Being Swallowed Alive Unsuspectingly

To be able to accommodate hundreds of big eggs on its beach, but still made the three or four feet eggs so small the island wasn't small at all, so it was really wrong to call it a small island.

Iona crawled with difficulty on the sandy ground, he really can't get used to these flippers. Using these flippers weren't the same as crawling with hands and feet, Iona's flippers were flat and weren't used for crawling, these flat flippers are for swimming.

He was able to master swimming with his turtle body easily before, but crawling with these flippers, Iona felt like having two left feet.

Iona felt like crying for the first time for real. There was a coconut boundary between the beach and the forest in the island, the moment Iona reached that coconut boundary, Iona also reached the end of the protection of the sand.

Clumsily using his flat flippers to swim his way across the sands, Iona finally reached the area of coconut trees. There were still sands on the ground for Iona to slip his way through, but there were also stones and rocks that scratched Iona's soft and tender flippers.

Iona felt as though he was walking on shattered glass barefooted.

Before Iona could even get to the entrance of the forest, his flippers were already scratched and bruised by sharp stones. And this was not even the beginning.

Once he passes the coconut tree boundary, Iona has to go through a treacherous adventure through the forests to reach his destination.

Thinking about it, Iona hesitated. He looked at his back and saw the beautiful horizon where the ocean and the sky meet, and had the urge to run back into the ocean.

But the image of that monster fish flashed in his mind, making his blood run cold. In the end, Iona could only swallow bitterness and turn back his head forward and perform backstroke on the sand, while enduring being scratched by the stones and rocks.

Sigh, he really missed his carefree life on Earth.

This was the third day of Iona's life as a turtle, and he felt like he felt like every second was a year.

He wished he could have that remote control that could control time in the movie <Click>, he wants to grow up fast and be stable.

Iona's wounded flippers felt the lingering warm sands and stones underneath him, and he felt tired and weary.

Iona sighed and forced himself to continue his journey.

Walking through the forests was more treacherous than he thought, the forest in this island has very healthy soil, it was moist and soft. Iona sniffed the air, and felt that he had stepped into a different world. Just a minute ago, he could still feel the warm sands under his flippers, rubbing under his shell, and the smell of the salty sea hovered in his nose, but now, Iona felt the cool and fresh air of the forestry the moment he entered the forest.

But despite the soft and moist soil, Iona looked at the view and felt deflated for a long time. With a good and healthy soil, of course, the plants and trees here were also very good. Yes, the trees were soaring high, the plants were vigorously growing, with vibrant greenery occupying Iona's entire sight.

Those tall trees have roots even emerging from the ground, winding here and there, blocking Iona's path of life.

Iona already expected this, but still...Iona just wanted to cry without tears.

God, why are you doing this to me!!

Iona looked back and saw the setting sun slumbering deep into the horizon, he didn't realize that it took him so long just to get this far.

The sky was dark, dotted with twinkling stars, it looked beautiful especially in Iona's line of sight, it was marveling like a piece of art. Iona tried to look more, he extended his neck and turned his head to look up, and saw the once transparent red and yellow moons now looked clear, illuminating the world like small suns.

The night in this world was different from the night on Earth.

The night here was also dark, perhaps because of the big red moon but the sky here was painted scarlet red tinted with dark blue and some stroke of yellow.

The big red moon was as big as the sun on Earth, although it wasn't as bright as the sun, its light still overwhelmed the darkness of the night, conquering the sky with its crimson radiance.

Meanwhile, the small yellow moon looked a lot like the Earth's moon, but it doesn't have the rabbit, nor the man in the moon, maybe it's just a regular yellow ball, anyway, Iona can't see it.

Iona doesn't know if physics and astronomy could be applied here. The yellow moon moved a lot quicker than the big red moon, perhaps the two moons have different revolutions, the small yellow moon was quickly approaching the big red moon, making the yellow moon look more orange than yellow.

The green ring in the sky also moved around, but no matter how many times Iona saw it, even with his poor eyesight, Iona couldn't really associate that green ring as a planetary ring.

Planetary rings are flat discs, but this ring looked more like a cylindrical ring than a flat disc, but his eyesight could only see this much. Iona also felt like if he knew more, he'd just frightened himself.

Although it's fascinating and Iona wanted to observe these celestial bodies more, it's also scary and it's getting dark, he really needs to reach that freshwater source quickly.

He doesn't want to sleep overnight in the middle of the forest.

Currently, he was at the edge of the forest. He saw towering trees, protruding roots, vines that look like snakes hanging from the branches, and beyond that were darkness. Iona squinted, he could only see the surface with his eyesight.

But somehow, Iona hesitated. It was so dark inside, although he could determine the direction with his sense of smell, Iona would look like a blind man…err, turtle in this forest.

Iona didn't want to have an accident here, he felt like once he entered the forest right now, those tall, thick trees would transform into tree monsters, and he would be like Snow White, just freaking out everywhere.

In the end, Iona looked around, and when he saw a tall tree near him with a tree hole at the bottom that seemed to fit him, he went there immediately.

Sleeping inside the tree hole is better than sleeping out of the open. Although Iona has his portable house in his back, he still didn't feel safe at all, more so this portable house is also part of his body. He even thought that his turtle shell was more sensitive than his skin.

Iona burrows himself into the tree hole, then he unties one of the jelly plant stems around his neck and eats it.

He picked a total of five jelly plant stems. He ate one stem on his way to the forest, eating one leaf bit by bit, and then he ate another one right now, so he only has three jelly plant stems left.

Iona actually wanted to pick more, he has a long neck, and it could accommodate a lot of jelly plant stems. He did it the first time, but all the jelly plant tied in his neck was washed away into the sea before he could even bring it as his food supply.

When he went back to get more to replace the missing food supply, Iona realized that there was no more, and he could only bring these five pieces of stems in the end.

After eating, Iona retracted himself inside his shell, and went to sleep.

Iona was so exhausted that he slept immediately after he closed his eyes. His sleep was quite deep, and he didn't have any dreams as well.

Until suddenly, in the dark, a hissing noise sounded from somewhere.

Iona was sleeping deeply and was still unaware of what was happening in his surroundings, he just felt cold all of the sudden, but he was huddled inside his turtle shell, so he didn't care much and continued sleeping.

Unbeknownst to him, outside of his tree hole, a huge snake head was already eyeing the ignorant sleeping little turtle inside.

The big snake hunch its body and went inside the tree hole in an instant.

The snake has a huge body resembling a giant anaconda, it circles the sleeping turtle with its body, trying to crash the sleeping little turtle to death, and then swallow it.

But after a long time, the big snake still couldn't crush the shell of the sleeping little turtle, therefore it released the turtle and swallowed it alive instead.

Its mouth was opened wide, so wide if anyone could see it they thought the snake's mouth would tear. It tried to swallow the whole turtle, and as it swallowed, it created a huge bulge on its body.

A minute later, the snake regurgitated and tried to swallow the turtle again.

It was so uncanny, seeing the bulge shape of the turtle shell moving slowly inside the body of the snake. The turtle shell bulged and moved as the snake repeatedly regurgitated and swallowed its prey.

However, it seems to have met an iron plate this night.

Repeatedly doing these sets of action soon caused internal bleeding inside the snake. In the end, the snake vomited out the whole turtle and left it alone to find another prey.

While all of this was happening, Iona was still sleeping undisturbed.