Closer to Revealing My True Self-Chapter 65 - 62 I feel I cant_1

Without sufficient experience and strength, one should not try easily. He still cherished his life.

In contrast to Cheng Si’s withdrawal, Steve, upon seeing the snake, became even more excited, spotting its raised head and its little pointed snout, he looked for an opportunity to make a move while a string of “oh baby~” and “so cute~” slipped from his lips.

Feng Yi: “…”

Cheng Si shook off the goosebumps on his skin, seeing Steve not catching the snake and even getting attacked several times, he spoke out, “Need a hand?”

Steve gestured with his hand, “Back off a bit, you don’t have the strength to hold it!”

Cheng Si thought to himself: Even if I had the strength, I couldn’t hold it!

He had been chased by a five-step snake before and the sight of one made him uneasy.

When Steve finally caught the snake, the three of them walked back.

Cheng Si looked around the environment and proposed to Professor Zhou, “Professor Zhou, why not do a live broadcast right here, now? We’ve just caught a five-step snake; it would be perfect to show the viewers what a wild venomous snake looks like.”

Inviting Cheng Si into the team was precisely to leverage the popularity of his live broadcasts to educate the public on scientific expedition work and to enhance ecological conservation awareness.

Professor Zhou checked the weather and nodded, “Okay, you and Steve go ahead with the broadcast.”

As Cheng Si prepared to start the live stream, he asked Feng Yi again, “Join the broadcast?”

Feng Yi shook his head, “You guys go ahead, I’m not interested.”

“Fine then,” Cheng Si sighed with relief inwardly. With Feng Yi’s good looks, he would surely have stolen the spotlight if he came over.

Feng Yi wasn’t concerned with Cheng Si’s petty concerns; he took out a compressed biscuit from his bag and cherished it as he nibbled.

After the scientific expedition team entered the mountains, if they followed the planned route, there would be supply points where they could replenish some supplies and deposit the samples collected along the way. Someone would then retrieve them and send them to Nan Chong Nature Reserve’s research base for testing and analysis.

But even with supply points, the food carried was not enough to satisfy Feng Yi’s stomach.

As Feng Yi pondered how to find a chance to cook something for himself, Cheng Si and Steve had already begun the live broadcast.

Steve was interacting with the online audience.

“… This is the hundred paces viper, commonly referred to as the five-step snake, just caught. I heard that when their numbers were high, they often coiled themselves along the roadside at night, and you could accidentally step on them. Tapping the grass with a bamboo stick might not be effective…”

“… Arrogance? Looking down on people with its nostrils? Hahaha, its little upturned snout is just like that, which is why it’s known as the ‘never bowing down’ species…”

“But these two large holes you mentioned, they’re not its nostrils, its nostrils are here, these two small holes. The two large holes are typical pits of the viper subfamily, just like the labial pits of pythons, they’re infrared sensing pits.

“… Small eyes? Its eyes aren’t small, it’s just that the pupils don’t appear very large.

“Generally, snakes that hunt during the day have large, round pupils, while those that hunt at night have this kind of erect, elongated shape, also known as vertical pupils. You all know cats, during the day when the light is strong, their pupils also constrict, just like this one, it looks almost like a line. But when the light dims, the pupils expand, then the eyes may appear larger.”

“But I find their narrow pupils quite cute. Look, don’t you think they’re ferociously cute?”

Cheng Si: “…”

Audience: “…”

We have no objections to calling them ferocious, but “cute” is really not something everyone can see!

Snakes can hunt from birth, they’re absolutely natural-born killers! And they’re cold-blooded! And they are famous venomous snakes!

Where’s the cute in that!

A barrage of bullet comments, all teasing Steve for his earlier “ferociously cute” and “adorable” remarks.

Steve’s pronunciation was too accurate, he definitely didn’t mean “ferocious.”

However, Steve didn’t care what others thought, in his eyes, they were just little cuties!

“…Fat? Couch potato? Um, it does look a bit like that, but it definitely can’t be considered fat, there are even fatter ones! Like the Gaboon viper and those from the Echis genus, especially the Gaboon viper, that’s definitely a couch potato plus!”

Cheng Si added from the side, “I know about the Gaboon viper, when it moves in a straight line, it’s just like a caterpillar version of a snake. The first time I saw that kind of snake, my first thought was ‘Is it about to turn into a butterfly?'”

Steve, looking at the online comments, laughed and said, “As fat as you? Don’t be too naive, audience member! Their fat is all composed of well-developed muscles, ‘fat’ that is flexible and highly venomous!”

Then Steve showed the live viewers the banded krait’s large fangs.

“…Look at its teeth, the banded krait, like the green bamboo viper and the rattlesnake, belongs to the Viperinae subfamily with tubular fangs. See its large tubular fangs, let’s collect some venom…”

Feng Yi, who was munching on cookies, paused to make sure his own large tubular fangs were well in place, rubbed his cheeks, and continued nonchalantly munching on cookies.

After Steve spent some time talking to the online viewers about the banded krait, he gave the time over to Cheng Si.

Cheng Si continued interacting with the online viewers.

“…Steve and others still need to perform physical measurements on that banded krait, recording its body length, tail length, weight, discovery location, surrounding environment, and so on, all this information will be entered into a database… It is quite challenging in the wild, you also need to be careful not to step on venomous snakes when walking in the woods…

“My achievements? On my first day in the mountains, I caught a king cobra, although there were some twists, I did catch it…”

As for Feng Yi’s snake-catching incident, Professor Zhou said not to spread the word, as it would not reflect well. So Cheng Si didn’t mention it.

“…We also had to pick up trash along the way, see, this is what I picked up today. The team leader, Professor Zhou, said these might have been in the mountains for over 30 years, but look, most show no signs of degradation. So, we picked them up to prevent them from damaging the mountain’s ecosystem…

“…Pick up pythons?? You guys think too highly of me! Picking up small pythons is more like it, pythons???”

Speaking of which, Cheng Si asked Professor Zhou, “Professor Zhou, does this nature reserve have pythons?”

Professor Zhou walked over, “Yes. During periods of unusual climate, people found frozen pythons in Nan Chong. Later, there were a few field release activities involving pythons, and those pythons were implanted with biochips to locate their exact position. Research teams sometimes encounter them when they come over.

“However, in recent years, the research teams haven’t found any locally born pythons after entering. Also, the route we have planned this time avoids those released pythons, so the likelihood of encountering pythons is very small.”

Cheng Si felt relieved.

The likelihood of encountering pythons is very small, and the likelihood of encountering a giant python is even smaller, for all we know the locally born ones might have already frozen to death during abnormal climate periods.

Over there, where Steve was helping to measure the physical data of the banded krait with others, he heard the voice from the livestream, turned his head and asked Feng Yi, “Have you ever caught a giant python?”

Feng Yi shook his head: “No.”

Steve: “Do you think you could catch one on your own?”

Feng Yi: “I don’t think so.”

Steve: “Hey, I can’t either. But if you really find a giant python, call me, and I’ll catch it with you!”

Feng Yi: “Okay!”