Chapter 350
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Lin thought about the behavior of the Skeletal Dragons for a while and came up with an answer after observing the camp.
These creatures with higher intelligence had discovered the use of fire. The main reason they used fire was to eliminate parasites and make their food tastier. Besides, fire could also prevent the attacks of some carnivorous creatures.
This was very similar to the salt Tucker used. Tucker and the others still stored a lot of salt under the Dragon Perch and would regularly go to the Salt Sea to get it. Salt could also kill the parasitic bacteria and make the food much more delicious.
The flames that the Skeletal Dragons placed in the huts were considered 'tinder'. The Skeletal Dragons purposely kept the tinder because they did not know how to start a fire. Therefore, if they obtained a fire by chance, they would want to keep it burning. They would also plant 'Flame Blossom' to start a fire.
This was the difference between these species and special-type species. If special-type species wanted fire, they would synthesize their own fuel to spray it, while the Skeletal Dragons had to rely on other things to make fire. Between the two, it was obviously more convenient to breathe fire themselves...
Lin often wondered how the Skeletal Dragons would develop. Since they could not change their bodies, they had to rely on other things.
Another problem was that their enemies could rob each other of their creations. Just like how the leader of the Skeletal Dragons stole the Skeletal Dragon's spear in the last battle, they did not have the ability to keep their creations a secret.
However... if there were Skeletal Dragons here, it meant that there might be other Skeletal Dragon tribes nearby.
Lin wanted to confirm the number of Skeletal Dragon tribes nearby, their living conditions, and so on. She also wanted to explore the area. She could not explore slowly like this now. There were a lot of developing creatures here. Lin wanted to confirm the development of each of them and observe their evolution process in a comprehensive way.
However, other than Tucker's tribe, Lin did not plan to teach or protect any other tribe. It was up to them whether they wanted to live or go extinct.
With that thought in mind, Lin's pom-poms floated into the sky. A large number of floating eyeballs were released from her body. These eyeballs spread out and flew into the forest to search for the Skeletal Dragon tribe.
As for the pom-poms, they floated along the cliff canyon and continued their exploration.
There was also a jungle on the other side of the cliff. The trees there looked denser and thicker, unlike the plants here. There were also many vines and mosses growing in the crevices of the canyon. They seemed to live on the water vapor produced by the torrent below.
There were many small pterosaurs in the crevices of the cliffs. As soon as the pompom approached, they would scatter. Some of them were lying on the rocks and refused to fly. Lin found that there was a nest made of branches underneath them.
Lin looked at it carefully. Come to think of it, the pterosaur's construction skills aren't any worse than the Skeleton Dragon's … The pterosaur protecting the nest yelled at Lin's pompom, as if trying to hide its fear with its imposing manner.
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a small spike pierced the pterosaur's eye. The pterosaur immediately screamed and flapped its wings to fly away, leaving behind a nest with six eggs.
… What was that?
Lin looked in the direction where the spike came from and saw a small black creature clinging to the vines. It was a strange creature. It was the first time she saw it. It was only about 50 centimeters tall and had a small tail.
Perhaps it was an evolved form of a reptile, but this thing did not look like a reptile at all. Its head was very big, and its face and mouth were flat. It did not have protruding mouths like the usual dinosaurs. There were no scales on its body, and its limbs had sharp claws, but they were very short …
It was holding a strange object, which looked like a round and straight branch.
The creature was staring at Lin's pompom. From time to time, it would look at the pterosaur nest under the pompom. Seeing this, Lin let the pompom float higher and changed its color to become invisible. The creature hesitated for a while, then crawled over.
Lin watched as it stuffed the eggs into its mouth one by one. It didn't seem to eat them, but just put them in its mouth. Then, it planned to crawl back along the vines.
At this time, the pompom suddenly appeared. It rushed over and stretched out a large number of tentacles to tie up the small creature. The creature struggled violently, but it was too weak to do anything.
Lin first tied it up and checked the round wooden stick it was holding. The stick was hollow, and there was a small spike inside. Could it be …
Whoosh! At this moment, the same soft sound was heard again. A small thorn had pierced through one of the pompom's tentacles. Lin looked to the side and saw another small creature holding a vine on the cliff. It was holding an identical piece of wood in its mouth.
So that's how it works. Putting a spike into a hollow wooden stick and blowing it out? It was also coated with poison. Lin felt a kind of poison seeping into the tentacle. It seemed to be a neurotoxin.
This method was very powerful. Although it wasn't very powerful, it could be supplemented with poison. They could actually make something like this? Could it be that there were other creatures besides Humerus that could make more complicated things?
Looking at the creature's huge head, it seemed possible …
Speaking of which, what should I name this thing? Although it should be considered a dinosaur, it didn't look like one. It was also very small. Let's call it … Forest Pygmy.
Now, the other pygmy kept blowing small needles into the pompom, trying to save its companion who was tied up by the tentacles. However, the poison from the needles was almost ineffective. Lin flew higher and higher with the pygmy. When they flew to a place where they couldn't see the pygmy on the cliff below, Lin began to study the miniature soldier she caught.
The pygmy seemed to have accepted its fate. It didn't move at all, which saved her a lot of trouble.
First of all, the creature's brain was quite big. However, she didn't know its weight without careful analysis. It was probably about the same size as Humerus' … about the same, maybe slightly smaller. Also, there was a poison gland in its body that was connected to a pair of fangs in its mouth. They probably used their own poison to coat the needles. The pygmy's claw muscles were quite flexible. They probably couldn't be called claws, but … hands.
So that's how it is. I still have this word in my mind.
It seemed that this was another small creature besides Humerus and Ancient Squid that had higher intelligence and knew how to use things. Lin planned to let it go and follow it to see what their tribe was like. Floating astronomy.
PS: Thanks to ~ 00121 Ling ~ 588 ~
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