The barbs are firmly pincer in the middle of the river, and the rapids are rushing and the waves are rolling.

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Of course, the continent near the tropics could not have been completely barren, in fact, the wasteland near the sea only occupied a small part of the land. Thriving rainforests are the theme of this world, and there is a long river that meanders through this vibrant land.

Today is also a day full of hope for Yi Yan.

Heavenly and Ancient Land...... In other words, although the ecological circle on the entire macro continent is full of unknown risks in the eyes of Bayton, for the life that originally lived here, this is their most familiar home. As the rock slowly climbed out of a hidden underground cavern near the roots of the trees on the shore, it saw the sunlight shining from the sky on the dappled pile of dead leaves, and the rushing river not far away, making a rainbow of splashes in the air.

The creature named Rock left its lair and crawled towards the river by stepping on the mud near the riverbank. It looks like a small crustacean, with dozens of pairs of long, pointed legs covered by a hard carapace, and the front head is shaped like open scissors, except that instead of a sharp blade in the middle of the open sides, it is dense with spikes and barbs, which looks hideous.

However, no matter how hideous and terrifying the appearance is, like most crustaceans, the size of the body length of no more than twenty centimeters limits the strength of the rock to those smaller prey at most, and fortunately there are many such creatures in the macro continent.

The undeveloped brain and busy mentality obviously did not give the rock the capital to see the rainbows on the surface of the river, and it ignored these wonderful sights that he could see almost every day, and slowly pierced his long, crab-like legs into the damp silt. According to the rock, it was not slow to walk, even if it was apparently only walking at its usual pace, it soon came to the river, and the eyes on both sides of its head were always watching the nearby movements...... The most interesting thing is that on the back of the rock, under a layer of transparent carapace, countless compound eyes can be seen to form a hemispherical eyeball, which can be seen straight above the sky. No one knows how this evolved, but it's not an ornament, it's a compound eye that actually has vision, and that's the special body structure that I'm using to defend against attacks from above.

Perhaps it was the perennial threat from above and the accidental genetic mutation that gave him a very rare third eye, which was different from the two jet-black eyes on the side of the head, and the third eye at the top was a compound eye with countless small eyes, so it could have a very wide field of view without even turning it, and it was also extremely keen to capture moving objects. When future people tried to dissect the rock, they found that it even evolved a separate cerebellum under this compound eye to process the visual information from the compound eye, and this cerebellum even has a part of the command mode that directly reaches the motor nerve, which is to avoid delayed response.

After all, no matter what, the cerebellum transmits visual information to the main brain, and then the main brain makes feedback, which is likely to be caught off guard when faced with an unexpected situation, so the cerebellum will command the body to make evasive actions in a simple reflex way the moment it detects that danger is coming. This leads to a very interesting thing, if you try to attack the rock from above, it is likely that it will dodge in time when you dodge, but it itself will not actually react to what has just happened.

Therefore, at some point in the future, the creature will also be used as a metaphor for the actions of uncertain prophets, or to describe the unusually fast reaction speed of some people, who are almost not thinking with their brains.

The natural lifespan of the rock is about four or five years, but this rock has been living in this area for about two years...... Considering the mortality rate, it is definitely an elder in the rock, and although this elder is still in the strongest period of his life expectancy, he feels full of hope for his daily life.

With a body at its peak and a wealth of survival experience, this is probably the most comfortable time this rock can enjoy in his life. In this relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, it slowly climbed to the river, the river is very turbulent, with its size it is almost impossible to guarantee itself not to be washed away in this rapids, but according to the rock just stood in place and looked at the river, slightly shrinking its body, the next moment, a slender ribbon object catapulted from its tail into the air, the end of the heavier guide end accurately landed in the river in a bare reef, and it was not quickly washed into the river, but slightly expanded, quickly adsorbed on the surface of the reef.

The whole action is as natural as if it has been repeated a thousand times...... Of course, it may have been repeated a thousand times, but this rock only had a cursory sense of the wind direction and current, and without even looking at it, it threw its tow belt accurately onto the bare reef in the river that it was so familiar with. This is the place where it has done the most, and there can be nothing else near the lair, but there must be a nearby river, and there must be an exposed reef in the river.

When the slender leash was firmly attached to the reef in the river, Iwai retracted the leash at the tail and jumped forward into the turbulent current...... Although its own strength cannot resist the force of the current that pushes it downstream, the strength of the traction belt can ensure that it does not get swept away. Soon the rock retracted more than half of its strap, and pressed its long, slender legs against the reef that had been washed away by the river.

It climbed the reef as if it were on its own throne, waving its long legs proudly in the rushing waves, and this small reef became the territory it occupied...... Perhaps that's why people call this creature a rock. They have always been very good at selecting reefs, and a reef with the right location and size is extremely important for the rock. The location of the reef should be in the middle of the river, preferably the kind of water where aquatic animals flourish, and the size of the reef should also be moderate, and the large animals that can pose a serious threat to the reef cannot stand on it, and most of the animals that can come to the reef can only become the defeat of the rock, which is a pure natural screening.

According to the rock, he liked this reef very much, and even smeared a substance on his body that could secrete a special smell, even if this special smell would be washed away by the river every day. It's a natural hunting ground, and the river below is filled with bait fish passing by almost every day, and if you're lucky, you might even catch the occasional silver zeal, which is a pretty fish that tastes great. At first, it even went so far as to fight another rock in order to capture the perfect reef, and in the end the battle ended in a narrow victory, and the loser was kicked into the rushing river.

As for whether the other party can break free from this rapids without a tow line, it is not in its scope of consideration.

After that territorial battle, the rock has been living here. Although it is a pity that it has not met a suitable target for breeding for such a long time, this life of abundant food has even made it forget its desire to reproduce.

Perhaps in the eyes of those large animals whose territory is often several kilometers away, the battle on such a small reef is simply a trivial matter, but it is really important for the rock.

It doesn't need to raise its head at all, the compound eye uses a complex optical organ to weaken the strong light from the sun so that it can look directly at the sky, it is a sunny day, and it is also a good weather for fish migration, and it seems that you will have good luck today.

This rock has a lot of experience, and it does not act recklessly, but lies quietly on the reef and looks below the water, its body always remaining motionless, like a real sculpture. Over time, the fish, which had just become a little disturbed by its swim to the reef, regained its composure, and it just watched the river below. Those schools of fish may seem abundant, but even the most harmless baitfish are not as cute as they seem, and they react very quickly to danger.

Time passed, and after all the fish had let their guard down, the rock moved without warning, and it ejected like a bullet out of the chamber, piercing the water with precision and pinching the head of a bream with its dense spikes and barbs in a time when it had no time to react. The silver scales were pierced in an instant, and a bright red blood mist was filled, and there was no struggle or resistance, and the bream turned into a corpse in an instant.

The whole process has the unique temperament of a natural killer, precise and cold-blooded and efficient, leaving no room for struggle when killing with one hit.

Satisfied with his catch, he ignored the frightened fish and returned to the surface of the reef with the zander he had caught. Its smaller size also means that it needs far less food than the larger animals, so a bird that doesn't look too big is a good catch. In this slightly joyful mood, the rock even intends to enjoy its delicious meal directly on the reef...... If you return to the shore with the carcass of this bream, there may be some unexpected variables in the process, and maybe the food will be snatched by uninvited guests, so it is better to solve it on the spot.

Although in the future, many people use the ultra-fast reaction speed of the rock as a metaphor for the unpredictable prophet, but the rock is not really able to predict the future after all, because if it can do this, not to mention for the time being, this will never make such a decision.

But it didn't know it, so it made a decision it regretted anyway, and a few minutes later, along with the rushing water, some behemoth unimaginable to the rock slammed into it from above...... For the other party, it may have been just a simple collision, but according to the rock, he was suddenly hit by the unintentional limb and flew out, along with the captured bream.

Poor Rock had lost consciousness completely in mid-air from the massive impact, so it wouldn't have noticed that the big two-meter-long creature had crossed the reef without pause and continued to rush all the way down the river. It is a giant turtle with a hard carapace on its back, and there seem to be two figures on its back......

"It's really exciting, so that's the real fun of surfing!"

(Thanks to the 10 starting coins of "Quantum Space Shelf", "Zhouyuqi6", "Fighting Chicken in Vegetables" and "Xingyu Xinhai", 40 starting coins of "Howl Mula and Mantou Card", and 100 starting coins of "Rabbit's Qiluno" and "Astral Run" for tip~)