Beneath the dry canyons, the dry riverbeds are flooded with heat waves, and the 80 degrees Celsius temperature is depleted of moisture in the earth, and the distorted heat on the ground is clear.

The elephants were slowly walking along the riverbank, and unlike other animals that were eager to shed their hair, this group of elephants was covered in a layer of hair.

Long, huge tusks, thick hair.

The Elephant, a distant, already lost name, has reappeared on a new evolutionary path.

During the Ice Age, in order to cope with the harsh environment and year-round freezing temperatures, the mammoths evolved two layers of hair, both inside and outside, as well as a thick layer of fat, which could protect them from frostbite and allow them to survive and thrive in the ice and snow.

[Mammuthus primigenius, also known as mammoth (mammoth), is a kind of animal adapted to cold climates in the phylum Mammuth, subphylum Spondylocephates, Mammalia, subclass Euzoa, Proboscis order, Proboscis suborder, Elephantidae, and Elephantidae.

Once one of the largest elephants in the world and one of the largest mammals ever lived on land, the steppe mangweed elephant could weigh up to 12 tons. It is a behemoth of the Ice Age. 】

And this group of elephants is tall and strong, with stout legs, four toes on their feet, a particularly large head, no lower incisors, and very long upper incisors, curled upwards and outwards.

Molars are composed of many toothed plates, which are closely arranged and have a well-developed chalky layer between the plates, which are characteristic of the Mengqi elephant.

Of course, they are not exactly alike.

A mature Mengmeng beast, with a body length of 5 meters, a body height of about 3 meters, and a front teeth length of about 1.5 meters, is covered with brown-black fine hair, and its skin is very thick, with a very thick fat layer, and a thickness of up to 9cm, it is an animal adapted to cold climates.

Although the elephant herd in front of you also has 1.5m long front teeth, the hair on the body is not heavy, and it can only be regarded as short hair, and the color is light gray.

During the distant Ice Age, as the climate warmed, the elephants were forced to migrate northward, shrinking their areas and reducing the number of pasture plants, leaving them without enough food and facing the threat of starvation.

This is nature's law of elimination, not unfair to the mengwes.

And when the woolly Mengma elephant began to go extinct, the last ice age had begun to come to an end.

The end of the Ice Age was marked by global warming, with glaciers that once covered much of the Northern Hemisphere retreating dramatically.

And now, this race, which has been eliminated in the changes of nature, has reappeared in an evolutionary way in the new world changes.

These short-haired elephants are not long-haired elephants in human records, they were originally just a herd of Asian elephants. (Also known as elephant, Asian elephant, belongs to the order Proboscidae, Elephantidae.) ）

Asian elephants have small eyes and large ears, ears that can cover both sides of the neck with backwards, thick and strong limbs, 5 toes on the forelimbs and 4 toes on the hind limbs.

The tail is short and thin, the skin is thick and wrinkled, the whole body is sparsely hairy, and there are tusks more than 1 meter long, which are the incisors of the male elephant's upper jaw protruding from the mouth.

In terms of body size and characteristics such as tusks and hair, Asian elephants and Mengmeng elephants are very different.

But in the environment of reiki revival, they gradually evolved into the appearance of Mengqiu elephants.

Unlike ordinary herbivores, Asian elephants are the largest living land animals in Asia, and their food needs are undoubtedly enormous.

The food crisis in the snowstorm almost wiped out the entire population, and the spring that followed did not last long before an even more terrible drought began.

The heat has dried up the rivers and the vegetation has withered, and they have to constantly search for new sources of water, new valleys where food may remain.

But there is always little hope, and the elephant herd can barely occupy the mountain breeze among most of the beasts by relying on the powerful body of the early tidal evolution of the aura, and the animals do not pose much threat to their lives.

But the withering of nature will make them die in a struggle.

Originally, more than 60 elephants were damaged by natural disasters, but now the members of the elephant herd are those who have survived the heavy rain energy baptism before.

After the baptism of energy rain, they have absorbed a lot of mottled restless energy, and now the only remaining twenty or so members of the elephant herd can evolve the blessing of adapting to the heat or dragging the heavy rain.

This is the survival evolution of biological instincts, they seek survival in a difficult living environment, and try to use evolution to change their own predicament.

Obviously, those who survive are the winners.

And those who fail have long since turned into dry bones.

Although the herd walks slowly, they are in a very stable state and do not seem to be afraid of the scorching heat.

Lin Qian swept the spiritual sense, and the special nature of the elephant herd was presented in the spiritual perception, it turned out that the bodies of these new meng beasts did not evolve their hair for no reason, and the hair on their bodies had the same effect of absorbing heat and transforming consumption as the previous plants.

Under the transformation of hair, less than half of the heat is transferred to their skin.

With this powerful sunscreen and cooling properties, these mengs can move freely in the sun.

Lin Qian has become accustomed to the evolutionary diversity of organisms, and the evolution of animals and plants he has seen is very rich, and it is easy to accept any evolutionary direction.

Of course, humans are much less likely to do this.

At first, Lin Qian was also puzzled, especially after coming into contact with the survivor team in Linhai City and analyzing thousands of supernatural people, he even wondered, is this the shackles and restrictions of nature on human beings?

But after returning to the team, Lin Qian looked at all kinds of spirit beasts and suddenly realized.

Although humans are independently distinguished by humans themselves, in fact, humans are also animals, and they are one of countless animal species.

It is easy to understand at this glance, although the abilities of the spirit beasts are strange, in fact, every race that Lin Qian encounters has similar abilities.

It's just that Lin Qian hadn't noticed this feature before, because most of the spirit beasts he encountered were alone or in small groups, and there was no race as large as humans to compare with.

Of course, humans are still far less diverse than other animals in terms of ability awakening, which is probably a genetic problem, or perhaps an evolutionary trend.

Lin Qian didn't know, and he didn't have the ability to study these at present.

"Whew!" What a big beast!

Courage let out a low roar and let out a sigh, this was the first time the tiger cub had seen an elephant, and the biggest animal it had seen before was a cow.

"Huh." This is the elephant, the herd.

Lin Qian didn't say anything like Mengqiu, it was not a human being, so there was no need to classify it.

"Huh? Whew! "Elephants? Brother, let's go and subdue them!

The courage to get up from the ground, and he didn't care about the heat, the tiger cub thought of 'labor', such a powerful beast, bring it back and definitely be able to mine well!

Especially the nimble long nose in the elephant herd, no matter how you look at it, you can think it's appropriate!

Not only are these elephants big and powerful, but they are also flexible, which is perfect!

"Huh." Wait.

Lin Qian flicked his tail, and when he saw the elephant herd, he was naturally moved, there were no elephants in the team, elephants were not weak, and it was naturally good to be able to bring them back.

But don't be in a hurry, the male elephant in this team is a fourth-level spirit beast, in addition to three spirit beasts that have just broken through to the fourth level, and the rest are all level 2 and 3 spirit beasts.

The entire elephant herd is full of spirit animals, and there is not a single ordinary elephant, which is not easy to grasp.

Although it and Courage are level 5 spirit beasts, it is obviously impossible to trap a herd of elephants.

This group of spirit beast elephants, it doesn't want to let go of one, and letting one go is a huge loss!

Moreover, it is also the first time they have encountered an elephant-like spirit beast, and they don't know the information such as the other party's ability characteristics and attack methods, so rushing forward is not necessarily beneficial.

After listening to Lin Qian's analysis, Courage immediately settled down, it didn't want to lose such a good prisoner.

If it is hunting, it is absolutely no problem to rely on the two tigers, but it is really difficult to catch all the spirit beast elephants.

The courage to lie down and reluctantly retract his gaze, waiting for his brother to come up with a good idea.

Yes, tiger cubs are so lazy, the courage is not that they are not IQ enough, they are too lazy to think about it, how to be lazy and how to come.

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In the herd.

A smaller spirit beast elephant walking at the front and back suddenly stopped, turned its body to look at the dry woods on the opposite bank.

Its long nose was raised, and between its broad skull, two thick tusks curved towards the middle, the ends sharp at the ends.

At this moment, those small eyes hidden in the hair revealed a faint glimmer.

The elephant's sense of smell seemed to be extremely keen, and even from a distance of several hundred meters, and with all kinds of shelter from the dead branches and trees, it still smelled the unusual smell wafting from the opposite shore.

Predators eat raw meat and drink blood, and have a taste that makes herbivores sensitive.

Even ordinary Mengqi elephants can smell the scent of predators hundreds of meters away, not to mention, it is now a spirit elephant that has entered the range of spirit beasts.

The spirit beast elephant stood in place and searched carefully, but still could not determine the specific source of this sense of danger.

It could smell the dangerous scent of other beasts, but it was so strong that it was almost non-existent and would not have been noticeable if it weren't for its abilities.

On the other side, Lin Qian, who was thinking about countermeasures, was stunned for a moment, its eyes could naturally see the actions of the little spirit beast elephant, and Lin Qian was still very shocked that the other party could detect it and courage.

You know, in order to hide themselves, he and Courage are surrounded by a fresh breeze all the time, locking their scent.

There is no need to question the power of courage to control the wind, there is no way that the smell will leak out, so it can only be that the spirit beast elephant has the ability to perceive danger.

Lin Qian's guess was right, that small spirit beast elephant did have a special ability to predict danger, and this point was highlighted in its sense of smell, for danger, it could "smell" its smell, and different dangers would have different smell reactions.

It's a very special ability that has a premonition of prophecy, but it's not a mystical way to express it, but a smell that reflects danger.

"Huh?" Seeing that it hadn't followed, the spirit beast elephant in front of him turned around and asked.

And the little spirit beast elephant still stood there and sniffed, this smell was so unusual, it sensed danger from it, but it felt that it was not so dangerous......

It was the first time it had smelled like this, and it was the first time it had encountered such a situation, and it was a little overwhelmed, so it really wanted to find the source.

"Uh-huh!" The vocal spirit beast elephant urged again, this time its voice was much louder, and the entire herd was attracted to it.

The leader of the elephant herd looked back and saw that it was Xiaoliu who had stopped, so he signaled to stop walking.

"Uh-huh?" Little Liu, is there any danger?

The one called Xiao Liu was the smaller, kinder spirit beast elephant that could smell danger, and it looked back at the leader, who was also its father.

"Uh-huh...... "There is no danger......

Xiao Liu shook his head, although that aura was dangerous, it expressed the strength of the other party, not the malice of the other party.

According to my father, this situation is not really dangerous, but only a strong encounter, an existence that may threaten the safety of the elephant herd.

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The leader of the herd nodded slightly, and continued to hurry, and the herd continued to move forward with a dull pace, bringing a continuous roaring sound.

Lin Qian watched the elephants walk away from afar, and waited until those huge figures were submerged among the dead trees before he slowly got up and followed with courage.

If he hadn't noticed the abnormality of that little elephant, Lin Qian wouldn't have been so cautious and followed him so far away.

But for now, to be on the safe side, it's better to stay away.

Courage naturally noticed the difference between the baby elephants, and he had no problem with this, and even added another breeze to the breeze that surrounded the brothers.

It can be seen that courage is adding insurance, but in reality, it has nothing to do with smell.

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The sun sets and the moon rises, the elephant herd is still advancing, and Lin Qianhe and courage are still following.

Coincidentally, the direction in which the elephant herd was advancing was also the direction that Lin Qian was going to go to a spiritual vein, and the direction in which they were moving unexpectedly coincided.

This avoided Lin Qian's troubles, although the Shen Wei fifth-level spirit beast was very fast and not afraid to hurry, but who would want to take more wrongful roads if they could take some less unjust roads.

It wasn't until dawn that the elephants slowly stopped.

The leader of the elephant herd looked at the ruins of the ruined city in front of him, and looked sideways at his son.

"Uh-huh?" Is this the place where you smell water?

Xiao Liu raised his nose and nodded very affirmatively.

"Hmm!" There is water!

When the leader of the herd saw this, he led the herd into the ruins of the long-ruined city with a low roar.

Elephant herds are no strangers to cities, they were originally the few remaining wild Asian elephants, and under the protection measures related to humans, there are not many opportunities for human contact with humans.

But inside the city, they are entering for the first time.

Although the city is barely recognizable, the spirit beasts and elephants are still curious.

Elephants have a good memory, and even if they were just ordinary animals, they still remember a lot of memories about humans.

Looking at the human bones that can be seen everywhere in the ruins, the elephants are surprised and gradually lose their desire to explore.