Chapter 6 The little fool’s ridiculous dream.
The little snake slightly stuck out its tongue. Apparently, the sound made by Song Keling made it feel more secure. So it not only chased the finger, but also raised its neck and upper body, and put its little head close to Song Keling, and its beautiful vertical pupils got closer and closer to Song Keling.
"..." Song Keling certainly knew that this couldn't be the little snake's response to her words, even though it was strange that this action appeared at this time.
So she was silent for a moment, then continued her conversation with Qianqian and asked, "Don't you want to eat anything else?"
The little white snake shook its forehead slightly and spit out its tongue.
Song Keling felt that its behavior was almost certain, so she said directly: "Just continue to starve, little idiot."
Song Keling picked up the baby mice from the second small box and put them in her pocket, threw the others back into the mouse cage, and took the little snake back to the dormitory.
After returning to the dormitory, Song Keling put the baby mice into the scum box again.
However, Song Keling soon saw Qianqian once again move away from the baby mice that appeared on the territory, and then came towards her. At the same time, the pair of red vertical pupils also looked at her aggrievedly.
Wronged?
Song Keling felt a rare sense of subtle guilt in her heart, even though she knew that snakes could not have human emotions.
But this is the starvation effect.
When the little guy is extremely hungry and there is no food around, he will naturally eat mice. After eating the mice, he will no longer be hungry, so he will no longer be greedy when he sees her fingers.
So, be good to each other.
Thinking this, Song Keling cruelly left the little white snake alone.
However, perhaps because her emotions fluctuated a lot today, Song Keling started dreaming as soon as she fell into deep sleep.
In the dream, she was also feeding the snake, worried that Qianqian would not eat enough and would get sick from hunger.
Just as she was picking and choosing between the newly born mice in the laboratory, a soft, aggrieved voice came from behind her - "In your opinion, I can only eat mice?"
She turned around when she heard the sound and looked at the little white snake in the scum box, opening its mouth and talking. She didn't think it was strange that a snake could speak human language. Instead, she replied, "Do you still want to eat my finger?"
"Isn't it possible?" the little snake asked back.
Song Keling: "Of course not. There are endless rats, but I only have a few fingers. If you eat one in a meal, what will happen?"
The lab was quiet for a moment.
Song Keling then thought she had convinced the little white snake.
But the next moment, a pair of slender white hands came up from her waist, like a cool breeze from air conditioning in the hot summer. The delicate and cold hands embraced her. The voice in her ear was still soft, but the breath was as sweet as orchid, "What if I use other parts of my body to eat?"
Elsewhere on the body?
This statement is too strange. Can snakes eat through other sources?
As soon as this thought came to her mind, Song Keling paused slightly.
snake?
So what is holding me right now?!
Song Keling suddenly woke up in fright, opened her eyes, looked at the ceiling and let out a long sigh. It was just a dream. After regaining consciousness, she found that her cell phone was vibrating.
She took out her phone and saw that several alarms had already passed.
I actually overslept.
Song Keling sat up, her messy hair pulled up, her brows slightly wrinkled, looking a little depressed.
I ran around a bit last night, but it wasn't too late, was it?
Staying up all night is a common occurrence.
While washing up, Song Keling recalled that absurd dream.
But she quickly shook her head and put it behind her.
Snakes turning into humans and so on, now it is the 21st century, the scientific age.
Song Keling spat out the mouthwash, washed her face and came out to look at the scum box.
A snake and a mouse occupy opposite corners of the box, looking very harmonious.
Song Keling's plan before going to bed failed. She frowned slightly and tapped the box lightly with her fingers.
The little snake was obviously awake, but it was coiled in the innermost corner of the scum box with a dignified posture and a peaceful life.
When he heard the noise, he just raised his cute little head slightly and seemed to glance at Song Keling, but did not make any other big movements.
Song Keling called it: "Qianqian?"
The little snake coiled up the last bit of its tail, and its beautiful red vertical pupils did not look at Song Keling, but stared at the baby mouse not far from it in the box.
Song Keling bent down and observed carefully with a frown.
Judging from the luster of Qianqian's scales and her slender and graceful body, she doesn't look sick.
This state is a bit like sensing danger from her.
Snakes will not eat when they sense danger around them, because eating will affect their mobility and attack speed. When they feel threatened, they will even spit out the food they have swallowed to make it easier to escape.
If it was because he thought she was dangerous, then last night's attack and refusal to eat were both justifiable reasons.
only……
Why would you think she's dangerous?
Song Keling frowned and thought, and suddenly she remembered something, so she walked out immediately.
The door to the dormitory next door was open.
Xu Xinlei was sitting at the desk putting on makeup.
Books only took up one-fifth of the desk, and the rest was filled with various cosmetics, rows upon rows of dazzling items that were all pretty much the same. There were so many of them that Song Keling couldn't tell the difference.
"Xu Xinlei." Song Keling shouted.
Xu Xinlei held the eyeliner in her hand and could see Song Keling at the door through the mirror. She looked away, her eyelids not moving, her eyelashes not trembling, the lines drawn by her hand were accurate and steady, and she responded with a "Hmm?"
"Did you touch my snake?"
Xu Xinlei heard the seriousness in Song Keling's tone, put down the pen in her hand and looked back, "No. What's wrong?"
Song Keling looked at her eye, which was only lined with eyeliner, and frowned slightly, "You haven't filmed a video yet?"
"No, I didn't take any pictures after you told me not to." Xu Xinlei said, and immediately asked with concern and nervousness: "What's wrong? Is your little snake missing?"
Seeing that Xu Xinlei didn't seem to be lying, Song Keling pursed her lips, said sorry first, apologized for her doubts, and then explained: "She didn't disappear, she just suddenly refused to eat." She was also hostile to me.
There is no need to say the second half of the sentence.
"Could it be that he's not hungry yet?" Xu Xinlei said as she remembered something and stood up to find her phone. "Oh, I added a YouTuber who specializes in snake science a few days ago. I'll ask him for you."
The WeChat message was sent, but there was no reply.
Xu Xinlei said to Song Keling, "Maybe he hasn't woken up yet. I'll tell you when he gets back."
Song Keling pursed her lips, did not refuse her kindness, said thank you, and then turned back to her room.
When she came to the desk, Song Keling noticed something different again.
Before, the snake and the mouse had been living peacefully, each one their own, but now the mouse had disappeared! The little white snake, originally coiled in the corner, had unfurled its body and slowly moved its suddenly shortened tail.
A strange bulge can be seen in its originally slender body.
It was obvious that the baby mouse had been eaten by the snake.
Song Keling thought to herself, after enduring it all night, she was finally too hungry to bear it anymore?
Or do you feel the danger is over?
etc.
Danger averted?!
Song Keling immediately thought of herself.
Sleeping in the same space at night, Qianqian felt dangerous and refused to eat.
Qianqian felt that the danger was over after she left to find Xu Xinlei, so she was willing to eat even if it was only for a few minutes.
Although this reason is a bit heartbreaking.
But at the moment, this is the most reasonable explanation.
Song Keling didn't stay long. She took her coat and cell phone and left the room.
Before leaving, I told Xu Xinlei that the little snake was willing to eat and there was no need to trouble the up-loader.
Xu Xinlei responded, “Oh, that’s good.”
Song Keling went downstairs from the dormitory building and walked for a distance before she lowered her head and took out her cell phone. With no expression, she canceled the high-speed train ticket she had originally booked for Saturday and changed it to Sunday, then put her phone away.
Qianqian just finished her meal today, so she needs another day to digest it.
Although I just experienced the story of the farmer and the snake myself, I feel a little sad.
But she couldn't argue with a little snake that was incapable of human nature.
Song Keling did not return to the dormitory at noon.
It was just that because she had planned to go to Taiwan to study, she had been rushing to finish most of her work in the laboratory these days, so she had some free time today.
It just so happened that Senior Sister Lu Yunli had something to do, so Song Keling took over her work to help.
Qiao Ying and two fellow students wore goggles, collected venom from test tubes, and then observed it under a microscope...
It was not until she was called that Song Keling realized that she had been distracted. She immediately came back to record the data.
Qiao Ying noticed her abnormality and asked, "Keling, why are you so listless today? Did you suffer a breakup?"
Song Keling didn't know what it felt like to be heartbroken, "Yeah."
Qiao Ying paused, then turned to look at her in surprise. "When did you start dating? Who?"
Song Keling sighed softly and looked back, "The little snake I rescued last time."
Qiao Ying was stunned when she heard this, then she chuckled and retracted her gaze to continue looking at the microscope, analyzing the components. At the same time, she joked with a smile: "What's wrong? It turned into a human to come to you to repay you, and then left?"
Song Keling ignored the teasing and instead expressed some serious distress. "It seems to be hostile to me and wants to attack me."
The senior brother who was not in the know said: "What, what, wait, Junior Sister raised a snake? When? What kind of snake?"
Qiao Ying said: "While studying in Taiwan for fieldwork a while ago, she rescued a pet king snake that had 'escaped from prison.'"
Senior Brother: "And then?"
Qiao Ying said, "Then I don't know, Ke Ling, please continue."
Song Keling said: "It was fine before. It would eat when I fed it to the mice. We got along quite well. Sometimes when I called its name, it would come over and touch my finger with its head."
When Qiao Ying heard this description, she burst out laughing again.
Senior Brother: "That's good, what next?"
Song Keling: "But something went wrong since yesterday at noon. When I was feeding the mice at noon, it..." At this point, Song Keling remembered the point where the abnormality occurred.
Is it really because she took the mouse away that Qianqian became hostile to her smell?
At that time, I was just joking and making fun of myself!
After listening to Song Keling's words, Qiao Ying asked, "And then?"
In a short period of time, Song Keling had quickly thought of everything that followed - she had snatched food from the snake's mouth, and accidentally analyzed that Qianqian had injected a toxin that had never been seen in the baby mouse's body when hunting. She had consulted many documents about this toxin, but none of them matched.
Not only that, Qianqian also has strange viper-like scales and a body structure that is not a viper.
Not to mention so many anomalies, even just one of them would be enough to be thoroughly studied in the laboratory.
"Ke Ling?" Qiao Ying called again.
Song Keling came back to her senses and said, "No, it just won't eat when I'm around it, but will eat when I'm away."
When Qiao Ying heard that it was just such a trivial matter, she shook her head and said with a smile, "What's the big deal? I'm just shy. After all, I swallow my food whole, and I don't want to ruin my ladylike image in front of you."
The senior brother was furious and interrupted, "Qiao Ying, are you serious? How could a snake possibly think that?"
Qiao Ying said, "What do you know? We all said that Ke Ling sacrificed a lot by ending her rare field training early to personally save a little snake. The little snake is turning into a human to repay her."
Senior: “…” Oh, you totally don’t get the jokes that girls find funny.
When Song Keling heard this topic from Senior Sister Qiao Ying, she immediately remembered the strange dream she had last night.
It's been a while, and I can't remember exactly what I dreamed about.
I just remember that I dreamed about topics related to hands.
However, for a girl whose sexual orientation is female, this is undoubtedly a sex-related topic.
The senior sisters made a joke.
She joined in the joke.
Dreams are merely an integration of information collected intentionally or unintentionally in reality and have no meaning.
Song Keling thought so.
"Oh, right." Qiao Ying thought of something and said to Song Keling, "I heard Su Su asked you to go to the movies on Sunday?"
Song Keling was stunned for a moment and looked over. "Huh?"
After answering, I immediately remembered something.
Qiao Ying didn't know that. She smiled with interest and said, "Little Junior Sister, you'd better seize the opportunity. Su Yili is the beauty of the music department. She has many suitors, both male and female, circling around Xinda University. She doesn't like anyone, so she only has eyes for you."
Song Keling felt a bit awkward. She had forgotten what she had promised last week, so she said, "But I still have to go to Xuetai on Sunday."
"What are you going to do?"
"Release Qianqian."
"Qianqian?"
"That's the name I gave to that little snake."
Qiao Ying choked. After a moment, she digested the information and looked at Song Keling with disbelief. "Junior Sister, are you serious or joking? That was a pet snake. Why did you go all the way to the school to release it? If you don't want to keep it, you can ask in the school group chat. I'm sure there are people who would like to keep it."
Song Keling said softly, "I can't."
Qiao Ying didn't hear it, "Huh?"
Song Keling immediately raised her voice and responded, "I'll see when the time comes."
Song Keling had an appointment with Senior Sister Su on Sunday, and she didn't forget it at first, so she subconsciously set the time to send the little white snake back to the school platform on Saturday.
But as soon as Qianqian had her meal, she refunded her train ticket and postponed it for a day, and she obviously forgot about it completely.
Song Keling took out her cell phone and opened WeChat.
The last time I chatted with senior Su Yili was five days ago. In the chat log, she said she was still busy in the lab, and she replied, "Well, I won't bother you for now. See you on Sunday~"
Song Keling didn't know how to tell this to her senior sister. After hesitating for a moment, she closed WeChat and opened the Ctrip app to check.
She studied it.
Take the bullet train to Xuetai early in the morning and take the earliest flight back in the afternoon.
Although time is tight, it seems we can make it in time.
That's it.
Song Keling returned to the dormitory and saw the little white snake climbing on the corner of the scum box. The sutures on the wound on its tail were almost invisible. It raised its head and pressed it against the lid of the scum box, and its small but majestic and beautiful horn scales were slightly bent.
How could there be such a beautiful mutant?
Song Keling didn't read any literature, books, or write any papers. Even though she had just been "cheated" in the morning, she couldn't get angry at the moment.
She put down her bag, without any intention of giving back, and sat at the desk quietly watching Qianqian climb the box.
After a while, the little snake stopped entertaining itself and turned its head.
A man and a snake faced each other.
After a long time, it swayed and lowered its raised body, fell back onto the newspaper padding of the scum box, and moved slowly.
Its body is slender and long, with white scales slightly standing up.
There have been comments online saying that the tree viper is the snake that looks most like a dragon.
Song Keling looked at Qianqian, watching it slowly come to her, slowly raise its body, spit out its black tongue, search and confirm, and finally touch the top of the box.
Boom.
There should be no sound.
But when Song Keling saw Qianqian's forehead suddenly retracted, she inexplicably imagined the sound in her mind. Then she looked at her ignorant, bright red vertical pupils and inexplicably felt a little distressed.
It's like a mother seeing her child fall.
"Little fool." Even though she knew it was impossible to tame a snake, Song Keling couldn't help but gently touch the top of the box with her index finger. As if to comfort it from a distance, she whispered, "I'll take you home the day after tomorrow, and you won't bump into it again."
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