Every day is one step closer to reality

The route chosen by the team went smoothly. Feng Yi studied several electronic documents in the car.

This was sent to him by Huang Ye, which contained an overview of the destination and some related key points.

Feng Yi has no experience in catching snakes on the plateau, and he doesn't know what the habits of snakes on the plateau are at this time of year. He relies on instinct and perception to catch snakes. Other people's experiences may not be useful to him, but it is always good to know more about them. .

The team took several breaks on the road. During the breaks, Huang Ye would also ask some questions about the South 6 team. Others in the team are also curious about the South 6 team of the Nan Chong scientific expedition team. Their jobs are similar, except that they look for snakes on the plateau, while the South 6 team looks for snakes in the forests of the Nan Chong Mountains.

There are more snake species in the Nan Chong Mountains, but there are only a few in the plateau area. Only two species have been discovered above an altitude of 4,000 meters, so it is difficult to find them.

After resting, they set off again, with Feng Yi driving. Huang Ye wanted to make a phone call home.

After sitting in the driver's seat, Feng Yi noticed the pendant on the car.

The pattern on the pendant shows the Buddha meditating below and a huge cobra above the Buddha.

After Huang Ye finished the call, Feng Yi asked him, "Does this hanging on your car have any special meaning?"

Huang Ye glanced at it and said, "Oh, this, it doesn't have any special meaning. I just hope I can be lucky enough to take pictures of snakes."

"Do you believe in Buddhism?" Feng Yi asked.

"No, there are people in my family who believe it. I'm not a true believer. Do you believe it?" Huang Ye knew that some people were taboo about this kind of pattern.

Many of his relatives believe in Buddhism, but some wear Buddha jade pendants, and some feel that the Buddha statue is placed for enshrinement, and wearing it on the body is blasphemy. We had a quarrel more than once.

Different people have different ideas.

He bought this pendant just for psychological comfort. He hoped to take pictures of snakes every time he went with the team. He didn't think much about anything else.

"I don't believe in religion." Feng Yi said, "I just think your pendant is quite strange. It's the first time I've seen someone hang it on a car."

"Oh, it's just a psychological comfort. You also know that after the abnormal climate period, the number of many snakes decreases. Sometimes when I go looking for snakes with a team, I can't find one for ten days and a half, and I often come back empty-handed. Every time. I go looking for it after asking the locals for information. If I’m lucky, I can find it. Sometimes I’m not lucky and I can’t find it no matter how hard I look.”

Huang Ye said, "I have heard so many myths and stories, and the only thing that can stick out its tongue on the Buddha's head is a snake. Hehe, although the story says that the snake king protects the Buddha."

As he said that, Huang Ye suddenly remembered something, "Oh, I almost forgot, I asked someone to bring the Fuxi Nuwa pendant for me!"

Feng Yi: "... Fuxi Nuwa?"

Huang Ye smiled awkwardly and said, "In myths and legends, Fuxi Nuwa has the head of a human and the body of a snake. I'm thinking that if I add more psychological comfort, maybe snakes will have better luck."

Feng Yi said nothing.

Huang Ye continued to bab at the unopened car accessories in his trunk.

Seeing that Feng Yi didn't speak for a while, Huang Ye thought that Feng Yi didn't believe in religion and must not be interested in myths and legends.

"Ahem, actually just listen to the fairy tales and don't take them seriously. Who knows what happened tens of millions of years ago.

"We are still in the information age. There are 800 versions of what happened in the morning in the afternoon. If it were tens of millions of years ago, the differences would be even greater. Don't take it too seriously. Just listen and let it go."

"Yeah." Feng Yi responded.

While driving in the afternoon, we encountered a herd of yaks on the road. The motorcade stopped for a while to let the yaks pass.

Feng Yi looked through the car window.

The herdsmen followed the yak herd on horseback, and a big black dog wandered around the edge of the yak herd. It looked like the cattle herding work was easy and skillful.

When walking past the motorcade, I noticed something. The big black dog looked at the car where Feng Yi was, and took two steps back away from the car, his eyes alert.

After following the yak herd far away, the big black dog relaxed, as if the alarm had been lifted, and its steps became light again, bumping and trotting along the edge of the yak herd.

Feng Yi wondered, did the big black dog sense his aura?

He had tried his best to control his breath.

Maybe it's because the big black dog has a keen sense, or maybe it's because he's approaching the critical point of evolution, and some auras are emitted that cannot be hidden?

Fortunately, it has no impact on normal life.

The convoy arrived at its destination the next day after setting off. There were several showers on the way, each lasting only about 10 minutes.

This time Feng Yi didn't ride a bicycle, so he didn't have to get wet in the rain and could stay calm in the car.

When they arrived at the destination, a convoy was preparing to leave.

Huang Ye looked at the group messages and explained to Feng Yi that the team there was investigating Big Cat, and the captain was now asking them for information. "

"Big cat?" Feng Yi asked.

"It's just a snow leopard, a golden leopard, something like that."

"There are quite a lot of scientific research activities now."

"That is, if the funds are sufficient, the equipment conditions can keep up, and if people can be recruited, the investigation will be more frequent. But it is also very hard. This time they came to replace a camera placed in the wild, which was damaged by a big cat. "

After a while, the convoy set off again, heading to the resettlement site.

Feng Yi learned from Huang Ye that the leader of this investigation team also came once in July and photographed a red-spotted alpine viper. When he came this time, he also received news that someone had seen it in another place.

Three times a year, sample data needs to be collected in different seasons. However, this was Huang Ye’s first time coming with the team and he missed the time in July.

Huang Ye has been in a state of excitement since arriving. Before going to bed at night, I was still talking about:

"Feng Yi, do you think we can find the red-spotted alpine viper this time?"

"able."

Feng Yi could already smell the scent of snakes, and there were far more than just a few of them, and they were not very big.

However, Feng Yi didn't plan to dig them all out. He would catch the one closest to him tomorrow.

Different from the excitement and anticipation of Huang Ye and others, Feng Yi only went out to watch the starry sky for a while at night, and then continued to sleep. He slept very well. After the compass takes effect and can be accurately positioned, I can sleep well.

The next day, with the sun high in the sky, Feng Yi put on his hat and sunglasses and set off with the team.

"I heard from the locals that one was found there recently."

Huang Ye pointed to the hillside not far away, "I don't know if he ran away, but I hope he didn't run far."

Huang Ye was not allowed to catch snakes. He did not have much experience in catching snakes. Even if he dared to catch snakes, the team responsible would not allow him to do so.

The red-spotted alpine viper is not very big in nature, but it is still a viper and is venomous. If an inexperienced person takes action in a panic, he will either hurt himself or the snake.

Therefore, if a snake is found, Huang Ye can only call others to come and catch it.

Huang Ye originally followed a few familiar snake-catching veterans in the team, but seeing that Feng Yi was still standing there and not following the team over there, Huang Ye walked out a few steps and then stepped back.

"Aren't you going to come with us?" Huang Ye asked.

"There are many people going there, enough." Feng Yi stood there, pretending to look around, flipping through the information and looking at the terrain. After a while, he raised his hand and pointed to a hillside not far away, "I'll go over there. Take a look."

"You... think there are snakes over there?"

"Yes! Tell the team leader for me and I'll go over there and have a look." Feng Yi raised his feet and walked over there.

He didn't have the contact information of anyone else in the team, so he asked Huang Ye to help. Since you join the team temporarily, you must report when you act alone.

Huang Ye was completely confused by Feng Yi's operation.

He didn't think Feng Yi was talking nonsense. The person who could be selected by the South Sixth Team must have outstanding abilities, but what was the basis for the judgment?

Looking at Feng Yi and then at the others, Huang Ye gritted his teeth and followed Feng Yi. Rather than trusting Feng Yi, it would be better to say that he believed in the Southern 6 team's vision for selecting people.

Of course, even if he didn't find the snake, he wouldn't think Feng Yi was incompetent.

In Huang Ye's view, snakes are always elusive. It is not easy to find snakes in places like this. Sometimes it really depends on luck.

Before he went out today, he paid homage to Buddha Fuxi and Nuwa. He hoped that snake luck would be good today.

The team leader knew that Feng Yi had not followed, but Feng Yi could only be regarded as a passerby to them. They were just giving him a ride and were not required to follow the team all the time, so the team leader ignored him.

After receiving news from Huang Ye that he and Fengyi were going uphill on the other side, the person in charge agreed.

No matter if you go to the other side, the troops are divided into two groups, and the chance of discovery is higher. They have found enough on this hillside.

Huang Ye walked behind Feng Yi, taking pictures of the surrounding scenery as he walked.

"The weather is quite good today. The temperature is good at this time. I hope the red-spotted alpine vipers here are in the mood to come out and bask in the sun, otherwise no one can find them if they hide... Feng Yi, why did you stop?"

Huang Ye didn't pay attention and almost bumped into someone in front of him.

Feng Yi raised his hand and pointed towards one place, "Over there."

"What?"

"Is that the red-spotted alpine viper that you mentioned?"

"Where is it!"

Huang Ye stared in the direction Feng Yi pointed. It was a little far away, so I didn't find it at first glance.

Then he adjusted the camera, zoomed in and used the lens to find it clearly.

Huang Ye's breathing stagnated, and then became rapid again, and he felt that his blood flow was speeding up!

I have worked so hard to come to the plateau with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters just for this! We were even mentally prepared to leave empty-handed!

"My snake luck is so good today! I didn't expect to find it as soon as I came out!"

Huang Ye didn't dare to get close. He adjusted the camera and took a few pictures with a professional camera.

Then I took a photo with my phone and sent it to the team chat group to show off:

【Good start! Get one first! 】

As expected of the person favored by the South 6 team, Feng Yi is so lucky!

Huang Ye thought so, and looked away from the phone screen and looked over. Just a short while after sending the message, Feng Yi had already rushed over there.

"Hey! Don't get excited!"

Huang Ye was still worried that Feng Yi would strike too hard, so he hurriedly followed him, preparing to remind Feng Yi not to be bitten. However, before he could speak, Feng Yi had already caught the snake.

Seeing that the snake was fine and Feng Yi was not injured, Huang Ye became excited again and held up his camera to take pictures.

He had to hurry up and take photos, otherwise he wouldn't have such a good photo opportunity when the team leader came over later.

Huang Ye's low voice was trembling, "I finally saw it! The venomous snake that lives at the highest altitude in the country! It's so beautiful! Those little nostrils are so cute! Look at those two nests!"

Feng Yi: "...That's the cheek pit."

"I don't know how venomous this moth-eating snake is."

Feng Yi looked at it and said, "Not very good."

The rest of the team hadn't found the snake yet, so the person in charge rushed over first after seeing Huang Ye's message.

Feng Yi handed over the red-spotted alpine viper to them, and he would not participate in other data sampling work.

I wiped my hands and sat on a rock on the hillside to bask in the sun.

He could sense that in the nearby areas, meadows, hillsides and some corners that were not easily noticed, some snakes came out to bask in the sun, and some snakes were still hiding in holes.

Don't bother them anymore. Others on the other side should be able to catch one, and two are enough to collect data.

Feng Yi caught this snake to thank the convoy for giving him a ride. He stopped by to see with his own eyes these snakes that live at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters.

They adapt well to such a harsh environment.

Feng Yi changed the place and lay down on the hillside, not dissatisfied with the rocks.

The pupils behind the sunglasses were narrowed, looking through the bright sky and seeing the stars hidden behind the light.

After the "Compass" system was activated, he could also see the stars during the day, but not as clearly as at night. However, it is enough to determine the direction.

He felt that he would be able to adapt well if he lived here. The land was vast and sparsely populated, and no one would notice anything unusual. It's just that the air here is thin, the air pressure is low, and there is less oxygen. The plateau has its own ecological rhythm.

His egg still needs to find a suitable hatching place!

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