Chapter 5: Fighting for Favor "Why, do you want to eat me or me?"...

Qianqian's injury recovered well, and Song Keling decided to send her back to school on the weekend after she was fully healed.

Yes, Xuetai.

The geographical environment and climate of Xuetai are incomparable to those of their new city.

If it is released randomly on a nearby mountain, the unsuitable living environment will undoubtedly murder the little white snake.

Since she planned to save him from the beginning, she will take responsibility.

Let the little snake return to its "home" healthy and safe.

Song Keling was very busy in the next few days.

Like a robot, he goes back and forth between the classroom and the laboratory all day long.

Only during the few minutes before bedtime can she completely relax and have a brief (one-sided) friendly interaction with the snake.

Time flies, and it's Thursday in a blink of an eye.

Song Keling was worried about sending Qianqian back to the forest with an empty stomach.

It takes time for the little snake to adapt from being kept in a box to returning to the wild, and it may not be able to catch food for a long time.

There is another reason.

Song Keling didn't see how Qianqian hunted last time, so she wanted to feed her again.

Let’s see whether this beautiful little friend is poisonous or not.

So Song Keling took another healthy baby mouse from the laboratory.

Song Keling used her mobile phone to record the entire feeding process.

Today's baby mouse was much more lively than the previous one. As soon as it entered the box, it sniffed around and after a while it "invaded" Qianqian's territory.

Perhaps sensing danger, the baby mouse suddenly pricked up its ears and froze, motionless.

Qianqian didn't seem to be hungry. Of course, it might also be estimating the strength of the "invader". In any case, it didn't attack immediately. It just huddled in the corner of the box, spitting out its thin black tongue from time to time.

Time passes by every second.

The little mouse felt the crisis was over and continued to sniff towards the little white snake.

Qianqian's sutured wounds have healed and she has no difficulty moving, but her movements are still slow.

Every time the baby mouse invaded a little space, it would retreat a little bit in a very Buddhist way.

Don’t you want to eat?

Song Keling thought so, but still observed patiently.

This chase-and-escape plot lasted for several minutes, and finally, it entered the next "you can't escape even if you have wings" plot.

The little mouse became more and more arrogant and was about to climb onto the little white snake. The little white snake finally couldn't stand it anymore and turned around to bite the little mouse on the head!

The movements are extremely fast.

Song Keling's heart skipped a beat, and she felt surprised and excited. Poison?

Qianqian is really a beautiful little venomous snake!

The baby mouse was bitten and struggled violently.

Qianqian quickly loosened her mouth and moved away a little.

Song Keling took her phone and continued recording.

The baby mouse was bitten on the head and seemed to have escaped danger, but in fact it was already struggling to survive.

It panics and runs around everywhere, which is a sign of poisoning.

But just when Song Keling tried to infer whether Qianqian was infected with a blood-circulating toxin or a neurotoxin based on the reaction of the mouse, the mouse did not continue to convulse or bleed, but gradually returned to normal.

Song Keling: “?”

Song Keling was stunned, then thought: Is it for real?

There are two types of snake bites: one is venom injection, and the other is a dry bite.

In the second case, either the attack was just a warning, or the bite was too short to successfully inject the toxin, or there was no venom stored in the venom gland.

Could it be because it was too close to the last time she ate, and Qianqian was too young to store the venom in such a short time?

Song Keling was silent for a moment, then asked the little guy who had been dodging and unconsciously leaning towards her again, "If it's not poisoned, will you still eat it?"

Although the little white snake retreated to the side of the scum box, it did not face Song Keling directly. Its red vertical pupils were still looking at the offending uninvited guest vigilantly.

After a long stalemate, and after confirming that the other party had no intention of invading again, it regained its composure.

Despite losing half of its territory, it still looked quite content.

It is also a little snake with the spirit of Ah Q.

Seeing that Qianqian had no intention of eating, Song Keling looked at this scene and the scientific research spirit in her bones came up.

She put down her phone, opened the lid, and used long tweezers to pick out the bitten mouse.

She didn't believe there was no poison at all.

She wants to take it for testing.

The noise made during the process made the Buddhist little white snake retreat into the corner again.

Seeing the food being snatched away, it raised its neck, but retracted it halfway without showing any temper. It spat out its long black tongue at Song Keling, then coiled its body in circles and finally folded up its thin tail.

It raised its round head, its pupils bright red.

If I could speak, I would probably say: "Do you know who you've offended? You've offended a loser."

Because of an incident, Song Keling's plan to return early was ruined again.

But it wasn't a complete loss.

Song Keling discovered a toxin she had never seen before in the tissue of the little mouse bitten by Qianqian.

If Qianqian is some kind of viper, then she has the same blood-circulating venom as the pit viper she is studying.

Blood circulation toxins mainly affect the blood circulation system. Coagulant toxins can cause thrombosis, while anticoagulant toxins can cause people to bleed from wounds, suffer from subcutaneous hemorrhage, cough up blood, vomit blood, and have bloody stools.

If it is the highly venomous albino krait that the teacher mentioned before, then it should be a neurotoxin. The venom will paralyze the human nerves and heart, causing paralysis of the eyelid muscles and eventually respiratory failure.

This is why the silver ring snake is often called the number one snake in China. People can hardly feel pain when bitten by the silver ring. After various paralysis symptoms appear, people often die of respiratory failure without knowing it.

Of course, in addition to these, the venom also contains dozens of enzymes, such as protease, phospholipase a2, hyaluronidase, etc.

The toxin cells that Song Keling discovered today are not any of the known types.

Song Keling recorded all the data and went to the electronic library to download all the papers related to snake toxins that Xinda Neng had read.

It was already late when I returned to the dormitory.

She didn't take a shower, nor did she say hello to the little white snake.

Instead, just open the computer, copy the documents in the USB drive, and then transfer them to the tablet for viewing.

The little white snake in the scum box skipped the daily greetings and came out slowly.

It coiled its slender body into a white pile, revealing only a pair of beautiful red vertical pupils, and its little head pressed tightly against the box.

The beautiful scales on the head were slightly deformed by this movement.

Even so, the human who had always been extremely patient and friendly to it ignored it and continued to look at the fluorescent screen attentively.

The little white snake waited for a while, then swung its tail unhappily.

Tail? !

That’s right!!

The snake's skeletal structure gave it incredible core strength, and it quickly attached its sutured tail to the transparent box.

It looked like it was trying to draw the attention of the human in front of it, who was focused on other things and neglecting it, to the stitching on it.

But it still doesn't help.

The movement was too quiet, so Song Keling simply changed her posture, resting her hands on her chin, her eyes still focused on the information on the tablet.

Want to make a noise?

That’s not difficult!

The little snake seemed to be getting stubborn, and all its previous calmness disappeared, it started to struggle hard.

There were a lot of papers and documents, and Song Keling read them almost at a glance. Because it was time for the Internet and power to be cut off, she only turned on a flashlight.

The room was silent, with only the sound of Song Keling's breathing and the barely audible ticking of the alarm clock's second hand.

At this moment, a slight sound of gas leakage suddenly came from my ears.

Song Keling's ears moved.

Song Keling was very familiar with this noise. People often use "hissing" to describe the sound of a snake spitting out its tongue, but in fact, when a snake spits out its tongue, it is only to collect the surrounding smell and does not make any obvious sound.

Small sounds often come from the snake's breathing.

The louder sound is made by the snake rubbing its scales against each other.

Snakes are covered with scales all over their bodies. When they rub their scales together quickly, they make a loud hissing sound. The saw-scaled viper is a typical example in this regard, as is the Thai round-spotted viper.

And Qianqian...

Song Keling had previously judged that it should also be some kind of viper.

Song Keling immediately looked up from the screen full of English documents and saw the beautiful little white snake in the scum box curled up tightly, forming several S shapes, with its head and neck arched tightly and slightly raised, and its red vertical pupils staring in her direction.

Every time it moves its body, its white scales rub against each other rapidly, making a subtle sound of gas leakage.

This change from her usual casual and Buddhist attitude made Song Keling's fingers holding the tablet tighten.

The snake's body is very long and curled into several S-shaped arcs, which helps the snake to gain the greatest advantage, the greatest burst, and the fastest speed when hunting and attacking.

The enemy often loses accurate judgment of the attack distance and speed and is defeated.

Although Qianqian didn't bite herself because of the box.

But it is in the outer area.

The man and the snake were very close.

The visual impact of that picture is still very strong!

Song Keling's mind finally completely pulled out of the ocean of knowledge formed by various experimental data. She looked at the little white snake that made this gesture to her and quickly reflected in silence - How did I offend this little friend tonight? Why did it get so angry?

Even the young mouse that had been pushing it forward during the day didn't show this behavior, it just bit it quickly.

Looking at the little white snake that was making a full-scale attack posture towards him.

Song Keling felt like she had raised a kitten for a long time. The kitten was very close to her, but one day the kitten suddenly gave her a claw.

In shock, I couldn't help but feel a little sad.

Song Keling suppressed the strange emotions in her heart. She guessed that it might be because she had taken its food away during the day, and it was now hungry and needed to eat.

"I'll feed you tomorrow, ok?"

Song Keling lowered her head slightly, looking at the little forehead and crimson pupils that still looked adorable even in the attacking state, and said, "You can't let me go to the lab right now, right? The dorm aunt has locked the door, and it'll take a long time to get there and back."

The little snake faced Song Keling, maintaining its squeezed S shape without moving.

But as she spoke more, she gradually relaxed her beautiful slender body, shook her head, and her posture became casual again, climbing slowly left and right in the scum box.

Before that, it seemed to show off, spitting out its tiny black tongue and glancing at the fluorescent object on the table.

He was very proud of his success in winning favor.

Song Keling didn't see anything from its irregular behavior. She just thought that it was really hungry and wanted to attack her when she wasn't noticing.

Now that I have been discovered, I start to act innocent and cute.

This is similar to a large cat. When you turn your back to it, it looks fierce and lowers its body, ready to attack. But when you turn around, it immediately pretends to be relaxed, raises its paw and licks its face with a simple and honest look.

Song Keling looked at the little snake, weighed the pros and cons in her mind, and compromised: "Okay."

Tomorrow is a full day of classes. When I come back in the evening, this little guy might "hunt" me again with his lack of patience and high temper.

And I will return to school the day after tomorrow.

If you feed it tomorrow night, the snake might be so uneasy that it might vomit the food after driving for a few hours.

I'd better go for a trip tonight.

That was going to the lab to get a baby mouse back.

Or should I take Qianqian with me?

…

Take it with you.

Let it choose for itself.

There is no other way. I have to pamper the little snake I saved myself.

Xu Xinlei had just finished washing up when she heard Song Keling seemed to have just returned and was about to open the door to go out. She asked in confusion, "Keling? You're still going out so late at night?"

Song Keling held the scum box covered with a T-shirt and responded without turning her head.

The dormitory aunt is relatively easy to talk to. She is not that strict in my sophomore year.

Song Keling left the dormitory building quickly and smoothly.

After scanning a shared bicycle, Song Keling held the box in one hand and controlled the handlebar with the other and rode all the way to the laboratory.

Song Keling used the key to open the door of the laboratory, weighed out a few baby mice with an electronic scale, and then placed them in small transparent cages and lined them up next to each other. Then she took out the scum box covered with a T-shirt.

Where is the little white snake Qianqian?

Although I was held by Song Keling and was relatively stable and still along the way, I still felt the bumps and shakes.

The last time I came, I was seriously injured and unconscious, and I didn't feel anything.

When I saw the light of day again today, I was almost dizzy.

Therefore, it didn't even look at the few baby mice that Song Keling had carefully selected. It turned around uneasily in the newspaper twice, still frightened by the terrible nightmare it had just experienced.

After making sure the nightmare was over, it spit out a long, thin black tongue, completely stretching out its body that had instinctively curled up in a ball due to the bumpy ride, and then quickly spit out its tongue and found Song Keling's fingers wagging outside.

Security! Security!

Song Keling was signaling it to choose its food for tonight. Snakes don't understand human nature, but they are very sensitive to sounds.

So after she clicked on the scum box, she wasn't surprised to see the little snake swimming over.

"Do you want this one?" Song Keling asked her, pointing at the slightly hairy baby mouse on the far right.

The little snake then moved to the far right.

"Or this one? This one is also good and looks very healthy." Song Keling ordered the second baby mouse. This one was just born, but its size and weight were not inferior to the others. The meat was tender and must be easy to digest.

The little snake then moved to the second position.

Seeing this, Song Keling asked: "?"

Song Keling felt something was wrong, so she pointed at the third one.

Sure enough, the little white snake moved its body and slowly came to the third one and stopped.

No, not in front of the third baby mouse.

Instead, it stopped in front of her fingers.

Song Keling couldn't laugh anymore. She stared at the pretty little white snake, frowning in confusion, "Why, do you want to eat me or me?"

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