Chapter 4: The Hunt Begins
It's actually a very simple thing, as long as Lake keeps eating from now on and dodges other invincible predators, he will be able to gradually become stronger.
The current Lake is a small crocodile, according to human standards, his current body length is only a dozen centimeters, and the only weapons he can use are his mouth and claws, as long as it is a slightly larger fish, he can't deal with it, so he can only retreat to catch those easy prey!
Take amphibians like tadpoles and frogs, for example! There are many such small animals in the aquatic grass near the shore, but it is not so easy to catch them, these little things are very ghostly, as long as there is a slight vibration on the water surface, they will scatter and flee.
"Goo-goo!"
Whether it is a human or a crocodile, there is a feeling of hunger when you do not eat for a long time. Maybe he was chased too hard by that strange bird before, and Lake consumed a lot of physical strength, isn't this a stomach growl?
So the biggest problem facing Lake now is how to quickly solve the problem of food and clothing. Below the surface of the water it looks fairly safe, but in reality it can become a meal for other predators if you are not careful.
Crocodiles are some of nature's most powerful predators, but that's only for large crocodiles, and a small thing of Ryker's size is nothing.
Although they can swim freely in the water, crocodiles are only amphibians after all, and they have to float to the surface every few tens of minutes to change their air, and Lake, a crocodile who is still in his infancy, changes his air more frequently, which means that he must not track his prey underwater for more than ten minutes.
How good is that?
Those small fish, shrimp and tadpoles won't stop there and wait for you to eat them, if you can't catch up with them, they will consume a lot of physical strength, which is definitely a thing that outweighs the loss.
But isn't there any other way than to take the initiative?
At this moment, Lake looks like a small crocodile, but in fact he is an anomaly with human intelligence, he will not be like other small crocodiles to track down their prey according to their own stupidity, and one will be exhausted to death if he is not careful.
"Brother, I'll pretend to be seaweed here, and see if you take the bait!"
There is a recreational sport in the human world called fishing. The specific principle is to take advantage of the characteristics of the fish and use some bait to entice them to swim over and bite the hook, which can often be very rewarding if used correctly.
Although Lake doesn't have any fishing tackle in his hand now, he can still use his size to disguise himself as a drifting seaweed to attract those silly little creatures, which are the favorite of tadpoles and unknown small fish and shrimp.
After thinking of a countermeasure, Lake quietly hid his body in the densest place of the aquatic weeds, except for a black and yellow tail, swaying left and right in the turbulence of the water, like a unique aquatic weed.
Soon, several small fish were attracted by Lake's tail, but they were relatively large and not suitable for the current Lake's predation, and as a small crocodile, Lake's teeth had not yet grown and could not break through the thick scales on those small fish.
Therefore, Lake's ideal hunting target should be the kind of mollusk that is not very large, and if one is not full, it can be eaten several times to win by quantity.
I don't know if I was particularly lucky today, and soon the most suitable targets appeared.
It is a group of black tadpoles with small tails, they are frogs and toads in their infancy, the basic form is an oval head in front of the back and a small tail swaying from side to side, of course, if the tadpoles grow for a while, they will first grow two hind paws, so that the speed of swimming will be faster, and the difficulty of catching will be increased.
However, the group of tadpoles that Lake encountered were just newborn little ones, and I don't know if it was because of playfulness or other reasons, these little tadpoles actually circled around Lake's exposed tail, completely unaware of the potential danger.
"Hehe, it looks like you can open meat today!"
It stands to reason that creatures like tadpoles are absolutely not in line with human descriptions of food, but I don't know why, but at this time, Lake has a salivating feeling, as if the tadpoles in front of him are swimming meat buns, eager to eat them all in his mouth.
Perhaps this is the instinct of the crocodile species!
Since these little tadpoles were sent to the door, Lake naturally wouldn't be polite to them. I saw that he quickly raised his tail, attracting these little tadpoles to swim with its tail, and then his crocodile mouth swung down hard, directly inserted into the small tadpole group, and then opened his bloody mouth: "Ahhhhhhhhhhh ”
Although some of the tadpoles instinctively sensed the danger, most of them did not escape in time and were directly bitten by Lake's crocodile mouth.
This successful attack allowed Lake to eat two small tadpoles in one go, and the soft body and the juice that was squeezed out melted in his mouth like Kobe beef, making Lake feel an endless aftertaste.
In particular, the feeling of swallowing food down my throat and sweeping away the hunger in my stomach is a wonderful feeling!
Besides, brother, I want to eat more!
Lake licked his mouth with his tongue, it was a wonderful feeling to devour those little tadpoles just now.
However, after the attack just now, those remaining tadpoles have already fled in the wilderness, so how can they wait for him to eat in place?
But it doesn't matter, it is said that the memory of the fish is only seven seconds, and the same hook in the same place can catch them repeatedly, but I don't know if this trick applies to tadpoles?
There is only one way to verify it, that is, to continue to stay in place and draw the scoop according to the gourd, and see if you can succeed again with the previous method?
This kind of leisure is simply too wonderful for a little crocodile like Lake. The facts have also fully proved the correctness of his previous inference, whether it is a fish or a small tadpole, they all belong to the kind of creatures that forget the pain after scars, have no brains at all, and do not have a long memory.
In the same place, with the same tricks, Lake was able to succeed many times in a row, eating more than ten tadpoles here, and he didn't expect that the first hunt would be so successful!