Chapter 49: Creatures of Rage
This potholed field is bigger than Yang Qian imagined. Carefully traveled through the night until the sun rose the next day, when we reached our destination in the heart of the wilderness.
When he arrived here, Yang Qian not only did not breathe a sigh of relief, but became even more careful.
The traces of potholes on the road are basically a long time ago, and here, on those traces of a long time, there are traces of fresh soil excavation.
Many of the surrounding bushes and ferns are bare, with only roots left, and although many have sprouted buds, they cannot hide the obvious signs of gnawing on them; Not far away, there were broken trees in the grove, and there were traces of living creatures.
Yang Qian didn't go to the huge stone in front of him, which should be a huge pit of ruins, but carefully came to the grove to check it out.
A large skeleton that looked to be some years old was in the middle of the grove.
This should be the skeleton of some kind of ceratosaurus, but it is too big, so Yang Qian can't tell which kind of ceratosaurus it is, but judging by the skeleton, this skeleton should be a female ceratosaurus.
From beginning to end, it is a full twenty meters.
If this was the corpse of an earthquake dragon, Yang Qian would definitely not be so surprised, the problem is, this is a ceratosaurus.
When Yang Qian saw the skeleton, he inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity, just thinking about it, he knew the reason.
There are as many bone spurs on this skeleton as there are on the body in early summer.
The bone spurs on the head that are rushing forward, the bone spurs on the bone shield, and the bone spurs on the back, this is an evolutionary ceratosaurus that has been armed all over its body, just like in early summer.
The thick bone spur at the end of the skeleton's nose seemed to tell Yang Qian that the potholes in the field were obviously inseparable from it.
There was also a faint faint smell in the air, and according to the breath and the relatively fresh traces around it, it showed that this skeleton was not the only one in its lifetime. At least for now, it may be that there is also a child, or a partner, who is still alive.
And this guy who is alive is not only alive, but also alive and well.
There are few traces of large dinosaurs along the way, indicating that there are no creatures competing with this living ceratosaurus for food, let alone prey.
The breath in the air told Yang Qian that this still alive horned dragon should have been away for a while.
If this ceratosaurus is still in the category of beasts and has no wisdom, then in order to avoid a needless fight, it must act quickly.
If it weren't for the fact that most of the surrounding boulders were still buried in the soil, Yang Qian would think that this ruin was the one he had excavated in the Boulder Plain.
Because here again, besides stones, there are stones.
This deep pit should be a ceratopsaur couple, or a ceratopsaur mother and son, or a group of ceratops, excavated little by little.
While cleaning up the boulder inside, Yang Gan, who was looking for useful clues, came to a conclusion based on the surrounding traces.
That is, he felt that this time he was likely to return in vain.
The ruins here are not large, and there are not many places he has seen that should be houses at the moment, and the houses here are obviously not as tall as the houses in the ruins of the Boulder Plains.
According to your own observations, if you want to find the pattern of the strange trajectory, the larger the house, the more likely it is to find it.
For example, the remains of the Boulder Plains can only be found in particularly tall houses, and the huge corridor that it regards as a lair is obviously part of a particularly large building, which not only has murals of five mountain peaks, but also has that strange trajectory on the floor of the corridor.
This ruin is so small, the sun has not yet set, Yang Qian feels that he has nothing to find.
A relic that was only a few miles in size had been excavated for the first half of the time, and these megalithic buildings were still very large, so it didn't take much effort at all.
Yang Gan, who did not give up, looked around again, and found that it was really just a building complex of a few small houses, and there were no valuable clues worth digging deep for.
There must be disappointment, but when he thought of the discovery process of this ruin, Yang Qian felt that in fact, he didn't find anything, and it was not so difficult to accept.
Xiaoqing and Feilong, if they can find a ruin this time, will it be difficult to find the ruins by themselves in the future?
The excavation time was enough for Yang Qian to guess most of what might have happened here.
First of all, it is certain that there is also a monster here that can't tell whether it is an animal or a plant, and like the monster in the ruins of the Boulder Plains, which turns from yellow to green and is eaten by the little horned dragons, it can be used as food, and it can also produce strange stones.
However, this relic monster was unlucky enough to be discovered by a ceratosaurus that had inadvertently arched on the ground.
So these two, or a group of ceratosaurs of unknown race, found food that made them particularly satisfied.
Then they began to dig and eat along the body of the relic monster, until they ate the unlucky monster that had no time to show its face.
Among them, there is a particularly lucky ceratosaurus that eats a strange stone produced in the monster's body.
The ceratosaurus that should have eaten the body of the relic monster has evolved, but this particularly lucky ceratosaurus is undoubtedly the best evolved.
Then as time passed, I don't know what happened in the middle, but until now, there is only an evolved ceratosaurus left.
This still alive ceratosaurus may be the guy who was particularly lucky enough to eat the strange stone, or it may be the child of the evolutionary ceratosaurus who inherited their evolutionary genes, of course, it is not ruled out that it is an ordinary evolutionary dinosaur that ate monsters at that time.
Anyway, the skeleton in the grove and the traces around it prove that there are at least two evolved ceratosaurs living here.
If you continue to speculate, you can even make up a poignant love story.
The two ceratosaurs discovered the relic monster together, and then one ate the strange stone, and the other did not, and they depended on each other, crisscrossing the wilderness, and even arching the entire field in order to continue to find food like the monster.
Time passed, and the ceratosaurus that didn't eat the Strange Stone was going to die, and the one who ate the Strange Stone evolved better, so it continued to live.
It guards the skeleton of its dead partner, grief-stricken, and continues to ...... Or they are mother and son or mother and daughter father and daughter, then the living is the son or the mother or the daughter or the father...... Of course, this was all Yang Gan's boring nonsense during the excavation, and after searching the entire ruins, he immediately didn't bother to continue speculating about what happened here.
Now all he had to consider was whether it was necessary for him to stay here and wait for the return of the still alive ceratosaurus.
It's not that they want to ask what happened here, what they've found here, it's just to see if this guy has a certain ability to think like the queen.
Just like every time he sees an evolved creature, he has to experiment with it, and if he doesn't see it with his own eyes, he always feels a little unwilling in his heart.
This unwillingness made him finally make a decision: to stay.
"Woo woo woo ......"
"Woo Woo Woo Woo ......"
Seeing Xiao Qing hovering in the air again and again before finally leaving, Yang Qian began to wait with peace of mind.
Xiaoqing is growing, and the last time she let it come out to look for relics, she hadn't eaten fluorescent grass for more than half a month. Now that I've found the location, there's basically nothing to do, so it's better to let it go back early.
Anyway, it can go down to the sea to collect fluorescent grass on its own.
Of course, Yang Qian was not stupidly waiting in the grove.
This skeleton should have been here for a long time, except for the traces of wind and rain, it has not suffered any damage, it is obvious that this living guy has protected this skeleton well, not only has he not touched it, but even other creatures have not had a chance to touch it.
In such a situation, if you stay next to the skeleton of the grove, for the creature that may come back at any time, it is simply a naked provocation.
He just wanted to observe and leave, so he dug a dirt pit far from the remains of the grove and went in.
It is both hidden and cool, and not afraid of the sun, killing three birds with one stone.
While cultivating, he waited for the return of the evolved horned dragon.
The mysterious energy that he didn't know where it came from kept pouring into his body, and that strange experience always made him feel like he couldn't stop.
In this unstoppable feeling, he suddenly felt that the ground under his belly began to tremble a little.
He was all too familiar with this tremor, it would be like this when the seismosaurus walked, and it would be like this when he was running, but the frequency was different.
And now the frequency of the tremors I feel is closer to that of when I was running.
I stretched out my head and looked, and in the distance, there was a small black dot running towards the grove from far and near.
When it arrived at the grove, Yang Qian also saw it clearly.
It's a ceratosaurus.
A ceratop, like a hill, a little larger than the skeleton in the grove.
From such a distance, Yang Qian could feel the violent and chaotic aura emanating from its body, which was a kind of aura that should not appear on a plant-eating dinosaur at all, or even on a normal dinosaur.
It ran wildly, arching on the ground and biting hard at the surrounding plants, until it entered the grove and vented again, and the atmosphere of the rage and chaos gradually subsided.
This made Yang Qian very happy, fortunately he was not in the grove.
It seems that my guess is completely correct, and the relationship between that skeleton and this ceratosaurus must be extraordinary.
The violent and chaotic aura of this dinosaur is comparable to that of the original queen, and it is obvious that the skeleton in the grove is the spiritual sustenance of this guy, and it is precisely because of the existence of this skeleton that this dinosaur did not completely die in madness.
(To be continued)