Chapter 34 - I
The black snake was not interested in the wandering plan proposed by Wan Zhong. It stopped working on the half-built nest and took him out for a walk. Although Wan Zhong could understand the black snake’s choice, he still felt very sad. He thought that they had been together for a long time; how could it reject him without even thinking about it?
Wan Zhong folded his hands on his chest, straightens his back, and rode on the black snake’s tail without touching it. Even if the black snake flicked its tail deliberately to scare him, Wan Zhong knew that it wouldn’t really throw him away. Even if he really fell accidentally, the black snake would definitely save him.
All right. Wan Zhong admitted that he was a little bit arrogant. But no matter how much the black snake doted on him, the relationship with him was not as deep as what it had with Xuan Ming
Ha~
The primitive deep forest on the desert island had very unique ecological characteristics. The most obvious one was the diversity of tree species and animal species.
At night, Wan Zhong rode on the tail of a black snake, passing by tree roots as thick as a wrist that grew from the ground, bypassing various vines hanging down from branches dozens of meters high, and looking up at the trees covered by various huge tree crowns. Up in the sky, Wan Zhong inevitably felt that compared with nature, he was as small as an ant.
And he didn’t know if it was an illusion…
Wan Zhong always felt that the black snake’s territory had become larger.
Normally, at this point, they would have already left the snake nest’s sphere of influence, but today they walked for so long without even encountering an animal. Was it because of Xuan Ming?
Thinking of this, Wan Zhong became unhappy, and his back, which was deliberately straightened due to his emotional turmoil with the black snake, also slumped down.
He had a sad face and a dejected look.
The black snake crawling forward looked at Wan Zhong in the mirror and turned back to look at him. It spat out a snake tongue, twisted a tree crown studded with wild fruits, and handed it to its spouse, hoping that he would be happy and not so depressed all the time.
Wan Zhong ignored it, and he said angrily: “You don’t even look at how big and heavy this tree crown is, and how big my hands are. How can I possibly hold it?”
The black snake thought about its own size and then looked at Wan Zhong’s slender white hands covered with thin calluses, thinking that if he couldn’t hold it with one hand, he could hold it with two hands, right?
It rolled up the crown of the tree with its tail and placed it on the right-hand side of Wan Zhong. He didn’t need to pick it up and he could take a fruit easily when he wanted to eat.
Wan Zhong understood that the black snake was coaxing him, and he was especially grateful for its kindness to him. Although he regretted not talking loudly to it just now, he still couldn’t help but annoy it.
Why it wouldn’t go with him?
Obviously, Xuan Ming was only average compared to him.
He had been on this deserted island for so long, and this was the first time he had seen Xuan Ming appeared. It also always snatched the mirror that the black snake loved, and he had never been seen Xuan Ming feeding the black snake. The two of them had never even appeared together.
It sounded nice to say that the black snake was only a pet, but he didn’t see how kind Xuan Ming was to the black snake.
Wan Zhong felt that Xuan Ming was not as good as him.
Although he didn’t seem to have done anything for the black snake, he had a heart like a deity. Didn’t it see? He didn’t even forget to take it with him when he ran away? Even if he was unhappy now, he still came out and went for a ride with it? He was not like that Xuan Ming, who left the black snake all alone on a desert island, with only the mirror as its companion all day long.
And the black snake actually rejected him, ugh!
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Wan Zhong’s thought was wandering around in the sky when the black snake that had crawled far away suddenly stopped suddenly and almost threw him away.
Wan Zhong and the tree crown studded with fruits were placed on the ground by the black snake. It swished into a shrub layer more than five meters high and rolled back with a lot of things after a while.
It brought three red eggs, bigger than the head. It was unknown what animal they were. The surface of the eggshell was covered with large and small pits, like the moon.
Wan Zhong called the egg as moon egg and found some branches and leaves to find a place to make a fire.
The black snake saw that its spouse finally no longer looked so lifeless and hurriedly went to pick up the lairs of several mythical beasts, piling those strangely shaped, colorful eggs as if they were piled with gold next to its spouse.
It watched Wan Zhong stick out his butt and dig into the wood, thinking this posture was quite good. While putting its tail on the thin back of its spouse, it also laid its head on Wan Zhong’s shoulder, blinking with two green eyes. The black snake looked curiously: ‘What are you doing?’
Wan Zhong groaned and was almost crushed to death by the black snake. He hurriedly said, “Handsome snake, don’t make trouble, I’m lighting the fire; you go aside and play.”
The black snake spat out the snake tongue and handed the mirror over: [use this.]
“Thank you, but there is no sunshine here, so I can’t use the mirror,” Wan Zhong dug into his own wood and said without raising his head, “And I also have to learn to make a fire by myself. After all… you can’t stay with me forever.”
During this period, Wan Zhong had been practicing drilling wood to make fire. When he obtained the source of fire through his own efforts for the first time, he suddenly felt that something was not as difficult as he imagined.
It took more than an hour for Wan Zhong to finally light the fire. He broke the moon egg and wrapped it in leaves, then wrapped it in moist soil, rolled it into a mud ball, and put it in the fire. He felt like he had lost a lot of energy.
He leaned against the tree trunk and ate wild fruits to quench his thirst, thinking that if there were no black snake and he had to survive alone, he would never light a fire for a meal unless necessary. Not to mention wasting time, the physical energy consumed might not be directly proportional to the energy obtained from food. It was better to eat it raw.