Live Streaming: Great Adventure in the Wilderness

In the rainforest, Bi Fang’s expression was serious as he knelt beside a python with a swollen abdomen, holding a stone dagger in his hand like a doctor about to perform surgery.

He had obtained permission from the conservation area and was preparing to perform a cesarean section on a dead python—of course, that was assuming there really were eggs inside.

Otherwise, he might just dig out a pile of fecal matter.

Gently pressing on the python’s abdomen, it was the first time Bi Fang felt anxious: “Many pythons suffer from ‘constipation,’ and I don’t know what I’ll find with this cut. It could be a pile of undigested animal corpses or a shattered snake gallbladder.”

[Ah, this is going to be a pungent video.]

[I’m signing off for now. Let me know later what you find, and then I’ll come back online, dog’s head.jpg]

[Add me to that list; I don’t want to see fecal matter.]

Aiming at the lower abdomen, the stone dagger made a shallow cut…

There was just a faint white mark.

Bi Fang increased the pressure of his hand, cutting over and over: “The python’s skin is much thicker than I thought. It’s a pity I don’t have a sharper obsidian or flint stone; that would have made things much simpler.”

If he applied too much force, the python eggs that hadn’t been crushed by the wild Baizhi ox might instead be crushed by Bi Fang himself,

After cutting back and forth over a dozen times, the stone dagger finally made headway by breaking through the snake’s skin.

Once he got started, the rest became much simpler; Bi Fang continued to cut along the muscle fibers.

The Burmese python, with its muscles cut open, did not bleed much. The surroundings, looking like a battlefield, indicated that the blood had nearly all bled out.

Breaking open the lower abdomen, a strong putrid stench emanated out. Bi Fang held his breath and continued cutting.

“It’s foul, but that’s normal. The insides of any animal aren’t going to smell good.”

He enlarged the wound further, cutting the opening more than half a meter at once, then grabbed the edges and pulled them apart, revealing a thin reddish membrane to everyone’s view.

“It seems my luck isn’t too bad; I didn’t dig up any fecal matter.”

Bi Fang grabbed the bottom of the placenta and pulled forcefully outward, releasing a dense cluster of tiny eggs into the air, which even gave off a faint white steam.

[Are those snake eggs? There’s so many!]

[Damn, there must be dozens, right? How can these things be endangered?]

At a glance, there were nearly dozens of snake eggs inside the Burmese python’s belly, though most of them were broken, oozing egg liquid. The intact ones weren’t many, less than one-fifth, but there were also about a dozen or so.

Bi Fang had counted them; after all, he had witnessed the entire python-ox showdown, except for the last moment when the python was stepped on, it was slammed into the tree multiple times.

“That’s because there are many predators of the Burmese python here, and many large lizards like to eat python eggs. For them, it’s a rare delicacy. Even if they can’t eat them, they wouldn’t crush them, preferring to prevent those eggs from growing up.”

“In a different place, like Ugly Country’s Frolorida State, because of the lack of natural predators, Burmese pythons run rampant, dominating nature, causing the government to have no choice but to organize a snake-hunting contest with a substantial prize to encourage citizens to actively catch snakes.”

Different places determine different treatments.

[A python-hunting contest? Sounds familiar…]

[Is it like those pythons in the movies, where they’re secretly fed growth hormones and then grow into huge ones?]

Bi Fang collected the broken snake eggs: “Of course, the ultimate goal of the contest is to kill the overpopulated Burmese pythons, so all comers are welcome.”

[Old Fang should go and not just slaughter, but win that prize money!]

[No professional competitors allowed in the contest!]

[Honestly, I’m a bit curious to have a look. Take a break and just go for it.]

“That depends on whether I’m free or not,” Bi Fang replied without directly answering, storing the snake eggs in his bark case.

Since he had found snake eggs, of course, he wouldn’t just leave them out in the wild. Otherwise, by the time the rescue team arrived, they would be gone.

Bi Fang privately sent his location to Zhou Weisheng. Now all that remained was to wait for the helicopter to come and take the eggs away. As for the remaining python corpse, it was left for Nature to decompose.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

After tidying everything up, Bi Fang quickly followed the hoof prints again: “We’ve already stayed here too long, it’s too dangerous, we must leave quickly.”

“We’ve caught up with the white-limbed wild ox. Next, we just wait for it to find its salt lick home base.”

The wild Baizhi ox wasn’t moving fast this time, and it only took Bi Fang ten minutes to see it again without causing any trouble.

The Baizhi ox was leisurely grazing on grass, showing no signs of having just been through a battle.

A python as thick as a grown man’s leg was like a mere splash of water for it—this is the true lord of Nature!

Moved by the thought, Bi Fang lay flat on the ground, daring not to raise his head.

[Those muscles, I really want to take a bite and taste it.]

[Try and you’ll be dead.]

[If you want to eat lead, just say so. No beating around the bush, we’re all straightforward folks here.]

Bi Fang spent the afternoon trailing behind the Baizhi ox, wandering around with it.

“What follows is just a matter of patience, but I think it’s almost time for it to replenish its salt. I’ve followed its hoof prints for so long and didn’t see any place rich in salt.”

“So simply put, it’s been nearly five days without supplementing salt, just like me. Perhaps it’s happening in these next few days, as long as we’re patient enough.”

And so Bi Fang waited until nightfall, the light dimming around him and the sense of claustrophobia intensifying.

“We have to sleep out in the wilderness now. There’s not enough time to get back to camp,” Bi Fang said, looking at the once-again forbidding jungle and picking a direction away from the Baizhi ox.

He had to find a safe place to spend the night and continue the tracking the next day.

Bi Fang had a premonition that he might be on the verge of success.

“I had considered the possibility that we might not be able to return tonight before coming, so I prepared plenty of supplies. Now we need to find a suitable spot to camp for the night. My ideal location is a natural tree hollow, which would save a lot of effort and also provide shelter from the rain.”

Bi Fang glanced around the forest, seeking the ideal environment: “As long as we follow certain patterns and the terrain, we can easily find a tree hollow.”

[How easy is it to find a tree hollow?]

[Ah, a tree hollow. I’ve dreamed of living in a house like that since I was a child.]

[Isn’t Old Fang boasting? Tree hollows seem to be one of those things that you might not find even if you search for them.]

Some members of the audience were skeptical, thinking that Bi Fang was bluffing since many people have never seen a tree hollow.

“That’s because you’ve never been to the Banna Rainforest. Here, if you search according to my method, you can easily find one.”

Bi Fang didn’t mind the skepticism, focusing his attention on the trees with very large diameters, searching carefully, but the dim light made it difficult.

“Research by the staff of the Banna Science Academy shows that the larger the diameter of a tree, the greater the probability of it having a tree hollow. This is easy to understand because a large diameter generally correlates with the age of the tree.

And the older a tree gets, the greater the chance it has been wounded, which increases the likelihood of tree hollows forming.”

“Moreover, the formation of tree hollows is closely related to the species of the tree. Some species tend to form hollows more easily, such as the jackfruit and ant plant trees. While others aren’t so prone to it. Generally, tree species with hard wood are less likely to develop hollows, whereas those with softer wood are more susceptible.”

Bi Fang made some marks, then headed down a slope.

“Trees that grow on the southern side tend to form hollows more easily. Banna is influenced by the southwest monsoon, so the trees on the southern side are more vulnerable to strong winds and lightning damage, and the same principle applies to places with steeper slopes.”

“Then, in the karst seasonal rainforest and valley rainforest, the steeper the slope, the more likely the trees are to form hollows. We should now be in a valley rainforest.”

Based on this theory, as long as Bi Fang moved towards the south and areas with steep slopes, specifically looking for those specific tree species and trees with sufficiently large diameters, the chance of encountering tree hollows would greatly increase!

[Wait up, Old Fang, you’re talking too fast!]

[What’s a karst seasonal rainforest? And what’s a valley rainforest? Does that have anything to do with the Pythagorean theorem?]

The audience was confused. Isn’t a rainforest just a rainforest?

Why does it look like there’s so much distinction?

[Hand raise emoji!]

Before Bi Fang could answer, an employee of the Banna Rainforest Conservation Area eagerly posted the answer in the comments.

[In tropical or subtropical regions, some valleys or basins, due to terrain effects, create local low pressure, causing air to rise and precipitate easily.]

[And because of the hot climate in the tropical and subtropical regions, this creates a localized rainforest climate, and therefore the vegetation shaped by the terrain is known as a valley rainforest!]

“That’s about right,” Bi Fang nodded affirmatively in response to the answer, “The Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon has similar climate and vegetation, which is why, despite being on the Tibetan Plateau, it’s also considered a tropical rainforest.”

The Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon has snowcapped mountains above and a tropical rainforest below, even though it’s on the plateau, which is quite rare worldwide.

The deepest part is 6009 meters, with an average depth of 2673 meters, making it the deepest canyon in Huaxia and even the world.

It is said that no one dares to enter the deepest part of the canyon to this day, and it is referred to as one of Earth’s last unexplored places.

“As for the karst seasonal rainforest, it’s mainly comprised of rainforest in areas of limestone low mountains. This type of rainforest has widespread limestone distribution, abundant karst features, and many sinkholes and underground rivers.”

[Another day of enlightenment, eating candy.jpg]

[Amazing, Master Fang is amazing, just blow me away, waving a glow stick, cheering.]

[Wait, how did Old Fang determine this is a valley rainforest? You haven’t told us that yet.]

The laid-back employees were also curious. How did Master Fang know this place was a valley rainforest?

Wasn’t the helicopter drop-random?

This was something almost everyone knew. The helicopter was arranged by the director.

Could it be that the director and Bi Fang had already colluded?

[Director Zhou: “Not me, I didn’t, stop making stuff up!”]

“Because the Burmese Python mainly lives in valley rainforests, I reckon there’s a high probability that I’m in one,” said Bi Fang, his tone nonchalant yet sufficient to make the employees gasp.

Hiss!

The devil is in the details!

That’s quite something, something of a lot kind!

[Is this something humans can know?]

[Paths never before considered]

[Be confident, no carbon-based life form could possibly know this. Old Fang is purely an alien—I guarantee it! I suggest sending him to my place for a thorough examination.]

[Fine, so fine.]

[Why is Master Fang so meticulous?]

[Screaming 666, you are my big brother.]

Compared to the employees, the general audience was even more straightforward, offering unconditional admiration.

Bi Fang, who hadn’t seen his fans prostrating themselves, eventually found a suitable place after a serious search.

A giant tree hollow formed by a cluster of banyan trees!

No, it should be said to be “one” banyan tree that formed a giant tree hollow.

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