Chapter Seventy-Four: The ...... in the Crevices of the Coastal Cliffs

The sky chasers are not tired of deceit, and there are hidden mysteries in the cliff crevices.

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Here are the cliffs, almost vertical cliffs that stand on the shore, full of crevices and protruding stone walls that spread over long distances without a trace of repetition. It's hard to believe that there is still a flat beach not far away, but this side suddenly turns into a coastline made of rocky cliffs.

The waves crashed on the shore, and the huge waves with white splashes surged from the end of the distant sky, never tirelessly impacting this huge wall that had stood for thousands of years.

The sun shines high in the sky, releasing an almost infinite amount of light and heat, illuminating the sea with a golden light, allowing the planet to have a steady stream of life and vitality. Its light was so bright that it obscured even the Fire Moon that hung in the middle of the sky. In this sky, this sun is invincible.

The wind blew gently, like the sea singing a ballad, whistling all the way at the junction of sea and sky, bringing up waves, clouds, and ...... Pterodactyls and birds.

With a breath, the sound of the air vibrating was fleeting, as fast as if it were an illusion, but a small black shadow had already passed quickly, flying above the cliff......

It is a very peculiar small flying creature, only about a few tens of centimeters in length. The long feet appear to have webbing for swimming, and sharp hooks for climbing at the tips. The membranous wings fluttered through the air, flying quickly through the sky in a ten-twisted, but indeed effective position, barely making a sound. But the creature's most peculiar thing is its beak, which is like a bird's beak and has a large soft membrane attached to the bottom of its mouth, as if it can inflate and inflate like a balloon.

"Don't run...... Ah no, don't fly! Xinglan chased the strange flying creature in front of her, crossing rocks of different shapes, "This guy flies really fast!" ”

Xinglan found the creature at the junction of the desert and the rainforest, where it was drinking in the lake. As the only animal that could fly among the animals there, Xinglan naturally was the first to target it without hesitation, but its skills were unexpectedly agile, and it actually took off on the spot at the moment of Xinglan's action and dodged.

"It seems...... That's not an easy guy to approach. Xinglan looked at its figure at the time and said, "Obviously, my current size is even smaller than it, but I still choose to dodge so smartly, and my vigilance is really quite high." ”

However, the alert little guy managed to pique Xinglan's interest, and although not to the point of using jet propulsion directly, she still firmly followed the flying creature.

The other party's body size is a little larger than the white puffin body that Xinglan is using now, and it is also a race that is very good at flying, but as a seabird, the white puffin is naturally faster than these creatures near the land, even if that creature tries all kinds of ways to play stunts in the air, it still can't get rid of Xinglan.

The chase even went all the way over that river, over a small stretch of rainforest, and back to the coastline again. However, this time, the coast is surrounded by towering rocky cliffs, not endless sandy beaches.

Xinglan slightly turned the angle of the feather to make it more suitable for agile and directional flight, then flapped her wings sharply to slow down, and moved to the left to get closer to a stone wall, firmly grasping on it.

She poked her head out and looked at the flying creature in front of her, as if surprised to find that the pursuer behind her was gone. It circled around a few times, looking around carefully, but fortunately, there were no plans to get away with it in this era, so it was natural for the creature to think that the other party had given up on its difficult goal and turned around. It lingered for a moment, then flapped its membranous wings again and flew forward, only this time it was not in such a hurry.

"Deception tactics succeeded!" Xinglan carefully hid behind the rocks, and waited until the other party had already flown some distance before following again, "Next, it's the old business of the tail line......

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The salt content of seawater is very high, because of the principle of osmosis, ordinary organisms will become more and more thirsty when they drink seawater, and only those organisms who are specifically facing this environment have evolved a perfect salt discharge system.

"Really, it's been a long time since I've eaten...... Xing Lan felt a little weak, but fortunately, the white puffin didn't starve to death if she didn't eat for a few days, she changed the flight angle slightly, and firmly tailed behind the creature, "But it's better to hurry up to the destination, the energy consumption of flying is very large." ”

At this time, Xinglan, who had been waiting for a long time, finally saw a glimmer of hope, and in a depression in front of her, several small pterosaurs with strange beaks appeared. They were clearly from the same team, calling out to each other, and Xinglan noticed that the sounds they used were very complex, almost close to the level of some simple logical language. The star-tailed creature was describing what had happened to his companion, and it was so radiant that it almost forgot to flap its wings and fall from the sky......

Taking advantage of their meeting, Xinglan quietly circled behind the rocks and began to search the coastal waters for fish, trying to catch two small fish to fill her stomach.

It's a rocky cliff with plenty of rock crevices to hide in, so there are quite a lot of bait fish in the water. Xinglan soon spotted a target and flew low at a low altitude, its slender beak stabbing into the water, striking a struggling bait fish more accurately than a harpoon. After raising her neck and indifferently swallowing the small fish, Xinglan circled twice on the surface of the water in satisfaction.

"The taste is different! Is there still a difference in the taste of bait fish in different waters? Xinglan smiled stupidly, a little unsatisfied, "This taste is really amazing!" I don't know if there's anything else to ...... Not good! ”

Suddenly thinking of the main purpose of her visit, Xinglan realized that she had wasted too much time. After hurrying back to the cliff, Xinglan was dismayed to find that the small pterosaur-like creatures that had been meeting there had long since disappeared.

"Unexpected, reasonable?" After complaining in silence, Xinglan didn't intend to give up, she re-observed the nearby terrain and decided to continue tracking in the direction where the flying creatures had flown from before.

Heaven and earth are endless, thousands of miles of tracking!

Instantly inexplicably excited, Xinglan further accelerated her flight, and she glided almost close to the cliff, deftly gliding through the cracks in the rocks, flying above the sight of the waves crashing against the shore.

Soon, she found traces of the creature again.

"What is it doing?" Xinglan simply raised her flight altitude and looked down on the coast below from a high vantage point, only to see that the pterosaur was obviously the same species as the pterodactyl she had seen before, and was constantly diving towards the sea, and then rapidly rising. In the process, it opens its pointed mouth, and a large amount of seawater enters its mouth with the movement of its body, gradually stretching the membrane under the mouth and stretching it out.

"It's storing water?" Xinglan changed the angle of her feathers slightly to make it more difficult to detect, and then watched as the pterosaur filled its mouth with water bladders, dragging its heavy body with great difficulty and began to increase its flight altitude, "Oops, it's coming towards the cliff." ”

This pterosaur-like creature flies very hard, water is strictly a heavy thing, and for flying creatures, it is much more difficult to drag so much water to take off than for land creatures to run with this water on their backs.

However, because it is difficult to fly, it focuses almost entirely on maintaining its balance, and rarely has the extra mind to scout its surroundings. This not only increased Xinglan's probability of concealment, but also gave her more time to adjust to her position.

"It flew up there." Hiding behind a jutting rock, Xinglan carefully concealed her body, watching the pterodactyl-like creature fly to the cliff with a large amount of water from its mouth membrane, and then ......

"Opened? What the hell is it doing? Xinglan saw that several small holes suddenly opened in the mouth membrane of the creature, and the water inside formed thin columns of water under the internal pressure, gushing out against the cliff!

It was as if an invisible hand was squeezing the membrane of the mouth that stored water, and the water continued to flow out, drawing a small parabola in the air, shooting into the cliff and flowing into the stone peaks......

"What the hell is it going to do?" Xinglan watched in confusion as the creature flew cautiously, squeezing the water out until all the water had flowed into the cracks in the cliffs, and then it flapped its wings again and flew towards the sea below, once again starting to store water, "repeating this strange behavior again and again...... Is there any point in sprinkling seawater around like that? ”

"Or what's in the cracks in the rocks...... Something different? ”

Squinting her eyes slightly, Xinglan carefully searched for clues on the stone wall, but found nothing strange. Maybe it's because it's not visible to the naked eye, maybe it's because she's missing something, but it's more likely because of ...... The angle here is not visible!

"It seems that a slight change of tactics is needed." With a sly laugh, Xinglan flew out of her hiding place and pounced on the creature below!

The other party was really frightened by this, and in the face of the sudden appearance of the white puffin, he screamed, and he couldn't even care about the water in his mouth, so he directly opened his mouth to leak the water, and then spread his membrane wings and quickly evacuated!

"Chirp ......"

While snickering in her heart, Xinglan pretended to intimidate the creature with a vicious image, and after symbolically chasing for a while, she quickly turned around and returned to the edge of the cliff.

"The place where it sprayed water just now is ......" Xinglan recalled Fang Cai's geographical location, carefully searching the cliff, and soon, the familiar texture in her memory came into view, "That's right, this is it." ”

Flapping her wings slightly, Xinglan leaned back, her claws reaching forward, and slammed into the gap in the rock.

"This feeling is really ......" Putting away her wings, Xinglan hung on the cliff with the power of her claws, "I'm not a bat!" ”

After stopping her body, Xinglan looked into the cracks of the cliffs where she had just sprayed water, and then, in surprise, she almost fell off the cliff!

"This, this is ...... Could it be ...... How can it be? It shouldn't be......"