Chapter 49: Lin Bei sheds his skin

  Lin Bei woke up still feeling a bit dazed, and after moving his head to clear the surroundings, Lin Bei let out a sigh. Every time he fell asleep and woke up again, he thought about whether he could return to modern times, but unfortunately, every time was in the forest.

  "I don't even know what's going on at home anymore." Lin Bei felt a bit downcast.

  Lin's father and mother only have Lin Bei as their only son. After Lin Bei got married, although it was Gao Rou who managed the household, Lin Bei was definitely the pillar of the family. In Lin Rou's heart, her own father was even more of a pillar of support. Lin Bei really didn't dare to imagine what they would be like when they found out he had gone missing.

  Lin Bei finally cheered up and slid down from the rooftop to swim into the Dragon Pool, ready to take a bath.

  Lin Bei has human-like thinking, so talking about hygiene has become a habit. No matter how many times this snake body is washed, it still looks the same, but Lin Bei at least needs to soak once every two days.

  Snakes seem to be born with the ability to swim, and Lin Bei floating in the Dragon Pool doesn't have any worried emotions at all. Instead, he feels his whole body relaxing, and the snake's instincts are also relaxed. Lin Bei can dive into the water and hold his breath for over half an hour at any time, and if he persists, the time will be extended, and there won't be any uncomfortable feelings. The strength of the snake's body is evident.

  His body floated and sank in the Dragon Pool, Lin Bei suddenly felt a bit itchy, couldn't help but take a look at the thick snake body, Lin Bei actually rarely carefully observed this body.

  So far, Lin Bei still has no idea what kind of snake or python he is, because he simply can't think of what kind of python could grow to such a huge size, unless it's some kind of monster from Chinese mythology, but myths are not credible, so Lin Bei believes that it might be some kind of mutated evolution.

  Nature is very magical, animals will evolve into the most suitable form for the current environment under the influence of the environment. This form may be stronger, may have higher defense capabilities, or may have a certain camouflage color. In short, the ultimate goal of this evolution is to enable animals to reproduce better.

  The evolutionary history of snakes is very long, the earliest era was the dinosaur era, also known as the Cretaceous period, evolved from lizards, during this period dinosaurs were the rulers, they dominated the sky and land, and other animals were just their food.

  In this situation, the originally very small snake began to evolve rapidly, and the snake group quickly evolved into a fierce snake species that could counter the dinosaurs. Everyone should be familiar with it, and this snake is called Titanoboa.

  As the world's most powerful python recognized by modern people, how big this creature can grow is controversial, but it is generally accepted that an adult Titan Python should be able to grow up to fifteen meters, of course, and it is not excluded that there will be longer ones. In addition, their body weight is quite heavy, with a basic weight of one ton, or one thousand kilograms.

  Unfortunately, the Titanoboa lived during a period when dinosaurs were about to become extinct. The asteroid impact that destroyed Earth also destroyed much of the fossil evidence, so modern humans can no longer find evidence of whether Titanoboa had interacted with dinosaurs or not. However, in the over 10 million years that followed, Titanoboa was one of the most active species, at the top of the food chain, and any species was their food, including crocodiles at that time.

  "Will this body of mine also be a Titan Snake?" Lin Bei suddenly had such an idea in his mind.

  It's no wonder that Lin Bei had such a wild idea, because other pythons couldn't possibly grow to be this big, and only the Titan Python could grow to be this large, so Lin Bei was able to make the connection.

  "I wonder, it's said that Titanoboa disappeared over 50 million years ago, how did it disappear? Hmm, I guess it didn't say."

  Lin Beihui recalled the information he had read before and was convinced that there was no mention of how Titanoboa disappeared, unlike dinosaurs, scientists have put forward various speculations, but for Titanoboa, scientists seem to be dismissive, not even a guess.

  As a top predator, it is illogical for them to suddenly disappear from the earth, as there were no organisms that could threaten their position at that time, which ruled out the possibility of natural enemies. Human activities are even more unlikely, since humans did not exist at that time. Natural disasters? This is also unlikely, because after the extinction of dinosaurs, there have been no large-scale natural disasters on earth.

  If it were in the past, Lin Bei would not have been so thorough, but now that he has become a snake, he naturally wants to get to the bottom of things. These unreasonable circumstances make Lin Bei very suspicious. The process of elimination has already ruled out the reason for the Titan Python's disappearance, so how could the Titan Python just disappear like this? It's really strange and bizarre.

  Lin Bei couldn't help but take another look at his original body's memories, this time he was very serious, from birth to hibernation, Lin Bei looked through it all more seriously than when he was studying for the college entrance exams. In the end, Lin Bei's thoughts froze on the moment when his original body went into hibernation, and he discovered a clue.

  It is well known that snakes hibernate in a deep hole to resist the cold, and Yuanshen is no exception. He found a mountain cave, which was not unusual at first, but Lin Bei discovered that the mountain cave Yuanshen had found seemed somewhat unusual, more like the remains of a giant animal after death, which had only fossilized. Yuanshen naturally didn't understand, but Lin Bei did.

  "It really looks more and more like the fossilized remains of a large animal." Lin Bei carefully examined the cave: "This side seems to be a big bone, but after it formed into a fossil, no one discovered it, and the original body didn't understand either, so it just lay down and fell asleep."

  "So the fossil should still be in Dongshan Township, which is also where the sweet well that I first came out of is located. I don't know what those people did with the sweet well, whether they sealed it up or continued to dig it. It seems like a trip there is necessary."

  His past life was ordinary and unremarkable, only the last cave which is now Sweet Well had some clues, Lin Bei decided to go take a look in the future, satisfying his curiosity.

  Having made up his mind, Lin Bei stopped thinking and only then did he realize that his body was getting itchier and itchier. Even soaking in the water couldn't relieve the itching, which seemed to be coming from the scales and drilling into his bones. Lin Bei could hardly bear it and hastily got out of the water.

  "How can it be so itchy? Do I have parasites on me?"

  Many large organisms have parasites that rely on them for life, and Lin Bei, despite being very clean, didn't dare guarantee that he didn't have any of these disgusting things on him.

  The itch was unbearable, Lin Bei couldn't help but rub his body against the ground, and when the scales touched the ground, he felt that the itching sensation had eased a bit. He naturally leaned in closer to the Qing Long Stone and started rubbing against it.

  It itched a bit, so Lin Bei had to continue scratching. Not only his body was itching, but also his brain was itching. Lin Bei was still a person after all, so soon he had an epiphany, "Ah, this is the rhythm of shedding skin."

  Snakes shed their skin many times in their lifetime, Lin Bei could only bitterly smile, he had also caught up, but as far as Lin Bei knew, every time a snake sheds its skin, its body would rapidly grow for a period of time. Now he was already over twelve meters long, if it grew any longer, wouldn't that be catching up to the Titan Python? Moreover, this was only the first shedding of skin, if there were several more sheddings, Lin Bei himself didn't know how long he could grow.

  Now that he knew he was going to molt, Lin Bei deliberately started with his head, and had to crack open the skin on his head, because snakes were like this, first shedding the skin on their heads, then drilling out of their entire body.

  Lin Bei's snake scales were very solid, but no matter how solid they were, they couldn't withstand Lin Bei's intense aura. The sunset had long since fallen, and it was almost 10 o'clock at night. Lin Bei felt that the position on his head finally cracked open a seam.