After Pan Weining's friend posted this status on the social platform, he was worried that this kind of "mosaic" was useless and could even directly locate the individual. You can tell who it is at a glance from this outfit.
Even though many people don’t know that Brother Snake is Feng Yi.
So Pan Weining asked Feng Yi again if this would work, and if not, just delete it.
Feng Yi took a look and thought it didn’t matter. Anyway, they were talking about “Brother Snake”, what does it have to do with me, Feng Yi
"What did Feng Yi say?"
"He said that's it, okay."
Pan Weining said, and then looked up at the person in the passenger seat, "You did this on purpose, didn't you?"
If he really wanted to blur the picture, his friends would know how to do it, but he just added glasses and a mask, which is exactly the typical outfit of "Snake Brother".
This means to tell everyone that the one who caught the crocodile is Brother Snake.
The person sitting in the front passenger seat did not deny it. "I did it on purpose. You don't know the nature of some people. They try to take advantage of things that are not theirs to do! Besides, media from all over the world are there now. Although I emphasized that they are young experts, there are so many young experts participating in this event. What if people from other countries say that this person is from their country? Don't we still have to dispel the rumor? Wouldn't that have the opposite effect?"
"We need to let everyone know that this young expert is our Snake Brother, and has nothing to do with anyone else! Feng Yi is worried about trouble, but no one knows that Snake Brother is him. Everyone only knows Snake Brother, and they can't find Feng Yi."
Pan Weining's thoughts made sense. Not many people knew that Feng Yi was Snake Brother, and Feng Yi didn't take it seriously even though he knew it, so there was no need for him to worry too much. If there were any negative comments about Feng Yi on the Internet, they could help.
On the other side, Cheng Si was broadcasting live. This time period is also the peak time for watching live broadcasts in the evening in China, and there were many viewers in the live broadcast room.
In the Florida Everglades, as the sun comes out, the temperature gradually rises.
Cheng Si sat in the car, pointed the camera outside the car, and interacted with the audience in the live broadcast room.
"We're taking a different route today, and we'll pass many places along the highway to show you the three faces of the Everglades."
Today Cheng Si also chose a new route. After all, he has to broadcast live. If the scenery is the same every day, people will feel bored. Changing the route will bring new content and allow him to see different contestants.
They started from the mangroves near the sea and headed inland from the seaside. Along the way they passed through the mangroves near the sea, the wetlands in the middle, and the forests inland.
Cheng Si is ambitious. He is thinking about when he can return from being a "little Sizi" to being a "Sige", and hopes to further become a "Siye".
The word "ye" sounds so impressive!
"Look! A crocodile!"
Cheng Si pointed the camera at a crocodile not far away. "To be precise, this is called an alligator, or a Milford crocodile. This alligator may just be looking for a new place to live. Now many ponds have run dry. They are not very active in the dry season and need to reduce energy consumption, but they also rely on water sources. It is very dangerous to stay away from water for a long time...
"The difference? Although we call them all crocodiles, the Alligatoridae and the Crocodileidae are different. In terms of explosive power, the Alligatoridae may be a little behind. Most crocodiles are not cold-resistant, so they are suppressed in tropical areas. The Alligatoridae, such as the Michigan River Alligator and the Chinese Alligator, a first-class protected animal in our country, have the ability to hibernate and survive in subtropical areas. Moreover, the Alligatoridae are relatively mild in temperament, and Florida people have become accustomed to coexisting with the Michigan River Alligator...
"Don't be afraid. Crocodiles in the dry season are no match for those in the rainy season. Just be careful and there will be basically no conflict."
Cheng Si was lucky today and walked a little further:
"Wow! Look, there's a python on the road ahead! We are so lucky today!"
Cheng Si was delighted. It was not easy to see a python on the road. The people in the car might not find it even if they went out of their way to look for it. Now they encountered a python crossing the road while driving on the road. Isn't this luck? !
"This python is medium-sized, about two meters long. So, what should we do next?"
Cheng Si asked the audience in the live broadcast room, wanting to hear their answers.
There are people who can catch pythons in the car, so Cheng Si doesn't need to do it himself. However, in order to ensure his image, Cheng Si will still catch the python with the help of others.
While planning in his mind, Cheng Si looked at the live broadcast room and saw comments sliding by one by one -
"Of course I'll just drive up quietly and honk my horn!"
"The one in front honked the horn. Snakes don't have very good hearing."
"Python, a species that makes one suffocate just by hearing its name! Xiao Sizi, when you cut the close-up, remind me to cover my eyes first!"
It is now around nine o'clock in the evening in China, but there are still many people in Cheng Si's live broadcast room.
While Cheng Si was catching the python, the discussion in the live broadcast room was heated.
"I never thought that I would be watching someone catch a python live in the middle of the night."
"Just think of it as... a bedtime story. Read for a while and then go to sleep."
"A bedtime horror story?"
"If Brother Snake were here at a time like this, wouldn't we feel safer?"
"I just happened to come across a piece of news about Brother Snake! Everyone, go search on social media!"
After a while, a group of people were brushing:
"Xiao Sizi, you can't do that. We still have to get Brother Snake's movements from others!"
So, after Cheng Si caught the python, he thought he had done a good job and could change his image in the eyes of his fans. But when he looked at his phone, Snake Brother? What news about Snake Brother
Without caring about the python he had just caught, Cheng Si went to search on the social platform and soon saw a repost from an account he followed.
The person who posted the message should also be a contestant, saying that he encountered a crocodile and asked for help, but the rescue team didn’t arrive and he encountered a snake.
See the comments below.
"Brother Snake went up and did a sliding tackle! [Doghead]"
"What do you mean? Are you kidding me?"
"That's what the original author said. So the question is, is this sliding tackle serious?"
"It doesn't matter whether it's legitimate or not. Anyway, all you need to know is that those guys were fishing in the swamp, they didn't catch any fish, and a crocodile came out and blocked a person. Brother Snake went to save him. Anyway, it's awesome enough!"
"I only knew that Brother Snake was good at catching snakes, but I didn't expect he was also good at catching crocodiles!"
"Who is Snake Brother?" asked a first-time spectator who didn't know the truth.
"You don't even know Brother Snake? He's the boss of the snake circle!"
"What snake circle boss? That's the reptile circle boss! The most powerful person in the reptile circle!"
"The Great God of Climbing Circles, or the God of Climbing for short?"
Cheng Si was flipping through the comments. He hadn't even changed from "Little Si" to "Brother Si", but Feng Yi had already changed from "Brother Snake" to "Big Brother of the Climbing Circle"
There's no comparison, really.
Someone in the live broadcast room asked him why he didn’t hang out with Snake Brother. Cheng Si thought to himself: I want to, but they won’t play with me.
Since he couldn't catch up with Feng Yi, Cheng Si could only do his job in his live broadcast room first. That is, he just said in the live broadcast room that the Michigan River alligator was not active now and had no conflicts with people, but now he was slapped in the face. If it wasn't a life-threatening incident, there would be no need to contact the rescue team.
As for Feng Yi, he didn't pay attention to what was happening on the Internet. As he continued to go deeper into the swamp, he could see wetlands and woodlands.
Other contestants were also seen here.
Steve greeted them, but everyone was busy, so they greeted them and continued with their own business.
The boat stopped for a while to confirm the route and take a short rest.
"Who would bring a child into the deep swamp to catch a python?" Feng Yi asked.
Among the group of people we just met, there was a kid who looked to be in his early teens.
Steve explained, "That's the type of family training. They are all locals and they are familiar with this place. Bringing children to participate in this kind of activity is just a professional training. Parents follow them and will not go deep into dangerous areas. You can say that..."
Steve looked around and didn't see Cheng Si, so he continued, "It's the same snake, but that kid caught it more skillfully than Cheng Si."
Cheng Si’s dark history can no longer be tolerated by Steve. Now he has become the control group and is used as a comparison for everything.
Standing up and looking around, Steve said, "It's a bit desolate here during the dry season."
"Maybe once all the pythons are gone, it'll become lively again. Now we don't dare bring animals in," said Warren.
Warren actually doesn't like reptiles very much. He feels responsibility for crocodiles and disgust for pythons.
He prefers raccoons.
When he was a child, raccoons would often visit his home, but now they are rarely seen.
"The Great Swamp is sick and has been fighting." Warren squinted his eyes and looked into the distance of the swamp against the sunlight.
Steve also said: "There are two reasons why the Great Swamp has become like this. One is humans, and the other is species invasion."
Warren smiled and said, "So we are trying to save it."
What does a python invasion look like
The original stable food chain of the Everglades suddenly had an additional ecological niche.
At first, no animal living in the swamp knew what this thing was or whether it was dangerous.
Take the raccoons that Warren likes as an example. Whether it is the survival experience acquired after birth or the instinct engraved in the genes and passed down with the genetic material, the raccoons cannot tell them how to deal with it.
So when a python breaks into the swamp and the terrible killer crawls in front of it, the raccoon may not react yet, or even if it reacts and realizes the danger, it is already in the python's hunting range and loses the chance to escape.
Pythons, on the other hand, don't wander around after eating. Instead, they will find a place to daydream or sleep and stay there for many days. Or, when they don't have enough calories, they will come out to bask in the sun.
Make perfect use of the information gap, appear in the water, on the ground, and on the trees to complete the sweep.
"The rule of nature is you eat me, I eat you. Big pythons eat raccoons, raccoons eat small pythons. Pythons eat crocodiles, crocodiles eat pythons," said Steve.
The baby pythons will be eaten by other animals.
Including raccoons, which can also chew small pythons.
But pythons grow too fast, such as the invasive Burmese python.
It takes half a year to fight against raccoons, and a year to devour them.
When talking about swamp beasts, people always mention crocodiles and pythons. But the life span of a python may only be 20 to 30 years, while there is a crocodile in the research center that is over 70 years old.
The more they eat, the faster they grow, which is why Warren said he dare not easily introduce more animals. If the python problem is not solved, introducing more will only fatten them up.
Speaking of raccoons, Warren gets angry, and his anger is of course directed at the pythons in the Everglades: "Those greedy, cortex-less invaders!"
Feng Yi accurately grasped the key point of this sentence, then took out his phone and searched:
Cerebral cortex
In general, without the cerebral cortex, it is impossible to master advanced and complex reflexes, and we basically rely on instinct.
Feng Yi touched his head, and when Warren looked at him, he pushed it back with his fingers as if he was brushing his hair, looking very natural.
At the same time, I had some enlightenment in my heart, and even felt a little secretly happy.
No wonder the butler always told him that he was different from those low-level beasts and he shouldn't always make comparisons.
Now he understands!
Those snakes don't have a cerebral cortex!
Not on the same level!
So, it’s not wrong to think of them as optional snacks!
Feng Yi put away his phone with satisfaction.
After the rest, the ship continued to sail. When they arrived at the destination, Warren did not join them and did not get off the ship. "I will stay here and take a nap first. I wish you good luck!"
After Feng Yi and Steve got off the boat, they walked for a while.
Steve said, "Separately?"
Feng Yi agreed: "Okay."
"Contact us if there is any movement. Don't be impulsive."
"Um."
Steve looked at him in silence before walking away.
Feng Yi suppressed his excitement and walked a little further away from Steve. When there was no one else nearby, he stopped, took off his boots and socks, and walked barefoot on the grass.
Hehehe! Refreshing!
A layer of scales appears on the soles of the feet, which touch the ground and also provide some protection.
Feng Yi smelled the odor molecules in the air and walked in one direction.
What if someone saw you and asked you why you took off your boots
That must be because something got stuck in the boots!
He just took off his boots to clean them, he definitely didn't have any other weird ideas!
While Feng Yi was enjoying the wild grassland, Steve sent a video to Director He.
It was the video that he asked for from the guy who was filming the video with his mobile phone before Pan Weining's men left. It showed the entire process of Feng Yi appearing and catching the crocodile with a sliding tackle, and then rolling over while pinching the crocodile's mouth.
It was because of Feng Yi's amazing achievements during the scientific expedition that Steve became more and more worried.
The sliding tackle on the crocodile proved that this guy has not changed at all!
No one knew how this guy would catch the python later. Although Feng Yi's promise sounded nice, Steve was familiar with this routine. He used to do this, making all kinds of promises in front of Director He, but still following his own way.
Steve believes that he can learn from other people's experiences and study what is suitable for him, but he does not have to follow the prescribed routines for what is not suitable for him.
Director He always felt that he acted too risky, got out of control when excited, and was difficult to discipline.
But now compared with Feng Yi...
I was too conservative back then!
At least I didn't dare to let the giant python wrap around myself and then run away with it in my arms!
I didn't dare to slide at a crocodile that was nearly four meters long! I slid right up to the crocodile's mouth! Can a normal person do such a thing?!
So, to be on the safe side, I'd better tell Director He and wait for Feng Yi to go back to class. Director He's class is quite difficult. After making a report, Steve gloated: Let you also feel my helplessness back then!
At the same time, it was also to prove to Director He that it was not Steve who brought Feng Yi to this state.
He doesn't have such amazing ability yet!