Chapter 3: First Evolution

He ultimately chose Danger Perception.

Not for any other reason—digging holes, while currently helpful to him, wasn't a pressing need after all these days; enduring a bit longer wouldn't hurt.

But Danger Perception could directly provide significant help in his combat or safety.

One had to remember he was the king of snakes; he wasn't afraid of attacks from the ground—worst case, he'd just flee.

Besides, he estimated that very few creatures would dare provoke him. He had so little meat on him, and it was filled with deadly venom—what fierce beast would have a door slammed on its head to want to perish together with him?

What he feared was that while slithering along the ground, he might fail to notice an attack from the sky and get grabbed by an eagle in one claw and eaten like a spicy stick.

He'd seen too many such videos in his previous life; he had to guard against it.

Thinking of this, the hare model flew up, zoomed in, and then opened.

The next moment, an incomparably complex double-helix structured mysterious object flew out, emanating a hazy glow on its surface.

Just staring at it for slightly longer made Baichuan feel a bit dizzy; he understood this was information overload—something his current self couldn't comprehend.

Fortunately, all these micro-operations didn't require his input; what was operating all this now was this space. What he needed to do was decide where to place the ability.

Near the head? Or somewhere on the body? Or perhaps the tail?

Each body part showed different compatibility. He scanned through and found the highest compatibility was near the head, reaching 85%. After trying to place it there—

He immediately saw two small bumps rise on the model's head.

"What is this?"

Baichuan stared at the small bumps on the model's head, feeling puzzled. He thought for a moment and tried to take out the ability structure again and place it on the body.

The next moment, he saw the bumps on the head disappear, and the location where he placed it instead sprouted two small bumps.

Now he immediately understood it was due to the ability.

But why was it like this?

He figured it was probably because this ability structure came from the hare, and the hare's manifestation of the Danger Perception characteristic should come from its incredibly agile long ears.

Those long ears gave it extraordinarily keen hearing, allowing it to clearly hear all kinds of sounds from every direction and thus avoid harm.

But now this ability was installed on him. Being a snake, his ears had long since degenerated to the point of having no external ear canal.

Therefore, under the effect of this ability, given the difference in species, the manifestation of this ability on him was the appearance of two bumps.

Thinking this, he zoomed in on the model's head and found that the inside of the small bumps really did connect to the ear canal.

"That… that actually makes sense!"

After figuring this out, Baichuan twitched the corner of his mouth and clicked his tongue.

But since there was no problem, let's evolve!

As his decision fell, that mysterious object instantly sank into the position of his model's head and then disappeared.

Immediately after, his consciousness was also ejected from this space.

At the same time, in the outside world, his snake body coiled in the tree hollow also began slowly secreting a strange viscous substance, which gradually covered his entire body.

……

The next day, the horizon turned the pale color of a fish's belly.

A wisp of rosy clouds broke through the cloud layer and shone into the tree hollow, landing precisely on a coiled snake body.

Baichuan slowly opened his pitch-black snake pupils, raised his upper body, and his forked tongue flicked in and out continuously.

This was a perception method unique to snakes—capturing various scent molecules in the air to sense whether other creatures were present nearby.

Because most snakes generally had poor eyesight—not only nearsighted but also colorblind, and only sensitive to moving objects.

So for survival, they had directly evolved extremely keen Xiuque, using their forked tongues to capture scent molecules in the air combined with vision to determine the distance of prey.

Of course, snakes with poor eyesight didn't include the Yanjingwangshe. The Yanjingwangshe could be said to be one of the best-visioned among snakes.

However, good eyesight was still only relative—like comparing eight-hundred-degree nearsightedness with one-hundred-degree nearsightedness. Not to mention he was still colorblind now, so for him, the function of the forked tongue was still very important.

In his current eyes, the entire world was monotonous without the slightest color, and when there were no moving living things around, everything was dead and lifeless.

A long way to go! Baichuan sighed inwardly. Although ten days had already passed, going from a colorful and beautiful world to a monotonous, lifeless one—he still wasn't quite used to this psychological gap.

He also wondered how those predecessors in his previous life's novels who were reborn as animals quickly adapted to various animals' perspectives.

After sighing a few times, Baichuan slowly crawled out of the tree hollow, preparing to test his new ability while hunting.

First was the issue of digestive and absorptive capacity. After ten days of observation, he found that the generation speed of points was related to his digestive and absorptive capacity.

And points were tied to his evolution and becoming stronger.

So to accumulate points quickly in the future, improving the digestive and absorptive rate was essential, because this was the Core of his becoming stronger.

But which animals had strong digestive and absorptive capacity?

Thinking of this gave Baichuan a headache. One regrets not studying more when the need arises—why hadn't he read more animal books back then?

Secondly, his visual perspective also needed to change. One had to know that having vision that was blind to static objects wasn't a good thing, because in his previous life he'd seen too many videos of people teasing Yanjingwangshe.

He hadn't understood the principle back then, but now he did—because his type of snake's vision was similar to Qingwa's, blind to static objects and only sensitive to moving things.

So to touch a snake's head, one only needed to wave one hand back and forth in front of its eyes to attract its attention, while the other hand could easily touch it or kiss the top of its head. (Dangerous action—do not imitate unless you're a snake expert)

This wasn't a good thing at all. Think about it—carrying such a huge weakness, if he encountered humans in the future, wouldn't he be toyed with in the palm of their hand?

Just imagining that scene gave Baichuan a chilling feeling, as if his scales were about to stand on end.

Not to mention he also wanted to see the beautiful and vibrant world again.

On this point, he did know which animals had this ability—birds!

Among them, if he could choose, of course it would be eagle-type vision. But as a snake, did he dare to target eagles now?

Wasn't that like lighting a lamp in a toilet—looking for death?!

Finally came various powerful abilities—these abilities could make him more invincible, fearless of all kinds of harm.

Thinking this way, it seemed there were quite a few things he currently needed to modify!

……

"Splash splash splash..."

Suddenly the sound of flowing water came, bringing Baichuan back to his senses.

Clearly he had already arrived at the place where he had been drinking lately — a small stream.

(End of chapter)