Solid Rock Armor Lazy Behemoth, a new recipe for the Evolution Branch.

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"I always feel like my bones are going to break......" Xiyu, who was tired and hungry, looked at the lake covered with a layer of crude oil in front of her and couldn't help sighing, no matter how thirsty she was, she didn't dare to risk her life to drink the water in this small lake, "Well, I have to find a place to recuperate." ”

There is a pungent smell in the air, and the crude oil floating on the surface of the water is constantly and rapidly volatilizing, and it is clear that more than one geyser in the underground erupts from time to time, spewing a large amount of crude oil out of the ground, invisibly forming a kind of dynamic equilibrium.

Wrinkled his nose, his keen sense of smell made Xijie feel very uncomfortable with the smell of crude oil in the air, and even had some difficulty breathing, and the originally beautiful blue-gold hair found that it was stained with large black oil stains, all of which were crumpled and stuck together, making the static electricity that could have played a role in dust removal also ineffective...... If you don't dry it quickly, it is easy to catch a cold or even get sick.

However, the tide knot is not particularly anxious, after all, unlike the simple lake water, it is mainly crude oil that is contaminated with the hair, and these highly volatile liquids will soon be volatilized again, leaving only a shallow mark to prove that they once existed.

The only dirty marks left are temporarily gone, and you can't jump into this big oil lake to wash them, right? Wouldn't that be dirtier the more you wash? Shioyu didn't think he would be lucky enough to be sent out of the water by the erupting geyser again......

Thankfully, the trail seemed to be over in every sense of the word, the bottom of the canyon was flat, and the tributaries that extended from the edge of the lake made the tide even more excited: these tributaries were coming from a distance, and because they were upstream, they would have been able to leave the waters polluted with black crude oil by walking a little further, and even reach the river that had run out of the waterfall before!

Xijie, who was originally a little sluggish, resisted the soreness that came from his body, and slowly moved along this small tributary in the middle of the canyon...... Those damn pit people!

But at least, you won't encounter such a difficult terrain on the rest of the road, will you? From the canyon to the waterfall, it will be a very flat area, so there will be nothing very strange.

In fact, this seemingly beautiful thought only stayed in Xijie's heart for a few minutes, and was ruthlessly shattered by the scene that suddenly appeared in front of him!

"This ...... Are you kidding? ”

The canyon is not particularly wide, only about 20 meters wide, and the meandering tributaries flow almost all the way through the middle of the canyon, but not far ahead, the entire bottom of the canyon is almost blocked by a large object, and it looks like an earthy yellow hill from a distance.

However, it was not a small mountain, and both the undulating rock face and the dull breathing in the distance indicated one thing: this guy was alive.

The height is five meters, the length is more than 20 meters, and the width is about three meters......

It is true that although this guy is very large, there are many creatures on Lanxing that are far larger than it, but Xijie has only seen a huge creature like a thousand winged dragons at most, and she is still taken aback by this large creature on land.

Even at the size of a human, this mountain-like beast looks very large, and for Shiokyuki, which is much smaller than a human, it looks three or four times bigger!

Thinking about it, Xijie finally walked to the feet of the giant beast and looked up at it.

From here, it looked really large, almost completely blocking the bottom of the canyon as it crossed it, and the small, zigzag tributary could only flow under the behemoth's rocky belly...... In fact, it was almost entirely covered in rock-like plate armor, which was not known to be externally wrapped or secreted from the inside, and was very strong, at least much stronger than the porous and fragile rocks on the cliff walls on either side.

The limbs of the dinosaur indicate its classification, but the head covered by the rock armor is a little stubby, and it does not have the slender and flexible neck of the herbivorous dinosaur, nor the strong and powerful jaw of the carnivorous dinosaur, strictly speaking, this guy's head looks like a creature in a cartoon, and the round appearance looks a little simple, only the hard and heavy rock armor always reminds others of how great power this guy's body hides.

With a lazy personality, the whole is almost a behemoth of an enhanced heavy tank, the Rock Dragon.

When Shioyu looked at the dragon's head, she was facing the yellow eyes with the size of a basin, and it was clear that the latter was not asleep, as she had imagined, but was lying on his stomach in the canyon lazily basking in the sun.

It is true that the size of the tide knot is very small, but the blue-gold hair is too conspicuous, and it is nothing to hide in the dense canopy, but it is easy to be spotted by the giant rock dragon in this empty and unsheltered Grand Canyon, but there is no wary look in the latter's eyes...... Just looking at it curiously.

Obviously, Xijie was not regarded as a threat by the big guy in front of him at all.

Maintaining a safe distance that would not be squashed by the other party's rollover, Xijie stood at the feet of the giant rock dragon and waited for a while, and after going back and forth a few times, she finally confirmed that the big guy in front of her had indeed completely blocked the bottom of the canyon, and what was worse was that the other party seemed to have no intention of moving his position in the short term.

After some struggle, Xijie finally made a decision: since there was no way to get around the giant rock dragon, let's climb over it!

Cautiously approaching the opponent's huge body, Xijie stretched out his claws and gently poked the sturdy carapace, seeing that the giant rock dragon did not react, he had the courage to jump lightly on the rock armor.

This layer of rock armor is not a single piece, but is similar to the chain mail for easy movement, so it is easy for Xijie to find a large number of gaps on its surface that can be climbed, and these gaps are enough for the nimble Mystery Xin.

However, when Shioyu climbed to the surface of the rock armor, she was surprised to realize that the guests who lived here were not just herself.

A few tiny miniature lizards were bouncing around the carapace of the boulder dragon, and these little ones seemed to have come from afar...... They are long-lost rock lizards.

However, these lizards do not seem to be as fierce and aggressive as the ones that have appeared in the past, and instead have become cleaners...... Xijie believes that these lizards live entirely on the surface of the body of the giant rock dragon, and similar cases of small animals parasitic on the surface of the skin of giant animals are not uncommon in nature, and maybe help the rock dragon clean up the debris on the surface of the skin.

But I still can't help but want to complain! Is it true that the surface of your skin has completely evolved into rock? Why are there even rock lizards?

Xijie gently pressed his feet, and the solid texture did not look like biological tissue at all, but really looked like real inorganic rocks.

It's not the time to be distracted......

Xijie reacted suddenly, secretly reproaching himself for always being inexplicably distracted, while carefully continuing to jump up along the rock armor, jumping directly to the top of the giant rock dragon's back.

A touch of dull green and the slippery feeling coming from his feet startled Shiojie again, and with it, infinite residual thoughts.

Hey, hey, hey, the giant rock dragon over there, you have moss on your back, you know? How close to nature you have to be!

Jumping from a height of five meters is not a big problem for Mi Xin, so Xijie has nothing to fear. She only clicked on the dragon's back a few times, and then landed lightly to the ground.

As expected, this side of the canyon is completely smooth, very smooth, with no rough terrain.

Turning back to look up at the giant rock dragon that had already turned its head, Xijie looked at the other party's yellow pupils that seemed to have a slight meaning with some curiosity...... Eh, but the IQ of this large animal shouldn't be too high, right?

Blinking suspiciously, Xijie saw that the giant rock dragon in front of him actually began to stand up slowly, and there was no expression in his eyes, the so-called deep meaning he saw just now...... Probably an illusion.

The giant beast slowly turned its body, and the movement of the huge mass made Xijie feel the ground under his feet tremble slightly, but fortunately it did not turn towards Xijie, but in the opposite direction, that is, in the direction of the open-air oil lake.

Xijie calmly watched as the giant rock dragon slowly walked away...... This composure lasted until she saw the Rock Dragon bow its head and begin to gulp down water from the river.

"This, how can it drink it......" Xijie looked at the water surface of the tributary in horror, because it was not too far from the oil lake, the water surface here was still black, and the giant rock dragon drank more crude oil than water, "Could it be ......?"

Xijie suddenly understood why the Giant Rock Dragon looked neither like a carnivore nor a herbivore, and also understood how it managed to maintain such a large size in this barren canyon, and couldn't help but look at the belly of the Giant Rock Dragon again: "This guy has a fuel engine in his body...... It is not difficult to replenish the nutrients you need from the elements in crude oil. ”

This creature is really leisurely, no wonder it can develop that kind of lazy temperament, the large oil lake here is simply easy food for it, and the water flow under the oil layer is effectively insured, otherwise even a small spark can turn this place into purgatory, right?

Knowing this, Shioyu did not continue to stay, but continued to walk towards the exit of the canyon, the water became clearer and clearer, and she seemed to faintly hear the sound of water coming from the waterfall in front of her.

The journey isn't over yet...... However, before going to the Macro Continent, it is better to find something to eat first, and then rest for a while to heal from internal injuries. Feeling a burst of soreness coming from inside his body, Xijie thought.

"Well, I don't know what my sister is doing now......"

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When the figure of Shiojie disappeared from the end of sight, the giant rock dragon in the canyon stopped devouring the crude oil and slowly crossed its body, blocking the passage of the canyon like a giant wall again.

[Sure enough, children still need guardians.] 】

The beast looked at the exit of the canyon and slowly narrowed its eyes, a strange purple dot hidden in the shadows under the rock armor on the back of its neck.