3. Predators

This frightened Zhou Zheng a lot, grabbed Qin Lai's arm tightly, and almost buried his nose and mouth in the stream. Qin Lai, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, was also the same as Zhou Zheng, but he held the long sword tightly with his other hand. Just when they were almost about to smell the fishy smell from their mouths, suddenly the stream next to them churned, and a large string of splashes came out from the bottom to the top, and then a seven or eight meter-long predator sprang out, and rushed to the shore from the side of them at a very fast speed, and bit the meat worm from the place where it was cut, and swallowed it into the stomach one by one. Zhou Zheng and Qin Lai glanced at each other, and both of them saw the horror in each other's eyes, such a big predator, I don't know how long they have been ambushed by their side, they didn't eat them but went up to eat the meat worm, I don't know if it was lucky or blessed by the gods. Just when the two of them were not happy, another thing happened that made them even more frightened, the big python that was cut off in the cave, I don't know when it began to slowly grow a new body from the disconnected place, it is said to grow out, it is better to say that it is from the broken incision to turn out a new body, turned out to be almost as long as the cut off, and finally turned out of the inside turned out a big mouth of a black hole, and the disgusting sarcoma slowly grew on the new head. The python slowly swam out of the cave, and its body from the cave was covered with thick scales, and only the severed part was without scales. After swimming out, they rushed directly in the direction of Zhou Zheng and them, Zhou Zheng and Qin Lai really wanted to die at the moment, but what they were facing was death, obviously they wanted to live. What surprised them even more happened, the python did not come to the water to bite them, but bit the predator that was devouring the meat worm from behind, the python bit the tail of the predator, the predator was frightened and rushed forward, and rushed into the water, scaring Qin Lai and Zhou Zheng jumped up from the water and ran to the shore, watching the predator in the water in horror and began to swing his body from side to side, making the whole hot spring seem to boil, but the python had already swallowed the tail of the predator into his mouth, The body swam forward with the predator, and began to swallow it slowly and unhurriedly, although the predator swayed his body from side to side, he could not break free, and was gradually swallowed by the python into his stomach, the predator seemed to have known his end, turned his head and stared at Qin Lai, and let out a wail, just like a child crying, obviously in a very dangerous environment, but the two of them had a feeling of heartbreak. The two looked at each other, as if they could see the meaning in each other's eyes, no matter what, this predator should have no ill will towards the two of them, otherwise the two of them would have become its belly when they were in the water, and if the predator was eaten by the python, the next thing would be the two of them. Qin Lai and Zhou Zheng clenched the sword in their hands in unison, and at this time, the predator who had been swallowed half of it seemed to understand their thoughts, and his voice suddenly increased, and his big head shook violently, as if to say leave me alone, hurry up. Qin Lai seemed to remember something in a trance, and couldn't help but be stunned. Turned around and pulled Zhou Zheng into the water, just when the water was about to flood his head, he threw the lighter out, and finally looked at the predator that had been almost swallowed, looked at the predator, and pulled Zhou Zheng and the backpack to dive into the water together, just at the moment when he just dived into the water, there was a sudden bang outside, and the entire cave was instantly engulfed by fire, Qin Lai and Zhou Zheng followed closely and felt that the water temperature began to rise, and the two kept diving and swimming forward until they touched the stone at the bottom of the water, and the two of them grabbed a stone to stabilize their bodies, Looking up, I saw a fiery red side above the water surface, I felt that the entire water surface was burning, and it had begun to boil, just at the moment when the predator was swallowed, the python was surrounded by fire, and the whole body burned instantly, the python was in pain, and the body that was originally in the cave with scale armor also drilled out, and the whole became a fire dragon, constantly rolling and screaming in the cave, trying to drill into the water, but it felt that it was always a little bit close, as soon as it entered the water, it was pulled out by something, and it could only keep beating the cave wall, The rubble was knocked off and fell into the water. I don't know how long it took. The cave slowly calmed down, and the water temperature began to slowly drop, and Zhou Zheng and Qin Lai slowly swam back and climbed ashore. The cave was dark, the glowing glow sticks just now were long gone, Qin Lai took out two glow sticks from his body, raised them in his hand and looked around, there was no trace of the python in the cave, only a long charred corpse remained, straightened to fifty or sixty meters long, Zhou Zheng and Qin were secretly frightened, thinking that fortunately there were predators to save them, otherwise there would really be no place to die. Fortunately, Zhou Zheng had a stomach full of questions and didn't know where to start, why did the predator suddenly come out to save them, why he would be fine underwater for so long, Qin Lai was also fine, even if Qin Lai had good water nature, but he knew how his water nature was, although he would not drown, but it was definitely impossible to stay underwater for so long. Could it be that he was swallowed by a python and became a god himself? By the way, I don't know how it came out of the python's body now.

Just when Zhou Zheng was in a trance full of doubts, the charred dead body of the python next to him suddenly moved, and the two of them were scared to bounce away, thinking that it was not burned through and was about to grow a new one, just now the two of them had seen with their own eyes the speed of regeneration in the cut off place. Just when the two were puzzled, the scorched body of the python crawled out of a big thing, and the two couldn't help but be overjoyed, it turned out to be the predator swallowed by the python, and it escaped the fire after being swallowed by the python, and the two of them understood at once, it turned out that the python had not been able to enter the water to extinguish the fire just now, just because the predator had been dragging it, otherwise it would be another matter if the python could be burned to death completely, the predator slowly climbed out, crawled in front of the two and lay down in front of the two of them. Through the bright light of the glow stick, the two of them saw the appearance of this predator clearly, it was only seven or eight meters long, the skin was smooth and smooth, the whole body was yellow-brown patterns, a big tail like a tadpole, a flat mouth, sharp teeth like jagged, the head was one-third the size of the body, and the limbs were thick and strong. The shape of the predator reminded Zhou Zheng of a prehistoric behemoth: the heinapidon. But after all, how could a prehistoric animal, and it lived in the sea, appear here, and the giant beast was obviously twice as big as Heinapidon. Looking at the predator who wagged his tail vigorously and looked unusually affectionate to Qin Lai, Zhou Zheng suddenly understood something, the reason why the two of them were all pressed in the water at the beginning, only using glow sticks that emit cold light and did not use lighters or miner's lamps, because the python itself has no eyes, nose and even ears, and can only rely on detecting the heat on the body to find food, the temperature of the hot spring water is higher than the heat of the body, and the python can't find it at all when the two of them lie in it, and because of this, when they lie in the water, The predators on the shore thus became the target of the pythons. The hot springs can also heal his wounds, relieving the pain of being devoured by pythons and bumped while climbing caves. Because of the high oxygen content in this cave, these two behemoths will grow, and the high sulfur content in the hot springs makes the air here extremely flammable, so Zhou Zheng just pulled himself into the water, ignited the air here, and burned the python to ashes. After thinking about it, Zhou Zheng glanced back at Qin Lai, who was teasing the predators, and couldn't help but admire, in such a critical environment, it was really powerful to be able to judge the situation here and make such a decision, Zhou Zheng quietly praised Qin Lai in his heart.

Zhou Zheng only had time to look around at this time, they were now in a narrow cave, the cave was not long, only twenty or thirty meters, the height was just enough for one person to stand up straight, only a few meters wide, in the middle was the hot spring where he was lying just now, the water of the hot spring has been flowing, it should flow out from under the stones on both sides of the cave, flow through the cave, and flow out from under the stones, so this should be a dark river. On the other side of the rock wall of the cave they had climbed into was a cave entrance of about the same size, which should correspond to the cave just now, but it just happened to pass by the hot springs. The two caves form a cross. Qin Lai was teasing the predator who had just saved their lives, like an acquaintance who had not seen him for many years, Qin Lai reached out and touched the predator's head, and the predator rubbed Qin Lai's hand with his head vigorously, indescribably affectionate. Looking at such a behemoth like a coquettish puppy, Zhou Zheng felt indescribably weird, but he was so happy. Zhou Zheng couldn't help but walked over, the predator obviously knew that he and Qin Lai were together, so although he was not as affectionate as Qin Lai, but obviously there was no malice, Zhou Zheng reached out and touched its head, feeling that the tentacles were slippery and greasy, if in ordinary times Zhou Zheng was most afraid of touching the slippery and greasy animals, now there is an indescribable sense of intimacy when he touches it, so he simply squatted down and touched it with both hands a few times, and the predator has been rubbing Zhou Zheng's hand up.

The two teased the predator for a while, sat down cross-legged, and the predator lay next to the two and kept looking at Qin Lai. Qin Lai opened his backpack and took out dry food and water. It seems that the backpack is waterproof and nothing inside is wet. Zhou Zheng saw Qin Lai take out the food, and only then did he feel hungry, he had been nervous just now, and he didn't feel that he had not eaten for a long time after entering the cave. The two of them ate some dry food with mineral water. After eating, the two sat down and rested for a while, Qin Lai saw Zhou Zheng wanting to speak several times, knowing that Zhou Zheng had a lot of questions, but limited to the previous agreement, and couldn't ask, seeing that he was uncomfortable, he took the initiative to tell Zhou Zheng how they came out after being swallowed by the python.