Chapter 063: Snake on Desert Island (2)
The fish was grilled, and Tao Xing sat by the fire to eat. Only then did he have time to organize his thoughts: "The reason why that snake was judged as a villain, couldn't it be because it eats people?"
080 received a program message just as he finished speaking, and opened it to read: "Congratulations to the host for unlocking the mission details."
[Target of this world's mission: Snake, species Golden Dragon Spirit Python, extremely rare, no other species in the world, born with spirituality
Reason for being judged as a villain: Cannibalism
Ending: strangled]
"Host, yes, your mission is to stop it from eating people." 080 said.
Tao Xing shook his head: "It is originally a beast, hunting is its nature. Moreover, it is on a deserted island, and it has not appeared in human gathering places, nor has it taken the initiative to provoke humans. From its perspective, I don't think it is a villain."
"Host." 080 noticed that there was a note behind the "reason for being judged as a villain", and it quickly opened it and read, "It caused the extinction of mankind."
"ah?"
This is quite serious.
This snake...is it that powerful?
"It will be very powerful in the future." 080 said, "It is a rare spirit snake with great plasticity. If it turns on the human-eating mode, it will evolve into an extremely dangerous creature."
In other words, the snake has not evolved yet, so it needs to be guided in time and not allowed to grow crooked.
"Okay, but wait a minute." Tao Xing said, "All humans are extinct, who strangled it?"
"The details haven't been fully figured out yet. The program doesn't tell you. Maybe it's a machine left behind by humans." 080 guessed.
"What is the use of your program?" Tao Xing endured for a long time.
"Thank you for your feedback. The bureau will take your suggestions into consideration and evaluate the improvement plan." 080 read the reply in the program, "Um... the host and the others said they will make improvements."
Tao Xing: “…”
"But this world cannot be changed. Host, you must speed up the process. It won't starve to death now, but it will eat humans in three months, and all of humanity will be extinct!"
Tao Xing took a bite of the fish and asked: "Is there anyone else on this island? If it doesn't leave the island, how could it cause the extinction of all mankind?"
The system thought about it and it seemed to be true. The host had simplified the problem. As long as the host could save his own life and prevent the snake from leaving the island, that would be it.
The fish meat is delicious. Tao Xing calculated that if there are no accidents, he can eat for a long time just by catching fish and shrimps in the sea. He has a fresh water separator, an iron basin to store water and boil water, a warm blanket and a fire to keep out the cold. It is not cold in summer now, and he has clean clothes. There is no problem with supplies for the time being.
It was not difficult for him to leave. He could chop wood to make a boat. Even if others could not row out, it did not mean that he could not. However, since the snake was on the island, he certainly would not leave.
However, in order to guide the snake to evolve in a positive direction, in addition to understanding it, we also need to understand the environment on the island.
Tao Xing decided to first understand the island environment and ease his fear before dealing with the snake. After all, there was only three months left, so there was no rush.
Having made up his mind, he ate the fish with peace of mind.
Not far away, there was a rustling sound in the jungle. A snake just emerged from the leaves, then paused and looked at the fire in front of it.
The scarlet eyes blinked and the snake was confused again.
How did this food occupy its nest?
So where does it sleep at night?
Drive him away?
The snake was about to move forward, but suddenly it caught sight of the knife next to the fire.
The appetite faded and reason prevailed. Although this food was delicious, it was very powerful and should not be easily provoked.
It shrank back again.
But the nest still needs to be taken back.
The snake changed its approach and retreated to a tree, coiling around the trunk and quietly staring at people, so that it could know itself and its enemy and seize the opportunity to seize the nest.
Watching people chewing food slowly, can a fish also taste so delicious?
Then I saw someone put an iron box on the fire.
Although it was late and there was no sunlight, the separator still had energy stored and could be used. Tao Xing separated the fresh water and used the iron lunch box as a small pot to boil water for drinking.
After drinking the water, boil warm water in an iron basin.
People are really strange. They must cook food over fire before eating it.
Looking again, he raised the knife.
The snake moved back a little, leaving only its eyes exposed.
People used knives to dig holes in the ground and stuck a row of wooden sticks into them one by one.
The snake breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, no one noticed it and was not coming for it.
But why did the person hide behind the stick?
Now I can't see clearly.
The snake went to one side and slowly crawled along the side.
Hearing the splash of water, the snake peered through the cracks in the stick.
The scarlet pupils dilated slightly.
The person reflected in the pupil is naked.
Tao Xing took off her clothes and was taking a bath, the water pouring over her shoulders, splashing.
Water droplets splashed onto the snake's head.
The heat made the snake's head hot. The snake was stunned. After a while, its whole body became hot.
It retreated quietly.
The nest is given to you, so don't fight over it.
The retreating movement was a bit too big, and the tail accidentally swept the stick, making a "snap" sound.
Tao Xing stopped and turned back suddenly.
I saw nothing. Outside the fence, I saw only floating dust and gravel, and a shallow scratch on the ground.
"Is it coming?" 080 said.
"Maybe." Tao Xing didn't feel like taking a shower anymore. He was almost done anyway. He changed his clothes, pulled out a burning stick from the fire to use as a torch, and followed the traces of the crawling.
When he reached the edge of the jungle, the traces disappeared. He raised his head and held up the torch to look around, but still found no trace.
"It's good that you're gone." Tao Xing turned around.
Behind him, a snake was hanging on a very high branch. When it saw people leaving, it quickly crawled away.
Tao Xing went back to wash the clothes and hung them on the fence. He added some firewood to the fire and let it burn at the entrance of the cave. Then he went into the cave and went to sleep.
The sky darkened and the night fell.
In the jungle, the snake crawled faster and faster.
It was very uncomfortable, the whole body was burning, as if boiling water was burning inside the body, every part was burning, and it urgently needed to vent.
It couldn't help but let out a few painful hisses. Its mating time had arrived, and this time it was earlier than before.
During the mating period, the Golden Dragon Python's body became hot, it became restless, and it felt weak as if it were dehydrated.
And it was the only golden dragon python left in the world. It had no chance to find a mate. It was unable to release its sexual desire every time and had to endure it by force.
Perhaps it was tolerated beyond its limit and it caused complications.
About three months ago, whenever it came to mating season, there would be a buzzing in his head as if a huge bell were pounding, as if his soul was leaving his body, and it was extremely uncomfortable.
Finally, it couldn't hold on any longer and fell from the branch.
It swam away quickly, hiding deep in the dense forest, and found a new cave to hide in. It was not as big as the previous one and was very damp. The clean-loving snake felt a little uncomfortable, but it had no energy to look for it again. It curled up in this dark cave.
The leaves at the entrance of the cave fluttered, and there was an animal passing by outside. The snake's pupils contracted and it spit out its tongue.
But before it got out of the hole, it shrank back into a ball again.
Unable to restrain itself, the snake just longed for one person.
The very nice person I met today.
It didn't want to eat him anymore, but it wanted to spend the mating season with him.
Spiritual snakes are very picky. Even if they endure to the limit, they are unwilling to mate with just anyone, so they become sick from endurance.
And now, it has someone it wants to mate with.
In other words, the mating period came early and violently because of that person, because it saw the body taking a bath and became hot.
Snakes are also very particular. If they want to mate, they have to court their mate first and get the partner's consent. They can't do it casually.
Its head was rumbling, and it curled itself up tighter, trying to endure the discomfort and fall asleep.
A long bird call awakened the jungle, and the sunlight cut through the leaves, casting mottled spots of light.
Tao Xing stretched and opened his eyes.
Unexpectedly, I slept very well that night. It was warm in the cave and nothing disturbed me.
He went to the beach to get some food, and after eating and drinking, he put out the fire, took a knife and a flashlight, as he wanted to tour the island today.
In the cold cave, the sun was shining slowly, and the slender white fingers moved. In the gradient light and shadow, the fair skin was slowly covered with scales, the limbs disappeared, the scales flashed with golden light, and the snake raised its head drowsily.
It is in better condition during the day, so it crawls out of its cave and goes to court today.
Tao Xing was cutting weeds along the way in the jungle. He paused in front of the hill he had been to yesterday and then jumped up.
There were a few pools of blood on the ground, and the bodies of the two monsters were missing. Either they were not dead, or... there were other carnivorous creatures. He looked around vigilantly, took light steps, and walked forward slowly.
Suddenly he heard a crackling sound. He quickly climbed up the tree and looked down at the pile of rocks. He found several strange creatures tearing and chewing the black-fur corpse. It was the human-faced monster that died yesterday, and it had been almost dismembered.
Sure enough, there were other monsters, but... these ones were even weirder than the human-faced monster.
They were of different colors, fur, and body shapes. There was a red one that looked like a fox, but its two front paws looked very much like human arms. When it ate the corpse, it used both hands to grab it and eat it, while its face was that of a normal fox.
A little bear, otherwise normal, but with a human foot.
The rabbit's ears are like human ears. It doesn't eat grass, but it eats meat. Its bared teeth don't look cute at all, but scary and weird.
The human-faced monster still makes people feel that there may be creatures that look like this, but these ones have some limbs that look like humans, and their limbs are uncoordinated and asymmetrical, which makes them look even more incongruous.
A leaf fell on his face. Tao Xing brushed it off and threw his hand towards the tree trunk next to him. There was a slight sound, snap...
The monsters eating the food suddenly stopped and looked up.
Their mouths and faces were covered in red blood, the blood had curled their hair into wisps, and their eerie eyes swept across the layers of leaves.
Tao Xing quickly held his breath and hid among the lush leaves.
The monsters didn't seem to notice him. After taking a quick look around, they continued to eat with their heads down.
The corpse had been eaten, leaving only a few bloody remains of limbs and bones. They rubbed their claws... and hands and feet, and ran into the depths of the jungle.
Tao Xing jumped down from the tree and when he turned around, he seemed to feel a pair of eyes looking at him.
He turned around and looked towards the place where the monster ran and disappeared, and saw a pair of human eyes.
There is also a human face and pitch-black fur, it is also a human-faced monster.
Tao Xing stared at those eyes, but the other party did not pounce on him. Instead, he just looked at him a few times, turned around and ran into the woods.
Tao Xing did not chase after him and returned to the cave where he lived.
As I approached, I saw a pile of fish in front of the fence.
He touched the back of his head and said, "I don't think I have lost my memory. As far as I can remember, I didn't catch so many fish."
As he spoke, he looked around and found traces of crawling on the ground again. He was startled and said, "Oh no, it's coming again."
080 was also surprised: "Host, don't be afraid. It won't eat you now, but why is it chasing after me? Why is it sending fish here?"
Tao Xing thought for a moment and said, "It came here last night and must have seen me eating fish. Could it be that it was hinting that I would become its food sooner or later?"
He frowned, picked up the fish neatly, ran to the beach quickly and put them back into the water: "I won't accept threats."
There was a noise in the jungle, and a snake poked its head out, carrying a pile of firewood.
Seeing that the fish were gone, his scarlet eyes lit up.
He ate it, he accepted his own advances.
The snake became more energetic and quickly brought the firewood to the fire.
If you want to court a mate, you must first feed your partner.
Putting down the firewood, the snake quickly crawled back into the jungle.
Tao Xing had just let the fish go, and when he came back, he saw several piles of wood and obvious crawling marks on the ground.
"You're still excited, right? What you mean is that I'm the food on the fire and I can't escape?" Tao Xing got annoyed and picked up the wood and threw it far away.
The snake came darting in again.
The firewood is gone, has he burned it?
Great, another gift accepted.
Then, you are not far from accepting your own courtship.
The snake shyly crawled over and carefully placed the nest of mice next to the pile of rocks before disappearing back into the jungle.
You don’t need to roast the mouse, just eat it raw, people will definitely like it.
Tao Xing had just thrown the wood away, and when he came back, he saw mice crawling all over the floor, with traces of their crawling.
"This... is too much!" He frowned, packed up the mouse and threw it away.
As far as you can go.
Because of catching mice, Tao Xing ran around and was very angry. Finally, he caught all the mice. He sat by the fire, still unhappy.
Fortunately, the snake didn't come again.
Tao Xing snorted coldly, ate something, boiled some water, reinforced the stone at the entrance of the cave in the afternoon, and picked up some leaves to make the bed warmer.
In the evening he would stop moving around, light a fire, and take a shower behind the fence.
There was a hissing sound outside the fence, and a snake crawled to the pile of rocks with a golden scale in its mouth. When it heard the sound of water, its head tilted, and its body felt hot again. It quickly dropped the scale and ran away.
This time it didn't go far, it hid in the jungle and watched people come out.
The glittering scales on its forehead represent the Golden Dragon Python's mating signal. People have already accepted its courtship gesture during the day, so just wait for it to accept the mating signal.
The snake pricked up its eyes and waited patiently.
Tao Xing came out of the shower, put on her clothes, and when she looked down, she saw scales on the stone.
"Here we go again?" Tao Xing was confused. Why did they have to come here again and again?
080: "Host, this must be a provocation."
Tao Xing picked up the scales and found that they were not as hard as she had imagined. On the contrary, the scales were soft, yet also had the resilience to support them, like a tape measure. They were cool to the touch, very smooth, and very beautiful. They were golden, but the light they emitted was soft and not dazzling.
"Okay, I'd like to see what it wants to do." Tao Xing grabbed the scales and turned to go into the cave.
You know what, such beautiful scales would be great if you could drill a hole in them and hang them around your neck.
The snake in the forest poked its head out excitedly.
He accepted it!
He is willing to mate with himself.
The snake swung its tail happily, hovered in place for a while, quickly went to the seashore, washed itself, and then, in the moonlight, quietly returned to the cave entrance.
The person inside was silent and asleep.
The snake vomited the letter and got into the hole.
Once it entered and saw its scales next to the person's neck, it became even more excited, crawled over, and quietly covered the person's body with its tail.
After nightfall, the snake's reaction began to become stronger, with its body burning hot and its head buzzing.
But it’s okay, I have a partner this time.
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