Chapter 293: Overlord Salamander
"Be careful!" Zi Yang shouted and knocked Su Rui down.
Almost at the same time, a huge black shadow suddenly appeared in the darkness and rushed towards the place where they had just stood. Everyone only felt a strong wind blowing by, and they instantly smelled a strange smell in their noses.
The huge monster pounced into the air and hit the wooden door directly, with a loud "boom", the heavy wooden door of the palace was knocked open with a big hole, and under the impact of the monster's huge force, the whole palace seemed to tremble.
Lao Wang fell to the ground sideways, and only after crawling out of the belt for a few meters did he dare to turn back, only to see that the entire head of the monster that attacked them had been drilled into the broken wooden door, and the exposed body was four or five meters long, with a huge tail, thick limbs, and a thick layer of mucus on the gray-white body, and the rancid breath emanated from it.
The beast took a few steps back, pulled its head out of the wooden door, shook its thick neck, and slowly turned to face the crowd.
Under the light of the diving lamp, the crowd finally saw the true face of the monster that attacked them. I saw that this guy's ugly head was flattened, and a mouth alone took up half of the skull. Two small round eyes grow on each side of the head, and compared to the huge body, these two bean-like eyes look very incongruous.
The giant beast shook its head and shook the sawdust off its head, and opened its bloody mouth as if demonstratively, only to see that its mouth was full of tiny teeth, and it was absolutely no problem for such a huge mouth to swallow a person alive.
"Don't move! This guy is blind, he can't see where we are! Lao Wang shouted to remind Su Rui and Ziyang.
The monster's eyeballs had turned grayish-white, motionless, staring blankly ahead.
Su Rui and Zi Yang were separated by the monster on the other side, and Su Rui whispered while pulling Zi Yang back slowly: "This is the Overlord Salamander, it relies on thermal imaging to capture its prey." β
Before Su Rui's words fell, the overlord salamander swung its limbs and rushed towards Lao Wang, Lao Wang was horrified, raised his pistol and pulled the trigger, banging two gunshots, the bullet hit the salamander's head accurately, and poofed twice into its body.
The Beretta M92 pistol in Lao Wang's hand uses 9mm bullets, which can penetrate the human body when fired at close range, but it is as good as if it hits the overlord salamander. The overlord salamander's fat skin absorbed most of the bullet's kinetic energy, and the damage that a 9mm bullet could do to this giant monster was too limited.
However, these two shots succeeded in provoking it, and the Overlord Salamander opened its mouth and rushed fiercely towards the old king.
"Wow!" Lao Wang shouted, turned his head and ran. The overlord salamander swung its limbs and chased after it, and its movements were unexpectedly very agile.
Lao Wang listened to the heavy footsteps behind him getting closer and closer, and when he looked back, he found that its straight-line speed was much faster than his own, and he could bite off his head in two seconds. In the midst of the crisis, Lao Wang saw a boulder protruding from the ground next to him, and Lao Wang suddenly made a sharp stop and rushed over, and began to circle around the boulder.
The overlord salamander followed closely behind the old king, and its huge body turned very inconveniently, and it couldn't catch up with the old king for a while.
"Lao Li! Think of a way! The old king opened his mouth and wailed while running wildly, it seems that the old king's physical strength is definitely not comparable to the overlord salamander, and if this situation continues, it will be a matter of time before it catches up. As long as the old king walked a little slower, or left the range of the boulder, the overlord salamander could easily swallow him in one bite.
Zi Yang could only be anxious when he watched from the side, the pistol bullets did not work against it, looking at its huge body, even if the dog-legged scimitar was extremely sharp, it was estimated that it would not be able to cut through its rough and thick old skin for a while. What's more, this monster won't honestly stand there and cut him, and with a shake of his head, he can swallow him with a knife.
"This guy's crux should be in the belly." Su Rui observed for a while and reminded Ziyang.
"My eldest miss, even if I know its weakness, I can't do anything about itβLao Wang, do you have a way to make it belly upside down?" Zi Yang stretched his neck and shouted to the running old Wang.
"I, I'll go, I'll fuck you!" Lao Wang replied to him.
"Overlord salamanders rely on heat induction to pursue their prey, and our nano-clothing is insulated to isolate the heat emitted by the body!" Su Rui looked at Zi Yang and said.
For the Overlord Salamanders, wearing a nano suit is like wearing an invisibility cloak.
"I see, no wonder this monster keeps chasing Lao Wang!" Ziyang suddenly realized.
He and Su Rui's nano clothes are covered all over the body, and only the face is exposed. And Lao Wang is wearing an ordinary diving suit, with his hands, feet, and neck above being exposed, and the heat dissipation area is much larger than theirs.
"I've got a way!" Zi Yang took a deep breath, put on the mask of the nano clothes, and ran towards the boulder with a dog-legged scimitar in both hands, almost to the position where Lao Wang took the overlord salamander around in a circle, Zi Yang fell to the ground and rolled on, lying on his back on the edge of the boulder.
Lao Wang jumped over him in great strides, looked down at Ziyang, and didn't forget to scold: "What the hell are you doing!?" β
As soon as Lao Wang ran over, the overlord salamander also rushed over. Zi Yang flipped his wrist, and his hands tightly grasped the dogleg scimitar and stood it in front of his chest, with the blade facing upward.
The speed of the overlord salamander was very fast, and it crawled over Ziyang with a "whirl", and after rushing for more than ten meters, it stopped on the sand on the shore, crawling there motionless, and a puddle of dark green slime slowly oozed from under it.
The sharp dog-legged scimitar made a deep cut under the neck of the overlord salamander, until it reached its tail, directly cutting open its soft abdomen, and the black-brown internal organs were sprinkled all over the ground, scattered on the road more than ten meters behind it.
The frightened old king ran around again before he stopped, gasped and asked, ", kill?" β
Ziyang was lying on the ground, covered in the slime and dark green bodily fluids of the overlord salamander. Although he could still smell the strong sour smell through the mask, Ziyang felt a twitch in his stomach and almost vomited.
Lao Wang and Su Rui slowly approached the Overlord Salamander, only to see its huge body as small as a hill lying motionless on the ground, dark green body fluids seeping out from under it until they flowed into the pool in front of it.
"Damn, where did such a big guy come from?" Lao Wang poked the corpse of the overlord salamander with a dogleg scimitar, and after making sure that it was dead, he pinched his nose and squatted next to it to watch carefully.
"Su Rui, do you think it will be worth it if we ship this thing out and make it into a specimen?"
Lao Wang, this guy is really unrepentant, he was almost swallowed by this monster just now, and now he actually has the idea of its corpse.
Su Rui carefully observed the monster's corpse and muttered in his mouth: "The Overlord Salamander is an ancient species that lived two hundred million years ago, and it has long been extinct, how can it appear in such a place?" β
Su Rui took a closer look at the eyes of the overlord salamander, probably because of the long-term survival in the dark environment, the two small eyeballs of the overlord salamander were gray-white, and it seemed that the visual system had completely degenerated, replaced by a more sensitive and advanced thermal sensing system.
Zi Yang got up from the ground, walked to the water and silently cleaned the filth on his body, Lao Wang only then remembered the hero who rescued him, walked to Zi Yang and patted him on the shoulder: "I said Lao Li, you have to prepare a more powerful weapon in the future, you can get this pistol for us to be useless at all, hitting it is like tickling." β
Ziyang buried his head in the water to wash off the dark green slime on the mask, and then raised his head, took off the mask, and squeezed out a word between his teeth: "Get out!" β
"Su Rui, is it normal for this thing to grow so big?" Zi Yang looked back at the overlord salamander lying on the shore, with an unbelievable expression on his face, was this thing really killed by himself?
Su Rui shook his head: "It's definitely not normal, the existing salamander species have not grown so big, it may be that the independent ecosystem that has been closed for thousands of years has caused the species in it to mutate." β
"What is this thing eating in here and growing so big? With this tonnage, a pond of fish and shrimp is not enough for it to eat, right? Lao Wang touched his head, just now it was almost reduced to the overlord salamander's meal, his body is already heavyweight enough, it seems that he can only stuff his teeth between his teeth.
Su Rui gently touched the skin of the overlord salamander with his hand and said: "The closed environment will slow down their metabolism, even if they don't eat for a long time, they won't starve to death, and now the longest record of salamanders not eating is 14 years - even in this case, their lifespan will be very long, and it is no problem to live for hundreds of years." β
Lao Wang was speechless: "Damn, can you grow so big without eating for so many years?" It's unreasonable! I lose a few pounds a day without eating. β
"Do you know the Havelik limit?" Su Rui asked Lao Wang.
Lao Wang blinked at her, with an innocent and ignorant look on his face, it was obvious that he didn't even know how to spell the word.
Su Rui continued: "The Hayflik limit is a theory proposed by the American microbiologist Leonardo, who experimentally found that cells in the human body will die completely after 56 times of division. He believed that '56' was the limit of human cell division and the maintenance of the body's metabolism. Clinical medicine believes that this is the cause of human body aging and death.
Obviously, some organisms in nature divide more than 56 times, and there is a theory that the cells of some organisms will never die...... This means that they can grow indefinitely. β
Su Rui looked at the huge corpse of the overlord salamander in front of him with a solemn expression.
Obviously, this monster may have lived for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Zi Yang snorted: "So what we killed was a living fossil?" Fortunately, the state did not list this thing as a protected animal, otherwise I would have been guilty of a great crime. β
Lao Wang nodded and said, "Well, it's enough for you to eat prison food for more than ten years." β
Zi Yang glanced at Lao Wang: "If I knew it, I wouldn't kill it, it's better to let him eat you." β
"You, you, you! Lao Tzu's life is not as valuable as this monster? Lao Wang squatted on the shore, his face red and red ears in a hurry.
Zi Yang finally cleaned the dirt left by the overlord salamander on his body, raised his feet and walked ashore from the water, standing in front of the corpse of the overlord salamander, and the three of them stared at its huge body together, silent for a while.
At this time, no one noticed that in the deep water behind them, there was a faint shadow tens of meters long swimming rapidly.