Chapter 11: The Dead Forest
The queen, who is invincible on land, can't swim fast in the sea, let alone a ceratosaurus with a shield on the back of its head in early summer.
Seeing that in early summer it was swimming in the water at a slower speed than a turtle on land, Yang Qian hurriedly stepped forward and untied the python skin bag that was originally wrapped around the back of its neck.
Now the dragon feathers in the bag have been thrown away, even so, because I have to go to the sea often these days, it is still inconvenient to carry it, so I wrapped the bag around it, anyway, its bone shield is big, no matter how diverse things are.
Although everyone's speed in the sea is not very fast, it is obvious that these guys are very excited to swim in such a wide sea for the first time, and even Xiaoqing does not take the free "ferry", but flies in the sky to cheer them up.
Or the Air Force has an advantage!
While envying the little guy with wings, Yang Qian carefully guarded his companions around, but fortunately, the whole team was safe and sound, and the whole small team successfully set foot on that new continent.
It was getting late, and when they first arrived in a new environment, Yang Qian and the queen patrolled the surroundings as usual, looking for a safe enough habitat, and decided to start investigating the situation here the next day.
By the moonlight, Yang Qian rested while paying attention to the group of dinosaurs crossing the sea in the distance.
The types of these dinosaurs are very mixed, hog-headed dinosaurs, spiny dragons, triceratops, large seismosaurs, and almost a hodgepodge of plant-eating dinosaurs.
In addition, at night, there are constantly plant-eating dinosaurs joining them along the coast, and they are also preparing to cross the sea, because the strait here is the narrowest strait between the two shores.
If we have to find a common denominator among so many kinds of dinosaurs, it is that each of their groups is very small in number, and the number of individuals in the same race group is extremely uneven, and there are basically no newborn baby dinosaurs.
Seeing this situation, Yang Gan already had a faint guess in his heart.
The next day, Yang Gan led a small team to start the process of exploring the New World, and when they arrived in a new area, in order to ensure sufficient water sources, they began to walk upstream along the small river that Yang Qian found yesterday.
Where there is a river, Yang Qian can always find his relatives.
A group of small crocodiles were waiting for the sun to come on the riverbank, and when they saw Yang Gan and his party coming, they rushed towards the river.
These crocodiles were only four or five meters in size, and in the Cretaceous period, they could only be considered small ones.
Along the way, you can still see dinosaurs migrating towards the sea, but Yang Gan's attention is no longer on them, his target is the mountains not far away.
The dense forest finally appeared in front of Yang Qian's team.
Suspecting that there was a hidden danger in the forest, Yang Qian did not let the other members of the team go ahead, but waved a large wooden stake to drive the way.
This forest was no different from any forest they had been to before, similar plants, the same sight.
However, it made them feel an inexplicable weirdness.
Because there's one thing missing here - anger.
Everything was quiet, there were no birds flying in the forest, no dinosaurs running among the ferns, and even the occasional roar of the dinosaurs came from outside the forest.
It's as if it's a forbidden place.
Soon, an almost transparent white silk thread caught Yang Gan's attention.
He gently touched the silk thread with a large wooden stake, and as expected, the silk thread immediately stuck to the wooden stake, Yang Qian tried it, and the silk thread that looked thin was surprisingly tough.
This made him more vigilant and slowed down even more.
Moving on, soon, there were more and more of these threads, and they were getting thicker and thicker.
"Chirp coo ......"
A faint cry came, Yang Qian carefully walked in the direction where the sound came from, and a young dinosaur appeared in front of him.
This dinosaur was also the first dinosaur they encountered after walking in the forest for half a day.
At this point it was struggling desperately, sticking to a mass of silk threads that made its struggles futile in vain.
It should be a spider.
When he found out yesterday that the number of newborn dinosaurs in the dinosaur group was extremely rare, Yang Qian had a guess, and he judged that it should be some kind of creature that made it difficult for all the dinosaur cubs to survive, and the dinosaurs who sensed the survival crisis of the entire group began to migrate.
And the almost transparent white silk threads in the forest also confirmed his guess.
And now, this little dinosaur is proof of that.
It is no wonder that among the migrating dinosaurs, there are no small dinosaurs such as the Wounded Tooth and the Fine-jawed Dragon, and it seems that most of them are already fierce and unlucky.
A creature that can spin silk, Yang Qian also knows that it is a spider.
I just don't know how many of these spiders there are and how big they are?
Yang Qian stepped forward and used a wooden stake to stir up the filaments that were entangled in the little dinosaur, and then rescued the little dinosaur.
Watching the little dinosaur flee in panic, Yang Qian felt that he was afraid that his momentary "good deed" was just in vain, and it would be difficult for the little dinosaur to survive alone without the little dinosaur of the race.
After thinking about it, he simply led everyone out of the forest, and then found a pile of rubble and stopped.
"Chirp chirp ......"
Out of the forest, Xiaoqing suddenly became active, and Yang Qian couldn't help but blame himself a little.
Just now in the forest, I only paid attention to checking the silk threads around me, but I forgot that with Xiaoqing's small size, if he was entangled in those silk threads in the forest, if he didn't have the help of his companions, I am afraid that he could only hang on the silk threads like the little dinosaur and wait for death.
At this time, Yang Gan's wooden stake was already wrapped with that kind of sticky silk thread, no matter what it touched, it would be glued.
Yang Qian searched the ground, and after finding a suitable stone, he gathered a large pile of dead branches and leaves. Then he brought the silk threads wrapped around the stake and began to rub it vigorously with a small stone on the big stone.
"Boom!" "Boom!"
Sparks splash.
This kind of stone is also the easiest stone for sparks that Yang Qian chose after experimenting with a variety of stones.
Moreover, such stones can be seen everywhere, although it is daytime at this time, but according to Yang Gan's eyesight, he can still clearly see the sparks splashing.
But to ignite something, it still depends on luck.
At least today, it seems that his luck is good.
In the past, he had tried things like dead leaves, fluff on some plants, etc., only those fluffs like cotton fibers could be easily ignited, but now, this white thin thread was actually ignited by Mars.
When he saw the flames rising, Yang Qian immediately felt that the crisis in this forest seemed to be solvable.
It's too easy to solve something that is so afraid of fire, and the only trouble is to find those spiders who don't know where to hide.
With a small flame, the dead leaves on the ground were also ignited, and Yang Qian put the wooden stake in the dead leaves and let it burn slowly for a while.
"Chirp ......"
"Giggle......
"Goo-Goo......
"Woo Woo Woo Woo ......"
In the past, Yang Gan felt that lighting a fire or something was basically useless, and he rarely did this, but now he knew that he was wrong, because his companions were obviously not very suitable for such things as fire.
Fortunately, there were not many dead leaves, and when Yang Gan's wooden stake was completely burned into torches, the pile of dead leaves was basically burned out.
"You, you, you! You stay, here, understand? Wait for us to come back! ”
After extinguishing the fire, he looked at Xiaoqing and Xiaofeilong in early summer, Yang Gan signaled to them and asked them to stay, for fear that they would not understand, and pressed them on the ground one by one.
The three little ones understood what he meant, and were honestly pressed to the ground by him.
Of course, he also knew that as soon as he left, these guys would definitely start playing, but fortunately, there were no dinosaurs around, and with the spikes of early summer, he was able to defend against most of the enemy dragons that came to attack.
"Gone!"
Greeting the queen, Yang Qian took the lead in holding the torch and set off again towards the forest.
The unknown danger is terrifying, and now that he knows what kind of creature he may encounter, Yang Qian is also relieved.
No matter how powerful the spider silk is, can it still entangle itself?
What's more, holding a "sharp weapon" in his hand is definitely a natural nemesis of spider silk.
Sure enough, Yang Qian and the queen, who had re-entered the forest, traveled at a much faster speed.
As soon as he saw the spider silk, he threw the torch upward, and the culprits who had plagued countless small dinosaurs disappeared immediately. And the little spark of spider silk burning doesn't have to worry about causing something else to ignite, let alone a forest fire.
These Cretaceous spiders, although they may be very large, only spin silk, not web, so the spider silk is pulled from tree to tree, and some are even entangled to form a particularly thick ball of thread.
In any case, these spider silks, in front of the torches, are all in ashes.
As there were more and more spider silks, countless young bones began to appear on the ground, and Yang Qian began to be careful.
Spiders can still be poisonous, and it would be a shame if you planted a problem here.
Because he had never met a spider, Yang Qian could only be careful all the time, and as he walked, they came to the bottom of a mountain cliff.
The scene where Yang Qian appeared made Yang Qian feel numb.
The sloping cliff formed a cavity that sheltered from the wind and rain, and around this cavity, there were all dense transparent white silk threads, but in fact, when these silk threads were so numerous, they were no longer transparent.
These silk threads covered the entire trees and rocks around the cave into a white world, which looked eerie and weird.
And in the middle of the silk thread, a huge furry spider is sitting in the center.
Seeing this spider, Yang Qian thought of a description that he often saw in novels in his previous life: a spider with a large grinding plate.
And this guy is definitely bigger than a grinding disc.
Around it, there are dense small spiders crawling up and down.
And through the white silk threads that covered the ground, faintly visible, the white bones underneath.
(To be continued)