Walonga Province, East Africa,
"Hey, Mori, look! There's a snake in the tree ahead!" an East African soldier shouted.
"Paul, you've been bitten! You're beyond saving! Drag him off and bury him."
"Mori, you bastard! That's no way to joke around. I was only stating the facts," Paul cursed at his comrade.
"Enough arguing. Where is the snake?" the squad leader asked.
"Squad leader, look at the branch beneath that tree to the left ahead. My eyesight is top-notch—I spotted that green fellow hiding under the leaves at a glance."
Following Paul's direction, the squad leader made out the snake's appearance. He fixed his bayonet to his rifle, then lightly flicked upward with the butt of the gun. A green African tree snake fell from above to the ground. Startled, the African tree snake vanished from before them in the blink of an eye.
"Good thing it wasn't a Mamba. That would have been troublesome to deal with," the squad leader said.
African tree snakes were rear-fanged venomous snakes. They injected little venom, and their efficiency in delivering it was poor, so they posed relatively little danger. Of course, since they were venomous snakes, the East African soldiers still chose to handle them cautiously.
As for Mamba snakes, they were common venomous snakes in East Africa, with the Black Mamba being the most famous. However, Black Mambas generally lived in grasslands.
The reason East African soldiers feared Black Mambas was not their venom, but their excessive aggressiveness.
Other African snakes generally would not attack people unless provoked, but Black Mambas were the kind that would chase people down and bite them. Catching Black Mambas in East Africa also required tremendous skill. They were far faster than other snakes, while the East African green Mamba of the same genus was nowhere