Chapter 72: Sneak Attack
Confirming that this water is fresh water, Liu Qing is also a lot relieved, unless this is a very large island, there should not be such a large body of water. What's more, the water here is flowing, which means that it is a river, and with such a large water flow, it is impossible for an ordinary island to collect so much fresh water.
The fire has been extinguished, and Liu Qing has already made a decision not to return to the cave, he wants to explore the world until he finds a suitable place to live, and then live, maybe until he dies.
Next, Liu Qing prepares to cross the river to find a place where he thinks he is suitable to live. Standing on the bank of the river, watching the gentle flow of the river, it seems that the waves are not alarming, but Liu Qing is a person who has been trained in sea training and different waters, and he knows that under this calm current, there may be a surging undercurrent. The smoke and rain were hazy, and only some shadows of trees on the opposite bank could be roughly seen, and it seemed that the river was at least a kilometer wide, and perhaps more than that. After thinking briefly for a while, Liu Qing came up with three plans.
According to Liu Qing's idea, if nothing else, it should not be difficult to swim across this big river, Xiao Wu can also swim, and if he swims slowly, he should be able to reach the other side. But the question is what the water conditions are in this water, and he doesn't know how many undercurrents there are, and once he is caught in the undercurrents, he is afraid that it will be dangerous. In addition, such a large river, saying that there are no large dangerous animals in it, it is estimated that Liu Qing was the first to believe it, so Liu Qing first ruled out this plan to swim across the river.
The remaining two plans are more troublesome, at least it will take a lot of time, but for Liu Qing now, the most important thing is time. One is to build a boat, or a raft to be exact. With the raft, crossing such a river was not a problem at all, and the only thing he needed to pay attention to was the threat posed by the animals inside. But as long as he didn't move around on the water, the animals wouldn't be interested in seeing drifting wood in the water.
If neither option works, then the third option can only be used, and he believes that no matter how wide the river is, there will always be shallow or narrow places upstream, and it is not easy to get lost if you walk along the river.
Liu Qing put the rattan basket in a conspicuous place by the river, and took Xiao Wu around the riverbank, there were patches of tall grass on the bank, and all kinds of strange-looking plants were really eye-opening to Liu Qing. In addition to what can be seen in the tall grass by the sea, there are other species that Liu Qing has never seen.
At this time, there was one in front of him, no, it was a plant, but it looked like a plant that looked like an animal. At first, seeing it from a distance, Liu Qing was still a little excited, thinking that it was a bison lying on the ground, which was simply very similar, with a head, horns and a body. When he drew his gun and walked closer, he planned to kill the bison, so that he would not have to worry about food for days.
As a result, he shot himself in the head, but he didn't move, and when he walked up to him, he was dumbfounded, this was just a succulent plant, the whole thing was like a ball of cotton, and the skin was cut with a dagger, and the inside was fleshy like a cactus, but it had grown into this shape. But it was strange to be able to grow like this, and he soon realized that this thing had not only grown into a bison, but also several of these plants, some of which resembled dinosaurs, some of which resembled a fish, and some of which had never been seen before.
In addition, there is a kind of plant in which a main trunk sticks out from the ground, and begins to fork from half a meter high, one becomes two, and then more than half a meter long and then divides into two each, until it is about two meters. And there are no leaves in sight of the whole plant, and there is a pair of green balls of flesh hanging from the branched branches, and I don't know if it is its fruit or leaves. There are other exotic plants, and there are many more of them that look ordinary, so I won't repeat them one by one.
I think it is far from the sea, there is no interference from the saltiness of the sea, and the plants grow more unscrupulously. He now wanted to find a safe place to stay close to the river and collect wood to make a raft.
Xiao Wu followed Liu Qing and didn't know what he was going to do, but the little guy seemed to be very vigilant, sniffing around on the ground from time to time. Liu Qingzheng looked ahead with interest, a round stone ball was in front of him, more than two meters in diameter, a large round stone, and there were some small potholes on the surface. Liu Qing thought to himself, where did this stone come from, how did it look like it had been cared by a lathe.
Tut sighed twice, sighing at the magic of nature, but Xiao Wu suddenly roared in a low voice, Liu Qing immediately realized that something was wrong, and quickly shrank behind a thick tall grass, Xiao Wu followed closely behind him.
After waiting for less than a minute, Liu Qing felt a tremor on the ground. Judging by Liu Qing's experience, this must be a huge dinosaur. Unexpectedly, Xiao Wu not only has a keen sense of smell, but also has a far greater perception of vibration than himself. At this time, not only did the ground vibrate, but also the sound reached the ears, and the sound of sparse and tumbling vegetation and big feet falling to the ground was very clear, and the direction was in front of the right.
Liu Qing didn't dare to move, such a large tonnage dinosaur, I am afraid that he can step on him into a meatloaf with one kick, but it is really not enough to stuff his teeth, it is not an exaggeration at all. Because of the relationship between the plants in front of him, Liu Qing couldn't see what it was, judging from the sound he heard, it should be one, at most two. The atmosphere didn't dare to breathe, he had seen the sleeping stegosaurus before, that size was enough to shock him, and this one didn't know how big it would be.
After a few more minutes, the sound of stamping on the ground was already close at hand, and Liu Qing looked up, not wanting to miss the glimpse of the giant dinosaur.
The vegetation in front of him seemed to encounter a giant harvester, and suddenly fell forward, and at the same time, Liu Qing only saw a thick giant leg appear in front of him, which felt like standing under a bridge and seeing a bridge pier, and it was a moving bridge pier. Looking up, I saw that this dinosaur had a long body, thick limbs about two or three meters high, the body was round, the most peculiar thing was its long neck, at least ten meters long, looking up, almost no head could be seen, the whole was like a giant giraffe.
Liu Qing came up with such a name in his mind, he had seen the introduction of this dinosaur on the Internet before, called Ma Xilong, living in the water, looking at the picture just felt that the neck was so long, it really appeared in front of his eyes, and the shock to him was incomprehensible. In fact, not only dinosaurs, but also the content on any picture is far inferior to reality. Because no matter how real the photo is, it is only two-dimensional, and the scale is reduced, while the reality is three-dimensional, three-dimensional, in addition, in addition to the real thing, the environment such as sound, light, color and other environments in reality is also something that photos cannot give.
According to what those scientists said, this horse is a Xilong, he lives in the water, and Liu Qing only now knows that this guy will come to the shore. This giant dinosaur is not walking slowly, the body size of the person is there, and Liu Qing runs several steps in one step, so it seems to be walking slowly, but in fact the speed is not slow.
Soon, this giant dinosaur walked past Liu Qing's eyes, Xiao Wu lowered his head, staring at the back of the Xilong, and kept making a ho-ho sound in his throat, as if he wanted to rush up and fight, and he looked scared. Liu Qing touched its head with a smile and followed with a step.
He didn't want to eat this river dragon this time, but he was curious, curious about what this long-necked dinosaur was not staying in the water, what was it going to do? Following this huge dinosaur for less than fifty meters, he suddenly found that it stopped, Liu Qing looked up, and actually found that this dinosaur was turning its head back and staring at him. Liu Qing immediately broke out in a cold sweat, he had already followed very carefully, he thought that such a big dinosaur would definitely not notice that he was such a small person, but people just found him.
The feeling of being stared at by the behemoth was really uncomfortable, and Liu Qing had the urge to turn around and run away, but he quickly calmed down, because the dinosaur only looked at him for a short while, and then walked forward again. Liu Qing thought to himself, this dinosaur probably didn't eat meat, otherwise......
After taking a few steps, Xilong stopped again, and Liu Qing also stopped less than ten meters away from it, and when he looked up, he found that it was biting something with its head stretched out. The huge size and the tall grass around him blocked Liu Qing's vision, he took a small detour, and finally saw clearly, it turned out that this Xilong was biting and eating the leaves of a giant tree, dare to love This guy is really a vegetarian, and in addition to the giant tree, it is estimated that there are no suitable leaves for it to eat, its neck is too long, these tall grasses or something, even if it lowers its head, I am afraid it will be difficult to eat.
Liu Qing also wondered, why didn't he find that there were giant trees here before? After thinking about it for a while, he understood that in the tall grass, there were at least more than two meters of grass, and he was less than one meter eight tall, and these grasses had completely covered his vision, and it was difficult to see things in the distance unless he approached. I also saw this area when I was on the mountain, but the canopy of the giant tree was too big, so I mistook it for another hill.
It turned out to be here to eat, and Liu Qing watched it eat while observing the surrounding environment. This huge dinosaur didn't care about Liu Qing and Xiao Wu at all, in its opinion, these two small animals didn't pose any threat at all, so it didn't even pay attention to it.
When the dragon had eaten and drunk, he got up and walked towards the river. It seems that they have eaten well, they seem to be in a good mood, and they didn't look back at Liu Qing and them during the whole process. Even Liu Qing's tailgating did not express. After the sound of wading in the water, the dinosaur has completely walked into the water.