Chapter 6 The Last Flame

The creature landed in front of the monitor lizard and roared, which made the tyrant monitor lizard stop, and even took a few steps back.

Could this be... a flying dragon?

The creature that fell suddenly looked exactly like the flying dragon, but it was more than twelve meters long, almost twice the size of the flying dragon Lin had seen before, and Lin found that the flying dragon actually had three pairs of limbs.

A pair of limbs with patagium, now retracted on the body, and in addition it has a pair of forelimbs and a pair of hind limbs with sharp claws, it does not stand on two feet but on all fours, and it can also vacate A pair of wings are used for flight.

Lin believes that flying dragons evolved from reptiles, but reptiles only have four limbs, and they have never seen creatures with more than this number.

In this way, the relationship between flying dragons and reptiles is very different. Fish evolved into salamanders, and then evolved into reptiles. Then the ancestor of flying dragons may be a fish with many fins, and their limbs are basically the same as those of the original fish. fin changes.

I have seen quite a few fish with three pairs of fins in the sea, and many of them have evolved into salamanders, but they generally only retain two pairs of limbs after evolution. Maybe there is a multi-finned fish that retains three pairs of limbs, and they have evolved into salamanders. Turned into a terrestrial creature, and evolved into a flying dragon with three pairs of limbs?

Now the tyrant monitor lizard has regained its calm state, so it will measure the gap between itself and the opponent, and dare not rush forward to attack directly, and the skeletal dragon behind the flying dragon does not look interested in watching the battle, and immediately runs away without a trace up.

Why did the flying dragon appear here? Is it to find the cub?

Sure enough, with the sound of the flying dragon, the little flying dragon inside Leviathan also woke up. Constantly rattled in response.

The large flying dragon also heard the sound. But it didn't turn its head around. Instead, he stared at the tyrant monitor lizard. The monitor lizard didn't seem to be planning to retreat, but was looking for an opportunity to attack.

The flying dragon kept roaring, but its intimidation seemed to be slowly failing. The monitor lizard was approaching the flying dragon bit by bit. Finally, the flying dragon made a special sound. It opened its mouth and sprayed a fiery red spray from its mouth flames. A head-on hit to the tyrant monitor lizard.

Does this flying dragon still breathe fire? However, the one that Lin saw didn't know how to do it. It may be because it is not fully mature. In addition, the little flying dragon does not have three pairs of limbs, which may also be related to age.

The burned monitor lizard let out a scream, and it immediately entered the state of frenzied excitement before, and it threw itself at the flying dragon regardless of the burning wound!

The flying dragon immediately spewed out another mouthful of fire,

However, the monitor lizard's huge mouth rushed out from the flames, biting the dragon's neck, and then it kept shaking.

Feilong yelled. A gust of fire spewed out again, leaving a scorched mark on the monitor lizard's back. At the same time, it swung its left and right claws continuously, and the sharp claws pierced the monitor lizard's skin, leaving several bloody scars on the monitor lizard's body.

The monitor lizard bit the dragon's neck tightly, and would not let go until it died.

It is relatively normal for the flying dragon to protect its cubs, but the monitor lizard is completely abnormal. Even if it kills the flying dragon, the nutrients it gets may not heal so many wounds.

In the end, the flying dragon pierced the monitor lizard's neck with its sharp claws, and both sides were in a final stalemate...

This stalemate lasted for about sixty seconds. The monitor lizard let go of its mouth first, took two steps back, and then fell to the ground.

The flying dragon pulled out the claw that was stuck on the monitor lizard's neck, and its neck bone seemed to be crushed by the monitor lizard. Its head dangled from its body, and then it also fell to the ground and never moved again. up...

Did both behemoths die in the battle?

This is really a pity, it should not be easy for them to grow to such a large size, and the kind of trees that can shoot needles should probably be eliminated.

But now... Lin wants to disassemble the flying dragon first. This creature may be bigger than Leviathan, but it should not be difficult to disassemble.

Leviathan released some small units and let them drill into the body of the flying dragon to explore, and at the same time took out the little flying dragon that was screaming inside.

The little flying dragon didn't seem to have any reaction when he saw the big flying dragon's corpse, he just climbed up and smelled the smell of the big flying dragon's corpse, as if he was looking for something.

At this time, Lin had already noticed some sounds coming from the surrounding jungle. Some creatures sensed the death of these two creatures and wanted to get this huge amount of food. However, Leviathan is also considered a very large creature, so there are no creatures for the time being. Dare to approach.

However, there is still a group of small creatures rushing over. They are only a few centimeters long, but they are extremely numerous and move quickly. They rush out from the surrounding woodland in all directions. These small creatures should be the evolution of bees The shape of the body looks almost the same as that of a bee, but it has no wings and is very small.

Although it looks more like a degenerate type, Lin noticed that there are some big and small among them, some are five centimeters long, and their upper jaws are covered with sawtooth, while some are very small, only a few millimeters in size. The body moves, and there are some medium-sized species, which have quite a number of different types of divisions.

These tiny arthropods are called 'ants'. Although they don't seem to have the momentum of bees, they have a much higher degree of evolution in division of labor and unity than bees. They can be regarded as a true division of labor species, unlike bees. Bees are only primitive types.

There is no division of labor between bees, they are basically the same size, and these ants that have undergone evolution have more obvious division of labor. Lin also predicted that the evolution result of bees is basically the same as the "ants" in front of them.

Of course, it's not that small.

As for their names... just call them 'meat cutting ants'

Lin asked Leviathan to fly to the corpse of the dragon, and placed several explosive bombs at the same time. These bombs exploded and sprinkled an acid on the corpse of the dragon. The group of meat-cutter ants walked away after smelling the acid. The corpse of the flying dragon surrounded the corpse of the tyrant monitor lizard.

The bees in the Twisted Treeline also hate the smell, and it seems that their ancestors are the same.

Instead of biting the solid outer skin, these ants burrow into wounds, mouths and other places where they can get in, seemingly intending to start eating from the inside.

Lin looked at them and thought, if they were not so small, this group of division-of-labor species might be as powerful as those of the Twisted Jungle. According to the research on the Inca swarm, Lin found that if the division-of-labor species For the special 'brainless' species, their intelligence level will be related to the size of the group.

Speaking of which, Lin recently discovered that the Montezuma II of the Aztec worms seemed to be closer to this place. They didn't sail this way at first, and they might have been blown over by ocean currents or something. They used the head worms to The way to create that kind of 'sail' sailing is not very easy to control, and it is easy to cause various problems.

Speaking of which, I don't know where the Inca swarm went. Maybe they went to another continent. They don't know what interesting things they will encounter.

Now, when the flesh-cutter ants devoured the corpse of the tyrant monitor lizard, Lin also began to study the body structure of the flying dragon.

The body of this creature is very interesting. They have a second brain-like structure in their body to control the excessive limbs. This is very interesting because arthropods have more limbs, but they rarely grow an extra brain.

Other structural aspects are very similar to Lin's imagination. The flying dragon can produce a flammable liquid in its body, and squeeze it out at a critical moment.

In addition, this creature is too heavy, so it also has a bag in its body to hold a very light gas to help it fly and lift into the air.

Their forelimbs seem to start to develop after a certain age. It may be that after a certain size, the upper body is too heavy, so they need this kind of limbs for support instead of standing on their feet.

Lin also found something special in the throat of the flying dragon, which was a kind of stone. Lin estimated that when they spewed fire, they would rub these stones to generate high temperature and ignite the ejected liquid.

And this kind of stone is very rare, Lin has only seen it in one place, and this place may also mean the origin of the flying dragon.

...the crater.

If the active area of ​​flying dragons is in the crater, then maybe their race can be found there, but now that Lin already knows the structure of creatures like flying dragons, there is no need to look for them... Even so, let’s go Take a look.

Leviathan wanted to stretch out his tentacles to roll up the little flying dragon. At this moment, Lin suddenly found that the little flying dragon was gone. It rolled under the body of the big flying dragon, and there was a large group of meat-cutting ants surrounding it. Some ants had already Climbing onto it, it cut open its relatively young scales with its jaws.

Xiao Feilong kept yelling, he didn't seem to have any plans to run away.

It seems to have poor mobility and poor awareness of its surroundings, but it still occasionally runs around.

Leviathan stretched out his tentacles and rolled it up, and then slapped all the meat-cutter ants off it, and then Leviathan put it on his back and rose above the jungle.

The volcano in the distance is still billowing thick smoke, and it looks like lava will erupt at any time, but Lin has not yet felt the possibility of eruption. The volcano is not far from here, and Leviathan will fly quickly. will be able to reach.

After approaching the volcano, Lin found that this mountain was smaller than the one in the Twisted Forest, about a few hundred meters high, and the thick smoke kept coming out of the opening at the top, and Lin hadn't seen any traces of flying dragons yet. , so let Leviathan take a closer look.

"Gah!" Suddenly, when Leviathan approached, the little flying dragon called out, and it spread its wings and rushed out from Leviathan's back...

Leviathan immediately stretched out his tentacles and grabbed it. It can't fly at all now, and it will die if it rushes out.

However, Lin felt a special feeling when the little flying dragon rushed out...

This feeling is like 'sympathy', but it's not the same, but Lin knows that the information they prompt is the same...

This flying dragon is the last one left. (to be continued...)