Chapter 6: See the Dragon
Liu Qing stood on the seashore and looked at the group of unknown creatures in the sea, from a distance, it seemed to be very small, but there were many, very many. As he was looking, he noticed that several black shadows were swimming towards the beach with the impact of the waves. So Liu Qing took the sapper shovel very carefully and stood on the beach, he wanted to make a few of these things to see what they were.
The speed of the waves was very fast, and the two black spots were washed to the shore, and Liu Qing hurriedly jumped into the sea water and got a little closer. "Oh!" he understood, "this is it!"
He knew this thing, but he had never seen the real thing, but he had seen it many times in some books and on the Internet, and its name was horseshoe crab, and it looked like a big beetle. Now Liu Qing is relieved, this thing is not harmful to him. However, seeing this rare creature on the seashore made him worry for nothing, which can be regarded as a very interesting thing.
Now that we have arrived at the beach, there will be a lot of seafood to eat, and you can save on compressed dry food, haha, Liu Qing is in a good mood. Although he still hasn't figured out what is going on, one thing he can be sure of is that for now, his situation should be safe, and he doesn't have to worry about avoiding the pursuit anymore.
Just as he was thinking about how to go out into the sea to catch some fish or other seafood, he suddenly felt a strange vibration, which did not seem to come from the ground, but from the sea, through which the vibration was transmitted to his feet. What's going on? Submarine volcanic eruptions, Submarine earthquakes?
When he was surprised and hesitated, a huge wave suddenly set off on the surface of the sea not far away, as if something broke through the water, bringing up waves several meters high. Liu Qing's eyes stared at the boss, and he couldn't take his eyes off the scene in front of him. He could see clearly that it was a huge mouth with sharp teeth that had broken through the water, and that it had rushed out of the water and into the same place where the large horseshoe crab had been before.
Therefore, according to Liu Qing's estimate, this giant creature should have just preyed on that large group of horseshoe crabs. And what made Liu Qing most puzzled was that that big mouth was not any kind of sea creature he had ever seen or even heard of, which was strange, why was there always all kinds of strange animals in this place? In addition to this, Liu Qing also realized that the sea did not seem to be safe, and his small body, for the big mouth just now, I am afraid that it was not enough to stuff between his teeth.
Make up your mind not to go to the sea. Liu Qing turned around and returned to the shore, dried his feet, put on his shoes and socks, took out a dagger from his backpack and pinned it to his waist, and then threw the backpack and satchel into the stone pit before. Then he checked his things and made sure that he was ready, and then walked towards a dense forest on the left, he was a little hungry, and the sea was too dangerous, so he planned to try his luck in the forest to see if he could find something to eat. Guns, he didn't plan to use them, after all, the guns were too loud, and he wasn't sure if this was really a no-man's land, so he could avoid using guns as much as possible, or it was better not to use them.
It is not accurate to say that it is a dense forest, because in addition to the beach, it is almost all dense green vegetation, and that dense forest is also connected to other forests, but the trees look slightly taller than the surroundings, so it is regarded as a "mark" by Liu Qing. In the wild in an unfamiliar area, the first thing is to determine the direction, the direction is easy to recognize, to do which side to come from, but also to return to the original place, this is a little difficult, the easiest way is to find a characteristic mark, in order to determine the distance and direction, so that it can be able to return to the original position.
The more he went deeper into the vegetation group, the more surprising Liu Qing became, and in this large area of lush greenery, Liu Qing almost didn't recognize a plant he was familiar with. Whether it was tall woods, low vegetation, or even weeds on the ground, Liu Qing was sure that he had never seen or even heard of even one.
Liu Qing, who sensed that something was wrong, became more and more cautious, what was going on? Where he was, what kind of place was it, why was it so strange? A series of questions appeared in Liu Qing's mind, but until now, he never thought that he had crossed over, and he had never even thought about crossing over. The more doubtful he was, the more careful Liu Qing became, the movements under his feet slowed down unconsciously, and the movement speed was almost reduced to a minimum, while moving forward cautiously, while observing the various plants around him.
He wanted to identify the plants that could be eaten, or catch a small animal, at least for a meal. But at first glance, there wasn't even a single recognizable plant, and not even a single small animal. As he walked cautiously through the weeds, he suddenly caught his attention in a puddle in front of him, which was of a strange shape, facing him in a semicircular shape, but on the opposite side there were three pointed grooves, and the overall shape looked more like the footprints of some kind of animal......
"Footprints!" Liu Qing looked at the puddle in front of him, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that this was an obvious footprint shape, and he turned back and forth in the direction of the footprints, but found no other imprints, and when he returned to the edge of the puddle, he found that the location of this puddle happened to be a piece of soft soil, and the front and back were gravel ground, so there was no similar pit, and the water in the pit was either water accumulated during the rain, or it may have been poured into the sea at high tide. These are the results that Liu Qing analyzed in his mind when he observed the surrounding situation, but what he was most concerned about and worried about was the owner of this footprint, what was it?
At this moment, Liu Qing couldn't describe his mood, nervous, anxious, excited, frightened? He didn't know, he only knew that now he might face many things that he had never seen before, whether it was the mysterious giant mouth creature in the sea, or the owner of the footprints in front of him, it seemed that at present, it was not something he could resist. And now, he just wants to live in this place full of unknown creatures!
After seeing this footprint, Liu Qing already had other plans, he was ready to leave this coastline, away from the seaside, maybe he could find a better and safer place to live. Just do it, Liu Qing was not the kind of person who looked ahead and backwards, turned around and retreated directly to the same place, put the backpack and satchel back on his back, and looked at the position of the sun in the sky, it should be around three o'clock in the afternoon, then there is still a period of time before it gets dark, which is enough for him to walk a long distance.
As I walked, I tore open a bag of compressed biscuits, bit down on a piece, and chewed it with a little effort. The road is very difficult to walk, to be exact, there is no road at all. When he decided to go, he had already climbed a relatively high rock and observed, and there was no path at all, there were all kinds of plants everywhere, and some strange flowers bloomed, he just looked at the high place, and chose a dense forest as the target location. The woods were chosen not only because it was easier to hide, but also because the grass seemed to be lower in the direction leading to the woods.
Although it is low, it is only relative to the surrounding grass, and it is very difficult to really walk into the grass. These grasses were of a species he had never seen before, the leaves were very broad, basically growing from the roots of the ground, a leaf stretched out more than a meter high, and the length even reached two meters, often the leaves of several plants were intertwined, which not only blocked the view, but also hindered his movement.
Liu Qing spent an hour, and when he looked back, the dense blades had already surrounded him, and he could no longer see the sea. There seemed to be traces of water flowing on the ground, and he estimated that it must be the tide. After a short rest, Liu Qing took off the sapper shovel, this sapper shovel was bought by him from the Internet, a multi-functional sapper shovel, extremely practical, originally intended to be used as a tool when escaping, and now it happens to be used.
One side of this sapper shovel can be sawed with a sawtooth, and the other side can be used as a machete, in order to speed up the march, Liu Qing used this sapper shovel to open the way. When encountering dense leaves, cut them directly with a spade and cut off those entangled leaf stems, so that the speed of progress is really much faster. After walking about eight or nine hundred meters, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a "path".
It is said to be a path, but it is actually more like a "tunnel" hidden under vegetation. He has heard this kind of road talked about, called "beast road", that is, the path often taken by various wild beasts in the wild, and after a long time, it will form a "beast road". Vegetation is often scarce, but it is very smooth and safe, and there are basically no cliffs and broken walls, the problem is that this kind of animal road is intermittent and knotted, and it will not be connected all the way like roads built by humans.
Something is better than nothing, Liu Qing immediately decided to change his goal and move forward along the beast path. The height of this animal road is about one and a half meters, and then there are densely interlaced leaves, about one meter wide, the ground is very clean and solid, there are almost no weeds, only occasionally there will be leaves sticking out, blocking the road, it looks like there are often animals walking, otherwise I am afraid that it would have been destroyed by nature a long time ago.
Liu Qing put away the sapper shovel, burrowed into the "tunnel" with his waist bent, and quickly moved forward in the direction of the beast path. With the road, he did move much faster, and he didn't have to waste time and effort by slashing hard.
Experience is still experience. Liu Qing walked about two kilometers along the beast road, and the plants in front of him became more and more lush, and soon, the branches of various leaves and trees had completely blocked the road, and he could no longer move forward easily.
When Liu Qing was still annoyed, a shock once again made him highly vigilant. When he quieted down, the sense of vibration became more and more obvious, and the sound of "huh-sizzle-huh-pi" reached Liu Qing's ears, even and rhythmic.
"This is?" Liu Qing wondered, the voice sounded like some kind of breathing sound. A strong curiosity drove Liu Qing to take a look, and groped in the direction from which the voice came. After a few minutes, Liu Qing's eyes widened and he stared blankly at the creature in front of him.
The creature that appeared in front of him was actually a dinosaur, a dinosaur living in ancient legends, breathing and sleeping in front of Liu Qing.