Chapter 15: The Biology of Dragons
Li Yu found a clearer angle of the black dragon in the video, took a screenshot, saved it, and then printed it out with a Polaroid.
The Arias family sent someone to Rock Snow City to ask for help.
And he himself was not idle, after work had dinner, finished a day's fitness exercise, and turned on the computer when he returned home.
This opponent is different from the past, and Li Yu knows very little about it, and so far, he only has a piece of video material in his hand.
This is still the two dragon hunting teams before and after fighting their lives, in exchange for the tragic price of almost the entire army.
With the terrifying strength and cunning mind of the dragon shown in the video, Li Yu estimated that it would be difficult to collect more useful information in the future.
He didn't like it.
It's like fighting an encounter in the fog of war, and you don't know anything about the type and number of troops on the opposite side, so it's difficult to make too many targeted deployments before the war.
It's all about luck.
Although he has an immortal body, and if he loses, he can change sides and reopen, but the believers and family funds he accumulated before will be all gone.
After tossing for so long, the construction of the sect was finally on the right track, and Li Yu didn't want to start from scratch and start again.
So it's better to be able to solve this crisis smoothly.
And if you want to find a way to solve the problem, you must first have enough understanding of the problem.
Jude's footage is undoubtedly precious, but one video is clearly not enough.
Li Yu typed the word dragon into the Google search bar, and then typed enter.
I found the web page of Wikipedia - Dragon (Western) in the search results that jumped out, clicked on it, and roughly read it from top to bottom, but unfortunately I didn't gain much.
I have to say that the appearance rate of dragons in various myths and legends is quite high.
In Greek mythology, for example, the dragon appeared as the caretaker of the golden apple, and in Anglo-Saxon mythology, the dragon became Beowulf's opponent and died with the great hero.
In Celtic mythology, the red dragon represents the British nation, and the white dragon symbolizes the Saxon nation, and the victory of the red dragon over the white dragon means that the British people will eventually drive out the hateful Saxon invaders. Then the red dragon simply became the symbol of Wales and appeared in the Welsh flag.
As for Norse mythology, there are even more famous dragons, such as Nidhogg, who gnawed the World Tree and brought Ragnarok, Jörmungad, who surrounded the world, and Fafnir, who was transformed into a dwarf.
In addition to this, there are also figures of such monsters in Slavic mythology.
As for Chinese mythology, there are more stories related to dragons, but Chinese dragons and Western dragons are clearly not the same species.
Although both sides are called dragons, the differences between them are probably greater than that of red pandas and giant pandas, and Li Yu still focuses on the western dragon, although there are huge differences in the description of dragons in the westerners themselves.
For example, in ancient Greece, most dragons had no wings or legs, but they were able to secrete venom. In Babylonian mythology, the dragon resembles a unicorn, with lion feet, eagle claws, scales, and a scorpion needle on its tail.
Li Yu flipped through some information on the Internet and found that the one that was closer to the thing in the swamp in appearance should be the dragon in the heroic narrative poem "Beowulf".
Slender body, can fly, can breathe fire, as for the fact that there is venom hidden in the teeth, Li Yu has not yet verified it, and it cannot be seen from the video materials brought back by Jude for the time being, so it can only be placed in the pending area.
And this is almost the typical description of Western dragons in popular literature and film and television works.
However, in these fictional works and myths, dragons often appear with magic, or are monsters with divine powers.
However, there is no magic on the Brattis Road, and at least according to Hephaestus, all the universes selected by the Tertiary to produce and harvest faith do not deviate from the universe in which modern humans live today by more than 5%.
Various rules of chemistry and classical physics also apply.
As far as Li Yu's personal experience in the past month or so is concerned, he has not seen a human or creature who can master magic.
Therefore, although this black dragon is really similar to the dragons in "A Song of Ice and Fire", Li Yu still prefers to analyze it from a biological point of view, rather than putting a layer of magic on it.
It's best to look for weaknesses in its anatomy that can be exploited.
So Li Yu decided to change his thinking, no longer searching for clues from myths and legends, but trying to find answers from existing creatures.
He closed his eyes and recounted the video footage he had gotten during the day.
According to Jude, the dragon they encountered was seven meters long, and the only reptile that could come close to this length on Earth was probably the Bay Crocodile.
But the bay crocodile is only long, and it is far from the black dragon in size.
And the most important thing is that the dragon can fly, so now the question is, how did a creature of such a huge size fly from land?
Li Yu searched through the list of all flying animals on the earth, but could not find a single player of this magnitude.
The heaviest bird on earth is the North African ostrich, which is only three meters tall and weighs three hundred pounds, and has completely lost the ability to fly.
But if you turn history even further, all the way to the Cretaceous.
Between 84 million and 65 million years ago, there lived the largest flying creature known to mankind, the Aeolian Pterodactyl.
Its wingspan can exceed eleven meters, and its weight has reached an astonishing five hundred catties, which can prey on Tyrannosaurus rex, and it is a well-deserved air overlord.
Li Yu then searched some popular science literature about the Fengshen pterosaur, and how the Fengshen pterosaur flew has always been a hot topic among researchers.
At present, it is generally accepted that the Aeolian pterosaur may have needed updrafts when flying, or used the ground effect to fly long distances or rise, and it is also said that the atmosphere during the Cretaceous period may have been denser than it is now......
Among them, there is a saying that arouses Li Yu's interest, most animals can't take off by flapping their wings alone when flying, and they also need to kick the ground on their hind legs to give an upward thrust.
Li Yu recalled the video that Jude brought back again, and at the end of the video, he filmed the black dragon leaving, and the guy's hind legs did have a charged kick at that time, and its well-developed muscles were originally used here.
In other words, if you can hurt the dragon's hind legs, does it mean that it has lost the ability to take off?
Li Yu wrote this down with a note.