Chapter 16: Bait and Ambush

At noon, Baichuan finally succeeded in taking down the grey wolf model.

He checked his injuries and felt that only a few scales had been broken and a few bloodstains scratched out, which was relatively not serious.

He considered for a while and decided to continue going after an eagle-type next.

Right now he really wanted the eagle's ability too much, and in the future if he wanted to strengthen his digestion and absorption abilities, he would probably inevitably have to deal with all kinds of birds.

Getting used to it earlier was also good.

However, before going, he still had one thing he hadn't done.

That was to catch a small snake; after all, if he wanted to hunt eagles, how could he do without bait? Without bait, what would he use to lure the eagle down?

Thinking of this, while slithering toward the northwest, he stuck out his forked tongue, searching for scent molecules of snakes.

He had seen eagles landing there several days before, and there were also plenty of small animals around that area.

He guessed that place was probably the eagles' hunting ground?

Very soon, not long after, he caught a green little snake that was preying on a mouse.

Baichuan carefully identified it and found that it seemed to be of the Jinshe genus.

Speaking of which, Baichuan felt that Jinshe snakes were really born unlucky — as snakes, they had neither venom, nor a large enough body, nor any constricting ability, and most crucially, they had many natural enemies.

Not only were they eaten by their fellow snakes, they were also bullied at will by all kinds of cranes, eagles, hawks, storks, cats, geese, and so on.

But it might also be precisely because of this that, having suffered too much bullying, the Jinshe finally gave birth to their own king — the King Jinshe.

However, he didn't know whether this king had also suffered too much bullying in its youth.

As a result, they generally had an extremely violent temperament, with obvious territorial behavior — they would attack any other snake they encountered, and even unrelated passing creatures would be attacked for no reason; they could be considered a very neurotic type of snake.

Baichuan recalled the little snake knowledge he had, comparing as he went — if his current self were to face a King Jinshe, how would it turn out?

He also didn't know whether his current self could easily crush all snakes.

He was quite curious about this — since his evolution, he had somewhat lost track of his own ecological positioning.

In short, he didn't have a full understanding of his current strength, because he had truly experienced too few battles.

Not long after, he arrived at his destination.

Looking out from here, the trees were sparse, and they were all tall conifers or withered trees and the like; the view was extremely open, but fortunately there were still some shrubs on the ground.

As long as he didn't raise his head and kept low, he could still hide.

After carefully surveying the directions, Baichuan picked out the place with the most active animals — which was to the left — and headed there.

Not only were there many animals there, there were also many shrubs.

In no time, he slithered into the shrubs, then released the little green Jinshe whose head he had been biting on the way here.

Since it was meant to be used as bait, he hadn't bitten this little snake to death with force, but merely restrained it.

The moment he loosened his jaws, he saw the little green snake glance at him in panic; it didn't even dare to raise its head and bare its snout, and fled backward in a panic.

On the yellowish-brown earth, a green Jinshe over a meter long was still especially conspicuous.

Especially since it was now scurrying about brazenly, the commotion it caused was still quite large.

Very soon, it attracted the attention of predators — and of course, inevitably startled away plenty of small animals like pheasants, hares, turtledoves, and mice.

For a moment, some hid, some fled, some ran, some flew — the scene looked like a complete mess.

Not long after, the little hillside that had just been full of life fell completely silent, leaving only that dazed little green snake.

High in the sky, the eagle that had been circling for a long time was also a bit stunned — it had already locked onto one of the hares.

But caught off guard, an uninvited guest suddenly barged in below and startled all the prey.

Fortunately, that stupid snake was still there; years of snake-hunting experience told this eagle that this target was not a venomous snake and could be safely tasted.

The next moment, its sharp eagle eyes locked onto the snake's seven-inch mark, then it folded its wings and dove.

Accompanied by a slight sound of cutting through the air, a handsome and majestic male eagle suddenly stood before the little green snake.

Before the snake could be startled, the eagle slightly spread its wings and lightning-quickly thrust out its sharp talons, seizing the green Jinshe's seven-inch mark in an instant; then its extremely sharp eagle beak bent, probed, and flicked upward, instantly gutting the green Jinshe open.

At the same time, Baichuan, who was hiding not far away, also used this opportunity to slowly approach the eagle that was feeding.

One meter... two meters... three meters...

Approaching step by step, until Baichuan felt in his heart that he had already entered his own attack range — about thirteen meters.

The next moment, his snake body quietly gathered power, then Burst!

In an instant, a black shadow shot up and burst forth.

At this moment, the eagle that was feeding also woke with a start, immediately wanting to spread its wings and fly high — however—

Too late.

With Baichuan's current speed at Burst, he had already reached a distance of nearly twelve meters per second, plus his snake body that was five meters long.

The thirteen-meter distance was closed in less than a second, and he just barely bit the eagle's neck right before it could spread its wings and take off.

Immediately after, the eagle was sent flying by the impact force carried by Baichuan's rapid burst.

Unable to take off, neck bitten, sent flying by a tremendous impact — this chain of blows directly stunned the eagle for a while.

And during this Time, Baichuan of course wouldn't let it go; his long-prepared venom fangs began madly injecting venom.

Massive amounts of venom began to be injected into the eagle's body — what this meant went without saying; one must know that the King Cobra was famously copious and satisfying.

And at this point, having completed everything, Baichuan also successfully withdrew his jaws and hurriedly distanced himself.

To avoid being injured by the eagle's final counterattack.

Now he only needed to wait for the venom to take effect.

At this moment, the eagle finally came to its senses, but the venom had already spread throughout its entire body.

It was seen to stagger to its feet, feebly spread its wings once, and then crash to the ground.

The vigilant Baichuan first tossed out the corpse of that green Jinshe from earlier to probe, and after confirming it was truly completely cold, he then stepped forward and began his gluttonous feast.

In the evening, Baichuan, having finished everything, dragged his round, bulging belly back to his nest.

Today could truly be called a bountiful harvest; his points had now accumulated to '1 (92%)'.

Yes, that's right.

Only one day had passed, yet his points had spontaneously risen by 1%, all thanks to the previously strengthened "Digestion and Absorption" ability.

His powerful digestive ability meant he no longer had to rely constantly on the panel's built-in "Frantic Digestion," but could instead depend on his own rapid digestion of food to bring about an increase in points.

He believed that as long as this ability kept being strengthened, there would come a day when he could completely stop relying on the digestive ability carried by the panel, thereby perfectly digesting and absorbing all the energy from food completely.

He believed that one day, gaining one point a day, or even several, would not be a dream.

(End of this chapter)