Shao Xuan carried the cage back to the headquarters. He found a secluded place and opened the cage.
The moment he lifted the cloth, the pterosaur eagerly climbed out. When Shao Xuan walked over, the pterosaur had seen the situation outside through the gaps in the cloth covering the cage. It had also smelled the familiar scent of the forest. Although it was different from what it remembered, as long as it was a forest, it was very excited.
After being locked up in the underground chamber for so long, facing the water moonstones and the surrounding stone walls every day, the pterosaur was so excited that it wanted to fly at any time. However, when it was in the cage, it didn't dare to move. If it did, Shao Xuan would forcibly suppress it. After that, it learned to be obedient. Before the cage was opened, it didn't dare to jump around.
When it stepped on the green grass, it lowered its head and sniffed the grass. It pecked at it, then flapped its wings and flew up.
It wasn't clear if it was because of the pterosaur, or if it was just like that, but when it flew, it was obvious that it wasn't as agile as Chacha and the other birds that were good at flying.
After flying to a tree, it stood high up and looked down at the forest and grass below. It also saw the river not far away. It flapped its wings and looked at Shao Xuan. It didn't dare to run around. If it wasn't careful, it might be controlled midway and fall to its death.
Therefore, after being released from the cage, the pterosaur looked at Shao Xuan for a while. Seeing that Shao Xuan wasn't angry or angry, it continued to fly.
Due to its small size, it didn't pose much of a hindrance in moving through the forest. Its original color was a mix of green and brown with some other colors. This combination of colors was very suitable for hiding in the branches.
Shao Xuan also noticed that it had started to learn to hide its aura. It wasn't its own aura. Hiding one's aura was a hunting skill that it had mastered long ago. It was now learning to hide the aura of the Yanjiao fire seed that had fused into its bone marrow.
In the future, it might be able to master the way to control its aura even faster. Once it had mastered its control, as long as it deliberately hid itself, other than Shao Xuan, it would be difficult for anyone to discover it.
Sometimes, some small sized beasts could not be underestimated. They could be more dangerous than those large sized beasts.
Shao Xuan didn't bring it to the tribe's residential area. Instead, he let it roam in the forest at the edge of the forest.
There was a sentry tower here. After patrolling, the patrolling soldiers would rest there.
Shao Xuan saw that the pterosaur's performance was not bad after it came out, so he tried to bring it over.
During this period of time, it had already understood some simple instructions. Therefore, when Shao Xuan signaled it to "follow", it did not care about the insects hiding behind the leaves. It immediately turned around and glided through the forest, following Shao Xuan.
"Great Elder!"
A group of people who were resting under the forest stood up and said. They had just finished patrolling and were resting here. After resting, they would continue patrolling until someone came to replace them.
After the patrol team greeted Shao Xuan, they looked at another figure.
Shao Xuan pointed at the pterosaur resting on a tree nearby and said to the patrol team, "It might be active around here recently. You guys keep an eye on it. Don't be careless. It's fierce."
The patrol team looked over. The "bird" resting on the tree was also looking at them. Its pupils shrank into a vertical oval, looking a little sharp. Experienced hunters could tell what kind of beast an animal was from its eyes. Some herbivores that were hunted by predators had horizontal pupils, while some predators that were good at ambushing had vertical pupils. Not to mention the circular pupils or other shapes of pupils, this method of identification was very limited, but it was also a method that experienced hunters liked to teach newbies.
It didn't matter if this "bird" was fierce or not, at least they didn't treat it as a harmless herbivore.
After notifying the patrol team, Shao Xuan went up to the watchtower to inform the people on the watchtower.
The pterosaur was waiting on the tree branch until it saw Shao Xuan appear on the watchtower. It then flapped its wings and flew up to rest on the top of the watchtower.
Shao Xuan was talking to the people on the watchtower when Duo Kang came over to call him.
"I saw you just now. Come, let's go take a look at the Taihe tribe. I heard that they're almost done with the houses and farmland today. We can discuss hunting now."
The Taihe tribe definitely had to hunt when they came here. There were naturally places to hunt. After all, this was a huge forest. Yanjiao's six hunting routes didn't cover much of it, and this was only the nearby ones. The Yanjiao hadn't set foot in much of the forest further away.
However, if the Taihe tribesmen wanted to open up a new hunting route, it would take more than a day or two. That was why the Taihe tribesmen had been following the Flaming Horn tribesmen to familiarize themselves with the forest. As for which direction they would go, they had not decided yet.
Shao Xuan heard this and since he didn't have anything to do, he followed Duo Kang. However, he didn't bring the pterosaur with him. Instead, he let it roam around nearby.
Even if Shao Xuan went to the Taihe tribe, he could still sense its location and control it. Shao Xuan had tested the effective distance, and the Taihe tribe was still within this distance.
After Shao Xuan and Duo Kang left, the Yanjiao warriors on the watchtower couldn't hold back their curiosity and stuck their heads out to look at the top of the watchtower.
They hadn't seen any of the tribe's birds recently, not counting the ducks and animals.
After returning from the sea, the Chacha would often go to the forest to look for food. Perhaps it was bored of life at sea, so it came back to play with all its might. Sometimes, it wouldn't even be seen for a few days. Guigou's snow falcon, on the other hand, was too fast and disappeared with a whoosh. Most of the time, it stayed near the residential area.
The people on the watchtower looked at this strange "bird". Yes, in the eyes of the Yanjiao people, anything with wings was a bird. It was just that this bird looked different from the ones they had seen before, so they were curious.
"I heard that the Grand Elder brought it back from the sea?" someone said.
"A bird from the sea? It really looks strange. "
The pterosaur probably didn't like being stared at, so it spread its wings and glided down from the watchtower.
The watchtower was close to the Flaming River. Standing on the watchtower, they could see the river through the forest. The pterosaur that jumped down from the watchtower glided all the way to the river.
"Ah, it flew away!"
"It can't have gone far, right?"
"Look, it's flying into the river!"
On the other side, the pterosaur that was gliding over flapped its wings twice, then retracted them and plunged into the river.
"It's a duck? It can swim? "The Yanjiao warriors on the watchtower were shocked. Their tribe's ducks didn't look like this.
"… Something's wrong. Look! What's going on over there? "
"Let's go! Quick, quick, quick! "
The panicked voices of the people on the watchtower alerted the patrol team resting below. They all rushed towards the Flaming River.
The people on the watchtower saw the water splashing as if there was an intense battle going on under the water. Of course, they were worried about the strange bird that dived into the water. After all, there were many piranhas in the Flaming River. And that strange bird was brought here by the Grand Elder. If something happened to it, they wouldn't be able to explain it to the Grand Elder. Everything happened too quickly under their noses. By the time they got there, they were already a step too late. There were already bloodstains on the water.
Shao Xuan, who was walking towards the Tai River with Duo Kang, paused.
"What's wrong?" Duo Kang asked.
"Wait a minute, I'll go back and take a look. There's a small matter over there."
"What small matter? I'll go take a look too. "Duo Kang didn't think that Shao Xuan would go back to take a look. It wouldn't be a small matter.
When the two of them reached the Flaming River, the people on the watchtower and the patrol team were all gathered there.
"What happened?" Duo Kang strode forward.
The people immediately moved aside, revealing a bloody mess on the ground.
It wasn't a pterosaur that dived into the river. It was a piranha that was half the size of a human. At this moment, the piranha was a bloody mess. There wasn't a single piece of good meat left, including its scales. Its dorsal fin had been forcefully torn off, a section of its tail was missing, its eyes were gone, and even its gills were torn out.
It wasn't bitten by a piranha. Although it was, the main wound wasn't caused by a piranha. Duo Kang had seen piranhas bite prey before. It was different from this.
"This, this, this … What's going on?" Duo Kang asked the people around him.
The people on the watchtower and the patrol team all looked at the strange "bird" that was shaking the water off its wings.
Duo Kang looked at the pterosaur on the tree, then at the pitiful piranha in front of him. Finally, he looked at the Yanjiao soldiers around him. His eyes were filled with disbelief. "It did this?"
The people around him nodded in unison. It was true! They saw it with their own eyes. When they fished the fish out, the strange bird was still biting and tearing at its flesh.
As for the person they were worried about, nothing happened to him. Perhaps it was because the "strange bird" had sensed Shao Xuan's arrival, but it was still glaring fiercely at the fishermen. Suddenly, it loosened its beak and flew up the tree.
Duo Kang opened his mouth and couldn't help but tremble.
A beast! It was definitely a beast!
It was so fierce, how could it not be?
After hunting for so many years, Duo Kang had rarely seen such a small beast.
There might be many in other parts of the forest, but usually, they were mostly large beasts. Some small beasts were hard to find even if they hid. So, when he saw such a small beast that seemed to be even more fierce than a normal beast, he was shocked.
Of course, it wasn't called a beast based on its fierceness. It was called a beast based on its strength. All this time, Duo Kang had only seen it as a duck that ate and drank for free in the tribe. But he didn't expect …
Duo Kang looked at the piranha on the ground that was so badly mutilated that it couldn't be seen. He swallowed and said to Shao Xuan, "I think I might know why it could withstand being frozen for so many years without dying."
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