Chapter 377: Prehistoric Creatures
There aren't many things that are truly gratuitous.
The reason why Hua Lanting instantly remembered the word dinosaur was because he had seen it.
It's not that I've seen this monster, but I've seen descriptions of it in books.
This creature was once the world overlord of ancient times, but it has long been extinct and no longer exists.
Most of the people on various continents who have the qualifications and conditions focus on cultivation, but in a long life, there are always some people who have other concerns and all kinds of strange hobbies, whether it is to pass the time or personal interests, so that this world has more color.
This includes a generation of ancestors who are at ease in the Vientiane Gate, and the ancestors have a wide range of interests and dabbles in a wide range of interests after cultivation.
He didn't spend time studying this creature, but he collected a large number of the results of his predecessors, and these notes were stored in the Zhidao Palace, which is now covered with dust and few people read them.
Hua Lanting is just one of these few people.
From the notes, he knew that this extinct creature was named "terrifying lizard" by later generations, but in the commentary, Daohan Zhenren figuratively called it "dinosaur".
Dinosaurs, no longer ancient creatures, but prehistoric monsters, ruled the continent for many thousands of years, for reptiles, peculiar appearance, size difference, the big one has dozens of elephants as huge, the small one is like chickens and ducks, dinosaurs have some carnivorous, some eat vegetarian.
There are hundreds of species of dinosaurs, and the origin and cause of extinction are mysterious, and future generations can only study them from the remains of bones.
What Hua Lanting saw was just one of them - dinosaurs.
In the dinosaur family, the dinosaur was a small one, but it was agile and intelligent, with terrifying claws on its front and rear limbs, making it a very dangerous carnivorous predator dinosaur.
The Dreadclaw is the claw of terror, especially the second toe on the paw of its hind limbs, which can be angled to poke forward and downward at the prey in the largest arc when attacking. Dinosaurs were so protective of this claw that they would even put it away when they walked to avoid wear and tear.
When Hua Lanting was distracted to supplement the dinosaur information, the strong man of the Sea Fish Gang was exhausted in the process of chasing and fleeing with the dinosaur, and he could no longer support it.
Although this person's cultivation is better than Hualan Ting, there is no cultivation here that can not be exerted, and the strong body is only beaten in front of the dinosaur's minions and leather armor, and at this time, the evil wind brought by the dinosaur's attack was swept to the ground, and the dinosaur raised its foot, and the terrifying claw poked down, and the person was disemboweled, and his life was whimpered.
It's not that Hua Lanting can't be rescued, first, it's a little too late in terms of distance, and second, Xunzhen said that the Fishy Gang are all damned people, and it's useless to save them.
Seeing a Xuanzhu powerhouse die under the claws of the dinosaur like this, Hua Lanting was shocked in his heart, and the expression on his face froze.
The chameleon dragon lizard and the eight-pole array spirit in the sky blue smoke jade sent him a warning.
What one beast and one spirit says is: this is not a phantom array, and the dinosaur is a real existence. What's even more terrifying is that under their perception, the strong people of the Sea Fish Gang are really dead, not as the Yu family said, the losers will be teleported out and will not lose their lives.
This is a big problem.
Hua Lanting held his breath and did not dare to move.
As far as he knew, dinosaurs were not a species that acted alone, and due to their small size, dinosaurs hunted in groups in order to deal with large carnivorous dinosaurs.
As he expected, while this one was tearing at the corpse, several dinosaurs came after him.
It wasn't until the strong men of the Sea Fish Gang were eaten that only a few pieces of flesh and bones remained, and the dinosaurs dispersed unsatisfied.
After waiting for a long time, Hua Lanting dared to get down the tree cautiously, scattering his legs like flying, and running in the direction he identified.
Yuan Zhi can no longer be released, so weak at this time, in order to prevent the death of the dinosaur like the person from the Sea Fishy Gang, Hua Lanting has been fighting 120,000 points along the way, running and stopping, observing the wind and grass from time to time, ready to fly up the tree at any time, for fear of bumping into an existence that cannot be provoked.
Terrible something, Hua Lanting heard the roar again, and the vibration from the soft ground was even worse than the previous one.
He immediately went up the tree, and with his hands and feet on his feet, he looked in the direction from which the sound had come from.
The foliage was so dense that nothing could be seen, only the continuous movement of the destroyed branches in the distance.
After hesitating for a moment, Hua Lanting decided to take a closer look.
He was still close to the level of a secular world martial artist who had opened the second vein of Ren Du, activated his light body kung fu, jumped along the branch of the big tree, stopped when he was about to get closer, used an upside-down golden hook, hooked his legs to the branch and probed down to look.
After a while, although I had been prepared, I was still taken aback.
Just like before, a man is being chased by a dinosaur.
I didn't pay attention to that person this time, because Hua Lanting was startled by dinosaurs.
In fact, there are many huge spirit beasts in the cultivation realm, many of which are bigger than dinosaurs and even more hideous and terrifying, but once the prehistoric monsters described on the paper really appear in front of you, the visual impact formed is even more shocking.
This dinosaur is even more terrifying than the dinosaurus, two or three times larger, with a front and rear body of five feet, tall and mighty, and weighs four or five thousand catties.
It has a very large head, its mouth alone is more than three feet long, it can be opened very large, and it is full of two rows of sharp teeth, each of which is as sharp as a dagger, and both have barbs, and once the prey enters, it will never be able to escape. 、
An important indicator of a dinosaur's attack power is the size of its mouth, which is certainly carnivorous.
The beast's forelimbs are relatively short but strong, with three fingers like a scimitar on each paw, tall and stout hind limbs, a clawed toe on each of the two soles, a thick and long tail, and dozens of triangular protrusions along the ridge on the back.
This species Hua Lanting also knew that it was the famous theropod killer in the dinosaur family, Allosaurus, and only a few large sauropod dinosaurs could compete with Allosaurus.
The lone Allosaurus was on a rampage, chasing the man in front of it, breaking it with its body or pulling away its claws on any smaller trees and low branches that stood in its way.
When Hua Lanting noticed the person who was hunted, he recognized that this person was Yu Ding, who had been with him when he came.
Yu Ding was embarrassed, one leg should have been injured in the process of escaping, and the person limped.
Yu Ding was as unlucky as the strong men of the Sea Fish Gang who had died before, and soon after entering, he encountered predatory carnivorous dinosaurs.
The dead man was faced with a petite dinosaur, he didn't want to go up the tree to dodge, but he never found a chance under the pursuit of the nimble dinosaur, relying on the strength and dexterity of the Xuanzhu Realm's good physical strength and dexterity to survive to the last moment.
Yu Ding encountered the more ferocious Allosaurus, and he was so flustered that he didn't think to go up the tree at first.
It's no wonder that Yu Ding panicked, anyone who relied on his survival and Tuqiang's cultivation suddenly disappeared without a trace, and he would not be able to accept it for a while and react slowly.
Fortunately, although Allosaurus was fierce, its size and weight determined that its movements were not as fast and agile as those of Dinosaurus, and Yu Ding was spared from dying on the spot when they met.
But when he woke up and was about to run up the tree, Allosaurus's size advantage allowed it to control a certain height, and Yu Ding was injured in the thigh by Allosaurus's claws at that moment.
Now it was even more difficult for him to get rid of the other party's pursuit, if it weren't for Xuanzhu's body allowing him to withstand several non-frontal claw attacks of the Allosaurus, Yu Ding would have been buried in the belly of the dinosaur.
Seeing that it was Yu Ding, although the other party had spoken disrespectfully, how could Hua Lanting care at this moment, he wanted to help.
Seeing that Allosaurus took a step suddenly, Yu Ding, who was not good at walking, was thrown up, and he might not be able to dodge the front paw slap that Enoptosaurus followed, Hua Lanting didn't dare to directly pounce on Allosaurus and fight hand-to-hand, he waved his hand and launched the lightning strike wood.
Hua Lanting is a master of hidden weapons in the secular world, and the lightning strike wood accurately hit one of the eyes of the Allosaurus.
However, his strength was limited, and the lightning strike wood failed to penetrate deeply, and only shot the Allosaurus.
Allosaurus was suddenly attacked, the pain was unbearable, he roared again and again, gave up Yu Ding, his nose fluttered, and at the same time he searched around, found Hua Lanting's hiding place, and came to the tree in a rage.
Hua Lanting continued to scurry upward, and the Allosaurus couldn't reach it, angrily slapping the trunk of the tree with its thick tail.
The forests here are much thinner, the trees are not as thick as they are in the depths, and the trunks of the trees are so far away that they are in the distance from the Allosaurus.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Hua Lanting jumped up and jumped onto the tree next to him.
Allosaurus followed.
Hua Lanting saw the opportunity, and with another shake of his hand, a golden and silver light pierced out.
After coming here, the items in the storage space couldn't be taken out, and the weapons and magic weapons of Yu Ding and the people of the Sea Fishy Gang were all used in the Xuanzhu realm, and after losing their cultivation, even if they could take it out, they couldn't use it, and the weight of the weapon alone couldn't bear it.
But when Hua Lanting took the lightning strike wood in his hand outside, he crumpled the gold wire into a ball and held it in the palm of his hand, so he had a sharp weapon in his hand.
Thrown out at this time, the golden wire wire itself is magical, the length is as desired, and it is not restricted by the space formation on the island, although there is no blessing of true qi, its own sharpness is enough, and it pierces straight through the wound of the left eye of the Allosaurus, and penetrates through the eye on the other side of the big head.
Allosaurus brain damage, this is a fatal injury!
But Allosaurus was large and vigorous, and it could not die for a while, and it tossed under the tree for a short time before it suddenly stood still, and then piled up a mountain of gold and fell to the ground like a jade pillar.
Yu Ding was in great distress and was shocked, and he waited for the Allosaurus to die before he came over.
The two got together, and Yu Ding was very grateful to Hua Lanting.
Yu Ding's injuries were not serious, and after bandaging them, the two picked up some wild fruits, and after recovering their strength, they didn't dare to stay for a long time, and continued to go outside.
After walking a long way, I finally came out of the dense primeval forest, and I didn't encounter other dinosaurs.
Tall trees began to become scarce, deciduous trees, low shrubs and herbaceous plants gradually increased, and swamps began to appear.
Then, they came to the shore of a huge narrow lake, and when the two were speeding along the lake, a giant python suddenly appeared on the water in the middle of the lake, and as the giant python appeared more and more on the surface of the water, a behemoth surfaced, and its body was much longer than that of the Allosaurus, and the first thing they saw the giant python was its slender head and neck.
Yu Ding is cup bow snake shadow, seeing this scene, he was so frightened that he pulled Hua Lanting and was about to run.
Hua Lanting pretended to smile lightly: "It's okay, this is a plesiosaur, which eats grass and fish, not people." ”
Yu Ding will be suspicious, there are a few plesiosaurs in the lake, as Hua Lanting said, the plesiosaurs do not look at the shore at all, and they play and hunt in the lake.
Ignoring the rare bizarre dinosaurs, they continued along the shore.
Walking to the middle of the lake, the two stopped abruptly and looked at each other face to face, both of which were full of surprise and surprise.