"Even if there is no radiation, in the past hundred years, the animals and plants of the earth may change greatly, not to mention the promotion of radiation, these animals and plants will produce more terrible mutations", Pike said of the radiation mutation of animals and plants, "No matter what, your purpose is only, and there will only be this one, that is, to live, do your best to live!" ”

"But Mr. Pike", there are also children on the other side who asked, "The surface radiation will not be dissipated in a hundred years, and by the time the Ark can return to Earth, we will have already become meteors in the universe (the corpse was ejected from the Ark by the airlock)......", this time it was Fen who raised the question, and Fen seemed to mean something.

The subtext of Finn is clear, they, their group of incarcerated teenage prisoners, most of them will be at the end of their lives in a few years. So, why are they taking Parker's course, which is clearly not needed?

Pike understood.

Pike smiled, pointed to the stars of the universe outside the porthole, more precisely, at the blue dreamlike planet in the dark and deep universe, and said with some intoxication and some sadness, "We were born on the Ark, but, children, please remember, we are from Earth!" ”

"One day, we, our descendants, our descendants, will return to the earth, and the flame of human civilization will continue in our hands! And the first thing we have to learn before and after this is to live, at all costs! ”

Finn knew Pike understood.

Finn knew Pike was pretending not to understand.

Fen pretended not to understand while knowing that Pike wanted him to understand.

As one of the two eldest of the thirteen to seventeen-year-olds, Fen sat in his seat and continued to listen attentively without asking any further questions.

Parker's words were affectionate and heartfelt. However, the vast majority of the children in the audience did not catch a cold.

Noticing that Finn was dragging Trist's younger brother Murphy to listen carefully, Pike understood and continued the lecture, and he didn't have much time to delay. "What follows we are going to talk about the habits of wild animals that are common in several terrains, although we are not sure whether they existed after the nuclear war, and what kind of mutations have occurred in the nuclear radiation and in the evolution of these hundred years, but! The habits of wild animals are all common, master these well, you ...... We'll be better off the initiative when it comes to these possible mutated creatures! ”

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"If the crocodile bites you, you should fight back with all the means and things you can, and the more out of control, the better, and the crocodile may feel that it is not worth the effort to fight you." --Excerpt from Uncle Parker's class quotes.

If possible, Trist would very much like to theorize with Pike who is still on the ark, but unfortunately he is now busy running for his life. Or, more precisely, he was sliding down a huge crater fifty or sixty meters deep from a height forty or fifty meters above the ground.

He struggled to balance his balance on his homemade sled sled, while sliding down the steep slope. Thanks to his hobby of skating in his previous life, and to Dr. Sinclair in this life, he has been trained for weightlessness in outer space many times, so that he can still maintain his balance in such a situation.

Just a little turning around, he couldn't help but feel dead, this giant crocodile was still persevering along the slope in pursuit!

Nima!

Without even thinking about it, Trist pulled out a javelin from his backpack and threw it over.

The wooden javelin made shallow marks on the thick layer of scale armor, and it was easily bounced away. It's just that this move didn't make the giant crocodile retreat as Pike said, but this small provocation aroused the ferocity of the giant crocodile, and the giant crocodile was a little faster.

'What did this guy eat to grow so big?' Trist scolded in his heart. But when he thought of the giant python in the misty swamp and the mutant blackfish with a big basketball and can go ashore, Trist almost had an answer in his heart, but now is not the time to be distracted!

"Crocodiles are known for their explosive power in short bursts." --Excerpt from Uncle Parker's class quotes.

The mutant crocodile had apparently inherited this, and Trist noticed that its thick hind legs were quietly contracting as it ran, a precursor to the jump.

"Whew!" , the crocodile jumped up in an instant and pounced on Trist.

"One of the crocodiles' tricks to defeat the enemy is to bite the prey to the death, and then spin desperately to break the prey's neck!" --Excerpt from Uncle Parker's class quotes.

At this time, Trist didn't even care about the sled under his feet, and rolled to his side, dodging the bloody mouth that pounced in front of him, those dagger-like huge teeth were clearly visible, and the smell of blood from the crocodile's mouth made the dodging boy nauseous.

Trist has a characteristic, the more critical the moment, the calmer he is, the more he can control his emotional ups and downs, and in a moment, Trist's brain is spinning rapidly.

"When attacking a crocodile, hit its mouth and nose. Crocodiles have a sensitive snout and can be attacked to let go of their prey. Another weakness of the crocodile is its eyes, which can poke at its eyeballs and may also make it open its mouth right away. --Excerpt from Uncle Parker's "Wilderness Survival Handbook: Wild Animals" compiled in his spare time.

The roll had cost Trist the opportunity to attack the crocodile's soft underbelly, but he wasn't discouraged. Then, he grabbed another javelin from his backpack and slammed it into the eyes and nostrils the size of a giant crocodile bulb.

Trist's blow almost hit the face, and in pain, the giant crocodile pounced on Trist's position on the side, ready to bite in a dying struggle. At the same time, for the reason of the permafrost slopes, the man and beast in the fight are still sliding downward because of the terrain......

After another dodge, Trist, who had been prepared, took the last spare javelin from his backpack and threw it into the crocodile's open jaw.

"Their biting muscles have little force to open their mouths, but they have a lot of strength to close their mouths" - from a quote from an unreliable uncle.

In both past and present lives, Trist has a deep impression of the crocodile's bite. In addition, the toss just now proved that the crocodile's internal muscles were not as hard as the outer scales.

"Snort~" After the crocodile's quick and instinctive bite, the javelin pointed tip pierced the flesh from the inside, and even with the help of the crocodile's huge bite, it pierced through the thick scale armor from the inside and pierced out.

To put it simply, the giant crocodile, which could no longer use his crocodile kiss, was almost no longer a threat to Trist.

As for why it was almost, Triste, who had four or five meters left on the ramp to land on the ground, was whipped out by the tail of the dying giant crocodile......

Trist only felt a huge concentration of force, and then was pumped into the air nearly a meter high, and then fell heavily on the frozen meadow. Then, the boy's eyes went dark and he fainted......

Maybe it's a few tens of seconds, maybe it's a few hours, and time doesn't seem to have a clear idea at the moment. Trist woke up slowly, and then spat out a mouthful of blood, only to feel sore, especially when breathing, his lungs were hot and painful.

It's just that the next moment, the young man who escaped death was suffocated, and in front of his eyes was a yellow vertical pupil the size of a light bulb......

Trist couldn't be sure if the motionless crocodile in front of him was completely dead, and the javelin that had been pierced into the crocodile's right eye continued to roll all the way through the frozen slopes, leaving only the short handle exposed, and the rest of the body had been deeply rooted into the crocodile's head.

To be on the safe side, Trist was only in pain, and quickly held himself away from the dangerous beast in front of him.

In the process of being thrown into the air and falling to the ground, Trist only had time to protect his head and chest with both hands, and at the same time, his tumbling motion unloaded some of the impact, leaving him with only soft tissue injuries and no internal organ damage.

The boy got up and looked around, and the center of the crater in front of him was a pond formed by stagnant water, and on all sides was a slope with a radius of four or five kilometers and a height of about fifty or sixty meters.

The closer you get to the center, the harder the geology becomes, and the occasional exposed land even reflects a glass-like sheen in the sun, which is caused by the high temperatures of thousands of degrees Celsius at the center of the nuclear explosion. It's just that a hundred years later, this originally barren crater has been filled with sparse greenery.