Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

The sparrow, about the same size as Bell, was strangled by the snake and died with several cracking sounds as its bones broke.

Before it died, the sparrow couldn't stop its mournful chirping and struggled to twist its body, trying to break free from the snake's coils.

Bell, peeking out, watched helplessly as the sparrow was twisted until it vomited its internal organs, and then swallowed whole by the green snake.

With a rather slippery swallowing sound, a drop of snake saliva slid down from above and landed squarely on Bell's nose, making him shudder.

In an instant, Bell's courage to explore the outside world diminished by more than half.

"If it weren't for this sparrow, I would have been the one hanged..."

Quietly retracting most of his head into the burrow, Bell, feeling terrified, felt a warmth between his legs. Overwhelmed by emotion, he couldn't control his bladder.

In professional terms, this is called stress incontinence.

"Oh no, this pee might make me the most shameful protagonist in history."

After muttering something incoherently, Bell used his hind legs to dig up some sand, trying to cover up the fact that he had wet himself in fear.

At this moment, Bell dared not take his eyes off the green serpent, and under his focused gaze, a string of words quietly appeared on the serpent.

Mimicking snakes

Level: lv.1 (2/10)

Health:

Skill: [Mimicry Attack]

The Mimic Snake is highly adaptable and widely distributed. Its innate skill, Mimic Attack, allows it to blend into the natural environment and become difficult to detect. When the Mimic Snake leaves its mimic state, its next attack will receive a burst of attack speed.

With his perception skills, Bell's fear of the mimic snake was greatly reduced.

He immediately withdrew his gaze from the mimic snake and focused on himself. Rather than understanding the outside world, he wanted to understand himself first, for knowing yourself and your enemy is the key to victory.

Bear Grylls

Race: Bamboo Rat

Level: lv.1 (0/10)

Health:

Mental Strength: 1 (Rationality is decreasing)

magic:

Lucky:

Skill: [Information Insight]

Additional characteristic: [Vibrant body color]

Due to the choices Bell made before his rebirth, his individual stats as a bamboo rat are extremely low.

Its health, which is linked to physical abilities, is extremely low, making it the kind of easily destroyed experience pet found in online games.

Bell's extremely poor mental attributes also made it difficult for him to maintain his rationality. If he couldn't act quickly...

By enhancing his mental attributes, Bell will gradually lose his human intelligence over time, eventually becoming a mindless beast.

Bell's bright white fur makes him look even cuter and prevents him from being mistaken for someone suffering from heatstroke. However, in the dangerous wild, Bell's conspicuous fur makes him easier for other predators to spot.

Low attributes already make survival difficult, and additional negative status effects only make things worse.

Bell: o(╥﹏╥

But it's too late for regrets now. Bell, who came to this world, can't start over. No matter how hard life gets, he has to survive.

"Bell, don't panic. Even though you're fragile and live at the bottom of society, you have to believe in your human ingenuity. Keep going, you're the best!"

Bear rubbed his face back and forth with his paws, constantly reassuring himself and quickly calming himself down.

Despite its extremely weak attributes, Bell possesses a human-like intelligence that no other bamboo rat could ever have.

With his [Information Insight], it's not impossible for Bell to turn things around from scratch. Leaving aside those distant things like upgrading templates and taking control, simply dealing with a snake hanging in a tree shouldn't be a problem for Bell.

He glanced up and saw that the mimic snake above his head had already swallowed the captured sparrow, and the word "full" appeared next to its head.

Bell's biological knowledge told him that animals generally become much less aggressive after they are full.

Just like the lions and tigers in the zoo, they are so fat that they look like balloons, and they are extremely docile in front of their keepers.

Thinking of this, Bell quietly crawled out of the burrow, his round, white-furred body looking extremely plump and delicious.

But the mimic snake, having just finished eating, merely glanced at Bell below before withdrawing its senses and directly mimicking becoming part of the bamboo.

Snakes are lazy creatures, after eating their fill, they had no intention of attacking Bell, which put Bell at ease. He quickly went to the tender bamboo shoots not far away.

In this bamboo forest, tender bamboo shoots are not a rare commodity.

Although bamboo shoots are not very nutritious and contain little energy, they are a delicious food for bamboo rats.

Ordinary bamboo rats can live well by eating grass stems and tender roots.

Judging from its size, this tender bamboo shoot in front of him is enough to feed Bell for several days.

He only needs to gnaw around the base of the tender bamboo shoot to knock it down, and then, while the mimic snake is digesting, he can drag the shoot into the burrow as a food reserve.

By making just a few trips like this, Bell can obtain a substantial amount of food reserves, greatly reducing his survival pressure in the short term.

But looking at the tender bamboo shoot in front of him that could fill his stomach, Bell suppressed his desire to eat and continued to explore the outside world.

Eating tender bamboo shoots may alleviate his hunger, but it cannot change Bear's living conditions.

He couldn't improve his individual level, so what good would eating more bamboo shoots do? He couldn't possibly try to get fat and kill the mimic snake on his head by overeating.

Bell is not content to remain in this weak state; he wants to work hard to become stronger.

Taking advantage of the fact that the mimic snake was now full and unwilling to move, Bell decided to explore the surroundings as much as possible and try to hunt it.

“First of all, there are no other predators within a ten-meter radius of the mimic snake, so this should be its territory, and I should be safe while it is full.”

"Secondly, eating ordinary plants and insects doesn't provide experience; to gain experience, I must kill creatures with levels."

Through a series of simple attempts, Bell quickly figured out the surrounding terrain and what he needed to do.

After becoming familiar with the [Information Insight] ability, Bell was able to analyze whether there were any threats in the surrounding environment. This was good news, as Bell was now able to spot the predators lurking in the shadows.

Through simple calculations, Bell only needs to remain vigilant and seek out and devour some creatures with higher levels to gradually accumulate experience and begin his path to leveling up.

"But that's the problem. I can't directly hunt those leveled creatures."

Based on what Bell just observed, even the weakest lizard in the bamboo forest has physical attributes that are on par with his, and its movement speed is much faster.

Needless to say, other creatures with ranks are even lower; even those at the very bottom of this world have much higher physical attributes than Bell.

It can only be said that even among the lowest-level creatures, there are differences.

Chapter 3 Traps are a good thing

The trap was a hunting trick that Bell devised after some thought.

When primitive humans hunted, they would usually use encirclement and trapping to kill large prey that were much stronger than themselves.

Ancient humans were able to hunt giant beasts using traps, so I, Bear Grylls, can also use traps to overcome the strong with the weak.

Having figured it out, Bell got right to work. He wandered around the extremely limited safe area, memorizing the surrounding terrain.

The territory of the mimic snake is not large, but from the perspective of small animals, it is a hidden paradise.

As arboreal creatures, the ground, where mimic snakes rarely come into contact with them, is teeming with insects and small animals, including several small animals of varying ranks. It is unknown whether these creatures are deliberately left as food reserves for mimic snakes.

"You're my first target."

Without thinking too much about anything else, Bell twisted his white, round body and quietly ran to a small, sheltered mound, looking down at the lizard hidden among the withered leaves below.

Spiny Lizard

Level: lv.1 (0/10)

Health:

This is a lizard about the same size as Bell. As one of the smallest animals at the bottom of the hierarchy, the spiny lizard does not have the camouflage and attack skills of a snake. Its only way of self-defense is its skin covered with sharp scales.

In nature, there are many animals that can easily kill it, but most animals are too lazy to bother with it.

After all, this thing has hardly any flesh on its body; it's thin, shriveled, and covered in thorns.

Eating it won't provide much energy, and you're likely to get scratched by its thorns.

Wild animals are most averse to injury. Injury can lead to infection, and infection can reduce their hunting ability, which is tantamount to a death sentence for wild animals.

Spiny lizards use this characteristic to survive in their ecological niche.

But the spiny lizard could never understand why, after evolving to this extent, it would still be targeted by animals of similar size.

Bell, who had been observing him all along, was quietly preparing an attack on the spiny lizard.

He first found a type of insect on bamboo that sprays a large amount of sticky mucus when threatened, which drives away predators by spraying large amounts of mucus in a fixed direction.

But for Bell, who possesses human-like intelligence, these straightforward insects are unlikely to spray him with their slime; instead, it serves as a good source of material for traps.

Bell spent a lot of time collecting a large amount of slime and using plant leaves to shape it into the shape of a trap.

"Making a crude trap is simpler than I thought."