Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Chapter 4 Water Snake Fishing
When snakes are young, they mostly feed on grass shrimp, fish fry, mayflies, and even earthworms.

But Liu Qing's human thinking got in the way. He really disliked earthworms because they were dirty. If he had other options, he would definitely not eat them.

However, although earthworms are not eaten, they can be used to bait fish.

Liu Qing swam quickly from the bluestone to the shore, spotted a yellow-green stinky earthworm, and with a powerful flick of his long tail, he broke the stinky earthworm into two pieces.
The stinking earthworm felt pain and its body twisted and rolled in two pieces. Then it went its own way and fled to both sides, dragging its half body covered with mucus.

How could Liu Qing let it escape?

It came to the front, spitting out the core, and its slender snake tail rose up quickly, then pulled down, breaking the two pieces of the stinky earthworm into four pieces, and then pulled it into eight pieces, until it was as fine as mud.

After being whipped by the snake's tail, the young Liu Qing was exhausted. After resting for a while, he finally swam to the bluestone with two lumps of mud in his mouth.

This large bluestone is about one foot above the water surface, and half a foot below the water. There is a shallow layer of mud under the water, in which grow a few water celery and dense algae.

Liu Qing threw the smelly earthworm mud in his mouth into the algae near the bluestone.

Then it took a deep breath, filled the air sacs in its body, opened the scales on its tail, and used friction to hang upside down in the bluestone hole, while its head and upper body sank underwater and hid next to the algae.

The fishy smell of the stinking earthworm mud spread in all directions along with the ripples of the pond water.

For the ignorant fish and shrimp, the taste is simply intoxicating.

Soon, several half-inch long shrimps crawled out from an inconspicuous mud hole nearby. Their slender tentacles shook violently a few times, and then they paddled with five pairs of short legs and ran quickly towards the smelly earthworm mud.

A flash of joy appeared in Liu Qing's eyes and he opened his mouth slightly.

After the young shrimps passed by its mouth, it suddenly opened its upper and lower jaws. The young shrimps were frightened and instinctively flicked their tails and swam back.

In this way, it bounced back into Liu Qing's mouth.

Liu Qing stretched his neck slightly and swallowed the young shrimp in his mouth into his stomach with a gulp.

It was fresh, fragrant, tender, and the meat was elastic. It tasted better than tadpoles and small fish. Liu Qing spit out the core and savored it with satisfaction.

While I was still savoring the moment, ripples appeared on the water in the pond over there, and a group of black things came over like ink.

Liu Qing hurriedly dived back under the algae, opened his mouth slightly, and waited for the rabbit to come.

When this group of black things approached, Liu Qing discovered that they were actually a group of black fish fry.

As we all know, there is always a mother snakehead fish following the snakehead fry. The mother snakehead fish taking her babies for a walk is the most sensitive. Once she finds other creatures approaching, she will launch a fierce attack.

Liu Qing was scared, so he closed his mouth and used his tail to try to pull his body back by using the friction between his open scales and the hollow bluestone.

But he found that there was no female black fish following the black fish fry.

Liu Qing stopped retracting his body and stretched out his snake core to sense several times, but he did not sense any trace of the female black fish.

Liu Qing was overjoyed. It seemed that the smell of the stinky earthworm mud made the black fish fry ignore the danger and stay away from the mother black fish.

The black fish fry were about an inch long and all of them were plump. The smell of food emanating from them made Liu Qing salivate.

The abdomen also began to wriggle, and the elephant-swallowing talent seemed to be urging Liu Qing to eat.

"Okay, then take a sip secretly and go back!"

Liu Qing suddenly opened his upper and lower jaws and swallowed two black fish fry in one gulp. After stretching his neck to swallow them, he quickly opened his mouth and attacked repeatedly, swallowing five or six black fish fry.

The signal of abdominal distension was transmitted to the brain, and Liu Qing exerted force with his tail, retracting into the bluestone space.

Well, what a satisfying feast. This time I ate too much, and the elephant-swallowing talent in my abdomen was rapidly wriggling, digesting the food, and the feeling of satisfaction rushed to my brain like a tide.

Liu Qing narrowed his eyes slightly and closed his eyelids slightly.

I opened my eyes again and looked through the hole to find that it had become dark outside.

The earthworm meat paste used as bait had already been eaten up by shrimps, crabs and fishes, leaving only some taste, which attracted a few greedy fish to linger.

The talent of swallowing elephants is tempting him to swallow them.

Liu Qing slowly stretched his body out, sensed the surroundings, and when he saw that there was no danger, he sank to the bottom of the water and slowly approached the rice strip along the algae.

A two or three-inch long lunch strip was closest to him. Liu Qing estimated that he should be able to swallow it.

Just as he opened his mouth to launch an attack, unexpectedly, the food strip suddenly flew towards him.

The next moment, Liu Qing felt a pain in the snake's core.

This noodle actually mistook its own snake core for an earthworm!

Liu Qingdon felt at a loss whether to laugh or cry. He quickly closed his mouth and bit the food strip. The flesh thorns in his mouth exerted force, and he swallowed the food strip with difficulty.

The two or three-inch meal strip is almost equivalent to half of the body, and the thickest part of the strip is a circle larger than Liu Qing's body.

After Liu Qing swallowed it, his belly was bulging to the point of being almost transparent. Fortunately, he had a strong talent for swallowing elephants. He quickly squirmed and contracted his abdominal muscles, squeezing and crushing the food strip, allowing Liu Qing to shrink back into the bluestone space with his bulging belly.

Outside, the sky, which had been gloomy all afternoon, finally began to rain heavily.

The raindrops hit the water surface, creating ripples, and Liu Qing's sleepiness slowly spread in the ripples.

When Liu Qing woke up again, he looked through the bluestone hole and found that it was already bright outside. The bright red sun had already risen to the top of the locust tree on the shore.

Liu Qing turned his body upside down, extended his tail out of the bluestone cave, and defecated comfortably.

After defecation, Liu Qing's stomach was empty, but his elephant-swallowing talent was encouraging him to eat again.

Liu Qing slowly stuck out his head and stretched out his snake core to sense the surroundings. Seeing that there were no ferocious creatures nearby, he prepared to go out to find food.

[Today's Intelligence: Black Level. A flock of wild geese, migrating south, will stop here to rest. To them, your young self is a delicious delicacy.]

Hey!
Liu Qing was startled and quickly retracted his body, which had stretched out most of its body.

A flock of wild geese are coming to settle in this pond?
Will I become a delicacy in their mouths?
I am too scared of snakes. It is a very bad day today and it is not suitable to go out.

As soon as Liu Qing retracted his body, he faintly heard the sound of wings flapping in the sky. Soon, the sound of wings flapping became closer and more frequent.

The next second, the sound of a heavy object falling into the water was heard nearby.

Along with the cheerful caws of the geese, the fish, shrimps, turtles and crabs in the pond suffered a great disaster.

Crabs as big as fists were turned out of the holes, picked up and thrown onto the hard rocks on the shore. After the crab shells broke, the geese stretched out their beaks and pecked at them happily.

The fat catfish was gouged open by a goose beak, and the other goose beak quickly reached out, pecked and twisted, raised its neck and swallowed it up.

The delicious food from the abundant fish and shrimp in the pond brought a rare joy to the flock of geese during their arduous journey south.

(End of this chapter)