Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Jungle Doll
Lin thought for a while about the White Dragon's behavior, and at the same time observed the camp and got the answer.
These creatures with higher intelligence have discovered the use of fire, and the main reason they use it is because it mainly destroys parasites, and then makes food tastier, possibly more delicious, and it also prevents attacks by some carnivorous creatures.
This is very similar to the salt they use for Tucker, who still store a lot of salt under the dragon's perch, and will regularly go to the salt sea to get it, and the salt will also kill the parasites and make the food much more delicious.
The flame that the White Skeleton Dragon keeps in the shed is considered a 'tinder', and the White Skeleton Dragon deliberately keeps this kind of fire because they don't know how to start a fire, so if they get a flame by chance, they will want to keep it burning all the time, and they will also plant 'Flame Flowers' to start a fire.
This is the difference between these species and the division of labor species, if the division of labor species wants fire, they will synthesize their own combustion liquid spray, while the skeleton dragon needs to rely on other things to make fire, compared to the two is obviously more convenient to breathe fire by itself......
Lynn often thinks about how creatures like skeletons will develop, as they can't change their bodies, so they have to rely on something else.
Another trouble with them is that the enemy can rob each other of what they have made, just like the leader of the White Skeleton Dragon in the last battle robbed the Skeleton Dragon's spear and used it, they are a species that has no ability to keep secrets about what they have made.
But...... If there are white dragons here, it means that there may be other white dragon groups around.
Lin wanted to check the number of white dragons in the vicinity, as well as their living conditions, and so on. Drop by and explore this area. Now you can't explore slowly like this. Now that there are a large number of developing creatures here, Lynn wants to check the development of each of their populations and observe their evolution in a comprehensive manner......
However, with the exception of Tucker's race, Lynn does not intend to teach or defend any other race, and it is up to them whether they will live or become extinct.
Thinking about it, Lynn's pom-pom floated high into the air. A large number of floating eyeballs are released from around the body, which scatter and fly into the jungle in search of the White Skeleton Dragons.
As for the pom-pom itself, it floats along this cliff canyon and continues its previous path of exploration.
On the other side of the cliff is also the jungle, where the trees look denser and thicker, not of the same species as the plants on this side, and in the crevices of the canyon there are many vines and mosses that seem to live on the vapour generated by the rapids below.
There are also many small pterosaurs in the crevices of the cliffs, and the pompoms scatter around as soon as they get close to them. Some of them lay on the rocks and refused to fly, and Lynn found a nest made of twigs beneath them.
Lynn looked closely. In other words, this pterosaur's nest-building technique is no worse than that of a skeleton dragon's shed...... The pterodactyl protecting the lair screamed at Lynn's pom-pom, as if trying to hide its fear with momentum.
'Whoosh! ’
Suddenly, a small spike pierced the pterodactyl's eye, and the pterosaur screamed and flapped its wings and flew away, leaving a nest with six eggs.
…… What is that?
Lin looked in the direction where the spikes were flying, and saw a small black creature on the vine, this creature was very strange, it was the first time I had seen it, it was only about fifty centimeters tall, and it had a small tail.
Maybe it's some kind of reptilian evolution, but it's not a reptilian anymore, it has a large head, a flat face, not a protruding mouth like the usual dinosaurs, no scales on its body, and its limbs have sharp claws, but they are very short......
It was holding a wonderful thing that looked like a round, straight branch.
The creature was staring at Lynn's pom-pom, and from time to time it looked at the pterosaur's lair under the pom-pom, and Lynn saw that the pom-pom floated a little higher, and changed color to hide its form, and the creature hesitated for a moment before crawling over.
Lin saw that it had stuffed the pterodactyl eggs into its mouth one by one, as if it had not eaten them, but had just put them in its mouth, and then it was going to crawl back down the vines.
At this time, the pom-pom suddenly appeared, it rushed over and stretched out a large number of tentacles to bind the little creature, and the creature immediately struggled frantically, but the strength was too weak, and the struggle had no effect at all.
Lin tied it up first, and examined the round wooden stick it was holding, it was hollow inside, and there was a small thorn in it, could it be......
'Whoosh! Then the small sound sounded again, and a small thorn pierced the tentacle of the pom-pom, and Lynn looked aside, and on the cliff appeared another small creature holding a vine, with an identical log in its mouth.
I see, put the thorn in the hollow log and blow it out? And it was coated with toxins, and Lynn felt a venom seeping into the tentacles, what appeared to be a neurotoxin.
It's powerful, it's not powerful, but it's made up with toxins, and they're going to make something like that? Could it be that in addition to the skeleton dragon, there are some creatures that can make more complex things?
Looking at the size of this creature's head, it is indeed a bit possible......
Speaking of which, what should this thing be called? Although it is supposed to be a dinosaur, it doesn't look like it, and it's very small, so it's called ...... Jungle gnomes are good.
Now that the other gnome was constantly blowing small needles into the pom-pom in an attempt to save his companion who was tied by tentacles, but the poison of the blow needles had little effect, and when Lynn flew higher and higher with the gnome to the gnome on the cliff below, Lynn began to study the infused miniature class that she had caught.
This dwarf seems to have 'resigned itself to its fate' and is motionless, which saves a lot of trouble.
…… First of all, this creature brain is quite large, but it is not carefully decomposed and I don't know how much it weighs, and it is probably the same as that of the skeleton dragon...... It's about the same, maybe it's smaller, and it also has a venom gland in its body, connected to a pair of fangs in its mouth, and they probably use their own poison to coat the small needles, and the dwarf's claw muscles are quite flexible, which may not be called claws, but ...... 'hands'.
I see, I still have this word in my mind.
It seems that this is another small creature with high intelligence other than the skeleton dragon and the ancient squid, and Lin plans to release it and follow it to see how their population is like. (To be continued......)
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