Chapter 17: The Battle in the River

The two of them rowed hard, rippling in the water in circles and splashes. When they get tired of paddling, they rest for a while and then resume paddling. Since the water did not resist much current, a few hours later, the two men had reached the middle of the river on a raft.

The water here is more turbulent than before. The two of them were only thinking about getting to the other side as quickly as possible, not noticing that a large shadow was following in the direction of the raft in the distance below the river behind them.

As the sky darkened, a lot of crystal light rose from the bottom of the water. After a while, the light rose from the water to the surface of the water, swaying and dancing.

Leia looked closely for a while before she figured out that the light was an organism that laid eggs at the bottom of the river. When night falls, the eggs float from the bottom of the water and hatch on the surface of the river. Fingernail-sized winged insects then fly out of the eggs. These eggs and bugs glow at night.

After a while, a large amount of luminous light appeared in the water, and these luminous lights moved rapidly in the water, swallowing up all the previous bits of light. As Leia took a closer look, suddenly, a triangular creature the size of a palm, as light as a glider, leaped up from the water and swallowed a flying insect on the water's surface.

Only then did Leia see that the "flying fish" was glowing throughout. With flying insects more

The more they come, the more "flying fish" come in the water to hunt for insect eggs, and they also jump up from the water from time to time to catch flying insects.

Lea was so fascinated by the strange sight before her that she forgot to paddle for a moment. Drew, who was sitting in front of him, turned around and tried to urge her to work harder. Just as he was about to speak, he saw a large figure rising from the water behind the raft, getting closer and closer to it. Drew shouted in a panic: "Look! What is that? ”

Leia heard Drew's cry and immediately turned her head to look behind her. The patches of glow in the water have been dispersed by huge black shadows, and the "flying fish" are frightened and are fleeing in all directions.

Seeing the black shadow speeding towards the raft, it was about to collide in the blink of an eye. Panicked and helpless, Leia and Drew could only raise their weapons and shoot at the shadow.

As beams of high-energy rays shoot into the water, the river "sizzles" and rises with steam as it burns at the high temperature. The black shadow in the water was also hit, and it seemed to struggle and writhe in sharp pain. But that didn't stop the shadows from approaching. Finally, with a loud bang, the raft was knocked up and down and split into two pieces.

Both Leia and Drew fell into the water. Luckily, Drew was not far from the remaining half of the raft, so he swam to the raft as best he could, until he finally grabbed the raft and climbed up. At this time, he began to look for Leia's figure, looked around, but there was no sign of her.

The water surface calmed down for a while, and suddenly set off a monstrous wave, a head and tail with a total length of more than 60 meters, a body shaped like a monitor lizard, and a head like a dragon jumped up from the water, the giant mouth roared, and the blood flowed from many parts of the eyes.

It turned out that the moment the raft was knocked over, Leia took a deep breath and jumped into the water. Below the surface, she tried to control her body as much as she could, and nervously watched the movements around her, ready to fight to the death.

After the dragon lizard collided with the raft, it swam in front of it in a roundabout way, opening its bloody mouth and rushing towards Leia. At this time, Leia had already disregarded life and death, and shot at the eyes of the "dragon lizard" and other vital places.

Although the giant beast has a huge body and thick skin and flesh, it is also flesh and blood after all, and cannot withstand the damage of powerful laser weapons. After being hit in one eye, it was in excruciating pain, and its body spun around, leaping out of the water, and roaring wildly. Leia didn't have time to dodge, and was swept by the long tail of the "dragon lizard" and passed out.

When Drew saw the dragon lizard leap out of the water, he immediately shot at its soft chest and abdomen. Suddenly, its chest and abdomen were pierced, and blood gushed out, staining a large area of water red.

After a while, ribbon-like creatures attracted by the smell of blood appeared on the surface of the water, and they had sharp teeth and frantically pounced on the "dragon lizard". The "dragon lizard" struggled to resist, but to no avail, and soon sank to the bottom with a wail.