99 Wilderness Survival
◎It was absolutely certain that this cub was an alien species.◎
At this time, a long black tail swam over and wrapped around the waist of the human cub who was swimming in the water with the current.
A huge black shadow flashed in the water, and it swam upstream, quickly leaving the deep water area.
With a splashing sound, a thick black tail wrapped around a human cub broke out of the water and threw it onto the shore.
After a while, the black python emerged from the water and slowly crawled ashore.
The huge snake head slithered over and stopped above the cub lying on the shore, its scarlet tongue moving silently.
Ye Zhizhi was lying on the ground, her eyes closed and her face slightly bluish-purple. From the python's vision, it could sense that her heart was still beating slightly.
The python remained silent for a while, as if it was assessing her. Finally, it used its tail to wrap around her feet and dangled them in the air, trying to wake her up.
As the cub was swung back and forth in the air, it accidentally shook out the water in her stomach.
“Cough cough cough!”
Ye Zhizhi coughed up water and felt that the internal organs in her stomach were about to flow out of her mouth and nose. She coughed violently and regained a little consciousness, but was dizzy and unable to think.
I feel dizzy.
How could she not feel dizzy? Ye Zhizhi was hung upside down and swayed back and forth, blood rushing to her head, and her face had turned from purple to red.
When the black python noticed that the strange cub had woken up, it threw it to the ground as if it was disgusted.
But it wasn't thrown hard, so Ye Zhizhi didn't feel any pain.
She lay there for a long time, breathing in deep gulps of fresh air.
Having just struggled back from near death, Ye Zhizhi's memory still retained the suffocating feeling of being unable to breathe.
It took a long time for Ye Zhizhi to struggle out of the feeling of being on the verge of death, and his brain began to work slowly.
Ye Zhizhi had choked on water and was still struggling in the water before she passed out. She thought she was going to drown accidentally.
She's not dead?!
Ye Zhizhi opened his sore eyes and felt strength slowly flowing into his limbs.
She looked at the ceiling of the cave and blinked her bloodshot eyes.
Ye Zhizhi moved her fingers and toes, ah, she was really still in the world.
But Ye Zhizhi had no recollection of how she got out of the water. Never mind, it wasn’t important. What was important was that she would have good fortune in the future after surviving such a disaster!
Ye Zhizhi lay down for a while, and after her limbs had regained some strength, she slowly got up. When she looked up, she instantly saw the huge black python that was lurking not far away.
Ye Zhizhi's brain was stuck, and his small body was still frozen in a half-crawling position, staring at it in a daze.
How could this black python be here? Although she had been thinking about luring it out, this was too sudden, wasn't it? She wasn't mentally prepared!
Or was it that she was drowning and accidentally drifted to the black python's territory?
The black python coiled up its huge body, its pupils were cold and its face was expressionless.
Ye Zhizhi froze for a moment, then slowly relaxed.
After spending a long time with Xiaohua, she believed that she had some understanding of the emotional expressions of snakes. Although the black python in front of her did not have any emotions, it also meant that it had no hostility towards her.
Wait, Ye Zhizhi came to her senses, was it this black python that saved her?
Ye Zhizhi didn't care about being afraid, he opened his eyes wide and looked at the black python, feeling it was incredible.
The black python's pupils are ice-cold, and its aura seems ferocious. It doesn't look like a snake that would save people. Could it be that it is cold on the outside but warm on the inside?
Ye Zhizhi was about to express his gratitude.
Suddenly, there was a noise coming from the pond not far away, and a huge snake shadow broke out of the water.
Ye Zhizhi subconsciously turned her head to look over, and was instantly happy when she saw the familiar snake. "Xiaohua! It's fine!"
Swish!
Xiaohua jumped out of the water and rushed towards the black python with an angry hiss.
It turned out that Ye Zhizhi went in the wrong direction when looking for Xiaohua. Xiaohua was swimming upstream, but she went in the opposite direction, so she didn't find Xiaohua. She didn't notice the abnormality in the water, and accidentally slipped down, and was sucked into the dark hole underground.
When Xiaohua realized that Ye Zhizhi was missing, it swam over following the scent from the shore. It noticed the place where Ye Zhizhi's scent disappeared and realized that Ye Zhizhi was sucked into the dark cave. It suppressed its instinctive fear and rushed in.
After finally finding them, they discovered Ye Zhizhi and the black python on the shore.
Xiaohua thought that the black python had kidnapped her cub, so the moment she came out of the water, she rushed directly towards the black python and attacked it.
Xiaohua's snake head pounced forward, bared its fangs, and attacked again and again.
The black python moved, but did not fight back, instead it avoided it directly.
Ye Zhizhi realized that Xiaohua had misunderstood. Seeing that it was still trying to move its tail, he rushed over and hugged its tail, trying his best to pull it back.
“Hiss!”
Wait, Xiaohua misunderstood. The Black Python saved her and didn't hurt her. Don't be impulsive. The most important thing is that you can't beat the Black Python at the moment.
Ye Zhizhi was still afraid that Xiaohua's aggressive behavior would anger the black python. While she was trying to explain to Xiaohua, she was also paying attention to whether there was any change in the black python's breath.
Fortunately, the black python showed no signs of anger. Of course, it might also be that Xiaohua's fighting ability did not threaten it.
Xiaohua noticed the attitude of the little cub and realized that she had misunderstood. She quickly retracted her snake head and put away her tail.
Ye Zhizhi also felt uneasy.
This black python doesn't look as approachable as Xiaohua. The invisible oppressive force makes Ye Zhizhi feel very stressed.
Ye Zhizhi couldn't guess what the black python was thinking. It had clearly saved him, but the black python gave off an air of being difficult to mess with and approach.
For a moment, when Xiaohua and Ye Zhizhi faced the black python, they were like children who had made mistakes seeing their parents. They shrank their necks obediently and dared not move, as if they were waiting for the verdict.
Ye Zhizhi attributed this behavior to the fact that a man who knows the times is a hero.
Even if she and Xiaohua joined forces, they could not defeat this black python.
She had only seen such a powerful aura on her father, the Wolf King.
I wonder who would be more powerful if he were to face off against Wolf King Dad. Ye Zhizhi thought, it must be Wolf King Dad!
Xiaohua's snake tail secretly wrapped around Ye Zhizhi and quietly dragged her backwards, trying to protect her behind her while she faced the black python's wrath.
Ye Zhizhi came back to her senses and subconsciously hugged Xiaohua's tail. She blinked and was determined to face it together.
If the black python was really impatient, Xiaohua could run faster.
Ye Zhizhi subconsciously touched behind her and realized that her weapon had been washed away by the water and was gone.
The black python moved again, crawling in a winding manner.
Ye Zhizhi and Xiaohua subconsciously tensed up.
The black python tilted its head slightly and hissed at Xiaohua.
Ye Zhizhi also understood what the black python meant. It was telling them to follow.
Xiaohua's head turned, as if she was detecting the surrounding environment, wondering how likely it was that she could sneak away with the cub under the black python's nose.
When she was sure that she couldn't escape, Xiaohua rolled up Ye Zhizhi and put him under her head, then followed him obediently.
Ye Zhizhi held Xiaohua in her arms, wondering if the black python really had no ill will towards them, and perhaps even had a little kinship with Xiaohua? Even with Xiaohua's provocation, it didn't get angry.
Stay calm, this is also her life-saving snake, she cannot be hostile or defensive.
If the black python wanted to hurt them, there was no need to do so. Maybe it really just wanted to make friends.
Thinking of this, Ye Zhizhi felt much more at ease and was in the mood to observe the surrounding environment.
After she entered and exited the underwater cave, she emerged from a pool of water, and the place she was in became a huge underground cave, which was obviously different from the monitor lizard's lair.
Ye Zhizhi looked carefully and followed the black python crawling in the underground cave for a long time. It was the first time she knew that this underground cave passage seemed to be a world of its own, interconnected, high and spacious. She suspected that there were such cave passages under the entire Gobi Desert, and the animals here basically lived in such an underground world.
These cave passages appear to be naturally formed, without any trace of human intervention.
Ye Zhizhi guessed that this was probably formed by animals living underground all year round and constantly digging.
They walked for a long time, and Ye Zhizhi felt that they were going down and deeper into the ground.
But there was no sign of lack of oxygen at all. Ye Zhizhi could feel that the air in these passages was flowing.
Ye Zhizhi watched as the color of the surrounding mountains gradually changed, becoming a little shiny, like some kind of mineral, and soon even became colorful and sparkling.
They walked down the winding cave passage. The further down they went, the more magical creatures and plants Ye Zhizhi saw.
Ye Zhizhi didn't notice it at first, but when she stared at the ore, she found that there was a transparent creature lying on top of the ore. If it weren't for her excellent vision, she wouldn't have noticed it.
Slowly, plants appeared on the ore, and those plants also emitted a faint light, like a dreamy fairyland.
Ye Zhizhi felt that she could not see enough and could not help but marvel at the magic of nature. She thought she was knowledgeable, but she still could not help but marvel at this mysterious underground world.
After an unknown amount of time, they crawled into a huge underground cave. The whole world seemed to be bright, with colorful minerals sparkling and clusters of fluorescent plants.
What’s even more magical is that in the center of the cave grows a huge tree that stands tall and straight. It seems to have only a trunk with vine-like roots entwined around it.
Ye Zhizhi's eyes were amazed. In her eyes, the tree seemed to be popping up with stars.
She exclaimed, her head dropped, her eyes closed, and she fainted instantly.
What she called seeing stars was actually an illusion before she fell into a coma. She was actually seeing stars.
"Hiss?"
Xiaohua's tail extended in time to wrap around the cub that was about to fall to the ground, and she hissed in confusion and anxiety.
What happened to the little cub?!
The black python looked back at its unconscious cub, silent as ever.
Xiaohua wrapped her tail around the cub and shook it constantly, as if trying to wake her up, but she never opened her eyes. Only the beating of her heart proved that she was still alive.
One reason was that she had just returned from the brink of life and death, and her body had reached its limit, but there was another more important reason.
After all, Ye Zhizhi is not an animal that was born and raised in this jungle. Everything in this jungle never welcomes outsiders.
If she had not been born shortly and had lived in the jungle for several years, when Ye Zhizhi first saw the shiny mineral, she would have passed out within a minute like other ordinary humans who had strayed into this place, and would have died unconscious in the coma.
Those shiny minerals, plants and creatures all emit a colorless and odorless gas, which will cause various reactions when inhaled into the bodies of creatures entering this area. Only native animals are immune to it.
Ye Zhizhi was merely unconscious, which was the result of his body half-adapting to this jungle.
Fortunately, Ye Zhizhi didn't touch it out of curiosity, otherwise she would have fallen down even faster.
Xiaohua noticed that Ye Zhizhi had fallen asleep, and he hissed anxiously. Finally, regardless of his instinctive fear of the black python, he asked it for help.
The black python stared at Ye Zhizhi with its cold vertical pupils, without moving for a long while.
Xiaohua has been living in the Central Forest and has never seen any foreign bipeds. When Ye Zhizhi entered the Central Forest, the scent on her body was mostly that of a wolf, so everyone thought she was a local wolf cub.
But the black python had seen alien species many years ago when it was still young.
In fact, the animals living outside will instinctively reject and attack all foreign species and will not allow them to survive in this jungle.
On the contrary, the animals living in the central area, perhaps because they have never seen humans, are not as hostile and rejecting humans.
Of course, they haven't actually reached the outer area yet. This area is still at the junction of the outer area and the central area, and is even very close to the central area.
Ye Zhizhi may not know that the animals living at the junction of the outer area and the central area are actually very ferocious and terrifying, and are no weaker than the animals in the central area. They are like the last line of defense of the central area, preventing alien species from entering the central area.
For example, the wolf king and the wolf pack's territory. Perhaps they themselves can't explain why, even though they have the ability to survive in the central area, they instinctively guard this barren territory passed down from generation to generation.
Ye Zhizhi was undoubtedly very lucky. When he first appeared in this jungle, he was a harmless little cub. The first animal he encountered was a mother wolf who had just lost her cub. The mother wolf's strong maternal love overwhelmed any instinct.
And it just so happened that the wolves had never seen an alien species before, so they didn't recognize it at first and it was accepted into the pack.
For example, the black python is also very powerful, enough for it to occupy a place in the central forest, but it has always lived between the outer and central areas.
The animals and plants in the outer forests and the various environmental climates formed by the special geographical environment constitute the first line of defense to block the intrusion of alien species.
Over the past thousands of years, only a few have been able to break through the first line of defense, and the territory where the black python is located happened to be where humans had once arrived, although that was a long time ago and they were eventually wiped out by other animals.
But the black python remembered the scent of those alien species, and now, it smelled a similar scent on this strange little cub.
It was just that the strong wolf scent on the cub interfered with its judgment.
Now, it is absolutely certain that this cub is an alien species.
【Author’s words】
Asking for nutrient solution~
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