Chapter 16: The Sorrowful Mother of the Road
By the stream, a grasshopper was bouncing back and forth among the stones, and then leaped out of the gravel beach by the creek to the wet earth, and the large green vines in front of it attracted its attention, so that it did not notice that in a hole in the dirt next to it, a head full of small bumps was exposed.
Silently, a tongue poked out of the mouth of the ugly head, and the lightning entanglement entangled the grasshopper and pulled it into its mouth.
It's a strange creature with a lizard's head and a snake-like body, and it burrows in the cover of vine roots, and hides in the burrow, waiting for the little bugs that come to the door.
It was too late to rejoice when it had just acquired a prey, and it felt like its home was gone.
The dirt on the cave it was sheltering suddenly rose into the air, startling it into fleeing swiftly in the direction of the stream.
Yang Qian carried the clumps of vines in his hands, and he didn't notice that he had destroyed the home of a small creature again. He searched for a long time before he found this strong enough vine to have a rope to use.
"Woo Woo Woo Woo ......"
Seeing Yang Gan's return from afar, the little horned dragon immediately ran up, shaking his head and tail to curry favor with him.
It was rare for the little horned dragon to suddenly become so clever, Yang Qian slapped a tree that was not big or small, and used the leaves on it to affirm its performance.
The queen was lying on the ground practicing drawing, and on the ground, there were all kinds of strange little hedgehogs. Yang Qian glanced at it and felt that it was very comic.
He patted the queen with a very approving look. Yang Qian somehow, suddenly felt that he seemed to be missing something?
He looked at the "little hedgehogs" drawn by the Queen, and then at the little horned dragons around him who were relieved, constantly flicking their tails and humming and gnawing on leaves, and he suddenly understood something.
To have a tolerant heart for his companions, Yang Qian silently told himself. Then he went straight to the pit where the little wyvern was trapped, and began to weave vine ropes.
"Chirp!"
Xiaoqing was crouching on the edge of the pit, screaming at the little flying dragon below, and flapping his wings from time to time, showing his superior surname. He didn't even bother to say hello when Yang Gan came back.
Even if his claws were as nimble as his hands in his previous life, he could not do it fast or well, for he had braided whips and played with spinning tops in his previous life.
By the time he was halfway through the weaving, it was already dark, and the queen had long since stopped painting, and was lazily lying in the shade of the tree, stretching her body to her heart's content. It seems that the work of painting is undoubtedly more challenging than hunting.
Xiaoqing was also tired of playing, and dozed off on the belly of the well-fed little horned dragon.
In the middle of the night, three of the three sleeping creatures were awakened, and they rolled over and continued to sleep, completely oblivious to the movement around them. It seems that they are all used to it, and their big man partner will always do something inexplicable, never day or night.
The Queen, who was about to go hunting in the morning, found that the little dragon in the pit had "escaped" and was under a tree, constantly looking around. It was just about to step forward to catch the prey, when it suddenly found that the little wyvern under the big tree was beside his crocodile companion.
In a hurry to hunt, it felt that it didn't need to meddle with its own affairs, so it turned around and left, not noticing that there was a green rope around the neck of the little wyvern, which was attached to the big tree next to it.
"Giggle......
When the queen dragged a triceratops back and beckoned Yang Qian to prepare for dinner, the little horned dragon suddenly became excited. It ran forward excitedly and pushed hard at the triceratops, as if it wanted to challenge this guy with horns on his head like himself.
"Woo whoa, whoa!"
It used its three horns to stir the corpse of the triceratops, and finally annoyed the queen, who was dividing the corpse of the triceratops, and the queen grabbed the edge of its bone shield, the thickest and largest of the five bone spurs, twisted its head and dragged it aside, and threatened it with her claws not to continue to cause trouble.
By the time Yang Gan arrived, the queen had already dismembered the entire triceratops like a cow, and the largest part with all the bones belonged to Yang Gan; The queen who doesn't eat bones picks off pieces of meat for herself, and as for Xiaoqing's, it is basically negligible.
After a simple distribution, a triceratops was basically eaten cleanly except for its head.
Yang Qian came to the big tree, untied the rope, led his new "pet", and motioned to the reluctant little flying dragon to gnaw off the flesh on the head of the triceratops.
After the little dragon struggled to nibble on a few pieces of meat, they set off again.
Dinosaurs, velociraptors, and ceratosaurus flying lizards, as well as flying dragons with ropes around their necks, this strange combination is enough to ensure that there are no eye-opening guys along the way to disturb their journey, the mountains and forests that were burned by the fire that led Yang Qian out of the river have become lush again, only some carbonized wood, still reminding the surrounding creatures of what happened here.
It was also here that Yang Qian met his first alien companion in the Cretaceous, the empty-tailed lizard Xiaoqing.
But they didn't stop, they kept going.
"Woo woo woo ......"
When the long journey finally came to an end, when they finally walked out of the mountains, Yang Gan, who was already tired of walking in the mountains and forests, couldn't help but let out a long howl.
"Huh?"
"Giggles?"
"Wow?"
"Goo-Goo......
The three companions and a "pet" didn't understand what he was happy about, but just barked after him.
The rope was handed over to the queen, and Yang Qian started to hurry comfortably in the water. On his back, Xiao Qing looked up, majestic, and kept making meaningless cries towards the various creatures he encountered along the coast.
"......Woooo Woolulu......"
An extremely loud cry attracted the attention of the Five Beasts on the road, and it was the cry of the Pseudo-Ctenophorosaurus.
This is a dinosaur known for its loud voice in the Cretaceous period, and they have an upward growth crown on their heads, and the bones of the meat crown have a strange structure that allows them to make a scared death dragon cry, which can be described as one of the largest voices in the Cretaceous period.
Listening to their voices, Yang Qian guessed that they should have encountered a carnivorous dragon. He was a little strange that few carnivorous dragons provoked these guys when they were on guard, especially when the ctenosaurs were in groups, and their cries were enough to make any carnivorous dragon shy away.
When Yang Qian went down the river, turned a corner and saw the place where the sound came from a distance, the scene in front of him made him understand why there were creatures attacking the Pseudo-Ctenosaurus.
This is a young single spinysaurus mother, just look at the two small spinosaurus next to her, and she didn't have enough experience as a mother, so she had to endure the ctenosaurus cry to hunt these guys in order to have enough food for the two cubs.
The two small spiny dragons quickly ate their fills and played on the side. Seeing Yang Qian floating down the river, the female spiny dragon let out a few hoarse calls, as if to remind the little spiny dragon not to run far, and then quickly filled her stomach while watching the river.
Yang Qian didn't intend to disturb the female spiny-backed dragon with the child eating, anyway, the place where the pseudo-ctenophorus died was on the other side of the river, and the two sides couldn't intersect, so he didn't care about the vigilance of the female spiny-backed dragon.
"Ahh......h
"Wow Wow ......"
The sound of branches colliding and breaking suddenly came from the grove behind the female spinyback, and the little spinosus let out a frightened cry, and the female spinosaurus who was eating quickly straightened up and ran towards her cub.
It was too late, and out of the forest was a male spinysaurus, who rushed out frantically and pounced directly on the two small spinysaurs.
The long sharp claws slashed through the first small spinysaurus, which flew out and landed motionless on the ground; The second Spinosaurus was bitten to death by its adult kind.
The male spinosaurus who killed the two small spiny dragons faced the female spiny dragon that rushed madly and began to dodge non-stop to avoid direct combat with the crazy mother.
"Roar ......"
The angry young mother didn't look like a match for the male's kind, and its attacks repeatedly missed, while the male's spiny dragon kept roaring at it with a hint of flattery.
Yang Qian is not uncommon for such a situation, the male spinosaurus probably missed the estrus period, or did not find a mate during the estrus period, so it wants to kill the child of the female spinosaurus, let the female spinosaurus come into heat again, and then leave it offspring.
The current female spinosaurus may be angry, but it won't be long before she succumbs to her body's instincts and gives birth to her own baby with this strong enough male.
It seemed that Yang Gan had made a mistake this time, and waited until their team slowly passed by the place where the two spinybacks were fighting, and the female spinybacks were still relentlessly trying to attack the male spinos.
Its persistence and persistence surprised Yang Gan.
So Yang Qian slowed down, wanting to see how long it could last.
As a result, the persistence of the female spiny-backed dragon lasted longer than Yang Qian expected, so long that Yang Qian stopped to watch.
Fighting from the shore to the river, even the male spiny dragon was already a little impatient, and left two deep wounds on its body with its sharp claws. However, the injured mother had no intention of stopping, and she did not care about the wounds on her body, and still rushed frantically to the murderer of her child again and again.
"Whoa, cluck, chirp......"
Hearing that his companions were impatient, he began to urge himself. Yang Qian decided to help this female spiny-backed dragon, anyway, it is idle and idle, if you can't eat it today, you can take it with you to eat tomorrow, anyway, you won't be tired of traveling with prey in the river anyway.
The patience of the male spiny dragon was finally exhausted, and he became angry when he failed to court, and began to frequently leave wounds on his courting partner.
By the time it sensed that it was in danger, it was too late, and the crocodile that burst out of the river bit it directly on the neck, dragging it into the river.
Before the team set off again, Yang Qian glanced at the female spiny dragon again.
I saw that it was constantly wailing, arching its mouth at the child who had lost its breath of life.
After a while, it suddenly opened its mouth, bit down on its own child's corpse, then raised its head and swallowed, followed by another.
The female spinosaurus, who had eaten the corpses of the two children, stood at the edge of the grove and let out a hoarse cry towards the rolling river.
Yang Qian dragged his prey, took his companions, and continued to hurry, with his own territory ahead, and he didn't know if his family was okay?
As for the sad female spinysaurus, maybe it will keep screaming for three days? Five days? Who knows?
This kind of single mother who lays eggs for the first time and has little experience with cubs is always weird.
Perhaps most will soon find a new mate to continue spawning. But there are always a few who will not be so sad that they will keep screaming until they exhaust themselves to death, and they will not find a spouse again.
They will live alone until the day they die of old age, or die in some accident.
(To be continued)