Chapter 3: The Cruel Hunter
Not long after the reincarnators entered the jungle, the people in the field outside heard several high-pitched screams. Then I saw them leaning forward, ignoring the blood marks on their exposed skin by some sheep's tooth shrubs, and stumbling out of the jungle, and one of the sturdy figures ran the fastest, and even brought out a trail of afterimages.
Immediately after that, everyone in the field saw several fierce beasts following them, and almost at the same time as they saw it, everyone gasped and fell into a loss of voice. Despite in modern times, the earth. Everyone has more or less come into contact with dinosaur fossils and introductions in museums and film and television screens, but only when you see these ferocious beasts with your own eyes can you really understand what kind of creature it is.
The dinosaur that followed the reincarnation was a very common species in paleontological museums - dinosaurs, also known as velociraptors. They have a sizable triangular head for its 1.8-meter-long and less than 1-meter-tall body, with two blood-red eyes on either side of the skull. The mouth was open, almost cracked to the neck, and the upper and lower rows of sharp, serrated teeth made people shudder.
The vestigial forelimbs are slender, with sharp claws on the fingers, which look very flexible, and the relatively thick hind leg tendons are tangled and bulging, and when running, the long tail flicks slightly, maintaining balance, and the soles of the feet have only three toes, two of which are gripping and running, and the third toe protrudes upwards with huge sickle-like claws.
Suddenly, I saw a dinosaur running in front kick its legs, leap high and pounce on a reincarnation person who fell behind. Landing on one foot and raising the "sickle" with the other, first grasp the shoulder of the reincarnation with the sharp claw hook on the forelimbs, plunge the prey's back with the "sickle" claws, pull it back, and then bite the prey's neck hard.
Surprisingly, when the "sickle" pulled, it directly pulled out the unlucky egg's spine and let it bite into the air, but it obviously didn't mind this little accident, and continued to disembowel and enjoy the food.
There were six dinosaurs in total, two of the smaller ones were left behind to fight for food, and four dinosaurs continued to hunt for the reincarnators.
At this time, the other reincarnators in the field had also come back to their senses, looking at the blood-red spine still hanging on the dinosaur "sickle" and the broken ** that kept twitching under their feet, they scattered and fled, and several female reincarnators also let out terrifying screams. Where have the pampered modern humans seen such a scene up close and personal that is even a restrictive shot in a movie.
Xu Mo was already close to the lake, so he was still far away from the restricted scene, and after the initial fear and distraction, he quickly came to his senses, looked at the group that had gone out of control, shook his head, turned around and rushed towards the lake. Stepping into the warm lake, Xu Mo kept moving forward to the surface of the water and overflowing his waist, reaching the chest position before stopping, burying his head in the water again, wetting his whole body, before raising his head, turning around, and looking into the field.
The scattered reincarnators, including Xu Mo, have only six men and two women left, a total of 8 people, and 4 people have already fallen under the "sickle" of the dinosaur. And the remaining eight people, except for Xu Mo, two climbed the tall pines and cypresses on the edge of the jungle, and two scattered into the dense grass, and only three of them ran towards Xu Mo more cleverly.
Among the three people, one is Luke, the other is Richard, who can escape the torture of the dinosaur with speed after entering the jungle just now, and the other is a blonde woman who Xu Mo has no impression. After the three of them ran into the lake, they quickly swam towards Xu Mo.
"Sir, you're so smart, you know that the velociraptor can't swim, so you're the first to run into the lake!" The blonde woman greeted Xu Mo with a forced smile, "I'm Dinah, you should be called ......."
"Old K, you can call me Old K, this kind of velociraptor is called a dinosaur, I don't know if they can swim!" Xu Mo was silent for a moment and continued to answer, "But I know that dinosaurs have poor eyesight, and basically hunt by smell and hearing, and the lake water can cover up the smell on our bodies." ”
"Richard, your speed just now was really fast, you can see the afterimage!" Luke's eyes flashed, and he turned his head and asked.
"It's my natural ability to increase movement speed!" Richard knew he couldn't hide it, but he didn't want to reveal more information, "What should we do next, those beasts are still eating on the shore, and it's not a way for us to stay in the water all the time, there are carnivorous animals in the water!" ”
After seeing the strength of these Cretaceous murderous hunters, Xu Mo realized that without the help of the few remaining people, the chance of not completing the second trial task was almost more than 90%, and the chance of not surviving for 10 days was also very high, so he couldn't continue to keep a low profile.
I had no choice but to speak: "The four people who died, two men and two women, two adult men should be 65 kilograms each, and two adult women should be 45 kilograms each, which should be about 220 kilograms, excluding blood, bones and internal organs, and the edible muscle and fat should be more than 110 kilograms."
Predators such as dinosaurs, because of the instability of their eating time, can almost eat meat equivalent to their own weight, that is, about 25 kilograms. The current 4 corpses, the six dinosaurs, plus the waste they wasted, each of them probably ate about 17 kilograms of human flesh, which means that they haven't eaten enough!
And more importantly, the four people who stayed on the shore, the two lying in the grass, needless to say, whether they can survive depends on whether the dinosaur is full of food. Even the two on the pine and cypress trees are dangerous, and they certainly don't know that the velociraptor is a small agile carnivorous dinosaur, and many species can climb trees.
If it was a straight anchovy banana, it would be fine, but what they climbed up was a pine and cypress with a lot of branched branches, and with the four of them, the six small dinosaurs could be fed, so, if I'm not mistaken, the six dinosaurs will leave soon! ”
This kind of analysis of treating human corpses as pork, without any emotion, made the other three people look at Xu Mo in amazement, they first saw Xu Mo being the first to enter the lake, but he thought of it as his luck, and he was closest to the lake, so he thought of entering the water. Now that I think about it, when a few reincarnators began to enter the jungle, he was the only one who gradually broke away from everyone and approached the lake, which was obviously expected.
The four people with their own thoughts slowly fell silent, and continued to observe the changes in the situation on the shore, the actual situation was basically the same as Xu Mo's inference, the six dinosaurs just ate the most delicious muscle parts of the four reincarnated people who had died, and then abandoned the wreckage. Four of them ran towards the two reincarnators who thought they were smart and lying in the grass, and two small dinosaurs formed a circle around the two pine and cedar trees.
Originally, these dinosaurs were not such picky eaters, but since there were still 4 prey that did not run far while they were eating, there was no need to continue to gnaw on the bones and unpalatable prey entrails.
In the end, the six dinosaurs dragged the corpses of two reincarnators lying in the grass and one hiding in the pine and cypress trees back into the jungle, presumably to enjoy their nests, leaving only one lucky person crying on the pine and cypress trees. The four people in the lake began to tremble involuntarily as they listened to the painful howls of several reincarnators before they died, and the jagged teeth of the dinosaurs crushing human bones.
Compared to the panic at the sight of the dinosaur at the beginning, although the few people in the lake are now safe, they just need to watch the play quietly up close. But this tragic situation of the same kind being disemboweled, torn apart alive by ferocious beasts, still made several people's faces pale and blue, even in the warm lake, their hearts still unconsciously swelled with a chill. It is believed that this scene will be unforgettable and unforgettable for the survivors.
In fact, everything that has happened so far has also proved that this trial world is indeed not suitable for reincarnators who have just entered the space. Superstring Space picks the reincarnator to help itself complete the mission, not to turn into a bloody R-rated horror movie like it is now.
The normal difficulty of the trial should limit the number of dinosaurs to 2-3, weaken some of the reincarnation's pain responses, give simple tools or partially strengthen the reincarnation's abilities, and give the reincarnator the time and ability to fight back.
The horror just now made even a ruthless murderer like Xu Mo, who had several lives in his hands, tremble, and involuntarily let out a "got, got" sound, but soon Xu Mo bit the tip of his tongue violently, forced down the fear with severe pain, and plunged into the bottom of the lake.
In the surprised eyes of the three people who came back to their senses, Xu Mo dug out a large handful of lake bottoms, and the black silt began to smear all over his body.
After a moment's hesitation, Luke asked, "Mask the smell with silt, we know, but now that the dinosaurs have eaten enough and returned to the jungle, is it necessary for us to do the same?" ”
"It's up to you whether you do it or not, but I have to do it, because I'm going into the bushes!" Xu Mo didn't raise his head and continued his business, and the words "into the jungle" were said word by word by him through gritted teeth.
"You're crazy! Now those six damned beasts don't know if they're over there, are you going to send them to death? Dinah's eyes widened when she heard Xu Mo's words, and she screamed. Richard and Luke didn't speak, but only muttered thoughtfully.
"All I thought about was that staying here would be like meat kept in the fridge, and sooner or later it would be eaten, and going into the jungle was inevitable. However, I don't know why you chose to go into the jungle now. Richard said as he dug up the mud from the bottom of the lake and smeared it on himself.
"I know, because now those dinosaurs have been completely fed, and we have covered the smell on our bodies, even if we accidentally make a noise when we go into the jungle, as long as they are not in the weakened sight of those dinosaurs, they will not waste their energy, and we can completely escape from the territory controlled by these dinosaurs." Luke smiled and gave another reason and began to dig up the mud as well.
"Well, then...... Well, I'll go with you! Although Dinah was extremely reluctant to go into the jungle and face the nightmare again, she also knew that it would be bad luck to be left alone, so she dug up the mud with the three of them, and painted her beautiful blonde hair black.
After Xu Mo smeared every inch of his body with mud, he began to take the lead in walking towards the jungle. You have guessed the two most reasonable reasons to enter the jungle, but they are not my reasons, Xu Mo, who walked in front of the four, flashed a fine light in his eyes.