Chapter Thirty-Six: Following Nature

  Xishan Township's sensational news was unknown to Lin Bei, so he didn't know that the sensation had brought him a lot of trouble. Now Lin Bei is still carefree.

  Lin Bei sometimes goes out, either to fetch food or to beat up the adult snakes nearby, but it has no effect. Those big snakes were beaten by Lin Bei several times and did not surrender, but they became fearful, and many have secretly left. The little brothers that Lin Bei wanted didn't get any.

  The mother jackal's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and its gait was becoming slower and slower. Lin Bei silently paid attention to it, perhaps in these few days, the mother jackal would give birth.

  At Longtan, Lin Bei was more accustomed to staying on the wooden house top, taking care of Didi and Qiqi while staring at the snake eggs. It is said that the small life inside the egg, although not yet born, can already feel the breath outside. Lin Bei felt it necessary to strengthen this breath, so that after the snakes hatched, they could listen to his commands.

  As DouDou and QiQi's feathers had grown in nicely and their bodies were now suitable, Lin Bei thought it was time for them to learn how to fly.

  In the past, Lin Bei heard about some birds learning to fly for the first time. It was said that some eagles would pick up their young and fly high into the sky, then drop them straight down. If the young eagles couldn't learn to fly while falling towards the ground, they would end up smashing to death, very cruel.

  Lin Bei would never do something like this; his methods were much more gentle, he just let the two little guys go first.

  It is well known that babies start walking after learning to crawl. When learning to walk, both hands will swing or open with the footsteps, which is a way to maintain balance and also an instinct. Lin Beiren teaches young birds to walk on the same principle.

  When the two little ones walk, it is also the case that their wings will keep flapping to maintain balance, which has the benefit of exercising their weak wings and helping with future flight. When the young birds feel the time is ripe, they will naturally leave the ground, this is where birds are more awesome than humans, people can't fly into the sky by themselves.

  From the time when small birds learn to walk until they fly into the sky, because of the different species of birds and the different times, the fastest ones like eagles can do it in one go, while slower ones need a month or two. Most of them take around ten days or so, which is a period of time that Lin Bei can afford.

  However, the two little guys are lazy, perhaps because they have been eating well since childhood, their bodies are a bit chubby, and they don't like to move around. This is not a good sign, so Lin Bei can only be ruthless about it.

  Afraid of accidentally killing the two little ones with too much force, Lin Bei could only find a soft branch and use it to poke them, forcing them to come out of their nest and move forward. The two little ones didn't understand 'mom's' actions, they just stared at Lin Bei and chirped, but Lin Bei didn't care. In the end, perhaps feeling that they couldn't win against Lin Bei, they finally came out of the bird's nest with difficulty.

  In the early stages, their paws were still very soft and they easily fell over, which is a normal phenomenon. Babies learning to walk also fall over, but since there was soft grass all around, it's not like they could get hurt, so Lin Bei didn't care at all. If they wouldn't walk, he'd use branches to poke them. At this point, you had to be ruthless.

  It takes a ruthless heart and patience, Lin Bei has had daughters before, and he himself is not lacking in patience, so he thinks that this kind of thing is not only not boring, but also very loving. Watching the two little ones from taking their first steps and falling over to later walking more steadily, flapping their wings with increasing strength, this sense of satisfaction at "raising a daughter" is unparalleled.

  The little ones have made progress, and naturally they deserve a reward. With more activities, their physical strength is lost quickly, and they need sufficient food. Lin Bei will go to the river to catch shrimp and crabs when they are resting. At this time, the little ones can already eat without meat paste and can eat shredded meat. Lin Bei will put the shrimp and crab meat there for them to peck at, exercising their beaks' strength.

  Mother bird usually trains the little birds to catch food by catching live insects and letting them peck, but Lin Bei can't catch small insects, so she can only use this method. For now, Lin Bei doesn't know if it's effective, but this is the only way she could think of.

  Doudou and Qiqi want to eat, Lin Bei naturally has to eat too. The wild chickens behind the Feilong wall seem to be fewer now, except for those caught by Lin Bei, more wild chickens have migrated because Lin Bei disrupted the ecological balance. So now Lin Bei wants to catch wild chickens will go further away. However, although it's a bit farther away, the silly nature of the wild chickens makes them not too difficult to catch.

  Again, in the river, the wild chicken's entrails were removed and casually thrown into the river to be washed away. Lin Bei, however, discovered that as the entrails floated away, several soft-shelled turtles emerged from a small hole at the bottom of the stream, feeding on these entrails.

  "Uh, wasn't it just one turtle before? How come there are several more now? Were they lured over by the blood food?"

  A large lobster also crawled out of the stone cave, and lobsters are also omnivorous animals, but they tend to be more carnivorous, often eating aquatic insects and some animal carcasses, sometimes even snails. The wild chicken entrails thrown by Lin Bei were also a delicious food for them.

  The tortoises, despite their gentle nature, also have the habit of defending their food. So when they encountered this brave lobster, several tortoises launched a fierce attack, sparking a war that seemed tiny to Lin Bei but was crucial to them. Soon, the lobster retreated and hid in its hole, and the tortoises began to tear open its entrails, dividing them among themselves. The leftovers were washed away by the river water, but they wouldn't drift far.

  Lin Bei was delighted to see the turtles by the river, and he even felt a little surprised. The more turtles there were, the more at ease he became. If there were a few more, he could even catch some to make turtle soup, which was a great tonic, especially for wild turtles like these, which you hardly ever see in modern times.

  "But isn't it said that this small river's flow is very short? Where did the turtle come from? It seems like there's time to go downstream and take a look, besides, turtles are egg-laying masters, they can lay about three to five nests of eggs in a year. This season should be the peak period for turtles laying eggs, if we make some preparations, these turtles will be easy pickings."

  The small river is in the forest, and the riverbank is all rocky crevices. This terrain is not suitable for turtles to lay eggs because they need sandy ground. If Lin Bei can create a large area of sandy ground, it will attract turtles to lay eggs on the sandy ground, and then whether it's incubating baby turtles or eating turtle eggs, it will be readily available.

  Lin Bei is now doing anything without any long-term purpose or planning, just following his own interests, wanting to do whatever he wants, after all, he is a snake now, and Lin Bei doesn't know how many years this snake body can live, so as long as he's happy, that's good enough, as for leaving his mark in history, Lin Bei really hasn't thought about it at all.

  Follow nature.