LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 17: Teething!
After realizing that he was about to “change”, Feng Yi was no longer in the mood to pay attention to other things.
On the Internet, the Mount Yue Little Green Dragon incident continued to unfold.
The official website of the Joint Defense Organization posted the progress of the investigation into the incident and said that they would continue to follow up on it. The public information included a picture of Feng Yi holding the snake and a video of the little green snake after treatment. In the video, the head of the coiled little green snake wasn’t visible at first glance, only the tip of its white tail was dangling. The treatment seemed to go well.
The Mount Yue Little Green Dragon incident had attracted the attention of people all over the world. More and more researchers joined the Little Green Dragon Research Project to study the evolutionary code of this snake and find ways to restore the distorted ecological chain. Non-scientists also used Mount Yue as a place to visit and check in, or to stay with family and friends for a while. If an Ironhead Viper that was thought to be extinct in the wild could safely grow to such a size, it must mean that the environment in Mount Yue was really good!
Over the upcoming days, foreign faces could be seen everywhere in the scenic area of Mount Yue, and the farmhouses and hotels of all sizes were filled to capacity.
On news, social and short-video platforms, photos and videos of fisher boy Feng Yi holding a snake spread like fire, with likes and comments reaching record highs.
Since Feng Yi did not want to disclose his identity, his name was replaced by the letter “F” in the investigation report submitted by the PB. In the investigation progress posted on the official website of the JDO, he was also called “Mr. F”.
The Internet was much bolder and more uninhibited and found the name Mr. F to be awkward. As a result, the name of “Mount Yue Snake Holding Brother” spread online. Later, someone said that the word “holding” was ambiguous and could be omitted. This was passed on, and the name became “Mount Yue Snake Brother”. Then, as more people talked about it, it was shortened even further to just— “Snake Brother”.
“It was lucky that it was Snake Brother. If someone else had seen that little green dragon, they might have panicked and smashed it with a fishing rod. Who knows if the snake would have survived.”
Feng Yi’s response to all this was: “Hear no evil, see no evil, know no evil!
Qian Feiyang felt that it was a pity. If Feng Yi hadn’t worn sunglasses and a mask, he would have become famous abroad!
Seeing that Feng Yi had no intention of becoming an Internet celebrity or a superstar, Qian Feiyang and Wu Ji didn’t mention it anymore. But in private, they would lament what a good opportunity it was to become famous!
Feng Yi didn’t care about any of that; he lived in fear for two days. Over the past two days, he bought popular science books and magazines online, reviewed various information about snakes, and gained a lot of strange and useless knowledge.
When Feng Yi awoke on the third day, he felt like his head was going to burst, and his vision was a little blurry.
“It’s finally starting?”
After wiping his face and lightly tapping his forehead, Feng Yi went to the bathroom. He washed his face with cold water and looked at himself in the mirror. His expression was sluggish, his face was pale, but otherwise he was no different.
Blinking vigorously to clear his vision, he picked up the toothbrush, squeezed out some toothpaste, and brushed his teeth…
Feng Yi immediately let out a cry of pain. It felt like all his teeth were suddenly suffering from cavity inflammation. The intense pain seemed to explode in his head in an instant, freezing all his thought processes momentarily. Feng Yi gripped the toothbrush tightly and held his breath for a while before coming to his senses. His sleep-addled brain was completely awake from the pain!
Tossing aside his toothbrush and water cup, Feng Yi leaned forward in front of the mirror, and opened his mouth to look at his teeth. The canines, which were originally slightly pointed but not protruding, had doubled in length overnight and were even sharper!
When he closed his mouth, the two overlong teeth turned slightly inward. Feng Yi gave it a try and found that he could control these two teeth to fold back inwards, and he could also make them flip out, at the cost of inflammation pain multiplied by twenty!
Enduring the pain, Feng Yi gave it two more tries before stopping.
The first pain to be faced on the road of evolution— toothache√
Wiping the sweat from his brow, Feng Yi took out his phone and called the old butler.
As usual, it was as if the old butler was always by his cell phone, always able to answer the call immediately.
“I’m teething!” As Feng Yi spoke, his two sharp teeth moved slightly out of control, and he couldn’t help but hiss in pain.
“It fucking hurts!” Another hiss of pain followed.
The old butler on the other side of the phone laughed softly, seemingly in a good mood. “That’s normal. That’s how it’ll be at the beginning, you’ll get used to the pain.”
Feng Yi: “…”
Was that something a respectable person would say?!
Get used to the pain? A mouth full of inflammatory pain, plus two enhanced pain points, was not something an ordinary human could bear!
“How long will it take for my toothache to heal? Will taking painkillers help?” Feng Yi asked.
“Painkillers won’t work. How long the pain lasts depends on you. What kind of teeth do you have?”
“The two large, overlong teeth are where the canines used to be; they have mutated!” Feng Yi said.
Butler: “Oh! You have fangs.”
Feng Yi was shocked and stuttered out, “Then are they poisonous?”
“That depends on whether your venom glands have developed. If you have venom glands, they will naturally be poisonous,” the old butler said calmly.
“If I bite myself, or accidentally leak venom from my teeth, will I be poisoned by my own venom?”
The old butler thought for a while before replying, “Theoretically, in the process of high-level evolution, antibodies against your own venom will develop.”
Feng Yi: “…‘Theoretically’?”
The old butler: “I haven’t seen it myself, so if you want to know, you can bite yourself and see. I can watch over you, and if there’s an emergency, I’ll send you to the hospital right away.”
“Then I might as well try it right at the entrance of the hospital! I will bite myself and if I find that I am poisoned, I will rush to the hospital for help!” Feng Yi quipped.
“Good idea.” The old butler sighed.
Feng Yi: “…”
“Are those two fangs of yours grooved or tubular?” the butler asked.
Feng Yi: ???
After searching his phone for a while, he finally understood. Grooved fangs had actual grooves running down the surface of the teeth. They were divided into rear grooved fangs and front grooved fangs. Most of the snakes with the latter were highly venomous, such as the famous cobra family.
As for tubular fangs, they were larger and longer than grooved fangs. They were also hollow, like a syringe, but could be concealed.
Feng Yi looked carefully into the mirror, moved his two long fangs, endured the inflammation pain multiplied by twenty, and tried to fold them back.
“They’re tubular.” He hissed in pain after speaking.
The old butler’s voice dropped slightly, “I see~”
Feng Yi: “…”
Don’t fucking say that with such nuance!
“Although tubular fangs aren’t small or cute enough, they are more convenient for you and can be hidden. If you fold them into your mouth, you won’t need to wear a mask,” the old butler said in a regretful tone.
“A mask is still necessary, I think. Then do my fangs have any symbolic meaning?” Feng Yi asked.
“No,” the old butler said. “How they grow is determined by the genes, how you use them is determined by you.”
Feng Yi breathed a sigh of relief. “That’s good. A kind soul like me…”
The old butler seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.
Feng Yi opened a notepad. “In my current situation, before the toothache disappears, what should I pay attention to when eating and drinking?”
The old butler thought for a moment, “For the first days, eat liquid food, chew less, pay attention to oral hygiene, and keep your teeth clean. As for toothpaste… you can use children’s products.”