Chapter Seventy-Two: The Barren Land
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But this is not the emperor's patrol, but the defeat of the old lion king.
It doesn't take a closer look to see the scorpion's embarrassment, its body is intertwined with wounds, and a pincer hangs limply on its body, swaying with the flow of water like a rag doll.
It's losers, no, to be precise, they're losers.
The former scorpion body Jiao relied on its huge size to sweep across the shallow sea, and even a behemoth of the same level as the emperor helmet fish was not its opponent.
The dense muscles of the chelicera can even catch the imperial helmet fish, and the battering ram-like tail can easily smash a low-level lord into a small cake.
Now it is still so huge, its body is not reduced, and its combat power is not reduced.
But the world ...... But it has changed.
More and more strange creatures appeared, they had a flexibility that the scorpion body could not understand, and their small body strength could burst out with great power.
At first, the scorpion body Jiao didn't care, its diet is very extensive, as long as it is a large animal, it basically can't escape its pursuit, can't catch one, can't it catch others? What about even those strange animals? Do they still dare to attack a shallow sea overlord like it?
The scorpion body Jiao looked at the changes in this world coldly, ignoring everything with an arrogant attitude, they firmly believed that nothing could threaten their lives, the emperor helmet fish could not do it, and neither could these guys! Their real enemies are their own kind!
But I don't know when the world ...... It's changed, it's become something they don't know at all.
Scorpion bodies can run rampant in the world of what they want...... Gone......
The huge body they were proud of had become a burden, and all kinds of new life forms had made it scramble, and now the scorpion body Jiao was no longer the overlord of the ocean.
Not long ago, it was defeated by that strange creature and left its territory scarred.
Exhaustion, pain, eroded the body of the scorpion, and consumed its strength.
They have not evolved with the times, and it seems that they no longer have the qualifications to survive in the new era.
But the scorpion did not give up, and it walked on the beach, looking for enough food to satisfy its hunger.
If you can live, you will live, no matter how painful it is, you must live, you have everything to live, and it is good to live one more day. This is probably the most simple idea of life.
The scorpion body turned its slender neck, looking for possible food, and it saw ......
In the distance, a huge figure approached, its huge body looked round, and six or seven slender figures several sizes smaller were guarding it, this combination looked indescribably strange.
Is it a symbiotic organism? Or are those its cubs?
No matter! The scorpion body roared, ready to attack.
The round animal doesn't look like it's high in combat, but it has a lot of meat, and this kind of guy knows at a glance that it relies on its huge body to deter predators, and when it really encounters a top predator, it immediately falls into a state of confusion, so there is nothing to be afraid of, as for those little guys who seem to be flexible...... The scorpion body Jiao gritted its teeth and killed the big one, and the small one collapsed without a fight, right? It also has the confidence to deal with! It just comes at a cost!
Even after the setbacks, the pride of the apex predator remains, and it does not think that it will not be able to defeat the other side.
This round creature as big as the scorpion body Jiao seemed to be completely unintimidated, and its guardians pounced bravely to block the scorpion body Jiao, and the body of this creature also opened a terrifying four-petal mouth and tentacles.
The scorpion body flicked its tail and soared into the air, its most outstanding muscle group of the previous era still exerting its great power! The huge body is the most powerful weapon in any era! With this, the scorpion body Jiao is still not afraid of challenges!
Come on! Look! See who's the food!
And so on -
The body of the scorpion body Jiao suddenly froze.
What is that?
The vision of the scorpion body Jiao's crystal eye was occupied by the shadows flying in the sky in an instant......
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The never-ending crashing waves of the rocky beach, splashing fine white foam, and their noisy "whoosh" sounds echoed through the lonely world.
There was no sound except for the waves and the howling wind.
The word loneliness has accompanied this land from the distant era to the present day, but it seems that something is starting to be different......
In the white foam, a small black shadow gradually emerged, and the first to emerge from the water was the tail raised high, the carapace covered by it looked extremely smooth, and it glowed in a beautiful arc in the sun, and the scale of the carapace was gathered behind the tail, which looked strange and beautiful.
Then came the patchwork of armor and the vigorous chelicera...... This is an armored scorpion.
Of course, except for our protagonist, there will probably be no armored scorpion that will come to a place where such birds don't.
The waves crashed against Tianyang's body, and it slowly broke away from the water.
The arthropods broke out of the seawater, and the heavy body of the armored scorpion came to land.
And then...... The armored scorpion is lying on its stomach.
"Hah, that's heavyβ"
Tianyang underestimated the strength needed to get from the water to land, or, the weight of his own carapace.
The muscles and ligaments of the armored scorpion trembled, and as the carapace bulged, a stream of water dripped from the gaps in the carapace.
Although the process was a bit tortuous, it finally got back to its feet.
"Dead and sinking."
Tianyang struggled to move his limbs, and his dripping body slowly moved forward. The weight of the carapace pressed its body, and the previously strong arthropods could not support its body at all, and it had to rely on its two more muscular chelicerae to assist its movement.
Walking on the rocky beach, the never-ending wind blowing through its body, Tianyang felt the water in his body lose rapidly.
The water evaporated from the surface of the carapace and was blown away by the wind through the cracks in its body, and Tena felt a clear "thirst".
It has no lungs in its body, and the breathing holes distributed in the armored scorpion carapace can only filter oxygen from the water, and now, Tianyang is completely dependent on the oxygen reserves in its body.
What's even sadder is that those breathing holes are precisely the main force of water evaporation.
Along the beach, the armored scorpion trekked hard among the gravel, and sometimes the sudden wind, carrying the sand, struck its wet carapace, making a faint rustling sound, in the lapping of the waves and the howling of the wind, it looked so inconspicuous, setting off the only life in this vast world, even more lonely.
Tianyang slowly climbed up a rock, and on land, this move had to take five or six times more strength than in the sea, and it was extremely difficult.
Finally reaching the top of the rock, Tianyang took a heavy breath: in all fairness, this rock is not very high, it is probably the height of Tianyang's body length or so, or the kind that does not count the tail. But the difficulty of climbing all the way up is still beyond Tianyang's imagination, and it almost has a feeling of climbing Mount Tai.
"The carapace is too heavy, the muscles are weak, and now that I have come to land, it is still a little early."
It leaned on the rocks, looking out at the vast expanse of tawny and black covered in the earth, and the horizon covered in rubble.
Silence, desolation.
This is the only feeling in this land.
It has to leave, the loss of water in its body threatens its life, and the oxygen reserves are alarming.
Without water, there is no life, and without oxygen, there is no mobility.
Let alone......
Tianyang turned his gaze back to the direction of the sea, where the rising morning sun was hidden in the curtain of clouds, but the wisps of morning sun still brought a ray of light to the earth through the clouds.
The sun is coming out, and it's about to bring not only light and heat, but also the dreaded ultraviolet rays.
Ultraviolet rays will penetrate its carapace, killing its cells like a chicken, and it can't stay any longer.
Tian Yang took one last look at the barren land, and turned his head to return to the sea.
"I hope the next time I come, you'll be as alive as I remember."
And then......
"Bang!"
"Oops, I'll rub it!"
Tianyang fell firmly on the broken stone, still facing the sky on his back.
"This broken stone is really Nyima slippery, and I don't know how to give preferential treatment to the first guy who goes ashore...... Alai? β
Tianyang looked at the root of the rock in a daze, it was the only place where the rock could be kept moist for a long time, and there it was a handful of faint green growing tenaciously.
It's really small, it's small, it doesn't look as big as the tip of Tianyang's pliers, but it seems to occupy all of Tianyang's field of vision
Tianyang just kept the posture of the salted fish turning over, staring at the pale green for a long time.
Of course, it knows the meaning of this pale green, and to put it mildly, it represents a new world.
At this historic moment, it felt like it had to say something.
"What, it's not the first one." After holding it for a long time, Tianyang finally only said such a sentence.
All right...... Tianyang orz, it really doesn't adapt to this kind of serious occasion, historical or something, and it is really insulated from it.
Tianyang turned over and walked into the waves step by step, the waves washed its carapace, its figure gradually submerged, and the silence of the empty heaven and earth returned again.
An inexplicable wave floated over the rocks, and it came from the figure that was drowned in the waves. Unfortunately, there will probably not be any life that can decipher the information contained in this fluctuation.
"You have to grow up, well, don't give up, just grow up like this, until...... Green covers all the barrenness. β