Closer to Revealing My True Self-Chapter 67 - 64 You think so_1

“I had a friend who got bitten by a White-lipped Green Bamboo Viper while catching snakes in the wild, and even he cried from the pain!”

Cheng Si quietly moved away from the Green Bamboo Viper a little.

After the measurements and sampling, Feng Yi released the Green Bamboo Viper back onto a tree.

The team continued on their way.

“Our expedition into the mountains this time has yielded quite a lot, much more than their research team did last year!” Teacher Lei, who was holding the camera, said.

Last year, Teacher Lei also accompanied a team into the mountains to film, so he knew what happened last year very well. This year, as part of Professor Zhou’s team entering the mountains, catching so many snakes wasn’t just because they changed routes.

Teacher Lei looked at Feng Yi. This kid was too sensitive to the presence of snakes, like the Green Bamboo Viper earlier that was so well-hidden in the tree — nobody in the team noticed it, but this kid spotted it with a single glance.

Truly, don’t judge a book by its cover!

The 1000 points were well rewarded!

Professor Zhou and the other team members felt the same. Captain Yuan from the Conservation Bureau made the right recommendation. Without Captain Yuan’s word, who would have thought there was such a talent?

It was the fourth week of the team’s venture into the mountains.

Everyone else on the team had tanned another two shades darker while Feng Yi had finally gotten a bit tanned, but this was only in comparison to his previous self. Compared to the rest of the team, he was still incredibly pale!

Cheng Si no longer had the energy to envy or resent him. He could only participate in such a field research activity once; he would definitely not want to do it a second time, especially not this kind of deep mountain exploration lasting one or two months.

As for Feng Yi, aside from getting a little thinner and darker, he remained energetic, seemingly with an endless supply of energy.

Now, Professor Zhou felt comfortable letting Feng Yi walk around and observe in the forest by himself. One reason was that Feng Yi had proven his ability to survive in the wild; another was his sensitivity to the presence of snakes, which could help discover snakes and other reptiles they had missed.

Four weeks into the mountain, the team’s harvest was substantial, capturing more snakes than in previous years. One could say that within the last decade, no other research team had caught more snakes than them. If the data were printed out, it would be twice as thick as other teams’ data!

The team was also fortunate to capture footage of a crocodile lizard lazily basking in the sun.

The living fossil, the crocodile lizard, was also first discovered by Feng Yi. Professor Zhou excitedly made 5 phone calls back to the base.

There was little information on crocodile lizards among field research teams. After the abnormal climate period, many teams had not spotted crocodile lizards. This time, it was during a team break when Feng Yi found it while wandering nearby.

The discovery of the crocodile lizard also earned Feng Yi more “free time.” During this time, he could find something to eat in the forest; if it weren’t for looking for food elsewhere, he wouldn’t have gotten just a little thinner by now; he probably would have become emaciated!

Another foggy day.

With poor visibility, the team did not set out.

“I heard that once during a foggy day, the base tried to use a drone to fly into the mountains for filming, and it nearly didn’t make it back,” Teacher Lei said.

“Foggy days in the mountains really affect us greatly.” decided Professor Zhou, choosing to let everyone rest more on such a day.

“In another two hours or so, it should dissipate enough,” Feng Yi said.

“Hmm, hopefully that’s the case,” Professor Zhou said.

Over this period, Feng Yi had proven not only his snake-catching ability but also his skill in forecasting the weather.

Indeed, two hours later, the fog cleared, and the sunlight poured down.

The chirping of birds was replaced by the incessant noise of cicadas.

The animals hid in the dense forest, heard but not seen. To understand the animals in the deep mountains, one still had to rely more on technology. Hidden cameras could always record traces of rare animals.

“Plentiful rainfall and the moist environment have resulted in lush vegetation growth here. The view is heavily obstructed. Oh, over there, do you see the shapes of those mountain rocks? Those are all traces left by rainwater hitting the rocks,” Professor Zhou pointed to a section of the mountainside and explained.

You may not notice it in a year, so think about ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years.

As for tens of millions of years… millions of years ago, this might have been an ocean.

Researcher Xie collected a sample of water: “The stream water here is really clean.”

Professor Zhu looked at the forest clearing as the mist dissipated, quite moved, “It is said that the life of water depends on the mountains, the life of mountains depends on the soil, and the life of soil depends on wood. Mountains, water, soil, and wood are a community of life. It really is so.”

Researcher Xie said, “Humans and nature are also a community of life.”

Then Professor Zhou added, “Didn’t the ancients already have the concept of ‘humans and nature as a community of life’? ‘When plants and trees are lush and robust, axes and saws do not enter the forests, so as not to cut short their life or put an end to their growth; when turtles, fish, and eels are breeding, nets and poisons do not enter the marshes, so as not to cut short their life or put an end to their growth.'”

Professor Zhu continued, “And also ‘Man follows the Earth, the Earth follows Heaven, Heaven follows the Dao, and the Dao follows Nature.’ I think it carries the same meaning.”

Feng Yi, “…I’ll take a walk nearby.”

He didn’t want to listen to Professor Zhou and Professor Zhu’s ‘discussion of the Dao’.

Feng Yi had also ‘taken a walk nearby’ more than once, so after Professor Zhou emphasized a few old adages about safety, he agreed.

Cheng Si wasn’t following him now either, he could tell that Feng Yi just wanted to wander alone, and every time he did, he’d come back with something, whether it was edible wild fruit or the discovery of a reptile.

Besides, Feng Yi was like he had a built-in compass in his brain, and even on foggy days without the sun, his sense of direction was remarkably accurate, so there was no need to worry about him getting lost.

Feng Yi walked through the forest, gradually unable to hear the voices of Professor Zhou and the others.

He could feel the harmony in the forest, the thrum of burgeoning life.

The mountains served as the backbone, the rivers as the veins, supporting the entire ecosystem here. Thousands of plants thrived in their growth.

When the sun came out, the plants began another day’s battle for supremacy. Even the most inconspicuous blade of grass on the ground took part in this struggle for survival.

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If you looked closely at the details of the forest, competition was everywhere, even brutal at times.

The decaying leaves and branches gradually turned into nutrients, serving as an energy supply for other plants.

There were also new competitors breaking through the soil, vying for sunlight and soil.

Deep breath.

There’s the smell of earth, the fragrance of flowers, the odor of slowly rotting leaves, and various hidden messages that the eye couldn’t capture.

The forest, cleared of its moisture, was approaching the hottest time of the day.

The chorus of insects waned, and the entire forest gradually quieted down.

Sunlight streamed through the gaps in the trees, casting beams of light.

In the distance, currents tumbled over the mountain ridges, possibly brewing the next wave of mist or rain.

The ever-changing climate was also the rhythm of the mountains. Intruders, whether human or other foreign life forms, might not be able to adapt, but every life form that grew here, even ants, which seemed insignificant to humans, were already accustomed to the rhythm of this place.

“The temperature is right, the humidity is right. It’s especially refreshing to come out at a time like this! Don’t you think?”

Feng Yi looked towards a low shrubbery.

His pupils swiftly narrowed into slits.

In a world of perception where infrared senses and hyper-sensitive smell overlapped, even the space beneath the shrubbery was clearly visible.

Feng Yi split his lips into a smile.

Two elongated canines popped out restlessly.

Those eyes, with their narrowed pupils, looked cold and ruthless.

…

Steve, who was bored, was filming insects near the team’s rest stop.

As he was filming, he suddenly heard a shout:

“Ste—ve!”

Recognizing it as Feng Yi’s voice, Steve dropped everything to run towards him.

But he hadn’t run far when he stumbled and nearly tripped over himself.

Steve looked ahead, his heart rate speeding up and his blood pressure soaring.

Feng Yi was running towards him, holding a large python in his arms.

If that python were translated into human terms, rounded up or down—

It was as if Feng Yi was holding a struggling 1.8-meter-tall man and charging forward!

On Feng Yi’s side, after running in Steve’s direction for a while with the snake in his grip, he realized he had kind of broken his persona; he should not have been able to run carrying a large python.

So, Feng Yi peeled the snake off his body and threw it to the ground, still holding the snake with one hand and wrapping the other arm around a section of it, continuing to sprint towards Steve.

“Steve! Look, there’s a big cutie here!”

Steve, his heart pounding with concern that Feng Yi would be strangled, was speechless.