"Drop! Undetected area detected, named Gravel Area, Danger Level: C. The area has not yet been fully explored. ”

A map appeared in Lin Ye's mind, in which the scope of the gravel area was much larger than the stone field that Lin Ye had seen, bordering the dense forest area.

The C-level danger level is only one level higher than the D-level, but it has been directly increased from the D-level [Normal] to the [Dangerous]. The implication is that if you are careful, you can survive here.

This was a decent level of difficulty, Lin Ye certainly didn't dare to relax, he lowered his pace and shuttled through the stone field.

It was already sunny, and the sparsely feathered oviraptorosaur lay next to the dinosaur egg, and it raised its head and scanned the stone field vigilantly. Lin Ye's small body happened to be blocked by a huge stone that was more than half a person high, and it was not discovered.

The shell of the dinosaur egg in the center of the quarry absorbs the sunlight and shakes occasionally. It seems that there are already small lives being born inside. Unlike the dinosaur eggs that Lin Ye saw at the beginning, this batch of dinosaur eggs was not just born, but had been hatching for a while.

The fierce sunlight shone directly on the body of the oviraptorosaurus, and the oviraptor seemed to be too hot to stand it, so he changed places and sat down. It leaned against a shaded rock, and clung to some dead grass to cover the guardian dinosaur egggrass. Even if ten dinosaur eggs were exposed to such strong direct sunlight, the oviraptor did not move the dinosaur eggs to the nest.

"Doesn't it hatch eggs?" Lin Ye, who poked his head out to watch all this, said to the system in his mind with some curiosity, in his memory, the oviraptor should have hatched eggs like an ostrich.

"Ovirapiraptors are completely close to reptiles in their hatching conditions. The system calmly explained, resolving Lin Ye's doubts.

I see. Lin Ye immediately thought of crocodiles, laying eggs in the grass on the shore of the lake, usually guarding and preying nearby, and would not hatch eggs by themselves.

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Three hundred meters away.

Lin Ye quietly jumped to the nearest low tree, he adjusted his position, revealing a pair of keen eyes under the sparse leaves, and the stone field with a radius of nearly a thousand meters was in full view.

Outside the stone field, there is a ring of yellow earth, the soil here is very poor, and the vegetation on the ground is not luxuriant.

In the stone field, between the crevices of the stones, some grass has taken root here. Originally, Lin Ye just glanced at it, but found that there was a green grass swaying.

What's down there!

Lin Ye immediately jumped off the branch, he carefully lowered his body, passed through the low gravel, and approached the front step by step. It was a hundred meters away from the Egg Stealing Dragon, and there were two large rocks blocking its view on the way, as long as he paid a little attention, Lin Ye didn't worry about him being discovered.

When he got closer, he immediately discovered the root of the swaying blades of grass. It is a small, green insect with a pointed head, its feet clinging to blades of grass, and its powerful hind feet seem to be full of bouncing power. And when I turned my head, there was not only one such insect, but dozens of grass clusters growing in the cracks of this pile of rocks.

They all looked yellow and thin, and they looked malnourished, and the grass they picked up had been so damaged that they had broken their stems and leaves, and they had been gnawed and eaten an unknown number of times.

The growth system gives the results of species identification, which is a very common grasshopper.

After seeing that it was grasshoppers, Lin Ye was a little disappointed, these grasshoppers were obviously not a factor in destroying dinosaur eggs. He jumped up, pecked at a fatter grasshopper in one bite, and swallowed it in his stomach.

This grasshopper smells of grass, and eating it in your mouth is like chewing a bundle of grass. Compared to the centipedes and ancient cockroaches that Lin Ye had eaten before, they were much better than them in terms of eating them raw.

While savoring the taste of the grasshopper in his mouth, on the way back, Lin Ye had just walked past the corner of a rock, and when he looked up, he almost collided with a giant insect.

Lin Ye was so nervous that he jumped back and distanced himself from the insect, why did this insect not make a sound at all, so that Lin Ye almost hit his head.

The insect was covered in white spots, and its black antennae swayed slightly, indicating that it was still alive.

He didn't react for a while, and after a few seconds, Lin Ye recognized that it was an ant.

Ants have lived here for nearly two months, and Lin Yezhi has really never seen ants.

Seeing that the ant seemed to be motionless, Lin Ye's nervous mood slowly calmed down, and he began to be in the mood to examine the ant.

The size of this ant was one size smaller than Lin Ye, but its sharp jaws glistened in the sunlight and seemed to be able to easily cut off tissues. It has a pair of eyes on its head that are so vestigial that they are barely visible.

The latter has a split back and white silk threads grow on the head and abdomen.

It moves very slowly, and grows many white threads on its pitch-black shell, while also being densely covered with a layer of white dust. Its movements are stiff, like a zombie ant. Because of this, Lin Ye didn't find it.

The white dust is blown by the breeze like pollen carried by the wind. Part of it fell on Lin Ye. Feeling an itch in his nose, Lin Ye couldn't help but sneeze and blow the white dust away, while Lin Ye urged the flame feather coat to purify the dust on his body.

"The preliminary identification of the species was successful: the marching ant of the dense forest, which had been infected with Beauveria bassiana due to weakness and had reached the end of its vitality. ”

Thinking of this, Lin Ye's heart roared, he had already seen that the soldiers had become this ghost under the torture of Beauveria bassiana, and he only had one breath. So will he be in the same danger!

Fortunately, the prompts of the system dispelled Lin Ye's concerns in time.

"Beauveria bassiana only parasitizes insects and is harmless to birds. ”

Lin Ye also remembered the memories of Beauveria bassiana in his mind, but he didn't expect that these Beauveria bassiana had been there as early as the Cretaceous era. The marching ant ran to the quarry alone to prevent its companions from being infected. This also proves that there must be a "barracks" of marching ants nearby!

Marching ants, also known as "legionnaire ants," generally have one or two million in a colony! They belong to the migratory class of ants, and unlike ordinary ants, they do not build nests at all, and will only stay in a fixed place for a few weeks at a time, and they are constantly moving, finding prey, and eating prey from birth.

Lin Ye didn't know what the difference was between Cretaceous marching ants, although based on such a large size, the total number of marching ants was probably only about tens of thousands. But it's still terrifying! I hope you don't come towards the dense forest.

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As night fell, some cold nights came.

When you eat the tree fruit you bring with you, it tastes like a tropical fruit mangosteen, and it tastes much better than grasshoppers and other things.

Thinking back to what he experienced during the day, Lin Ye always felt that something was wrong, as if he had missed something important but not important.

Since he couldn't think of it, it meant that it was not an urgent matter, Lin Ye comforted himself in his heart, and at the same time lowered his head and drank a sip of water to moisten his throat.

During the day, under the protection of the oviraptorosaur, the dinosaur eggs are basically not dangerous, but at night, the oviraptorosaur falls asleep lying on the edge of the nest with its neck bent, and the dinosaur eggs may be in danger.

Jumping back onto the low tree, using the leaves to cover his body, Lin Ye squinted. The blood moon rose, and Lin Ye saw the red moonlight shine unhindered on the dinosaur eggs.

Of the ten dinosaur eggs, only one emitted a strong yellow light, estimated to have ten growth points, while the other dinosaur eggs were only about a little or even less. Seeing this, Lin Ye realized how lucky he was, when he first obtained the dinosaur egg, he happened to eat the one with the highest growth value.

In the sight of the discerning eye, the yellow light emitted by the dinosaur eggs gradually dimmed as the moonlight shrouded.

Reduced growth value?

Lin Ye was suddenly a little curious, he took advantage of the fact that the egg stealing dragon was sleeping, and with the help of the cover of the night, he walked towards the center step by step, and slowly approached the dinosaur egg nest.

The egg stealing dragon was beside him, and Lin Ye was a little nervous in his heart. If he was discovered, he would definitely be chased by the oviraptorosaurus that protected the dinosaur eggs for thousands of meters, if not more. Fortunately, there are many hidden spots nearby, and Lin Ye is also confident that when he is discovered, he will escape as soon as possible and will not be caught by the egg stealing dragon.

Under close observation, Lin Ye found that the yellow light he saw was actually emitted from the eggshell, and the blood-red moonlight seemed to cause the yellow light in the eggshell to be slowly absorbed by the small life inside the eggshell.

Is it the same as that lizard? Lin Ye tilted his head, he thought of the eyeless lizard, and after listening to the system, it was also injected by the moonlight, and it grew two eyes.

"The moonlight emitted by the blood moon can catalyze the absorption of natural breath by living beings, so that [evolution] can occur, the specific principle is unknown, and it is being analyzed. "Based on existing cases, the effect of this evolutionary mutation will not be as pronounced as that of mutant lizards." In general, the performance is characterized only by having a healthier vitality and physique at birth. At the same time, depending on the amount of natural breath, the probability of biological mutation will be slightly increased. ”

Hearing what the system said, Lin Ye immediately understood why the Egg Stealing Dragon had put these dragon eggs here! It turned out that it was to let his offspring receive the moonlight and make them stronger when they were born!