Chapter 299: The ...... Between the Gaps in the Dense Scales and Feathers
Winter is approaching and the beasts are moving eastward, and the rainbow-armored dragon is striding forward.
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Broken Blade feels terrible now, really bad.
The body that used to feel majestic and domineering has now become a serious drag, although it likes to travel far away, but it is definitely not this kind of long journey that is almost exhausted but still has to move on. From time to time, it looked at the girl with long silver-white hair in front of it, and there always seemed to be an inexplicable feeling in its heart urging it to keep up and not fall behind, otherwise it would ...... It doesn't know what to do, but it's a strong feeling anyway, and it can't be left behind.
It remembered this strange creature that looked small, and when it was still in the group, some of its compatriots said how the size and appearance of this creature would allow an adult plains stalker to cut off his head in a perfect position, and how crunchy their taste was, the only point being to remember to peel the skin before eating.
Plains Stalkers don't like the smell of the outer layer of the Moonmen's clothes, it is like a snack for them to swallow with wrapping paper when they eat a snack, it is too bad to swallow, but the part inside is quite tender and delicious......
Especially the female cubs, it feels great to eat them all over the body~
Of course, at this time, the broken blade can only be made up in the imagination, it has never hated its extremely keen sense of smell as much as it does at this moment, I don't know why, as long as it smells the smell of the other party, it doesn't have any urge to bite at all...... Any potion has an expiration date, but if it lasts long enough, the action of maintaining it for too long will become a habit unconsciously.
So, habit is indeed a terrible thing, especially when Broken Blade finds himself getting more and more used to the current state of life, although his stomach is only half full, but it is much better than starving to death.
Food, the thought of this damn question, Broken Blade couldn't help but feel a pang of distress, although the other guy who looked about his size didn't have the aura of feeling like he couldn't attack, but his sense of smell told him that this guy couldn't eat at all, and it was probably as hard and useless to chew as those rusty monsters that lay on the ground all day long...... Don't ask how it knows the taste of a rusty monster, it's always going to make some ignorant mistakes when it's young, isn't it? Stuffing all sorts of stuff into your mouth or something.
Although it eventually spit out the rust monster.
The Northern Yuan Continent has never lacked food for predators like Plains Stalkers, and even with the recent abnormal decline in climate, their food is still everywhere. Within a kilometre of herbivores, familiar faces like Sunburst and Electromoon can be seen, but the real challenge is that finding food and actually being able to eat them are two different things.
Even an ordinary animal like the Rising Sunmon, which has no special abilities and is not strong in combat, will not lack the most basic vigilance. Since the appearance of the Plains Stalkers in this small group, no Sunburst has ever come as close to within twenty meters of Xinglan as before, which is almost a psychological safety limit.
There is nothing more painful than not being able to find anything to eat at all, and having food dangling in front of you all day and not being able to eat it in your mouth at all. Xing Lan didn't mention it, even if Mu Xue had enough physical strength to catch some herbivores, it would not be difficult to catch some herbivores, and the athletic ability of the Moon Prayer People would not fall too far behind, even if they were not as good as those who specialized in running.
Interestingly, after randomly finding a few animals that didn't seem to be poisonous at the beginning to try them, Mu Xue decisively became obsessed with the delicious taste of the Rising Sun Beast, which is generally distributed in the prairie and almost never seen in the Nanyuan Continent, and has quite a lot of grooves in various senses. They are numerous, small and weak, and the quality of the meat is particularly suitable for the taste of most animals...... Of the creatures that Xinglan has seen on the planet so far, the only species that can be compared to it in this regard is probably the bait fish in the sea.
Therefore, when she saw Mu Xue once again appear with the corpse of a Rising Sun Beast whose neck had obviously been cut by a dagger, Xing Lan was really not surprised at all...... Really, even if this is already the hunting target she has chosen for several consecutive meals. Unless they were directly seen killing their prey, most herbivores would not retreat as quickly as they did to plains pursuers.
This makes Mu Xue often overwhelmed those prey when she pulls out the dagger, of course, even if they see the dagger, they can't understand what it is...... Until the moment when the throat was cut by skillful techniques.
This lightweight sunburst beast didn't seem to put too much burden on Mu Xue, she smiled and beckoned to Xinglan, and then threw the obviously fresh corpse to the ground, and cut off a leg with a dagger without care, just like a drink, directly drank a few mouthfuls of blood with body temperature, and then threw this leg to the broken blade that was already watching in the back, and the latter immediately swallowed it neatly, and the action of being fed and played had already been practiced extremely skillfully...... Xinglan even wondered if the Plains Stalker could be seen wagging its tail vigorously if it had a tail.
Even though she had learned some of the methods of using flames, Mu Xue still only used it as a means of making tools, and it seemed that she was not interested in cooking food at the moment.
"Still haven't you met any other moon prayers?" Xing Lan didn't even need to wait for Mu Xue's answer, just the other party's expression had already told her everything, although at this time, Mu Xue's blood-stained appearance coupled with her grass-green skin instinctively showed on the grassland, it seemed that even if she was directly pulled to shoot a horror movie, she didn't need to make up anymore, "I walked east for two days, although there is no shortage of food and drink for the time being, but it stands to reason that I should have gone through that offset route, maybe I need a little patience, they should also care about these beasts." ”
"The community here is getting bigger." Finally trying to swallow the blood she had just drunk, Mu Xue licked her lips with a satisfied face, at this time she even looked like a vampire compared to the Xin Yu person with two small fangs, she waved her hand impatiently to drive away a few flying insects that were trying to approach, "We haven't seen a large-scale leaf forest yet. ”
"It's true that the herd is getting bigger." Xinglan's eyes swept over a herd of beasts that looked completely different in color not far away, and she couldn't help but sigh as well, the cold made the animals feel uneasy.
The herbivorous group was a newcomer to the migratory force, and they were one of the few species here that would not be chosen as prey targets by plains hunters, as they were no longer at the level of prey.
The rainbow carritosaurus, a large, heavily armored four-legged herbivore. Despite their names, they don't look like other reptiles, but rather have an indescribable sense of weird mixing. It looks like a turtle's limbs supporting a three-meter-tall body, and a thick layer of colored carapace gives it the name Rainbow Dragon, but this carapace is not a single body, but is made up of countless armor pieces closely connected to form a protective part that covers the upper half of the body. Secondly, this carapace is not an ordinary dead thing, but has a constantly changing and fluctuating color stripe, but it is not a simulated color that can be close to the environment like the Moon Prayer...... Of course, even if this behemoth has an analog color, it is impossible to hide itself, and in terms of function, it should be closer to a warning color or a color that attracts the opposite sex. The most surprising thing is that the joints between the different carapace shells are not tight skin or bare spaces, but a layer of feathers that can constantly change color in the sunlight like the carapace. That's right, it's the feathers, which make one wonder if it's related to birds.
Xinglan seemed to be watching the rainbow dragons from a distance at best, but in fact she had curiously scanned the colored structures on their backs with her signals, and it turned out that the armor feathers that could constantly change color and the skin that the moon prayer people could change color freely were two completely different principles. The main way to change the color of the skin of the Moon Prayer is through the distribution of pigments within the cells, while the carapace and feathers of the rainbow dragon are not actually colored...... That's right, there is no color at all, the principle of their change of color is similar to the wings of a butterfly, the outer layer of the carapace and feathers are distributed with small dense scales, completely relying on the refractive structure of this scale to let the foreign light interfere with each other to change the color, so it will refract countless flashes of beautiful patterns between walking, this is just an illusion of light and shadow, but this presents a new question that looks more interesting: why did this feather composed of transparent chips appear? No clear reason has been found, at least for now.
Maybe it's just a decorative color that evolved to attract the opposite sex, but in any case, the rainbow dragon did make it look very striking among the herd. The creature's head is covered with fine, coloured carapaces, which look like a living flash in the wild sun...... However, the snowflakes did not provide enough light to reflect, and they only stepped silently on the frost-covered grass like ordinary animals, or even worse, the structure that reflected the light from the outside reflected took most of the heat.
Of course, large animals don't die that easily. In terms of the ratio of volume to surface area, the larger the size of the organism, the more able it is to adapt to the climate of the cold region, not to mention that at this time, only snowflakes are floating, and most of the grasses still maintain their tenacious vitality.
There are also sparsely scattered cavities, but there is clearly a limit to the free food and water that these plants can provide, and as the herbivores gather more and more, the empty gourds quickly deplete their normal reserves and can no longer draw any carbohydrates from them. In fact, going south is the best solution, but the vast gorge of life and death cut off the way for these animals to continue their migration, and they have no choice but to move east, even if it is only a lingering breath.
Xinglan raised her head and watched as several stratosaurs spread their wings and streaked across above in the wind, their sharp chirps revealing a thick desolation.
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