Chapter 5: Preparing for an Ambush
This euphoria lasted for half a year.
I practiced the crocodile version of the toad every day, went into the water to find food when I was hungry, and went to sleep when I was tired. This story is bland and boring, but Yang Qian is immersed in such a boring story.
In half a year, the stone crack that Yang Qian chose was already too small, and he estimated that he was at least sixty centimeters, which was less than half the length of his own "brothers and sisters" who were born at the same time, and now the largest group of small crocodiles was less than half a meter.
But on this day, Yang Qian felt that something was wrong.
The crocodile lady has obviously moved a lot more this time, and although she is still basking in the sun today, her can't help wagging her tail shows that she seems to be doing something bad.
In the afternoon, the crocodile lady got enough heat, and then rushed into the waterhole, stirred it up fiercely, drove out most of the big fish in the pool, and then chased the fish downstream.
Let's go......
Gone forever......
Yang Gan, who was accustomed to the crocodile mother basking in the sun by the river without moving, suddenly felt that the sky had fallen.
It wasn't until he was stunned for a long time that Yang Qian woke up.
Then when he looked down from the crack in the stone, he saw that all the little crocodiles were gathered below, looking at him.
Now the little crocodile has gone through a few months, there are less than twenty left, some of them are sick and dead, and some of them run into the waterhole to feed the big fish, it turns out that these are none of his business, but now the crocodile mother is gone, as the largest self, it has obviously become the new support of this group of little crocodiles.
Although the female crocodile drove a lot of big fish out of the waterhole in the afternoon, Yang Qian believed that there must be a lot of them inside, although the half-meter-long small crocodile is not small, but if there are really big fish hidden in it, for this group of small crocodiles, there is still danger.
Now the priority is to find a new cave to hide, as long as you are out of the water, at least not to worry about the danger in the water.
Yang Qian should have done this a long time ago, but he was immersed in his toad skills and had been too lazy to do it, until then he realized that he had been too relaxed in the past six months, so much so that he forgot that the world of beasts is the law of the jungle.
Regret doesn't help.
Crawling out of the crack in the stone, Yang Qian landed in the middle of a group of small crocodiles, and then made a chirping sound, and swam downstream with the group of small crocodiles on the edge of the cliff.
After all, crocodiles are social animals, and Yang Qian has no intention of leaving these "brothers and sisters" to live alone.
There was just such a section upstream, he had already seen it, and there was no cave enough to hide. Now that the female crocodile has just left, this territory will be safe for a while, so it is necessary to find a suitable cave to hide in as soon as possible.
Walking all the way to the territory of another group of small crocodiles downstream, Yang Qian found a suitable cave, this cave is more than a meter wide, half a meter high, the depth is not visible, the traces of the cave mouth tell him that this is the cave of the female crocodile here, at this time the female crocodile left, occupied by her children.
There are twenty or thirty small crocodiles occupying the cave, all of them crowded in the innermost, looking at this depth, it must be at least ten meters, it is really a good hiding place.
Seeing the new crocodile group coming in, the largest crocodile in the original crocodile group crawled out and grinned at Yang Gan.
Yang Qian said that there was no pressure, he had practiced toad skills for half a year, not to mention that he was more than ten centimeters bigger, the key was to eat well, much stronger than this thin guy.
The lion fought the rabbit with all his strength, and despite the external gap, Yang Qian still showed enough caution to this opponent.
After confronting each other for a while, the little crocodile finally couldn't help it and rushed up, Yang Qian turned around violently, and flicked his tail hard.
The victory was decided, the little crocodile was knocked over, and then Yang Qian stepped forward to suppress it, and waited until it showed surrender before letting go, so the cave where it was hiding changed its leader.
With a place to stay, Yang Qian was still not at ease, so he picked up some dirt at the entrance of the cave and sealed some of the hole, and he did this work alone for half a night, because of this more complicated order, he couldn't pass it on to the little crocodiles.
The next morning, Yang Qian stopped his toad cultivation and went out early to check the surrounding situation.
After lurking in the water for a while, I obviously felt the difference in this small river, I don't know what the upstream of this waterfall is, where did so many fish come from in that waterhole, the female crocodiles left, and the fish in this river have increased, not many big ones, but look at these fish foraging in the river, all of them have sharp teeth, and they are probably not good.
But at present, I haven't found anything too big, at least it's not as big as the female crocodile entering the pool, at most it's about a foot long, and now it's no threat to the little crocodiles, even if it's sharp teeth, it's not afraid, and the two groups of small crocodiles add up to forty or fifty.
After the sun basked for a while, Yang Qian rushed into the water and began to hunt, under his leadership, all the little crocodiles rushed into the water, and a small river suddenly became dark.
When the hunt is over, all the little crocodiles have eaten enough, and if they save their physical energy, they can last at least a month or two.
Of course, Yang Qian didn't plan to do this, dodging is not a way, more than half a year, this climate can't see the change now, if it will change the sky, it will be very unfavorable to the crocodile, so it is right to seize the opportunity to supplement more food now.
Half a month of crazy predation made the little crocodiles collectively grow a circle, but when Yang Qian found a big monster fish more than a meter long in the water, he immediately issued an order to be careful of predation.
The one-metre-long monster fish had caused at least four or five losses to the small crocodiles, and it seemed to have taken a fancy to the area, killing it from the waterhole upstream for two days in a row.
On the third day, Yang Qian decided to ambush it at the mouth of the cave.
While the baby crocodiles were hunting, he swam upstream alone for a while, and then lurked in the mud at the bottom of the water.
As successful evolutionaries, crocodiles also have a unique respiratory system, with an adult crocodile taking a single breath that can store a large amount of oxygen inside the body, enough to remain underwater for five hours.
Yang Qian exercised his breathing all day long, although he didn't try how long he could dive, but he believed that it was enough to deal with this big fish.
The tail of a small crocodile of sixty centimeters is very long, and in the face of a big fish more than one meter long, it is still a ferocious carnivorous fish, and the possibility of victory is not great, but Yang Qian is confident that he can sneak attack it, as long as it is injured, the little crocodiles will rush up, enough to keep it.
The river flows gently, and the waterfall is much less affected here, at least the sound is less unpleasant.
His body was hidden in the mud and sand at the bottom of the river, and there was still a little mud on his head, and Yang Qian, who was motionless, waited quietly. Some of the small crocodiles downstream are preying, and most of them are still waiting for rabbits.
But the noise of a few small crocodiles that preyed on them was enough to attract the big fish.
The water of the river was very clear, and the line of sight at the bottom of the river was not affected, and when the big fish appeared with a group of small fish that were only twenty or thirty centimeters long, Yang Qian immediately prepared for an ambush. (Ask for collection and recommendation tickets, new books need your support!) );