This plant was called... Let's just call it 'Dragon Perch'. Lin had done some research on this plant at the edge of the jungle. It was a symbiotic relationship with a small dinosaur called the Ma Long.
When Lin first saw the plants and the small dinosaurs crawling around them, she almost guessed the relationship between the plants and the dinosaurs.
These dinosaurs were only half the size of the Humerus, but they could climb up and down the plants with their sharp claws. They cleaned the plants and used their sharp mouths to hunt parasites in the tree holes. The Dragon Perch would grow small purple balls on the bark for them to eat.
It was a good symbiotic relationship. The most important thing was that the Dragon Perch was more than 70 meters tall and the trunk was more than 10 meters in diameter. It was a huge tree, and the branches and leaves in the canopy were dense and spectacular. Under the protection of the symbiotic species, they grew quite well. Even gaps in the leaves were rare. Now that the arthropods had become smaller, they had become fond of eating plants...
This plant could be used.
When the next day came, because Tucker's group had eaten their fill, they usually liked to rest or sleep motionlessly. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin brought Tucker and the others to the edge of the jungle and began to teach them about symbiotic relationships with plants.
It was usually more difficult at first. Tucker looked at the huge tree, and both he and his group were very confused.
Lin first made sure that the Humerus and the others' stomachs could digest the purple balls that grew from the Dragon Perch. The pompom stretched out its tentacles and handed a purple ball to Tucker for him to eat.
Tucker was puzzled for a few seconds, and then took a bite, although he had eaten the previous day and night. But the Humerus would never refuse other food.
Tucker ate it. It did not seem to like it very much. But the small troops that Lin mixed in with the balls found that the Humerus could indeed digest these plants.
If they could digest them, then it would be easy. If they could successfully symbiotic, Lin believed that the tree would change according to their 'taste'.
Then, it was time to... fight.
Lin had the Humerus group surround a Dragon Perch. The Ma Long, who was symbiotic with the Dragon Perch, ran around and looked at them curiously. Lin thought that they might not have much experience in dealing with carnivorous creatures. They only needed to deal with herbivores that bit the bark. Parasites and other plants.
When Tucker saw so many small dinosaurs trapped in the tree, he immediately screamed, and all the groups immediately rushed up the tree with him.
Although the claws of the Humerus Dragons were no longer suitable for attacking, they were quite suitable for climbing trees. When they rushed up the tree, the Hemp Dragons suddenly panicked. They kept roaring at Tucker, who was climbing up, to show off. Tucker threw a stone directly at the head of the Hemp Dragon at the front.
The Ma Long that was hit slipped and fell from the tree. Tucker still had some of his tribe and cubs on the ground, and they immediately dug a hole. He buried Ma Long, who had fallen down.
After Tucker killed a hemp dragon, the battle on the tree trunk was on the verge of breaking out! All the Ma Dragons angrily rushed towards Tucker and his group. Tucker and the others did not show any weakness. They pulled out stones and sticks from their waists and hit the approaching Ma Dragons.
The Ma Dragons that were knocked down from the tree would be buried by the group below. They did this to effectively prevent attracting large carnivorous creatures. When they left, they would just dig them out.
Although there were a lot of Ma Dragons, their strength was not on the same level as Tucker and the others. The Ma Dragons looked like Pterosaurs that had not yet grown wing membranes. They had no attack ability, and Tucker and the others could easily knock them down from the tree with stones and sticks.
After Tucker and the others killed dozens of Ma Dragons, the rest retreated to the top of the tree. They jumped to the other nearby Dragon Perches through the branches. It seemed that they were going to give up on this tree.
"Oh oh!" Tucker raised the blood-stained stone and shouted. He slowly climbed down from the tree and dug out the corpses of the Ma Dragons that had just been knocked down. He was ready to return to the nest by the lake.
At this moment, Lin stood in front of them and used her tentacles to show the image to tell Tucker that they wanted to live here.
"Ga?" Tucker seemed to feel a little strange for a moment. He understood what Lin meant, but he did not want to feel that way.
Lin thought that there might be some groups of Humerus that lived in trees, but Tucker and the others had never done so. They were puzzled by Lin's request to live here, but because Lin was a 'special' existence, Tucker agreed after thinking for a while.
It was not easy to change the habits of a creature. Lin realized that she was really special to them.
Tucker first built a hut with grass and stones under the tree. They did not need to live directly on the tree for now, but Lin felt that she had to start teaching them how to treat the tree.
In fact, it was very simple. The Humerus had to do what the Ma Dragons did. They had to clean the tree of parasites and get rid of some plants that grew nearby. There was a vine-like plant here called 'Strangler'. As its name suggested, it would strangle other plants. The Ma Dragons would get rid of these plants when they entangled the Dragon Perches, and the Humerus had to learn to do the same.
At first, Tucker did not know why they had to do this. They were just following Lin's instructions, but they would soon notice.
Lin noticed that whenever Tucker saw purple balls growing on the tree trunk, he would usually pick them off and eat them. Normally, after the Humerus chased Ma Long away, they would also eat the balls. However, if they didn't take care of the tree, the Dragon Perch would soon stop growing balls and wither away.
However, if they continued to take care of the tree … not only would the Dragon Perches grow balls, but it would also change its structure according to Tucker's habits.
This was something to be discussed later. For now, Lin would teach them some of the remaining things.
When the Humerus dug out the Ma Dragons from the ground to cut them, Lin asked them to leave some to make into jerky. She told them that they had to preserve their food. The balls could not be all picked. As long as they were not hungry, they had to leave some food for 'preservation'. Lin asked them to build a small hut with a bactericidal plant to preserve some food.
The Humerus did as they were told. They seemed to understand Lin's meaning. By preserving food at all times, they could deal with any difficulties that arose.
However, Tucker still did not quite understand why they had to take care of the tree. Lin would not tell them directly, so they had to rely on their own intelligence to understand. Fortunately, the Humerus Dragons were very good at climbing trees. Lin only needed to tell them the location of the parasites in the bark and they could dig them out with sharp stones.
They did not hate catching insects. In fact, they seemed to like eating them.
For the next few days and nights, Lin did not teach them anything. Instead, she let the group live here with the tree.
They were not very used to it at first, mainly because they found it troublesome to take care of the tree. However, after eating the insects and balls on the tree, Tucker's and the Humerus Dragons' brains began to work. They slowly connected the two things together.
Tucker was the first to understand that as long as he cleaned up quickly, more small balls would grow on the tree. With the small balls as food, they did not have to go out to hunt so often. In the past, after a group of skeletal dragons caught a prey, they might not be able to find it for several days or even more than ten days. They spent almost 70% of their lives in a state of hunger.
But now, they were living very comfortably. They had more time to think than to think about how to survive. The Humerus Dragons did not move much when they could not catch any prey to reduce their energy consumption. However, many of the Humerus Dragons began to draw in their free time. They drew all kinds of things and created their own "art" …
They did not completely rely on the tree to live. Tucker would still lead the group to hunt. With more time to think, the Humerus Dragons could hunt more efficiently. When they hunted, they were not as anxious as before. Instead, they slowly came up with a strategy. Tucker also had a "talent" for creativity. When he was drawing, he discovered that by tying sharp stones to branches with vines, they could increase the power of the stones. Just like that, they had a new … weapon.
It seemed to be the first time the word "weapon" was mentioned. It seemed that the Humerus Dragons were not the only ones who had discovered something new.
The gigantic Dragon Perch also provided Tucker's group with safety and protection.
"Ga!" Tucker and his group were running at high speed in the grassland. Behind them, a gigantic carnivorous dragon was chasing after them. This dragon was called a … Sound Dragon. It could emit a sound wave detection ability from the tip of its nose. Even if the Humerus Dragons hid in the grass, they could not escape from its pursuit.
However, Tucker and his group had already escaped to the edge of the grassland. With a loud shout from Tucker, he and some of the members behind him immediately spread out. They threw stones at the Sound Dragon to attract its attention, while some of the members carried their babies and climbed up the tree.
When they saw that the members had climbed high enough, Tucker and his group circled back and climbed up the tree. Only the Sound Dragon was left roaring at the bottom of the tree.
After that, Tucker began to build a hut on the tree. This way, it would be more convenient for them to take care of the tree.
The Humerus Dragons had finally achieved a complete symbiotic relationship with the Dragon Perch. Next, the tree should also react according to their habits. There were originally many branches on the Dragon Perch that were coiled together. It was a small nest that the tree had specially "grown" for the Humerus Dragons.
It was unknown what the tree would do to the Humerus Dragons. Now, the Humerus Dragons were celebrating and dancing on the tree. This was not only because they had escaped from the Sound Dragon's mouth, nor was it because they had captured many prey with their new weapons and computing power. It was also because of … Lin.
The Humerus Dragons' intelligence allowed them to know that their current lives were inseparable from Lin. They danced happily for the pompoms in the sky and placed the best meat under the pompoms. This was their way of "repaying" Lin. Floating astronomy.
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