25. Cooperative hunting
Gerbils are social creatures that live in rocky layers deep underground, digging countless passages there with their strong forelimbs for them to move and inhabit. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Their staple diet is ores rich in metallic elements, and scholars speculate that the giant gerbil, the leader of the gerbils, may have evolved by devouring some special ores.
They eat ore when they are hungry, drink underground water when they are thirsty, and live a peaceful life with almost no natural predators in the dark underground.
As a result, even though they are strong, have strong limbs, and have a tough skin, they are still not good at fighting other creatures.
However, in some cases, they have to leave the rock layer and reach the surface through the thick yellow sand above the rock layer to avoid the danger underground.
Some scholars have speculated that the danger of the underground that can cause them to migrate from rock layers to the surface is likely to be the natural predator of gerbils.
However, after all, no one has ever explored the depths of the earth, so the true answer is still unknown.
——Research on the Ecology of Gerbils
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Long~~Long~~Long~~~
From the depths of the earth, it seems that the earth's crust is moving, causing a slight tremor, but this slight tremor is only relative, in fact, for some creatures living underground, such a tremor is enough to make them feel deeply uneasy.
Flutter flutter!
Flutter flutter!
The gerbils communicate underground by tapping their forelimbs against rocks, and in the course of their communication, the colony of gerbils consisting of two large gerbils and hundreds of common gerbils soon decide to temporarily migrate to the surface to avoid possible danger.
This process will not be too long, after all, the earth will not shake all the time, as long as the shaking subsides, at most half a day, they will return the way they came.
However, what they wouldn't have thought about was that this migration of theirs would not be too peaceful, and predators had already targeted them!
Chirp~~Chirp~~
A sand fish suddenly appeared in the lair of the Huang Sulong group, and as if afraid that it would not be discovered, it let out several cries one after another.
Ga! Quack!
The Yellow Speed Dragon King, who was lying on the highest stone in the nest, opened his eyes suddenly, it stood up and let out a high-pitched chirping, with its chirp, the more than thirty Yellow Speed Dragons who were resting in the nest seemed to hear the order and command, and quickly and orderly came out of the nest, leaving only the Yellow Speed Dragon King, after all the Yellow Speed Dragons were out of the nest, yawned, and lay back on the stone, and continued to rest.
Chirp~~
Ga! Ga!
Soon, under the guidance of this sand fish, the yellow dragon group came to this sandy land that looked no different from other places, and then, the sand fish jumped and disappeared into the sand, while the yellow speed dragon group was scattered in a net and stood away, and maintained a motionless posture, not allowing himself to make a slight sound.
An hour...... Two hours...... Three hours......
If it weren't for their heaving chests as they breathe, even if they were extremely realistic statues, I am afraid that some people would believe them.
And as time passed, the originally calm desert night finally had some movement.
Flutter, flutter!
After a squirming sound, one after another black shadows suddenly came out from under the sand, this is the group of migrating gerbils, at this moment, they are like marmots, showing their upper bodies, their eyes that have not seen light in the ground all the year round quickly adapt to the dim desert night, if they change the day, I am afraid they will become a group of blind eyes.
Many of the newborn gerbils in the gerbil colony are new to the surface, and after their eyes have adjusted to the light from the outside world, they look at the surface world with curiosity, which is completely different from the underground world they live in.
But reality soon taught these newborn gerbils a lesson.
Quack!
A series of rapid cries, and the group of Huang Sulong, who had been dormant for a long time, pounced on the group of gerbils who had poked out half of their bodies from the sand with lightning speed.
Ga!
Ga!
The Huang Sulong group attacked a gerbil in two units, they were either front and back, or left and right, pounced on the gerbil, even if the gerbil with tough skin protection could not withstand the continuous attack of the Huang Sulong group's minions, and soon was scratched out of a wound, followed by the gerbil body was paralyzed, and he froze on the sand and could not move.
And Huang Sulong, who successfully paralyzed the gerbil, was not in a hurry to harvest, but continued to attack the next prey.
There are also gerbils who want to run away in the confusion, they try to dig into the sand and return to the sand, but as Red Star said, the predators who are eyeing them are not only the yellow dragons, but also the sand fish that wander in the sand.
After Huang Sulong's group gave the gerbils the first blow, these guys began to fish in troubled waters: some sand fish secretly dragged away the gerbils that had been paralyzed by Huang Sulong, and some sand fish suddenly bit the gerbils who were confronting Huang Sulong from time to time, and more were in groups to force the gerbils who tried to escape from the bottom of the sand back to the sand.
It's not a fair fight, but nature is never fair, it only believes in the jungle.
More than 30 Huang Sulong, plus a group of sand fish that almost did not pose a fatal threat to gerbils, faced more than 100 gerbils, including two big gerbils, such a huge number of comparisons, but the gerbils were stunned by the Huang Sulong group and the sand fish group to be defeated at once.
It's not so much a defeat, but from start to finish, the gerbils don't have a decent resistance.
In just half an hour, not counting those who were quietly dragged away by the sand fish, more than 30 gerbils fell silently on the blood-soaked yellow sand, and there was even a big gerbil among them.
After the hunt is over, it's time for the important distribution of loot -
The sand fish, who are the informants and supporters of the hunt, greedily suck the bubbling blood from the gerbils' bodies, which is the supreme delicacy for them, and they deserve to be rewarded, after which they can also take half of the prey;
Then, as the main combat force, the Yellow Speed Dragon Group will bring the remaining prey to their lair, where their leader, the Yellow Speed Dragon King, will feast on it, and finally it will be their turn.
Workers at the bottom do the hardest, most tiring and dirtiest physical work, but they can only get the least part of the remuneration, which is also the norm in nature.
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"It's over, rest early, we have to hurry tomorrow morning."
Red Star glanced at the little tiger who was shocked by the sight of this hunt, and showed a smile that was not there.