't force it a second time under those vertical pupils.

"Alright, alright. If you don't want to bite, forget it." Song Keling put down the vessel and looked at the stunning little white snake in her hand. She paused and couldn't help but chuckle at herself: "I feel like a mother who indulges her child without any bottom line. Fortunately, I won't have children in the future."

"But I'm really doing this for your own good. You need to eat so you can have the strength to recover so I can release you back into the wild, okay?"

After Song Keling finished her earnest advice, she put Qianqian back into the scum box, but did not take out the thumb-sized baby mouse.

In the afternoon, Song Keling asked her senior colleagues in the laboratory what might be the reason why the young snakes refused to eat.

Qiao Ying was checking her calculations and asked without looking up, "That albino king snake you saved?"

Song Keling knew that Qianqian's species was not a king cobra, and was most likely a venomous snake from the wild, but she did not deny it and remained noncommittal: "It refuses to eat."

"It must be feeling uneasy in this unfamiliar environment." Qiao Ying had never kept a pet snake before. She'd dealt with venomous snakes at school, so non-venomous snakes always felt a bit off. But she understood, so she said, "Are you just going to keep it in a scumbag box? You can get some kind of environment, like moss or something to hide it in. You can buy those at reptile shops."

Lu Yunli asked, "Is its injury healed? Are there any complications? How is the temperature and humidity controlled? Will it get pneumonia?"

Song Keling: "I checked it, and the wound is healing normally."

"Then try buying some shelter like Qiao Ying said. Maybe you'll feel safer and start hunting."

"Thank you, two senior sisters."

After finishing her work in the laboratory, Song Keling went out for a while.

There are many types of hiding places, including rocks, wooden stakes, and even skulls.

Song Keling picked a beautiful stone with a unique structure to hide, bought some moss for landscaping, a heating pad, and a medium-sized breeding box.

After returning to the dormitory, she had to find a place for Qianqian to move.

Otherwise, so many things wouldn’t fit in.

But when Song Keling was about to move Qianqian's home, she suddenly discovered that the baby mouse in the scum box was missing.

Song Keling: “?”

have eaten?

Song Keling looked at the little snake in the scum box.

The little snake was all white, and although it was still nestled in the corner of the box, its posture was more casual than before. It looked like a piece of high-quality white satin embroidered with green and gold thread, probably because it was enjoying itself after a meal.

If you have just eaten, it is not suitable to make a big move.

It is best not to touch a snake for two or three days after it has eaten, as it may vomit food if frightened.

Regurgitating food is very harmful to snakes.

Song Keling looked at the pile of things she had spent a lot of money on and thought it was all in vain.

If all goes well, Qianqian will be able to fully recover in two or three days. She will then have to be released back into the wild. She cannot be kept for too long, as this will cause her to lose her ability to survive in the wild.

These things are destined to be useless.

"You should drink some water too." Song Keling took out a small pudding cup from a pile of items.

Apart from this, put the rest in a cardboard box and let it collect dust under the bed!

Pudding cups can be filled with water.

The mineral water bottle cap I used before was a bit of an emergency solution, but Qianqian still refuses to drink water. Maybe the pretty little snake thinks the bottle cap is ugly?

Pour mineral water back into the pudding cup and replace the bottle cap.

After doing all this, Song Keling stopped staring at it, adjusted the light brightness to a comfortable level, and sat at the desk to read and review.

I will look at the snake encyclopedia later.

She was not in a hurry to find out Qianqian's breed.

Release it after it recovers in two days.

It was just a trivial act of compassion.

Song Keling was so focused that she didn't notice that the little white snake, which had been leaning against the inside of the scum box, slowly swam out for some reason and came to the outer corner of the box.

Maybe it’s because the indoor lighting is appropriate, the environment is quiet, and the atmosphere is safe.

At first, the little snake only looked curiously at the slender and beautiful hands that occasionally turned the pages of the book. After a moment, it stood up its slender body, and with great core strength, it put its small head on the lid of the box. Its blood-red and clear vertical pupils had only a trace of amber, and it looked up slightly at Song Keling.

After Song Keling finished reading the textbook and notes, she turned to look at the scum box and saw that the little snake was moving around in the outer half of the box, moving its body gently and spitting out black tongue from time to time.

Song Keling couldn't help but curl her lips when she had a beautiful little snake to look at while she was busy.

She put down her pen and tapped the tip of her index finger lightly on the transparent box.

The little snake, which was slowly patrolling its territory, noticed something and immediately stopped and turned its head to look.

Then Song Keling saw it spitting out a thin little black tongue, approaching in an S shape, and finally, its round little forehead, which reflected the faint light, gently touched her fingertips through the plastic box.

Song Keling was stunned for a moment.

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